[PEN-L:6128] FW: (mai) Mobalization on Globalization in the News
Any economists "out there" willing to make the journey and give a talk sometime during the week of November 29-3, feel free to contact me off list. Ian Murray Seattle Fair Trade coalition [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Margrete Strand-Rangnes Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 1999 11:43 AM To: Multiple recipients of list MAI-NOT Subject: (mai) Mobalization on Globalization in the News 4/23/99 Wall St. J. A1 1999 WL-WSJ 5449784 The Wall Street Journal Copyright (c) 1999, Dow Jones Company, Inc. Friday, April 23, 1999 Washington Wire The Wall Street Journal / NBC News Poll --- A Special Weekly Report From The Wall Street Journal's Capital Bureau By Ronald G. Shafer SEATTLE IS BRACING for protesters at a trade meeting in November. Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and the Sierra Club plan big showings at a World Trade Organization gathering, to protest environmental harm from globalization. Steelworkers hope to turn out 50,000 people to protest labor disparities. The Web site of activist group Public Citizen says: "Mobilization on Globalization. If you oppose the WTO, you must go to Seattle." Seattle's City Council takes a stand on treaty talks, voting to make the city a global-investment-treaty-free zone. China could be a new WTO member at the November round of global talks. Americans, by 60% to 26%, think China joining the WTO would have a major impact on the U.S. economy. Planners picked Seattle partly because of its experience with environmental protesters; "It's going to be like Chicago '68," says one trade lobbyist. Copr. (C) West 1999 No Claim to Orig. U.S. Govt. Works ** In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. Margrete Strand Rangnes MAI Project Coordinator Public Citizen Global Trade Watch 215 Pennsylvania Ave, SE Washington DC, 20003 USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] 202-546 4996, ext. 306 202-547 7392 (fax) To subscribe to our MAI Listserv send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], or subscribe directly by going to our website, www.tradewatch.org (Please indicate organizational affiliation if any, and also where you found out about this listserv) Search the MAI-NOT MAI-INTL archives at http://lists.essential.org/
[PEN-L:6066] Long Hours....
I don't know about this. It seems to me that in historical perspective--relative, say, to being a field slave at Monticello--conditions of work here and now under modern industrial capitalism are pretty good... Brad DeLong Tell that to migrant farm workers who grow your pesticide infested broccoli... Ian Murray Seattle, WA
[PEN-L:5569] RE: Thomas L. Friedman on the hidden fist
Friedman is a journalist, his statement automatically disqualifies him as an intellectual... Ian Murray Seattle, WA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of William S. Lear Sent: Monday, April 19, 1999 6:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:5563] Thomas L. Friedman on the hidden fist Thomas L. Friedman's *The Lexus and the Olive Tree* was recently discussed. The San Jose Mercury News (I believe) carries the following interview: Q: In your book, you lecture Silicon Valley executives on why they need to understand and become involved in geopolitics why the lecture? A: Well, that lecture is needed because all of the integrative technologies that Silicon Valley is producing -- and God bless it for doing it -- is not happening in a vacuum, and some executives there don't recognize that. It's happening in a world that is stabilized by a benign superpower called the United States of America, with somethingreally old-fashioned calledthe U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Marine Corps. And that's why I say without the hidden fist, the hidden hand can't work. Without McDonnell Douglas Corp., McDonald's can't work. Without America on duty, there will be no America Online. If we don't keep this structure stable, what if the Balkans became the world? How many microchips would people sell? This man is a perfect parody ... no ... a perfect example of the deeply deluded intellectual Noam Chomsky so expertly flays. Gads. The full interview can be found at: http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/indepth/docs/qa041999.htm Bill
[PEN-L:5257] Yugo Economics....
