> Eubulides wrote:
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> >It was, but is no more.
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> Seattle fell apart too, and not just because of folks in the streets.
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Um, duh. There's far far more to collective action than people in the streets, no? :-)
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> >Who defined the standard view of the WTO anyway?
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> Lori Wallach, the IFG, William Greider, etc.
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Very a-processual views; a comparative statics of institutions if you will. I don't think those two have had too much of an influence on many activists views, esp. on the left coast. Hell, I couldn't even make it through the first 10 pages of Lori's book. At least I finished John Jackson's tome!
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> >And what do we do about making something similar happen to the IMF/WB?
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> Change the voting structure!
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> Doug
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Well that's going to take a lot of folks in the streets to put a safety net and wiggle room around the debtor nations trying to break the credit cartel!
Ian