http://crookedtimber.org/2004/03/05/cutting-the-gordian-knot/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:05:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://crookedtimber.org/2004/03/05/cutting-the-gordian-knot/comment-page-1/#comment-20360 Sandals Mon, 08 Mar 2004 04:56:47 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=1195#comment-20360 I dunno. After reading Globalization and its Discontents, it seems that Stiglitz's problems with the IMF arose over a fundamental shift in what he terms the "Washington Consensus" in recent years. I dunno. After reading Globalization and its Discontents, it seems that Stiglitz’s problems with the IMF arose over a fundamental shift in what he terms the “Washington Consensus” in recent years.

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2004/03/05/cutting-the-gordian-knot/comment-page-1/#comment-20359 Doug Fri, 05 Mar 2004 18:23:49 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=1195#comment-20359 "Here I am, <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22brain+the+size+of+a+planet%22+%22job+satisfaction%22&btnG=Google+Search">brain the size of a planet</a> and they ask me to take you down to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction?" “Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they ask me to take you down to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction?”

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2004/03/05/cutting-the-gordian-knot/comment-page-1/#comment-20358 biztheclown Fri, 05 Mar 2004 17:59:48 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=1195#comment-20358 "Think what he could do to re-structure developing country debt. " This is funny. Really funny. What could he do to deal with developing country debt? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. The IMF is an absolute failure. It has never seriously pursued any of its supposed goals. Its function is to take blame. Stiglitz, in an interview a few months after the publication of his masterful _Globilsation and its Discontents_, stated that he believes the only solution to the IMF may be to destroy it and to start over from scratch. This is the only way that the developing world will ever get a fair shake on their debts. No European neoliberal technocrat in the world can accomplish anything good through working at the IMF. “Think what he could do to re-structure developing country debt. ” This is funny. Really funny. What could he do to deal with developing country debt? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. The IMF is an absolute failure. It has never seriously pursued any of its supposed goals. Its function is to take blame. Stiglitz, in an interview a few months after the publication of his masterful Globilsation and its Discontents, stated that he believes the only solution to the IMF may be to destroy it and to start over from scratch. This is the only way that the developing world will ever get a fair shake on their debts. No European neoliberal technocrat in the world can accomplish anything good through working at the IMF.

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