Anybody on the lists read this one? Investment and Property Rights in Yugoslavia : The Long Transition to a Market Economy (Soviet and East European Studies, No 86) Cambridge University Press, 1992. by Milica Uvalic In this book, Milica Uvalic examines the theoretical and empirical issues related to investment in Yugoslavia since 1965. She explores investment policies, sources of finance, macroeconomic performance, enterprise incentives and current property reforms in relation to Western theory on investment behavior in the labor-managed firm and Kornai's theory on socialist economies. In line with Kornai's theory, the author argues that the fundamental causes of problems in Yugoslavia are generic to socialist economic systems, rather than the specific characteristic of self-management. For decades Yugoslavia has been trying to develop its own model of socialism based on workers' self-management and increasing use of the market mechanism. As a result, many scholars view the Yugoslav economy as very different from other socialist systems. In this book, Dr Milica Uvalic shows, on the contrary, how some of the fundamental features of the Yugoslav economy have remained similar to those characterizing other socialist economies. Dr Uvalic focuses on theoretical and empirical issues related to investment in Yugoslavia since 1965. She examines investment policies, sources of finance, macroeconomic performance, enterprise incentives and current property reforms in relation to Western theory on investment behaviour in the labour-managed firm, and to Kornai's theory of socialist economies. In line with Kornai, the author reveals that, in spite of substantial institutional change, the investment process has continued to be characterized by an over-investment drive, severe capital market distortions and capital allocation according to non-market criteria, frequent state intervention in daily enterprise policies and limited enterprise autonomy, lack of financial discipline and the socialization of losses. The author argues that investment reforms have not led to substantially changed enterprise behaviour, which illustrates the limited results to be expected from partial reforms in a socialist economy. The fundamental causes of investment problems in Yugoslavia are thus typical of 'traditional' socialist economic systems, rather than the specific characteristic of self-management. Investment and property rights in Yugoslavia is a most topical work. It presents a great deal of new material and addresses issues that have previously been dealt with in isolation. It will be widely read by students and specialists of Eastern Europe, comparative economic systems and finance. Ian
[PEN-L:5121] Dollars and Sense....
Went perusing for some Econ. documents at the UW library this afternoon and picked up some material on Senate approval of NATO expansion, Turkey and the Kurds, and privatizing National Security regarding fissionable material from Russia. Sources will follow quotes: "Bob Smith (R-NH) called attention to a recent poll, conducted April 23-26 (1998), showed that only 32% supported expansion when confronted with the cost estimates that put the US taxpayer share at between 400million and 19billion$ over 10 years for the 1st round of expansion." Arms Control Today, April 1998, p. 20 "Since 1980, the US has sold or given Turkey 15billion$ worth of weapons. Turkey, in turn, has leveled, burned, or forcibly evacuated 3,000 Kurdish villages. Forty thousand lives have been lost and two million have been made homeless." The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, March/April 1999, p. 27. "Washington has consistently put domestic commercial and financial interests, most notably those involved in the recent privatization of the US Enrichment Corporation (USEC) ahead of US national security interests...The deal--worth an estimated 12billion $ to Moscow-- would guarantee that the Russian HEU (Highly Enriched Uranium, enough to build more than 20,000 nuclear weapons, would never again be used for weapons purposes." Arms Control Today, August/September 1998, p. 8. Ian Murray Seattle, WA
[PEN-L:5072] J. F. Dulles and Tito
On page 482 of "The Prize" by Daniel Yergin, it is stated that John Foster Dulles and Eisenhower approved of foreign aid for Tito in the Summer of 1956. That same summer came the famous dispute with Nasser over the Aswan damn, along with the manipulations of the Sterling by the US Government, to stop the British-French "seizure' of the Suez. Does anyone have any historical data on US aid to Yugoslavia during the 50's-60's which would provide background for some of Dr. Chussodovsky's recent history? Ian Murray Seattle, WA
[PEN-L:5019] Timetable?
How much more shaping up of our facts and conjectures before we go on the "offensive"? http://www.fair.org/media-contact-list.html Ian Murray Seattle, WA
