>forwarded by Michael Hoover
>
>> IBM's board of directors thanked chairman and CEO Louis Gerstner for
>> restoring Wall Street's faith in the company with a $4.5 million bonus
>> and stock options in 1997
What has that well paid accountant done to the R and D budget? I need to
read Veblen's The
Some say Pinochet wasn't good for Chile's economy
Wednesday, March 18, 1998, Miami Herald
By KATHERINE ELLISON Herald Foreign Staff
SANTIAGO, Chile -- Like a modern Mussolini, Chile's former military ruler
Gen. Augusto Pinochet has defenders, here and abroad, who excuse his brutal
governing s
Here's an interesting twist:
Zvi vs a FRB Economist, with Zvi claiming no U-Turn in poverty rates (based on
consumption, not income) and the Fed guy responding that while not as "bad" as
census is reporting, poverty has been trending upward (possibly).
ZG concludes we have won the war on poverty
Dennis R Redmond wrote:
>My theory is, the bigger the speculative
>bubble (and Dow 8700 at a time when every corporation on the block, from
>Nike to Compaq, is reporting sluggish earnings and falling profit
>margins, surely qualifies as the most stupendous mania since the South Sea
>Bubble) the m
If I were king, i.e., if I had grant money and an army of research
assistants (or even one!), I would produce the following leading indicator:
The Index: by looking at the policy statements of "Big Name"
macroeconomists -- at the "Big Name" schools (at the top of what Krugman
calls the "pecking o
SOUTH AFRICA CONFRONTS GLOBALISATION
A Conference to Build Civil Society Alliances
Edenvale, 12-15 March 1998
BRIEF CONFERENCE REPORT
Introduction:
Background to the Conference
The "South Africa Confronts Globalisation" Conference has
been a unique and extremely important development.
Twenty-n
Jim,
You identify GDP measures with exchange value and HDI (PQLI) with use value.
I think this captures the spirit of the distinction, but is not actually
correct. HDI is an effort to capture *social outcomes* by indexing health
and education measures (it is flawed, because it includes GDP/PPP an
> From: "Carl H.A. Dassbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Late capitalism?
> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 11:24:01 -0500
> Some may recall that Mandel, writing in the 1970's, characterized the period
> since the end of World War II as "Late Capitalism."
>
> I was wondering
Some progressive friends of mine in the Physics Department here at
Syracuse passed on to me an inquiry from friends of theirs in Trieste.
Someone has organized a 4-week course at the International Centre
for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, under the title "School on the
Mathematics of Economics,"
At 07:44 PM 3/17/98 +, Mark Jones wrote:
>You need a long spoon to sup with the IBRD, it's true. However,
>propaganda which relies upon publicly abandoning the most significant
>indicator of market-driven progress is pretty double-edged. It's
>tacitly abandoning the capitalist dream altoge
BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1998
Predicting a "major hit" from the Asian financial crisis, the nation's
top manufacturing lobby said its members expect a significant slowdown
in U.S. export sales this year, as well as slower economic growth
overall. The National Association of Manufactu
> Date sent: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 19:50:18 +
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> From: Mark Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject:Re: Marxism and the Indians of Peru, part 2 of 3
> Unfortunately the Latin American Left has lost its beari
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