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Everyone should check out this interesting post on jezebel.com today, both the post and the comments section below the post: http://jezebel.com/5432927/can-three-people-end-global-poverty

[5] the show is replayed at midnight-2AM on radio on 93.9FM, or seeming as you have internet to post a question, you can listen to it there at the link later this afternoon.

Hello,

I tuned in to the show late. Will there be a replay?

This is an argument that has positive ramifications.
What should be noted is that inherent in this argument is the notion of wealth redistribution. An argument that I am sure most dominant culture economists would discourage. Poverty is alleviated by increased distribution of resources.

I am ready to make a Kiva.org contribution. Is this a good idea?

the Marshall Plan was also used to prevent autocracy through governmental means from re-establishing itself via accountability, the statistical accountability work developed by Deming. When you have too much top down in any institution, the fish rots from the head, so to speak, even in private industry as we've just seen, especially when gov't chooses not to notice, as we just saw in the Bush administration[s].
What does the professor think of the Kiva and Grameen organizations? Especially since Grameen just opened it's own stock market.

The Marshall Plan was more about expanding US export trade than to rebuild Europe. At the time, it was believed that a healthy economically integrated Europe would be able to purchase US goods with the cash obtained by exporting to the developing world. That is why Germany was re0industrialized very quickly and de-nazification stopped by 1947.