Gavin Wright of Stanford.
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 11:02:03AM -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> >P.S. Somewhere recently -- one one of these lists? -- I saw reference to
> >the inability of u.s. troops in europe to defeat the germans except
> >through overwhelming numerical superiority. Whenever they were in equal
> >numbers, the Germans beat them. If so, the Road to Hell has deep
> >origins.
>
> And then there's the argument from the economic historian, Gavin
> What's-His-Name, that US economic dominance was not the result of
> particular cleverness but of the availability of a broad array of
> cheap natural resources - which made us quite wasteful, even in the
> fat days.
>
> Doug
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