Max and Brad may not know that, as far as the rest of the world goes, the US
is the land of the three great cashectomies (append-, tonsill- and hyster-).
Since only nutters would volunteer to be opened up and rearranged, this is
doctor-initiated medicine and expense.
Birth by Caesarean section is
See my web site for a review of Gray (and James Galbraith)
John M. Legge
http://www.users.bigpond.com/msn/jlegge/
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From: Craven, Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, 20 July 1999 6:51
Subject: [PEN-L:9311] A Polemic against neo-liberal globalism
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I think that you (or Allen Wood) are confusing judicial doctrine with the
more abstract concept of justice.
People generally (neoclassically trained microeconomists being the most
glaring exception) have definite ideas of "just" and "unjust" behaviour and
situations and these are unlikely to be s
Yoshie,
Meritocracy is no more than a cover word for racist practices. In the free
(unregulated) market certain people and firms have power, competition being
necessarily imperfect.
Power will then be used to reward friends and punish enemies (profit maximising being
both impossible and unch
Gould is entertaining but not very rigorous. For a serious evolutionary model you
must turn to Stuart Kauffman (e.g. Origins of Order). Kauffman introduces adaptive
walks, the complexity catastrophe, and the evolutionary leap. All are endogenous.
Paleontologically speaking, the dinosaurs' c
I thought that Lipsey and Lancaster had proved that near enough is not good enough:
that a single false price may be as disruptive of the benefits of a perfect general
equilibrium as a plethora of them. The economaniacs can't be satisfied with just
pushing us towards a perfect world: nothing w
