G'day Pen-pals,
Am loving the info rev. thread - Harrison's finance 'spiders' v. production
nodes analogue with concentration v. purportedly 'post-fordist'
decentralisation (thanks Pete and Jim) kicks some potentially serious
bottom, for mine.
Anyway, to something else altogether ... was watchin
forwarded by Michael Hoover
> House OKs Posting of 10 Commandments
> WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House voted today to allow the Ten
> Commandments to be posted in schools and other government
> buildings. By 248-180, lawmakers approved Rep. Robert Aderholt's
> amendment to a juvenile c
> As long as the predominant world system
> remains imperialism, any country which breaks away from that system
> and attempts to preserve a bourbeois-like parliamentary democracy
> will not be able to resist outside subversion. Even in a revolution
> involving the maximum active participation of
Rob,
The fact that we are discussing the issue rather than denying it is progress.
I admit that I, as an Asian non-white, have a special prospective, although
such perspective is not "a priori" based, but rather on Lamarkian experience.
And it is more accurate to call it reactive racism, rather t
China Stops Landing of U.S. Plane
HONG KONG (AP) -- Chinese authorities have stopped a
U.S. military airplane from landing in Hong Kong, the
latest display of anger following the bombing of the Chinese
Embassy in Belgrade.
This is just so much crap that it is hard to believe that someone could put
it forward seriously. We have a crime without a perpetrator. Without
evidence. Without a trial. But everyone accused is guilty because they
belong to a certain group. It does not matter what they have done, they are
g
Unfortunately, Greenspan still has a great deal of reserve monetary power at
his dispoasal. It is highly unlikely that the US economy will crash before the
next election. But Greenspan would have to pay a high price for postponing the
inevitable.
We have shifted from the goldilock economy (just
Brad De Long wrote:
> Your fight is with Amartya Sen--not me.
>
> But my strong impression is that you have lost the argument already.
>
> Sen is not dumb, is careful, and rarely makes mistakes...
>
He uses the most amount of footnotes I've seen too. If I remember,
didn't Sen point out that In
Doug's posts on the Summers memo -- to the effect in the privacy of his own memo
Summers was being honest about the logic of the institution he represented, and "we
should face up to that" -- provoke me to pose the question: given that in fact this is
a fair representation of what the World Ban
Doug Orr:
>I am not sure about India, but Ireland exported food throughout the
>potatoe famine. So you see Louis, it really is the free market at work.
I'll tell you the truth. After answering DeLong on the Bengali famine, it
dawned on me--particularly after reading Jim Devine's interesting
fol
There are two separate issues.
1. Is the market economy desirable?
2. Is neoclassical economics usefull in analysing a market economy?
Neoclassical economists confuse the issues.
to question (1) they argue that ideally a "free market economy" is optimal.
It appears to me that Sen is arguing that
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On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, DOUG ORR wrote:
> Sam Pawlett wrote:
>
> Brad De Long wrote:
> > Your fight is
it's a good letter, but the Times left out the last paragraph.
arun chandra
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Louis Proyect wrote:
> To the Editor:
>
> In your report on the Cologne G8 meeting, you refer in general terms to
> the "democratic and economic reforms" Balkan governments must agree to
> in ord
The Times (London), June 24, 1999, Thursday
Nato dropped thousands of bombs on dummy roads, bridges and soldiers...and
hit only 13 real Serb tanks
Michael Evans, defence editor, in Pristina
NATO'S 79-day bombing campaign against Yugoslavia, which involved thousands
of sorties and some of th
In an earlier missive in this thread, I wrote: >>Sen and de Long are saying
that even with close-to-perfect markets (or even perfect ones), people can
starve, simply because they don't have enough money to buy food when the
price goes up. That's a pretty damning indictment of markets, but it
doesn
>Doug Orr:
>>I am not sure about India, but Ireland exported food throughout the
>>potatoe famine. So you see Louis, it really is the free market at work.
