[lbo-talk] What Would Have to Happen First

[Wojtek S]

[WS:]  You do not need the Ricardian-Hegelian-Marxian edifice to explain
this.  Simple Malthusianism will suffice.  That is to say, in some parts of
the world, population growth exceeds the growth of the productive forces
that support those populations.  Obviously, there are instituional forces
that restrain the latter, but if those institutional obstacles are lowered
or altogther removed, ecenomic development improves the general living
standards of the population, the Ricardian-Hegelian-Marxian theoretical
edifices notwithstanding.

Wojtek

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 1:45 PM, brad bauerly <bbauerly at gmail.com> wrote:


> >There was never any real evidence to support the "race to the bottom"
> >thesis, was there? You can find all kinds of data to support
> >polarization, but outside of Africa (yes, I know that's not a small
> >exception), never a generalized immiseration.
> >Doug
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> Yes, I would say that there is strong evidence for a race towards greater
> polarization/disparity, not to the bottom.  How this correlates with
> immiseration though is the real crux of the issue. no?  Take my research on
> food for example:even though there is growing PPP in most of the world
> there
> is also an increase in % of population that is malnourished and food
> insecure.
>
> Brad
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