In Which I Discover I Was Printed in the Wall Street Journal

So, I got an email from a friend this morning saying, "Hey, how you doing, and I liked your letter to the editor in the Wall Street Journal a few months ago."

Yowza! I hadn't thought they'd printed anything I've written - but apparently I didn't check diligently enough. It took them a few weeks to do so.

So, here it is, a few months late!

Wall Street Journal - Letters to the Editor
Trade Helps Poor, Beats Intervention
16 September 2008

The noble attempts described in your article "Nobel Laureates Say Globalization's Winners Should Aid Poor" (Aug. 25) to match isolated, short-term historical events to procure an entirely new functioning of economic principles only indicates more tired attempts at politicization of economic theory. Globalization, when accompanied by free trade and deregulation, is the champion of economic prosperity, not central planning.

Furthermore, there is little historical evidence that government intervention has ever been successful at bridging gaps in economic disparity. To attempt to assign objective relevance to recent globalization and technology events, is irrational and academically irresponsible.

M. T.
Royal Oak, Mich.