Louis Proyect 24 July
>Chris Buford:
>
>But it is not the case that there is nothing in the EZ that conforms to
>the progressive interests of working people, just because it is a victory
>for the ruling class. For one thing they generally appreciate the benefits
>of a large market, as Lenin no
>The question isn't so much technology for the moment, but what kind
>of developmental path to follow. I suspect that lots of advocates of
>appropriate technology would like to keep the technological level
>fairly static, and social structures oriented around the very local -
>and those in t
A Conference Summary paper summarizing some background papers on the status
of the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors in ten societies throughout Asia
Pacific:
http://www.asianphilanthropy.org/appc/appc_conference.pdf
>From: "Ellen Frank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Justin said
> There are political technicians--Lydons Johnsons, Dick Morrises, Karl
> Roves, who are political machers, who can make the system work to attain
> particular ends. Thoise people need to be used and kept on a short
> leash.
Why not take that attitude to experts in general?
As a slight digression on this thread, I've been wondering whether
"experts" in the U.S. often fill a role that "public intellectuals" fill in
some other countries (France, for example). I'm thinking here not so much
of courtroom experts as the "experts" popular media turn to for commentary,
t
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>From: "Ian Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>
>In a message dated 7/29/02 1:49:29 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> >
> > Of course, in politics, the main body of "experts"
> > >is the revolutionary party guiding society.
> > >
> >
> >
> > Gaak. That is exactly where there and can be no expertise, just
>politic
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Monday & Business section ("Trust Shattered, Wall Street Can't Afford
Coincid
> >"Could you please describe in plain English the curtailment of my
> >liberties?"
> >
> >Ian
>
>
>The judge asked him what time it was
>Reuben said, Five to ten,
>The Judge said, That's exactly what you get
>
>--Hurricane (Bob Dylan)
>
My bad. It's the embarassing song "Joey," a tribute to Cra
>From: "Ian Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [PEN-L:28838] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: Expertise
>Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 20:38:13 -0700
>
>
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>From: "Justin Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > if so, is
> > >
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From: "Justin Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> if so, is
> >that form of truth meaningful in a general context?
>
> What does that mean? There is one one form of truth, which is, as
Aristotle
> said long ago, to say of that which is, that it is,a nd that which
is
>
>if i may say something as the resident slow thinker: things are
>whizzing by at a good speed on this thread but it seems to me
>that certain things are not clear (at least to me!). the examples
>and analysis (offered by michael p. and others) seems to touch
>upon the dangers of letting experts
Michael Pollak :
> On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Ulhas Joglekar wrote:
>
> >
> > Yes, but there is a viewpoint which attributes the relative backwardness
> > of French industry to the presence of French peasant economy.
>
> I'm not sure I follow. By 1970 France had certainly reached the point
> every de
The Times of India
SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 2002
UNDP urges political reform in China
AFP
BEIJING: A scathing UN-sponsored report published Friday urged the Chinese
government to implement political reforms if it is to head off a mounting
environment catastrophe as well as growing social unrest.
Th
July 29, 2002
U.S. to Borrow $76 Billion
WASHINGTON (AP) - The government, reacting to a worsening financial
picture, said Monday that it plans to tap $76 billion from the
credit markets this quarter to compensate for lower income-tax
payments and increased spending.
The Treasury Department's ne
Congress Steps Up to Force Lawyers To Look Closer at Corporate
Clients
By James V. Grimaldi
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, July 29, 2002; Page E01
While the American Bar Association talked to death proposed ethics
rules for lawyers who stumble upon corporate fraud, the wave of Wall
Street
In a message dated 7/29/02 1:49:29 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> Of course, in politics, the main body of "experts"
> >is the revolutionary party guiding society.
> >
>
>
> Gaak. That is exactly where there and can be no expertise, just politics.
> When will
>From: Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [PEN-L:28830] Re: Re: Re: The new EU
>Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 19:30:46 -0400
>
>Chris Burford quoting Lenin:
>
>>"From their daily experience the masses know perfectly well the value of
>>geog
Chris Burford quoting Lenin:
> "From their daily experience the masses know perfectly well the value
> of geographical and economic ties and the advantages of a big market
> and a big state."
>
> May 1914
This is the entire paragraph, which comes from chapter 5 of "The Right
of Nations of Sel
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[here's a cleaner version]
Here's the official web site form for reporting any of those
terrorists that are hanging around your neighborhood. Joe McCarthy would
be proud!
