Re: Green Permits and Taxes

1998-03-04 Thread Gar W. Lipow
Robin Hahnel wrote: > So you want to auction off the permits. Great. That's better than giving > them away for free since it makes the polluters pay and gains the > victims some form of compensation in the form of more tax reveunes. And > I like the idea of a minimum price equal to the marginal

Check Out Issue #5 (fwd)

1998-03-04 Thread Sid Shniad
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Mar 3 18:06:50 1998 > Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 17:55:37 -0800 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MCR Online) > Subject: Check Out Issue #5 > > MEDIACULTURE REVIEW ONLINE! > http://www.mediademocracy.org/MediaCultureReview > > MediaCulture Review, the aw

DEVELOPMENT: Global Struggle Declar (fwd)

1998-03-04 Thread Sid Shniad
> >/* Written 3:16 PM Feb 28, 1998 by igc:newsdesk in web:ips.english */ > >/* -- "DEVELOPMENT: Global Struggle Declar" -- */ > > Copyright 1998 InterPress Service, all rights reserved. > > Worldwide distribution via the APC networks. > > > > *

Maxwell, Darwin, Walras?

1998-03-04 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
As I read the following comparison between Maxwell's Demon and Darwin's Natural Selector, I wondered how Walras' auctioneer would compare. Any comments would be appreciated. MJS Hodges writes: "As an agency working causally to bias population outcomes away from where frequencies alone would otherw

[Fwd: (Fwd) France Says NO! MAI

1998-03-04 Thread Sid Shniad
> >Dear friends, > > > >News from Paris France > >Date 26 02 1998 > > > >Thanks to international pressure and a very stong national opposition > >from all sectors - social - cultural - environmental - development - > >the french government stated yesterday at the Parliament that France > >is not g

Re: Enter the Euro-dragon

1998-03-04 Thread Dennis R Redmond
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Doug Henwood wrote: > I've been reading the Treaties of Rome & Maastricht over the last > couple of days - damn, those documents show how far the bourgeoisie has > fallen since its great documents of the 18th century - and there's not much > there for the Parliament to do. It

RIGHTS-MEXICO: Impunity for Hundreds of Murderers

1998-03-04 Thread Sid Shniad
> >/* Written 3:28 PM Feb 27, 1998 by igc:newsdesk in web:ips.english */ > >/* -- "RIGHTS-MEXICO: Impunity for Hundred" -- */ > > Copyright 1998 InterPress Service, all rights reserved. > > Worldwide distribution via the APC networks. > > > > *

Re: Maxwell, Darwin, Walras?

1998-03-04 Thread shmage
James Devine wrote: >It ends up being akin to Plato's golden myth (used to justify class >inequality in >the REPUBLIC). In fairness to Plato, the first conscious communist, it should be pointed out that the "class inequality" justified by the *gennaios pseudos* consisted of persuading the *ruler

Re: Maxwell, Darwin, Walras?

1998-03-04 Thread Ken Hanly
Jim Devine wrote: Plato was a communist, but his communism > was very much a conservative top-down operation. It is quite different from > the bottoms-up democratic rule by the proletariat that Marx favored. (Cf. COMMENT: Only the top two classes in Plato's Republic live in a mode th

Re: Green Permits and Taxes

1998-03-04 Thread Robin Hahnel
Mark Jones wrote: > > Robin Hahnel wrote: > > > Minimizing pollution, taken literally, means zero pollution, which means > > not moving and not farting. That hardly seems optimal. > > > and > > > What's wrong with capitalism is no matter how hard we try to > > achieve the optimal level of pollu

Re: Green Permits and Taxes

1998-03-04 Thread Mark Jones
Robin Hahnel wrote: > Minimizing pollution, taken literally, means zero pollution, which means > not moving and not farting. That hardly seems optimal. > and > What's wrong with capitalism is no matter how hard we try to > achieve the optimal level of pollution reduction, we're doomed to fall >

Harper Collins and China

1998-03-04 Thread Sid Shniad
> >From: Daniel Cohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: HarperCollins and China > >Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 09:48:39 -0500 (EST) > > > >In the last couple of days there have been a number of reports from > >reputable media sources in the United Kingdom (including the BBC > >and the Times) that HarperCo

