Greetings Economists,
On a private list about technology and economics I run, I had an exchange
with someone in Japan about networked society. Alan has been writing for
awhile about how communications technology in Japan has been well
established and the cultural impact that has had. In this exch
since hari asked for sarcasm:
i believe chomsky also once took a piss behind a building on mass ave,
in 1956, since he was in a hurry to go. the dishonest, immoral
sonofagun! also, have you noticed that chomsky and stalin have the
letter 's', and only the letter 's', common in their name? and tw
Title: FW: today's papers: Crash Landing?
from Slate's news summary:
>The Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, USA Today, and Wall
Street Journal biz-box all lead with a federal panel's rejection
of United Airlines' request for $1.8 billion in loan guarantees.
The decision means that United, th
From: Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L:32777] Counting the poor
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 10:30:35 -0500
HOW NOT TO COUNT THE POOR
Sanjay G. Reddy and Thomas W. Pogge
Abstract: The estimates of the extent, distribu
ZNet | Venezuela
Why Venezuela's Middle Class (for the most part) Opposes Chavez
by Gregory Wilpert; October 27, 2002
"Chavez' greatest error was to screw the middle class," says Carlos
Escarrá, a prominent constitutional lawyer and former Venezuelan
supreme court judge, who describes himself as
Original Message
Subject: IMF Loan Conditions for Nicaragua Require Privatization
Measures That Would Enrich Corporations at the Expense of People
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 08:48:29 -0500
From: "Dennis Roy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
For Immediate Release: Contact: Sara
Grusky (202)
Title: Re: [PEN-L:32779] FW: today's papers: Crash
Landing?
does anyone know what
UAL's business plan was? what was wrong with it? it didn't call for
enough wage cuts?
Another question: What is the gov't's agendda.
Wasn't United Airlines taken over by its employees in a previous
fianancial sc
The employees gave serious wage concessions -- not the flight attendants
-- for half ownership, but they lacked any control over management -- big
mistake.
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 10:05:04AM -0800, Dan Scanlan wrote:
> >
> >does anyone know what UAL's business plan was? what was wrong with
> >it?
Note that they pay modest fines compared to what revealing the
information might cost. Very intelligent economic behavior.
FIRMS FINED FOR NOT FOLLOWING E-MAIL RETENTION SCHEDULE
The Securities and Exchange Commission has fined five major brokerage
firms
(Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stan
THE SCIENCE OF SHOPPING
Marketplace
Air Date: Dec 3, 2002
Reporter: Margo Kelly
Producer: George Prodanou
Researcher: Jennifer Haynes
http://cbc.ca/consumers/market/files/money/science_shopping/
Corporations are going to new lengths to probe the minds of consumers.
A company in Atlanta is scanni
Employees got (or now have) around 55% of the shares -- soon to be worth
little, in that previous bailout. They also got three seats on the Board.
Yeah, you have to wonder what the govt agenda is. Previously (last
year?) they turned down the attempted merger of United with another big
carrier.
The Economist
June 29, 2002 U.S. Edition
SECTION: THE AMERICAS
HEADLINE: Middle-class and armed
BODY: IT WAS about an hour into the condominium association meeting,
in a middle-class Caracas neighbourhood, before anyone broached the
subject that was on everyone's mind. "What happens if there are
The gov't won't support the airlines without a concommitant smashing of
the unions, which is likely to have an effect on wages throughout the
economy, except for full professors at minor colleges.
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 10:17:53AM -0800, Eugene Coyle wrote:
> Employees got (or now have) around 5
A company in Atlanta is scanning people's brains with MRIs, in an effort
to
record our subconscious thoughts about products and ads.
A Brave Neuro World?
--
---
Drop Bush, Not Bombs!
---
"Du
Title: RE: [PEN-L:32789] Re: Re: Re: FW: today's papers: Crash Landing?
> The gov't won't support the airlines without a concommitant
> smashing of
> the unions, which is likely to have an effect on wages throughout the
> economy, except for full professors at minor colleges.
hey, we full
This article makes China sound like the USSR in slow motion.
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 06:27:13PM -0800, Ian Murray wrote:
> Workers in China Fail As Owners of Factories
> Managers, Investors Are Taking Over
>
> By Philip P. Pan
> Washington Post Foreign Service
> Wednesday, December 4, 2002; Page
Published on Thursday, December 5, 2002 by the Guardian/UK
This Time I'm Scared
US propaganda fueled the first Gulf war. It will fuel this one too -
and the risks are even greater
by Maggie O'Kane
I have a picture from the last Gulf war. It was taken in the basement
of the Al Rashid hotel, the
The punch line comes at the end.
"Capitalist Politicians, Socialist Bureaucrats? Legends of
Government Planning from Japan"
Antitrust Bulletin, Forthcoming
BY: YOSHIRO MIWA
University of Tokyo
J. MARK RAMSEYER
Harvard Law School
Document: Ava
Eugene Coyle wrote:
Yeah, you have to wonder what the govt agenda is.
The bailout was opposed by the rest of the airline industry. And
there was a substantial risk the government wouldn't get its money
back. The decision doesn't seem too mysterious.
Doug
What happens next? That's the question about the agenda. They have
bailed out other airlines where getting the money back is also a
significant risk.
Gene Coyle
Doug Henwood wrote:
Eugene Coyle wrote:
Yeah, you have to wonder what the govt agenda is.
The bailout was opposed by the rest o
If United goes bankrupt, then it will have a decided edge on the rest of
the industry. It will not have as heavy debts and the unions will be
defanged.
Other carriers will have to break their unions to compete.
There will be fewer flights and more Valuejets.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Depa
On Thursday, December 5, 2002 at 10:57:29 (-0800) Michael Perelman writes:
>If United goes bankrupt, then it will have a decided edge on the rest of
>the industry. It will not have as heavy debts and the unions will be
>defanged.
