[lbo-talk] Inequality: The silly tales economists like to tell

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Oct 31 06:15:58 PDT 2012


On Oct 31, 2012, at 9:06 AM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:


> I do not think that foreign origin is the key here. Power is.
>
> The US is relatively open to foreigners, both professionals and day
> laborers. But it is not foreign/domestic origin that decides power
> relations inside the US. It is social class and the technostructure
> class in particular.

Dean was making some sort of general statement, when he was actually characterizing two professions with a long-standing guild structure.

Doug



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