Re: Economics

2002-02-04 Thread Keith Hudson
Hi Ed, I too much enjoyed your posting. The difference between us rather reminds me of the long (and good-natured) correspondence between David Ricardo and Thomas Malthus. Ricardo looked for basic principles whereas Malthus looked for solutions to contemporary problems. As Ricardo wrote to

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Re: FWk: Re: Double-stranded Economics

2002-02-04 Thread Brian McAndrews
At 10:14 PM -0500 2002/02/03, Brad McCormick, Ed.D. wrote: I [think I...] can see the point of this. (Dickensin poem) Brad, We both seem to have taken the edge (nasty?) off our responses. A good sign. I try not to play chess and old habits die hard. 'Seeing the point' of Dickinson's poem is

Re: Economics

2002-02-04 Thread Ed Weick
Hi Ed, I too much enjoyed your posting. The difference between us rather reminds me of the long (and good-natured) correspondence between David Ricardo and Thomas Malthus. Ricardo looked for basic principles whereas Malthus looked for solutions to contemporary problems. As Ricardo wrote

FW: workology

2002-02-04 Thread Michael Gurstein
Title: workology -Original Message-From: Eric Lilius [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: February 4, 2002 11:01 AM About your host Email us your work stories cbc.ca

Floating currencies (was Re: The Science of Fairness)

2002-02-04 Thread Keith Hudson
Hi Charles, At 18:59 04/02/02 +1100, you wrote: (CB) You commented in part in this post that no-one has yet countered your argument that (KH) the mechanistic aspect will not be sufficiently analysable or understood until we have a currency system that has constant purchasing-parity across all

Re: FWk: Re: Double-stranded Economics

2002-02-04 Thread Brian McAndrews
Title: Re: FWk: Re: Double-stranded Economics Hi Ray, I can't tell you how much I appreciate your very thoughtful response to my very brief attempt to hint at a few of Wittgentein's insights into language.He truly believed that ethics and aesthetics are one in the same.An attempt to create a

PBS Bill Moyers

2002-02-04 Thread Brian McAndrews
If you have access to PBS programming, you may wish to check out the following. It will be aired at 10:00pm EST, on Tuesday Feb. 5/02 Bill Moyers takes an investigative look at the way corporate investors are using an obscure provision in the North American Free Trade Agreement to secretly

Re: Work and the economy

2002-02-04 Thread G. Stewart
Hi Brian, You wrote: "It is good to have you contributing to this list again. ... I work very hard to help my beginning teachers of English wrestle with what you believe. Paulo Freire has written extensively on this topic." Thanks very much for the welcome but you have made an

Livability and the law

2002-02-04 Thread Cordell . Arthur
An interesting concept. A Livability Court in Charleston, S.C. Maybe more cities could do more about quality of life and public space. = Where the Bench Orders Some Southern Comfort 01/29/2002 The New York Times c. 2002 New York Times

Re: Work and the economy

2002-02-04 Thread Brian McAndrews
Title: Re: Work and the economy Hi Gail, I think we have to go back to my qualifier: Gail wrote: I think we all have that privilege although the rich and powerful may have better access to leverage in making their definitions known,but even theycannot force acceptance of their decisions.) I

Re: work vs employment

2002-02-04 Thread Keith Hudson
Hi Charles and Gail, Before I make a few comments on your (Charles' ) posting, let me insert Gail's original comments on this when referring to Arthur's notice about the Conference The World, The Workplace and We, the Workers. (GS) Thanks for this notice. There is, however, so much confusion

Re: work vs employment

2002-02-04 Thread Brian McAndrews
At 9:06 PM + 2002/02/04, Keith Hudson wrote: or of the young person (no doubt a young male) who smashed the window of my better-half's car last week in order to steal the radio (no doubt in order to buy a fix) and in doing so caused at least 20 times further economic cost. What is their

Dare we hope?

2002-02-04 Thread Brian McAndrews
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0204-03.htm

Whoops maybe global warming isn't dead

2002-02-04 Thread Brian McAndrews
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0204-02.htm Interesting which newspapers (and one person on this list) jumped so quickly to mock the 'doomsayers

Re: Work and the economy

2002-02-04 Thread G. Stewart
Title: Re: Work and the economy I'm sorry Brian, in my reply to you I chose to respond only the second part of your posting, on Paulo Friere, because I didn't have anything much to say on the first part - I pretty much agreed with it, although with a qualification in my turn. People with

Re: FWk: Re: Double-stranded Economics

2002-02-04 Thread Harry Pollard
Brian, Yes, it is fun. You said: 'I've got to prepare for 6 hours of classes tomorrow but I can use a lot of this exchange because we are exploring 'interpretation' of text in The Incredible Lightness of Being.' And I have to make a postscript file of the first Cycle of my high school economics

FWk: Re: PBS Bill Moyers

2002-02-04 Thread pete
I've been inundated by FWk posts the last few days, I hope to rejoin the conversation as time permits, but I looked at this one as its time-sensitive, and had to comment (very briefly!). On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Brian McAndrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PBS Bill Moyers

Re: Whoops maybe global warming isn't dead

2002-02-04 Thread Harry Pollard
Brian wrote: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0204-02.htm Interesting which newspapers (and one person on this list) jumped so quickly to mock the 'doomsayers. Brian, Heaven forbid that anything should be printed that in any way might cast doubt on the revealed truth. The idea that global