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Exporting Pollution - good business?

reregholdsworth · 2008-06-22 04:50:31

http://www.counterpunch.org/summers.html Read this for three good reasons that economists should not be allowed to dictate policy. I'm amazed that this guy was the chief economist for the World Bank.

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http://www.counterpunch.org/summers.html

Read this for three good reasons that economists should not be
allowed to dictate policy.

I'm amazed that this guy was the chief economist for the World Bank.

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Hehe the 'Toxic Memo' is justifiably famous. The scary thing is, if you do enough neoliberal economics, without adding in any health supplement of A: ecology B: physics or C: reality generally, then this makes complete sense.

Btw not all economists have these...blind spots.
Susan George did a great satire on these lines called the Lugano Report, its well worth reading.

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