Stiglitz/ Comment from Rudy Fichtenbaum: by Stephen E Philion 29 November 2001 22:20 UTC
When I was in China, the Marxist economist (and translator of the nefarious Henwood's book Wall Street I might add) Han Deqiang used quote after quote from Stiglitz in speeches he gave to university audiences to debunk the adoration of the WTO in Chinese academia. There was another person he used very effectively, Bill Clinton! He would end his lectures with a quote from Clinton in a speech to congress advising quick passage of the China's entry to WTO based on the one sided character of sacrafices called for in the deal, i.e. only China would have to make significant decreases in tarrifs, etc. Han, btw, is really the closest thing China has to a Noam Chomsky. He goes around to campuses and delivers lectures that simply use the words of mainstream economists against the mythologies of neo-liberalism... %%%%%%%% CB: From Ricardo something was gotten for the fight. Marx quotes Benjamin Franklin favoably in _Capital_. From the bourgeois economist Hobson and others like, Lenin culled the kernel of his concept of imperialism. From whathisname came "creative destruction". From Eisenhower, who must have known military Keynesianism, the left got the concept of the "military-industrial complex". If Stiglitz wants to show out , lets not leave him hanging.
