Brad De Long wrote:
> >OOH, you have the "leftists" who want those institutions to vanish
> >because they
> >represent and work for the interests of the "ruling class", so to speak. OTOH,
> >you have the so-called liberals (in the austrian sense) like Milton
> >Friedman and
> >others who would like to see those Institutions dissapear because
> >they represent
> >a "restriction" to our freedom to choose and do not let markets get the prices
> >right.
> >
> >where are you? :).
> >
>
> I'm a social democrat who believes that markets need to be managed
> and controlled by democratically-based political institutions. So I'm
> for a bigger, kinder, gentler IMF run by European social democrats.
>
> And red-brown alliances scare me: the browns usually seem to have a
> keener nose for what is going on than the reds...
>
> Brad DeLong