Re: Chinese Issue Commemorative Edition of Manifesto

1998-03-04 Thread Steven S. Zahniser
See my comments below. On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Michael Eisenscher wrote: > Marx? Engels? China Turns the Radicals Chic > > By Steven Mufson > Washington Post Foreign Service > Monday, March 2, 1998; Page A13 > > BEIJING—Entrepreneurs of the world, step right up! Get them while > they last! > >

Re: Enter the Euro-dragon

1998-03-04 Thread PJM0930
In a message dated 98-03-02 19:37:22 EST, you write: << very central and very crucial, and indeed has been used by British opponents (and others as well) is the relatively undemocratic nature of the EU as a political entity. This is a very important issue. For those pen-l'ers who don't pa

Re: Green Permits and Taxes

1998-03-04 Thread Ken Hanly
Robin Hahnel wrote: > So you want to auction off the permits. Great. That's better than giving > them away for free since it makes the polluters pay and gains the > victims some form of compensation in the form of more tax reveunes. > > > is there is only one way to answer either of these quest

Re: Maxwell, Darwin, Walras?

1998-03-04 Thread shmage
Jim Devine wrote: >I wrote: >>>It ends up being akin to Plato's golden myth (used to justify class >>>inequality in >>>the REPUBLIC). > >Shane Mage responds: >>In fairness to Plato, the first conscious communist, it should be pointed >>out that the "class inequality" justified by the *gennaios ps

The New Transatlantic Marketplace; Chiapas Peace Initiative;US Army Role in Colombia Grows

1998-03-04 Thread Michael Eisenscher
EU-US trade zone launched Asian crisis spurs plan for transatlantic common market pounds 60 billion benefits of lifting barriers The Guardian Wed, Mar 04 1998 AMBITIOUS proposals that could revolutionise trade relations between the United States and the European Union and provide a huge econo

Re: Maxwell, Darwin, Walras?

1998-03-04 Thread James Devine
At 12:21 PM 3/4/98 -0500, Rakesh wrote: >... my question for economists: The other great 19th century "agent" whose >work was done behind the scenes, a most interesting trope it seems, was >Auguste Walras' auctioneer, correct? Now this auctioneer was imagined as >having set market prices and quan

progress in economic research (cont.)

1998-03-04 Thread Doug Henwood
>From the ERN Microeconomics Working Paper abstracts: > "Citizens, Autocrats, and Plotters: An Agency Theory of > Coups d'Etat" > > BY: ALEXANDER GALETOVIC >Universidad de Chile > RICARDO SANHUEZA >Universidad de Chile > > > SSRN ELECTRONIC DOCUM

Re: Maxwell, Darwin, Walras?

1998-03-04 Thread James Michael Craven
> Date sent: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 10:29:40 -0800 > Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: James Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject:Re: Maxwell, Darwin, Walras? > At 12:21 PM 3/4/98 -0500, Rakesh wrote: > >... my question for economists:

The March issue of Labour Left Briefing (fwd)

1998-03-04 Thread Sid Shniad
> Hi > > The March 98 issue of LLB is now on-line. > > Below is a list of the articles in this issue and their > URL's: > > *** > > http://www.llb.labournet.org.uk/1998/march/news1.html > > Don't bomb Iraq > > Will McMahon, Hackney North and Stoke Newington CLP, argues > that key motives for

Re: Green Permits and Taxes

1998-03-04 Thread Robin Hahnel
Ken Hanly wrote: > Why would not > those who suffer the pollution be given ownership of the permits and >then they >would be compensated directly? Do you give each citizen the same number of permits? If so, this will come out the same as giving each citizen his/er proportionate share of the gr

Re: Maxwell, Darwin, Walras?

1998-03-04 Thread James Devine
I wrote: >>It ends up being akin to Plato's golden myth (used to justify class >>inequality in >>the REPUBLIC). Shane Mage responds: >In fairness to Plato, the first conscious communist, it should be pointed >out that the "class inequality" justified by the *gennaios pseudos* >consisted of pers