Economist hit on Naomi Klein

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

Doug quoted:
> 
> The Economist - November 7, 2002
> In training her guns on free trade and big multinationals, Ms Klein 
> is attacking the best means for reducing poverty and, for that 
> matter, extending justice and a political voice to the world's 
> poorest people. When companies, properly regulated and acting within 
> the law, pursue profits, they end up increasing prosperity. This is 
> not a theory but an easily observable fact. The result, unintended 
> though it may be, is social good. Ms Klein denies all this at every 
> turn-and the tragedy is that her denials have an effect.

That was also the point argued by John Kenneth Galbraith (hardly a
neo-lib hack), no?  

The truth is that US populism despises organization in favor of a utopia
where everyone is just getting along with one another (pass that bong,
dude).  That is fine, but  organizations (think of planned economy as a
corporation writ large to vercome inefficinecies of the market) have the
best track recrods in alleviating poverty and promoting rational
development.

Wojtek