At 2003-03-03 09:52 -0800, Michael wrote:
In United States, one percentage point increase in the unemployment rate
has a significant impact on encouraging crime. Parenthetically, I wonder
if anybody has done some sort of cost benefit study on this subject. I
understand that in the Muslim
I note this story got did not score highly in newsvalue points in the UK,
and scored presumably even less in the US. What a lot that has to say about
the assumptions of world politics.
Let us just hope that the French and Russians made full use of it in
canvassing opinion on the Security
On Mon, 03 Mar 2003, Eugene Coyle wrote:
But for tax purposes, corporations (and individuals)
keep a different
set of books, using the fastest allowable
depreciation
rate. Who cares
about the true rate?
Neoclassical economists, but then again, who gives a
fuck what they think?
dd
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The cost
is to the rate payers, although tax payers will pay a small amount.
Aren't the rate payers (beyond corporate users who will probably deduct higher expenses) the same people that pay taxes, just
Thanks, Ahmet.
Two further questions: Is it correct that the vote is confidential from
the Turkish people, but not the political leadership (which means that
they know whom to pressure, but the people don't who would be pressured
and who may cave in)?
Second, I have Turkish students in one of
Title: RE: [PEN-L:35272] Re: The real Gene Coyle
That's a point that Jackie Goldberg made, too. But Michael Perelman asked about the extent to which the Enron-et al-engendered energy emergency effected the California state budget.
Jim
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Nomi:
Yes.
There is probably some shifting of the burden -- but I'm not sure which
way. I don't know enough -- anything, really -- about how corporations
get taxed vs how much they will pay in electric bills.
My guess is that the rich will come out ahead, but I'm not sure. The
very
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I read two items in English language papers when recently in Korea and
Japan:
In Japan, personal bankrupty is rising -- previously not a recourse
there, as I understood the item.
In Korea, credit card delinquency is rising. Credit card use in Korea
is only recently (five years or so?)
Paul Zarembka wrote:
Thanks, Ahmet.
Two further questions: Is it correct that the vote is confidential from
the Turkish people, but not the political leadership (which means that
they know whom to pressure, but the people don't who would be pressured
and who may cave in)?
It seems correct;
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W.R. Needham's message ends with a quote:
Fascism should be more properly called corporatism, since it is the
merger of state and corporate power. Benito Mussolini
Just a couple of days ago, I had a conversation with
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one thing is that the burden on the rate-payers of the high cost of electricity is likely to encourage resistance to tax hikes which makes the upcoming legislative train-wreck (the collision of anti-tax-hike GOPsters, anti-services-cut
Jim D notes,
... but pen-l is the right place for quibbling. If I remember correctly,
the words corporation and corporate had a different meaning for
Mussolini than it does today. He was referring to tripartite
organizations of capital, labor, and government designed to smooth over
social
Title: spies and whispers
from SLATE: The Los Angeles Times leads with a
scoop: The Pentagon is planning to create its own corps of spies
around the world. The plan hasn't been implemented yet, but could
eventually include hundreds of spooks who could theoretically
focus on the kind of combat
I have tried to run down the Mussolini quote several times,
unsuccessfully.
Also, the Italian idea was not entirely unique. Hoover had a similar
version. Roosevelt's NRA (not Bush's) was not terribly different.
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 08:19:47AM -0800, Devine, James wrote:
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Michael Perelman writes:
I have tried to run down the Mussolini quote several times,
unsuccessfully.
Also, the Italian idea was not entirely unique. Hoover had a similar
version. Roosevelt's NRA (not Bush's) was not terribly different.
The corporatism
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I have tried to run down the Mussolini quote several times,
unsuccessfully.
Also, the Italian idea was not entirely unique. Hoover had a similar
version. Roosevelt's NRA (not Bush's) was not terribly different.
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This is
available through my web page:
From:
Power versus the Public Good: The Conundrum of the Individual and
Society
1966 Hagey Lecture
by
John Ralston Saul
There is a whole new neo-corporatist school
around. There are a lot of people, I don't know whether they are
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I have tried to run down the Mussolini quote several times,
unsuccessfully.
