RE: RE: Re: Re: Stupid profit rate question

2001-12-12 Thread Brown, Martin - ARP (NCI)
I agree from my experience. People may or may not be aware that Bush's head of OMB, Mitchell Daniels, is aggressively promoting increased levels of contracting out, including substituting contracted out professionals to replace government career individuals. -Original Message- From: Max

RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: Stupid profit rate question

2001-12-12 Thread Brown, Martin - ARP (NCI)
tivities because it is claimed that this is the best way to get innovative science done. -Original Message- From: Michael Perelman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 11:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:20588] Re: Re: Re: Re: Stupid profit rate q

Re: Re: Re: Re: Stupid profit rate question

2001-12-11 Thread Michael Perelman
I was not advocating contracting out. I only mentioned it because Max suggested difficulties of running a production unit. On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:45:32PM -0500, Max B. Sawicky wrote: > 12/11/01 8:43:48 PM, "William S. Lear" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Tuesday, December 11, 2001 at

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Stupid profit rate question

2001-12-10 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: "Eugene Coyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Bill, go for the big drug take-over!!! > Years ago Wassily Leontief (Nobelist?) took up a question in the > Harvard Law Review -- whether the government ought to get the patents from > research done with public mon

Re: Re: Re: Re: Stupid profit rate question

2001-12-10 Thread Eugene Coyle
Bill, go for the big drug take-over!!! Years ago Wassily Leontief (Nobelist?) took up a question in the Harvard Law Review -- whether the government ought to get the patents from research done with public money -- and concluded that it should. "On Assignment of Patent Rights on inventions