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:I note that there are several conversation occuring about this issue, presumably as a result of my [[WP:ANI]] post, so to aid communication, I will copy this whole thread on to your talk page and would prefer to continue any discussion there. -- John <span class="plainlinks" style="font-family: Verdana; font-variant: small-caps; font-size: 11px; text-align: center;">([[User:Daytona2|Daytona2]]<span style="font-weight:bold;"> ·</span> [[User talk:Daytona2|Talk]]<span style="font-weight:bold;"> ·</span> [[Special:Contributions/Daytona2|Contribs]])</span> 17:42, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
::If you think that Yuliya Demyanyk, Otto Van Hemert, Paul Krugman, Michel Lazare and Allan Sloan do not have a POV then you are much mistaken. It is impossible to write on economics at this level without expressing a political POV, even if it is simply one of supporting the status quo.
::The International Monetary Fund is a clearly political institution and there is a substantial body of academic writing demonstrating this. (The US government, which has very clear political views, controls 16.79 percent of the votes in its executive, for instance.) The Economist, which I read each week, is a magazine with a very clear political stance, which takes positions on a whole number of political questions. It also represents a particular POV in economic theory, namely a version of neoliberalism, which is widely rejected (indeed rejected by the majority of the population in large areas of the globe). If you prefer I could remove these external links also, until such a time as those who added them prove they do not represent a POV.
::Regarding Lapavitsas's credibility. Why is a senior lecturer in economics in the university of London, with a couple of books to his name, less credible than a staff member at the Economist or a employee at a bank? Does wikipedia rank academics in some way? This seems counter to the logic of the whole project.
::Anyway, I'd challenge you to find any claim in the interview that lacks credibility. Otherwise you are simply exposing your own narrow mindedness. As for the other editing, I'd point you to my work on Phantom voltage, the theory of the united front, Leon Trotsky's political views, corrections to Anglicanism and Respect, etc.
[[User:Piquant|Piquant]] ([[User talk:Piquant#top|talk]]) 14:19, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
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