[SOUNDS FAIR TO ME! WHY NOT $1M FOR EVERY 1000 WORKERS?]
Xerox chief gets $6.5M bonus
Allaire's bonus rises by more
than $2 million, proxy shows
April 9, 1998: 8:11 p.m. ET
NEW YORK (CNNfn) - Xerox Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer Paul Allaire's
1997 bonus increased by
On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Nathan Newman wrote:
> IMF funding is a real tactical division: I very much doubt labor allies in
> South Korea, for example, support cutting off IMF funding. They would
> like support in easing the terms of the IMF in exchange for funds, but
> merely shutting down the pipel
The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition -- April 9,
1998
Call to Action
Labor Has Discovered the Perfect Issue
For Galvanizing Workers: CEO Pay.
By ROBERT L. ROSE
WASHINGTON -- Organized labor usually is associated
more with Main Street than Wall Street. So why was a
group of AFL-CIO s
The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition -- April 9,
1998
Pay for No Performance
CEOs Once Got Top Dollar Only for Top Results.
Now Many Are Getting Top Dollar No Matter What.
By JOANN S. LUBLIN
Gilbert F. Amelio cried all the way to the bank.
During his 17-month tenure as head of Apple
Nathan Newman wrote:
>For the record, here is Gephardt's comments on his position from Inter Press
>Service News Wire on Mar 5 1998:
>
>"Gephardt was driven to support the IMF funding out of concern
>for labor, because 'a country on the brink of economic ruin isn't
>going to worry about enforcing
On Thu, April 9, 1998 at 16:50:42 (-0700) Nathan Newman writes:
>...
>For the record, here is Gephardt's comments on his position from Inter Press
>Service News Wire on Mar 5 1998:
>
>"Gephardt was driven to support the IMF funding out of concern
>for labor, because 'a country on the brink of econ
The Dems had 2 choices: grass roots organizing to fight capital or compete
with the repubs for corporate finance. Once they made the choice that
they did, NAFTA, welfare reform and the rest are logical outcomes.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 9592
It is fine to disagree with Nathan's ideas about the left working with the
Democrats, but there is no reason to jump on him peresonally.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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From: Doug Henwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Everyone working on WB/IMF
>issues is intensely pissed at the AFL-CIO for their pro-IMF stance, and see
>them blowing a position of strength. It's precisely this sort of crap that
>makes
> Stiglitz is a major player in what is now called "New
> Keynesian" economics.
But as the rest of Barkley's post implicitly acknowleges
this is "NEW" as in "No Effing Way" Keynesian, as is pointed
out from time to time over on PKT. Whatever the "results,"
(and however interesting it might be
On Thu, April 9, 1998 at 13:44:43 (-0700) michael writes:
>Be careful about who does and does not vote on something like NAFTA. The
>president knows that it is unpopular and only draws upon the votes that he
>needs. That is why so many controversial decisions win by a handful of votes.
>
>The qu
Wojtek:
>I have another question: why is the disappearance of species more sinister
>than that of the individual? Suppose that the salamander or the tree frog
>cannot find breeding grounds anymore because wetlands have been transformed
>into suburbs, malls and parking lots (yuk!!!). Consequently
On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Nathan Newman wrote:
> Obviously, NAFTA was passed by a Democratic President, so that holds, but what
> does it mean to say a Democratic Congress passed NAFTA?
Are you seriously arguing for a single second that the Dems *didn't* pass
NAFTA? So who was controlling the House, S
At 03:26 PM 4/9/98 -0400, maggie coleman wrote:
>I am not disputing that many plant species are dieing. However (not really
>knowing shit about botany) it was my understanding that new species are also
>created on a regular basis. Is this true? ALSO, is the current RATE of
>specie disappearance
-Original Message-
From: Doug Henwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Nathan Newman wrote:
>No. Only one out of four Democrats in the House voted for NAFTA.
-Still looking for that Dem job, Nathan?
As I said, the ad hominen nature of discussion over th
For those who don't keep track of these things,
Stiglitz is a major player in what is now called "New
Keynesian" economics. Summers is generally identified with
this camp, although not as strongly as Stiglitz, as is
Janet Yellen, now CEA Chair and formerly a Fed Governor,
and her husban
C. Dennis,
What you fail to admit is that the purpose of a *capitalist*
economy is not to produce goods, but money. Japan's highly artificial
pricing structure and financial system has hidden the fact that while they
may be producing goods as well as ever, they are
On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, boddhisatva wrote:
> What you fail to admit is that the purpose of a *capitalist*
> economy is not to produce goods, but money.
