Soenke Zehle on Fri, 20 Sep 2002 13:37:53 +0200 (CEST) |
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<nettime> Re: Pritchett/Summers |
I looked at this controversy again, and Lant Pritchett said that the memo had been 'doctored' by a WB staff member who excerpted what was meant to be an 'ironic' aside from a much more comprehensive memo on environmental policy...whatever, but do check out the sidebar 'Toxic Memo' in the article that celebrated Summer's return to Harvard. Rosenberg, John S. "Worldly Professor: The University's high-energy, multitasking twenty-seventh president comes home to Harvard." Harvard Magazine 103.5 (May-June 2001). URL: http://www.harvard-magazine.com/archive/01mj/mj01_feat_summers_1.html The logic of pricing and the mechanisms of valuation at the heart of environmental economics, enshrined in the Handbook on Standard National Accounts of the UN Statistical Division and pushed in Agenda 21, are absurd as they are... I'm not against attempts at (environmental) valuation as such, since they were (as far as I know) introduced to push GDP as the master measure of the wealth of nations off its pedestal, with mixed results (now we have 'environmental satellite accounts'). If the 'Global North' indeed accumulated an ecological debt to the 'Global South', I think it makes a lot of sense to think of that in terms of $$$ and not just metaphorically, so you need to calculate material flows somehow. Btw, have you written on 'ecological economics' (Martinez-Alier et al)? Their idea - the economy not as synchronic system geared toward allocative optima (neoclassical econ.) but as entropic system of energy and material flows...sounds much better to me, actually. Soenke ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood@panix.com> To: "nettime" <nettime-l@bbs.thing.net> Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 4:41 PM Subject: Re: <nettime> China Seizes Banned E-Waste > Soenke Zehle wrote: > > >Remember the 1991 memo by Larry Summers, leaked to Greenpeace, on how = > the ..... # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net