On 21/05/2008 1:33 PM, Louis Proyect wrote:
On March 5th, Red Emma, a radical bookstore in Baltimore, hosted a
symposium on Giovanni Arrighi’s new book “Adam Smith in Beijing”. The
panel consisted of Arrighi, David Harvey and Joel Andreas, a Sociology
professor at Johns Hopkins University, and specialist on class
relations in China from 1949 to the present. ...
I shocked to discover that Arrighi views Adam Smith as a prophet of
markets, but not of capitalism. Not only that, what’s been happening
in China for the past 20 years ago is the development of markets
rather than capitalism. Boy, you learn something new every day.
Marty Hart-Landsberg gave a fantastic talk about China yesterday at
Centro Internacional Miranda in Caracas, noting eg., that less than 1/4
of Chinese value-added
is accounted for by majority-owned state industries.. and mainly in raw
material processing. By this criterion, Venezuela is more socialist than
China--- and it isn't socialist.
michael
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Michael A. Lebowitz
Professor Emeritus
Economics Department
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C., Canada V5A 1S6
Director, Programme in 'Transformative Practice and Human Development'
Centro Internacional Miranda, P.H.
Residencias Anauco Suites, Parque Central, final Av. Bolivar
Caracas, Venezuela
fax: 0212 5768274/0212 5777231
http//:centrointernacionalmiranda.gob.ve
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