Talk - What Difference Does a Revolution Make in a Global Economic Meltdown?

[bapyou]

I wonder if Ms. Evenson or her colleagues has ever taken any heat from the exile Cuban community in the U.S. for her work. I've been reading Joan Didion's 1987 book 'Miami' which is in part a chilling account of the strong arm tactics the exiles use against anyone in the community even remotely sympathetic or conciliatory towards Castro Cuba. Evenson looks as though she may be Cuban; therefore I wonder.

If you haven't read Didion's book, I highly recommend it. It's intensely compelling work.

[alfredunhill]

very interesting that in spite of economic hitmen and a myriad of other external and internal issues, these countries are thriving and unifying....brillilant.

[hasatum]

Shouldn't the key lesson of this development be decentralization and a focus on local government? If South America federalized, would you expect to see the kind of interest in public welfare that is apparent here?

[PBrofaith]

Thank you talking stick for bringing many interesting points of view to the table. I must say that to identify ones self with any centralized political system seems to be folly.

[blttomato]

I have to agree, but seeing his limited understanding and relative young age, its easy to see why he'd gravitate towards marxism. Capitalism, when held to a strict account, like it used to be, has been the single most successful experiment of modern man..

[spqrobert]

i think you confuse the effects of capitalism with the effects of industrialization.