Hi Karen,
I much enjoyed your description of Bush and his origins. For the
delectation of FWers who might have missed this previously I append it below.
Over here, we know little about Texas apart from the fact that their
window-cleaners have trucks the size of our fire-engines and that the
Ahhh, if it were only that simple. Nationalization seemed to be the answer.
But a takeover of private assets led to killing the golden goose in case
after case. The market seems to be the way to harness greed and turn it
into productivity. When the state runs things for the people , -- in
Capitalism is a system of voluntary relationships within a legal framework
that protects individual rights against force, fraud, theft, and contract
violations. Morality is impossible unless one has the freedom to choose
between alternative actions without outside coercion. Since capitalism is
Arthur,
You're making the same argument that ecologists make about the environment.
Ray
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Ahhh, if it were only that simple.
I am referring to private goods. Commodities. There is a role for the
state in theprovision of public goods. Goods which benefit most but where
the benefits (profits) can't be privately appropriated. We tend to
underproduce public goods.
Private goods-- where profits can be privately
Ah Pete,
If I were gay I'd ask you for a date you big strong thinker you.But I
have a question.Kramer, I can't remember his first name, of the money
show Kudlow and Kramer claims that the odds for American Casinos are much
more stable and better than the odds on Wall Street. He listed
Well, Keith, I have to rise to the bait. Especially as you have said you
wouldn't argue back smile.
snip
Being scientifically trained (a long time ago!) I'm prejudiced, of course,
but I'd venture to suggest that the greatest thinkers (and well-rounded
ones, too) ever since the Enlightenment
Of course, in the same way that 'capitalism can promote morality and
character development', it can equally promote immorality and character
degeneration. I wonder why Younkins doesn't mention that? Or perhaps he
did, elsewhere?
Lawry
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Ed Weick wrote:
[snip]
I would also suggest that we might be concerned about too many kids
going
into math and science, rather than too few. We are in danger of turning
out
techno-robots rather than thinkers.
Do you mean to imply that humanities graduates are more
thinkers than
Gosh, Ed, if we no longer look at our kids as human resources needed to
ensure that our productivity gains are at least equal to those of our global
competitors, etc., then how are they ever going to become good citizens that
invest their money in baseball cards (oops I meant stocks) and how are
Keith, glad you enjoyed the brief prose on Texas, a place where I still have
family and have lived. It's not as mythological as some think but not as
blandly assimilated as others wish.
I'm not up on Chinese research in biogenetics, but do keep a interested eye
on the Chinese scene/market
Hi Ed,
At 11:53 16/07/02 -0400, you wrote:
(KH)
History shows that empires collapse when they stop developing their most
advanced technologies and allow peripheral countries to do so. (Look at
the
way the British Empire collapsed last century when America smoothly took
up
and
Sometimes I wish we could regress and evolve all over again.
Ed
Gosh, Ed, if we no longer look at our kids as human resources needed to
ensure that our productivity gains are at least equal to those of our
global
competitors, etc., then how are they ever going to become good citizens
that
Ed said in response to Keith:
As a
colony, St. Lucia is probably quite cheap to keep and may not want to
become
independent. I've met a few Jamaicans who felt that felt that their
island
was better off under Britain than it is now.
St. Lucia has a terrible public health problem with
I don't think we'll ever know who the greatest intellects of the past 250
years were. We can only know those who became famous and we usually pick
Europeans. My own guess would be a Yanomami Indian who died in Brazil 138
years ago. And if not him, then an Ethiopian priest who died in Axum 215
Arthur Cordell replied:
Ahhh, if it were only that simple.
I thought so... (hence I wrote: Well, if it's that simple, ...)
^^
Nationalization seemed to be the answer.
But a takeover of private assets led to killing the golden goose in case
after
Gee gang,
The world must be different in places other than Minnesota. There have
been many of us here believing and working to teach children how to
teach themselves. But we constantly get waylaid by corporate and
business interests that in essence say - such knowledge is dangerous.
We must
Sorry Harry,
Argentina went into the clutches of the IMF/WB long before 5,000%
inflation. It was their idea to tie the peso to the dollar. Try to at
least get your chrono in order. I know we could legitimately debate
causes til peron resurrects, but lets get order straight.
Bruce Leier
Arthur,
I certainly mean no disrespect to your knowledge on
this. What I was referring to was the underlying mechanism of
the market and how and how much it is manipulated by private or public
interests.
As a metaphor I wouldcite "nature i.e.
wildness" versus a "garden" (classical
Ed Weick wrote:
Ed Weick wrote:
[snip]
I would also suggest that we might be concerned about too many kids
going
into math and science, rather than too few. We are in danger of turning
out
techno-robots rather than thinkers.
Do you mean to imply that humanities graduates are
Ed Weick wrote:
Sometimes I wish we could regress and evolve all over again.
[snip]
There was a science article in the NYT a while back
that said that reptiles were on their way to
evolving into upright bipeds with big brains -- until
that big asteroid changed everything.
One can
only
Bruce,
I began the discussion with the two basic assumptions of Classical
Political Economy:
1. People's desires are unlimited.
2. People seek to satisfy their desires with the least exertion.
Keith added a third:
3. People have a curiosity beyond present needs for survival
It should
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On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Ray Evans Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a question.Kramer, I can't remember his first name, of the
money show Kudlow and Kramer claims that the odds for American Casinos
are much more stable and better than the odds on Wall Street. He listed
them and
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