RE: Rosser and Phillips on economics and war

[Christopher Niggle <niggle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Colleagues:

For what it is worth...

I think that the discussions of the possible political-economic factors
influencing the US/NATO decision to go to war as well as the economic
consequences of whatever postwar arrangements are to be made seem a
legitimate topic for this list.  Such phenomena were certainly of interest
to Keynes, and central to his contributions to political economy.

Also, I find them interesting in and of themselves.

Chris Niggle

On Thu, 3 Jun 1999 phillp2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> In deference to Rick's request to take this 'debate' (sic) off the list, I
> will not respond to this nonsense nor return to the subject,
> whatever the provocation.
>
> However, I am interested in following Barkley's suggestion that we
> look at the economic context behind the invasion, in particular the
> role of the IMF and WB in destabilizing the Yugoslav economy
> beginning with the IMF interventions from 1980 on.  Also, of some
> interest to the list should be the proposal for a "Balkan Marshall
> Plan" that has recently been floated by, I believe, the WB.
>
> If no one else is interested or if Rick thinks this will only lead to
> uninformed flaming, I would be happy to take it to another list were
> the subject is seriously discussed.
>
> Paul Phillips,
> Economics,
> University of Manitoba
>
> Date sent:      	Wed, 02 Jun 1999 19:58:26 -1000
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> From:           	"James R. Olson, jr." <jhavok@xxxxxxxx>
> To:             	POST-KEYNESIAN THOUGHT <pkt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject:        	RE: John Rawls on Just War
> Originally to:  	pkt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, POST-KEYNESIAN THOUGHT <pkt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> > At 10:59 PM 6/1/99 +0000, Paul Phillips wrote:
> > >What seems to be ignored in this is the fact that there was no ethnic
> > >cleansing in Kosovo, no genocide,  not atrocities, until NATO began
> > >its bombing campaign.  The ethnic cleansing was caused by the NATO
> > >action -- and would cease with an end to the bombing.
> >
> > The June issue of Harper's magazine, which I have already referred to,
> > reprints a statement by Serbia's deputy prime minister Vojislav Seselj from
> > 1995, explaining how the ethnic Albaninan majority is to be driven from
> > Kosovo.
> >
> > I think this is enough to point out the naivete of thinking that everything
> > was fine before the bombing, and will be fine if we just stop.  In fact,
> > there has been a ten-year campaign by the Serbs against the Kosovars, which
> > has now erupted into open war.
> >
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