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The Economics Of Henry Ford May Be Passe
By DAVID LEONHARDT
1087 words
5 April 2006
The New York Times
Late Edition - Final
HENRY FORD was 50 years old, and not all that different from a lot of
other successful businessmen, when he summoned the Detroit press
China Meeting on Market System Is Leaked on Web
6 April 2006
The Wall Street Journal
A10
BEIJING -- Minutes of a closed, government-backed meeting about China's
transition to a market economy have been leaked onto the Internet, offering a
rare, inside look into the heated debate over the
this may be of interest to some.
Arthur
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Subject: Short Circuit on the Web
Have you heard or read this book. It is available on the web. I read
Chapter 6 about agriculture
Wonder Land
When Blogs Rule We Will All Talk Like
By Daniel Henninger
1089 words
21 April 2006
The Wall Street Journal
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Kevin Ray Underwood, the repressed Oklahoma cannibal, kept an Internet "blog"
of his compulsions for years before kidnapping and killing a 10-year-old
neighbor last
National Desk; SECTA
Spymaster Tells Secret of Size Of Spy Force
By MARK MAZZETTI
343 words
21 April 2006
The New York Times
WASHINGTON, April 20 -- John D. Negroponte, the director of national
intelligence, said Thursday that the United States' global spying apparatus now
numbered nearly
ON THE ROAD
Business/Financial Desk; SECTC
Surrendering Modesty, But Cloaked in a
Purpose
By Joe Sharkey
787 words
18 April 2006
The New York
Times
MESA, Ariz. -- BACK when I was in high school in the
1960's, I had this fantasy of maybe someday getting to spend some quality time
with
Itineraries
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My Colleague, My Roommate
By MELINDA LIGOS
1123 words
18 April 2006
The New York Times
Michael Ray Smith's travel stories would seem to date
more from his days as a college student than his current life as a college
professor.
But Professor
I bet
the executives are doing just fine while they cut benefits and get their workers
multi-tasking so as to boost profits.
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I think that advertising sets the broader context for us all. Yes, even those
of us who claim to be free of its devices and deviousness. A consumer culture
is an advertising culture.
I guess its either advertising and consumerism or religion or nationalism.
Can't seem to think for
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Many Canadians report electronic payment woes
Last
Following is from the NEW SCIENTIST web newsletter.
29 April 2006
NewScientist.com news service
Alison Motluk
IT WAS a stunt that launched a thousand conspiracy
theories. Market researcher James Vicary claimed in
1957 that he could get movie-goers to drink
Coca-Cola and eat popcorn by
I have
always found the CSM fair and balanced. It also provides more analysis
than many other papers.
Arthur
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Nobel laureate Aleksander Solzhenitsyn accuses U.S., NATO of
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? That breast cancer is the number one health danger
faced by women? That famine can be met by shipping food? Etc, etc.
Cheers,
Lawry
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Interesting. Is this something like if a tree falls in the forest and nobody
is around.does it make a sound? If nobody experiences the event, what was
the event? Was it an event?
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http://iacs5.ucsd.edu/%7Epbang/dance_monkeys.htm
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The advertising avalanche is taking place because most new products are not
new at all but are really changed versions of existing products.
Need a lot of advertising hype to make consumers think that new is new.
Arthur
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Ed,
Butit does raise the question of where the
information that has shaped the universe and ourselves came from. It was
there in thebig bang, I suppose.I'm not arguing intelligent
design, but I do wonder how it got there.
Arthur
I guess we all
wonder about such things. So much so that
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The hippies were right all along about happiness
By Andrew Oswald
Published: January 18 2006 21:28 | Last updated:
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Politicians mistakenly believe that economic growth
makes a nation happier. Britain is today experiencing
the
source is the Financial Times.
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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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Actually when you have a good product, people will learn about it through
"word of mouth" there is really no need to advertise.
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He was
pompous and had an over sized ego (to fit is frame ??) , but I don't think "he
was wrong."
In
fact the right/wrong dichotomy probably doesn't easily apply in
economics.
Arthur
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It is that economists are the bound up in the ideology of the economy in which
they operate. Views are usually representative of the political ideology.
