OPEC whines.....

I guess this means Bill G. and a whole 'lot of folks'll be lining up for waah waah handouts when their commodities go belly up a la Schumpeter... [full article at http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/16/science/16CLIM.html ] September 16, 2000 OPEC States Want to Be Paid if Pollution Curbs Cut Oil

Mugabe defends land takeovers at Harlem meeting

Does the justice of Mugabe's land struggle, and national struggle against IMF interference, outweigh the injustices of individual bourgeois democratic rights in that country? Chris Burford _ Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Sept. 21, 2000

Re: Mugabe defends land takeovers at Harlem meeting

At 12:21 PM 9/16/00 +0100, you wrote: Does the justice of Mugabe's land struggle, and national struggle against IMF interference, outweigh the injustices of individual bourgeois democratic rights in that country? Chris Burford Land ownership is not a bourgeois democratic right. The right of

Re: Mugabe defends land takeovers at Harlem meeting

Does the justice of Mugabe's land struggle, and national struggle against IMF interference, outweigh the injustices of individual bourgeois democratic rights in that country? Chris Burford No. Remember, first of all, that the dispossessed are not only white farmowners, but Black employees

Re: Re: Mugabe defends land takeovers at Harlem meeting

Remember, second of all, that these farms have over the past decade been a powerful source of exports and thus of hard-currency earnings with which to finance investment in Zimbabwe. Brad deLong Actually Zimbabwe's economic woes are identical to those that were the undoing of Peron.

Firestone Workers Cite Lax Quality Control

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Re: Re: Gas prices

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. Certainly, but haven't gas prices risen in Europe as well? And haven't world crude prices

Re: Re: Mugabe defends land takeovers at Harlem meeting

I heard some of Mugabe's talk on Democracy Now. He said that the British had promised to finance the purchase of the lands, but then reneged. Land reform would increase the labor intensity of agriculture. Brad De Long wrote: Does the justice of Mugabe's land struggle, and national struggle

Kagarlitsky on the Russian situation

This is from Johnson's Russia list. I was under the impression, contrary to what Kagarlitsky says, that the health care system has been distintegrating except for some private clinics in large cities. Cheers, Ken Hanly Moscow Times September 16, 2000 Nostalgia for Soviet Period By Boris

Good Job Offer

Mat Forstater sent this. This could be a nice gig for somebody. My understanding is you would be the second economist, and the plan is to hire one more next year. The College just started, so you would have the opportunity to help shape the program. Very heterodox, interdisciplinary, political

Re: Re: Re: Mugabe defends land takeovers at Harlemmeeting

I heard some of Mugabe's talk on Democracy Now. He said that the British had promised to finance the purchase of the lands, but then reneged. The British desire to fund large-scale land reform in Zimbabwe vanished after Mugabe sent his soldiers to shoot up Matabeleland... Brad DeLong

Great, new, simple introduction to Marx

For years I have been looking for a basic introduction to Marx which would work in the classroom. I think I have found it in "From Capitalism to Equality" by Charles Andrews, just published earlier this month. The web page for the book is www.LaborRepublic.org while the table of contents is at

Re: Re: Mugabe defends land takeovers at Harlem meeting

The British desire to fund large-scale land reform in Zimbabwe vanished after Mugabe sent his soldiers to shoot up Matabeleland... Brad DeLong What is this? A neoliberal koan? What is Zimbabwean history? The sound of two hands clapping. Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list:

Re: Mugabe defends land takeovers at Harlem meeting

Michael Perelman wrote: I heard some of Mugabe's talk on Democracy Now. He said that the British had promised to finance the purchase of the lands, but then reneged. Land reform would increase the labor intensity of agriculture. * Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 17:16:59 -0400 From: Art McGee

110K Dow

September 16, 2000 Forecaster Sees Dow Going to 110, 000 by 2025 By REUTERS Filed at 8:55 p.m. ET BEAVER CREEK (Reuters) - While day trading captures the headlines and investors check their portfolios daily on the Internet, others are looking further down the road to see where the Dow Jones

Re: Women Industrialization (was Re: capitalist patriarchy)

Michael Perelman wrote: Yoshie, I was looking at my notes and I found: Humphries, Jane. 1991. "The Sexual Division of Labor and Social Control: An Interpretation." Review of Radical Political Economics, 23: 3 and 4 (Fall and Winter): pp. 269-96. 277: The need to monitor female sexual behavior

[fla-left] [Election 2000/commentary] McReynolds' Socialist vision provocative (fwd)

forwarded by Michael Hoover McReynolds' Socialist vision provocative By John Nichols August 24, 2000 [The Capitol Times, Madison, WI] In any other Western democracy, the leader of the Socialist Party would travel down the campaign trail with an entourage of high-powered aides,

Nicaraguan maquilas

[An interesting but hypocritical article from the 'gray lady' of American journalism. It can not make the connection between the abysmal situation in Nicaragua today, with its 60 percent unemployment, and the disinformation campaign it participated in during the Reagan years. That campaign