Tom Palley

[Julio Huato <juliohuato@xxxxxxxxx>]

He is a URPE member.  The URPE list broadcasts his bloggings.  I'm not
sure every URPE member gets this break from the list moderator.
Palley used to teach at the New School a rather mild brand of
neokeynesianism (if you ask me).  I must say that I make this bold
inference on the basis of a single observation.  I sat in one of his
classes, not for one semester, but for one single session.  I felt
that I didn't need more.  After the New School, he became an economist
for the AFL-CIO.  More recently he was hired by the Stiglitz/Soros
think tank.  I don't know whether his current project is a spin-off of
the Stiglitz/Soros venue or a totally new toy just for him.  There's
nothing wrong (per se) with raising money from Soros (or the devil for
that matter).  What matters is how that money is spent.  Palley may be
a bit too inclined to please the donor, if I'm to read too much from
the name of his project.  A measure of him, in my humble opinion, is
given by his strident attacks against China's commercial threat to the
poor United States -- oh and by that terrifying threat that makes us
all shudder: Mexican immigrants.  His heterodox approach to the world
unity of the working class does it for me.  (I'm cc-ing him hereby.)