>I don't think it's worth my time forwarding the articles on
>Mozambican cashews to Krugman, since he's already staked his
>reputation on the cashew question in the NY TIMES and is unlikely to
>back down.
>
>But we have someone who's a pretty orthodox economist on pen-l.
>Brad, what do you thi
OBSERVER (London) Sunday April 23, 2000
Inside Corporate America
Bolivia's water supply is the latest acquisition of thirsty British firms in
the service of Uncle Sam
New British empire of the dammed
by Gregory Palast
With the front pages jammed with photos of two dead white
from today's SLATE Magazine: >The NYT off-lead, by the paper's national
crime reporter, Fox Butterfield, a story nobody else fronts, is that a new
comprehensive study purports to show that black and Hispanic teenagers are
treated more severely than their white counterparts in the juvenile justi
this bounced because Jim used a bad word in his subject line (v*cation)
Today's Paul Krugman column in the NY TIMES (at
http://www.nytimes.com/library/opinion/krugman/042600krug.html) is on
the
proposal to break up Microsoft into two near-monopolies. Anti-trust is
not
my field and I'm excessively
G'day Michael,
Whilst I am wholly aware of JMK's insistence that a fight between the
bourgeoisie and the great unwashed would find him firmly on the side of the
former, I still think there's room for a generous reading of all this. It
seems, for instance, wholly consistent with the writings of,
Here is a partial list of the 149 economists who have endorsed the
legislation to give China Permanent Normal Trading Relations. This is a
big question that is easy to ask. What's wrong with this list? I'd like
some ad hominem, if anybody's got some.
The Nobel laureates who signed the lette
Michael Perelman wrote:
>Hayek, F. A. 1952. "Review of Harrod's Life of J. M. Keynes." Journal of
>Modern History, 24: 2 (June).
>197: Keynes "had not long before coined the phrase of the
> "euthanasia of the rentier," and in a deliberate to draw him
> out I k the next opp
On Wednesday, April 26, 2000 at 12:54:36 (-0400) Doug Henwood writes:
>Michael Perelman wrote:
>
>>Hayek, F. A. 1952. "Review of Harrod's Life of J. M. Keynes." Journal of
>>Modern History, 24: 2 (June).
>>197: Keynes "had not long before coined the phrase of the
>> "euthanasia of
>from today's SLATE Magazine: >The NYT off-lead, by the paper's national
>crime reporter, Fox Butterfield, a story nobody else fronts, is that a
>new
>comprehensive study purports to show that black and Hispanic teenagers
>are
>treated more severely than their white counterparts in the juvenil
> From: Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I don't think it's worth my time forwarding the articles on Mozambican
> cashews to Krugman, since he's already staked his reputation on the cashew
> question in the NY TIMES and is unlikely to back down.
Joe Hanlon's the english-language guru o
Doug Henwood quoted Keynes as follows:
>
> "We were not aware that civilisation was a thin and precarious crust
> erected by the personality and will of a very few, and only
> maintained by rules and conventions skilfully put across and
> guilefully preserved. We had no respect for traditional w
I have seen summaries of a Deloitte and Touche report supporting the
Mozambique cashew-nut producers, described as saying:
The new study was carried out by international consultants Deloitte &
Touche and >the World Bank's previous policy "should be abandoned"
[because]:
>
>1) Indian subsidies
>BUT IS IT TOO LATE?
>
>But is it all too late? The export tax was cut to 14%
>this year and more than half of Mozambican raw nuts
>were exported to India. Factories ran out of nuts and
>by mid-year began to shed staff. Most of the 14
>factories are now closed; 7000 of the 9000 workers
>(most wome
>I think, for instance, Habermas's recounting of the significance of
>French
>salons and British tea houses (the 'bourgeois public sphere') is
>important
>stuff. There, the nascent bourgeoisie articulated and substantiated the
>great (bourgeois) revolutionary age. Humanity was redefined, and hu
>1. Which study is SLATER magazine referring to? Who did the study?
SLATE magazine is Microsoft's on-line magazine of opinion, edited by
Michael Kinsley. Its line is similar to that of the NEW REPUBLIC, but more
coherent. The article is from their daily news summary.
>2. Minority people are l
The San Francisco Chronicle Monday, April 24, 2000
CHINA REPORTS BIG SURGE IN LABOR UNREST DURING 1999
Disputes over unpaid pensions, wages, fraud
By John Pomfret, Washington Post
Beijing -- The number of labor disputes in China has skyrocketed -- to
more
Jim Devine wrote:
> the author, Scott Shuger, was simply asking questions about these issues. I
> was hoping for answers to these questions rather than name-calling based on
> a partial reading.
The Slate report must have been based on the following article, which
Doug fwd to lbo.
New Y
>>1. Which study is SLATER magazine referring to? Who did the study?
>SLATE magazine is Microsoft's on-line magazine of opinion, edited by
>Michael Kinsley. Its line is similar to that of the NEW REPUBLIC, but
>more
>coherent. The article is from their daily news summary.
My question was *no
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Offer of Internship
Date:
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From:
"Christoph Erdmenger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Offer of Internship
Assistant in ICLEIs Eco-Procurement and Eco-Efficient Economy
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forwarded by Michael Hoover
> [Surprise, surprise, the government has found another way to treat poor
> people unfairly.]
>
> World Socialist Web Site http://www.wsws.org
>
> Poor in US more likely to face tax audits
>
> By Shannon Jones
> 22 April 2000
>
> New statistical evidence demonstrat
Does Krugman have "a profound knowledge of the actual facts of industry and
trade" in Mozambique and of "the relation of individual men to them"?
Doesn't he assume, as he does in his "analysis" of Japan, that "rational"
choice theory is not only applicable but universally applicable?
"Ambitious m
Ted Winslow wrote:
Ambitious men and women with large egos" usually
have very weak egos.
Their "ambition" and "large egos" are in fact signs of clinical narcissism.
This blinds them to obvious facts including the fact of their own ignorance.
Ted Winslow
--
Ted Winslow
>From Alan Sceptor:
>The debates on the Fair Trade list over China and Global Exchange reflect
>an
>even deeper debate over the anti-globalization movement: should it be
>anti-capitalist or liberal reformist? The following article attempts to
>dissect and articulate this debate from an ant
ops,his last name is Spector.. Spector is a wsn fellow who forwarded
article..
>From Alan Sceptor:
>The debates on the Fair Trade list over China and Global Exchange reflect
>an
>even deeper debate over the anti-globalization movement: should it be
>anti-capitalist or liberal reform
> > Poor in US more likely to face tax audits
> > By Shannon Jones
> > 22 April 2000
Another side of this issue is that the General Accounting
Office did a report to follow up on the infamous Roth hearings
that ventilated citizen tales of IRS abuses. GAO found that
none of the anti-IRS charges
> Doug Henwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/26/00 12:54PM >>>"How can I accept a doctrine
>[Marxism] which sets up as its
bible...an obsolete economic textbook which I know to be not only
scientifically erroneous but without interest or application for the
modern world? How can I adopt a creed whic
So, how is this liberal model, closer to the fact of the last seventy years in
capitalist countries more democratic than the models used in socialist countries ?
"Technocracy " is bureaucracy. Galbraith endorsed technocracy, no ? The private
corporations have technocrats/bureaucrats too, yet t
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