> >On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Brad De Long wrote:
> >
> >> >On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Brad De Long wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> >Maybe they recruited you as a sleeper while you were working on Wall
> >> >> >St., kind of like the Viet-Cong did with McCain. ;)
> >> >>
> >> >> You've got it wrong. The Viet-Cong didn't recruit McCain.
> >> >> McCain--acting as an agent for the founders-to-be of Nike--recruited
> >> >> the Viet-Cong.
> >> >>
> >> >> Where else in the world today, after all, can they find such a
> >> >> compliant and productive workforce with such effective gang-bosses?
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> Brad DeLong
> >> >Indonesia perhaps?
> >>
> >> Real wages perhaps four times those of Vietnam today...
> >>
> >>
> >> Brad DeLong
> >>
> >Gosh Brad, I expect better than that from you. I mean, Indonesia, the
> >country that has received so much in the way of US aid, WB loans,...and
> >been relatively free of war for how many years now? I should hope its
> >average wage was a bit highr than Vietnam's.
> >
> >Steve
>
> Pay more attention when you read, please.
>
> I don't deny (though I wouldn't like to overstate) that U.S.
> development aid policy has helped Indonesia's economy (though not its
> polity) over the past two generations.
>
> And because it has helped, it *is* the case that Vietnam today--not
> Indonesia--is Nike's dream production locations: extremely low wages,
> productive employees, and vicious labor gang bosses...
>
>
> Brad DeLong
>
Ok were the argument made as clearly the first time around, i wouldn't
have responded. Aside from the wages, we're describing much the same
place. steve