Re: [Futurework] Bush's impossible problem of same-sex marriage

In Keith we had the UK version of conservative thought about marriage while here is the American version.   Although I disagree with Keith's math analogy.    (You could make the case that any group that is not in the majority is somehow unnatural using his theory.)   I do agree more with Kei

Re: [Futurework] David Ricardo, Caveman Trade vs. Modern Trade

Thanks for this. Would that more common sense or more readers of the old economists who turn out not to be so non-sensensical as they seem from others who have an agenda and mis-quote them. I would be curious from the others on the list about this. Ray - Original Message - From: "Chris

Re: [Futurework] Private health care

Tor Forde wrote: > according to > "British Medical Journal" the Swedish system is the best in the World, > and the second best is the Norwegian, and neither is private ... and when Sweden wanted to ban the use of the neurotoxin mercury in dentistry, the wonderful "free trade" rules disallowed the

[Futurework] David Ricardo, Caveman Trade vs. Modern Trade

Excerpt from the New Internationalist's "No-Nonsense Guide to Globalization": (NI Publications Ltd, UK 2002, pp. 14-15) <> SpamWall: Mail to this addy is deleted unread unless it contains the keyword "igve". _

[Futurework] Greider: Beyond Scarcity A New Story for American Capitalism

Following Brian's posting from Greider's The Soul of Capitalism, I thought some of you might be interested in this broadcast notice. Have we already discussed Louis Kelso's work on ESOPs? http://www.cesj.org/binaryeconomics/kelsovision.htm A QUESTION OF FAIRNESS: A NOW with Bill Moyers Special Edit

Re: [Futurework] Private health care (was E.European...)

Hi! I hear on the news yesterday that the last issue of "British Medical Journal" has ranked the healthsystems of the World, and according to "British Medical Journal" the Swedish system is the best in the World, and the second best is the Norwegian, and neither is private, and both covers abso

RE: [Futurework] Private health care (was E.European...)

To add to the discussion. This from the Wall Street Journal (Nov. 12, 03), citing an OECD document. The US spends more on health as a percentage of GDP (2.7 percent in US vs. 2.1 percent in Canada) and has more doctors, (2.7 practicing physicians per 1000 people in the US vs. 2.1 in Canada) Y

[Futurework] No more children, otherwise

This short posting could also be entitled The inevitability of school vouchers or, perhaps, The re-establishment of private schools. My reason for suggesting this is based on thinking about the consequences of what has been revealed in a recent survey sponsored by the Liverpool Victoria Friendly

[Futurework] The HSBC will add its voice now

Since the destruction of its building in Istanbul yesterday by Al Qaeda, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, one of the largest banks in the world, will now be adding its voice to those other large corporations which, according to various press reports tucked away in our leading newsp

[Futurework] The terrorist attacks in Istanbul

Yesterday's press conference by Bush and Blair in the Foreign Office, originally organised as part of president Bush's state visit to England was expected to be devoted largely to questions concerning the invasion of Iraq. So it was, but the answers weren't. Earlier that morning, we were beginnin