Re: Sweden -- A few reactions on the N.Y. Times article

[Mathew Forstater <forstate@xxxxxxxx>]

Sumner Rosen just showed me a paper from Sweden with a huge picture of
Vickrey on the cover, a whole special issue devoted to Vickrey, with a
translation of the "myths" paper.  I think he got it from Helen Ginsburg, who
probably got it from Per.  The first thing I did was to check if Per wrote
it, but he didn't. So there are at least a couple of other people in Sweden
who are interested in this besides Per.  Granted, it wasn't the major
newspaper. What was it, Per, do you know?

By the way, there will be a major conference on full employment in memory of
Vickrey at Columbia in November. Details will be forthcoming.

Mat

Dennis R Redmond wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Per Gunnar Berglund wrote:
>
> > I was under the impression that
> > the N.Y.T. was a first-class paper, but after reading this, I am no
> > longer very confident about that.
>
> Sad to say, the NY Times has been degenerating since the 1970s; its
> coverage of Central America in the Eighties gave new meaning to the term
> "abysmal", and its international news coverage can't hold a candle to the
> Wall Street Journal. I'll never forget my shock at discovering that even
> the regional paper in Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, provided more
> sophisticated commentary and pointed analysis than the Times (this is
> even more true for TV and radio).
>
> This raises an interesting point, though: do the Leftwing papers provide
> an adequate forum for Keynesian and generally progressive economic views
> in Sweden? I know Le Monde and Die Zeit (and let's not forget the dear
> Tageszeitung, available at www.taz.de for those of you who can read
> auf deutsch) do a creditable job in France and Germany. Is Sweden the
> same, or is Euromonetarism slowly poisoning the Scandinavian mass media,
> too?
>
> -- Dennis