Re: Sir Thomas Moore

2001-08-14 Thread Chris Burford
At 14/08/01 20:00 +, you wrote: >Question on the differential ownership of the means of production, the law of >value and the logical priority of the level of production over that of >distribution: > >Author, text and year, please: > >"... wheresoever possessions be private, where money beare

C. S. Pierce's revenge..and Whitehead's too and well....

2001-08-14 Thread Ian Murray
[NYT] AUG 15, 2001 Cosmic Laws Like Speed of Light Might Be Changing, a Study Finds By JAMES GLANZ and DENNIS OVERBYE An international team of astrophysicists has discovered that the basic laws of nature as understood today may be changing slightly as the universe ages, a surprising finding that

China pollution stats

2001-08-14 Thread Ian Murray
Research Casts Doubt on China's Pollution Claims By John Pomfret Washington Post Foreign Service Wednesday, August 15, 2001; Page A16 BEIJING -- New studies have cast doubt on reports that China is significantly reducing the "greenhouse gas" emissions that help make it one of the world's major

RE: Forwarded from Rakesh

2001-08-14 Thread Max Sawicky
" . . . Yet the political opposition to immigration is still very high. We have even had EPI fellow Max Sawicky speak well of Michael Lind's liberal nationalism of which restrictive immigration policy is a key. Even the recent AFL/CIO-backed Bush plan to legalize workers whose labor has already pr

Re: Re: Re: Quiz (No Googling!)

2001-08-14 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: "Rob Schaap" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 5:10 AM Subject: [PEN-L:15899] Re: Re: Quiz (No Googling!) > > > > Thomas More "Utopia" 1516? Didn't google, had to reread it the other > > day looking for a di

Forwarded from Rakesh

2001-08-14 Thread Michael Perelman
Rakesh asked me to forward this. I am sending it on even though it has digs at both Doug and Max, which are inappropriate. Since he is not part of the list, I am passing the message on in its entirity, assuming that the danger of flaming is not very high. Dear economists: Please indulge this

FW: statement to support increasing CA UI benefits

2001-08-14 Thread Perelman, Michael
From: Michael Reich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 1:58 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: statement to support increasing CA UI benefitsAugust 14, 2001Dear Colleague:I am attaching and also providing below a statement of support for SB 40 (Alarcon), a bill to increas

Re: Re: Quiz (No Googling!)

2001-08-14 Thread Rob Schaap
> > Thomas More "Utopia" 1516? Didn't google, had to reread it the other > day looking for a different quote so that's my guess... > > Ian Well, I didn't squeeze much sado-glee out of that one. You're too damned learned, Ian. More sees with a seer's eye, eh? He has only the foetus o

Canada's place inth global beauty contest

2001-08-14 Thread Ian Murray
POSTED AT 11:42 AM EDTTuesday, August 14 Canada climbs because of business climate By ALLISON LAWLOR Globe and Mail Update Canada ranks as the fourth best place in the world to do business over the next five years in a survey released on Tuesday by the Economist Intelligence Unit. The sur

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Re: Comparative systems texts

2001-08-14 Thread J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Actually, it is out of print, but we do not object to people using it if they are able to drum up used copies, which I think is what is going on here. The first draft of the second edition has been completed and is now in the review and revision process at MIT Press. Unfortunately, I d

What caused the US slowdown?

2001-08-14 Thread Chris Burford
Would subscribers agree with this Q&A answer on the BBC's Business website attributing the turn in the US economy to a reduction in corporate investment? Or to the extent that this is true, is it just a symptom? Chris Burford London Friday, 27 April, 2001, 12:47 GMT 13:47 UK Q&A: What caused

FW: AN INTERNATIONAL OPEN LETTER TO ALL ECONOMICS DEPARTMENTS

2001-08-14 Thread Forstater, Mathew
forwarded at the request of: David Pringle, University of Ottawa - AN INTERNATIONAL OPEN LETTER TO ALL ECONOMICS DEPARTMENTS: AN INVITATION FOR RECONSIDERATION. Economics needs fundamental reform - and now is the time for change.

RE: reaganomics...

2001-08-14 Thread Forstater, Mathew
you would also be interested in Stephen Rousseas' book on Reaganomics. Also very good on the theoretical flaws of supply side economics are contributions in FREE MARKET CONSERVATISM edited by Edward J. Nell. -Original Message- From: ravi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 14

crisis watch and labor

2001-08-14 Thread Alex Izurieta
Michael wrote: Wouldn't it be fair to say that the United States is on relatively thin ice with respect to maintaining both financial stability and aggregate demand. Alex comment: Another way of looking at it is to think that financial systems are inherently unstable (Minsky). And that (perhaps)

Re: Quiz (No Googling!)

2001-08-14 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: "Rob Schaap" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 1:00 PM Subject: [PEN-L:15886] Quiz (No Googling!) > Question on the differential ownership of the means of production, the law of > value and the logical priority of the l

reaganomics...

2001-08-14 Thread ravi
a while ago i posted a question to the list (did reagan's tax cuts in fact increase govt tax revenues?) to which i received many informative responses. thank you all for those. to satisfy my curiosity about the reagan program a bit more, i purchased a book by economist robert lekachman called "r

Chinese leftist journals shut down?

2001-08-14 Thread Stephen E Philion
SCMP Tuesday, August 14, 2001 Party closes leftist journal that opposed Jiang MARK O'NEILL in Beijing The Communist Party has closed one of the mainland's key theoretical journals as part of an attack on those who oppose the decision of President Jiang Zemin to end a ban on membership by pr

Beijing workers protest privatisation and graft

2001-08-14 Thread Stephen E Philion
Tuesday August 14, 8:53 PM Beijing workers protest privatisation and graft By Jonathan Ansfield BEIJING (Reuters) - Hundreds of workers set to lose their jobs staged a sit-in at a state-owned factory in Beijing on Tuesday, alleging official corruption and unfair compensation at a firm in the mi

BLS Daily Report

2001-08-14 Thread Richardson_D
> BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, DAILY REPORT, AUGUST 13, 2001: > > Steeply declining energy prices largely were responsible for a 0.9 percent > drop in producer prices for finished goods in July, according to figures > released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It was the largely monthly > declin

Quiz (No Googling!)

2001-08-14 Thread Rob Schaap
Question on the differential ownership of the means of production, the law of value and the logical priority of the level of production over that of distribution: Author, text and year, please: "... wheresoever possessions be private, where money beareth all the stroke, it is hard and almost i

Rumsfeld Plan faces wide opposition

2001-08-14 Thread Michael Pugliese
Message: 8 Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 18:45:42 +1000 From: "Bond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Rumsfeld Plan faces wide opposition Plan faces wide opposition By Rowan Scarborough THE WASHINGTON TIMES August 13, 2001 When Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld convened a high-level Pentagon meeti