everything's really ok

[Seth Ackerman]

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> From: 	Brad De Long[SMTP:delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU]
> Reply To: 	lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Sent: 	Thursday, October 12, 2000 1:03 PM
> To: 	lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: 	Re: everything's really ok
> 
> >Brad DeLong wrote:
> >
> >>Consider, however, a Mexico that did *not* have access to the U.S. 
> >>market. Given the rate of increase of Mexico's labor force, what 
> >>would the labor market look like if exports *had not* risen from 
> >>$61 billion in 1994 to $150 billion in 2000?
> >
> >All other things being equal, it's better that Mexico have access to 
> >the U.S. market than not. But why should we accept the other things 
> >being equal? What would be best for Mexicans is an internally rather 
> >than externally oriented development - housing, schools, 
> >infrastructure, clinics, real industrialization rather than the 
> >maquila sort.
> >
> >Doug
> 
> $10 billion a year in straight grants for U.S.-funded social 
> investment in Mexico? I would love it. 
> 
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Um, I don't think that's what Doug was talking about...

Seth.