A diary contribution from Beijing in the Independent on Sunday (UK) notes
that there are now 190 million mobile phones in China.
This is tremendously important for a developing country in leaping over one
of the steps in technological revolution, the need to lay telephone landlines.
Secondly
Without any mention of capitalism's tendency to unequal accumulation, the
following is a subtle analysis in People's Daily of capital flows in the
irrational international economic and trade system
Clearly, unlike most developing countries, China intends not to be in a
passive position in this
[IPR - 22.11.2002] Left gets nod from right on copyright law (CNet)
U.S. Appeals Court Judge Richard Posner, one of America's most
prominent jurists, warned Tuesday of an enormous expansion of
intellectual-property law, adding a conservative voice to a chorus of
criticism that's so far come
From Ha'arretz (sp?) Cheers, Ken Hanly
Tuesday, November 26, 2002 Kislev 21, 5763Israel Time: 17:05 (GMT+2)
U.S. expected to approve $14 billion aid request
By Moti Bassok
Israel will today submit a request for $14 billion in economic aid to U.S.
National Security Advisor Condoleezza
RE
It should be obvious that any philosopher who tried to revive the
concept of the social contract would have little in common with
Marxism, which posits social class as the fundamental unit of analysis.
I have an admittedly imperfect understanding of Rawls, and perhaps others
will set me
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
He was not claiming that we should look at actually existing societies as
if they were the product of a social contract. Rather, Rawls asked what
would society look like IF it was designed from scratch by people who did
not know what position they would have in this
Title: RE: [PEN-L:32564] Re: Re: John Rawls
Eric N. wrote:
He was not claiming that we should look at actually existing societies as
if they were the product of a social contract. Rather, Rawls asked what
would society look like IF it was designed from scratch by people who did
Title: PK on NSR
comments on cap-and-trade?
November 26, 2002
Every Breath You Take
Paul Krugman/NY TIMES
Last week the Bush administration announced new rules that would effectively scrap new source review, a crucial component of our current system of air pollution control. This
Rawls no doubt had a liberal welfare state in mind when he wrote A Theory
of Justice but the difference principle itself does not necessarily lead
to the conclusion that a liberal welfare state is the way to go. Even
Rawls, who was initially very naive about actually existing economic
systems
On Tuesday, November 26, 2002 at 08:20:24 (-0800) Devine, James writes:
comments on cap-and-trade?
The following exchange is from Robin Hahnel.
Bill
Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:08:24 -0500
Robin Hahnel ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Max B. Sawicky wrote:
If government gives away emissions permits, then
Title: RE: [PEN-L:32552] the Krugman advantage
it's an okay article, but I sincerely doubt that PK will receive the Nobel Prize in economics. His NYT column is in some ways a consolation prize. Not only is PK controversial (doing a job that economists aren't supposed to do), but the new trade
Title: RE: [PEN-L:32570] Re: John Rawls
Rawls' idea of justice came from the idea that one thinks about if I were to set up a society and didn't know what position I would end up in, how would I design it? The idea is that we should limit inequality because in this hypothetical situation, we
Devine, James wrote:
Rawls' idea of justice came from the idea that one thinks about if I
were to set up a society and didn't know what position I would end up
in, how would I design it? The idea is that we should limit inequality
because in this hypothetical situation, we might end up with
Eric N. wrote:
He was not claiming that we should look at actually existing societies as if they
were the product of a social contract. Rather, Rawls asked what would society look
like IF it was designed from scratch by people who did not know what position they
would have in this newly
This bill passed in the Senate 86-11. The Dems all waved it through. The 11 Republican dissenters included Phil Gramm who said the bill "discouraged development of a private terrorism insurance market" (something no economy should be without).
It's win-win for insurance companies -- they can
Forstater, Mathew wrote:
[clip] vulgar materialism. David (M.) Gordon didnt like this last
phrase,
by the way. I forget why, exactly. I thought Marx used it
Marx spoke of vulgar economists, and both he and Engels, I _think_
spoke of mechanical materialism -- but I don't think either ever used
[speaking of cap and trade and insurance. from the Ecological Society of
America list. ]
- Original Message -
From: Karen Claxon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 5:06 AM
Subject: gw: Crops suffer as climate changes
Crops suffer as climate
Title: re: base-superstructure model
sometimes the phrase vulgar materialism is used to summarize Marx's 3nd thesis on Feuerbach:
The [vulgar -- JD] materialist doctrine that people are products of circumstances and upbringing, and that, therefore, changed people are products of other
Jim D wrote,
My point was that this seems pretty individualistic. It
doesn't recognize that people care about the fates of
others even without doing the putting myself in the
other guy's shoes routine.
Rawls artifical situation (where you didn't know what place you would
have in the
Louis wrote,
The reason it sounds individualistic is because it is rooted
in Kant. It is really an updating of the notion of the categorical
imperative . . .
and
It was only after being exposed to Marxism that I figured out
that it was nonsensical to talk about justice without talking about
Title: RE: [PEN-L:32578] Re: John Rawls
Eric writes:This might be a possible assumption about how people would
choose in this artifical situation, but I don't think this is the only
possible assumption about how people would act and other possible
assumptions about human motivations would
One of my students emailed me the following --an interesting
mix!!!
"In class, we recently discussed an article about US oil dependency and the
upcoming war with Iraq. Frequently mentioned in the article was the Baker
Institute for Public Policy. I took the liberty of researching who was on
So
is the Baker Institure pro or anti-war?
-Original Message-From: e. ahmet tonak
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002
4:35 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject:
[PEN-L:32581] Stiglitz and the Baker Institute
connection...One of my students
emailed me
Title: oil dependency
Ahmet quotes: In class, we recently discussed an article about US oil dependency and the upcoming war with Iraq.
in case anyone was wondering about U.S. National Public Radio's stance on these issues, there was a story yesterday about France's and Russia's dependence
Brown, Martin - ARP (NIH/NCI) wrote:
So is the Baker Institure pro or anti-war?
Very pro-war. Here is the coverage from Sunday Herald (UK):
Sunday Herald - 06 October 2002
Official: US oil at the heart of Iraq crisis
By Neil Mackay
Oh,
that Baker!
-Original Message-From: e. ahmet tonak
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002
5:08 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject:
[PEN-L:32584] Re: RE: Stiglitz and the Baker Institute
connection...Brown, Martin - ARP (NIH/NCI)
wrote:
- Original Message -
From: e. ahmet tonak [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 2:07 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:32584] Re: RE: Stiglitz and the Baker Institute
connection...
Brown, Martin - ARP (NIH/NCI) wrote:
So is the Baker Institure pro or anti-war?
NY Times, Nov. 26, 2002
John Rawls, Theorist on Justice, Is Dead at 82
By DOUGLAS MARTIN
John Rawls, the American political theorist whose work gave new meaning
and resonance to the concepts of justice and liberalism, died on Sunday
at his home in Lexington, Mass. He was 82.
The cause was
It's Not Norman Mailer's Village Voice Anymore
Muckraising And Hell-Raising: The Glory Days Of The Underground Press
Are Gone
by Michael Ryan
Nowadays, alternative weeklies seem to exist mainly as a vehicle to
advertise high end audio and computer equipment, health clubs, and sex
toys...
Greetings Economists,
Eric Nilsson quotes Louis Proyect,
LP,
The reason it sounds individualistic is because it is rooted
in Kant. It is really an updating of the notion of the categorical
imperative . . .
and
It was only after being exposed to Marxism that I figured out
that it was nonsensical
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