[lbo-talk] NYT's hearts Iran's new austerity measures

[Carrol Cox]

I have no strong opinion on this, but perhaps Joanna's point would be less
vulnerable if she were to use a weaker term than "deprivation." Clearly the
U.S. population is not as "well off" as in the'60s; there's been relative
deprivation or austerity or _________. Is something like that true  (or apt
to become true) of some of the nations Doug names?

Some proportion of the Chinese population was probably better fed and had
better medical care before "the change" (for lack of a better or more
precise term) than is the case now. How large that portion is I wouldn't
know.

Carrol

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Countries participate in the world market in different ways. Perhaps I'm
being thick and misreading "participate in world market" as a euphemism for
the neoliberal globalization project. 

It just seems like the participation of some countries....say Eastern
Europe...means sudden immiseration and a drop in life expectancy. I dunno.

Joanna 

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On Jan 18, 2011, at 2:08 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: 


> OK. But so far as the hoi polloi are concerned, being included in the
world market seems to go hand in hand with deprivation. What am I missing
here? 

How do you figure that? Japan, Western Europe, Canada, China, S Korea are
all part of the world market. Are they deprived? 

Doug 
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