A Political Consensus Has Been Reached, but the Economy Is As Bad As It
Was
Yevgeny Primakov will become a reliable cover for the unknown vice
Premier, who will really manage the economy
Nezavisimaya Gazeta 09/11/98
Yevgeny Primakov's nomination as prime minister was a strong political
move by
Teenage Sailor Kills Eight on Russian Submarine
MOSCOW -- (Reuters) A teenage conscript sailor killed eight crew mates
aboard a Russian submarine of the Northern Fleet on Friday, the Defense
Ministry said.
"An emergency occurred on a submarine of the Northern Fleet involving
the death of personn
From: Fred Weir
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998
Subject: Capital Flight
By Fred Weir
MOSCOW (CP) -- Capital has hemorrhaged out of post-Soviet
Russia on a scale unseen anywhere else in the world, leaving the
country without needed resources to rebuild its economy, a joint
Canadian-Russian
From: Fred Weir
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 17:36:34 (MSK)
Subject: Gorbachev on Primakov and Yeltsin
Mikhail Gorbachev happened to be at a press conference today, a joint
Russian-Canadian academic project on capital flight, and he offered his
remarks on Primakov. For the record, here they are, Gorbac
Flawed Capitalism Requires Regulation, State Role, Jospin Says
Paris, Sept. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Responsible government and effective
regulation
must play a role in the world economy next century to counterbalance the
effects of unbridled capitalism, French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin
said.
``Capi
RUSSIA'S CRISIS AND THE BIRTH OF A NEW LEFT
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW - A few days back, my friend Rod came round unexpectedly
to visit. He brought a bottle of vodka with him, but he wasn't
feeling festive. Quite the reverse.
An Englishman who has spent much of the 1990s in Moscow, Rod had
jus
RUSSIAN DISASTERS AND WESTERN COMPLICITY
By Abraham Brumberg
Ever since Boris Yeltsin took over the reins of government in
Russia in June 1991, Western media, statesmen and Russian experts
have portrayed the new president as the savior of Russia, a man
deeply committed to democratic principl
Russians Say Violence Unlikely, but Many Worried
September 8, 1998
MOSCOW -- (Reuters) Tamara Kravtsova knows first-hand that life in
post-Communist Russia can be violently unpredictable.
An engineer by training, Kravtsova, 60, spent several decades living
peacefully in the Chechen capital of
As Moscow dithers, shortages across Russia bite
MOSCOW, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Russia's economic crisis has emptied shops,
made
basic goods scarce and stoked popular anger from the Pacific Ocean to
the
Baltic Sea, a survey by Reuters reporters across the country showed on
Wednesday.
While Moscow's
From: Fred Weir in Moscow
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998
For the Hindustan Times
MOSCOW (HT Sept 8) -- Russia is spinning out of control and
even if the current government crisis is resolved the country is
headed for a hard winter and possible dictatorship, analysts say.
"The only thing we can
YELTSIN MUST GO, RUSSIAN MINERS SAY. PROTESTS CALLED FOR 7 OCTOBER.
Russia's powerful mining unions are increasing their pressure for Boris
Yeltsin to step down. As wage arrears continue to mount, other Russian
unions are swinging behind the miners' call for a nationwide protest on
7
October, wit
Dear pen-l'rs,
The below news-sketch parallels the situation immediately following the
abdication of the Czar and the assumption of power by (what proved to
be) the feeble provisional government headed by Kerenskii. Then, as now,
the Western bourgeoisie hailed him as an "authoritative leader" who
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The new Premier of Russia, Yevgeny Primakov, has an
interesting background prior to holding his most recent
position as Foreign Minister. Immediately prior to that he
was head of the SVR, the successor to the KGB's First
Directorate which deals with foreign affairs. The SVR's
headquart
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Little-known price indexes hint at rising inflation, though by most
meas
I have absolutley no expertise what so ever regaarding the question of
indigenous peoples..
I recall, however, many years back someone referred me to Jackson's Third
(I think it was the Third) address to Congress.
