Thanks Jim, for the amplification of value theory. Viva. My urgent request today concerns the economic (micro and macro) costs of urban segregation. A team is trying to convince the local neo-lib state to spend a wee bit more on desegregation. We have to get some benefits out of it. Is anyone out there who knows of citations of inefficiencies or other costs of segregation (yeah, even the dreaded geographical culture-of-poverty argument may have to be deployed), or benefits of mixing *classes* of folk in the same neighbourhood? Thanks! By the way, the crits of human capital theory a little while back were sent right out to researchers who have used them in minor battles with the establishment here. PEN-L is a terrific resource. Ciao! Patrick Bond National Institute for Economic Policy Johannesburg
