rich guy meeting

"State of the Ruling Class" Laurie Garrett [Laurie Garrett of Newsday sent this email to a bunch of her friends. It got around. Then it got loose. Reportedly she is quite steamed about it, as well she might be. It's been circulated to thousands already. Laurie Garrett is the only writer ever to

Castro speaks up

Voice of the dark corners By Fidel Castro The Guardian (UK) March 6, 2003 These are hard times we are living in. In recent months, we have more than once heard chilling words and statements. In his speech to West Point graduating cadets on June 1 2002, the United States president declared: "Our

Mice?

The holes just "discovered" by UN inspectors in the electric fencing along a number of sections of the Iraq-Kuwait border, some as big as 300 yards, may have a significance on several levels. Illegal incursion into the DMZ by zealous US forces, wanting to explore the barriers on the other side

Iraqi political economy

This week the interventionist trends have carried a number of stories of links between Saddam and Stalin. It is not clear whose reputation is supposed to be more insulted by this association. The links seem to rest on a few positive remarks by Saddam about Stalin, plus his policy of internal r

Re: the political ecology of megaprojects

- Original Message - From: "Ian Murray" Subject: [PEN-L:35339] the political ecology of megaprojects > Megaprojects and Risk > An Anatomy of Ambition > Bent Flyvbjerg, Nils Bruzelius, Werner Rothengatter Hey I can do free chapters too, on the worst megaprojects in Africa: Lesotho Highland

Dollars and Sense article - Whose Jobs? Our Jobs!

Hi everyone, With the economy continuing its downward spiral and today's depressing jobless figures - here's a piece I wrote for the current issue of Dollars and Sense, hopefully  balancing the bad with the good. Your comments would be most welcome. Best, Nomi Dollars & Sense March-April 2003 W

job opening

Please circulate widely. Though the ad doesn't say so, ability to teach History of Economic Thought and to collaborate in interdisciplinary social science courses will be a big plus. Feel free to contact me with questions. Ellen Frank The Management and Economics Department invites applicati

from god to gdp

Money and happiness The evidence is clear: our wellbeing depends on cooperation and the public good, not personal enrichment Polly Toynbee Friday March 7, 2003 The Guardian When God died, GDP took over and economists became the new high priests. That has been the story of the last century, with

re: from god to gdp; from lump of Layard to leisure

Whoa! Shiver me timbers. Quickly skimming through Richard Layard's second lecture of three I am getting the impression that he is inadvertently stumbling over insights that the turn of the last century Cambridge economists took as axiomatic. That is before the ban on comparing utilities came into

US loses world leadership

Perhaps the moment will be more correctly identified as next Tuesday, when the SC votes formally on the UK proposal giving a cutoff of 17th March. Perhaps it is just conceivable they can bully or cajole a majority in order to have it vetoed. But really the US under Bush has squandered its hegemo

evidence of war hawks' stupidity?

http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030307-092710-3308r -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chico, CA 95929 530-898-5321 fax 530-898-5901

Turkey

EURASIA INSIGHT March 7, 2003 HISTORICAL FACTORS INFLUENCE TURKEY'S STANCE ON IRAQ WAR Igor Torbakov: 3/07/03 A EurasiaNet Commentary The Turkish parliament's reluctance to accept US troop deployment reflects widespread concern among the country's governing class about the merits of overhauling t

Buying a majority

>From Times on Line March 8 cheers, k hanly 'Bribes' pushing UN waverers into support for war By Richard Beeston, Michael Dynes, Zahid Hussain and David Adams THE centre of gravity in the UN Security Council appeared to be moving significantly towards Britain and the United States last nigh

"UK nuclear evidence a fake "

From the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,910113,00.html Another embarrassing defeat for the postmodernist approach to world governance rather than some sort of due process. Chris Burford London

Re: "UK nuclear evidence a fake "

- Original Message - From: "Chris Burford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 11:10 PM Subject: [PEN-L:35362] "UK nuclear evidence a fake " > From the Guardian > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,910113,00.html > > An

Re: evidence of war hawks' stupidity?

At 2003-03-07 18:23 -0800, you wrote: http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030307-092710-3308r I note the passage: For the Iraqi Army and totalitarian civilian regime shows no sign of cracking and coming apart. Not even close. There has been so far a handful of defectors to the United