The reason why I think that the Euro will ultimately fail is that cultural
differences within Europe will maintain the existing economic disparities
between regions, and the continuation of a European-wide bank rate by the
European Central Bank will only exacerbate tensions.
A year ago it was
Hi Ray,
It sounds from the morning news that the tension between India and Pakistan
has declined somewhat. I strongly suspect that Bush's public appeals for
restraint have been accompanied in private by threats of various sorts.
It seems to me that the quarrel over the fate of Kashmir is a pure
Keith Hudson wrote:
Hi Ray,
It sounds from the morning news that the tension between India and Pakistan
has declined somewhat. I strongly suspect that Bush's public appeals for
restraint have been accompanied in private by threats of various sorts.
Last Sunday's New York Times Week in
So we have bought a whole lot of stuff? What about all the productivity
advances from, say 1955 to date? Was all this productivity used to surround
ourselves with the toys of the information age? Maybe. Maybe this is why we
didn't go to the 30, then 20 hour work week that Theobarld used to
To all FWers. Good health and good attitude for 2002.
May we continue this exchange/conversation for some time.
Arthur Cordell
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From: Ray Evans Harrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 12:22 AM
To: Brad McCormick, Ed.D.; Keith Hudson
Cc:
Brad,
My proposal as to what to rebuild on the NYC World Trade
Center site would be a branch of a new Universal Library
(a new Alexandrian Library), and not a new Temple to Mammon
or a monument of any sort (all monuments ultimately
just contribute to making ordinatry persons be even
smaller
I just had the pleasure of spending ten days in France (Paris and the Loire)
and was surprised by the goodwill shown by the French toward conversion to
the Euro. Everyone I asked (maybe two dozen people) expected it to work and
expressed confidence that they personally wouldn't have any problems.
Greetings, Ray,
Good point. So, the sensory channel we use has a lot to do with the type of
information that can be transmitted. Words are great for some forms of
information (e.g. distinctions, specification, identification of
alternatives). Visuals are great for big picture information,
Well, it is so kind of the NYT to begin at last to question the sagacity of
the Bush administration. But the NYT's critique is so limited. I do believe
that as time goes by and the American panic -- as much cognitive as anything
else -- subsides, we will see more and more critical analysis of
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So we have bought a whole lot of stuff? What about all the productivity
advances from, say 1955 to date? Was all this productivity used to surround
ourselves with the toys of the information age? Maybe. Maybe this is why we
didn't go to the 30, then 20 hour work
Below you will find a recent essay by John McMurtry.
Happy New Year,
Brian McAndrews
EDUCATION AND HUMAN CAPITAL
The university students I teach are the first children of the global
market regime. They all have been conditioned to understand their
education as a means to more money for
I don't recall the 1950s and 1960s being a time of ease. The paradigm
we were operating under was that husbands were supposed to provide and women
were supposed to stay home and look after the kids. My first wife and I
operated that way very early in my career, and it was not easy. We lived
I
didn't say that the 50 and 60s were a time of ease. Just that one income
households were able to do or accomplish what a 2 income household now
needs. Housing, car, food, etc. all were accessible to the middle
income one worker household with2.1 children.
Land
values have clearly risen
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From: Lawrence de Bivort [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Ray Evans Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Harry Pollard
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Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 5:05 PM
Subject: RE: Argentina down and out
Greetings, Ray,
Good point. So, the sensory
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