Re: China and socialism

>If any confirmation of the correctness of Marty Hart-Landsberg and Paul Burkett's "China and Socialism" (a book-length article in the July-August 2004 Monthly Review) was needed, you can look at the heartrending Aug. 1,  2004 NY Times article on the suicide of Zheng Qingming. This 18 year o

God supports communism

I found this on Risk Digest as well Cosmic ray hits Brussels election - really? <"Dirk Fieldhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> Thu, 29 Jul 2004 13:04:14 +0100 John Miller, Dow Jones Newswires (07/26/04); seen via ACM Tech News: http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2004-6/0728w.html#item1 "European ci

privacy

I just found this on Risks Digest. [http://www.odci.gov/cia/notices.html#priv] Privacy Notice The Central Intelligence Agency is committed to protecting your privacy and will collect no personal information about you unless you choose to provide that information to us. -- Michael Perelman E

Re: welcome to the banana republic

If the dollar fell the way suggested here, how would the E. Asian economies survive? Wouldn't it cause financial turmoil? If they sold their US assets to finance deficits, wouldn't that cause high interest rates in the US? We have a serious case of co-dependency. Michael Perelman Economics Dep

welcome to the banana republic

August 1, 2004 ECONOMIC VIEW Does the Economy Have Cement Shoes? By EDUARDO PORTER THE economy is a major electoral battleground, and President Bush and Senator John Kerry have been jousting over everything from budgetary policy to the unemployment rate. Yet even as the candidates unfurl the

China and socialism

If any confirmation of the correctness of Marty Hart-Landsberg and Paul Burkett's "China and Socialism" (a book-length article in the July-August 2004 Monthly Review) was needed, you can look at the heartrending Aug. 1, 2004 NY Times article on the suicide of Zheng Qingming. This 18 year old pe

[Fwd: Swans' Release: August 2, 2004]

http://www.swans.com/ August 2, 2004 -- In this issue: Note from the Editor: "My fellow Americans, this is the most important election of our lifetime. The stakes are high. We are a nation at war -- a global war on terror against an enemy unlike we've ever known before," said Mr. Bush the other n

back to PPP comparisons

I have just received some comments from a former colleague on the questions posed about the use of PPP. They include his comments in a letter plus an attachment which I have copied into the text below.     in solidarity,   michael - He writes: I beg to disagree with th

"The Museum of Tolerance" in Jerusalem

"'The Museum of Tolerance' in Jerusalem" (The Simon Wiesenthal Center is building a "Museum of Tolerance" in Jerusalem -- an ugly white elephant designed by Frank Gehry -- on a spot that once was an ancient Muslim cemetery, a museum which Palestinians in the occupied territories, blocked by checkpo

Re: Jeffrey Sachs, Accenture, Columbia University

I'm sure that for some work outsourcing does provide excellent quality, but my personal experience with outsourcing comes from contacting help desks. Not only is the line quality poor, impeding communication, but the help desks are not particularly helpful. My guess is that because these jobs are

Tashkent looks to Moscow to replace lost U.S. aid

Tashkent looks to Moscow to replace lost U.S. aid The Jamestown Foundation Eurasia Daily Monitor Thursday, 22 July 2004 - Volume 1, Issue 57 WASHINGTON PUSHES KARIMOV CLOSER TO MOSCOW On July 15 Elizabeth Jones, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian affairs, officially c

Chechnya

Maybe we have played out this whole question of ethnic divisions. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu

Re: A Question for the Moderator

I wrote: On the subject of foreign fighters in Chechnya, I should have added that, if memory serves, both the Kremlin and the various rebel sources put the number of foreigners in Chechnya at any given time at about 200. So, it's not a lot (given that there are supposedly about 1,500 full-time figh

Re: A Question for the Moderator

On the subject of foreign fighters in Chechnya, I should have added that, if memory serves, both the Kremlin and the various rebel sources put the number of foreigners in Chechnya at any given time at about 200. So, it's not a lot (given that there are supposedly about 1,500 full-time fighters). Bu

Jeffrey Sachs, Accenture, Columbia University

http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/news/2004/story07-22-04.html Earth Institute News Jobs Offshored for Cost Savings and Quality Seventy percent of companies that outsource report increases in quality of work, Columbia survey finds NEW YORK -- Forty-five companies known for sending work outsi

Guarding the Right to Leisure

"Guarding the Right to Leisure" (workers in Western Europe, who enjoy "the shortest workweeks and longest vacations in the world," confront downward pressures on free time exercised by longer hours in the USA and cheaper labor in former socialist nations):

Re: A Question for the Moderator- race, ideology and the right thing to do.

Melvyn's story about his dealings with the red necks at the workplace illustrate the degree of skill required to navigate the class divide. No easy answers in this regard. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecs

Re: A Question for the Moderator

Chris wrote: Look at the post-Soviet situation in the early 90s. The Union falls apart, and you immediately start having all these bloody ethnic conflicts around its former borders: Armenians vs. Azerbaijanis, Georgians vs. Abkhazians and Ossetians, Romanians vs. Russians, Ossetians vs. Ingush... T

Re: A Question for the Moderator

--- michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This was the problem that I was referring to when I > was trying to > describe a progression of fragmentations. I first > began to think about > this sort of problem when Lebanon began to fall > apart. At first, it > seemed to be a religious division, bu

A suicide in China

NY Times, August 1, 2004 THE GREAT DIVIDE Amid China's Boom, No Helping Hand for Young Qingming By JOSEPH KAHN and JIM YARDLEY PUJIA, China — His dying debt was $80. Had he been among China's urban elite, Zheng Qingming would have spent more on a trendy cellphone. But he was one of the hundreds o

Re: A Question for the Moderator- race, ideology and the right thing to do.

In a message dated 7/31/2004 4:17:43 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:   >I remember trying to speak with the boyfriend of my first wife's mother.  He worked in a gas station.  He was not stupid, but he was angry.  He directed much of this anger at Blacks, but I think he wa

Re: A Question for the Moderator

In a message dated 7/31/2004 7:33:32 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:   >As I recall DuBois and James Jackson produced the best articles on the national question (especially as it regarded African Americans) for PA in the 1950s, all of which broke with the "Black-belt thes