At 2003-06-16 15:34 -0700, you quoted:
> An economic system is dynamically complex
if its deterministic
> endogenous processes do not lead it asymptotically to a fixed
> point, a limit cycle, or an explosion.
This sounds like a classic statement based on well established chaos
theory but trying t
[speaking of methodological nationalism...]
The International Herald Tribune | www.iht.com
Europe's trade hypocrisy: The West pays to keep the rest poor
Philip Bowring IHT
Tuesday, June 17, 2003
Europe's trade hypocrisy
GENEVA The Doha round of trade negotiations is rapidly approaching a
c
June 16, 2003, 9:54PM
Border trade ties coming undone
U.S. seeks decision in beef, rice dispute
By JENALIA MORENO and DAVID IVANOVICH
Houston Chronicle
Trade ties between the United States and Mexico grew more tense Monday as
the Bush administration turned to the World Trade Organization to settle
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> I am sorry that nobody has picked up on Martin's post, which
I am sorry that nobody has picked up on Martin's post, which just arrived
tonight. I doesn't matter if the second coming is going to occur in a
year or so, but it if does not... Is this happening with all government
supported science?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State Univ
I have not been online for several days -- my server has been down. I am
now wading through a flood of e-mails in random order, so forgive me if
this has been said before.
I agree with Andrew. What happened in the late 19th C. was that tech.
changed devalued existing capital before costs could b
[NYTimes]
June 17, 2003
Brain Experts Now Follow the Money
By SANDRA BLAKESLEE
People are efficient, rational beings who tirelessly act in their own
self-interest. They make financial decisions based on reason, not emotion.
And naturally, most save money for that proverbial rainy day.
Right?
Wel
I thought that the US auto industry could not survive on its own. The
truck/suv industry is doing ok, but as offshore companies jump into that
market.
Also, the auto companies could look into their ad costs as well.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 9
[who wudda thunk it?]
Dividend Tax Cut Will Benefit Many Members Of House, Reports Show
Some Representatives May Save Thousands
By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, June 17, 2003; Page A03
Dozens of House members stand to save thousands of dollars thanks to the
dividend tax
[fear of corruption? please.]
Scramble for Africa
Fear of corruption and chaos in oil rush
Charlotte Denny, economics correspondent
Tuesday June 17, 2003
The Guardian
Washington's determination to find an alternative energy source to the
Middle East is leading to a new oil rush in sub-
Of course, the US will not let anybody check out its mass graves in
Afghan.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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Hi Barkley,
Your question about "mass graves" is a very good one.
I hope someone has some more information.
Fred
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Barkley Rosser wrote:
> Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 15:02:05 -0400
> From: Barkley Rosser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: PEN-L list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL
Michael Hoover wrote:
pbs apparently has policy prohibiting persons being interviewed for
broadcast from using terms 'capitalist' and 'capitalism', reference to
'business elite' is ok, info comes from michael zweig who was recently
subjected to said policy... michael hoover
That's an outrageous p
> Sabri Oncu wrote:
>
>> Being an old-fashioned thermodynamist trained in the Truesdell
>> school and specialized in the partial integro-differential
>> equations of the hyperbolic kind,
>
> And you have a problem with Western rationality?
>
> Doug
Hey!
This was exactly my problem.
I have been a
Gene writes:
> But if laying off checkers
and baggers counts as productivity improvement, shouldn't the nominal prices at
the market be adjusted upward to take into account that the customer is now
doing the work?<
FWIW, I had
an article on this in CHALLENGE magazine, March-April 2001. The CP
While we watch the hegemonic lead taken by the US, it is worth noting that
the EU has chimed in to say that Iran should comply with a more vigorous
atomic impection regime to prent it transfering from civilian to military
use of nuclear material. And that sanctions are a possibility.
Further that t
I was referring to the gold that gilded
churches in Spain.
That in Holland largely went into the banks.
Barkley Rosser
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Imagine, a 4-year-old who could invert an A
matrix.
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Karl
The globe spinning and poin
BBC" Newsnight, Monday night had two items from Iraq.
1) Interview with Fedayeen in Baghdad where attacks on US military have
spread from the Sunni triangle to the north west of the city. Man appearing
on camera with face pixilated out, holding a grenade. Plus report of a
fedayeen document which a
Archaeologists have discovered the earliest known example of prehistoric
cave art in Britain.
It consists of 12,000-year-old engravings of birds and an ibex carved into
the stone walls at Creswell Crags, Derbyshire.
In the 19th Century a 12,000-year-old bone needle was found there.
Bahn, Pettitt
Hi Sabri --
>I have nothing against the "emancipation" of humans from mundane
>tasks Ken but the fact that the cashiers and bagboys of the
>nation can't be relocated to Indonesia is a problem, is it not?
Yes it is a problem. A "good" problem.