A portion of that address was devoted to the Indian question. I recall
reading it
I wrote:
>Incomes Policies make the most sense in a place where both capital and
>labor are very centralized (and where capital doesn't see fleeing to
>low-wage areas as an option), as it used to be in Sweden. IPs used to be
>one piece of the bigger program of social democracy; from what I've rea
PILGRIM'S PROGRESS
Paul Watson allies with a far-right Republican in his fight against
aboriginal whaling
by: M-J Milloy
HOUR Magazine
Montreal, Quebec
10.9.98/page 12
www.afterhour.com
It took the early white missionaries and explorers weeks to navigate
the rugged coastline of northern Washin
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I wrote: >> in simple terms, the theory tells us that the capitalists have
the whip hand in the economy and if the economy and the government don't
deliver the goods to them, they punish us with unemployment and/or
inflation. Note that this is very different from MF's theory is which is
simply a
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There were no reports of serious violence
from Thursday's mass street protests
involving up to 10,000 peasants who have
Tom Walker wrote: >I didn't see a response to Max's questions, which I
believe were posed to Jim Devine. Max seems to be implying that Keynesian
policies didn't cause stagflation. I think that's correct. Keynesianism
fell out of favour with ruling circles in the U.S. because it was too
redistribut
Jim Devine wrote,
>---> in simple terms, the theory tells us that the capitalists have the
>whip hand in the economy and if the economy and the government don't
>deliver the goods to them, they punish us with unemployment and/or
>inflation. Note that this is very different from MF's theory is w
Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto
industry.He stated: "If GM had kept up with technology like the
computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar
cars that got 1000 miles to the gallon."
In response, General Motors issued a press rele
I wrote:
>>As for the stag, the argument I presented above can be stated in turns of
>>an adverse shift in the Phillips Curve: the greater the inflationary
>>potential of the economy due to low profit rates, the more unemployment is
>>needed to avoid inflationary acceleration.
Tom Walker asks:
Jim Devine wrote,
>As for the stag, the argument I presented above can be stated in turns of
>an adverse shift in the Phillips Curve: the greater the inflationary
>potential of the economy due to low profit rates, the more unemployment is
>needed to avoid inflationary acceleration.
Isn't that t
saith Paul Krugman in his recent SLATE column: "In Russia property really
is theft, pure and simple."
for the whole column (if you want to give Chairman Bill his bux), see:
http://www.slate.com/Dismal/98-09-10/Dismal.asp
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] &
http://clawww.lmu.edu/Departments/ECON/jde
I am not sure this went out the first time so this is attempt #2.
It is a response to Barkley's question on land reform in South Korea.
Marty
In terms of Korea, perhaps the following helps provide background to the
question below on land reform in Korea, it comes from page 339 in Korea
Old and
Gar Lipow wrote:
>When Neruda died during the coup
Actually, he died on the 23rd. At the time of the coup he was terminally
ill with cancer, I believe. But the coincidence of the two events was
devastating.
This afternoon we're hoilding an event at the University, bringing together
studen
I had written: >. . . For example, Keynesian policies worked for quite
awhile in the US, but contributed in a big way to the stagflation crisis of
the 1970s.)<
Max Sawicky writes: >If you take away the oil price spikes, how do you
derive stagflation from Keynesian policy? <
You can't take away t
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> Consumption of goods and services has skyrocketed globally, but lurking
> beneath the affluence is a widening gap between the world's rich and
> poor, a new U.N. report warns.
>
> Highlighting "gross inequalities
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Max Sawicky wrote,
>If you take away the oil price spikes,
>how do you derive stagflation from
>Keynesian policy? If you think
>the government heated up the
>economy too much in the late 1960's,
>generating at the very least an
>increase in the price level, how
>does this translate into the 'sta
James,
Actually I never thought we disagreed, although I was
not surprised that you initially thought we did. Again, it
was some sloppy remarks by good old Uncle Lou that set me
off, and after some listing of examples of "smallpox
blankets" (which I had already alluded to) he has more or
Replying to my own message, ooog, :-).
Actually I think there is a way to resolve this
dispute about the Japanese role in the Korean school
system. The Japanese expanded it and introduced some
scientific and technical education. OTOH the schools were
in Japanese and were a vehicle
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