Some more context to that Japanese agri-exports story:
Farm product exporters like the U.S. [not to mention most developing
countries] have proposed that tariffs on all agricultural products be cut to
25 percent or less. On the other hand, Japan and the EU have favored setting
different tariffs
Dear James and all,
The this I refer to in the sentence, which James
quoted below, is communism. I am part of that
socialism from below tendency, as I think most class
conscious workers were in the 19th Century, even many
of them who labled themselves 'anarchists'. I think a
case can be made
I hope that governments, Chambers of Commerce, and tourist industries
worldwide, as well as US universities and other educational
institutions, will make a big stink about visa application nightmares
-- if things are as exasperating in Japan as they are described by
the _Asahi_ below, they must be
4:11 PM Thursday afternoon. I am putting the finishing touches on a
fiendishly complicated Java module that is part of an ambitious Intranet
application due to go into production in September. Then my computer and
the office lights go off. At first I assume that the problem is in the
aging
Dean Baker asked me to forward this to pen-l. It's also attached.
August 15, 2003
CEPRs AccesSIPP Project Puts Key Longitudinal
Dataset into User-Friendly Format
The Center for Economic and Policy Research is pleased to announce the completion of
the first stage of its AccesSIPP
August 16, 2003/New York TIMES
An Industry Trapped by a Theory
By ROBERT KUTTNER
In the search for the source of Thursday's blackout, the underlying cause has been all
but ignored: deregulation. In principle, deregulation of the power industry was
supposed to use the discipline of free markets
As I networked about the blackout among among people experienced in
electric power, two things worth comment became clear.
The first is a depressing discovery.
Blackouts are common in electric power. People living in more rural
areas experience blackouts often, with thunderstorms and wind and
Others probably know much more than me about this, but the Japanese farm system
operates as a subsidy. I know
when I was studying this situation for a book I published in 1977 that many of the
farmers were elderly or people
who would otherwise be unemployed. Subsidizing agriculture made more
From: michael
Others probably know much more than me about this, but the Japanese farm
system operates as a subsidy. I know
when I was studying this situation for a book I published in 1977 that
many of the farmers were elderly or people
who would otherwise be unemployed. Subsidizing
ravi wrote:
Devine, James wrote:
what kind of neurosis -- or psychosis -- do we leftists suffer from?
self-importance? determinism? is that a neurosis?
Leftists doesn't point to just one way of thinking, feeling and
acting does it? I suspect it's possible to find varying degrees of
Marty, there is a literature about beachhead effects. When the dollar
started to sink last time, the Japanese lowered their prices of items, such
as cars, because of the difficulty of gaining reentry once they allowed
themselves to be displaced. Of course, it the good is made by an affiliate
of
I do remember that period and in addition to Japanese automakers
lowering the price of their cars, U.S. car makers raised the price of
theirs, desiring to make more profit per car than retake market share.
My question focuses a bit more on the U.S. side and whether the trade
deficits and job loss
Martin Hart-Landsberg wrote:
Is it possible that the trade deficit just reflects a growth in demand
for goods that U.S. manufacturing is unable to meet because of limited
capacity
There may be devilish details in the industry mix, but overall cap'y
utilization in U.S. manufacturing has had its
Ted Winslow:
Leftists doesn't point to just one way of thinking, feeling and
acting does it? I suspect it's possible to find varying degrees of
psychopathology among those self-described as leftists. The
combination of a feeling of grandiosity with perception of the self as
fragmented and
Steal of the Dark and the dark of the still.
Electricity returned 18 hours ago with the electrical grid in Detroit and the affected surrounding area being blacked out for roughly 24-26 hours. When the lights flickered and went out the fuse box was quickly checked and after five minutes the
Quoting Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
There may be devilish details in the industry mix, but overall cap'y
utilization in U.S. manufacturing has had its longest run below 75%
in history - almost two full years.
Good point, dont know how I forgot that. So, one possible implication
of this
http://www.counterpunch.org/
Profits v. Security and Reliability
Which Electric System Do We Want?
By WENONAH HAUTER
Lights Out, Baby
Where's Arnold When We Need Him?
By DAVID LINDORFF
The Latest Bogus Blackout
This Grid Should Not Exist
By HARVEY WASSERMAN
Unusual Events at Nuke Power Plants
A
Great post Ted, I've just been looking at a bit of Kleinian stuff at
http://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/elljwp/klein.htm some of which I could
apply to my own life, but, no point in a psychotherapeutic blog, that is not
what the list is for... I never really studied Klein seriously, anyway I'm
not
hey, my question was a joke. i think that the idea that there's a psychology specific
to conservatives (causing their conservatism) is silly.
Jim
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From: Ted Winslow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sat 8/16/2003 10:53 AM
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Loan sharks fuel Japan's suicide rise
Justin McCurry, Osaka
Sunday August 17, 2003
The Observer
A quick, easy loan of less than £100 must have seemed the answer to Akiyo
Nishihira's prayers. In debt to several consumer loan firms, the
69-year-old housewife knew there was nowhere else she could
Martin Hart-Landsberg asked:
I have a question about the U.S. economy and a comment to make about
FDI to the third world.
We all know the U.S. is running a huge and growing trade deficit.
Moreover, the manufacturing sector has lost jobs for some thirty-five
consecutive months. That is
The idea of simply paying farmers to not farm suggests a "hollowing
out" of agriculture such as is being discussed re American
manufacturing. It makes more sense, imo, to produce food and fiber at
the local level -- and subsidize that production. I think commodity
production of farm products
Doug,
Sorry of the delayed response.
Surely the historical points are that:
- it is too early to know whether the emerging relationship of the
U.S. to the 3 or 4 other bigeconomic groupings will be 60/40
cooperation or 40/60 competition
- the likely configurations, once
Gene:
The idea of simply paying farmers to not farm suggests a hollowing out
of agriculture such as is being
discussed re American manufacturing.
If the argument in favor of any form of protectionism is about preserving
jobs/livelihoods, there is a a counter argument about the dual pain caused
BUSH'S SPEECH
On 16 August I posted a report on PEN-L on a pulpit speech that Bush held in
California. One way to look at this text is to say well, it's all bullshit,
GWB is at it again, waffling along in the predictable manner, I am going to
switch to another channel. But another way to look at
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