I think we all might find this of interest.
http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/arts/competition-vs-innovation.html
(Note the typo in the Headline. It wouldn't have made the print
edition hmmm.
M
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 12:42:27 -0700
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Sid Shniad [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: STUDY PAINTS BLEAK JOB SCENE IN CANADA
The National Post June 3, 1999
STUDY PAINTS BLEAK JOB SCENE IN CANADA
52% BELOW $15 AN HOUR
4.The notion that no one is in control - that economic order
spontaneously emerges from the chaotic interactions of millions of
individuals and firms -is quite hard to swallow.
...
The notion that it satisfies efficiently the whole of human society
and it is the magical solution to all
Let me add another perspective to the perceived openness at The World
Bank. I have noticed that they *now* publish considerably more documents
that used to be 'internal' and/or 'confidential' than they used to. I
have remarked to colleagues that this was one manifest difference between
There may be something to Bob McDaniel's analogy between free markets and
amoebas after all. A lot of the "good old days" building code regulations
were weakened in Vancouver and many entrepreneurs saw through and exploited
the opportunities. The result? Leaky condos and lots of SLIME MOLD. Now
To: A few friends, many lurkers and Innocents, and too many Devious Defenders
of the Status Quo (DDotSQ) on several mail lists.
Good day Folks,
My previous post, Macro Micro Models of a Nation, II, Date: 99-06-03
07:02:21 EDT, concluded with an offer which Fred Foldvary, Prof. of
Free markets were a utopia before Karl Marx was born.
They will always be a utopia, no more realizable than "perfect communism".
Lucky then, that Marx was never teaching or researching any such
concept...
Preaching the superior efficiency and rationality of free markets is no
different
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 12:19:19 -0400
Sender: The Other Economic Summit USA 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Doug Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Behind the "Economic Miracle"
From the Common Dreams News Center
http://www.commondreams.org
JUNE 3, 1999 3:57 PM
FOR
Eva Durant wrote:
Free markets were a utopia before Karl Marx was born.
They will always be a utopia, no more realizable than "perfect communism".
Lucky then, that Marx was never teaching or researching any such
concept...
Quite the contrary, Marx was an outspoken critic of bourgeois
Bob McDaniel wrote,
The above comments reflect what is amiss with the present economic
system but say nothing about the system which may be emerging, beyond
perhaps implying it'll be more of the same.
We should value those thinkers who attempt to get a handle on the new
system by exploring new
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