BUSH ASKS âFINDING NEMOâ TEAM TO FIND SADDAM
White House Boost Could Save Eisner's Job [by Andy Borowitz]
President George W. Bush today asked the animators who created the Disney mega-hit
"Finding Nemo" to join in the hunt for former Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein and his
weapons of mass dest
Ahmet:
> Radical economists cannot get teaching positions
> at those universities respected or otherwise if
> there is no demand for them. The demand itself
> is always created by the general political and
> cultural mood.
I don't debate this Ahmet. But there seems to be a
chicken and egg issue
New York Times December 3, 2003
SHORTAGES
Oil-Rich Baghdad Asks Why It Waits Hours in Gas Lines
By EDWARD WONG
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Dec. 2 - Gasoline fuels fires. The lack of it can do the same.
Ask Hadi Ali, 58, a civil engineer and irate car owner. He had been
waiting an hour on a recent morning to
One of the kids I play basketball with is in the reserves. I had not seen
him for a while, so I imagined that he had been called up. He was not.
Instead, his job was to inform others that they were called up -- 2 days
after Thanksgiving they were supposed to report.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics
Shocking that the movie hero needs to pick on the weakest & most
vulnerable. Not just the disabled. Outreach for disadvantaged students.
Health care for the poor. Also, Berkeley's labor studies program. So
far, not one hit on the middle class or their betters.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics De
E. Ahmet Tonak wrote:
I am very glad that my good friend Cem was able to share his important and
meticulous work with the English-speaking world. His article has so many
insights regarding policy shifts in Turkey and their implications for
Turkish economy at large. Having said that, I should point
Boeing hit by new blow in USAF tanker deal
David Gow
Wednesday December 3, 2003
The Guardian
Boeing suffered a further reverse yesterday when the Pentagon froze a
controversial $20bn contract to supply the US Air Force with 100
air-to-air refuelling tankers.
The aerospace and defence group, whos
Army Reserve battling an exodus
War is seen as drain on ranks
By Robert Schlesinger, Globe Staff, 11/23/2003
WASHINGTON -- The US Army Reserve fell short of its reenlistment
goals this fiscal year, underscoring Pentagon fears that the
protracted conflict in Iraq could cause a crippling exodus from
Hello All,
Quoting James Devine who forwards an article on disability cutbacks in
California by the lamentable Schwarzenegger:
[strangely, no mention is made concerning cut-backs of benefits for
those disabled by over-use of steroids.]
Doyle,
Just to keep it as clear as possible, putting disabled
http://www.eurasianet.org/
AMID RISK, BAKU-CEYHAN PIPELINE EDGES FORWARD
Mevlut Katik: 12/01/03
On December 1, an association of environmentalist groups stepped up its
campaign against the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline, a 1,760-kilometer
project designed to carry oil from the Caspian Sea throug
> My own situation supports Ahmed's interpretation of the academic market
> for left economists. Here at Chico, my application had been passed over
> by the faculty. I guess it was sort of flippant.
I a really surprised at that, because, beyond a bit of humour, you're
basically not a flippant pe
An Open Letter to the National Arts Community
By Guillermo Gómez-Peña
(This letter carries the outrage of my saliva and the fears and aspirations
of my many artistic communities. Written 6 months ago, it is one of my humble
attempts to contribute to our clarity and valor, in the era of the Blue
http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vppri023567001dec02,0,2924894.story
Iraq Could Produce Another Enron
by Nomi Prins
Scrounging up money for anything Iraq-related has been the Bush
administration's most consistent economic policy. And it's been
ridiculously easy ever since Congress blessed th
I am very glad that my good friend Cem was able to share his important and
meticulous work with the English-speaking world. His article has so many
insights regarding policy shifts in Turkey and their implications for
Turkish economy at large. Having said that, I should point out that because
his
Michael Yates described his success in addressing Jim Craven's classes.
A certain degree of his success probably had to do with the fact that
Jim had already laid the groundwork. I wonder how well he would do
after students had finished nearly a semester of neoclassical
indoctrination. I'm not sa
I agree
with Ahmet: radical economists were repressed in the 50s in US
universities, and in the early 60s there were no faculty in economics
there to teach people who were starting to ask questions. (So, people
were self-taught, holding many reading groups.) The enormous upsurge in
politic
[strangely, no mention is made concerning cut-backs of benefits for
those disabled by over-use of steroids.]
Plan to Limit Aid Alarms Advocates For Disabled in California
[By Alexa H. Bluth for the Sacramento Bee.]
http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/7863657p-8803833c.html
Advocates fo
Tom Athanasiou asked me to forward this.
Gene Coyle
Original Message
Subject:
Climate Equity Observer #7
Date:
Mon, 01 Dec 2003 20:54:37 -0800
From:
Tom Athanasiou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
I'd add that the Vietnam war and the social movements it spawned forced the more
empirically-oriented economists to face new questions. Some of the more socially
liberal of them were pushed to the left. Some of these were New Deal liberals; some
were economists from third-world countries.
The
just published in CJE - empirical study - abstract below
Cambridge Journal of Economics 27:919-933 (2003)
Copyright © 2003 Cambridge Political Economy Society
Estimating the surplus in the periphery: an application to Turkey
Cem Somel
Middle East Technical University.
Address for correspondence: C
What happened at American universities in the 60's was
1) anyone who didn't want to be drafted headed for a graduate program --
and many of these folks were radicalized by the war.
2) the universities had to hire and give tenure because teachers were in
short supply when universities were trying t
On Tuesday, December 2, 2003 at 09:59:16 (-0500) E. Ahmet Tonak writes:
>Radical economists cannot get teaching positions at those universities
>respected or otherwise if there is no demand for them. The demand itself is
>always created by the general political and cultural mood. Sometimes,
>cert
Radical economists cannot get teaching positions at those universities
respected or otherwise if there is no demand for them. The demand itself is
always created by the general political and cultural mood. Sometimes,
certain segments of society signal/provoke those "mood" swings, e.g.
youngsters
(Previously I have mentioned "gated communities" in the USA, which is of
course a much more extreme assertion of boundaries. In talking about
Rotterdam, I didn't get my facts quite right yesterday though - apologies -
the cutoff point for residence is actually said to be 20 percent above the
minimu
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