If the Dems don't figure out the energy crisis, they will go the way of
Jimmy Carter. Just after I put down the overemphasis on politics, I will
add that Davis makes Clinton look like a leftist radical.
Michael Perelman
What if neither party can figure out a viable solution to the energy
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 21:17:05 -0500
From: Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes, family planning is important. The question is who runs family
planning programs. I don't like the idea of "international family
planning organizations" running them. I'd rather see
If the Dems don't figure out the energy crisis, they will go the way of
Jimmy Carter. Just after I put down the overemphasis on politics, I will
add that Davis makes Clinton look like a leftist radical.
Michael Perelman
What if neither party can figure out a viable solution to the
What about Catholic Workers? (Who really do provide social services.) --jks
h, Along with Scientology, how would the bushies react to Wiccan
members
demanding a desk in the white house? inquiring minds want to know.
maggie coleman
Jim Devine wrote:
To: "Editors, Los Angeles TIMES"
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/nationalsecurity/A58813-2001Jan28.html
Space Is Playing Field For Newest War Game
Air Force Exercise Shows Shift in Focus
By Thomas E. Ricks
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, January 29, 2001; Page A01
SCHRIEVER AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. -- Last week,
this is also a problem with "revealed preference theory." by the way, might not
Rumsfeld expect to gain in many other ways--new and strengthened contacts,
memoirs, etc.?
jeff wrote:
Note, however, the circularity of the argument as I've stated it. Mr. Rumsfeld
behaved as he did because of his
A screeching halt: DC slams on brakes after strong 5-year run
January 30, 2001
BY JEFFREY MCCRACKEN
DETROIT FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER
That loud sound coming from Auburn Hills on Monday morning was the auto industry's
hard landing.
With the announcement Monday that it is
Brad, there is an important discussion here, but I shan't participate in it
if you can't keep it clean and depersonalized. I owe you an apology for not
doing likewise myself, and it is offered here. Now, let's get down to
business.
I should like to see evidence that the CIA, etc. expected tow
BLS DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 2001
During the economic boom times of the 1990s, the private service-producing
sector accounted for 90 percent of all job growth and boosted its share of
total employment to about 80 percent, according to an analysis by the Bureau
of Labor Statistics. At
[from an FTAA list]
http://www.nationalpost.com/
It's the NAFTA, stupid
Linda McQuaig
National Post
Ever since Mike Harris redefined the expression "common sense" to mean the
underfunding of every service the public wants and needs, there's been a
difficulty using that term in a meaningful
Michael Perelman wrote:
the overemphasis on politics
Eh? Is this some neoclassical virus that's got a hold of you Michael?
How can anyone consider economics "progressively" apart from
politics? Even something as vulgar as the business cycle is political.
Doug
The repugs are in a distint minority. They have no reason to get their
hands dirty with a solution. Although deregulation was bipartisan, the
Dems took the lead.
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 04:29:57AM -0500, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
If the Dems don't figure out the energy crisis, they will go the
I don't pretend that their is a delinking, but there is a tendency on this
list to emphasize politics, concentrating on particular people, especially
in discussing issues outside of the U.S.
But then, the neoclassical virus may be affecting me without my knowledge.
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at
An excellent article. I am always amazed the National Post, a staunch
right-wing rag owned by left-hater Conrad Black, permits columns such as
this by a hard-hitting popular left wing writer. Albertans are also asking
themselves these days why they are required to pay about 800,000 to defend
- Original Message -
From: Robert Weissman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 11:22 AM
Subject: [stop-imf] Mozambique raw cashew ban -
winning battle with IFIs
MOZAMBIQUE WINS LONG BATTLES
OVER CASHEW NUTS AND SUGAR
MOZAMBIQUE BANS RAW CASHEW
Downturn revives old fears in state
By Gordon Trowbridge / The Detroit News
Michigan is officially back in the layoff business.
After nearly a decade of turbocharged profits and fat paychecks, Monday's
announcement of massive job cuts at DaimlerChrysler reacquainted workers from
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/27/01 11:00AM
At 07:48 AM 01/27/2001 -0600, you wrote:
Bush is an appointee of the Supreme Court, he wasn't elected. I mean, that is
the definition of appointee, isn't it? maggie coleman
what does one call someone who got in office via a _coup_?
