"Peter K." wrote:
> >Doug Henwood wrote:
> >
> >>In an email reaction to Liza Featherstone's and my Lingua Franca
> >>piece, a prominent student anti-sweatshop activist pointed out "the
>
> here's the url to the piece in case it hasn't been posted:
> http://www.linguafranca.com/print/0103/cover_clothes.html
>
> "I came back from Seattle thinking that the voice of economists was not very
> audible in the public space," Bhagwati says."
>
> This is pretty funny. The public space is wall-to-wall orthodoxy which is
> why Seattle, the anti-MAI thing, and the other successes were so amazing. Or
> rather, the public space is wall-to-wall distraction from the central
> isssues of political economy.
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