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JD
Title: FW: No Joke! Official federal web site for reporting terrorists
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 1:41 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [
At 24/07/02 09:40 -040 Louis Proyect wrote:
>Chris Buford:
>
>>But it is not the case that there is nothing in the EZ that conforms to
>>the progressive interests of working people, just because it is a victory
>>for the ruling class. For one thing they generally appreciate the
>>benefits of a
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/sgabriel/post_structuralist_firm.htm
Title: RE: [PEN-L:28811] Re: RE: Re: RE: Expertise
> "Could you please describe in plain English the curtailment
> of my liberties?"
>
> Ian
you have the right to remain silent...
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
if i may say something as the resident slow thinker: things are
whizzing by at a good speed on this thread but it seems to me
that certain things are not clear (at least to me!). the examples
and analysis (offered by michael p. and others) seems to touch
upon the dangers of letting experts decid
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To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 2:52 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:28819] Re: Re: RE: Re: RE: Expertise
>
>"Could you please describe in plain English the curtailment of my
>liberties?"
>
>Ian
The judge asked
Ellen Frank wrote:
>Last night I was re-reading Friedman's book The Day of Reckoning.
>Every chapter starts with a quote from the Old Testament on the
>moral hazards of borrowing. He really does seem to be talking more
>about the international asset position of the US than about the public
>debt
Thus I don't think you will be able
>to write all laws and contracts in simple English; the effort of protecting
>against other lawyers will prevent it if nothing else. Though I'm sure that
>it can be done a lot of the time.
A lot of law is technical and there are centuries of technical vocabul
Last night I was re-reading Friedman's book The Day of Reckoning.
Every chapter starts with a quote from the Old Testament on the
moral hazards of borrowing. He really does seem to be talking more
about the international asset position of the US than about the public
debt, but he never makes that
>
>"Could you please describe in plain English the curtailment of my
>liberties?"
>
>Ian
The judge asked him what time it was
Reuben said, Five to ten,
The Judge said, That's exactly what you get
--Hurricane (Bob Dylan)
Or as we say in Shytown, you all fucked, cuz.
jks
_
>Doha was described by Robert Zoellick, the U.S. Trade Representative, as
>having "removed the stain of Seattle". Seattle stands as a historical
>watershed, through which citizens mobilised democratically to respond to
>free-trade treaties and agendas of corporate globalisation.
1.
Sueddeut
The Friedman/Nell exchange in NYRB, linked from the BF on Stiglitz page,
also has BF in the position of deficit hawk. Nell gets in some good
points. Unfortunately, NYRB is charging for peeking at their archives
now, is that right?
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Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 2:04 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:28806] Re: Re: RE: Expertise
> I would add one other dimension to the list of problems that Scott
> mention: arrogance that often leads to disas
At 05:13 PM 07/29/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>"science does not think" -- martin heidegger
>
>(thought i would throw that one out and see what kind of fish
>it attracts ;-)).
>
> --ravi
Hard to say without context; but normative science is more like a vetted
bureaucratic procedure ...hence
July 29, 2002
Peace in Sudan opens window of oil opportunities
The Sudanese government and rebel groups in control of the country's south
signed an interim deal last week that is hoped to bring an end to a 20-year
civil war that has cost two million lives. Following the signing of the
agreement,
Justin Schwartz wrote:
>>
>
> Legalese is awful. It's not even English. But there were striitings in
> America to make it more like English quite a while ago. The Legal
> realists, like Jerome Frank and Thurman Arnold, were quite good writers,
> following in the manner of their master Justi
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Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 2:01 PM
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> He was describing debt in general. Yes, Summers raved about patriotism.
Plea
> "Devine, James" wrote:
>
> the "quote" was: "Why must we always focus on the bad priests instead
> of the 65 percent of them who would never do anything like that?"
>
> this says that 35/100 or 7/20 priests are "bad."
>
You haven't noticed Michael Pereleman's little addition to your origi
"science does not think" -- martin heidegger
(thought i would throw that one out and see what kind of fish
it attracts ;-)).
--ravi
RE: [PEN-L:28795] Re: RE: Expertise
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Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 1:56 PM
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Justin writes: >Legalese is awful. It's not even English. But there were striitings in
America to
make i
This seems to offer material for "both" sides on the debate over
"experts"
Carrol
Subject: A World Awash In Hormones
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 13:46:58 -0700
From:Phil Gasper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Published on Monday, July 29, 2002 by CommonDre
>
>I would add one other dimension to the list of problems that Scott
>mention: arrogance that often leads to disaster for all concerned, which
>is why I mentioned Dr. Lay.
