breh, i barely have time to post here let alone do research like some teaching assistant.
but lucky for you i have a bibliography from a paper i wrote in college, which analyzed how countries build wealth economically, and how government policy and regulation play into economic growth. each one of these books supports my original position on manufacturing and protectionism.
Bibliography
Erik S. Reinert, How Rich Countries Got Rich
and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor (New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2007)
Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Washington D.C.: Howard University Press, 1972)
William Easterly, The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (New York: The Penguin Press, 2006)
Ha-Joon Chang, Bad Samaritans. (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2008)
Kevin Danaher, 10 Reasons to Abolish the IMF & World Bank (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2001)
Joseph Stiglitz What I Learned at the World Economic Crisis, The New Republic (April 17, 2000)
Antonia Juhasz, The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time (New York: Regan Books, 2006)
IMF members distribution of voting power:
http://www.imf.org/external/np/sec/memdir/members.htm
David Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations (London: W.W. Norton & Company Press, 1999)
Martin Feldstein, Refocusing the IMF. Foreign Affairs March/April, Vol. 77, No.2, 1998.
Global Trends 2015: A Dialogue about the Future with Nongovernment Experts, National Intelligence Council, December 2000.
Mattis Lundberg and Lyn Squire, The Simultaneous Evolution of Growth and Inequality, World Bank, 1999.
John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (New York: Penguin Group, 2004)
Allan H. Meltzer, Meltzer Commission Report (Washington, 2000) Available for viewing at:
http://www.house.gov/jec/imf/meltzer.htm
Maulana Karenga. Introduction to Black Studies (Los Angeles: University of Sankore Press, 2002)
George Ayittey, The African Development Conundrum, Making Poor Nations Rich: Entrepreneurship and the Process of Economic Development. Edited by Benjamin Powell (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008)
Stephen Ellis, How to Rebuild Africa. Beyond Humanitarianism, What You Need to Know About Africa and Why It Matters, Edited by Princeton N. Lyman and Patricia Dorff (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 2007)
Niall Ferguson, Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons from Global Power (New York: Basic Books, 2003)
Ross P. Buckley, The Rich Borrow and the Poor Repay: The Fatal Flaw in International Finance. World Policy Journal, Volume XIX, No. 4, Winter 2002/2003.
Friedrich List, The National System of Political Economy (London: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1841)
Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (New York: Bantam Classics, 2003)
Alexander Hamilton, Report of Manufactures: Communication to the House of Representatives. 1791. Available for viewing and downloading at:
Report on manufactures: communication to the House of Representatives Dec. 5 ... - United States. Dept. of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton - Google Books
William Easterly, The Elusive Quest for Growth (London: MIT Press, 2002)
but my question is this... if we already established protectionism as a current common practice, and you're not disagreeing about the manufacturing part, what exactly am i saying that you disagree with?
the original question of this thread was can manufacturing help revive the economy? and the answer is absolutely yes... anyone thinking different is misinformed.
but again manufacturing is not a panacea, its one prong in a several prong approach... but it is a KEY prong.
You are putting forward merchantilist/protectionist arguments littered with vague inputs about "balance" and then stated "i can find just as many economic professionals who agree with my perspective" and then I proceeded to link to a survey that shows that your views are shared with a tiny minority among economists.
Maybe the most pathetic copout I've ever seen in an internet debate. 
and a waste of my time
This dude deadass said bringing out undergrad bibliographies with no context, and I know for a fact some of those economist don't agree with his position. Adam Smith is fukking famous for going at it with the mercantilist.
