Profit and loss

[jbor]

> jbor
> 
> please don't blame me for the vaguries of email!  I haven't carried on the
> argument
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Phil

I am not blaming you for anything, and our discussion had well and truly
concluded. I was simply rectifying Doug's vicious distortion of our on-list
exchange which, for whatever reason or reasons, you allowed to pass
unchallenged. As von Trotha once wrote in a completely different context:

"QUI TACET, CONSENTIRE VIDETUR"

> For a good illustration of "received wisdom", in fact, I refer
> interested parties to the final sentence of the first paragraph of jbor's
> post below:
>
> "And, it is these trade policies which have been and are crippling the
> economies of developing nations and which are the cause of the immense gulf
> in living standards between the First and Third Worlds"
>
> an opinion to which jbor has every right, but which will remain "received
> wisdom" until some analysis accompanies it.

And I'd refer you to any impartial economist worth her or his salt. Or,
better yet, take it up with Kofi Annan.

best


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                Unless we convince developing
    countries that globalisation really does benefit them,
      the backlash against it will become irresistible.
      That would be a tragedy for the developing world,
            and indeed for the world as a whole.
                          Kofi Annan, Seattle, 30/11/1999
                    http://www.twnside.org.sg/title/deb9-cn.htm

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