In Johannesburg, we drink water tainted by WB-supported corruption,
which included a false promise to fund the investigation and
prosecution into Lesotho Highlands Water Project dam-related bribery.
A couple of years ago, the Bank even gave a green light to more work
by Acres Int'l and Lahmeyer --
- Original Message -
From: "Eugene Coyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Does anybody know if the WB publishes the blacklisted corporations? The
> list is only "...nearly 100 companies and individuals .. " Pathetically
> short list, but I'd like to see it.
>
> Gene Coyle
===
Does anybody know if the WB publishes the blacklisted corporations? The
list is only "...nearly 100 companies and individuals .. " Pathetically
short list, but I'd like to see it.
Gene Coyle
Eubulides wrote:
World Bank Focused on Fighting Corruption
Graft and Bribery, Once Tolerated, Punished by
The WB fights retail corruption, not wholesale corruption.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/23/01 01:13PM >>>
>
> If , in fact, LTCM was not allowed to take the fall when its bet
failed , then it did not take a risk initially. Risk means that a
chance is taken of a negative outcome. If when the negative outcome
arises, the "risktaker" is not required to suff
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From: "Charles Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > CB: If ex post it didn't take the risk, then it didn't take the
> risk. The ex ante risk was an illusion.
> ===
> No. That's too teleological and smacks of post hoc ergo prompter hoc
>
>
>
> CB: The philosophi
> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:34:57 +0300
> From: "Michael Keaney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> If Wolfensohn really is inflicting such "damage" on the World Bank,
> should he not get some sort of PEN-L award in recognition?
Nah. Since whatever excellent destruction of that institution's
- Original Message -
From: "Jim Devine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 12:07 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:16187] Re: WB
> At 11:02 AM 08/22/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> >To his critics, Wolfensohn has promoted favorites,
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From: "Charles Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 12:11 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:16184] Re: WB/IMF reconstructing capitalism yet again-
!!??
>
>
> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/22/01
At 11:02 AM 08/22/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>To his critics, Wolfensohn has promoted favorites, ignoring bank
>regulations on staff advancement and prompting talentedsenior staff to
>leave. They also say he has caved in to New Age economic fads and
>interest groups, sacrificing the bank's intellectua
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/22/01 02:12PM >>>
> ((
>
> CB: Since it was bailed out when it lost its bet, LTCM was taking
zero risk. It was the opposite of a high risk taker , yet it is
"rewarded" the most of all because it claims to take risk.
>
> (((
===
Ex ante it took the risk.
> ((
>
> CB: Since it was bailed out when it lost its bet, LTCM was taking
zero risk. It was the opposite of a high risk taker , yet it is
"rewarded" the most of all because it claims to take risk.
>
> (((
===
Ex ante it took the risk. Ex post, the risk was diffused. Socialism of
- Original Message -
From: "Steve Diamond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Ian,
>
> Really, you can't back down now... you were the one who introduced
the piece
> by referring to "reconstruction", after all.
=
What? No playful provacativeness in the headers anymore? :
Steve Diamond wrote:
>
> Re:
>
> Forget Locke? From Proprietor to Risk-Bearer in New Logics of Finance
>
> Bill Maurer..
>
> [snip]
Who is Bill Maurer? In what post from whom was he introduced? What is
this post about?
Carrol
> At 21/08/01 21:41 -0700, Ian wrote:
>
> >He does go into how one
> >material medium's relation to time--paper--affected the bundling of
> >asset streams and how computer programs for bundling, unbundling
and
> >rebundling in the quest for the dream of liquidity and mar
Ian,
Really, you can't back down now... you were the one who introduced the piece
by referring to "reconstruction", after all.
In any case, let's look at what Maurer himself says: since he thinks
finance "discourse" is not understandable on its own terms -
"Securitization, thus, is not obvious
At 21/08/01 21:41 -0700, Ian wrote:
>He does go into how one
>material medium's relation to time--paper--affected the bundling of
>asset streams and how computer programs for bundling, unbundling and
>rebundling in the quest for the dream of liquidity and market clearing
>
- Original Message -
From: "Steve Diamond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 9:28 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:16149] WB/IMF reconstructing capitalism yet again -
!!??
> Re:
>
> Forget Locke? From Proprietor to Risk-Bearer in New Logics of
Finance
>
> Bill
All,
Express your opposition to the authorities' attempt to weaken the
anti-IMF/WB protests in DC.
Seth Sandronksy
> URGENT ACTION ALERT
>
> Washington DC Mayor Anthony Williams
>email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>tel: +1.202.727.1620
>fax: +1.202.727.0505
>
>Washington, DC Police Chief Ram
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