Hence the original term: Political economy. A better description for the
activity.
Arthur
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This Country
Column
As global thinking spreads, the burden rate' debate hovers
uncomfortably close
ROY MacGREGOR
869 words
4 May 2006
The Globe and Mail
A2
There are times, when you come across a new buzzword or phrase, that you're
not quite sure you heard right the first time.
Friendly
Economists are the handmaidens of the system within which they operate.
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Economists were also handmaidens in the USSR where the Invisible hand was
truly invisible.
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So a perfect world would be one without economists, economic theory or economic
thinking ??
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So a perfect world would be one without economists, economic theory or economic
thinking ??
Arthur
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But where would the economic theory come from ??
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So a perfect world would
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorstein_Veblen
Veblen is very good. But I don't think he provides an integrated economic
theory. He is more like Galbraith: A very good observer and critic.
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test received OK
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All you can eat buffets can be dangerous.
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Subject: [Futurework] A parable of unregulated competition (from a swamp
In cleaning up some old files I came across this
piecefrom many years ago. I pass it along for what it's
worth.
Originally published in 1974, in a now defunct
publication called Survival.Thistells a story of how economies
function or mis-function.
Arthur J. Cordell
ROBINSON CRUSOE
realize what has been lost without having been counted as part
of the cost of production)
arthur
From: Lawrence de Bivort
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3:35 PMTo: Cordell, Arthur: ECOM;
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CRUSOE ECONOMICS
Everything ends in parody. Even to having
Disneyland-like tours of the slums.
Maybe the prisons ought to open their doors to
"day-trippers" so that people can sample the culture of
imprisonment...
Arthur
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What was interesting to me about
the favelas was that there is something there culturally for which tourists
would risk the gang violence.They all have paid guides to walk them through the
appropriate behavior; what to wear in a place where donning the wrong color can
inspire the wrath of
Karen,
From what Ive
read, the economic studies are mixed whether illegals drive wages down for other
workers.
Arthur
If the
illegals didn't drive down wages or, at least, disallow wages to rise then all
of economic theory must be wrong. I can't see how illegals would have no
impact
were happy to do it. It also offered a
way into the wage economy and an understanding of the world of
work.
Arthur
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Illegal workers contribute to the pressures on the
underclass. Allowing the union movement to atrophy (often by union bosses
who are overpaid and have forgotten why unions were created in the first place)
adds to the problem.
arthur
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The internet is a Rohrschach Test. Hopes,
dreams, fears, desires are all expressed in "the future of the
internet".
arthur
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Identity 2: America's Great Wall
I well
remembe
nderestimate
the capabilities of their children and educationally under-serve
them?
Cheers, or
sighs,
Lawry
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From: Keith Hudson
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(259)
DAILY WISDOM (259)For the first time in history
the modern teenager no longer has to figure out as an individual how he or she
can be accepted into the
Late in his life, Freud asked the famous question Was
will das Weib? (What does Woman want?), admitting his perplexity when faced
with the enigma of feminine sexuality.
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Title: Re: Those Am. Liberals
The flood of American liberals sneaking
across the borderinto Canada has intensified in the past week, sparking
calls forincreased patrols to stop the illegal immigration. The actions
ofPresident Bush are prompting the exodus among left-leaning citizens
whofear
Great Leap Forward ???
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In China, 3,500 Test the Waters Of the Pearl River --- Government-Backed
Swim Is Meant to Hail Cleanup; Some Won't Take Plunge
14 July 2006
The Wall Street Journal
A1
GUANGZHOU, China -- Lu Daxin, a 32-year-old boatman paid to fish garbage
out of this industrial city's waterways, says he
Title: [Futurework] There Could Have Been Peace
Chris won't approve and this is very far
from Futureworkbut here goes.
Sent: Mon 7/24/2006 12:09
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ubject: FW:
FYI (Dror article)
Hi, Arthur:Remember Yehezkiel Dror? I met
him a number of timesand we had some good
Title: Re: [Futurework] There Could Have Been Peace
Ahhh. The old
saw: Zionism equals Naziism. Sure gets the blood moving...and stops
all reasonable conversation.
