michael perelman wrote:
protection by way of intellectual property is
far more decisive than keeping some clothing and steel out of the economy.
is the summers and delong paper circulating yet?
Whoah. I would think that the Keynesians would be more likely to be linked with
the forces
BNP leader claims more
Tories for his party
MICHAEL SETTLE
The Herald, 27 August 2001
THE far right British National Party last night
claimed it was becoming home to large
numbers of disaffected Conservative party
members who shared its common sense
views.
Universities hire credit rating agencies to aid hunt for
funds
By Marie Woolf, Chief Political Correspondent
The Independent, 25 August 2001
Universities are turning to private credit rating agencies to help
in their search for corporate investors as they try to make up a
shortfall in
Labour's Tube plan is not value for money, report says
By Ben Russell and Saeed Shah
The Independent, 25 August 2001
The Government was accused of inflating the estimated cost of
publicly running London Underground by £2.5bn to make
commercial involvement seem cheaper.
The assertion
I presume the latter effect more than offsets any
fiscal drag, but the advocates of debt reduction
are often not very explicit about their theory.
If memory serves, in basic n-c growth theory, a
lower interest rate could increase the level of
investment but not change the growth *rate* beyond
a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/27/01 03:43AM
I don't know about keynesians but the american left has effectively capitulated
to protectionism and neo mercantile trade policy. they are too excited about
seattle, genoa and fair trade to see the other side. They are thus walking in
the steps of the
I'd say (2). Doesn't racism have effects on health status (through
judgments
made in health care, and perhaps through other routes - surely I've read
of big
race-based differences in treatment for acute heart problems in the US)?
Racism
and race relations in the US do take distinctive forms, and
Those are usually studies looking at the relationship between individual
health and individual measures of race and income. As I said everyone
accepts the strong relationship between individual income and health. This
is something different - inequality (e.g. Gini or some other summary
measure)
DOOM is signing 'em up by the gaggle. We have most of the US press on the
strength now; on a day when the Financial Times asks why there's so much 'pro
forma reporting' on finance.
I just can't stop recommending PrudentBear; I've a terrible headache and a bad
case of overworkitis, yet a quick
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From: Rakesh Bhandari [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't know about keynesians but the american left has effectively
capitulated
to protectionism and neo mercantile trade policy. they are too
excited about
seattle, genoa and fair trade to see the other side. They are
Charles Brown said:
Would it be possible to give bit more of the logic of why a budget surplus
saps savings from the private sector ?
Alex' comment:
In a broadly aggregated economy (say, public vs private sector, omitting,
for simplicity the external sector), one institution running a surplus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/27/01 11:02AM
Charles Brown said:
Would it be possible to give bit more of the logic of why a budget surplus
saps savings from the private sector ?
Alex' comment:
In a broadly aggregated economy (say, public vs private sector, omitting,
for simplicity the external
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, DAILY REPORT, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 2001:
Initial claims filed with state agencies for unemployment insurance
increased by a modest 8,000 to a total of 393,000 during the week ending
August 18, according to the Employment and Training Administration. The
more
From Up From D.R
A third tidbit in the CBO projections is the fate of public debt after Bush's tax
cut. By 2011, public debt with or without the tax cut is still as low as thought
possible. How could this be? Because the post-tax cut surplus is still big enough to
eliminate all Federal debt.
from SLATE:
The [Washington POST] online serves up proof that the Pentagon has made an
important change when it comes to $600 toilet seats. A story at the site
reveals that the [US Department of Defence] is developing a Collectively
Protected Expeditionary Latrine, a toilet that's suitable for
There is a minor wonk-controversy over how much
of the public debt is easily liquidated. The
Repugs say the last $800 billion or so would cost
too much to buy back, since the holders of this
debt want very much to have safe assets and would
demand a premium to let them go. Then our hero
A.
My fearless leader Eileen Appelbaum (EPI Research Director)
appears in this.
mbs
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 31, 2001
Contact: Lisa Meredith or Edie Emery, Goodman Media International
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Anybody know why Elgar charges so bloody much for their books?
Ian
Carrol Cox wrote:
What is an SMSA?
Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area. See
http://www.census.gov/population/www/estimates/aboutmetro.html for
more than you ever wanted to konw.
Doug
They have a small market. They used to be able to export many of their
books to Japan, but that market has narrowed. So the specialize in small
runs, hoping to catch as many libraries as possible.
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 10:01:34AM -0700, Ian Murray wrote:
Anybody know why Elgar charges so
They have a small market. They used to be able to export many of
their
books to Japan, but that market has narrowed. So the specialize in
small
runs, hoping to catch as many libraries as possible.
===
You mean Financial Keynesianism and Market Instability : The Economic
Legacy of
At 26/08/01 23:13, Michael wrote:
Rakesh Bhandari wrote:
ah what's a reasonable position for a left keynesian on trade? let's
say the
tax cut suffers leakage and bush and greenspan and the fucking bond
traders (as
clinton described them) are not willing to allow deficits the size of
At 10:01 AM 8/27/01 -0700, you wrote:
Anybody know why Elgar charges so bloody much for their books?
isn't it obvious? they set the price equal to the marginal cost.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
FWIW, fyi.