"So what now?" should be the slogan of every non-Yanq
Sabri Oncu wrote:
Being an old-fashioned thermodynamist trained in the Truesdell
school and specialized in the partial integro-differential
equations of the hyperbolic kind,
And you have a problem with Western rationality?
Doug
Dear Barkley,
Being an old-fashioned thermodynamist trained in the Truesdell
school and specialized in the partial integro-differential
equations of the hyperbolic kind, I never had a chance to learn
about complexity theories.
Would you kindly enlighten me what this from your paper
"Complexity in
too bad bush blew the surplus, so there's
no money for transition. I don't see how
they can do it now.
mbs
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Mat,
> But nothing wrong with losing the cashiers and bagboys
> of the nation. They can't be relocated to Indonesia.
>
> Ken.
I have nothing against the "emancipation" of humans from mundane
tasks Ken but the fact that the cashiers and bagboys of the
nation can't be relocated to Indonesia is a problem,
Good to know that it's still a bad word. jksDoug Henwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Michael Hoover wrote:>pbs apparently has policy prohibiting persons being interviewed for>broadcast from using terms 'capitalist' and 'capitalism', reference to>'business elite' is ok, info comes from michael zweig
Now that we are at kids' stories, we were driving from San
Francisco to Berkeley one evening. The traffic was too slow and
we were bored, so we staretd playing some verbal games and
somehow my then six year old son started to ask questions about
the Bush family.
Berkeley is an interesting place as
Michael writes:
>pbs apparently has policy prohibiting persons being
>interviewed for broadcast from using terms 'capitalist'
>and 'capitalism', reference to 'business elite' is ok,
>info comes from michael zweig who was recently
>subjected to said policy...
Assuming that is true (and I have no e
Michael Hoover wrote:
pbs apparently has policy prohibiting persons being interviewed for
broadcast from using terms 'capitalist' and 'capitalism', reference to
'business elite' is ok, info comes from michael zweig who was recently
subjected to said policy... michael hoover
That's an outrageous p
Title: RE: [PEN-L] 'Straussians' in the news; the world trembles
what crap! but what else can we expect from a Straussian? He attributes a conspiracy theory to an undefined "left" without any quotations from anyone. As far as I know, no-one says that the Straussians are running the Bush admini
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What they have done to Frontline is a fucking disgrace. During the
1980s
they had hard-hitting investigative pieces on the contra war, etc.
Since
9/11 it has basically functioned as an outlet of the Pentagon with one
hysterical report after another on "ter
Ah. Thanks for the clarification. jksBarkley Rosser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was referring to the gold that gilded churches in Spain.
That in Holland largely went into the banks.
Barkley Rosser
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this JEP also has an articleby people on Bush's social security commission whoare pushing the two-tier, de facto privatization scenario.The fiscal balance for social security will get better after2029, according to them. Wowee.* * *
Gee, can I have their crystal ball? Mine tells me that by that
I was referring to the gold that gilded
churches in Spain.
That in Holland largely went into the banks.
Barkley Rosser
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Am
Of course, in the Dutch Reformation, they just paintedor or stripped off all that gold leaf. Being Dutch, they probablys tripped it and recycled it. jksBarkley Rosser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ah yes, but then much of the gold that flowedinto Spain flowed back out to another of itsunderlings, Holl
Mat,
Don't know whether to thank you or not, although
I doubt the committee will take the nomination very
seriously. I note that this JEP also has an article
by people on Bush's social security commission who
are pushing the two-tier, de facto privatization scenario.
The fiscal balance for s
I nominate Barkley to edit the JEL. Btw, Heilbroner use to say that the
only thing the Journal of Economic Perspectives lacks is...perspectives.
mf
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I just got my latest copy of the Journal of Economic
Perspectives (JEP). That is what Andrei Shleifer is
editor of, not the JEL. Guess they are still looking for
an editor of the JEL.
Barkley Rosser
This is a difficult question. The global justice movement has, in
general, been willing to align itself with old-fashioned protectionist
interests in the US. They have more money than we do and more access to
media and politicians. Activists recognize that the interests involved
are fundamentall
JKS wrote:
>Years ago I was stuck in traffic due to roadwork
>with my daughter, then aged about 4
I am going to report you for child exploitation... doing roadwork with
your daughter.
No wonder you are a rightwingsexistbigotoppressordupe.
Ken.
--
>From the contagion of the world's slow stain h
Jim Devine, in a post "Hope springs eternal" quoted Everett Ehrlich, a former undersecretary of Commerce
in the Clinton administration
pointing out the wonders of productivity:
But what about productivity?
