Hi Ed, Ray and Karen,
To Ed in particular I must say that I felt a little guilty in my posting of
last night in changing the thread from your Relative Wretchedness to
Gyres and shooting off tangentially instead of discussing the point you
were making.
However, in getting rid of gyres for the
Keith Hudson:
Therefore, quite besides the cultural/conceptual features (which they may
share with larger regions or gyres) each country has a unique economic
structure, and needs a unique solution if it wants to emerge into
reasonable prosperity. But who can supply this? Certainly (in my
Ed,
At 08:47 25/07/02 -0400, you wrote:
Keith Hudson:
Therefore, quite besides the cultural/conceptual features (which they may
share with larger regions or gyres) each country has a unique economic
structure, and needs a unique solution if it wants to emerge into
reasonable prosperity. But
Keith,
As exertion is one of the basic Factors of production, one might expect
the Classicals to use it in their measure of well-being - and they do.
If for the same exertion, one can get a greater return, one is better-off.
If less returns, one is worse off.
That's all.
Harry
Ed, I like
your suggested revision of the have vs have
not semantics, especially since the old language implies ownership
and perhaps one-upsmanship but does not adequately describe the uneven state of
infrastructures, health systems and their underlying environmental foundations
in many
Ed,
There may be something here if youremember
that the US and Canada have been the filters for the "Wretched Refuse" of the
world over the last 150 years or so.
Perhaps we should demand that Canada once more
throw open its border to the poor of the world and lower all immigration quotas
:44
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Subject: RE: Relative Wretchedness
Ed, I
like your suggested revision of the have
vs have not semantics, especially since the old language implies
ownership and perhaps one-upsmanship but does not adequately describe the
uneven state of infrastructures, health systems
- Original Message -
From:
Ray Evans Harrell
To: Ed Weick ; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Keith
Hudson
Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 2:45
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Subject: Re: Relative Wretchedness
Ed,
There may be something here if youremember
that the US and Canada have