(
A ursurper
full story at:
http://www.businesswithoutborders.com/may/page10.htm
P R O J E C T F I N A N C E
High Finance Without Interest
Financial Institutions That Follow Islamic Religious Precepts Are Growing
Worldwide
By Jean Parvin Bordewich
Abdulkader Steven Thomas, CEO of the Islamic Investment
Forstater, Mathew wrote:
this is also a problem with "revealed preference theory." by the way, might not
Rumsfeld expect to gain in many other ways--new and strengthened contacts,
memoirs, etc.?
jeff wrote:
Note, however, the circularity of the argument as I've stated it. Mr. Rumsfeld
Carl Grossman has been sounding the alarm on this for years, but few people seem to
have been interested. I don't recall seeing him in print outside of the
Progressive.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chico, CA 95929
530-898-5321
fax
Michael,
Yes, Kerala does a very good job of educating
its young girls. There is a new quite good book about
Kerala called, _Kerala: The Development Experience_
edited by Govind Payatal, London: Zed Books, 2000.
The big negative, as has been noted on this list before,
is that Kerala has had
Al-Ahram Weekly On-line
25 - 31 January 2001
Issue No.518
Progressing towards the abyss
Address to the first World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil
By Noam Chomsky
After World War II, integration of the international economy
("globalisation") has been increasing. By the late 20th
Hey, the last Repug Defsec was Dick Cheney.
Besides the cheating coup, the other thing that pissed
me off the most in the election was how Cheney got
away in the VP debate with declaring that the millions
he was making as CEO of that defense contractor he
ran (forget which one right now) had
The Washington Times
January 30, 2001
Crucial component of early Bush tax cut
By Donald Devine
If George W. Bush does not succeed economically, he will face a hostile
Congress and will be another one-term president. With Alan Greenspan on
board, there will be a tax cut. But Mr. Bush is leery to
At 03:21 PM 1/30/01 +, you wrote:
What about Catholic Workers? (Who really do provide social services.) --jks
Scientology seems to provide social services, such as drug treatment. But
the recipients usually join the "church" and then max out their credit
cards to donate to the followers of
I might add that a good proportion of Malaylis who work abroad are not
highly educated, especially many Muslims from Kerala working in the Middle
East. OTOH Malaylis are on the average better educated than most other
Indian ethnic groups. One could hypothesize that the low growth in Kerala
has
[was: Re: [PEN-L:7538] Re: Re: Re: Re: Buck Fush]
Barkley wrote:
The big negative, as has been noted on this list before,
is that Kerala has had quite slow per capita GDP growth
leading to a lot of outmigration.
also, doesn't per capita GDP growth in essence measure only growth of
A professor at a Jesuit school compares Catholicism to Scientology . . . . ?
--jks
At 03:21 PM 1/30/01 +, you wrote:
What about Catholic Workers? (Who really do provide social services.)
--jks
Scientology seems to provide social services, such as drug treatment. But
the recipients
Jim Devine wrote:
Barkley wrote:
The big negative, as has been noted on this list before,
is that Kerala has had quite slow per capita GDP growth
leading to a lot of outmigration.
also, doesn't per capita GDP growth in essence measure only growth
of market-oriented production and would
Challenge Magazine has a new article in the January issue "Did the 1990s
Inaugurate a New Economy?" by Harold G. Vatter and John F. Walker largely
comparing the 1920s and the 1990s, a subject near and dear to the heart of
Jim Devine.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State
Jim Devine wrote:
Barkley wrote:
The big negative, as has been noted on this list before,
is that Kerala has had quite slow per capita GDP growth
leading to a lot of outmigration.
also, doesn't per capita GDP growth in essence measure only growth of
Isn't in in Count Zero that William Gibson imagines that the
protagonist's--Bobby?--mother is a Scientologist, very religious? --jks
Justin wrote:
A professor at a Jesuit school compares Catholicism to Scientology . . . .
? --jks
I was just explaining what's wrong with Scientology, in case
Darity, in a piece in the National Urban League's State of Black America 1999,
points out that Kerala's Ezhava caste ("who were once not to be touched or even
seen by upper caste Hindus") "have displayed remarkable upward mobility in
recent years" as a result of quotas and preference systems.
