Julio Huato quoted Jagdish Bhagwati:
Even now, despite all the talk about
poverty alleviation, the World Bank's staff, research, and aid are being
used, I suspect, in a way that, instead of calling into serious doubt the
economic logic of IPP, can be interpreted as contributing to the know-how
Ahmet Tonak wrote:
Any reaction to the following op-ed defense of Mankiw by Bhagwati. I
observe two flaws:
1) a complete misunderstanding of competition; Bhagwati attacks Kerry
because, Bhagwati thinks, Kerry is unable to see the connection between
outsourcing of jobs and the improve[ment
Julio Huato wrote:
It is anathema to some people on these lists, but in my view Marx's
emphasis on the progressive character of capitalist production in
certain settings is not that far from Bhagwati's insisting that
capitalism in the Third World is a dissolvent of reactionary forms of
Julio Huato wrote:
I have sat in Bhagwati's classes and believe he is honest.
He's also very critical of the U.S. use of the WTO to tighten
intellectual property restrictions and of the confusion of capital
account liberalization with trade liberalization. He's not a wind-up
free-trader.
When
Doug Henwood wrote:
He's also very critical of the U.S. use of the WTO to tighten intellectual
property restrictions and of the confusion of capital account
liberalization with trade liberalization. He's not a wind-up free-trader.
Jagdish Bhagwati wrote [my remarks in brackets]:
The starvation
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From: Julio Huato [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you think that I am exaggerating, let me cite you just one telling
example. As regards intellectual property protection (IPP), demanded
insistently by the United States and then by other rich countries, most
economists believe
Any reaction to the following op-ed defense of Mankiw by Bhagwati. I
observe two flaws:
1) a complete misunderstanding of competition; Bhagwati attacks Kerry
because, Bhagwati thinks, Kerry is unable to see the connection between
outsourcing of jobs and the improve[ment of] the competitiveness
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From: E. Ahmet Tonak [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Any reaction to the following op-ed defense of Mankiw by Bhagwati. I
observe two flaws:
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http://www.columbia.edu/~jb38/
Professor Jagdish N. Bhagwati
University Professor
Title: the irresistable rise of N. Gregory Mankiw
June 22, 2003/New York TIMES
Into the Politics of Economics
By DAVID LEONHARDT...
I have no doubt that tax cuts will lead to higher growth, said Mr. Mankiw, 45, whose tousled dark hair and round, boyish face are set off by square
Title: Mankiw
(from the NY TIMES, 2/28/03 http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/28/business/28ECON.html?tntemail0==print=top )
What has infuriated some advocates of Mr. Bush's tax-cutting plans are things that Mr. Mankiw wrote in his textbook, Principles of Economics, first published in the late
Devine, James wrote:
Krugman's NYT column today suggests that Mankiw will have little
choice but to toe the party line.
Of course! Lindsey got bounced for being too fat and for being too
honest about the cost of war. Mankiw's not fat - and his dog named
Keynes is safely dead - so he'd better
Title: RE: [PEN-L:35142] Re: Mankiw
Krugman's NYT column today suggests that Mankiw will have little
choice but to toe the party line.
Doug writes:
Of course! [Mankiw had] better practice his lying if he wants
to keep his job.
please, we professional economists don't call it lying
I thought it was called 'heroic assumptions.'
mbs
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Krugman's NYT column today suggests
Title: Mankiw?
So it looks like Greg Mankiw will head the US President's Council of Economic Advisors. He's a hack (at least to my highly-biased mind), but will he go along with Bush's take-no-prisoners/give-everything-to-the-rich approach to economic policy?
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED
Devine, James wrote:
So it looks like Greg Mankiw will head the US President's Council of
Economic Advisors. He's a hack (at least to my highly-biased mind),
but will he go along with Bush's
take-no-prisoners/give-everything-to-the-rich approach to economic
policy?
Would he have taken the job
I thought that Heilbroner's NATION commentary on Mankiw was in many ways
just a repetition of the kind of thing Heilbroner has been saying for
years. At the end, he admits that he's criticizing mainstream economics
more than he's criticizing Mankiw. (The latter gets the attention because
he got
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