to me, it doesn't matter that much whether deLong is a right-winger or not. I can filter out his right-wing opinions, just as I do with the New York TIMES or U.S. National Public Radio. Just as I filter out a lot of the crap that some left-wingers produce (e.g., conspiracy theories). The question is whether or not someone actually has something useful or interesting to say after the nonsense has been filtered out. I don't think we need deLong on pen-l, but some of his writings are useful from an academic/economics perspective, since he's smarter than the average troll.
BTW, pen-l needs more economics discussions.
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Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sabri Oncu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 8:44 PM
> To: PEN-L
> Subject: [PEN-L:32701] Re: Maquiladoras not beneficial
>
>
> Michael wrote:
>
> > I don't think that Brad DeLong is a right winger
> > or a troll. Among economists, he would rank as a
> > left liberal.
>
> I don't know what troll means but I happen to have some ideas
> about right wingers. I hold that a necessary, but not sufficient,
> condition for being a leftist is the recognition that the US is
> an imperialist state screwing most of the rest of the world.
>
> As far as I can see, Brad Delong does not satisfy my necessary
> condition. And, hence, I will have to agree with Lou that,
> unfortunately, Brad Delong is a right winger, at least, no less
> right winger than Tony Blair.
>
> Jim, how do you like my political football playing?
>
> Sabri
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>
