RE: Re: Huck Finn ref # 33551

2003-01-02 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Doyle -- You are criticizing the movie because it's not some other movie you would rather see. The movie is not about two souls from different backgrounds striking a bond in a hostile world. The black gang member is a minor character in the story. In the story, a class movement is precisely what

Climate catastrophe

2003-01-02 Thread Eugene Coyle
"In order to prevent devastating climate shifts world-wide, total global greenhouse gas emissions must soon drop to 60 to 80 percent below their 1990 levels." Can that be right? That can't be right. The sentence appears early in the book DEAD HEAT, by Tom Athanasiou and Paul Baer. An importa

Re: Re: A feeling robot sensor for soldiers in thefield

2003-01-02 Thread Doyle Saylor
Greetings Economists, Well Tom you certainly made a good point about whose ass gets worried about first. On the other hand, perhaps old fashioned technology is the best like an enema tube snaking down out of the pack and into a special 'pocket in the rear of the captains pants. I could see the co

Re: A feeling robot sensor for soldiers in the field

2003-01-02 Thread Tom Walker
Fucking incompetents. Why not stick a catheter up the commander's ass and when he shits himself they'll know he's in trouble. > "The human commander may get into trouble but be unable to ask for help," > said Nilanjan Sarkar, team member and assistant professor of Vanderbilt > University's Departm

A feeling robot sensor for soldiers in the field

2003-01-02 Thread Doyle Saylor
Greetings Economists, The U.S. military is seeking to give soldiers various kinds of tools to endure the terrors of battle. The following technology review indicates how the U.S. military is approaching the issue of emotion production and what to do with such information. Aside from the normal qu

Turkish leader criticises Denktash

2003-01-02 Thread Chris Burford
Remarkable statement by leader of the new ruling party of Turkey: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-2289953,00.html This is a sign that the repective national bourgeois circles that backed Greek fascism, and the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, 30 years ago have waned in influence

Re: Re: The ideological implications of Scorcese's latest film

2003-01-02 Thread Ralph Johansen
Brings to mind marathon dancing in the 30's depression [way out thought], and the phenomenon of Michael Moore's documentary, and limited introductory showings, word of mouth and mass marketing. Bowling even showed for a week here on Maui. It's not maybe too far-fetched for a try. There was also Tar

Re: Rogoff: We're Not the Problem

2003-01-02 Thread Chris Burford
At 02/01/03 12:23 -0800, Peter wrote: You would be completely right if Rogoff thought that unemployment and falling incomes were the problem. For him (and the IMF), however, a shortage of foreign exchange for debt service is the problem (just like his brother's inability to pay his loans was a

Re: Re: Re: Re: Rogoff: We're Not the Problem

2003-01-02 Thread Carrol Cox
Peter Dorman wrote: > > . > I've always found it interesting that, in international trade and > finance, the "nation" is used as a unit of analysis by a profession > Back in the late '60s the late columnist Joseph Kraft offered defintions of "nation," "public," and "people." "Nation" was the

Re: Re: Re: Rogoff: We're Not the Problem

2003-01-02 Thread Peter Dorman
You would be completely right if Rogoff thought that unemployment and falling incomes were the problem.  For him (and the IMF), however, a shortage of foreign exchange for debt service is the problem (just like his brother's inability to pay his loans was a problem).  Here the fallacy is not th

Re: Inside the stock market bubble

2003-01-02 Thread Nomiprins
In a message dated 1/2/2003 9:09:24 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Comments? "Yet for all that increased attention, it's difficult to say that the enlarged business media played a decisive role in exposing the shortcomings of American corporate practices." Not that difficul

EPI/IWPR Reception at ASSA

2003-01-02 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Economic Policy Institute & Institute for Women's Policy Research In conjunction with this year's Allied Social Science Association's annual Conference, attendees are invited to attend a reception hosted jointly by the Economic Policy Institute and the Institute for Women's Policy Research. WHERE

Re: Re: The ideological implications of Scorcese'slatest film

2003-01-02 Thread Doug Henwood
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: Peter, I'd love to see a film that does all of the above, but the film might then become longer than _Berlin Alexanderplatz_ (Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1980, 933 minutes!!!). _Berlin Alexanderplatz_ was originally aired as a 14-part TV miniseries. Anyone has watc

words to banish

2003-01-02 Thread ken hanly
http://www.lssu.edu/banished/current/default.html

Inside the stock market bubble

2003-01-02 Thread Seth Sandronsky
Jan. 2, 2003 Hi PEN-L: From today's New York Times, one insider's view of the stock market bubble. Comments? Regards, Seth Sandronsky The Boys in the Bubble January 2, 2003 By JAMES LEDBETTER LONDON The year that just ended will be remembered as a year when the failures of America's corp

Re: The ideological implications of Scorcese's latest film

2003-01-02 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
At 2:44 PM -1000 1/1/03, Ralph Johansen wrote: with a break for lunch, yes, at the York Theater in SF about 15 or 20 years ago. And btw not a bad format as precedent, for a film that has it all I would enjoy watching it, and it would have a guaranteed spot in film history and perhaps find a de

Re: Rogoff: We're Not the Problem

2003-01-02 Thread Chris Burford
At 02/01/03 00:36 -0500, Michael Pollak wrote: [This seems kind of unbelievable. Isn't the first fallacy that economics 101 sets out to refute the idea that a household budget is analogous to a set of national accounts? I thought it was regarded not only as a fallacy but as the shibboleth of ec