> --
>
The Greeks had a word for that . . . . jks
_
Send a
I would add one other dimension to the list of problems that Scott
mention: arrogance that often leads to disaster for all concerned, which
is why I mentioned Dr. Lay.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Title: RE: [PEN-L:28795] Re: RE: Expertise
Justin writes: >Legalese is awful. It's not even English. But there were striitings in America to make it more like English quite a while ago. The Legal realists, like Jerome Frank and Thurman Arnold, were quite good writers, following in the manner
He was describing debt in general. Yes, Summers raved about patriotism.
On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 01:48:29PM -0700, Devine, James wrote:
> Summers was lashing out at B. Friedman because the latter was highlighting
> _government_ debt? is the infamous session where Summers went on and on
> about p
Title: RE: [PEN-L:28794] Re: the pope
the "quote" was: "Why must we always focus on the bad priests instead of the 65 percent of them who would never do anything like that?"
this says that 35/100 or 7/20 priests are "bad."
BTW, it's rumored that Arthur Andersen has said "Why must we alway
Theses on Feuerbach III
The materialist doctrine concerning the changing of circumstances and
upbringing forgets that circumstances are changed by men and that the
educator must himself be educated. This doctrine must, therefore, divide
society into two parts, one of which is superior to society
Title: RE: [PEN-L:28790] Re: B. Friedman on Stiglitz
Summers was lashing out at B. Friedman because the latter was highlighting _government_ debt? is the infamous session where Summers went on and on about patriotism?
JD
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Of course, in politics, the main body of "experts"
>is the revolutionary party guiding society.
>
Gaak. That is exactly where there and can be no expertise, just politics.
When will they ever learn, when will they ever learn?
_
M
But that's not expertise, right, if it's nothing more than that. Expertise
means knowing how to do things, special skills or knowledge. Maybe your
example shows the misuse of real expertise (math skills) to obfuscate,
maintain hierarchy, etc., rather than to promote economic analysis. jks
>
>t
>
>If, as Justin argues, "Most judges, at least federal ones that I know of,
>enforce the law fairly" (i.e. evenhandedly), how come e.g. a
>disproportionate number of US blacks end up in jail ? Of course, you can
>make sociological arguments that more blacks commit crimes or more blacks
>are
In a message dated 7/29/02 10:55:43 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
> We should never forget that just
> because "we experts" "know more than they do," their insights can be
> extremely useful and even superior.
Experts and authorities are needed everywhere, but as Jim D
>Expertise also occurs in some specific context. Today's industrial medicine
>means that your doctor has at most 15 minutes to spend figuring out what
>your problem is. Because of the current mind/body split ideology, chances
>are that your doctor will never touch you (if he/she can help it).
>
>I think most professions suffer from the "mandarin disease" (named after
>the
>fact that the Imperial Chinese Mandarins required that new bureaucrats be
>excellent at calligraphy, even though it didn't help them rule).
More useful than many skills, btw, it was part of just being an educated
Jurriaan Bendien wrote:
>
> That would imply one in 15 priests is a "bad priest". I'll bear it in mind,
> just in case.
I'm afraid you didn't notice the tongue-in-cheek numbers. One in 15 is a
"good" priest. :-)
Carrol
That would imply one in 15 priests is a "bad priest". I'll bear it in mind,
just in case.
On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Ulhas Joglekar wrote:
> > Ulhas, could recommend a good book that describes India's distinctive,
> > and recently fairly successful, non-export-led development path?
>
> Michael, I am not sure what period you have in mind.
I'm sorry, I should have been clearer. I'm thinki
I work (or used to) as an expert witness. I have had a lot of success in
persuading Federal and State judges and various kinds of commissioners to
accept my recommendations. And I've had a lot of failures. In front of
commissions the acceptance rate jumps if there are a lot of angry people in
t
I once organized a panel with Robert Pollin, Larry Summers,
Robert Eisner, and Benjamin Friedman. The weird part was when
Summers said that he had enough anti-Americanism. He didn't lash
out at Robert Pollin, but at Friedman, who was worried about
excessive debt. Now he thinks that Summers migh
On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Ulhas Joglekar wrote:
> > France preserved its peasant economy along with industrial advancement
> > in the 19th century. Marx said in the 18th Brumaire those peasants
> > were at a cul-de-sac of history. But they were still around a century
> > later. And then they won
If, as Justin argues, "Most judges, at least federal ones that I know of,
enforce the law fairly" (i.e. evenhandedly), how come e.g. a
disproportionate number of US blacks end up in jail ? Of course, you can
make sociological arguments that more blacks commit crimes or more blacks
are poor, et
On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Ulhas Joglekar wrote:
> > I don't see at all how an alternate development of the countryside
> > contradicts advanced industrial production. This seems like a false
> > dichotomy.
