A late addition to the Dollarization thread. There have been a number
of suggestions recently that New Zealand should adopt Australia's or
the US dollar. The government is apparently looking at it seriously.
There is a Treasury working paper on it, called "Economic Integration
and Monetary Uni
This is an article from the May 16, 1999 Sunday Journal , the newspaper of the
striking Detroit newspaper workers.
CB
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'A real betrayal'
Detroit-area Serbs say media cloud truth on war
By Michael Betzold
Journal Staff Writer
To 20,000 Serbian-Americans living
BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1999
RELEASED TODAY: In March 1999, there were 799 mass layoff actions by
employers as measured by new filings for unemployment insurance benefits
during the month. Each action involved at least 50 persons from a single
establishment, and the number of worker
Brussels, 3 May 1999
CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN POLICY STUDIES
A System for Post-War South-East Europe (Plan for Reconstruction, Openness,
Development and Integration
(Working Document of the Centre for European Policy Studies by Michael
Emerson, with Daniel Gros, Wolfgang Hager, Peter Ludlow and Nic
At 01:37 AM 5/22/99 +1000, you wrote:
>Historical dialectics and an invocation of central planning - all from the
>pen of a seminal econometrician. Strange stuff, economics ...
Schumpeter was neither an econometrician nor a mathematical economist. He
_was_ a conservative but open-minded economis
This is the sort of thing that critics of NAFTA have worried
about. There goes our water downt the drain!
Cheers, Ken Hanly
http://www.newsworld.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/1999/05/20/water990520
CBCNEWS
Newfoundland company ready to sell bulk water overseas
Jim,
The Gang That Can't Bomb Straight has not only
hit the Swedish embassy, but also the residences of
the Norwegian and Spanish ambassadors (NATO
members vigorously supporting the war effort, last time
I checked). They also hit a hospital, ugh, but not the
Swiss embassy or ambassador's re
Louis,
I appreciate your efforts and you have provided
a lot of useful information. At the same time I think
you need to look carefully at what you are writing and
how it might be taken. You certainly do paint a picture
that seems to imply that the Albanians pretty much
deserve whatever is
<< Jim,
The Gang That Can't Bomb Straight has not only
hit the Swedish embassy, but also the residences of
the Norwegian and Spanish ambassadors (NATO
members vigorously supporting the war effort, last time
I checked). They also hit a hospital, ugh, but not the
Swiss embassy or ambassador's
Remarks by Chairman Alan Greenspan
At the Haas Annual Business Faculty Research Dialogue,
University of California, Berkeley, California
September 4, 1998
Question: Is There a New Economy?
The American economy, like all advanced capitalist economies, is
continually in the process of what
At 02:39 PM 5/21/99 -0400, Jim Devine wrote:
>> Schumpeter was neither an econometrician nor a mathematical economist. He
>> _was_ a conservative but open-minded economist who learned a lot from Marx.
>> His belief that socialism -- by which he meant government planning of the
>> economy -- is ine
What happened to Asia since July 1997 cannot be described by Schumpeter's
"creative destruction" theory. With CD, a new industrial enterprise based on a
new technology or organization displaces older, obsolete enterprises, and on
balance creates no good than harm in the long run.
What happened to
>>> Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/21/99 12:28PM >>>
Of course, they might have bombed the Swiss and/or Swedish
embassy(ies) in hopes of demonstrating that they are equal-opportunity
bumbling bombers rather than having special animus toward China. That seems
too Machievellian for me, but who k
No, no it is all random. Seeing economic motives for any aspect of war is dismal
science.
Charles Brown
>>> Max Sawicky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/21/99 02:41PM >>>
<< Jim,
The Gang That Can't Bomb Straight has not only
hit the Swedish embassy, but also the residences of
the Norwegian and Sp
Barkley wrote: >... There are deep ethnic conflicts with wrongs committed
on both sides [of the Kosova/o conflict]. Outside powers of various sorts
have gotten involved in various ways and in some cases exacerbated things,
including some parties in the US and Germany in the 1980s and 1990s. This
m
>Is there anyone on pen-l who sees Serbia as "socialist"? in what sense?
>what do they mean by "socialism" and in what sense does Serbia fit this
>definition?
These Marxism list exchanges posted today grapple with these questions.
1) From a letter to a Serb leftist by Jay Moore:
The Internation
Louis,
The problem was precisely the selectivity of
what you presented. Now you admit that the Serbs
acted like a "baying mob" in 1987 according to your
chosen author. I can come up with all kinds of
"demonizing" information about the Serbs that has
been published by pro-Serb authors. I s
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Subject:The origin of the term "area bombing"
Reflections from a friend on the origin
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Subject:WILL THE UN BRING PEACE TO KOSOVO? THE BOSNIAN PRECEDENT
WILL THE UN BRING PE
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From: Sid Shniad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject:Canadian MP's travels through Kosovo
The National Post
> Thank you for providing a smidgen of the other side
>of the story.
