Washington Post on A16

Brad De Long delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU
Thu Apr 20 10:42:29 PDT 2000



>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...



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