Why should the libs quail at selling nominations? They're in favor of
selling everything else. --jks
>
>Libertarians don't like to talk about how David Koch came to be their
>party's vice-presidential nominee, and you can't blame them. To be blunt
>about it, Koch bought the nomination; it cost
Large-scale, Global Anti-capitalism Protests Putting Smaller, Local,
Anti-capitalism Protests Out Of Business
There were calls today for multinational pro-anarchy pressure groups to be
investigated for monopolistic practices after the NW3 branch of the London
Radical Left Movement For Socialist R
*** What kind of world are we living in?
Daily News 3/5/01
Poverty-stricken man digs his own grave
By Eric Ndiyane
Unemployment and poverty have forced a man from southern KwaZulu-Natal to
think ahead and start digging his own grave in preparation of his death -
whenever it may h
Ian Murray wrote:
>
> Microsoft Is Set to Be Top Foe of Free Code
>
what is interesting is that jim allchin (identified as a software
designer in the news report, but who is, if i remember right, a
senior VP) called open software "unamerican" and used similar
red-baiting rhetoric. if capitalis
See this on David Koch.
http://www.potomac-inc.org/seduclft.html
Michael Pugliese
Libertarians don't like to talk about how David Koch came to be their
party's vice-presidential nominee, and you can't blame them. To be blunt
about it, Koch bought the nomination; it cost him a half-million d
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/03/technology/03SOFT.html
May 3, 2001
Microsoft Is Set to Be Top Foe of Free Code
By JOHN MARKOFF
SAN FRANCISCO, May 2 - Microsoft is preparing a broad campaign countering the
movement to give away and share software code, arguing that it potentially undermines
t
Learn from Cuba, Says World Bank
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON, Apr 30 (IPS) - World Bank President
James Wolfensohn Monday
extolled the Communist government of President
Fidel Castro for doing ''a
great job'' in providing for the social welfare of
the Cuban people.
His remarks followed Sunday's publ
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The BLS wrote:
> > Labor Secretary Chao, in her first budget presentation to congressional
> > appropriators, outlined on May 2 what she views as highlights in the Bush
> > Administration's first budget proposal for the Labor Department. These
> > include an $8.1 million funding increase for the B
oday.com/money/economy/2001-05-03-jobless.htm; Reuters,
> http://www.latimes.com/wires/20010503/tCB00a2866.html).
>
> U.S. economic growth was slow throughout March and early April as
> industrial activity continued to soften and demand for many consumer goods
> was lackluster, the Federal
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While the Kochs do not pay taxes, they exercize their social
responsibility by donating hefty amounts to Cato and Heritage.
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 12:45:58PM -0400, Brown, Martin (NCI) wrote:
> This same company was convicted of cheating the federal government and
> American Indian tribes of oil
We have multiple grantees working on very complicated population level
disease simulation models. They are iteracting using an Internet - based,
open form relational database tool called Sciwiki. We'll see how it works
but it looks pretty neat.
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From: Brad DeLong [mai
>On Wednesday, May 2, 2001 at 21:20:47 (-0700) Brad DeLong writes:
>> Is there
>>something specific about software that makes the open-source
>>management problem particularly easy? Or can we look forward to the
>>development of similar collecti
t; billion liters of
> bottled water may contribute to greenhouse gas
> emissions. The 1.5
> million tons of plastic used also may pose a threat
> to t
> environment.
>
>
<http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010503/ts/environment_water_dc_1.html
> >
>
> Earlier
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I think P is far from persuasive that both China and Europe shared
constraints. He stands on firmer ground when it comes to the
English case. The timber famine and the problem of mines filling
with groundwater, as mine shafts were pushed down deeper, were
real enough. (Of course, we have see
This same company was convicted of cheating the federal government and
American Indian tribes of oil royalties by systematically un-reporting the
amount of oil that they were pumping from these properties. The fraud was
in the hundreds of millions of dollars, I believe.
My brother, a computer eng
>Ah, Nordhaus. In his intermediate macro course, he had us devise fiscal
>and monetary policy for a model economy he'd developed. It was my
>right-wing days, so I ran a tight ship. I had unemployment up to 20% in no
>time!
I did some statistical regressions on that model. One of them had an
For example in the case of California oranges, the growers coop as power to
set price (through aggregate supply control) and earn monolpoly profits
because of this and also because of the market power associated with
consumer loyalty to the brand name (California oranges, Sunkist etc.). But
there
At 11:10 AM 5/3/01 -0500, you wrote:
>What, exactly, is "monopolistically competitive markets with entry"? It
>is partially but not wholly decipherable as ordinary language.
it does sound oxymoronic, but it fits with a Marxian point, i.e., that pure
monopoly and pure competition are almost nonex
Jim Devine wrote:
>I recently read an article by Brad deLong
>(http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/Econ_Articles/Jaffe/new_macroeconomy.html)
>in which he cited an article by my old undergraduate senior thesis
>dvisor, William Nordhaus, as saying that we should "throw the
>construction, services
[this is fascinating even from a Whitehead-Russel "logical types" perspective]
Published on Wednesday, May 2, 2001
Ari & I
White House Press Briefing with Ari Fleischer
May 2, 2001, 2:00 p.m.
by Russell Mokhiber
Mokhiber: Ari, last month, Koch Industries, one of the nation's largest oil
companie
Monopolistically competitive industries consist of small firms
facing minimal entry barriers which compete by carving out
distinct market niches (mini-monopolies). Because their
products are - initially - unique, monopolistically competitive
firms can charge higher prices than their perfectly
What, exactly, is "monopolistically competitive markets with entry"? It
is partially but not wholly decipherable as ordinary language.