>Barkley Rosser
Barkley, there is no such thing as "objective truth". This is a
petty-bourgeois illusion, especially strong among professors. I filter
everything I read and impose my own Marxist outlook on it. Here is some
ELECTRONIC WIRETAPS TRIPLED LAST YEAR
The number of wiretaps placed by state and federal law enforcement
officials
on cell phones, pagers, e-mail and other telecommunications devices
nearly
tripled last year, and for the first time wiretaps on cell phones and
pagers
outnumbered those on convention
In listing all the countries hit by stray bombs (Pakistan, Bulgaria, ...), we
should count Italy, where the fishermen are on strike because they keep finding
bombs in their net.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chico, CA 95929
530-898-5321
fax
I think that socialism is coming to mean anyone who defies the market (except for
unusal circumstantaces, such as Helms-Burton). So Milosevic, the banker, is a
socialist in the same sense that Malaysia is socialist. Remember, Jim, we live
in world where Clinton is a leftist and Newt G. is a mode
At 04:15 PM 5/21/99 -0400, Louis wrote:
>One of the things that I didn't have time (or space) to get into in my
reply to Solidarity was this question of whether Yugoslavia is socialist or
not, and what this has to do with the war. To play it safe, I called it a
"mixed economy". Do folks remember w
I wrote: >> Is there anyone on pen-l who sees Serbia as "socialist"? in
what sense? what do they mean by "socialism" and in what sense does Serbia
fit this definition?<<
Michael P. writes: >I think that socialism is coming to mean anyone who
defies the market (except for unusal circumstantaces,
A French soldier of fortune fights alongside the KLA
TIRANA, May 21, 1999 (AFP) - "I was recruited as an officer in the KLA as
soon as I showed pictures of the Serbs I had killed in Croatia," said
'Jacques', a far-right Frenchman, lying wounded on a hospital bed here,
after three weeks of fighti
Schumpeter was indeed a high-ranking member of the econometric society, and one
point either president or vice president. However, he was not skilled at all in
mathematics. Richard Goodwin tried to help out.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
T
Barkley,
This is a hell of a topic. I am just at this moment writing up the
results of our case study/survey of the legacy of self management
in Slovenia (which I will send you for comment before sending it off
for publication) and I admit I don't know enough of what has
happened in Serbia s
IN THIS MESSAGE: They Call It "Intelligence"; NATO Refuses to Release Evidence
in Bombing Mishap; Italian Fishermen Net Bombs; NATO Bombs Jail Holding KLA
Fighters
Human Error
By Barbara Starr -- ABCNEWS.com
W A S H I N G T O N, May 20, 9:37am PT The United States
mistakenly bombed the Chin
IN THIS MESSAGE: NATO's Unintended Targets List Grows; Thailand Cancels Intl.
Labor Conference
NATO's Unintended Targets
By The Associated Press
Some NATO bombing mistakes and missile attacks against
unintended targets. Casualty figures were reported by Serbs and
not independently confir
>I wrote:
>>Of course, it's much too simplistic to views these matters in a win vs.
>>lose framework.
>
Doug writes: >True, but I get nervous when I see U.S. imperialism described as
>incompetent. It's been brutally, horribly successful.
I was thinking of incompetence in terms of the attainment
Jim Devine wrote:
>Of course, it's much too simplistic to views these matters in a win vs.
>lose framework.
True, but I get nervous when I see U.S. imperialism described as
incompetent. It's been brutally, horribly successful.
Doug
Jim Devine wrote:
>It's pretty clear that the US/NATO war against Serbia is small-i
>imperialistic, as Barkley says. And such policies can be (and often are)
>incompetent; consider the history of the US war against Vietnam.
Incompetent? Which part? The 2-3 million dead? The poisoning of the land
I found the following headline at the ABC News site.
Keeping Schools Safe
Using Military Strategy to Defend Schools
The article is irrelevant after a headline like that. Is this the same
military that took a week to defeat seven Grenadine policeman and one Cuban
engineer?
Rod Hay
[EMAIL
Jim,
Actually Louis P. has argued that Serbia (or Yugoslavia)
is socialist and he has a point. He goes farther than I do in
declaring that Milosevic was elected because of his defense
of Serbian workers against imperialist privatization threats
rather than for his appeals to ethnic chauvinis
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From: Sid Shniad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject:NATO looking at a fundamental switch of tactics - The Daily
Telegraph
>>> "J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/21/99 01:43PM >>>
The Gang That Can't Bomb Straight has not only
hit the Swedish embassy, but also the residences of
the Norwegian and Spanish ambassadors (NATO
members vigorously supporting the war effort, last time
I checked). They al
> Remarks by Chairman Alan Greenspan
> At the Haas Annual Business Faculty Research Dialogue,
> University of California, Berkeley, California
> September 4, 1998
>
snip
>
> Full speech at:
> http://www.bog.frb.fed.us/boarddocs/speeches/1998/19980904.htm
>
> While Greenspan did not actually
>From Public Citizen [the coalition of organizations includes Preamble.]
--
A coalition of organizations have been developing a booklet describing what
the World Trade Organization (WTO) is, it's track record and what we can
expect to see in the upcoming Ministerial Meeting in Se
For those who might have missed it, I posted some views on Schumpeter:
Subject: [PEN-L:3960] Schumpeter and Creative Destruction
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 14:06:07 -0500
From: "Henry C.K. Liu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Henry C.K. Liu
Jim Devine wrote:
> At 01:37 AM 5/22/99 +
> What I found and find objectionable is your demonization of
>the Albanians coinciding with your more or less complete
>buying into nearly all of the worst of the Serbian nationalist and
>chauvinist stories and mythologies.
You don't get it. Most of the information is drawn from Miranda Vick
I've been away from the news for a couple of days and I'm confused.
Did the US/NATO bomb the residence of the Swedish ambassador to Serbia? did
the US/NATO also bomb the Swiss embassy? Am I conflating these two events?
Is it this common in wars for the embassies of non-combatant nations to be
b
Hello, Tom. I do not have an op-ed on that issue; however, I do regularly
write op-eds and have had many published in CA papers, such as the LA Times
and SD Union Tribune. If you at some point in a progressive look at other
issues, I have several in my directory. Recent ones include privatization;
Guardian, May 20 1999
Richard Gott thinks he sees just an old-fashioned British imperialist
behind the righteous Tony Blair
THE DRIVE TO INTERVENE
The historian AJP Taylor used to argue, wisely, that present events help
us to understand the past and not the other way round. So little purpose
is
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