Re: Andre Gunder Frank article

2004-06-04 Thread Chris Doss
I reserve a special jail hell for Anders Russia never had an economic collapse Aslund. And he's a Swede, which makes it worse, as he should know better. :) (He can spend his time denying that he is in a jail cell.) That said, the main responsibility should be laid at the door of certain

Andre Gunder Frank article

2004-06-04 Thread Charles Brown
Chris Doss: I reserve a special jail hell for Anders Russia never had an economic collapse Aslund. And he's a Swede, which makes it worse, as he should know better. :) (He can spend his time denying that he is in a jail cell.) That said, the main responsibility should be laid at the door of

Andre Gunder Frank article

2004-06-03 Thread Louis Proyect
Andre Gunder Frank wrote: This is NEW and TIMELY UPDATED and ENLARGED essay contains material previously posted under titles of coup d'etat, paper tiger, fiery dragon... Andre, I have taken the liberty of putting your article on the Marxism list website: http://www.marxmail.org/agfrank.htm It

Re: Andre Gunder Frank article

2004-06-03 Thread Doug Henwood
Andre Gunder Frank wrote: Iraqi oil is again being priced in US dollars and no longer in Euros as under the dreadful Saddam Hussein. Not exactly. You could argue that the sharp rise in oil prices is a reflection of dollar weakness. Since the December 2001 low, oil is up about 106% in dollar terms,

Re: Andre Gunder Frank article

2004-06-03 Thread Chris Doss
With means you do as we say, and against means you are under threat to be destroyed economically and politically, as well as militarily if we wish. In case there be any doubt about our intentions and capabilities, Russia and Argentina are prime examples on the economic front as are Iraq through

Re: Andre Gunder Frank article

2004-06-03 Thread Chris Doss
I wrote: There is little evidence the US deliberately tried to wreck the Russian economy (not that it didn't give crap advice). --- Wait, I may have to take that back, if Frank is referring to early (not late) Reagan-era and not Bush I and Clinton-era policies.

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2004-06-03 Thread Funke Jayson J
: [PEN-L] Andre Gunder Frank article I wrote: There is little evidence the US deliberately tried to wreck the Russian economy (not that it didn't give crap advice). --- Wait, I may have to take that back, if Frank is referring to early (not late) Reagan-era and not Bush I and Clinton-era policies

Re: FW: [PEN-L] Andre Gunder Frank article

2004-06-03 Thread Chris Doss
ultraskeptical. -Original Message- From: Funke Jayson J [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 10:15:21 -0400 Subject: [PEN-L] FW: [PEN-L] Andre Gunder Frank article The best place to look for confirmation of this is the Harvard Institute for International Development

Re: Andre Gunder Frank article

2004-06-03 Thread Michael Perelman
william Casey worked with the Saudis to drop the price of oil to harm the USSR. On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 06:07:10PM +0400, Chris Doss wrote: I wrote: There is little evidence the US deliberately tried to wreck the Russian economy (not that it didn't give crap advice). --- Wait, I may have

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2004-06-03 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Andre Gunder Frank wrote: Iraqi oil is again being priced in US dollars and no longer in Euros as under the dreadful Saddam Hussein. Not exactly. You could argue that the sharp rise in oil prices is a reflection of dollar weakness. Since the December 2001 low, oil is up about 106% in dollar terms,

Re: Andre Gunder Frank article

2004-06-03 Thread Chris Doss
. -Original Message- From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 07:29:39 -0700 Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Andre Gunder Frank article william Casey worked with the Saudis to drop the price of oil to harm the USSR. On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 06:07:10PM +0400

Re: Andre Gunder Frank article

2004-06-03 Thread Chris Doss
Whoops, I meant post-1989, obviously. post-1999

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2004-06-03 Thread Funke Jayson J
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PEN-L] FW: [PEN-L] Andre Gunder Frank article My impression is that the problem with Schleifer et al. was ideological blindness, ignorance and corruption, no? Gaidar's decision to free prices suddenly was done on his own initiative, right? Creating economic instability in a giant

Re: FW: [PEN-L] FW: [PEN-L] Andre Gunder Frank article

2004-06-03 Thread Chris Doss
PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 10:44:12 -0400 Subject: [PEN-L] FW: [PEN-L] FW: [PEN-L] Andre Gunder Frank article In regards to deliberate derailing of the Russian economy. I didn't intend to infer that there was deliberate intention to cripple the Russian economy at HIID BEYOND that which

Andre Gunder Frank article

2004-06-03 Thread Charles Brown
Chris Doss In Russia, the view that the US deliberately tried to wreck Russia is only tossed around by demogogues, usually of the ultranationalist sort, so I am ultraskeptical. ^^ CB: There is the sense that instituting capitalism, getting rid of all the Soviet economic benefits for the