Re: youth crime enforcement bias (fwd)

2000-04-28 Thread md7148
Jim Devine: 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. first, let me decompose the neo-liberal journalist Mr.Shuger's article and his critique of the report,

Re: Re: Re: Samir Amin: Not a Happy Ending

2000-04-28 Thread Jim Devine
When it was launched the euro bought $1.16. Parity - where one euro bought one dollar - was deemed unthinkable. Today, however, one euro is worth just over 91 cents. . The problem for the euro is that throughout its life there has been a very attractive something else - the dollar.

Re: Re: youth crime enforcement bias (fwd)

2000-04-28 Thread Brad De Long
Jim Devine: 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. first, let me decompose the neo-liberal journalist Mr.Shuger's Hey! Shuger is not a neo-liberal. I'm a

Regulation theory

2000-04-28 Thread Louis Proyect
There's an article in the Braudel Center journal I referred to yesterday (in reference to Frank and his critics )dealing with Maori capitalism in New Zealand, which is apparently influenced by regulation theory. Wallerstein also refers to it in his article as one of among different contending

Re: Re: Re: Re: Samir Amin: Not a Happy Ending

2000-04-28 Thread Michael Perelman
Not if people expect the NASDAQ to go up 50% this year. Rational expectations, you know ... Jim Devine wrote: shouldn't the large US current account deficit signal a fall in the US$ and a rise in the Euro sometime in the near future? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California

Does competition kill?

2000-04-28 Thread Michael Perelman
"Does Competition Kill? Hospital Quality and Competition" BY: GAUTAM GOWRISANKARAN University of Minnesota ROBERT J. TOWN University of California-Irvine Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection:

Re: Re: Re: Re: Samir Amin: Not a Happy Ending

2000-04-28 Thread M A Jones
Jim Devine wrote: shouldn't the large US current account deficit signal a fall in the US$ and a rise in the Euro sometime in the near future? Why? Mark Jones http://www.egroups.com/group/CrashList

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Samir Amin: Not a Happy Ending

2000-04-28 Thread Jim Devine
I wrote: shouldn't the large US current account deficit signal a fall in the US$ and a rise in the Euro sometime in the near future? Mark Jones asks: Why? because the current account deficit is larger than ever before, with US net indebtedness contributing via the income account. The

Re: Re: youth crime enforcement bias (fwd)

2000-04-28 Thread md7148
Yes, Brad! and Shuger subscribes to "sub-cultural experience thesis"-- the thesis that relates racial inequalities to "cultural preferences" ie., I am an African American and I disbenefit from the system because I culturally "prefer" to do so, not because the system is racially biased. against

RE: Regulation theory

2000-04-28 Thread Nathan Newman
Without claiming great expertise and relying on memory of readings from a number of years ago, Regulation theory refers largely to a framework of analysis echoing Gramsci's Fordist analysis arguing that late capitalism in the 1930s entered into a new form of social organization where regulated

A Sit-In for Jobs with Justice at Ohio State University

2000-04-28 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 28, 2000 For more information, contact Yoshie Furuhashi at 614-299-3313 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or Mark D. Stansbery at 614-252-9255 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] A SIT-IN FOR JOBS WITH JUSTICE AT OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY In support of Local 4501, Communications Workers of America,

How Nike blackmails Vietnam

2000-04-28 Thread Louis Proyect
New York Times, April 28, 2000 Making Nike Shoes in Vietnam By MARK LANDLER BIEN HOA, Vietnam -- Nguyen Anh Ha has never heard of the trade talks between Vietnam and the United States. But Mr. Ha, a 26-year-old migrant from northern Vietnam, knows all too well the fragility of life as a

Political Economy of Protectionism (fwd)

2000-04-28 Thread md7148
I don't know if this helps to requested info on regulation theory.. Mine Although I have not read it, the paper abstracted below seems very interesting. I plan to obtain it soon. Some of you may also find it interesting. Cheers, McKeever "The Political Economy of Protectionism and

Re: Political Economy of Protectionism (fwd)

2000-04-28 Thread Anthony DCosta
This is not about regulation theory. RT is about capitalist governance (thus far) and thus specifically about capitalist institutions, their evolution, their practicality, and their design for a better future. Industrial policy is only a small aspect of it. Naturally there are all sorts of

Recent Research on Chinese economic history

2000-04-28 Thread Ricardo Duchesne
Few days ago I came across a paper published in the last issue of EHR (LIII, 2000) "A critical survey of recent research in Chinese economic history" by Kent G. Deng. Paper evaluates one of the most heated questions of world history: why premodern China did not industrialize despite enjoying,

Re: RE: Regulation theory

2000-04-28 Thread Rod Hay
My understanding of the regulation theorists, is that they attempt to provide a middle level analysis, somewhere between the level of the system, (capitalism) and the individual. They focus on the types of institutions that actually enforce capitalism. These they claim have a history that can be

Kissinger Speaks Honestly

2000-04-28 Thread Michael Perelman
This just came in from Sid Shniad. “...[W]hat is called globalisation is really another name for the dominant role of the United States.” From the lecture “Globalisation and World Order”, delivered by Henry Kissinger, Nobel prizewinner and former United States

Re: Kissinger Speaks Honestly

2000-04-28 Thread Doug Henwood
Michael Perelman wrote: This just came in from Sid Shniad. “...[W]hat is called globalisation is really another name for the dominant role of the United States.” From the lecture “Globalisation and World Order”, delivered by Henry Kissinger, Nobel prizewinner and

Re: Re: query on cashews

2000-04-28 Thread Jim Devine
(Strictly speaking, it should be Robert Naiman who replies to Brad on these issues, since he (Robert) has studied Mozambique. But here goes.) Before getting into this, it should be mentioned that the World Bank folks are not simply fighting against _raising_ tariffs and non-tariff barriers.

OSU Sit-In Continues! Music Dance in the Liberated Area!

2000-04-28 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Students Local 4501, CWA have liberated Bricker Hall, the administration building at Ohio State University! We now have a band playing jazz blues, and students, unionists, community activists are dancing, laughing, singing, and having a blast in front of the president's office! We'll

Re: Re: RE: Regulation theory

2000-04-28 Thread Christian A. Gregory
Howdee, Regulation theory has any number of origins--Alain Lipietz, one its exemplars, argued that the analyses of "regulation" were in part an attempt to push the limits of Althusser's notion of "reproduction" in such a way as to imagine how different kinds of externalities, path dependencies,

[Fwd: Fw: Vieques------ Urgente]

2000-04-28 Thread Carrol Cox
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Regulation theory

2000-04-28 Thread Sam Pawlett
"Christian A. Gregory" wrote: Bob Jessop has a fairly easy to read and very good intro to regulation theory in Michael Storper and Allen Scott, "Pathways to Industrialization and Regional Development." I'd also reccommend Alice Amsden's (dead-on) rejoinder to Lipietz about ten years ago