>
> Michael, I am not sure this is true of industrial crops such as cotton,
> oilseeds, sugar
No. It was 6.5%.
On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 11:55:27AM -0700, Devine, James wrote:
> is it true that in Toronto, the Pope was overheard to say "Why must we
> always focus on the bad priests instead of the 65 percent of them who would
> never do anything like that?"
>
> Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
As a digression into Lenin quotology, I was just leafing through an old
copy of Medvedev's book on The October Revolution, and at the end he quotes
an interesting bit from Lenin's article on the fourth anniversary of Soviet
power, where Lenin freely admits he is engaging in reformism and that i
Title: the pope
is it true that in Toronto, the Pope was overheard to say "Why must we always focus on the bad priests instead of the 65 percent of them who would never do anything like that?"
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
At 02:20 PM 07/29/2002 +, you wrote:
>Well, we have already established that I am an arrogant, elitist, right
>wing tool of the bourgeoisie, no socialist, and a general son of a bitch,
>so pay no attention to me. You go find a doctor who knows less than you do
>about medicine. I gather that
that expertise is sometimes nothing more than the artificial creation of
hierarchy.
On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 05:41:18PM +, Justin Schwartz wrote:
>
> : Expertise
> >Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 10:29:06 -0700
> >
> >Writing about expertise, I think that we should recall how Alfred Marshall
> >revam
Title: RE: Expertise
Michael Perelman:> Writing about expertise, I think that we should recall how Alfred Marshall revamped econ. education -- making it more mathematical, even though he himself rejected the idea that math was useful for economics -- just to make it more difficult for outsid
: Expertise
>Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 10:29:06 -0700
>
>Writing about expertise, I think that we should recall how Alfred Marshall
>revamped econ. education -- making it more mathematical, even though he
>himself rejected the idea that math was useful for economics -- just to
>make it more difficul
Writing about expertise, I think that we should recall how Alfred Marshall
revamped econ. education -- making it more mathematical, even though he
himself rejected the idea that math was useful for economics -- just to
make it more difficult for outsiders to comment on economic matters.
--
Mich
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15630
Title: RE: [PEN-L:28698] Saudi Arabia
>His brother Prince Naif, head of the Interior Ministry, has led a crackdown on the Saudi media in the wake of the demonstrations to stop any word of them leaking out.<
speaking of oxymorons, how could the Minister of the Interior be a "naif"?
Jim Devi
It's not I but Shane who is thinking in individualistic terms. My point is
precisely that there is some tendency for thesystem to select Rehnquists who
don't have to be told what to think. The federal judiciary is of course
life-appointed and so more resistant to electoral pressures than many s
>
>> ...incompetent ones[experts]
Don't be silly. Experts are not by definition competent. They are persons
with special training and knowledge. In law we distinguish between an
expert's qualifications, and whether his opinion is based in fact and
informed by scientific method, as well as
http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2001-12/04shiva.cfm
December 04, 2001
Doha: Saving Wto, Killing Democracy
By Vandana Shiva
Doha was described by Robert Zoellick, the U.S. Trade Representative, as
having "removed the stain of Seattle". Seattle stands as a historical
watershed, through
Title: RE: [PEN-L:28739] Re: Re: Expertise
JKS: >Shane thinks that most judges are just tools of the capitalist class who do
their bidding. ... Even in the case of Justice Rehnquist, the charge is unfair. He just thinks
along their lines.<
it's a mistake to think in such individualistic te
> ...incompetent ones[experts]
Title: agricultural degradation
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-pyle29jul29.story?null
COMMENTARY
Grim Reaping
The industrialization of agriculture is killing the land
By GEORGE B. PYLE
July 29 2002
Even when city folks notice the dwindling population of rural ar
I've scanned the footnotes and definitions for data for US local government
finances, but can't figure out:
Do state and the federal govt. pay property taxes to local governments in
the US? Or, do they pay a grant in lieu of property taxes (as in Canada),
and if so, is it included under prope
Thanks Robert for filling us in on the details.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chico, CA 95929
530-898-5321
fax 530-898-5901
Carrol Cox wrote:
>Perhaps she (Shiva) simply has wrong ideas. And if the ideas are wrong,
>it is best, I should think, to simply critique the ideas rather than
>speculate on her conscious or unconscious motives.
