2,305 world economists “Ramsey’s thesis justifies child prostitution”

On the afternoon of the 24th in front of the former Japanese embassy in Jongno-gu, Seoul, in the demonstration of regular demand to solve the problem of the Japanese military sexual slavery system. 2021.2.24 / News1 © News1 Reporter Lee Jae-myeong

2,305 economists around the world strongly condemned the lecture by Harvard Law School professor Mark Ramseyer, which distorted the history of comfort women, saying it “justifies the trafficking of children.”

They signed a statement online stating that they were seriously concerned about the content of Professor Ramsey’s thesis, “The Sexual Contract in the Pacific War.”

This statement clearly pointed out that Professor Ramsey’s thesis contained content that justifies child prostitution and human trafficking.

In this article, Professor Ramzier refers to a case in which a 10-year-old Japanese girl named Osaki signed a prostitution contract. At the same time, they argued that girls and women received sufficient wages and signed voluntary contracts. He also described contractual behavior between prostitutes and prospective prostitutes as “game theory.”

The statement referred to the relevant part of the thesis and criticized it as “absolute support for child prostitution” and that “this thesis attempts to use the language of economics to make unfounded historical claims.

As Harvard University professors Andrew Gordon and Carter Eckert noted, the statement mentioned in the Ramsey quote that there is no Korean comfort woman contract.

He also pointed out that the fact that a prostitution contract was established does not provide evidence that women entered the contract voluntarily. This is because Japanese civil law since 1896 has been required to sign contracts on their own for those under the age of 20.

The statement noted that there was no basis for Professor Ramsayer’s claim that comfort women could resign at any time and receive decent compensation. This is because it contradicts the testimony of the comfort women victims. Victims’ testimony recorded in a 1996 UN report indicates that they tried to escape but were arrested within days and subjected to brutal violence.

The list of signatories to the declaration also includes the name of Pinelopi Goldberg, a professor at Yale University, who served as chief economist at the World Bank (WB) until March last year.

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