I wrote:
also, doesn't per capita GDP growth in essence measure only growth of
market-oriented production and would thus miss the growth of goods and
services that aren't distributed through markets? Aren't measures of
literacy, life expectancy, etc. better measures of what we on pen-l value
Justin wrote:
A professor at a Jesuit school compares Catholicism to Scientology . . . .
? --jks
I was just explaining what's wrong with Scientology, in case someone didn't
know. But to actually makes such a comparison:
I predict that when Scientology is as old as Catholicism, it will be as
At 07:36 PM 1/30/01 +, you wrote:
Isn't in in Count Zero that William Gibson imagines that the
protagonist's--Bobby?--mother is a Scientologist, very religious? --jks
I haven't read that. But in the sci-fi book I've been thinking about
writing, a Scientologist is running for President,
Jim Devine wrote:
to quibble, shouldn't we separate "economic development" from "growth of
per capita GDP"? I guess what you're saying is that if development is
serving the collective but doesn't promote individual monetary
prosperity (which is measured by GDP-type measures), that some
At 11:31 AM 1/30/01 -0800, you wrote:
Is there any better way to judge what people actually
value other than to observe migrations?
unfortunately, migrations also reflect the relative ease of border
crossing, the relative perceived attractiveness of the country moved to,
along with such
Jim Devine wrote:
to quibble, shouldn't we separate "economic development" from
"growth of per capita GDP"? I guess what you're saying is that if
development is serving the collective but doesn't promote individual
monetary prosperity (which is measured by GDP-type measures), that
some
Jim Devine wrote:
At 11:31 AM 1/30/01 -0800, you wrote:
Is there any better way to judge what people actually
value other than to observe migrations?
unfortunately, migrations also reflect the relative ease of border
crossing, the relative perceived attractiveness
I just glanced at a journal of political economy article in condemning
mandates. Mandates are bad, except you want to force schools to get
standardized tests. Local control is good, except when inconveniences
corporations. Then it has to be overruled. Individuals know what is
best, but then
Actually I would agree with Jim Devine that
economic and social development are closely
linked and best measured by the kinds of indicators
gathered by the UN with its physical quality of life
indexes, etc. Economic growth is what is measured
by per capita GDP, and certainly having a high
The outmigration of Malaylis is higher than most other ethnic communities.
What I am saying that Keralites leave Kerala and work in other parts of
India more than say migrate abroad. For example, school teachers, petty
officers in government/corporations, nurses (also in the US/Middle East),
Sure, specific migrations are unique and complicated. But are you taking
the position that you cannot examine migrations in a macro sense and obtain
valuable information regarding what people desire and value?
David Shemano
* The Times of India
Thursday, 6 April 2000
`Kerala economy too
I believe it was David who asked:
Is there any better way to judge what people actually
value other than to observe migrations?
I answered:
unfortunately, migrations also reflect the relative ease of border
crossing, the relative perceived attractiveness of the country moved to,
along with
Actually, what is needed is a way to get growth
going in Kerala so that people do not need to migrate
(and also to accommodate those returning), but while
still maintaining the desirable social aspects of the
Keralan economy. Two aspects suggest themselves.
One is that Kerala may be
I don't know if 34 percent is too high, but in many rural parts of the
country there are huge numbers of Indian doctors; some Filipinos also.
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 01:52:23PM -0800, Anthony DCosta wrote:
The outmigration of Malaylis is higher than most other ethnic communities.
What I am
Michael Perelman says:
The repugs are in a distint minority. They have no reason to get their
hands dirty with a solution. Although deregulation was bipartisan, the
Dems took the lead.
Then, this will be a good chance to see if lefties in California
stand up to the Dems, offering a different
Indeed, I don't think that in the 60s there was thinking about
"winning" the cold war in the dramatic sense that it was won in the
1990s. "Containment" was more the idea...
My grandfather Earl DeLong was one of Helms's spearcarriers in the
1950s. He says--and Helms says--that containment
Only people associated with Nader, and the San Francisco Board of
Supervisors have spoken up. Sen. John Burton might turn out ok. He has
been giving mixed signals. But then Gene knows far more than any of us
about this. The SF Bay Guardian has a full time reporter working on the
issue as
Michael Perelman says:
The repugs are in a distint minority. They have no reason to get their
hands dirty with a solution. Although deregulation was bipartisan, the
Dems took the lead.
