well we non-economics experts in global maffairs understand the IMF and Stiglitz have gone to war and cannot both be right
however in the intangibles area I am expert in, the transparency disasters accountants have caused which go far deeper than just corruption Stigler calls it right... http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4454068,00.html and since the IMF record hasnt exactly narrowed many poor world gaps in living memory, funny rebukes are not the way IMF should make its case simple if indeed it has any one for its future existence chris at www.valuetrue.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Tabarrok" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 09 July 2002 20:59 PM Subject: Stiglitz v. Rogoff > Ken Rogoff has written a stinging and very funny rebuke of Joe Stiglitz > and his new book. It's not the sort of thing you see very often. > > http://www.imf.org/external/np/vc/2002/070202.htm > > Brad DeLong's comments on the book are also devastating. > > http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/archives/000322.html > > Alex > -- > Dr. Alexander Tabarrok > Vice President and Director of Research > The Independent Institute > 100 Swan Way > Oakland, CA, 94621-1428 > Tel. 510-632-1366, FAX: 510-568-6040 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