Michael Pugliese
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Riccardo says that they have had very few sales. I assume that the price
is not a factor
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 10:22:43AM -0700, Ian Murray wrote:
They have a small market. They used to be able to export many of
their
books to Japan, but that market has narrowed. So the
Subject: [UK_Left_Network] UK: BNP - A Party On The Fringe - BBC Online
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1505000/audio/_1509333_tory17_griffin.ram
(RealAudio clip: Edgar (Nicks Dad) Griffin)
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Today's WSJ has two pro-Keynesian diatribes.
The one on the front page is pretty substantive--
its burden is that now everybody except politicians
of both parties agree that surplus orthodoxy is
stupid. There was also an op-ed in the Post by
one of their idiot savants to similar effect a
couple
SNIP
During the Asian financial crisis of 1997-99, President Clinton's
international economic team -- Treasury Secretaries Rubin and
Summers, Commerce Secretary Daley, and U.S. Trade
Representatives Kantor and Barshefsky -- provided sound policy
guidance and calm assurance to markets.
SNIP
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[from where did 'mankind' get right to claim phenotypic immortality
for itself]
CB: Genetic engineering is a human practice. Humans have always regulated their own
practices in the form of custom ( culture).
* IMPORTANT CONFERENCE *
BEYOND
Martin Brown wrote that ecological regressions (like average health against
average income plus income inequality) are not worth the effort. Could you
expand a bit on why? I think regession assumptions like linearity,
independendence of variables and unidirection of causality are big problems
Mat wrote:
Promoting exports and/or limiting
imports (by whatever means, e.g., import tariffs or quotas, export
subsidies, exchange rate or currency depreciation, etc.) as a way of
promoting domestic output, income, and employment was referred to as a
beggar-thy-neighbor approach that these
Charles puts the finger on the critical issue of wealth distribution amongst
private agents / factors of production.
So far the dialogue was about the private sector as a whole vis-à-vis the
public sector. In this case, profits, rents and wages are both but one
single aggregate.
Further
We can split the private sector into households and businesses fairly
easily, though this doesn't address inequality within those sectors. But
we do know that businesses, in the aggregate, remain in the black, so
far, even if profits are declining. So for the private sector as a whole
to be in
Thank you for posting this.
I was in Wuerzburg for a couple of days earlier this month for the wedding
of a friend of a friend, and was troubled by the note that that the Rough
Guide to Germany had the moral courage to print on the destruction of this
quiet town. It it the centre of the white
Today I was on a flight from Memphis to San Francisco. An Airbus 320, must hold 180
people or more. -- only 24 people in coach. Everybody in coach could have had a
sleep with a three seat row each!! I've taken this same flight -- a year or so ago
--when every seat was filled and people were
Eugene Coyle wrote:
Today I was on a flight from Memphis to San Francisco. An Airbus
320, must hold 180
people or more. -- only 24 people in coach. Everybody in coach
could have had a
sleep with a three seat row each!! I've taken this same flight --
a year or so ago
--when every seat was
[There's a lot to pick on Roddick for, but does she have a point?]
Published on Sunday, August 26, 2001 in the Sunday Herald (Scotland)
We Should All Feel Roddick's Disillusionment
Editorial
SO was Anita Roddick right? Twenty years ago, she was the bright-eyed
entrepreneur who was as famous
e Observer (London) August
21, 2001
IMF'S FOUR STEPS TO DAMNATION
How crises, failures, and suffering finally drove a Presidential
adviser to
the wrong side of the barricades
By Gregory Palast
It was like a scene out of Le Carré: the brilliant agent comes
Keynes realized, certainly by the early 1940s, that propping an economy up
would be far more difficult to the extent that the economy is open.
Certainly by the mid-1920s, because of his involvement with the Manchester
textile industry, Keynes was more than familiar with the declining
industry. I
- Original Message -
From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 7:37 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:16423] Re: neomercantilism, trade
Keynes realized, certainly by the early 1940s, that propping an
economy up
would be far more difficult to the
We don't need more money for social programs. When people fall through
the cracks, it will be because the Democrats didn't follow Lieberman and
support faith-based initiative. If the churches do social policy, they
don't need money. They can perform miracles.
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at
DOT statistics on load factor are available only through Q1 of 2001.
Didn't look too bad through then.
But the year to year comparison by months shows, for the six months
through July, that each month's load factor was lower than the
corresponding year earlier month. But the data doesn't
At 07:51 PM 08/27/2001 -0700, you wrote:
If a tariff is a tax then what were really seeing is a global
shifting
of the tax burden away from capitalists, but states have yet to
seek
compensatory increases in taxes on wages or other income.
since when are tariffs taxes on capital's income?
Free, gratis copies available of Left Turn. I was impressed with Vol. 1,
Number 1.
http://www.left-turn.org/feature/callinicos.html
http://www.left-turn.org/feature/bello.html
Think their webmaster chopped something off of Alex though. Saw his new book
from Polity Press the other day, Against
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