Douglas Dowd on Hugh Stretton's Econ. text

2001-03-01 Thread Lisa Ian Murray
http://www.monthlyreview.org/301dowd.htm Refuting the Big Lie by Doug Dowd Hugh Stretton, Economics: A New Introduction (Pluto Press, 1999), 864 pages, $90 hardcover, $35 paper. Capitalism was first firmly established in Britain in the eighteenth century and it was then and there that

Re: Douglas Dowd on Hugh Stretton's Econ. text

2001-03-01 Thread Louis Proyect
The resort to deregulation, privatization and smaller government since the 1970s proves to have been a mistaken response to the new troubles of “stagflation,” and an active cause of some of them. Interesting. This is exactly what is motivating my research into deregulation which represents for