Bhopal

Brad DeLong delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU
Wed Aug 28 20:35:47 PDT 2002



>Union Carbide paid the Indian government $470m (about £313m at
>today's rate of exchange)
>as part of an out-of-court settlement in 1989. The company accepted
>moral responsibility
>for the disaster, but said the plant had been sabotaged by a
>disgruntled employee.

Is there any other theory--other than deliberate sabotage, that is--for how the disaster happened?

Brad DeLong



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