>Several people have communicated with me in the last day or so,
>wanting to get off the list were complaining about the tone of
>the list. Personal attacks seem to be becoming a bit more
>common. Arrogant forms of communication in which people talk
>down to other people is creating
On Monday, May 14, 2001 at 19:40:00 (-0700) Brad DeLong writes:
I don't think that we need to bicker about the IMF. It is a tool of the
oppressors and does terrible harm.
Now, now.
If there were no IMF--if there were no one willing and able to loan
Argentina $40 billion to try to get it
The larger point is that vigorous discussions that include debating
strongly held views is not incompatible with a pen-l that is mostly
free of personalized attacks. We're in this together, after all.
Andrew Hagen
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At 07:40 PM 05/14/2001 -0700, you wrote:
I don't think that we need to bicker about the IMF. It is a tool of the
oppressors and does terrible harm.
Now, now.
a classic patronizing phrase.
If there were no IMF--if there were no one willing and able to loan
Argentina $40 billion to try to get
Now it's unlikely that democracy will prevail on a world scale in
the near
future (since, heck, it doesn't even prevail in the U.S.) As a
compromise,
perhaps we could return the IMF to the original role that Keynes and
White
recommended it. Given the way in which the IMF has screwed things
At 04:26 PM 5/14/01 -0700, you wrote:
Several people have communicated with me in the last day or so,
wanting to get off the list were complaining about the tone of
the list. Personal attacks seem to be becoming a bit more
common. Arrogant forms of communication in which people talk
down to
I don't think that we need to bicker about the IMF. It is a tool of the
oppressors and does terrible harm.
Where we do have honest disagreements, we should express them
respectfully.
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 07:40:07PM -0400, Louis Proyect wrote:
Maybe there should be 2 PEN-L's, one for those
I don't think that we need to bicker about the IMF. It is a tool of the
oppressors and does terrible harm.
Now, now.
If there were no IMF--if there were no one willing and able to loan
Argentina $40 billion to try to get it through its current episode of
capital flight and foreign investor
