[lbo-talk] Jeffrey Sachs: "Bush's Billions Will Only Prolong

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It's simple. It's axiomatic that free markets rule. if
there is a screwup, it's because of corruption, or
excess govt interference, or insufficient ruthlessness
in carrying out the program, ore because the execution
was interfered with by Trotskyite-fscist wreckers and
spies (oops, wrong rhetoric) -- never because the
fundamental notion is flawed and evil. So them as
pronounce that We Need More And Freer Markets are
always _always_ ALWAYS right, inmune from error or
real criticism, and get tenure at Harvard, where they
can spread this pernicious lie to all and sundry.
Therefre, Sachs and Aslund are Great Thinkers, no
matter what the practical refutatioon of their stupid
and wicked policies. A man of left, my ass. jks

--- Chris Doss <itschris13 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Brad DeLong wrote:
> 
> >Sachs has *always* seen himself as a man of the
> left--it's an important 
> >part of his identity. But he's also seen himself as
> a man of the 
> >egg-breaking omelette-making realistic
> world-changing left, not a 
> >pie-in-the-sky-by-and-by dreamer or a mere
> interpreter of the world...
> 
> And 100 million Russians hate him for it.
> 
> Doug
> ---
> Can somebody please explain to me why such
> demonstrably practically 
> disastrous economists as Sachs and Aslund still get
> invited to symposia? 
> This is like inviting Lysenko to a conference on
> biogenetics. Economics must 
> be a very forgiving science indeed.
> 
> Aslund writes reams of print trying to exonerate
> himself by taking the wily 
> strategem of arguing that the post-Soviet economic
> collapse never happened. 
> He's like the David Irving of post-Soviet Russian
> studies.
> 
>
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