Re: FW: [PEN-L] Andre Gunder Frank article

["Chris Doss" <nomorebounces@xxxxxxx>]

My impression is that the problem with Schleifer et al. was ideological blindness, ignorance and corruption, no? Gaidar's decision to free prices suddenly was done on his own initiative, right? Creating economic instability in a giant country with one of the world's most formidable militaries that is practically your ally would seem to me to be pretty dumb (not that the US gov. isn't capable of some spectacularly stupid things).

In Russia, the view that the US deliberately tried to wreck Russia is only tossed around by demogogues, usually of the ultranationalist sort, so I am ultraskeptical.

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From: Funke Jayson J <funke.jj@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: PEN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 10:15:21 -0400
Subject: [PEN-L] FW: [PEN-L] Andre Gunder Frank article

> The best place to look for confirmation of this is the Harvard Institute for International Development (now dissolved). HIID was perhaps the dominant organization offering economic "recommendations" to Russia. Ironically, HIID collapsed primarily as a result of internal corruption by its own scholars and directors who pilfered funds from the organization for their own personal use. (This from an inside source.)
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> Jayson Funke