Re: Re: Re: Re: tariffs, trade, MNCs, etc.

2001-07-19 Thread Jim Devine
I wrote: Unlike some, I treat all my knowledge as working hypotheses to be tested logically, empirically, methodologically, and in practice. Thus, what I know changes over time. Rakesh writes: yet we hardly recognize that our positions have changed over time, which so complicates the idea of

Re: Re: tariffs, trade, MNCs, etc.

2001-07-18 Thread Jim Devine
I wrote: The MNCs are mostly for free trade, though they will take advantage of existing trade restrictions, if they can. Rakesh: Jim, how do you know this? The usual way I know things, from reading, from direct experience, and from logically or intuitively figuring it out. But strictly

Re: Re: Re: tariffs, trade, MNCs, etc.

2001-07-18 Thread Rakesh Narpat Bhandari
Jim Devine wrote: I wrote: The MNCs are mostly for free trade, though they will take advantage of existing trade restrictions, if they can. Rakesh: Jim, how do you know this? The usual way I know things, from reading, from direct experience, and from logically or intuitively figuring it out.

Re: Re: Re: Re: tariffs, trade, MNCs, etc.

2001-07-18 Thread Ken Hanly
But the self is in eclipse, one way or another.

Re: Re: Re: Re: tariffs, trade, MNCs, etc.

2001-07-18 Thread Doyle Saylor
Hello Economucks, Rakesh writes, yet we hardly recognize that our positions have changed over time, which so complicates the idea of a person as a substrate, no? It would seem to me that if the net does succeed in allowing for some indepth discussion, the rate at which our views change may

Re: tariffs, trade, MNCs, etc.

2001-07-17 Thread Rakesh Narpat Bhandari
Jim D wrote At 04:31 PM 07/17/2001 -0700, you wrote: In any event, the world political economy has changed, undermining the political basis for protectionism ... Not sure I agree here. Wouldn't the US state like to run a trade deficit to its own mnc's and thus accept imports from where