Thanks, Selma,
That was delightful. Illusionsunto the abstract mind--the mind that
seems only to ask, "How do I feel?" from moment to moment about anything. With
this sole question running through every thought, it'sreasonable to
consider, "You know, I don't really know what this thought is
As an entrepreneur myself -- worse, a serial entrepreneur --
I am fascinated by entrepreneurial activity, whether of the business
variety or of other sorts (which I personally prefer). A recent report by
the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor of the business start-ups in
different countries has
Something that has always puzzled me about Hobbes:
In what way does the writing he does profit him? In
what way does the fact of his being a writer, philosopher, generator of ideas,
support and validate the philosophy he writes about?
Selma
It's a long time since I've read any history
Good gracious! In the following New York Times op-ed,
Leslie Gelb is proposing exactly the same solution that I have been
advocating on this list at least twice in the last four months. This is
that the good counsel that anthropology, evolutionary science and
neuroscience could offer might
One might look at it another way. With some six
billion people on the face of a rapidly shrinking world, how else might we
divide up work and meetneeds? It sounds cruel and inhuman, but for
many millions, the alternatives may be far worse.
Ed
- Original Message -
From:
Pete, I am an amatuer at all of this, and you have
obviously read more than I have. However, what I don't understand is why,
if we had essentially modern brains 160kya, did it take us 80,000 to 100,000
years to demonstrate that we had those brains. I'll have to do more
reading.
Ed
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Ed Weick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pete, I am an amatuer at all of this, and you have obviously read more
than I have. However, what I don't understand is why, if we had
essentially modern brains 160kya, did it take us 80,000 to 100,000 years
to demonstrate that we had
181. From Russia with sadness
I learned textual (not spoken) Russian 40 years ago when the firm I
worked for (Courtaulds), were building a textile factory in Russia and we
had to do some technical translations of our procedures. I didn't get
very far with the Russian language, but enough to read
Title: Debt
Hi!
From the Economist:
However, embodied in current tax and expenditure policies are a
lot of obligations for which governments have not yet had to make
explicit provision. This implicit liability arises mainly from
future increases in spending on pensions and health
Ed,
Quite right, Ed.
Otherwise they wouldn't be applied.
But the question concerned right and wrong fixes, not what people think
are the right fixes.
Harry
Henry George School of Social Science
of Los Angeles
Box 655 Tujunga
CA 91042 Tel:
This may have been posted earlier, but here it is again. The web site that
seems to speak for Rumsfelfd, and company.
http://www.newamericancentury.org/
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Arthur,
Problem is that instead of looking for the cause of the rising
inequalities, the left winger looks for ways to take from the rich and give to
the poor.
If the rich person deserves his higher income because he's earned it, the
state has onlythe coercive right of robbery to take
What will happen, and you can remember that I said
it. The first family to get drug resistant TB and spread it around
on the subway will be the beginning of the end of that. It will
happen slowly as it spreads and eventually some rich child will get it or maybe
a President's child in
What
sort of privilege did you have in mind for elimination?
Inheritance? License to practice law? License to practice
medicine?
-Original Message-From: Harry Pollard
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Tuesday, November 25,
2003 2:17 PMTo: Cordell, Arthur: ECOM; [EMAIL
Thanks, Pete, but I'm not sure I really agree, especially with your
argument about itall depending on the slow accumulation of culture and
about it taking a long time to invent and diffuse things like fish hooks and
needles. Sorry, but I believe Homo sapiens is brighter and
fasterthan that.
May I very briefly recap (three paragraphs) on what I think
evolutionary economics is saying to us today?
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1. It says that new consumer goods throughout the whole course of our
economic history have been bought mainly for reasons of status, not need.
However, as the repertoire of bought
Title: Debt
Yes, Harry, Canada does look bad, but we have been
achieving budgetary surpluses lately and trying to pay down the
debt.
Ed
- Original Message -
From:
Harry Pollard
To: "Futurework"
Cc: 'Keith Hudson' ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; 'Ed Weick'
Sent: Tuesday,
At 15:40 25/11/2003 -0500, you wrote:
Thanks, Pete, but I'm not sure I
really agree, especially with your argument about it all depending on the
slow accumulation of culture and about it taking a long time to invent
and diffuse things like fish hooks and needles. Sorry, but I
believe Homo
Keith,
Very good analysis, but let me introduce another thought.
It seems to me that if the Middle East is left alone nothing much will change
except, perhaps, present regimes may be replaced by revolutionary
leadership.
However, even this is no more than conjecture. We simply don't know.
We
Sorry Keith,
Didn't mean to give a wrong impression.
I remember eons ago, a friend talking of his elderly Scot's mother saying
as she aged her Scottish speech became thicker and thicker - almost beyond
understanding.
That's probably happening to me.
On radio, the accent was very useful as
Arthur,
I'm falling behind in replying to you, but I'll catch
up.
So many remarks about a simple and sensible
statement.
If each member of a community is better off, is it
difficult toconcede that the community (of people) is better
off?
Ray didn't like "better off" (def: In a more
Keith, I just want to make a brief comment on one of
your points because it's always bother me a little. The point
it:
new consumer goods throughout the whole course of our economic history
have been bought mainly for reasons of status, not need. However, as the
repertoire of bought
Keith, I miff easily but have a tremendous capacity for
recovery. You hadn't even begun to enter the realm or the "to be forgiven
if you kneel before me". I think that, as we've donemany times
before,we have to end this at our usual impasse. I recognize the
significance of the frontal
Harry Pollard claimed:
(Chris thinks the US is a free trading country with an internal
free market, but then he thinks some very peculiar things.)
It's a pity that Harry can only make his points by misrepresenting me.
I am well aware of the US double standards of demanding FT from others
while
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Arthur Cordell wrote:
Public goods--something that everyone wants/needs but the market will not
supply on its own since there are problems with appropriation of benefits.
Polio vaccine, flu vaccine, fire department (except for Harry who seems able
to save his own house
http://www.guardian.co.uk/genes/article/0,2763,605806,00.html
Journal axes gene research on Jews and Palestinians
Robin McKie, science editor
Sunday November 25, 2001
The Observer
A keynote research paper showing that Middle Eastern Jews and Palestinians
are genetically almost
Harry said:
If each member of a community is better off, is it
difficult toconcede that the community (of people) is better
off?
Because wealthy communities
don't necessarily do good things. Good works and great civilization is
what seduced me from the pleasures of the
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