Tip of the day - the camera technique of mole monitoring

Tip of the Day RealAge.com Monday, February 16 Take a Picture Monitoring potentially unhealthy changes in moles may be best done with your camera. Compared to people who did

Death squad commanders join anti-Aristide rebellion

Haitian death squad commanders join rebels in bid to topple president Aristide By Andrew Gumbel in Port-au-Prince 16 February 2004 Armed rebels demanding the overthrow of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti's president, were back on the offensive yesterday, pushing out from their stronghold in Gonaives i

The Democratic Party's imperialist past

(George Packer is a high-profile member of the Cruise-Missile left who has made his arguments in the NY Times Magazine and other such venues. He is on the editorial board of Dissent Magazine. As Woody Allen said in "Annie Hall", "I heard that Commentary and Dissent had merged and formed Dysente

Re: Bhagwati's defense of Mankiw

Ahmet Tonak wrote: Any reaction to the following op-ed defense of Mankiw by Bhagwati. I observe two flaws: 1) a complete misunderstanding of competition; Bhagwati attacks Kerry because, Bhagwati thinks, Kerry is unable to see the connection between outsourcing of jobs and the "improve[ment of] th

Re: [Marxism] Re: Bhagwati's defense of Mankiw

Julio Huato wrote: It is anathema to some people on these lists, but in my view Marx's emphasis on the progressive character of capitalist production in certain settings is not that far from Bhagwati's insisting that capitalism in the Third World is "a dissolvent of reactionary forms of privile

Re: Bhagwati's defense of Mankiw

Julio Huato wrote: I have sat in Bhagwati's classes and believe he is honest. He's also very critical of the U.S. use of the WTO to tighten intellectual property restrictions and of the confusion of capital account liberalization with trade liberalization. He's not a wind-up free-trader. When Liza

Castro addresses conference of Economists

The Guardian, Saturday February 14, 2004 Castro: U.S. Embargo Hasn't Broken Cuba By LISA J. ADAMS Associated Press Writer HAVANA (AP) - America's economy hangs by a thread while Cuba - after four decades under a U.S. economic blockade - continues to offer free health care and boasts an infant mort

Re: Castro addresses conference of Economists

I can't figure out how this conference came off. Edward Phelps, Jamie Galbraith, and Jim Heckman were there too. Jamie and McFadden were quoted all over the place bashing Bush. mbs -Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Louis Proyect Sent: Monday, Februa

Re: Dow Chemical's Knowledge Factories

I've just had the time to read Brian McKenna's article on Dow Chemical and its impact on universities.  I really liked it.  It says a lot about our universities as well as about Dow Chemical. Thanks, Brian, for this article. Gene Coyle Brian McKenna wrote: Hi socialist economists, Who s

Plus ca change, or famous last words ? The psychology of imperialism

>From Humiliation to Hate, by Kevin C. Morris What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore -- and then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over -- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode? -

Widening the wealth gap in the tilted economy

Just as the States are reeling from a round of budget cuts, President Bush is proposing a new federal tax break for multi-millionaires worth nearly $1 trillion over the next 20 years. A new study shows how repealing the Estate Tax on multi-millionaires will reduce the federal funds that would other

Re: Dow Chemical's Knowledge Factories

Hey thanks Gene. . . it was a chore to write, but a story that had to be told. . .I''m hoping that others will pick up the baton and do for their universitywhat I did with Dow (and I only skimmed the surface). . . you socialist economist folks are tops. . .back in 1982 I attended a week -long sum

Japan: a look at the labor process

THE ZEIT GIST Enduring life in the Japanese company You're not alone if you find working for a Japanese 'kaisha' difficult By KAORI SHOJI The Japan Times: Feb. 17, 2004 It's probably just as difficult to find a happily employed Westerner in a Japanese company as it is to find weapons of mass des

Re: Bhagwati's defense of Mankiw

Doug Henwood wrote: He's also very critical of the U.S. use of the WTO to tighten intellectual property restrictions and of the confusion of capital account liberalization with trade liberalization. He's not a wind-up free-trader. Jagdish Bhagwati wrote [my remarks in brackets]: "The starvation o

Re: Bhagwati's defense of Mankiw

- Original Message - From: "Julio Huato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "If you think that I am exaggerating, let me cite you just one telling example. As regards intellectual property protection (IPP), demanded insistently by the United States and then by other rich countries, most economists bel

Gordon Brown and the ever failing anti-poverty paradigm

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=492148 Brown: We are 150 years off our targets in tackling world poverty By Ben Russell and Philip Thornton 17 February 2004 Gordon Brown warned that key global targets for reducing poverty by 2015 might not be met for 150 years as he made

My Review of Lembcke's Tailwind Tale, in Critical Sociology

below's an excerpt, the full review is at http://tinyurl.com/ywwml It's from this spring edition of Critical Sociology, which is available for subscribers at http://tinyurl.com/ytqc8 The Valley of Death expose´ in June 1998 was a highly promoted kickoff edition of the program NewsStand: CNN