PBS documentary on the global economy

[Diane Monaco]

At 11:57 AM 4/9/2002 -0400, Tim wrote:
>I saw the first episode, and I have to say it was fascinating and made a lot
>of sense to my wife Kathy, a storyteller and nurse who always tells me she
>can't make head or tails of what I spend most of my time writing about. But
>in glancing through the book that serves as the basis for the series, I
>found some ghastly errors in the short section on Korea, a country I know a
>little bit about. So it made me wonder how good their research is/was for
>other countries - and who did their fact-checking.

Tim, I haven't seen the book yet but I'm sure Korea is touted as a example 
of East Asian global success with its export oriented development 
policies.  Pakistan and Sri Lanka both had higher per capita GDPs than 
Korea in the 1950s, but the countries of South Asia went on to adopt 
dirigiste development policies that included import-substitution, 
interventionist policies in markets (labor and financial), and an excessive 
use of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) which some say has plagued their 
economic development.  Of course there are so many other factors.  What 
sort of errors did you find?  Anyway, I've heard the episodes are great for 
undergraduate teaching -- we're using them in several different departments.

Best,
Diane

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