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[Brad DeLong]

>>
>>The problem with the arguments against all of these proposals for 
>>more pollution in LDCs (intrinsic rights to certain goods, moral 
>>reasons, social concerns, lack of adequate markets, etc.) could be 
>>turned around and used more or less effectively against every Bank 
>>proposal for liberalization.
>
>As, of course, they should.
>
>Doug

These arguments are *much* more effective when you are talking about 
policies with side-effects that poison people as opposed to policies 
with side-effects that redistribute income from the south to the 
north, or from urban consumers to rural farmers. They trump many 
arguments for "brown" development.. They don't trump arguments for 
eliminating the government-sponsored pistachio-processing monopoly...

Brad