Yoshie wrote:
Things were beginning to go downhill in the then-existing socialist bloc just about the same time, but I have yet to read a really interesting narrative of economic history that takes a truly global view of the seventies.
Have you read Arrighi's _The Long Twentieth Century_? With much success he attempts to connect all the dots. Although perhaps the empirical and analytic coverage afforded the petrodollar loan guzzling NIC's far outdoes that of the then socialist bloc formally defined. (But of course market socialist Yugoslavia and other East Bloc countries did a lot of said guzzling to compernsate for and obscure labor productivity problems, yes?) JG _________________________________________________________________ Visit MSN Holiday Challenge for your chance to win up to $50,000 in Holiday cash from MSN today! http://www.msnholidaychallenge.com/index.aspx?ocid=tagline&locale=en-us
