G'day Jim et al,
> that works, assuming that the U.S. can continue to accumulate> external debt
>with no negative consequences (like a move away from > the US$ as the main reserve
>currency). But was it the U.S. intent?
>From the administration's point of view, it may be that negativ
I was not quite sure what Jim meant in his covering note about Son of
Bakunin?
But my comment on Michael's post would be this:
It is important that the correct points Michael makes and the correct
points I make, do not get lost in a semantic confusion.
Yes it is true that the New Labour governm
The Boston Globe June 10, 2001
Canadian TV show puts one over on U.S.
BY COLIN NICKERSON
MONTREAL -- So, did you hear that Canada is finally granting the vote to
citizens of Irish ancestry? And that diabetics in this realm of permafrost
and muskeg bog can take heart that legalization of insu
Monday, June 11, 2001
EU Approves Rules on Worker Consultations to Supply More Information
to Employees
By PAUL AMES Associated Press Writer
LUXEMBOURG (AP) _ European Union ministers agreed Monday on rules that
will oblige businesses across the 15-nation bloc to supply more
information to their
More on Koch here,
http://www.potomac-inc.org/seduclft.html
M.Pugliese
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The Religions of the Oppressed.
http://www.csp.org/chrestomathy/religions_of.html
Lanternari, Vittorio. (1963).
New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Note: Originally published as Movimenti religiosi di liberta e di salvezza
dei popoli oppressi by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, translated by Lisa
Sergio.
And some start out progressive and move rightward. The Pentacostals in
the 20's had integrated congregrations, and starting in the 30's divided
into white and black denominations.
For an examination, more generally on right-wing Protestantism, see David
Stoll, "Is Latin America Turning Prote
There are certainly some religious trends that are progressive, liberation
theology and the social gospel movement come to mind. Often these trends
come into conflict with mainstream religion leading to crackdowns or
expulsion of pro-worker people from the Church and even the formation of
Labor C
[From The Independent]
Mbeki to be warned off slavery reparations
By Alex Duval Smith Africa Correspondent
12 June 2001
Former colonial powers will acknowledge past sins of slavery and
exploitation at a world conference on racism in South Africa later
this year.
But President Thabo Mbeki, visit
[NYT]
June 12, 2001
Warming Threat Requires Action Now, Scientists Say
By ANDREW C. REVKIN
In his speech on climate yesterday, President Bush said that a basic
problem with the Kyoto Protocol, the proposed international pact for
curtailing global warming, was that it laid out a timetable for
cutt
Dear URPE member,
As all of you know, our annual summer conference August 18 - 21
is coming up soon. A preliminary schedule for this conference
can be seen on the URPE
web page, www.urpe.org. One of the things that the summer
conference has alwaysprovided is a great opportunity for
informally pr
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> Here is a slightly different variant.
>
> Ekelund, Robert B., Jr, Robert F. Hebert and Robert D. Tollison.
1989.
> "An Economic Model of the Medieval Church: Usury as a Form of Rent
> Seeking." Journal of Law, Economics
On Monday, June 11, 2001 at 15:01:56 (-0700) Tim Bousquet writes:
>I'ver been working on an article for sometime about
>the religion of the market. Thomas Frank, of Babbler
>Magazine, sort of beat me to the punch with his "One
>Market Under God," but there's still a lot to be said.
>Ken Lay is exa
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June Nash, "We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us"
Emile Zola, "Germinal"
Marshall Sahlins, "Stone Age Economics"
Harry Braverman, "Labor and Monopoly Capital"
David Noble, "Forces of Production"
At 02:52 PM 6/11/01 -0700, you wrote:
>Could anyone offer a good book that deals with microeconomic
(Source: Congressional Budget Office letter to
Sen. Domenici, June 6, 2001.)
Projected FY2002 baseline surplus as of January of this year: $313b
Projected FY2002 baseline surplus as of May of this year: $304b
Axe to grind: economic downturn has negligible effect, contrary
to certain prophets
Some people from Auburn have written some nice stuff against the Catholic
church, describing the struggles of the reformation, as an attempt to
break the Catholic's monopoly on the "market for salvation."
Here is a slightly different variant.
Ekelund, Robert B., Jr, Robert F. Hebert and Robert
The reviewer, Timur Kuran, has also writen on the subject.
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 02:37:00PM -0700, Jim Devine wrote:
> Economics as Religion
> From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond
> Robert H. Nelson
> Spring 2001 | 392 pgs | 6 x 9
>
> An insightful exploration of the powerful role that econom
Kenneth Boulding.
The Economy of Love and Fear.
mbs
Could anyone offer a good book that deals with microeconomic behaviour
say of individuals to noneconomic wants (religion, group solidarity, and
the like)? I would prefer a less technical/modelling approach and more of
a truly interdisciplinar
Harvey Cox had an article titled "The Market as God" in the ATLANTIC
MONTHLY. I don't know the date.
