Bhagwati On Manufacturing

While Professor Jagdish Bhagwati might not seem to be aware that Falstaff is a character and not a performer, what seems to be his attempt, in my opinion, to corral the public back into what some economists might consider to be the right way of thinking on the role of manufacturing reminds one of Bertrand Russell's observation on Leibniz's role at the court of Prussia - to tell the Queen that her oppression of her serfs was a good and wholesome thing.