Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: "The Upheavals of June, 2000"

[Brad De Long <delong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>  >Yesterday the United States! Today the OECD! Tomorrow the World! (It
> > ain't Utopia, but it's the only game in town--unless you think, like
> > Lars-Erik Neilsen in the _New York Review of Books_, that Mexicans
> > ain't fit to assemble staplers and should go back to the subsistence
> > agriculture that they came from)
>
> So those are the only choices? Mexicans should assemble staplers for
> us, instead of feeding, clothing, housing, and educating themselves?
> If this is neoliberalism, then it sounds like imperialism to me.
>
> Doug

Like we exploit Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, all of which grew
rapidly by exporting light industrial products?

Between assembling staplers for export and growing corn in
unirrigated Mexican soil, I'll take assembling staplers for 50 pesos,
Alex...


Brad DeLong