The cult of Reagan
The Reagan Legacy Project is hell-bent on securing a prominent memorial for
Ronnie in the US capital. Martin Kettle in Washington argues that posterity
should be doing the hard work
The Guardian, Friday September 15, 2000
The cult of the individual is normally part of the
Our resident enviro economist Jim Barrett says it is supply
problems in the U.S. -- failure to maintain refinery and pipeline
capacity. The regulatory component is about five cents to the
gallon.
mbs
A former student who is now in Congress wants me to tell him why gas
prices are high. Do you
At 12:38 AM 9/15/00 -0400, you wrote:
In a message dated 9/15/00 12:17:43 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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why gas
prices are high. Do you have any inputs that I should pass on?
Isn't the FTC looking into possible antritrust violations? Tell him to ask
over there. --jks
At 07:53 PM 9/14/00 -0700, you wrote:
Since you have read Amsden, you know that the policies that she recommends
are the complete opposite of those that Peron pursued. Amsden believes in
subsidizing exports. Peron taxed them.
These are different situations, referring to different kinds of
Micro economics, basically price theory, is so called because it deals
with market equilibriations based on small scale interactions--sales,
purchases--that are aggregated.
Luckily, micro is more than price theory. There are all sorts of relations
between consumers and firms beyond buying
"How Real is the Secular Decline in Poverty in India?"
BY: MUNGILA H. SURYANARAYANA
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research
(IGIDR)
Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection:
Brad wrote:
Since you have read Amsden, you know that the policies that she
recommends are the complete opposite of those that Peron pursued. Amsden
believes in subsidizing exports. Peron taxed them.
I wrote:
These are different situations, referring to different kinds of products.
It makes
Also they cut off schools and hospitals.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
The Guardian (UK)
15 September 2000
Power chief cuts off army and railway
Ian Traynor in Moscow
Elite army units are seizing power plants, new-born babies are at risk and
trains on the trans-Siberian railways are grinding to a halt
http://www.spp.umich.edu/rsie/acit/
--
Michael Perelman
Well, Jagdish and T.N. are broadly right: the focus of the campaigns
has been on stopping the purchase of goods from "sweatshops" rather
than on upgrading conditions in "sweatshops." Getting textile firms
to pay higher wages in the
I do not think Amsden's "getting prices wrong" is not applicable to
Peronist Argentina. The South Korean state and Peron's Argentina, both
intervened in the economy, thus deliberately got prices wrong (as
opposed to getting prices right with well functioning markets).
Amsden's point is not that
I don't pretend to know much about Peron's policies. He had a basically
agricultural economy...
In 1913 Buenos Aires is 13th in the world in telephones per capita.
In 1929 Argentina is fifth in the world in automobiles per capita.
Argentinian manufacturing output per capita on the eve of
Brad DeLong wrote:
I think the U.S. sanctions policy on Iraq is mistaken and
counterproductive. But I don't think Clinton is morally culpable for
the fact that the Iraqi government prefers not to spend its foreign
exchange on pharmaceuticals and nutrition but to husband it for...
other
But Brad, he is forbidden to use the money for public health.
Brad DeLong wrote:
I think the U.S. sanctions policy on Iraq is mistaken and
counterproductive. But I don't think Clinton is morally culpable for
the fact that the Iraqi government prefers not to spend its foreign
How much of that success was due to the terms of trade at the time?
I don't pretend to know much about Peron's policies. He had a basically
agricultural economy...
In 1913 Buenos Aires is 13th in the world in telephones per capita.
In 1929 Argentina is fifth in the world in automobiles
Brad, Albright said that the sanctions would last as long as Saddam
remained in
power. Saddam cannot buy water purification inputs which are much more
important than drugs. Yes, Clinton is responsible.
As I said, I think U.S. policy toward Iraq is a *big* mistake. But that
does not mean
I doubt this would reveal much. In my experience, the role of
oligopoly or
monopoly in gas prices mostly causes asymmetry: gas prices rise
quickly in
step with oil prices, while they fall slowly following oil prices
down. The
high gas prices have to do with high oil prices
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/15/00 09:11AM
I do not think Amsden's "getting prices wrong" is not applicable to
Peronist Argentina. The South Korean state and Peron's Argentina, both
intervened in the economy, thus deliberately got prices wrong (as
opposed to getting prices right with well
Better land use planning would be more effective. As a place, such as Chico,
sprawls out, public transportation becomes virtually useless.
Lisa Ian Murray wrote:
What duration and combination of high oil prices and low interest rates
would induce a significant level of investment to get rid
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Micro economics, basically price theory, is so called because it deals with
market equilibriations based on small scale interactions--sales,
purchases--that are aggregated. Macro economics concerns government economic
activities designed to regulate unhappy
But Brad, he is forbidden to use the money for public health.
Brad DeLong wrote:
I think the U.S. sanctions policy on Iraq is mistaken and
counterproductive. But I don't think Clinton is morally culpable for
the fact that the Iraqi government prefers not to spend its foreign
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/08/00 10:59AM
At 09:35 AM 09/08/2000 +0300, you wrote:
Brad de Long wrote:
Nationalist militarism is truly a powerful and insidious poison.
