Doug Henwood on Fri, 20 Sep 2002 16:40:23 +0200 (CEST) |
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Re: <nettime> Re: Pritchett/Summers |
Soenke Zehle wrote: >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. I hadn't heard the "doctoring" defense before. I have a copy of the original memo, and the excerpt I posted was the whole section, scanned from that copy. The irony markers are pretty thin, unless you call titling the section "Nuggets" a sign that the knee-slapping is about to begin. I ran into Summers at a party in DC in April 2000 and asked him if Africa was still vastly underpolluted. He said that was "a fair if not a friendly question" and launched into the irony/provocation defense. He didn't claim the memo was doctored. By the way, a World Bank source told me that Pritchett was among the happiest of staffers when Joe Stiglitz was forced out as the Bank's chief economist. -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer Village Station - PO Box 953 New York NY 10014-0704 USA voice +1-212-741-9852 fax +1-212-807-9152 cell +1-917-865-2813 email <mailto:dhenwood@panix.com> web <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com> ----- End forwarded message ----- # 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