Money is merely the financial form of capital. There are plenty of other
subforms of the larger abstraction (industrial, intellectual, socia
Nathan Newman wrote:
>No. Only one out of four Democrats in the House voted for NAFTA.
Still looking for that Dem job, Nathan?
If George Bush tried to get NAFTA through Congress, he probably would have
failed. It took a Dem president twisting arms and buying votes (and, by the
way, the lying c
Pen-L geniuses,
Let's say, hypothetically, that you believed that American
interest rates were too high. Could such factors as the securitization of
low-grade debt make pressure for higher returns "filter" up the
credit-ratings ladder? Could all that BB+ debt on
At 03:26 PM 4/9/98 EDT, you wrote:
>I am not disputing that many plant species are dieing. However (not really
>knowing shit about botany) it was my understanding that new species are also
>created on a regular basis. Is this true? ALSO, is the current RATE of
>specie disappearance greater than
C. Kruse,
Of course we know that the West can stop the cocaine problem any
time it wants. At $10,000 a kilogram-equivalent, the governments of the
cocaine-consuming countries could buy the entire world supply of
cocaine/coca and throw it in the ocean for a few bil
I am not disputing that many plant species are dieing. However (not really
knowing shit about botany) it was my understanding that new species are also
created on a regular basis. Is this true? ALSO, is the current RATE of
specie disappearance greater than it was say 10-20-30 years ago? If sp
To whom,
Let me clarify. If Japan gets it's house in order (as Korea seems
to be doing if recent reception for its debt is any indication), her
possibilities are probably only limited by the fact that not that many
people speak Japanese as opposed to English wo
C. Dennis,
Don't you recall Yamaichi's Chairman tearfully revealing that his
firm had hidden 2 *billion* dollars in losses from its lenders for years? I
believe that was accompanied with the brokerage's *failing*. What do you
know about Japanese accounting that th
Be careful about who does and does not vote on something like NAFTA. The
president knows that it is unpopular and only draws upon the votes that he
needs. That is why so many controversial decisions win by a handful of votes.
The question is, if more Repubs. had held out against NAFTA, how many
> Colin was hypothesizing about Stiglitz simply playing good cop to IMF
> bad cop. Yes, but they also have ways of dealing with rogue Keynesians in
> the Bank.
Well the posted material still looks like advocacy of
neoliberalism with differences mainly in the manner
of transition and the kind
apologies if below has already appeared on pen-l...forwarded by Michael
Hoover
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> Subject: [TECHLIST:16] Invitation to TechNet-EDI-WTO Think Tank, April 27 to May 1
Speaking of democrats, how 'bout this: "President Wellstone". Right. But,
as agenda-bender it COULD make for a more interesting campaign season.
Minnesota Senator May Challenge Gore
New York Times, April 9, 1998
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Paul Wellstone, D-Minn., one of the most liberal
Democrats in t
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By DAVID LAMB,
HANOI, MONDAY
The man-made brush fires that are raging again in Indonesia are
symptomatic of a wider regional peril: South-East Asia's rapid
development is racking up an alarming toll in environmental
destruction.
Pick almost any environmental to
At 06:17 PM 4/8/98 -0500, Shane Mage wrote:
>I disagree profoundly with this personification of "the state" and "the
>system." Motives and objectives can exist only as the motives and
>objectives of *people*, the real agents of social life. When Hegel spoke
>of the "ruse of reason," and Marx re
April 9, 1998
Plant Survey Reveals Many Species Threatened With Extinction
By WILLIAM K. STEVENS
At least one of every eight plant species in the world -- and nearly one of
three in the United States -- is under threat of extinction, according to
the first comprehensive worldwide assessment of
At 01:23 PM 4/8/98 -0400, you wrote:
Barkley writes: >... Maybe it is just "faith," but I do think that we are
going through a Schumpeterian qualitative technological transformation, and
I see these as the key to long wave upswings. Do they generally lead to
their own demise, often through demand-
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From: Dennis R Redmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>NAFTA was passed by a Democratic Prez and Congress.
It is this kind of casual sentence, wrong in spirit and nonsensical in its
syntax, that usually makes hash of any attempt to discuss electoral politics and
specifically the meaning of the Democratic
Colin was hypothesizing about Stiglitz simply playing good cop to IMF
bad cop. Yes, but they also have ways of dealing with rogue Keynesians in
the Bank.
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FINANCE: World Bank Chief Economist ''Disappears''
GA:
Bank news. And thanks for Assata; actually, it had come my way already.
> *** 27-Jan-98 ***
>
>Title: FINANCE: World Bank Chief Economist ''Disappears''
>
>By Abid Aslam
>
>WASHINGTON, Jan 27 (IPS) - The latest joke circulating the
>corridors of the World Bank is that
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