On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Carl Remick wrote:
> What? "A political ideology he now realizes has gone rotten"? It always was
> rotten. Stiglitz seems a pretty slow student for a Nobel laureate, albeit a
> recipient of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Capitalist Apologetics instead of a
> *real* Nobel prize. Stiglitz is shocked, shocked to learn the IMF uses
> brutal intimidation? This kind of cluelessness goes way beyond the
> "absent-minded professor" ingenuousness that Doug claims for the man.
> Stiglitz's remoteness from the real world seems more suggestive of the Boy
> in the Bubble's utter isolation than mere ivory-tower detachment.
>
> Carl
>
Lighten up on the guy a little, Carl. Isn't your typical well-paid and bureaucratically entrenched economist still bleating about how the IMF strategies will actually reduce poverty around the world? The Wonders of the Free Market,etc. Given where he's coming from, I have to give him credit for getting any kind of a clue at all.
Miles