Hell no, Patrick, with the greatest of respect to Doug, (and on a very personal level) I don't believe I can ever find place in my heart for his association with the dominant orthodoxy that gave us structural adjustment and neo-classical orthodoxy as the basis of global public policy-making.
Damn, I STILL fucking hate Krugman for defending sweatshop/child/cheap labour... Ironically, he used the same justification that Verwoerd (the father of apartheid) used for why "coloured" education in South Africa should be very basic... He said we were to be educated to be "hewers of wood and carries of water"...
Krugman said that this was better than being unemployed. In my thesis I make the argument that this helped me uderstand how most mainstream economists justified "market forces" - when they were, actually, structural impediments purposely established (as in South Africa and most other places) by dominant political/capitalist powers.
So, with the greatest of respect to Doug. FUCK Larry Summers and his ilk. I have shit (facts) on another (name and former position withheld) that will show him up to be nothing but a self-centred, cheating (with money) greedy and expedient bastard who once said: "If we improved the conditions of people living in slums and informal squatter camps (sic), they wouldn't afford to live there."
Aluta Continua!
________________________________ From: Patrick Bond <pbond at mail.ngo.za> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Tuesday, 30 December, 2008 12:53:28 Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Summers on The Plan
Ismail Lagardien wrote:
> one of his flunkies, Lant Pritchett now at Harvard (I think), fell on his sword for his boss
Still Ismail, what does that really mean? That Summers doesn't mind being a plagiarist of a memo about how to kill Africans? Double scum, eh. ___________________________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk