Economists for Bradley

Seth Ackerman SAckerman at FAIR.org
Wed Jan 19 10:17:21 PST 2000


Doug Henwood wrote:


> Surreal to see Nancy Folbre and Paul Volcker as neighbors on this
> surreal statement. Not to be too moralizing or blunt or anything, but
> how many people did Volcker's 21% short rates kill -
> disproportionally children, if I'm remembering the UNICEF
> calculations right - in debtor countries in the 1980s? Who will pay
> for the kids indeed.
>
> There really is no end to liberal self-deception, is there?
>

Oh, that's not the half of it. Did you see Anwar Shaikh's name on that list? I thought it had to be a joke -- in a way it is, I guess.

Seth



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