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Rather than agreeing or disagreeing with the political line can I propose some
questions? After all one of the problems with the Communist International was of
communists in one country forming a line that was not
well integrated with the conditions o
Title: RE: [PEN-L:27187] G8 and Africa
At the seat of empire
Africa is forced to take the blame for the devastation inflicted on it by the rich world
George Monbiot
Tuesday June 25, 2002
The Guardian
In the Canadian fastness of Kananaskis this week, the messianic cult of empire will sole
Jim writes:
> This gives the languages a structural rigidity: you can't
> change one vowel's pronunciation without changing all of
> them.
You are being unfair to consonants Jim. The day I pronounce "w"
correctly, I will stop calling Bush Dubya. I am sick and tired of
my son's correcting my Engl
dialects & economics
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From: Devine, James
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Subject: [PEN-L:27196] dialects & economics
Speech's Utter Dynamics (Los Angeles TIMES, June 24, 2002)
Despite the sameness of U.S. media, regional dialects refuse
Title: RE: [PEN-L:27195] Re: RE: Re: transportation
Hey! I could pay off all my bills and live the life of ease... But every time I've tried to sell out in the past, no-one would buy.
;-)
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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> Fr
Title: dialects & economics
Speech's Utter Dynamics (Los Angeles TIMES, June 24, 2002)
Despite the sameness of U.S. media, regional dialects refuse to blend. Instead, the continent is a huge quilt of evolving pronunciation patterns.
By MATTHEW BLAKESLEE, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
http://
You are right that slavery is not sufficient.
Yes, the South was a backwater, but the extent to which slavery benefitted
the North was immense. Northern business handled the finance for the
crops in the South, transported cotton to the UK, lent money to the
improvident planters, and sold them st
Yes, I realized that, but I was thinking if you changed your
recommendation slightly, you would probably find a good reception in
Washington.
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 12:38:20PM -0700, Devine, James wrote:
> no I wasn't. I was saying if UAL deserves a sop, why not Amtrak.
>
> Jim Devine [EMAIL PR
Title: RE: [PEN-L:27191] Re: transportation
no I wasn't. I was saying if UAL deserves a sop, why not Amtrak.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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> From: Michael Perelman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 12
Confused Esso tries to silence green critics
Terry Macalister
Tuesday June 25, 2002
The Guardian
The world's largest oil company is trying to silence its biggest
critic by taking Greenpeace to court over the use of ExxonMobil
logos in a StopEsso boycott campaign.
The Texas-based energy group ha
Title: RE: [PEN-L:27189] Re: RE: another myth bites the dust?
a lot of places have had slavery without becoming rich countries. The Southern United States is a classic example: it had slavery up until 1865, but that slavery didn't help the economic or capitalist development of the area. Most
Jim, if you are suggesting that the Amtrack subsidy should go to United
Airlines, I suspect that you will get a friendly hearing from W.
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 12:06:17PM -0700, Devine, James wrote:
> If the U.S. government is going to bail out United Airlines (as the airline
> wants), shouldn't
Capital isn't working
Larry Elliott
Tuesday June 25, 2002
The Guardian
The stock market euphoria of March 2000 seemed a long time ago
yesterday as shares in London and New York resumed their downward
slide. Back then, Kevin Keegan was England's manager, Bill Clinton
was president of the United S
Oh, yes. And there was slavery.
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 10:26:12AM -0700, Devine, James wrote:
> this article makes sense, but it should be stressed that tariffs were
> necessary but not sufficient to promoting the U.S. rise to the top. In
> addition, the U.S. benefited from having cheap access
Title: transportation
If the U.S. government is going to bail out United Airlines (as the airline wants), shouldn't it also do so for Railtrack... oops, I mean Amtrak?
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
[large protests -given the remoteness of the location- in Canada
are planned for this conference]
[The Guardian]
Forging a trail for fair trade
Unless the G8 make progress on eradicating trade inequities, the
new partnership for Africa's development will fail, writes Mark
Tran
Tuesday June 25,
Title: RE: [PEN-L:27183] Re: LTV and income disparity
Nancy, to reconcile what Gil says below with what I said: we really don't disagree (on this point). But he's referring to an absolute definition of poverty, whereas I was referring to both absolute and relative definitions of poverty (with
The recent ascension of one of Suharto's generals as the head of Indonesia'a
military was coincident with an announcement of new support for foreign
electric power investments.
One major coal plant was built by US investors, GE
and Edison International (along with Mitsubishi.) A Suharto rela
When I read about O'Neill's statement about no support for Brazil --
derided as bumbling -- it seemed to me it was quite calculated rather
than bumbling. Calculated to deepen Brazil's trouble before the
election and thus head off Lula's victory.
Gene
Ian Murray wrote:
> - Original Message
Hi, Nancy. To get right to the point, the labor theory of value
does not of itself imply a zero-sum conflict in the distribution of
social income. The reason for this is that, even if the total
potential labor expenditure in an economy is fixed, the total product of
that labor--and thus the tota
Title: PK on W
(this is a pretty good column.)
The Reality Thing
By PAUL KRUGMAN/NY TIMES/June 25, 2002
You can say this about the Bush administration: where others might see problems, it sees opportunities.
A slump in the economy was an opportunity to push a tax cut that provided very
Title: RE: [PEN-L:27150] another myth bites the dust?
this article makes sense, but it should be stressed that tariffs were necessary but not sufficient to promoting the U.S. rise to the top. In addition, the U.S. benefited from having cheap access to raw materials and land (at the expense of
Title: OPIC dei
From yesterday's SLATE news summary: >The WS [JOURNAL] reports, "The Bush administration has stepped into a long-simmering legal dispute in the Dominican Republic, threatening to discourage investment there if the dispute isn't resolved in favor of a significant Republican poli
Title: RE: [PEN-L:27175] LTV and income disparity
(is the font on this missive readable? This is supposedly in "plain text.")
Nancy Brumback writes: >... a few months ago, i was discussing the gap between the rich and the poor in terms of the labor theory of value. to me, it seems self-evide
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From: "Michael Perelman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 9:04 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:27177] Re: Re: End of U.S.-centric world economy?
> I think his approach implies that Brazil falters.
>
==
Isn't that a foil fo
I think his approach implies that Brazil falters.
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 07:15:28AM +0100, Chris Burford wrote:
> At 24/06/02 16:11 -0700, you wrote:
> >Roach's report sounds pretty reasonable. Does anybody have any
> >comments?
> >--
> >
> >Michael Perelman
> >Economics Department
>
>
> I do
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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I am on another listserve, ANTHRO-L, which sometimes turns political -- there are a few good marxist anthropologists on it. a few months ago, i was discussing the gap between the rich and the poor in terms of the labor theory of value. to me, it seems self-evident that the richer the rich get, the
NY Times, June 25, 2002
Suits Say Wal-Mart Forces Workers to Toil Off the Clock
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
KANSAS CITY, Mo. After finishing her 10 p.m. to 8 a.m. shift, Verette
Richardson clocked out and was heading to her car when a Wal-Mart manager
ordered her to turn around and straighten up the s
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Business Week, April 4, 1994
A TONIC FOR THE BUSINESS CYCLE
BYLINE: Howard Gleckman in Washington, with Zachary Schiller in Cleveland
and James B.
Just-in-time delivery may be the remedy for wild inventory swings
Just-in-time has come of age. Keeping inventories lean to hold down costs
was
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