Where was the Color at A16 in D.C.?

Brad De Long delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU
Mon Jun 19 20:39:07 PDT 2000



>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
>> I basically agree with Nathan on all the points he made. Since I
>> couldn't take much time off from work to go to A16, I ended up
>> participating as an outsider, merely a warm body to swell the number
>> of people who went to D.C. And these problems -- informal hierarchy
>> based upon who has time to go to many long meetings, etc. -- have
> > become regrettably reproduced locally...

As Jimmy Madison and Alex Hamilton wrote more than two centuries ago, progress in the science of government--the invention of representation--allow us moderns to have most of the benefits of democracy while avoiding many of its drawbacks...

Brad DeLong



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