Re: [Marxism] Re: Bhagwati's defense of Mankiw

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Xxxx Xxxxxx wrote:
> Further, this man does not hesitate to ally with the establishment if
> necessary. I remember a case where he complained about sweatshop protestors
> to Columbia University.Wasn't he engaged in some kind of petition against
> Columbia students?

(From pen-l)

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 Liza Featherstone & I interviewed him for our Lingua Franca
piece about trade (the mag is dead, but the piece has been perserved
at <http://www.1worldcommunication.org/clothesencounter.htm>), we
found him far more open-minded, intellectually engaged, and
culturally literate than just about any other economist we've ever
encountered.

Doug



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