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From: frank@isrnix.UUCP (Frank Burleigh)
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Subject: Re: GATT declares U.S. - Japan chip pact illegal
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Date: 8 Apr 88 02:39:06 GMT
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In article <347@gaia.UUCP> zhahai@gaia.UUCP (Zhahai Stewart) writes:
>
>The problem with the Free Enterprise Forever Without Government Interference
>thing is that it has not worked. [ ... ]
>  [ ... ]                  [well-planned tarrifs] WORKED.  The free 
>enterprise ideologues tend to ignore realities in favor of purity of thought.

i would argue that it's more repetition than thought; part of thought is
an interogation of the extant world that can incorporate and explain the
evidence of that world (if you'll forgive the positivist drippings...).

>We are caught between the free enterprise ideologues  [ ... ]
>                and the short-sighted protectionists who are trying to ignore
>the market forces.  What we need are people who recognize that both market
>forces AND judicious government intervention have to work together for the
>system to be competitive.  The Japanese have that; to some degree, so do many
>European countries, who have been doing well at trade with the US despite their
>"socialized" economies (which the ideologues would tell us should make them
>totally unable to compete with the US).
>
>Oh, well - let's turn the conversation back over to the ideologues.  I can only
>hope that a few of them will be weaned from their pipe dreams and get back to
>reality - to provide a realistic counterbalance to the non-strategic 
>protectionists.  Shalom.
>
>-- 
>Zhahai Stewart
>{hao | nbires}!gaia!zhahai

i thought this was one of the better postings i've seen on this matter.
i especially appreciated its contact with the historical record.  well
done.

[ps: the april 4 infoworld includes a blurb on the gatt decision.  i
don't have that in front of me, but my reading suggests the posting that
spawned this discussion over-stated the decision; the agreement itself
was not found prolematic, but only the implementation (by japan?) of one
element of it.  apologies if my ram has failed me.]
-- 
 Frank C. Burleigh
 Institute for Social Research - Indiana University - Bloomington, IN 47405
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