[DEBATE] : Re: The Myth of Microloans A Nobel Peace Prize forNeoliberalism?

[Patrick Bond]

Peter Waterman wrote:
> As for Tobin, he 
> already got his Nobel...although the Alternative Nobel people might give him 
> one for having inspired, if not invented, ATTAC (is this maybe the one that 
> got away?).

Yes, he passed away a couple of years ago, without ever (as I recall) 
explicitly supporting the movements that sprang up in his ('Tobin Tax') 
name. He was, after all, an economist, and not prone to alliance with 
progressive activists.

And thankfully ATTAC has moved a long way beyond financial transaction 
taxes. I was with their Norway group last Monday when they launched a 
terrific new book, Economic Apartheid. The German ATTAC is going strong. 
But I gather the French group had an ugly split recently, partly over 
ideology, partly over a stolen election.