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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Ilaine who wrote (20143)6/1/2006 5:39:05 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 541299
 
Re: free markets. I am always trying to get people to read Polanyi's Great Transformation, which is rich in historical details concerning the destructive effects of free market capitalism in England.

You don't need to lobby me. I'm a believer. One of the great books ever written. Should be required reading for all undergraduates.

One of the deans at the last school at which I taught asked the faculty to submit lists for books we would expect all seniors to have read by graduation time. Polanyi's was very, very high on the list.

As for the inevitability of ethnic conflict under the conditions you describe, I doubt it's that strong. But it seems to me, given historical experience, the presumption of such would be great. And any set of policy makers with the power to structure transitional institutions should keep concerns about such right on the very front of the policy agenda.

As for the US military in Iraq, one of the many troubling things about official accounts of their role is the absence of discussions of ethnic conflict. I've not read a single account, official ones, in which the Iraqis were anything other than the "Iraqis." Or the "insurgents" were anything other than. It leads to widespread misunderstanding in the public as to what is actually happening.
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