[PEN-L:29501] Stiglitz interview

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

I want to strongly urge PEN-L'ers to listen to Henwood's interview with
Stiglitz. It was conducted at a very high level and touched all the
important points. My impression of Stiglitz was highly favorable, even
though I believe he is way off the mark on the question of
"export-based" economies in places like Brazil. At the end of the
interview, he told Henwood that he agreed with Wolfensohn on Cuba and
added that China was another example of a country with a successful
development model. Again, although I don't quite agree on what has made
China successful, it was interesting that he cited a country which by
objective criteria can still be characterized as postcapitalist. He
reflects a mood among the more far-sighted elements of the bourgeois
intelligentsia about a deep crisis of the world capitalist system that
might lie in store. It reminds me of a painting on my living room wall
done by Alfredo Ceibal, one of Guatemala's finest living artists. Called
"Fiesta in the Mountains", it depicts a wild party near a steep
precipice. Everybody at the party is either drunk, dancing or making
out. Except for one old woman who is looking over the edge of the
mountains at the rocks below with deep concern on her face. Stiglitz
reminds me of that figure.

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Louis Proyect
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