>
>Other carriers will have to break their unions to compete.
>...
At the same time it seems to perpetuate the myth of the median voter. Who
were the Japanese capitalists financing for runs for elective office?
Ian
- Original Message -
From: "Michael Perelman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 10:52 AM
Subj
Bill Lear wrote:
Southwest has unions and has been profitable each year of operation,
with high employee and customer satisfaction, no?
Le Monde diplomatique March 2002
END OF THE NEW WORKPLACE
Smiling serfs of the new economy
___
Will the
[Toronto Globe and Mail]
POSTED AT 12:37 PM EDTThursday, December 5
Harvard Mouse can't be patented
By KIRK MAKIN and DARREN YOURK
Globe and Mail Update
Higher life-forms cannot be patented in Canada until Parliament
specifically debates the ramifications and states that they can, the
Supreme
- Original Message -
From: "Louis Proyect" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> by IBRAHIM WARDE (Research associate at Harvard University and author of
> Islamic finance in the global economy, Edinburgh University Press, 2000)
>
=
A thoroughly excellent text
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/04/02 11:20AM >>>
Before the Kuwait war, Iraq had lots of oil bucks, so that Saddam could do a lot of
good things for the people in order to build up his legitimacy without detracting from
the all-important feathering of his own nest.
JD
<<<>>>
i don't know much about ir
In a message dated 12/5/2002 2:01:39 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Southwest has unions and has been profitable each year of operation,
with high employee and customer satisfaction, no?
UAL salary / wages amount to 41% of their total expenses, roughly the same ratio as Amer
Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services - December 2, 2002
BUSH ADMINISTRATION PUSHES "REGIME CHANGE" IN VENUZUELA
It's 10 p.m. -- do you know what your government is up to? It seems
that Iraq is not the only "regime change" that the Bush
Administration is working on. The US government has a
In a message dated 12/5/2002 1:14:41 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Note that they pay modest fines compared to what revealing the
information might cost. Very intelligent economic behavior.
yeah - insignificant fines. This brings the sum of Wall Street fines for this recent
No. Southwest does not have unions, I believe, but they treat their
workers well.
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 01:06:00PM -0600, Bill Lear wrote:
> On Thursday, December 5, 2002 at 10:57:29 (-0800) Michael Perelman writes:
> >If United goes bankrupt, then it will have a decided edge on the rest of
> >t
On Thursday, December 5, 2002 at 12:21:31 (-0800) Michael Perelman writes:
>No. Southwest does not have unions, I believe, but they treat their
>workers well.
Hmm, according to the NPR story either this morning or yesterday, they
do. They even invite them to company events and address them as "we
> HOW NOT TO COUNT THE POOR
> Sanjay G. Reddy and Thomas W. Pogge
> The systematic distortion introduced by these three flaws likely leads
> to a large understatement of the extent of global income poverty and to
> an incorrect inference that it has declined.
According to Reddy and Pogge's ana
In a message dated 12/5/02 5:19:47 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Then why is Japan so weak and trying to get a grip and stay
competitive in the global economy? That is the making of another
email. I also want to write about finding common ground between your
economic model o
Title: RE: [PEN-L:32803] RE: Re: Chomsky
> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/04/02 11:20AM >>>
> Before the Kuwait war, Iraq had lots of oil bucks, so that
> Saddam could do a lot of good things for the people in order
> to build up his legitimacy without detracting from the
> all-important feathe
Bradsher, Keith. 1989. "UAL Board to Consider Its Next Step." New
York Times (23 October): p. D1.
The 190 point fall in October 1987 may have been triggered by
the announcement that financing for the takeover of United
Airlines was not going to be forthcoming. "In interviews last
week, 13 arbi
Title: Dr. Pangloss studies the weather
Global warming is good for you
The world's climate has always changed and that should not scare us. We should just be prepared
Duncan Steel
Thursday December 5, 2002
The Guardian
There can be little doubt that global warming is real. When scientists
White House Touts 'Solid' Evidence on Iraqi Weapons
By Barry Schweid
AP Diplomatic Writer
Thursday, December 5, 2002; 2:14 PM
The White House said Thursday it possesses solid evidence that
Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, and rejected Baghdad's
denials, saying they have no credibility.
Pre
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 22:35:36 -0500
From: Ruth Indeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Bcc:
Subject: Teaching Position at John Jay
To URPE Members and Friends
From Joan Hoffman
Address all questions to Joan at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
*
Fall 2003 Tenure trac
Rate relief for Europe
Half-point reduction to save German economy after year-long wait
Larry Elliott and Mark Milner
Friday December 6, 2002
The Guardian
Europe's central bank yesterday cut interest rates for the first time for more than a
year
as it sought to prevent Germany from sliding into
Friday December 6, 2:20 AM
Turkey Returns As A Top Sovereign Debt Issuer In 2002
By Angela Pruitt
Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--After being exiled from international
capital markets most of last year, Turkey returned to emerging
market debt with a vengeance in 2002, retaking its m
(Policy Review is a journal of the Hoover Institution, a rightwing
think-tank in the USA. This morbidly fascinating article tries to
explain anti-Americanism [sic] in terms of what sees as a Marxist
revisionism from Immanuel Wallerstein and the late Paul Baran.)
Policy Review, December 2002
T
HOW NOT TO COUNT THE POOR
Sanjay G. Reddy and Thomas W. Pogge
Abstract: The estimates of the extent, distribution and trend of global
income poverty provided in the World Bank's World Development Reports
for 1990 and 2000/01 are neither meaningful nor reliable. The Bank uses
an arbitrary intern
43 matches
Mail list logo
