At 06:22 PM 10/23/97 -0400, Louis Proyect wrote:
My guess is that we are talking about entirely different types of
statistics. I spend a lot of time looking at the World Bank Web Page that
I referred to the other day. You really have to dig beneath the surface to
make sense of the numbers there.
At 04:00 PM 10/23/97 -0700, Bill Burgess wrote:
I was the one who asked Louis for references on this, and I still think it
would help me to refer my friends to a serious study on this question,
especially since, as has been pointed out, Jews *are* prominently
represented in certain sectors of
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I think it should be stressed that even though Jews might be overrepresented
(as a proportion of the population) in the membership of some elites (e.g.,
Hollywood) it's not really elites that run society. Sure, they have a role,
as in noted in my sketch of how politics works when particularistic
On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
adjusting for inflation, substituting salary for wealth etc. What concerns
me is the type of political debat that is based on complex models and
estimates, such as global warming or social security.
For social security, check LBO. For global
