lefties stop your whining

Why the Left should stop whining New world politics throws up new challenges - to those who seek practical solutions and to anti-globalisation nihilists The globalisation debate - Observer special Peter Hain Sunday January 20, 2002 The Observer Globalisation is a force that does not allow the l

back to the future

[NYTimes] January 20, 2002 Parched, Big Steel Goes to Its Washington Well By LESLIE WAYNE As one industry after another troops to Washington to ask for handouts, Thomas J. Usher, the chief executive of the U.S. Steel Corporation, has an offer he feels the Bush administration cannot refuse. He

Re; Al-Quada, Bosnia and Kosova/o

I read tons more about Serbia, Bosnia and Kosova/o, I guess, so this is old news, Jim. From Jared Israel on the left raving about, "Fascist Islamist Terrorists, " on the Australian Broadcasting Corp. "debating" David Rohde of the NYT on the massacre at Srbenica on 7,000 to the far right nuts li

is the US elite part of the al Qaida network?

from SLATE's on-line news summary:>According to the LA [TIMES] lead, the U.S. laid claim to six terrorist suspects [in Bosnia] and flew them out of Bosnia, after that country's supreme court had ordered them released, citing a lack of evidence. The six (five Algerians and a Yemeni) were arrested i

Value & Price in Marx's Capital by David Yaffe/WHY DID THE SOVIETUNION COLLAPSE?

http://www.rcgfrfi.easynet.co.uk/marxism/articles/ http://www.rcgfrfi.easynet.co.uk/marxism/articles/discussion/collapse.htm

Re: Re: RE: Re: RE: Krugman.........fauxSchumpeterian

>- Original Message - >From: "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> >> What was Schumpeter's quote about the rationality developed >> within capitalism turning against the rationality *of* >> capitalism? > >I don't know that line, but PK sounds more like the growing view (e.g., of >St

Re: RE: Re: RE: Krugman.........faux Schumpeterian

- Original Message - From: "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > What was Schumpeter's quote about the rationality developed > within capitalism turning against the rationality *of* > capitalism? I don't know that line, but PK sounds more like the growing view (e.g., of Stiglitz) that

Human Rights in Iran

http://www.hrw.org/wr2k2/mena3.html Iran: Human Rights Development (World Report 2000) Factional conflict within Iran's clerical leadership continued to result in severe restrictions on freedom of expression, association, and political participation. Deteriorating economic conditions made

Re: RE: Re: RE: reform and rev

> > >The argument that deficits cause high interest rates is also >theoretically and empirically questionable. More often the causation >goes the other way--high interest rates mean higher interest payments on >the public debt which cet par mean larger deficits. Mat, good point indeed. > >The

Re: Re: Re: RE: reform and rev

>Rakesh Bhandari wrote: > >>(2) what happens if in running deficits, the US sucks up global >>capital, raises interest rates, and visits catastrophe on poorer >>nations? is this possible? > >You're assuming that deficits drive up interest rates. There's no >simple relation between deficits and

FW: Re: sociological question

George can be so obtuse! Michael >--- Original Message --- >From: George Snedeker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: michael pugliese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: 1/19/02 11:16:23 AM > >i still can't imagine how people think this is a serious question. it is an >ideological hailing as Al

Oh! Canada?

Perhaps the events of the past couple of years have just been too novel to assimilate. It strikes me that any one of the three big institutional crises would, in 'ordinary times', qualify as a historical event. For those with short memories, I am referring to the Bush/Gore deadlock, 9-11 and Enr

Another lawyer weighs in Re: Excellent column, but

< http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0119-04.htm > Published in the January/February 2002 issue of Business Ethics: Corporate Social Responsibility Report How Corporate Law Inhibits Social Responsibility A Corporate Attorney Proposes a 'Code for Corporate Citizenship' in State Law by Robert Hink

Re: sociological question

Michael: You might try Charles C. Harrington and Susan K. Boardman, Paths to Success: Beating the Odds in American Society (Harvard University Press, 2000). Joel Blau Michael Perelman wrote: > Does anyone here know of a relatively straightforward study of the sort > of social characteristics t

Excellent column, but

Dear Mr. Rich, I am a law professor and teach courses in securities regulation and corporate finance. I am former corporate lawyer having practiced on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley for five years before becoming a fulltime academic. While in private practice I represented a wide range of pu

Re: Re: Re: Sweden

I always thought that capitalism developed productive capacities far beyond its ability to use them to satisfy human needs. Hence, starvation at the same time as there is the productive capacity to feed everyone; the need to restrict production in agriculture even in the face of starvation. Ditto

Afghan Civilian Caualties

http://www.comw.org/pda/ Traduction | Übersetzung | Traduzione | Tradução | Traduccion (powered by Babel Fish) Currently Featured Operation Enduring Freedom: Why a Higher Rate of Civilian Bombing Casualties by Carl Conetta, PDA Briefing Report #11, 18 January 2002. Examines the extent and cau

Re: RE: Re: RE: Mommy what's inflation?

Jim wrote: > as indicated by the ';-)' I put in my message, I was joking. The "too much > money chasing too few goods" cliche, like the "inflation is always and > everywhere a monetary phenomenon," is true by definition and thus empty, > useless as an explanation of anything. It begs the question.

Business Week cites Coyle

The following article fits with the Perelmanian framework: JANUARY 28, 2002/BUSINESS WEEK ECONOMICS By Peter Coy Commentary: Deregulation: Innovation vs. Stability The year 2001 was awful for three important American industries. Electric utilities suffered capacity shortages that led to

RE: Re: RE: Mommy what's inflation?

as indicated by the ';-)' I put in my message, I was joking. The "too much money chasing too few goods" cliche, like the "inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon," is true by definition and thus empty, useless as an explanation of anything. It begs the question. In reality, I see

Tue., Jan. 22: "Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis"

Tuesday, January 22 Lecture: "Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis" Speaker: Julie Davis, Executive Board, ACLU of Ohio Time: 12:00 noon Location: Room 244, OSU College of Law, 55 W. 12th Ave. (at the corner of 12th Ave. & High St.), Columbus, OH OSU campus map:

Spoon-Ann: Announcing H-GENDER-MIDEAST

>Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 22:25:56 -0500 (EST) >From: Spoon Collective <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: SPOON-ANN: ANNOUNCING H-GENDER-MIDEAST > >From: Elizabeth Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >ANNOUNCING H-GENDER-MIDEAST: H-Net Network on Gender in the >Middle East, North Africa,

Re: RE: Mommy what's inflation?

Cancell precedent mail that was not complete > What causes inflation? > > that's simple: too much money chasing too few goods. > ;-) > Such is the "quantity theory of money". But it would match reality, only if adjustments between all goods an all money were simultaneous and instantaneous. So ar

Re: RE: Mommy what's inflation?

> What causes inflation? > > that's simple: too much money chasing too few goods. > ;-) > Such is the "quantity theory". But it matches reality only if the adjustments between all goods and all money are instantaneous and simultaneous. What is reflected in market-equilibrium models of the kind of