>
>
>I'll tell you the truth. After answering DeLong on the Bengali famine, it
>dawned on me--particularly after reading Jim Devine's interest
>In an earlier missive in this thread, I wrote: >>Sen and de Long are saying
>that even with close-to-perfect markets (or even perfect ones), people can
>starve, simply because they don't have enough money to buy food when the
>price goes up. That's a pretty damning indictment of markets, but it
>
In the June 1999 issue of MONTHLY REVIEW, there's a "debate" on Bob
Brenner's book THE ECONOMICS OF GLOBAL TURBULENCE. It's not really a
debate, since the two authors (David McNally & John Bellamy Foster) don't
address each others' articles, but it's worth reading at least one of them.
The articl
a nice piece, except that "structural adjustment" is equated to "more spending on
social needs"[!] and he misses the point on 3 years -- no way they will back date it,
the IMF gambit is that "debt relief will now come after 3 years, not 6" but under the
IMF scheme 6 years of structural adjustme
Rod Hay wrote:
>Cultural differences are not racism.
Jim Blaut's paper doesn't say that they are. In fact, it explicitly
says, "It is one thing to respect
culture, and to appreciate cultural differences, and quite another
thing to rank human groups on cultural criteria, and to
claim then that
What is happening? How can a major paper quote Baker, Schlessinger, and
Galbraith at the same time? Where are the rest of the bank economists? The
article quotes only one? Who speaks for Wall Street?
What biased reporting! I don't think that this reporter will be on the job
long. He/She mig
-Original Message-
From: Yoshie Furuhashi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 4:11 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L:8310] The Theory of Cultural Racism
Rod Hay wrote:
>Cultural differences are not racism.
Jim Blaut's paper doesn't say that they are.
Brad DeLong:
>A market economy is--with no externalities, no increasing returns, no
>market power, et cetera, et cetera--a very nice and effective way of
>achieving the goal of maximizing a particular objective function that is
>weighted sum of individual utilities, where each individual's weight
Brad DeLong:
>>Neoclassical economists confuse the issues.
>
>No we don't--at least those of us in the
>Samuelson-Arrow-Sen-Stiglitz-Summers tradition don't.
This is what I was driving at:
In a March 28 New York Times article, Thomas Friedman wrote: "For
globalization to work, America can't be a
Louis:
You have to be careful going down this road. Sure there are elements of
monopoly, coercion, etc. But neoclassical economists (accrording to Brad,
the not so good ones) often point to these elements when someone says that
their theory does not match the results observed.
The great achie
Rod Hay wrote:
> My remarks had a very simple message. If Henry is going to accuse people on
> this list of racism, he had better back it up.
As I said several times:
Now, the individuals on the list that you referred to did not at first accused
me of being a reverse racist. Their first line
Viva viva, Robert.
This is the spirit that in South Africa (as well as many other
places) translates into the slogan, "WB, quit SA!" The Bank has in
virtually every single one of its adventures here sided with rich
white folk. Many details can be provided to anyone even slightly
doubtful.
Wh
Henry wrote:
"Some of my best friends are Chinese."
Henry
This is just the type of provocative accusation that I am talking about. It
serves no purpose but to antagonise. If you are accusing me or anyone else
on this list of being a racist, I demand more evidence that the fact that I
do not t
My remarks had a very simple message. If Henry is going to accuse people on
this list of racism, he had better back it up.
And stop copping out everytime by saying. "I am Chinese I can say anything I
want with out being challenged." "Disagreeing with me is racism" or telling
people to calm dow
NATIONAL POST, Wednesday, June 23, 1999
COMMENT p. A18 Globalism's first victim
by David Orchard
In March, the most powerful military force in history attacked tiny
Yugoslavia (one fifth the size of Saskatchewan) and after seventy-nine days
of flagrantly illegal bombing forced an occupation
Yes, this same critique was posted on pen-l a few years back. Without
posing as an expert on this issue, I would like to say that it is
probably not a case of either/or. If GM suffered a planned loss on its
transit acquisitions, that means that its actions were probably not
neutral. In addition
Interesting topic. My comments do not represent official City of
Berkeley positions.
