Hi Mike; glad to see you're still there. On your note:
>Friends,
>
>Louis's post on Columbia, NACLA, etc. is very interesting. The msot
>recent Lingua Franca has an article on Roberto Unger, Brazilian legal
>scholar turned political agitator. Unger has certain leftist ideas but
>these are mixe
http://www.afr.com.au/content/990308/world/wtokyo.html
"Kenichi Ohmae . . . believes Japan is being
'micro-managed' by the United States.
"In particular, he says it is being run by the 'Committee of
Three' - Federal Treasury heads Robert Rubin and Larry
Summers and Federal Reserve chairman Alan
Dennis,
Uh, I hate to come on like datawonkster Dough, but...
According to my handy dandy 1997 CIA World Factbook, the PPP per capita
incomes in 1996 of the leading transition economies (in per capita income
terms were as follows: Slovenia, $12,300, Czech Republic, $11,100, Slovakia,
$8,
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>Kubrick has died. I recently saw "Lolita" and "Paths of Glory" for
>the first time. Both were excellent, though I think "Paths of Glory"
>provokes a sharper response, drawing the angry bile upward as quickly
>as any movie I've seen.
Never mind Kubrick. Films are all very well, but they're not
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GDP per capita, 1995 in ppp USD:
Czech Rep: 9547
Hungary :6639
Slovakia: 7486
Poland: 5522
Slovenia: 10606
Russia:4442
Greece:11541
Portugal: 12582
Turkey5936
Source: Havlik, Vienna Institute for Comparative Economic Studies,
Oct. 1996
Paul Phillips
Dear Charles,
I got no idea. Although, I do know where that famous American Slovak artist Andy
Warhol is buried!
Your email pal,
Tom L.
Charles Brown wrote:
> Tom,
>
> Didn't Canada get it in "Oh , Canada" ?
>
> Charles
>
> >>> Tom Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/08/99 02:40PM >>>
> Dear Bar
Friends,
Louis's post on Columbia, NACLA, etc. is very interesting. The msot
recent Lingua Franca has an article on Roberto Unger, Brazilian legal
scholar turned political agitator. Unger has certain leftist ideas but
these are mixed with a love of the market and sharp criticism of Marxism.
A g
Tom,
Didn't Canada get it in "Oh , Canada" ?
Charles
>>> Tom Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/08/99 02:40PM >>>
Dear Barkley and Peter,
Here is a question that I pose to my American Slovak friends. Who got the "o"
in Czechoslovkia? Is it now Czech'o or o'Slovakia?
Your email pal,
Tom L.
"J.
Jim,
Unfortunately Russia, along with several other former Soviet republics
have gone well beyond the norm for "the free world" in this particular
regard and are getting into Latin American standards of inequality. For
those who don't know, the US has the most unequal income distribution of
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Dear Barkley and Peter,
Here is a question that I pose to my American Slovak friends. Who got the "o"
in Czechoslovkia? Is it now Czech'o or o'Slovakia?
Your email pal,
Tom L.
"J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." wrote:
> Peter,
> The Gini for Slovakia is for 1993-94 and is the number appearing in
Peter,
The Gini for Slovakia is for 1993-94 and is the number appearing in
both the 1997 World Bank _World Development Report: The State in a Changing
World_ and in a study by Juha Honkkila for UNU/WIDER in 1997 entitled,
"Privatization, Asset Distribution and Equity in Transition Economies,"
I just got back from the offices of NACLA (North American Committee on
Latin America), the oldest and most prestigious research center on Latin
American politics in the US. I picked up a copy of the March/April 1998
NACLA Report, which was devoted to Chiapas and Colombia and titled "The
Wars Withi
Thanks, Dennis, this is just the sort of dialogue I was hoping to
instigate. Let's compare notes.
Unemployment: I agree that it has been lower in the CR, but that is
because, unlike the other CEE transitioners, it never underwent
restructuring. Stalinist-era investments, rather than being writt
Dear Barkley,
The American Slovak Club is, in my humble opinion, the nicest nationality club
in Lorain, Ohio. The Friday fish special is a classic.
Your email pal,
Tom L.
"J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." wrote:
> Peter,
> An interesting tidbit is that the Slovak income distribution may be the
>
Peter,
An interesting tidbit is that the Slovak income distribution may be the
most equal of any nation on the face of the earth right now. Last Gini
coefficient I saw was 20, almost unchanged from the pre-transition period
when it along with its former Czech partner had the most equal incom
On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Peter Dorman wrote:
> The Czech Republic, on the other hand, is a disaster zone.
> Pseudo-privatization has given the cronyklatura a corrupt grip on
> enterprises, few of which have even begun to transform themselves.
Well... not quite. The Czech Republic also had one of th
Michael,
I think Peter's post was on Slovakia, not Slovenia. Slovenia's
recovery from the war and progress has been quite good as well. What
was important was that privatization was taken relatively slowly and
with a large element of worker ownership which, combined with a very
strong union
Sunday Journal, Suburban DC
March 7, 1999
"On the Left"
Robert Naiman, Preamble Center
Census 2000: Disappearing the Poor
In The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera described how in
Czechoslovakia after 1968 an official photograph was altered to remove a
former official who had be
Try AFL and union web sites.
mbs
> Hi All,
>
> Can somebody point me in the direction of information on U.S.
corporations in El Salvador, including workers' wages, companies'
profits, etc.?>
Barkley writes: >... I think that we are observing a real difference
between what is happening in Slovakia and what is happening in Russia.
Russia's inequality is now noticeably greater than that in the US.<
it's about time that Russia joined the free world!
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] &
http:/
This is interesting. How accurate are the data? (I remember how
misleading much of the CMEA data were.) More generally, is my thumbnail
sketch of Slovakia and the CR correct? If so, is a letter to the NYR
warrented? Any collaborators?
Peter
"J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." wrote:
>
> Peter,
>
There's a report that a computer from a space craft is being held by the police for
questioning regarding Kubrick's death.
Charles Brown
>>> "William S. Lear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/07/99 11:47PM >>>
Kubrick has died. I recently saw "Lolita" and "Paths of Glory" for
the first time. Both were
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Dear Pen-L:
I had to write a report for my tenured faculty review, and
in order to turn this chore into something productive, I
tried to make an honest assessment of my own experience as a
Marxist in the capitalist academic system. Here are some
highlights, which I am sending to this list beca
At times, pen-l seems to function proverbial water cooler, where we
gather together for amiable banter. This morning, I have been
pleasantly surprised by the content. Peter's post on Slovenia, Hans's
note for his committee, and several others reminded me about how
valuable your work is.
I only
Hi All,
Can somebody point me in the direction of information on U.S.
corporations in El Salvador, including workers' wages, companies'
profits, etc.?
Thanks in advance.
Seth Sandronsky
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At 11:27 AM 3/5/99 -0500, david dorkin wrote:
>What would the list of left (or at least left of center) think tanks be?
>I count:
>
>Economic Policy Institute
>Institute for Policy Studies
>Jerome
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