On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Garance Genicot was quoted as saying:
> Among the oldest and most pervasive economic institutions are bonded
> labor and serfdom. While seemingly exploitative, both bonded labor and
> serfdom are often not imposed on the laborers but voluntarily chosen.
There was a long and funny elaboration of this argument in the November Harper's quoted from The Yesmen, the guys that go around pretending to be the WTO and giving subversive lectures to people who are fooled by their website (www.gatt.org) and book them by mistake. You can see the original, either in text format or complete with power point slides, at:
URL: http://www.theyesmen.org/finland/
Michael
__________________________________________________________________________ Michael Pollak................New York City..............mpollak at panix.com