At 03:01 PM 6/11/01 -0700, you wrote:
>I'ver been working on an article for sometime about
>the religion of the market. Thomas Frank, of Babbler
>Magazine, sort of beat me to the punch with his "
I'ver been working on an article for sometime about
the religion of the market. Thomas Frank, of Babbler
Magazine, sort of beat me to the punch with his "One
Market Under God," but there's still a lot to be said.
Ken Lay is example #1, I think: a right-wing Christian
who goes around endowing chair
At a "dumb" terinal , no windows so can't cut and paste the
excerpt on the web.) The book published originally by the Italian
leftist publisher, G. Feltrinelli, by Vittorio Lanternari, "Religions
of the Oppressed, " from the early 60's, is a useful text. Go
to Google type in 'religions of the
Could anyone offer a good book that deals with microeconomic behaviour
say of individuals to noneconomic wants (religion, group solidarity, and
the like)? I would prefer a less technical/modelling approach and more of
a truly interdisciplinary treatment, bringing to bear insights from
anthropolog
Economics as Religion
From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond
Robert H. Nelson
Spring 2001 | 392 pgs | 6 x 9
An insightful exploration of the powerful role that economic belief plays
in our modern society as a secular religion that serves many of the same
functions as early Christian and other re
Some of the embedded URL's in the fwded. post of mine on the
8th with the subject line Fw: Re; Ghana, Water Privatization,
might be helpful. As well as the organization of Jim ? in Bolivia
(?) or that alerted all of us to the Bechtel H2O privatization
some months back. Michael Pugliese
>From:
Didn't he say that the religion cut both ways -- sort of like Genovese on
Black churches under slavery. The workers adopted Methodist-like methods
of organization, but religion dampened revolutionary zeal
Its been several decades since I read it, but I still have a vivid memory
of the worker on
Early studies of the Monarch have proven no immediate effect, but if US
companies begin peddling some of these new seeds around the world to poor
countries -- their intent from what I understand -- we are likely to see
ecological effects which we do not well understand at this point, In short,
th
Interesting report Ken, but I can't say I'm surprised. Heather Boushey and
Betheny Gundersen, at EPI, have just produced a paper which focusses on
hardships welfare leavers face. A huge percent of leavers have to choose
between basic necessities on a regular basis: food, shelter, medical care or
I'll give them an ounce. But see Mike Meeropol's
EPI issue brief on this, comparing Reagan '81 to
Gerry Ford '75.
mbs
At 02:25 PM 6/11/01 +0100, you wrote:
>The Reagan cuts were in passed in 1981, at the very start
>of the recovery from '80 and '81 recessions. Because
>Reagan's term began
BBC News Online, Friday, 8 June, 2001, 07:11 GMT 08:11 UK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1375000/1375307.stm
World sinks into deeper poverty
The world's poor may be sinking deeper into poverty, according to a new
report by a top economics professor that turns traditional insi
>Thanks for this. Do we have any easily accessible sources on industrial or
>other pollutant contamination of potable water supplies in poorer societies?
>I know water is a problem in S Africa, from discussion by Pat Bond and
>others on the Debate list, but how general is the problem in the
>perip
At 02:25 PM 6/11/01 +0100, you wrote:
>The Reagan cuts were in passed in 1981, at the very start
>of the recovery from '80 and '81 recessions. Because
>Reagan's term began at the bottom of the business cycle,
>his supporters like to attribute all subsequent good
>economic news to the '81 tax cuts
> BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, JUNE 11, 2001:
>
> The job market is less than rosy, we hear from BLS economist Philip Rones.
> Signs of the worsening economy: The unemployment rate is the highest it
> has been since late 1998...employment has fallen 2 months in a row for the
The percentage of aging in the population is an empty figure unless
accompanied by figures on the percentage of children and adolescents in
the population. If the latter decreases, then the proportion of
non-workers remains constant. If the latter also increases, then what?
In any case, isolated p
I asked:
> > does anyone know _why_ the U.S. -- which must refer not only to the
> administration but to the Fed -- was pursuing a "high dollar" policy?<
Rob writes:
>... (1) it helped keep [non-US$] economies on the brink from folding, by
>offering a market (we're talking international crisis
Unless there's a recession or near zero economic
growth, tax revenue is likely to go up. The question
re: Reagan was whether revenue was higher than it would
have been with no tax cuts. If so, the tax cut would
have 'paid for itself.' The consensus is it didn't
(see The Tax Decade, C. Eugene St
Jim Devine wrote:
>
> in his ECONOMIC REPORTING REVIEW, Dean Baker writes:
> >It is worth noting that the dollar has risen in value by 20-30
> percent
> >against other major currencies since 1996. This increase in the
> dollar's
> >value was in part a result of a deliberate "high dollar" policy o
Maybe a better name for a spread-sheet would be a fiddle-sheet.
Jim Devine wrote,
> I was fiddling around with my spread-sheet this morning. . .
