Re: Privatizing the Public: Whose agenda?: At What Cost?

2002-04-08 Thread Harry Pollard
Ray, A year or two ago I pointed out in an article that the first concern of corporation management is corporation management. Not the shareholders, not the customers, but themselves. I didn't foresee how this would escalate. On the other hand, politicians have self interest at the heart of all

Re: Keynesianism again?(was RE: Privatizing the Public: Whose agenda?: At What Cost?)

2002-04-08 Thread G. Stewart
Hi Keith, You wrote (to Ed and Arthur): But, thankfully, you are both outnumbered now by enough economists (and the chattering classes) who know that full-blown Keynesianism will only lead to a repeat of the inflation that we suffered in the 70s and which deprived millions of their savings in

RE: Privatizing the Public: Whose agenda?: At What Cost?

2002-04-08 Thread Cordell . Arthur
Keith, You still haven't answered my question And who or what group would ensure that transparency? Seems that oversight and regulation ensures transparency and playing by the rules. Your answer that the present oversight group missed 4 large scandals doesn't speak to the scandals that have

RE: Privatizing the Public: Whose agenda?: At What Cost?

2002-04-08 Thread Harry Pollard
Arthur and Ed, Albrecht makes little sense. Neither does much of modern economics. Imagine physicists discussing the pendulum swinging back to phlogiston. Incidentally, in his later years Hayek at times appeared closer to Keynes than Friedman. The problem with the economic pendulum is that at

FW: Call for Papers: The Labour History of the Information Revolution

2002-04-08 Thread Cordell . Arthur
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Re: FW: Metaphysics || Why is metaphysics still so prevalent today?

2002-04-08 Thread pete
On Sat, 06 Apr 2002, Brad McCormick, Ed.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why are so many PhD credentialled persons still believing in and many of them practicing the particular metaphysical doctrine of computer-scientism (everything that comes from the idea that human existence in the Lifeworld is