That said, like Henry Liu, I am also a planner, though a housing
planner. However, working regionally, planners, designers,
architects, land use lawyers and a lot of forward looking
environmental thinkers of al
As was Ireland...
ian
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sam Pawlett
> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 10:45 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PEN-L:8287] Re: Re: Bengali famine
>
>
> Brad De Long wrote:
> > Your fight is with Ama
The Christian Science Monitor
June 21, 1999, Monday
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LENGTH: 744 words
HEADLINE: Economists challenge Fed's inflation 'hunch'
BYLINE: David R. Francis, Staff writer of The Christian Science
>There are two separate issues.
>1. Is the market economy desirable?
>2. Is neoclassical economics usefull in analysing a market economy?
>
>Neoclassical economists confuse the issues.
No we don't--at least those of us in the
Samuelson-Arrow-Sen-Stiglitz-Summers tradition don't.
A market economy
>> The last sentence was the important one, making
the main political point (about democracy) and needling the Times for
the implicit bias in their coverage. *They never received my permission
to print this revised version.* . . . "
The Post is the same way. You're at the mercy of
the letters e
Yes, and I'm peeved. The last sentence was the important one, making
the main political point (about democracy) and needling the Times for
the implicit bias in their coverage. *They never received my permission
to print this revised version.*
Peter
Arun Chandra wrote:
>
> it's a good letter,
Forwarded mail received from: PERMIT1:NAL1
I forwarded some of the discussion on California/transit to a
colleague here at the City of Berkeley, one of our transportation
planners, and this is his comment, with his permission.
The GM conspiracy theory has little or no credibility in
transportat
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or mobile phone 415-303-3540.
KPFA Air Goes Dead as Programmers, Listeners Protest Pacifica Arrests Nine
Peaceful Demonstrators
BERKELEY, CA - On the morning of June 21 Ber
To the Editor:
In your report on the Cologne G8 meeting, you refer in general terms to
the "democratic and economic reforms" Balkan governments must agree to
in order to receive economic assistance from the US and the European
Union. This aid is desperately needed to repair the damage caused by
Sam Pawlett wrote:
Brad De Long wrote:
> Your fight is with Amartya Sen--not me.
>
> But my strong impression is that you have lost the argument already.
>
> Sen is not dumb, is careful, and rarely makes mistakes...
>
He uses the most amount of footnotes I've seen too. If I remember,
didn't S
But the 60s was the period where there was real trickling down, not like now.
There was so hope for a brief moment that the age of socialism was dawning and
America, the richest nation was leading the way. There are different faces (and
phases) of capitalism.
But then, corporate restructuring and
> LA, with all its problems, is still my favorite city, although I only lived
> there a little more than 4 years and in the late 60's, a period my friends
> there now tell me was the golden era for LA, and in fact for much else in the
> world.
>
> During that time, anyone arriving LA in the mor
Here we go again, setting Asia and Latin America up for another financial
crisis a year from now. The average timing will be one crisis every two
or three years to repatriate all surplus value from the periphery back to
the core.
Henry C.K. Liu
Business Times On Line June 24 1999
Whopping US$
Calm down, you'd hurt yourself.
Rod Hay wrote:
> This is just so much crap that it is hard to believe that someone could put
> it forward seriously. We have a crime without a perpetrator. Without
> evidence. Without a trial. But everyone accused is guilty because they
> belong to a certain group
> BLS DAILY REPORT, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 1999:
>
> Today's BLS News Release: "Average Annual Pay by State and Industry,
> 1997" indicates that the average annual pay of all workers covered by
> state and federal unemployment insurance (UI) programs was $30,336 in
> 1997, a 4.8 percent gain over t
Reprinted from Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography 23(1992): 289 299.
The Theory of Cultural Racism
By J. M. Blaut, Department of Geography University of Illinois at Chicago
i. Theory and Practice
Very few academics these days consider themselves to be racists, and
calling someone a raci
A rambling response to some aspects of this conversation that seem, well,
ambiguous to me, Henry ...
>The term "whites" remains a very valid
>social scientific category and generalization. The fact that something is
>socially constructed does not make it indefinite or invalid as a
>generalization
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