Doesn't it force prices to fall? Sure, productivity allows firms to sell
for less, but
The globe spinning and pointing out Iraq didn't really register, nortalk of oil reserves, nor power and influence... But oppression did. (Ididn't use that word, but she grasped it.)* * *
Years ago I was stuck in traffic due to roadwork with my daughter, then aged about 4 (now 13), and to pass th
In thread "[PEN-L] economics and sociology" JKS wrote:
> My 10 yr old son asked me yesterday, What kind of scientist
> was Karl Marx? We had been talking about Galileo, Newton,
> etc. And German idealism ("They sort of believe the world
> is like the Matrix, right, Dad?") (He made me insert the
>
Ah yes, but then much of the gold that flowed
into Spain flowed back out to another of its
underlings, Holland, who eventually went for
its independence, all the gold that did not end
up gilding churches that is.
Barkley Rosser
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Ellen, I asked someone who does stuff in this area and he said that
trade with the colonies was counted as foreign trade in all the cases he
knows of, but some of the European countries in their statistical
yearbooks that he has seen divided foreign trade into intra-empire trade
and other trade.
Ma
'Straussians' in the news; the world trembles (I)
Why not blame the war on a sinister clique which
has duped the public and even the President?
Clifford Orwin
National Post
Monday, June 16, 2003
Hardly a day passes now when I don't wake up to read about myself in the
papers. I've become one of t
Actually rather than comment on this issue directly,
now that it is becoming increasingly clear to anyone
paying attention (and here in the US Fox TV is trying
very hard to focus peoples' attention on important
stuff like the Laci Peterson murder), that both the WMD
and al Qaeda-link arguments
Walking thru the Art Gallery of Ontario with a friend, she commented on
the wall of contributors as we were leaving. I said, off-handedly, it
was a "wall of people with too much money." She said it was _because_ of
these people that we had just enjoyed a couple hours. I said that was
technically tr
Sabri wrote:
>>Today, I went to Home Depot to buy some halogen lamps. After
>>I picked up the lamps, I proceeded to the check out area and
>>came across this automated cashier there: You scan your own
>>items, swipe your credit card and all.
>>
>>What will happen to the human cashiers if one of th
The biggest legal defence to the legendary ineptitude of VeriSign (nee
NSI) has been this notion that there is no intellectual property in a
domain name. It's a license.
I guess that is a way of saying it is a monopoly and not liable for
damages for incompetence on the part of the license granter.
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 06:51:10 -0400, Michael Pollak
wrote:
> I thought Spain was the very model of an empire that
> sucked in so much
> gold that it deindustrialized itself. (In early
modern
> sense of
> industry.)
H yes and this was the one that worried me too.
But I think that from an (utter
But I think the idea is not to pay very much for them -- certainly less
than they pay for what they get from you. And in capitalist empires
there is also the issue of the Keynesian demand constraint.
The other question is interesting. Throws a new light on the GNP v GDP
business...
Peter
Ellen F
Je suis un superstar
With his movie-star lifestyle, celebrity friends and best-selling books,
writer-philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy is the darling of the French
chattering classes. But can 'BHL' be serious?
Gaby Wood
Sunday June 15, 2003
The Observer
When I arrive at Bernard-Henri Lévy's sumptu
Title: hope springs eternal
This former leading singer of "Red Shadow," the economics rock'n'roll band, may turn out to be right that deflation won't happen, but he totally ignores the fact that low interest rates encourages not only spending but increased private-sector indebtedness, which no
This reminds me of a question I have long had to
which one of you out there may have an answer.
How did imperial Europe account for trade with
colonies in the 1800s? Was Congolese rubber
sent to Belgium counted as a Belgian import or was
it treated as internal trade within Belgium?
I would think
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From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> What should US leftists do about this contradiction -- the
> contradiction that has been ignored by the US branch of the so-called
> "global justice movement"?
> --
> Yoshie
==
Take a couple of steps bey
June 11, 2003
After Winning the War
The Empire Expands Wider and Still Wider
By ERIC HOBSBAWM
But the global empire of Britain, the first industrial nation,
worked with the grain of the globalisation that the development of
the British economy did so much to advance. The British empire was a
syst
* LRB | Vol. 25 No. 12 dated 19 June 2003 | Edward Said
A Road Map to Where?
Edward Said
...Bush's vision (the word strikes a weird dreamy note in what is
meant to be a hard-headed, definitive peace plan) is supposed to be
realised by the restructuring of the Palestinian Authority, the
elimin
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> John Gray (not the author of "Men are from Mars") thinks that the really
> strange thing about the current situation is that the USA is the first
> empire to be running a structural current account deficit rather than a
> surplus. I rather think that
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 23:48:41 -0700, Sabri Oncu wrote:
>
> June 11, 2003
>
> After Winning the War
> The Empire Expands Wider and Still Wider
> By ERIC HOBSBAWM
>
> The present world situation is quite unprecedented.
John Gray (not the author of "Men are from Mars")
thinks that the really strange
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