Also, the Italian idea was not entirely unique. Hoover had
a similar
version. Roosevelt's NRA (not Bush's) was not terribly different.
Ian writes:
A quick
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I have tried to run down the Mussolini quote several times,
unsuccessfully.
==
Present political
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I have tried to run down the Mussolini quote several times,
unsuccessfully.
Also, the Italian idea was not
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I wrote:
Ian, isn't that from the journal published by Holocaust deniers? (But then
again, who would be better to describe fascism than fascists?)
Exactly. James Whisker's reading of the rise of Italian
fascism dovetails pretty
closely
Dear
Educator/Activist:
Monthly Review Press is
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Invasion of Iraq by the Research Unit for Political
Economy. Thisbook offers an incisive account of thecurrent US strategic agendafor Iraq and its implications for
the rest of the world.
An interesting novel about Italy in the '30s when Mussolini was taking
over Ethiopia is Christ Stopped at Eboli.
Its description of the peasants' politics and occasional misdirected
and fruitless violence evokes for me, somehow, today's USA.
Gene Coyle
Devine, James wrote:
I wrote:
Ian,
US Pretext for Invading Iraq
The Post (Lusaka)
EDITORIAL
March 4, 2003
Posted to the web March 4, 2003
Lusaka
There's need to intelligently and honestly examine the United States'
pretext for invading Iraq.
We are being told Iraq possesses weapons of mass destruction and as such
poses a
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An interesting novel about Italy in the '30s when Mussolini was taking
over Ethiopia is Christ Stopped at Eboli.
Its description of the peasants' politics and occasional misdirected
and fruitless violence evokes for me,
The other great one is Fontamara by Ignazio Silone.
Joanna
At 12:46 PM 03/04/2003 -0800, you wrote:
An interesting novel about Italy in the '30s when Mussolini was taking
over Ethiopia is Christ Stopped at Eboli.
Its description of the peasants' politics and occasional
misdirected and
A report in today's Financial Times indicates the Turkish government will
likely succeed in reversing the past weekend's parliamentary vote denying
basing rights to US troops for a northern Iraq front.
The report says Recep Tayyip Erdogan, leader of the ruling Justice and
Development party,
http://www.southbendtribune.com/stories/2003/03/03/local.20030303-sbt-MARS-A1-
+e_great.sto
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Ahmet wrote:
Re: Turkish military-whether it was weakened:
No. Because it did have opportunity to openly support
the government's proposal a day before the voting through
the National Security Council meeting and it chose not to.
I object Ahmet. Your assessment sounds no different than that
I am a bit puzzled by Sabri's identification of my observations with the
FT's piece. Neither the quoted sections nor the entire assessments (i.e.
FT's and mine) is saying the same thing. Moreover, I am not fully sure
what exactly Sabri's characterization of the assessment as .. pure and
http://www.fortune.com/fortune/articles/0,15114,427948,00.html
I found this article to be quite informative.
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Economics Department
California State University
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At 2003-03-04 21:51 -0500, Marv Gandall wrote:
A report in today's Financial Times indicates the Turkish government will
likely succeed in reversing the past weekend's parliamentary vote denying
basing rights to US troops for a northern Iraq front.
But what if the Kurds threaten to fight?
Kurds'
Yesterday in London Igor Ivanov could not have been more unhelpful to the
British government in the nicest possible way. Even before waiting to be
asked, he told his press conference that they might ask him whether he has
discussed a Russian veto with Jack Straw, his opposite number. No, he
Dear Professor of Management Rex Adams,
Unless there are two Rex Adams floating around the Duke Fuqua School of
Business, I must assume that you are the very same Rex Adams identified
as the Chairman of the Board of Directors on the PBS website.
I am writing to let you know that as one of
The Independent, 04 March 2003
US hits roadblock in push to war
By Rupert Cornwell in Washington
America admitted yesterday that the war due to begin as early as next
week might have to be put back by at least a month because of Turkey's
refusal to allow US ground troops to deploy there.
The
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