Technology will Improve Rural Economies?

2000-04-28 Thread Chris Burford
Do we believe the below? The centripetal effects of capitalism have become extremely powerful. It is apparent on a world scale. In England the economy around London is seriously overheated while the periphery struggles. A house in London costs three times that of a comparable house in the Mid

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 year

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

2000-04-28 Thread Carrol Cox
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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, e

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 c

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. Ra

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 prizewinne

Nike's man in Vietnam?

2000-04-28 Thread Louis Proyect
McCain, in Vietnam, Launches Attack on Communist Rule By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam -- Sen. John McCain, who played a key role in normalizing relations between the United States and its one-time enemy, launched a broadside against Vietnam's communist regime today. The ex-n

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 Secretary

IMF can't be transformed

2000-04-28 Thread Charles Brown
IMF can't be transformed By David Eisenhower The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is merely one of the many weapons in the arsenal of imperialism. Trade sanctions, military alliances, covert actions, invasions, military "aid," propaganda, NAFTA and the World Trade Organization are some othe

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 r

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: 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 peopl

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 Ind

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 factory

Re: Re: Re: youth crime enforcement bias (fwd)

2000-04-28 Thread Doug Henwood
Brad De Long wrote: >Hey! Shuger is not a neo-liberal. I'm a neo-liberal. I thought you were a social democrat. You mean there's no difference these days? Doug

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 ma

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,

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 me

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 dolla

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>

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: http://papers.ss

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

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 inte

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.

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: 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, wit