tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post2823265047329221094..comments2024-03-28T04:13:36.779-04:00Comments on Mike Norman Economics: Yanis Varoufakis — As it happened – Yanis Varoufakis’ intervention during the 27th June 2015 Eurogroup Meetingmike normanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03296006882513340747noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-36017267025638096692015-06-28T19:36:27.971-04:002015-06-28T19:36:27.971-04:00Rodrik's trilemma is nonsense, based on word-p...Rodrik's trilemma is nonsense, based on word-play, as Abba Lerner showed before Rodrik was born. Lerner echoed Keynes great essay on National Self-sufficiency, and that echoed FDR's great <i>action</i> - which he said in 1937 he was prouder of than anything else had ever done: His USAexit message to the 1933 London Conference. I wish the Greeks & everyone else would read those things. <br /><br />Random: That "internationalism with nat sovereignty" is the current international order. It is horrifying how little it is understood. The EU is not comparable to the pre Civil War USA, as all legal authorities- and apparently no one else!- agree. And that history is wrong. The South went to war in the pro-slavery rebellion (Marx) - firing on Fort Sumter - not the North.Calgacushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06031818010224747000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-54668725122456809192015-06-28T13:22:06.867-04:002015-06-28T13:22:06.867-04:00You could have a clause in a treaty that national ...You could have a clause in a treaty that national sovereignty prevails in matters of contention instead of making the only option withdrawal from the treaty. That puts a legal limitation on internationalism. But it is not possible to have full internationalization wand also full exercise national sovereignty.<br /><br />An interesting test case is the US civil war. The South believed that states had the right to exercise their sovereignty by leaving the federation. The North disagreed and went to war over it. If the war had gone the other way, the precedent would have been different.Tom Hickeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08454222098667643650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-84309506865655372922015-06-28T12:19:19.863-04:002015-06-28T12:19:19.863-04:00How would you have internationalism with nat sover...How would you have internationalism with nat sovereignty?Randomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04445772572707818311noreply@blogger.com