Washington Post on A16

[Brad De Long]

>Brad De Long wrote:
>>  We tried that in the 1980s with Latin America.
>
>Brad, this is an evasion, no?

It wasn't intended to be. I *think* that the technology gap between 
core and periphery is now so great, and the resulting benefits from 
economic integration so large, that autarkic development cannot be 
the best option. A strategy that could work for the U.S. in the 1840s 
doesn't seem likely to be the best now...