Re: Re: Re: Re: tariffs, trade, MNCs, etc.

2001-07-19 Thread Jim Devine
I wrote: >>Unlike some, I treat all my "knowledge" as working hypotheses to be >>tested logically, empirically, methodologically, and in practice. Thus, >>what I know changes over time. Rakesh writes: >yet we hardly recognize that our positions have changed over time, which >so complicates the

Re: Re: Re: Re: tariffs, trade, MNCs, etc.

2001-07-18 Thread Doyle Saylor
Hello Economucks, Rakesh writes, yet we hardly recognize that our positions have changed over time, which so complicates the idea of a person as a substrate, no? It would seem to me that if the net does succeed in allowing for some indepth discussion, the rate at which our views change may acc

Re: Re: Re: Re: tariffs, trade, MNCs, etc.

2001-07-18 Thread Ken Hanly
But the self is in eclipse, > one way or another. > > >

Re: Re: Re: tariffs, trade, MNCs, etc.

2001-07-18 Thread Rakesh Narpat Bhandari
Jim Devine wrote: >I wrote: >>>The MNCs are mostly for free trade, though they will take >>>advantage of existing trade restrictions, if they can. > >Rakesh: >>Jim, how do you know this? > >The usual way I know things, from reading, from direct experience, >and from logically or intuitively fig

Re: Re: tariffs, trade, MNCs, etc.

2001-07-18 Thread Jim Devine
I wrote: >>The MNCs are mostly for free trade, though they will take advantage of >>existing trade restrictions, if they can. Rakesh: >Jim, how do you know this? The usual way I know things, from reading, from direct experience, and from logically or intuitively figuring it out. But strictly s