Arthur
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Comment
Kofi Annan's hasty rush to judgment
LEWIS MacKENZIE
27 July 2006
The Globe and Mail
A15
English
On hearing the news that a United Nations observation post manned by
four unarmed peacekeepers at the nexus of the Israeli, Lebanese and Syrian
borders was struck by an Israeli bomb,
, Arthur: ECOM;
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hasty rush to judgment
What MacKenzie omits
from his account are the several warnings from the UN post to Israel military
commanders that Israeli bombs were falling close by the clearly marked UN
post
pecific meaning when ujsed by a military officer.
arthur
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de Bivort [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 10:13
AMTo: Cordell, Arthur: ECOM;
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What MacKenzie omi
A bitter-sweet book about work life
today.Some may like it. I did.
Arthur
Since The
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Finds
With the increase in outsourcing jobs to maintain a competitive
edge in the global economy, Americans are facing more frequent layoffs at
the workplace. This phenomenon is causing
I guess this formalizes the end of the union movement in the US
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Body Collector in Detroit Answers When
Death Calls
By CHARLIE LeDUFF
1306 words
18 September 2006
The New York Times
Late Edition - Final
DETROIT -- With all the spectacular ways to die in
this dying city, the fate of a man named Allan was almost
force was unionized in 1983. By 2005, union
membership had dropped to 12.5 percent of the work force, according to
the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics
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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/4190550.html
The buyout package Ford Motor Co. is offering 75,000 union workers shows
the vestiges of the United Autoworker Union's might: It offers lifetime
retirement benefits for workers 50 or older with 10 years of service,
and a $100,000 education
See also:
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Financial Post Thursday, January 15, 2004
The end of unions
The death rattle of the Canada's union movement grows louder as workers
eschew brotherhood and employers jettison superfluous union partners
Hugh Finnamore
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some minor technical problems with
futurework.
we hope to have it fixed in the next hour or
so.
the very helpful techies at Univ. of Waterloo are on
the job and trying to fix at this time.
arthur
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Thursday, September 21, 2006 4:23 PMTo:
'futurework
I guess its a question of someone who has much promise but
does little vs. one who promises much but does little. Outcomes are the
same. Disappointment is greater with the one who could have done
more. So much more.
"As one
of the leading black legislators said a couple of years ago, GWB
These are dangerous times for the world. The role
that the US has traditoinally played, has played itself out. There is no
natural leader to take over. So, for the moment, the world is leaderless
and so there will be jockeying for power and posturing and bluster and maybe
some mis-moves.
Everything ends in parody.
arthur
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Bravo, Karen. Well
said.
On both counts: The sanctimonious in
need of some sort of therapy (where is Dr. Freud when we need him?)
And the media outrage over this sad event
when there is death and destruction in the Middle East. A condition which
theUS can remedy.
Time to leave Iraq.
Pulling the science handbrake; Stop and smell the ethics;
Massey lecturer questions the pace of progress
Publication: TOR - Toronto Star
Oct 08 01:00
Page: D3
Section: Ideas
Edition: ONT
Byline: Stuart Laidlaw
of the buildings.)
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Subject: RE: [Futurework] 10/11
Yes, that is true. You can't compare a small plane
National Desk; SECTA
Just Asking to Be Caught, Thief Solves Joblessness
AP
334 words
13 October 2006
The New York Times
Late Edition - Final
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 12 -- A man who could not find steady work came
up with a plan to make it through the next few years until he could collect
good article.
thanx
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NataliaSent: Friday, October 13, 2006 6:11 PMTo:
futurework@fes.uwaterloo.caSubject: [Futurework] Vit.D protection
against colds
A retired nurse sent us a lengthy article, partially reproduced
International News
Norwegians roiling in oil; Sitting on a
raft of petrodollars has only served to provoke anger, DOUG SAUNDERS discovers
DOUG SAUNDERS
1388 words
23 October 2006
The Globe and
Mail
A1
OSLO -- By any measure, Kristoper Holfeldt should be
one of the happiest people in the
test
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both)know.
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ColeSent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 11:53 AMTo:
interesting critique of the Net.
