anti-globalization label

[Bradford DeLong]

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>From: "Brad DeLong" <jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu>
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>>  We neoliberals at least have broad agreement that developing-country
>>  governments are corrupt, by and large (East Asia excepted) lack the
>>  competence to run successful developmental states, and hence the best
>>  chance is to try to shrink them to keep them out of the way of
>>  economic development for a generation or so. We have broad agreement
>>  that maximizing economic contact--trade, investment, et cetera--is
>>  our best chance for accelerating technology transfer to poor
>>  economies and hence putting ourselves on the road to what may for the
>>  first time in history become a truly human world.
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>And of course the following has nothing to do with the neoliberal
>worldview either:
>
>[NYTimes]
>April 10, 2002
>Critics Charge Pension Bill Favors Highly Paid Workers
>By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.
>WASHINGTON, April 9 - When many employees lost their retirement savings
>after Enron (news/quote) filed for bankruptcy protection, lawmakers in
>Washington promised legislation that would mend the holes in the pension
>safety net exposed by the company's collapse...

Gee. Haven't you noticed that we Clintonistas are no longer in power? 
If you read down, you'll see what we think of this. Mark Iwry is good 
people:
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>Another critic is J. Mark Iwry, who oversaw employee-benefits policy and
>regulation at the Treasury Department from 1995 to 2001.
>
>"This controversial proposal would weaken existing legal protections for
>workers in both the statute and regulations," Mr. Iwry said. "It would
>allow corporations in some cases to exclude more employees from pension
>coverage and reduce the level of benefits for average- and lower-paid
>workers who remain covered."