Michael Keaney leaves out the apparent punch-line in his response to the
above: Margaret Thatcher also suffered from the
Jim,
You may in fact be correct that falling rate of profit is primarily a
micro theory. That is an intriguing thought.
In volume 3 he writes:
"It is further assumed that this gradual change in the composition of
capital is of capital is not confined only to individual spheres of
From "Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a
Continent" by Eduardo Galeano:
The present [1971] structure of industry in Argentina, Brazil. and
Mexicothe three touted poles of Latin American developmentshows
deformations characteristic of a reflected development. With
I don't understand this comment. Demanding higher wages is exactly what
the anti-sweatshop groups are doing. (This is one of the sticking
points in the battle between the two monitoring groups.) I don't see
any evidence that they want clothes to be produced in the US rather than
elsewhere. In
Brad DeLong wrote:
I think the U.S. sanctions policy on Iraq is mistaken and
counterproductive. But I don't think Clinton is morally culpable for
the fact that the Iraqi government prefers not to spend its foreign
exchange on pharmaceuticals and nutrition but to husband it for...
other purposes.
At 06:15 AM 9/15/00 -0700, you wrote:
I don't pretend to know much about Peron's policies. He had a basically
agricultural economy...
In 1913 Buenos Aires is 13th in the world in telephones per capita. In
1929 Argentina is fifth in the world in automobiles per capita.
these telephones and
Could you be more specific about what you mean by Keynes' later concern
with inflation? In particular, do you think Keynes abandoned his view of
monetary policy in the G.T. in order to assign it a role in fighting
inflation?
Edwin (Tom) Dickens
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This vision of the
At 02:30 PM 9/15/00 +0300, you wrote:
The cult of Reagan
The Reagan Legacy Project is hell-bent on securing a prominent memorial for
Ronnie in the US capital. Martin Kettle in Washington argues that posterity
should be doing the hard work
The Guardian, Friday September 15, 2000
The cult of the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/15/00 12:47PM
Brad, Albright said that the sanctions would last as long as Saddam
remained in
power. Saddam cannot buy water purification inputs which are much more
important than drugs. Yes, Clinton is responsible.
As I said, I think U.S. policy toward Iraq is a
I just did a quick scan of my files. I cannot find it. I don't think that it
was a major point for him, but it was of some concern. But then I would not
trust my memory 100%.
Edwin Dickens wrote:
Could you be more specific about what you mean by Keynes' later concern
with inflation? In
Peter Dorman wrote:
I don't understand this comment. Demanding higher wages is exactly what
the anti-sweatshop groups are doing.
Yes. For an overview of what the student branch of the movement is up
to, see
http://www.thenation.com/issue/000515/0515featherstone.shtml.
They're demanding that
At 02:45 PM 9/14/00 -0700, you wrote:
I see a big part of Marx's crisis theory as the build up and eventual
destruction of fictitious capital -- both a micro and a macro process.
More like vol. 3 than vol 1.
Of course, Marx's theory is both macro and micro. I'd think of it in terms
of Lewin
Dwarfed in importance by the paralysis of the whole British economy, this
week has also seen, almost in passing, the collapse of the planned merger
between the London and Frankfurt Stock Exchanges. A tricky alliance to
bring off, it was torpedoed by a hostile bid from Sweden, a country of 8
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At 02:45 PM 9/14/00 -0700, you wrote:
I see a big part of Marx's crisis theory as the build up and eventual
destruction of fictitious capital -- both a micro and a macro process.
More like vol. 3 than vol 1.
Of course, Marx's theory is both macro and micro.
CB: I wonder whether it is pertinent to this thread that Marx sees the
microlevel unit or individual firm as planning for itself ; all of the
individual plans are not coordinated on the macro level , where there is
anarchy. This anarchy at the macro level eventually causes crisis on many
On the subject of the cost of US/UN economic sanctions to
Iraq, see Abbas Alnasrawis Iraq: Economic Embargo and
Predatory Rule, in E. Wayne Nafziger, Frances Stewart, and
Raimo Väyrynen, eds., War, Hunger, and Displacement: The
Origins of Humanitarian Emergencies, Vol. 2. Case Studies,
Seth Sandronsky wrote:
One question. With the world oil supply crunch causing price hikes, whys
there no move to increase Iraqs oil production? Iraq has the worlds
second-largest estimated crude oil reserves. The Economist says, "What the
overheated market needs is lots of new oil,
Feminist contributions to labor history tell us that the first wage
laborers at the beginning of the "industrial revolution" in the most
crucial industry were often predominantly female, not male, textile
workers. (Even mining was not the all male or predominantly male
industry either.)
I just did a quick scan of my files. I cannot find it. I don't think that it
was a major point for him, but it was of some concern. But then I would not
trust my memory 100%.
Edwin Dickens wrote:
Could you be more specific about what you mean by Keynes' later concern
with inflation? In
Seth Sandronsky wrote:
One question. With the world oil supply crunch causing price hikes, whys
there no move to increase Iraqs oil production? Iraq has the worlds
second-largest estimated crude oil reserves. The Economist says, "What the
overheated market needs is lots of new oil,
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