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(604) 947-2213
>But surely religious beliefs are often part and parcel of the ruling class
>ideology. Believing that this life is not important but only life after
>death, that the poor shall inherit the earth, that the poor are blessed,
>that the rich cannot get up there...and on and on and on ...ad nauseam..ar
The percentage of aging in the population is an empty figure unless
accompanied by figures on the percentage of children and adolescents in
the population. If the latter decreases, then the proportion of
non-workers remains constant. If the latter also increases, then what?
In any case, isolated p
Michael Perelman:
>
>
> Almost everywhere, there are problems.
Is there a study or smthg online to look at, Michael? Thanks.
Mark
At 12:32 PM 6/11/01 -0500, you wrote:
>But surely religious beliefs are often part and parcel of the ruling class
>ideology. Believing that this life is not important but only life after
>death, that the poor shall inherit the earth, that the poor are blessed,
>that the rich cannot get up there...
But surely religious beliefs are often part and parcel of the ruling class
ideology. Believing that this life is not important but only life after
death, that the poor shall inherit the earth, that the poor are blessed,
that the rich cannot get up there...and on and on and on ...ad nauseam..are
al
in his ECONOMIC REPORTING REVIEW, Dean Baker writes:
>It is worth noting that the dollar has risen in value by 20-30 percent
>against other major currencies since 1996. This increase in the dollar's
>value was in part a result of a deliberate "high dollar" policy of the
>Clinton administration.
The Sunday Independent
Marches against WEF herald things to come
June 09 2001 at 05:40PM
By Charlene Smith
"Away with the WEF! No to George Soros, Saki Macozoma and moneybags Coleman
Andrews!" says a press release issued this week by the Campaign Against
Neo-liberalism in South Africa (Canisa)
Viewing Imperial China as a society of relatively free markets is the
fashion among economic historians. But what would these markets
be without the massive use of collective manpower for hydraulic
maintenance? Don't ask polycentric historians; they would rather
emphasize how humanity has long
Jim Devine wrote:
>I was fiddling around with my spread-sheet this morning, trying to
>get my mind in gear (funny what economists do!). I noticed that the
>ratio of dividends to earnings on the NY stock exchange not only has
>shown a general mild downward trend since 1959, but has shown a
>st
I was fiddling around with my spread-sheet this morning, trying to get my
mind in gear (funny what economists do!). I noticed that the ratio of
dividends to earnings on the NY stock exchange not only has shown a general
mild downward trend since 1959, but has shown a steep fall between 1992 and
Michael, I said I was done. AOL? This is an incredible overreaction, and I
would point out a few things to AOL myself. How about netzero? I even have
Kmart's Bluelight.com.
Chasing me away reflects badly on the list. Overposting on the eonic effect.
Nonsense. Three quarters of my posts were re
In Chico, there are three contaminated plumes in the
shallow aquifer, spreading over an area that covers
about 10% of the City. These are all the result of a
dry-cleaning operation, a military base, and an
industrial operation, all of which once simply dumped
their chemicals on-site. The southern
Anne Applebaum writes in SLATE:
>A certain brand of British conservatism may be dying altogether.
>
>By this I don't mean Thatcherism, since Thatcherism lives on in the form
>of Tony Blair. While Blair is not, perhaps, Lady Thatcher's own ideal
>heirshe would never have condoned his changes to
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THE INVASION OF THE GRAY-HAIRS
As Cuba's president Fidel Castro gets older, speculation
increases
about
his legacy to the country. Opinion runs the spectrum from Cuba
staying
firmly in the socialist camp to Cuba quickly returni
Almost everywhere, there are problems. In some places, it is depletion.
In others, it is contamination -- such as the MTBE problems in CA. In
addition, where overpumping exists near the coast, salt water intrudes.
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 10:21:02AM +0100, Mark Jones wrote:
> Michael Perelman:
One basic point in my last thread should be clear by now. Rather
than arguing in general that Chinese agriculture was experiencing
serious limitations by the later eighteenth, we should focus on
specific regions in China and write about regional cycles of growth
and blockage, the ecological
Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> So the KGB really was behind a plot to kill the Pope after all?
Nope.
Mark
Mark Jones wrote:
>
> > I would tend to believe the opposite of anything Claire Sterling wrote.
>
>You'd be wrong.
So the KGB really was behind a plot to kill the Pope after all?
Doug
Michael Perelman:
>
> You can be sure that the state of groundwater is deteriorating rapidly.
care to elaborate?
Mark
In connection with Marc Rich, Mark Jones writes:
1. In 1996 I wrote to The Guardian as follows. The Alan Duncan I mention
later became a Tory MP, close adviser to the now-defunct William Hague, and
yesterday was interviwed widely on British TV for his thoughts on how to
rescue the Conservative Pa
Penners
For the next couple of days I've been promised lengthy breaks in email
service (hooray I hear you say). In anticipation of this I have been relying
on the sainted Jim Devine to forward messages. However it seems that I have
this window available with which to inflict yet more nauseating U
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