Carrol
Most bonds pay a return every quarter. Zeros pay none. As a result, they sell for
relatively little. A $1000 bond could sell for $400 [making up numbers, which
depend on the duration of the bond] Each year, as they come closer to their
expiration date their value comes closer to their face val
Ali wrote: >The point I want to make is again much of the statistics are
nationally generated; back in the good old days the qulaity was a bit
better because UN statisticians tried to systemetize the data and the data
collection process and provide assitance to national bureaus as needed.<
I r
Brad wrote:
> If you wished (although God knows why
> you would) to portray your
> actions as a gamble by a flinty-eyed
> amoral profit-maximizing
> academic careerist, you could say that:
Okay, Okay -- you saw right through me.
But you missed one key aspect of my "free" (sic)
text: while I wil
Someone asked if the monopolistic competition theory was going to appear in
Brad's text. I would guess not, since it's a macro textbook and MC is seen
as a micro topic. But it should appear, since it is the normal form of
markets (except for the bits about equilibrium and the common assumption
Rob Schaap wrote:
>Briefingscom has beens saying, in a sad tone, that Warren Buffett has been
>buying zero coupons. What are those, then?
Bonds that pay interest only at maturity. Instead of getting $25
twice a year on a $1,000 bond, you buy it at, say, $230, and get your
$1,000 at maturity.
Yeah, that's it.
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> I have been working wit
Thanks to: Ellen Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The Government of British Columbia, Canada, has published its
analysis of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS),
including detailed analysis of how the GATS will limit
publicly provided services, such as education and health care.
If you are
RE Brad's
> It is a
> perfect illustration of how
> monopolistically competitive markets
> with entry do not produce
> anything like the social optimum...
It is also a clear example of how firms, seeking
to make profits, shape market structure: market
structure is often endogenously determined by
As if to imprint on us the gravity of England's organic fuel shortage,
P reminds us, at one point, that the "British economy was already
using over 8,000,000 Kcal of coal-based energy per person in 1815,
before most of the boom in steam engines" (222). But isn't this a
clear indication that En
G'day pen-pals,
Briefingscom has beens saying, in a sad tone, that Warren Buffett has been
buying zero coupons. What are those, then?
And I see the great Wall St charge has come to a halt after all of five days ...
Cheers,
Rob.
plastic used also may pose a threat to t
environment.
<http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010503/ts/environment_water_dc_1.html
>
Earlier this week, during Dick Cheney's speech on the "National Energy
Policy" where the Vice-President harangued against renewable energy
sources and
Ali:
>The point I want to make is again much of the
>statistics are nationally generated; back in the good
>old days the qulaity was a bit better because UN
>statisticians tried to systemetize the data and the
>data collection process and provide assitance to
>national bureaus as needed.
Another
I have been working with OECD on a cross-national study of breast cancer.
This study only involves developed countries (I guess with the exception of
Mexico). Even within this group it is true that that quality and reliability
of statistics is highly variable by country. Of course, developing nat
On a more concrete or detailed level, much of the data
is not gathered by the UN but through the national
stastistical offices. So the quality of the data is in
doubt when the conuntry's bureau of statistics in
Benin has a reputation for rigging stuff. Statistics
from the the transition economies
Good example of Robinsonian (Joan not Crusoe) waste of competition. Do you
give this example in the textbook? I have shown similar results in the
market for pesticides and oranges in California (got me attacked by the
Council on Agricultural Science and Technology and had industry lawyers
trying
We saw last time the difficulties P encounters arguing that Europe
was nearing its limits of pre-industrial growth by 1800. He could not
have it both ways: that Europe had an inefficient agrarian system
with underutilized resources and that Europe had few remaining
ways for further grow withou
On Wednesday, May 2, 2001 at 21:20:47 (-0700) Brad DeLong writes:
> Is there
>something specific about software that makes the open-source
>management problem particularly easy? Or can we look forward to the
>development of similar collective
In the 1960's I knew a physics professor at Berkeley who became politically
active on the left (still is). He immediately became persona non grata in
the department. The big social nexus of the department were periodic
parties at the house of (as they use to say) Dr. and Mrs. Edward Teller. As
May 1, 2001 A May Day Meditation
by Peter Linebaugh
Comrades and Friends, May Day Greetings!
Here is 'the day.' The day we long to become a "journee'," those days of
the French Revolution when a throne would topple, the powerful would
tumble, slavery be abolished, or the commons restored.
Mean
Michael wrote:
> Is there going to be a session on Linen?
no, hair shirts are de rigeur
Mark
Louis Proyect wrote:
So far, panel discussions are being organized for the following topics:
1. The relevance of the Shining Path for the trade union movement today.
2. Stalin in context.
3. Why empiro-criticism must be smashed in order for the workers movement
to go forward.
4. Why tractors
Steve Philion forwarded:
Inter Press Service
Finance: Learn from Cuba, says World Bank
by Jim Lobe
Washington, 30 Apr -- World Bank President James Wolfensohn Monday
extolled the Communist government of President Fidel Castro for doing "a
great job" in providing for the social welfare of the Cub
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