intra-class conflict

2003-10-20 Thread Eubulides
Dispute on the Trading Floor Recent Debate on Workings of NYSE Likely to Prompt Major Changes By Ben White and Kathleen Day Washington Post Staff Writers Tuesday, October 21, 2003; Page E01 Turmoil at the New York Stock Exchange has ignited a fierce struggle among powerful Wall Street insiders a

Nov. 1 Founding Meeting -- Alliance of Radical Academic/Intellectual Organizations

2003-10-20 Thread Ruth Indeck
To URPE Members and Friends, Both individuals and organizations will be welcome at this founding meeting. URPE has a rep designated by the steering committee, but other URPE members are also welcome to attend. If you are a member of another organization that you feel should be

Economics Position at Drew

2003-10-20 Thread Ruth Indeck
To URPE Members and Friends From Fred Curtis Please direct all questions to Fred at [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Department of Economics invites applications for a tenure track position at the Assistant Professor (Ph.D.) level beginning September 20

Re: Britain-India

2003-10-20 Thread Eubulides
- Original Message - From: "Michael Perelman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I thought that the WalMart connection to job loss that I posted yesterday > would have caught some interest. > -- == One of the letters to the editor in this week's BW said it all as far as many US citizens

Re: Britain-India

2003-10-20 Thread Michael Perelman
I thought that the WalMart connection to job loss that I posted yesterday would have caught some interest. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Britain-India

2003-10-20 Thread Eubulides
The flight to India The jobs Britain stole from the Asian subcontinent 200 years ago are now being returned George Monbiot Tuesday October 21, 2003 The Guardian If you live in a rich nation in the English-speaking world, and most of your work involves a computer or a telephone, don't expect to h

FTAA and IPRs

2003-10-20 Thread Eubulides
FTAA Treaty Chapter on IP "Threatens Freedom and Free Trade" IP Justice White Paper Reveals Treaty Would Send P2P File-Sharers to Prison Sponsors Petition to Delete Intellectual Property Chapter International civil liberties group IP Justice published a report today entitled "FTAA: A Threat to Fre

Swans online Oct. 20, 2003

2003-10-20 Thread Louis Proyect
http://www.swans.com/ October 20, 2003 -- In this issue: Note from the Editor: Speaking today from Thailand, with whom "we share a belief in democracy and human rights and ethnic and religious tolerance," Mr. Bush posited that "We're threatened by ruthless enemies unlike others we have faced."

Milosevic and the Green Party: common enemies of the liberal left

2003-10-20 Thread Louis Proyect
Counterpunch, October 20, 2003 The Dirty War of the Tough-Minded Liberals Democrats Seek to Disappear Chomsky & Nader By MARK HAND About two weeks ago, I reviewed Diana Johnstone's Fools' Crusade, an excellent book that takes a critical look at U.S. and European intervention in Yugoslavia in the 1

Re: Cancun

2003-10-20 Thread Devine, James
>All this would be bad enough if the government weren't doing its best to make matters even worse, by recklessly encouraging farmers to produce even more unneeded food. Absurdly, while one hand of the federal government is campaigning against the epidemic of obesity, the other hand is actually subs

Re: Economics question

2003-10-20 Thread Devine, James
of course, a falling dollar broadcasts recession to the rest of the world (or rather that part that allows its currency to rise relative to the dollar). Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine > -Original Message- > From: Mike Balla

Re: Economics question

2003-10-20 Thread Devine, James
so far, it's a "recovery" only in terms of spending measures, not in terms of jobs. (It's no surprise, given Okun's "law" (i.e., empirical generalization), that we can see this division: rises in labor productivity and the size of labor force mean that real GDP can increase without unemployment

FW: $87 BILLION SHOCKER

2003-10-20 Thread Devine, James
Title: BOROWITZ report.com $87 BILLION SPENT IN FIRST TWO DAYSAdditional $87 Billion Sought  [by Andy Borowitz]  Two days after Congress granted the White House $87 billion for continuing operations in Iraq, the White House revealed that the m

weapons for Algeria, Colombia etc.

2003-10-20 Thread Eubulides
[Federal Register: October 20, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 202)] [Notices] [Page 59976-59977] >From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr20oc03-75] === -