Re: Koehler smarms

2002-04-20 Thread Chris Burford
At 19/04/02 18:40 -0700, you wrote: Doesn't Koehler have this backwards? If Europe's production is growing faster, Europe needs more opportunities to sell its goods in Argentina. That means more loans from the IMF, doesn't it? Gene No. This is the argument that to those that have, more

Re: RE: RE: Re: Sharon quote

2002-04-20 Thread ALI KADRI
I do not recall where I read this, but somewhere along the line Oz moved to the right according to some journalist and began to change the story. memory fails me again. --- Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The other was his [Sharon's] as well. Oz is lying to cover up so he pinned

Re: Argentina, Australia and Canada (and US foreign investment)

2002-04-20 Thread Bill Rosenberg
Charles Brown wrote: Profits aside, two features of FDI which seem to clearly differentiate developed and developing countries (in the context of the US foreign investment thread, imperial vs neo-colonies) appear to be the balance between inward and outward investment stock (biased towards

Head of British Chambers of Commerce Sacked after Criticising NHS financing

2002-04-20 Thread Ken Hanly
I imagine in the US he would be given an award for opposing socialist health care! Cheers, Ken Hanly 'We don't use the NHS' business chief is sacked BCC acts fast to distance itself from director general's Budget outburst Julia Finch, City editor Saturday April 20, 2002 The Guardian The

RE: Re: Economics as religion

2002-04-20 Thread Devine, James
Positive economics is alive and well and living in Austria? What a crock. Show me any orthodox micro analysis that isn't rife with normative assumptions and I will genuflect with humiliation. I have no worries that I will be so obliged. normative assumptions seem inherent in the process

RE: RE: Re: Economics as religion

2002-04-20 Thread Max B. Sawicky
normative assumptions seem inherent in the process of building models. Models, by their very nature, simplify empirical reality in order to understand it. Then you must decide which simplifying assumptions to make. The standard one is perfect competition without externalities (etc.) -- so that

Europe's cunning counterattack

2002-04-20 Thread Chris Burford
Financial Times, London, features a big map of the states of the USA, in its main story: the early and carefully aimed counterattack by Europe against Bush's steel tariffs. Although the conflict is choerographed, what is said behind the scenes will be sharper. Europe is taking aim and

Re: Head of British Chambers of Commerce Sacked after Criticising NHS financing

2002-04-20 Thread Chris Burford
It is important you understand why it is not such a mystery. Brown's Budget was carefully crafted to give some sops to small businesses. They had also defused some opposition from large employers. Blair is reported to be sending signals that they will be careful about perceptions that they

stop US coup d'etat

2002-04-20 Thread Chris Burford
Forwarded from 9-11peace.org Dear Friend, Please join Peter Gabriel, Annie Lennox, Thom Yorke of Radiohead, Brian Eno, and many other cultural figures in speaking up on an important, last-minute issue. This Sunday, April 21, the United States will seek to remove Jose Bustani, the head of the

McCain for pres.

2002-04-20 Thread Michael Perelman
The N. Republic and the Washington Monthly are touting McCain as the Democratic nominee. I like the idea immensely. Both parties should nominate Republicans and be done with the pretense. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321

forecasting quesiton

2002-04-20 Thread Michael Perelman
Does anybody here recall the study that shows that federal reserve forecasts were more accurate than those done by commercial forecasting companies? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

The political economy of indigenous societies

2002-04-20 Thread Louis Proyect
Robert Biel, The New Imperialism (Zed Books, 2000): Resistance can arise not just in households or families, but also at the level of organised movements. Grassroots protest can appear negative, destructive, obstructive and bloody-minded. But what colonialist anthropologists branded as

Executive compensation

2002-04-20 Thread Ulhas Joglekar
The Economic Times Friday, April 19, 2002 Executive elation G ANANDALINGAM The 2001 executive compensation information hit the news wires a couple of weeks ago, and caused a lot of commotion. Nothing seems to derail executive compensation in the United States, not the sagging economy, nor

Re: Argentina, Australia and Canada

2002-04-20 Thread Grant Lee
Louis: For the foreseeable future, places like Argentina and Venezuela are on the front lines. In places such as these, anti-imperialist consciousness will fuel the proletarian revolution just as it did in Vietnam, Cuba, China and many other countries where victory was not achived. The

chastening

2002-04-20 Thread Michael Perelman
Have any of you read Blustein's The Chastening. I am 60% through it. It seems to have pretty good sources about the inner workings of the IMF during the Asian Crisis. The picture it gives is somewhat close to that of Charles J.'s here on pen-l, although the author is not a radical of any sort

Re: Argentina, Australia and Canada

2002-04-20 Thread Grant Lee
Bill B.: Hong Kong 65.772 Saudi Arabia22.71.3 s. Korea6.1 6.5 Taiwan 7.8 14.7 New Zealand 66.211 Israel 11.16.8 Spain

I am not a Marxist

2002-04-20 Thread Justin Schwartz
Can someone give me a cire to the letter where Engles reports Marx as saying (in French), I am not a Marxist? Thanks, jks _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.

Re: Re: Argentina, Australia and Canada

2002-04-20 Thread Bill Rosenberg
Grant Lee wrote: HK and Singapore are entrepots, and they are city-economies, which indicates the need to qualify the significance of their numbers It seems to me that if no western state is very similar --- and I'm not convinced this is the case --- to HK and Singapore it would have

Article by Said

2002-04-20 Thread Ken Hanly
What Israel has done by Edward Said Despite Israel's effort to restrict coverage of its extraordinarily destructive invasion of the West Bank's Palestinian towns and refugee camps, information and images have nevertheless seeped through. The Internet has provided hundreds of verbal as well as