free mercantilism

2003-06-29 Thread Ian Murray
"It may be bad accounting and marginally more expensive," says Thomas Donnelly, an American Enterprise Institute defense expert who backs the [Boeing] deal. But "anybody that can game the system, more power to 'em." [the latest issue of Business Week, page 88]

competitive States

2003-06-29 Thread Ian Murray
http://www.latimes.com Competition Heats Up for Slice of Biotech Industry Marketing themselves as cut-rate alternatives to California, other states and nations hope to tap the sector's potential. By Denise Gellene Times Staff Writer June 29, 2003 WASHINGTON - Joining the usual swarm of lawyers, b

Iraq: the full colonial press

2003-06-29 Thread Ian Murray
And now for the really big guns War is one thing, but can Iraq survive full-on assault by Wall Street? Ed Vulliamy and Faisal Islam report Sunday June 29, 2003 The Observer After the war, the corporate invasion. Bechtel, the US construction giant, now leads the rebuilding of Iraq's infrastructur

stock market question

2003-06-29 Thread Michael Perelman
I vaguely remember a study showing that for many stocks the annual commissions on trading exceeded the value of the stock itself. Do any of you recall that, or am I fantasizing? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL P

Re: Query from a Venezuelan

2003-06-29 Thread Grant Lee
Louis, > But I said that the right to work in a capitalist country, including > Chavez's Venezuela or Peron's Argentina, is not the same thing as job > entitlements in Cuba or the USSR, for that matter. This is a fundamental > distinction. What are "job entitlements" really, when the alternative

Re: Query from a Venezuelan

2003-06-29 Thread Louis Proyect
Grant Lee: What are "job entitlements" really, when the alternative is a labour camp or prison? One difference between communism in an underdeveloped country and communism in a developed country is that unless there is forced labour in the former case, development will not be possible. Oh, I see. W

transfer pricing redux

2003-06-29 Thread Ian Murray
[yet another reason methodological nationalism has to go] Plastic bucket: $972.98 Big companies and rich individuals run rings round the Inland Revenue. The government should act Prem Sikka Monday June 30, 2003 The Guardian One thing has been missing from the fuss over Peter Hain's remark

Re: transfer pricing redux

2003-06-29 Thread Carrol Cox
Ian Murray wrote: > > [yet another reason methodological nationalism has to go] > > It would seem to me the "problem" is the strength of the British capitalist class & the weakness of the working class. Hence it doesn't really seem worthwhile of what "methodological nationalism" has to do. Inc

Fiji -stop and go - (Reality check during my last trip there)

2003-06-29 Thread Aldo Matteucci
Fiji: Stop Or Go? As the plane comes in from the Pacific to land in Nadi, on the north- western tip of the main Fiji island, the whitcap-spreckled blue of the ocean yields to the sinuous white line of the breakers on the reef. The shallows are green or slate coloured, with brownish pockmarks or da

Hong Kong-China Free Trade Pact

2003-06-29 Thread Michael Hoover
check out next to last paragraph re. films, then go to pp 300-302 of this really cool book entitled _city on fire: hong kong cinema_... michael hoover Hong Kong, China Sign Free Trade Pact By MIN LEE Associated Press Writer published 05:29 AM - JUNE 29, 2003 Eastern Time Hong Kong and China signe

Re: Hong Kong-China Free Trade Pact

2003-06-29 Thread Chris Burford
At 2003-06-29 23:43 -0400, you wrote: check out next to last paragraph re. films, then go to pp 300-302 of this really cool book entitled _city on fire: hong kong cinema_... michael hoover does this open the door to a new cultural revolution? under which mode of production? and will it resist o

protecting harbours against terrorist attack

2003-06-29 Thread Chris Burford
A news story that may be a quirk or may be significant of the direction we are going in. BBC promotes British interests this morning by informing us that a British company has developed an underwater sensor which can help protect harbours from terrorist attack, and can even distinguish between dolp