Friends,
I'd like to write a popular piece for a Turkish daily on a very fast
evolving phenomenon in Turkish economy: a huge unaffordable credit card
debt. My sense is that the Turkish regulations are much more stricter
than the US and European ones.
To make a comparative (and pro-consumer) analys
Sorry for the duplication due to a wrong "subject."
Friends,
I'd like to write a popular piece for a Turkish daily on a very fast
evolving phenomenon in Turkish economy: a huge unaffordable credit card
debt. My sense is that the Turkish regulations are much more stricter
than the US and European o
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Teachers, speakers, and organizers at The New SPACE
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Ian,
In fall 2003, the Gates Foundation gave a couple of million bucks to the St.
Hope Academy (led by former NBA star Kevin Johnson) to run Sacramento High
School, located in a low-income area (Oak Park), as a charter school.
Parents and union members opposed this move, backed by the Sacramento Ci
[I'll try to reply to Seth's comments in a later post. I'd only note that
Melinda Gates is an economist and that Billsville -Redmond, WA- is loaded
with rich libertarians...They are a force to be reckoned with]
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-gates1mar01,0,6675841.s
tory
COM
We could do worse than Bill Gates on this issue - unlike the Walton
family (nos. 4-8 on the Forbes 400), he's not pushing a
voucher/privatization agenda. His stuff on vaccination isn't bad
either. And he shut up all those New Economy cheerleaders in the late
1990s, who thought all Africa needed was
Interesting. Subjectively, I would agree with the conclusion that we are
incarcerating too many. For example, if the costs of incarceration are
$46,000/year, we ought to be able to rehabilitate many criminals for
less than that. But how can one derive an optimal level of incarceration
without consi
Doesn't the calculation of the "optimal level or rate of incarceration"
depend on one's "social welfare function," i.e., how one weights costs
and benefits, so a pro-working-class number would be different from
(lower than) a bourgeois one?
Jim Devine, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
web: http://myweb.l
"Devine, James" wrote:
>
> Doesn't the calculation of the "optimal level or rate of incarceration"
> depend on one's "social welfare function," i.e., how one weights costs
> and benefits, so a pro-working-class number would be different from
> (lower than) a bourgeois one?
A pro-working class numb
The author admits that he is making no effort to take account of anything other
than the
direct economic cost of crime. Even on that narrow basis, he finds that the
excessive
incarceration makes no sense. You might also note the publication source --
the Milken
Institute Review -- although his
--- Peter Hollings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Interesting. Subjectively, I would agree with the
conclusion that we
are
incarcerating too many. For example, if the costs of
incarceration are
$46,000/year, we ought to be able to rehabilitate many
criminals for
less than that.
---
Hell, you could pr
ertugrul ahmet tonak wrote:
To make a comparative (and pro-consumer) analysis I need some info re.
personal bankruptcy regulations and, specifically the way they are
applied to credit card debt. Thanks.
In the U.S., it's pretty easy to wipe out credit card debt with a
bankruptcy filing, and the co
>
> Hell, you could probably keep a lot of petty criminals
> off the street by just PAYING him or her $46,000/year.
Hey, it's that what Congress, the armed forces, business schools, etc.
are for?
Jim Devine
I almost said that, but for the moral hazard.
Peter Hollings
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From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Doss
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 12:06 PM
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Subject: Re: [PEN-L] The economics of incarceration
--- Peter Hollings <[E
Jared Diamond's "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed" is
currently listed at #7 on Amazon.com. It is of some interest that such a
book has become a best-seller since it explicitly addresses the question of
whether the USA might eventually fail, just as Rome or other empires did in
What intro macro textbook is acceptable? (until MACROECONOMICS IN
CONTEXT is released.)
Jim Devine, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
web: http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine/
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Isn't this the fellow th
Thomas Lepeardo wrote:
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Please, let's not start this again.
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 05:05:21PM -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Thomas Lepeardo wrote:
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> >>The New SPACE
> >>(The New School for Pluralistic Anti-Capitalist
> >>Education)
> >>UPCOMING CLASSES AND TALKS (course descriptions appear
> >>below)
> >
> >..
Monthly Review, March 2005
The Ghosts of Karl Marx and Edward Abbey
by Michael D. Yates
Michael D. Yates is associate editor of Monthly Review. For many years he
taught economics at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. He is the
author of Naming the System: Inequality and Work in the Global
March 1, 2005
Speculators Seeing Gold in a Boom in the Prices for Homes
*By MOTOKO RICH *
SUNNY ISLES, Fla., Feb. 25 - Within six months last year, Carlos and
Betti Lidsky bought and sold two condominiums. Then they bought and sold
two houses. They say they will clear a half-million d
From: Eubulides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/6be27ed0-89da-11d9-aa18-0e2511c8.html
Wolfowitz on shortlist for World Bank top post
By Andrew Balls and Edward Alden in Washington
Published: March 1 2005 00:43 | Last updated: March 1 2005 00:43
[It seems they're selecting a differe
Press Release: Changing Detroit: Past, Present, FutureMarch 1, 2005(Please forward to interested parties.)"Detroit's Tsunami"Thursday, March 31, 2005 from 6-9 p.m.Adamany Undergraduate Library, Community Room, 3rd Floor"Thinking Outside the Box"Thursday, April 28, 2005 from 6-9 p.m.Student Cente
In Vermont, a Town-Meeting revolt over Iraq war
Mon Feb 28,10:05 AM ET
On Tuesday, one-fifth of Vermont towns will consider what role the
state's
National Guard should play in the war.
By Sara B. Miller, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
HUNTINGTON, VT. - This is a town with no dine
Published on Sunday, February 27, 2005 by the Toronto Star
Standing Up to U.S. Will Gain Us Respect Abroad
by Linda McQuaig
It's now clear how the Bush administration sees things: Canadian sovereignty
exists only at its pleasure. If we do what Washington wants, we retain our
sovereignty. If w
On Tuesday, March 1, 2005 at 11:59:13 (+0200) ertugrul ahmet tonak writes:
>...
>I'd like to write a popular piece for a Turkish daily on a very fast
>evolving phenomenon in Turkish economy: a huge unaffordable credit card
>debt. My sense is that the Turkish regulations are much more stricter
>tha
There is some awful news to transmit, I'm
afraid.
Yesterday just after lunch, while in class at the
Wits Grad School Public and Development Management, we got word that the
progressive economist Guy Mhone passed away in a Pretoria hospital. In his early
60s, he had been in intensive care f
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