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 12:56 PMSubject:
MacLeans cover story
http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/life/article.jsp?content=20061030_135406_135406
Pornography, gambling, lies, theft and terrorism: The Internet sucks
Where did we go wrong?
Title: The used to haves/The American way has slipped away
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As the Jobs Go South, The Hope Goes With Them
30 October 2006The New York Times
Late Edition - Final
McMINNVILLE, Tenn. -- You may have seen Don Rackley before. You see people like him every
Title: Message
Subject: FW: Strategies for
MeetingsImportance: High
Subject: Strategies for
MeetingsImportance: High
Do
you keep falling asleep in meetings and seminars? What about those long and
boring conference calls? Monotone voices burbling on and on like a creek for
hours on end,
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=enq=define%3A+terrorismmeta=
here are a few definitions. choose one that fits.
arthur
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A terrorist is anyone who is not with 'us'.
Chris
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Meanwhile in Canada we are going through more discussion on where we are and
where we are going.
The Commons is expected to vote yes on this proposal tomorrow.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has proposed that the House of Commons recognize
that the Québécois form a nation within a united
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This is an amazing, constantly changing map of the Middle East region,
illustrating how various empires have risen and fallen in the past 3000
years--in just 90
I agree with Chris on this one.
Clinton and Reich understood what FTA and NAFTA was all about. But they
agreed to go along with the corporate agenda. The political elites know
that factory towns all over the US are in trouble and vow to do
something about it. But they don't. They blame it
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I agree with Chris on this one.
Clinton and Reich understood what FTA and NAFTA was all about. But they
agreed to go
Chris
On plantations, slaves knew an enormous amount about their owners and
overseers. They had to, because their lives depended on it.
Meanwhile, their owners knew close to nothing about them, because,
who cares what slaves think?
Arthur
Below makes your point, at least partially.
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tools they have or know about.
arthur
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I was not writing of economists' time but of the time it takes to
offer full educational opportunities to the children of any unfortunate workers
Bravo. Couldn't have said it better.
Free Traitors. Nice new term.
arthur
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Keith Hudson
Interesting perspective on choices and challenges in our economy
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Fascinating programme on future of work, etc. WalMart, China, etc.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/walmart/
Edna Bonacich is a professor of sociology at the University of
California, Riverside. In this interview, she explains how global
retailers, like Wal-Mart, have wrested
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Santa's 'Gifting' Helpers --- How the Well-to-Do Turn Over Holiday
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Donna Isaacson polished off her holiday
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As 2006 draws to
Wal-Mart Seeks New Flexibility In Worker Shifts
3 January 2007
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The nation's biggest private employer is about to revamp the way it
schedules its work force, in a move that could shake up many employees'
lives.
Early this year, Wal-Mart Stores
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Subject: Seymour Martin Lipset
No Hedgehog
By Bill Schneider
9 January 2007
The Wall Street Journal
Many years ago, Seymour Martin Lipset, the eminent political
sociologist who died last week at age 84, startled me, his student,
with a casual remark. I don't believe in
Top Ten Stories You Missed in 2006 [Foreign Policy]
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3652
The editors of Foreign Policy call our attention to some little-known
news from 2006, including the hackability of the new electronic US
passports, a worldwide increase in gender
National Desk; SECTA
Anywhere the Eye Can See, It's Now Likely to See an Ad
15 January 2007The New York Times
Add this to the endangered list: blank spaces.
Advertisers seem determined to fill every last one of them. Supermarket
eggs have been stamped with the names of CBS television shows.
Good trends? Time will tell.
Maybe the whole thing was really about choice. Marry or not. Children
or not. etc. Gay or not.
As far as social cohesion goes, we'll see. As far as the elusive search
for happiness goeswe'll also see.
arthur
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One future for work.
Maybe the fundamentalists are trying to tell us something (like the
environmentalists) about overshoot and collapes --this time about morality .
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NY Times
January 17, 2007
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By DAVID CAY
ANKARA [MENL] -- The Turkish intelligence community envisions the demise
of Iraq and several other Middle East states by 2015.
Turkish sources said the intelligence community has issued an assessment
that predicted the collapse of several Middle East countries torn by
ethnic and religious
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