>
>I think it in general a bad idea (allowing for bursts of temper & other
>personal
Justin Schwartz wrote:
>>
>> Speaking of expertise, my computer won't start. It tells me "Non
>> System Disk
>> or Disk Error. Replace and strike any Key when ready." Not only can't
>> I find
>> the "any" key (usually the "enter" key will do) but I don't have a
>> non-system disk (or any other d
Title: democracy
"Psychopaths are therefore found not just in prisons, but in any situation where at some stage it may be helpful to personal progression to be able to ignore or een to utilize the feelings of others. Leaders in business, in government and in any organization may sometimes be p
everybody knows it retrospectively; the business press during its stage of
breathless admiration for Enron did not know it.
On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 02:51:57PM +, Justin Schwartz wrote:
>
> >
> >[Ken Lay's] problem wasn't bad advice. The problem of many other people
> >was that
> >they tru
I wasn't talking about the author. But the book is about ol' Norman, if I
recall. jks
>From: Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [PEN-L:28760] Re: Bethune or J.Horn? In digest 226
>Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 07:51:18 -0700
>
>Yes, it wa
>
>It's important to remember that "expertise" is not a one-dimensional
>variable. The practical and concrete knowledge of nurses and physician's
>assistants may be quite different in kind from the more theoretical and
>journal-based knowledge of MDs, so we can't say that the latter have "twice
>
>
>[Ken Lay's] problem wasn't bad advice. The problem of many other people
>was that
>they trusted his expertise.
>
OK, there are crooked experts, as well as as incompetent ones. You are
telling me this because you think I don't know it? Or you are reminding
other people of this easily forg
Yes, it was.
On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 08:36:43AM -0400, Hari Kumar wrote:
> ORIGINAL:
> i) >A book about Chinese health care, Away with all pests, describes how cleaning
>people contributed to Chinese medicine in
> dialogue with the doctors ...
> ii) I actually have a small statuette of Norman Be
Perhaps she (Shiva) simply has wrong ideas. And if the ideas are wrong,
it is best, I should think, to simply critique the ideas rather than
speculate on her conscious or unconscious motives.
I think it in general a bad idea (allowing for bursts of temper & other
personal idiosyncracies) to chara
Title: RE: [PEN-L:28737] Re: Re: Re: Expertise
It's important to remember that "expertise" is not a one-dimensional variable. The practical and concrete knowledge of nurses and physician's assistants may be quite different in kind from the more theoretical and journal-based knowledge of MDs, s
His problem wasn't bad advice. The problem of many other people was that
they trusted his expertise.
On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 02:26:06PM +, Justin Schwartz wrote:
>
>
> >
> >Of course, there is expertise, but experts can be very wrong -- especially
> >if they go unchallenged. Ask Ken Lay.
Michael Pollak wrote:
> Ulhas, could recommend a good book that describes India's distinctive, and
> recently fairly successful, non-export-led development path? And perhaps
> as well an intelligent (rather than cookie-cutter ideological) critique of
> the limits of same?
Michael, I am not sure
>
>Of course, there is expertise, but experts can be very wrong -- especially
>if they go unchallenged. Ask Ken Lay.
>
His problem wasn't bad expert advice. It was sheer crookedness. Of course
there is bad expert advice. You wanna see my stock portfolio? It's a
testament to bad expert advice
> >You don't have much choice, do you? Any more than I have a choice in
> >trusting my physician or carpenter because s/he's an expert. I mean,
>sorry,
>
> >guy, that's what expertise means, other people know more than we do about
> >something.
>
>A quick tip to Pen-L members; if your doctor soun
Davies, Daniel wrote:
>No fair. The EF Schumacher crowd are pretty non-judgemental on this sort of
>issue. "Appropriate technology" basically just means "technology that can
>be maintained and repaired without requiring an already existing industrial
>society"; those wind-up radios certainly co
Does anyone know of a (preferably on-line) source that
compares social programs across countries -- like unemployment,
pensions, health care?
Ellen Frank
>All his stuff is very analytical. His big book is Against Capitalism
(Westview 1996). He has a forthcoming book called Beyond Capitalism that
will be shorter and take into account subsequent criticisms. He has a lot of
papers discussing aspects of the model, for example, in an a Bertell Ollman
co
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> Why not fight holders of class power and patriarchal power instead?
Because Western NGOs and foundations wouldn't like you so much, and
fly you around the world to preach the virtues of rootedness.
Doug
>Hari:
>iii) Finally, I use this post to raise a matter re Project's article. To
>Project, I would simply say that the whole problem of
>the comprador- national-bourgeoisie divergence is ignored by him -
>probably for profound ideological reasons. However I
>suspect that no sense can be made of
>From: "Justin Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>As to Carl's remark, why is it unjust to have expert judges (in the legal
>system) who are empowered to definitively resolve disputes by entering
>enforceable orders? Surely you are not one of those people who believe that
>we can get along withou
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