Then, this will be a good chance to see if lefties in California
stand up to the Dems, offering a
I see an equivalence here up until the 1980s. Khrushchev and his
people were absolutely certain that they were the wave of the future,
and the road to utopia. For the first half of the Brezhnev era I
think that the same was true, at least as far as Soviet foreign
policy was concerned. The Soviet
I've been kind of amazed at the lack of aggressive legal action on the part of So
Cal Ed, PGE, the governor, etc., against the FERC.
By law, FERC must set rates that are "Just and reasonable." In its Order on Nov
1st, 2000, on the Calif situation, FERC said the rates were NOT just and
At 08:16 PM 1/29/01 -0600, Maggie Coleman wrote:
h, Along with Scientology, how would the bushies react to Wiccan members
demanding a desk in the white house? inquiring minds want to know.
maggie coleman
I'm being tongue-in-cheek with this suggestion, but I have wondered what
would
The National Lawyers Guild is the place to start looking. --jks
Michael Perelman says:
The repugs are in a distint minority. They have no reason to get their
hands dirty with a solution. Although deregulation was bipartisan, the
Dems took the lead.
Then, this will be a good
[Closing the facility that's organizing; how convenient]
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/Digital/Update/2001-01/amazon310101.shtml
Amazon cuts hundreds of jobs after $90m loss
By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
31 January 2001
The leading online retailer Amazon.com announced yesterday it was
Brad, I was a sort of Sovietologist when there was such a thing, and my
speciality in that area was Soviet and US foreign policy, the Cold War.
Which doesn't make me right, but I have looked into this stuff, including
reading endless reams of CIA and DoD assessments, God help me.
Now you are
Here in Chico, a local Waldorf education group wanted to start a charter school,
but
"Jeffrey L. Beatty" wrote:
At 08:16 PM 1/29/01 -0600, Maggie Coleman wrote:
h, Along with Scientology, how would the bushies react to Wiccan members
demanding a desk in the white house?
A former student puts out extraordinary
weekly paper. He does everything,
reporting selling ads and doing layouts
-- at the same time as he comes up with
much more in-depth stories than local
paper. This one concerns the Democrat
who lead the charge for deregulation.
The Attack of the Killer
Bush has announced that he wants to create a new deduction that would
allow everybody to get a deduction for gifts to "faith based
charities." I posted the following on Kuro5hin.org, which draws a lot
of college age and younger folks.
First, let me give a factual description of what's going on.
[was: Re: [PEN-L:7564] Re: Re: Re: Korean news]
Brad wrote:
I see an equivalence here up until the 1980s. Khrushchev and his people
were absolutely certain that they were the wave of the future, and the
road to utopia.
but this was quite different from the attitude of the early 1920s or the
At 07:56 PM 01/30/2001 -0800, you wrote:
Here in Chico, a local Waldorf education group wanted to start a charter
school,
but
what's a Waldorf group?
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine
Education based on the ideas of Rudolf Steiner.
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 08:35:34PM -0800, Jim Devine wrote:
At 07:56 PM 01/30/2001 -0800, you wrote:
Here in Chico, a local Waldorf education group wanted to start a charter
school,
but
what's a Waldorf group?
Jim Devine [EMAIL
On Michael Perelman's advice, I read the article by the late Harold Vatter
and John Walker in the current CHALLENGE, comparing the US economy of the
1920s and the 1990s. (Hey, there's a review of Michael's book I'll have to
read, while the article by me that was supposed to appear didn't.) It
The one thing that Walker/Vatter neglected to point out is that the recent
investment is not in very durable capital goods, so the depreciation is
very high. Thus, net investment is not as high as gross investment
figures suggest.
The review of my book in Challenge was very flattering. What J.
At 09:20 PM 01/30/2001 -0800, you wrote:
The one thing that Walker/Vatter neglected to point out is that the recent
investment is not in very durable capital goods, so the depreciation is
very high. Thus, net investment is not as high as gross investment
figures suggest.
that's true.
The
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