>Richard America's procedure
>
>1. Study the historical economic relations between Africans and Europeans
>2. Estimate the "fair" rates of interest, exchange, returns, etc.
>3. Establish the actual rates of interest, returns, etc.
>4. Estimate the difference between the fair and actual rates--this will be the
>amount needing repair.
>5. Estimate the present value of the reparations using compound interest.
>6. Devise means of repair.
>
>See his essay in Thomas Boston's _A Different Vision_, Routledge.
So, contra Yoshie, all this talk of rates of return and compound interest makes it a capitalist model of reparations.
Doug