Talk:Herb Grubel

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On October 14 2007, this page was edited by a user with the IP 216.232.200.77, claiming to be Herb Grubel. I have removed the text he added according to Wikipedia's guidelines on autobiographies, but have pasted it below for posterity. Assuming the author was indeed Herb Grubel, I will now edit the article to comply with his requests. Terraxos 22:41, 18 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"This note is written by me, Herb Grubel. I deny ever having had any contact with any members of the Government of South Africa. I spent two separate periods teaching economics at the University of Cape Town, where one of my doctoral students, Cedric Nathan, is on the faculty of the economics department. In my lectures to students of both ethnic backgrounds I analyzed the benefits that would accrue to all people if the government allowed more personal and economic freedom. At no time did I endorse apartheid or advise anyone on how to avoid sanctions.

I also deny ever having said that Canadians living in reserves enjoy conditions equal to those enjoyed by the residents of South Sea Islands. The exact words of my speech to the House of Commons can be found in Hansard and will support fully this assertion.

The South Sea Island reference developed because in media scrums I suggested that most people who had enough money to move to these alleged paradises would not stay long because they have nothing to do and their lives had little meaning. Natives in remote reserves have the same problems since there are no jobs. I offered these conditions as an explanation of the social problems encountered by natives on these reserves, violince, suicides and other pathologies.

My mistake was to have said that in this sense conditions in reserves are just like conditions on South Sea Islands. That was an obvious rookie mistake, which the media gleefully used to show how stupid Reform party members of parliament were. A dcade later a journalist, who will remain unnamed, apologized to me for the unfair treatment he and the entire media mob had given me and the Reform party.

In my speech I urged the government not to spend more money on reserves that result in these pathologies and instead develop programs that lead to employment in the private sector. I suggested and still believe that this will never be possible on remote reserves, which have no natural resources and are too far from markets to permit the economic development of industry.

Persons interested in my experience as an MP are encouraged to read my autobiographical account in the book "A Professor in Parliament" available from Gordon Soules, publisher, West Vancouver, BC. In this book I also discuss my work in South Africa, Kenya, Singapore and other academic institutions of the world, as well as my experiences as a member of economics faculties at Yale, Stanford, the University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania, before I accepted a position at Simon Fraser University."

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