Re: economics articles

[Barkley Rosser <rosserjb@xxxxxxx>]

     I just got my new AER and have not yet found the
paper praising lobbying against taxes.  What strikes
me more is the large set of articles up front that are
a nearly unanimous drumbeat of praise for the IMF,
although this is not exactly shocking given that the
Ely Lecture was given by the recent chief economist
of said institution, Stanley Fischer.
     OTOH, there do seem to be a few dissident papers
scattered throughout the volume, including one by
William Darity on racial reparations, and some not
bad ones on problems of health insurance for the poor.
      Of course Andrei Shleifer is in there bloviating about
sovereign debt markets.  Although it was not reprinted
in the issue, I saw his speech at the meetings in Washington.
Sitting next to him was the execrable Larry Summers.
They were really chumming it up.  Summers' speech was
one of the most egregious I have seen in a long time.
He and the IMF did nothing wrong and everything right,
the transition went great, and the critics are all just a
bunch of whiney ex-Sovietologists jealous and angry
that they have lost their field of study.
Barkley Rosser
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eugene Coyle" <eugenecoyle@xxxxxxx>
To: <PEN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 6:59 PM
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] economics articles


> Your parents should have some software to block you from looking at that
> stuff.
>
> Gene
>
> Michael Perelman wrote:
>
> >I'm just going over the new American Economic Review.  I was struck by
how
> >many articles economists are now publishing that supposedly prove the
> >destructiveness of people foolishly manipulating the government.  The
> >culprits are usually those special interests who want the government to
> >regulate industry, tax corporations, or protect people.
> >
> >One article explains lobbying as a justifiable defense against the
> >confiscatory taxation.
> >
> > --
> >Michael Perelman
> >Economics Department California State University
> >Chico, CA 95929
> >
> >Tel. 530-898-5321
> >E-Mail michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >
> >
>