Re: Re: Re: Re: FW: Krugman

["Ian Murray" <seamus2001@xxxxxxxxx>]

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> G'day Ian,
>
> No doubt there's more than a smidgeon of truth in that.  I still think
> sentiments like that of the deceased gentleman betray a rather innocent
> integrationist functionalism (if I may introduce an ugly coinage).

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Well he was a fan of Hayek and Jacob Viner so what can I say.




> Globalisation ain't homogenisation, indeed it ain't meant to be
> (variance over space is precisely where our betters distribute costs and
> divide labour to their advantage).

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Yup it's divide and rule carried out under the euphemism of comparative advantage; a classic bait
and switch as Thomas Palley puts it.


> To the degree that it is (convenient
> universalised definitions and regulations that allow such utilisation of
> difference), it must necessarily create different differences.  A single
> imposition affects a heterogeneous object in heterogeneous ways,
> producing a variety of resistances, axiomatically redistributing costs
> and benefits, and, at the very least, a variety of readings of a
> seemingly singular text (information theorists are merely communications
> theorists who get to bracket out the problem of meaning and the context
> wthin which it is generated - which makes their calling easier, but less
> useful in all ways but that of short-term propaganda points for the
> suits and technocrats).
>
> Cheers,
> Rob.

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Amen.

Ian