London, Frankfurt exchanges merge

2000-05-02 Thread Chris Burford
It has just been formally announced at 7am London time, that the planned fusion of the London and Frankfurt exchanges is official. This looks like a sign of weakness by London in several respects - 1) it has abandoned its billion pound computerised book-keeping system a mere few years after st

nafta for africa

2000-05-02 Thread Michael Perelman
The house and senate have reached agreement. I assume that it will pass, yet I have heard nothing about it for weeks. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: youth crime enforcement bias (fwd)

2000-05-02 Thread md7148
>MD writes: >>in the first place, everybody can see that the "funding" sources of the >>report prepared by the Justice Department are highly problematic. They are >>typical liberal type foundations such as Ford and Soros. As the NY Times >>article suggests "An unusual feature of the report is

Re: RE: The Center for Economic and Policy Research

2000-05-02 Thread Michael Perelman
I asked Bob Naiman to answer your question. Timework Web wrote: > Nathan Newman wrote, > > > Now, if anyone is willing to risk it, what are the principle differences now > > between EPI, the Preamble Center, and now CEPR? How do their sources of > > funds or other political alliances differ? >

RE: RE: The Center for Economic and Policy Research

2000-05-02 Thread Max B. Sawicky
> >On Behalf Of Michael Perelman > > > > The Center for Economic and Policy Research > > Now, if anyone is willing to risk it, what are the principle > differences now > between EPI, the Preamble Center, and now CEPR? How do their sources of > funds or other political alliances differ? > > --

RE: The Center for Economic and Policy Research

2000-05-02 Thread Timework Web
Nathan Newman wrote, > Now, if anyone is willing to risk it, what are the principle differences now > between EPI, the Preamble Center, and now CEPR? How do their sources of > funds or other political alliances differ? Anyone? Max? Robert? Tom Walker

From the horse's mouth

2000-05-02 Thread Stephen E Philion
I am reminded of an article from Workers' World a few weeks back citing for the umteenth time statistics on the high rates of unioinization in China. There are reasons to be wary of Workers' Weekly Articles that frequently cite statistics from China uncritically, as we now hear from the horse's m

RE: The Center for Economic and Policy Research

2000-05-02 Thread Nathan Newman
>On Behalf Of Michael Perelman > > The Center for Economic and Policy Research Now, if anyone is willing to risk it, what are the principle differences now between EPI, the Preamble Center, and now CEPR? How do their sources of funds or other political alliances differ? -- Nathan Newman

The Center for Economic and Policy Research

2000-05-02 Thread Michael Perelman
The Center for Economic and Policy Research The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) is now in its new home at 1015 18th Street, NW Suite 200, Washington, DC 20036. CEPR was started in December 1999, by its co-directors, Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot. Prior to forming CEPR, both Baker a

RE: Diminishing returns on market approaches to pollution abatement

2000-05-02 Thread Max Sawicky
ALBANY, May 1 -- The New York State Legislature today completed passage of a bill that seeks to reduce the amount of air pollution that drifts into New York from coal-burning power plants in Midwestern and Southern states. . . . No problem. All the state has to do is issue a parallel set of pe

Diminishing returns on market approaches to pollution abatement

2000-05-02 Thread Lisa & Ian Murray
[ah, poor Dr. Coase...Also the air is much dirtier between Portland and Seattle than it was a decade ago, contra the paper's claim]] May 2, 2000 New York Votes Curb on Pollution Credits By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ ALBANY, May 1 -- The New York State Legislature today completed passage of a bill tha

BLS Daily Report

2000-05-02 Thread Richardson_D
BLS DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, MAY 1, 2000 Personal income rose 0.7 percent in March, outpacing consumer spending, which gained 0.5 percent, the Commerce Department reports. The last time income rose more than spending was in October, when it was up 1.2 percent compared with a 0.5 percent pickup in c

Greenwich seminars in Critical Political Economy

2000-05-02 Thread Alan Freeman
Greenwich University seminars in Critical Political Economy restart on Thursday 11th May, at the usual time of 5.30 and the usual location of room 138, Queen Anne Court, Maritime Campus, Greenwich University. The provisional list of speakers and titles is attached, and is appended to this message

Re: Re: youth crime enforcement bias (fwd)

2000-05-02 Thread Jim Devine
MD writes: >in the first place, everybody can see that the "funding" sources of the >report prepared by the Justice Department are highly problematic. They are >typical liberal type foundations such as Ford and Soros. As the NY Times >article suggests "An unusual feature of the report is that i

Self-censoring Journalism (fwd)

2000-05-02 Thread Michael Hoover
forwarded by Michael Hoover > The following is an excerpt from a longer piece on a survey by the Pew > Research Center and the Columbia Journalism Review into news media > self-censorship. For the complete survey, including tables, go to: > http://www.people-press.org/jour00rpt.htm > --

The Internet Anti-Fascist: Tuesday, 25 Apr 2000 -- 4:35 (#416)

2000-05-02 Thread Paul Kneisel
__ The Internet Anti-Fascist: Tuesday, 25 April 2000 Vol. 4, Number 35 (#416) __ CONTENTS Conference Announcement:

NAACP President Refuses to Speak at OSU; Racism FuelsAnti-Unionism

2000-05-02 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 2, 2000 Columbus, Ohio For more info, contact Yoshie Furuhashi (at 614-299-3313 / [EMAIL PROTECTED]) or Mark D. Stansbery (at 614-252-9255 / [EMAIL PROTECTED]). NAACP President Kweisi Mfume Refuses to Speak at OSU; Racism Fuels Anti-Unionism Kweisi Mfume, president an

re More on Bolivian water

2000-05-02 Thread Chris Burford
This ought to take the issue forward. In any socially rational society it would. But didn't Lenin once remark that if the workings of arithmetic had class implications, progress would be difficult. The quotations eludes me. Any offers? Now that the empirical data has been firmed up, it may be