This may be of interest.
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From: Gary Chapman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: May 24, 2000 1:30 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: L.A. Times column, 5/22/00-- Ethics
Friends,
Below is my column from The Los Angeles Times that ran this past Monday, May
22,
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/ It's becoming a mad ad world / Caroline E. Mayer
It's becoming a mad ad world
No place is sacred as advertisers in a booming economy seek new areas in
which to target buyers
Caroline E. Mayer
Take a trip to an ATM for some quick cash and you may be greeted with an ad
for Compaq
Some days back there was an exchange about the McJob, flipping burgers, and
possibly automating even that job out of existence. Seems that it may
happen.
FLIPPIN' BURGERS, ROBO-STYLE
"No insurance, no taxes, no training, no holidays, no back talk,
Title:
To add to the are we or
are we not 'better educated' these days.
Arthur
Cordell
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: July 17, 2000 11:41
AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: L.A. Times
column, 7/17/00 -- Sci-Tech Literacy
Friends,
Below is my
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From: bill pugsley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: August 22, 2000 9:24 AM
To: FSN
Subject: [FSNCAN] TODAY'S YOUTH- VIEWPOINT
Although this list (from vicinities.com- a Canadian version of
egroups) is somewhat "techy" and American in tone, it gives a sense
of what
Could I gently intervene here and note that we are getting well off topic.
For what its worth I too have seasonal moods with the coming and going of
the sun. And I have found mellatonin and St. John's Wort to be of use at
that time.
So as Pres. Clinton says " I feel your pain", but after all
this may be of interest to some...
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From: Phil Agre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: August 25, 2000 8:42 PM
To: Red Rock Eater News Service
Subject: [RRE]E-Work Location in a Digital Global Economy
Thanks to Dr. Robert Neunteufel of Graz, Austria for "baby sitting" the FW
list over the past 2 weeks.
To make the point about globalization, this was all accomplished via emails
and Dr. Neunteufel was able to monitor the list while Sally Lerner was in
Australia (she is still there but her
seems relevant
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From: Sid Shniad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: September 18, 2000 6:34 PM
Subject: WAKING UP THE GLOBAL ELITE - William Greider in The Nation
The Nation
October 2, 2000
Activism in the streets has led to an outpouring of platitudes in the
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From: Sid Shniad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: September 20, 2000 7:21 PM
Subject: Overtime Rises, Making Fatigue a Labor Issue - The New York
Times
The New York Times September 17, 2000
Overtime Rises, Making Fatigue a Labor
I tend to believe in "minimum regret" decision-making. Which choice from
the menu of choices faced is the one, if all goes wrong is, the choice I
would regret the least. Its a conservative approach.
Applied to the energy area (by me at least) would be to go slow with energy
use and
The shopping mall is unselfconscious and authentic, while the many
activities that recall the past as an attempt to stimulate business are a
parody and are quite self-conscious. A sort of Disney approach to shopping.
I prefer authenticity and so tend to migrate to the authentic small owner
Ed Weick says below,
The declining
power of the public sector relative to the private sector might be fixed by
developing new instruments, international if necessary, to bring capital
under control.
Cordell
Which government has the courage to do this? Most officials say, 'we can't
do
Features / If the medium is the message - subvert it /
If the medium is the message - subvert it
Duncan Campbell on the man who has made it his aim to un-swoosh America
Perhaps no publication could claim to be more in tune with the campaign
against corporatism and globalisation than
Well there is that
question of why and how Nader, Buchanan and the Libertarian party were
kept out of the debates. Let's send a Canadian team to oversee the
elections too!!!
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: October 26, 2000 9:02
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Sent: October 26, 2000 2:35 PM
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Subject: Re: Fw: Foreign Aid
To which I might add:
"The United States, such a vocal advocate of multi-party systems, has
two parties that are so perfectly
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From: Phil Agre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: November 22, 2000 9:02 PM
To: Red Rock Eater News Service
Subject: [RRE]job ads
[Here are some more job ads, mostly academic but not all, relating to
RRE topics. These are the last job ads I'll be sending out this
Not directly on point, but of interest to some
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From: Gary Chapman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: November 27, 2000 10:32 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: L.A. Times column, 11/27/00 -- Software Complexity
Friends,
Below is my Los Angeles Times column for
This may be of interest to some...
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From: e-network [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: December 1, 2000 4:58 PM
To: e-network
Subject: Quality of Work/La qualité du travail
Le français suit
Quality of Work Makes a Comeback
We have always known that people care
To add to Gail's observations a few quotes come to mind:
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"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift; the rational mind is faithful servant.
We have created a society that
honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."
Albert Einstein
"It is theory that decides what
I normally like tag lines and sometimes save them as quotable quotes. But
this one can be seen in another way:
Remember: Resisting change is like holding your breath; if
you succeed, you die.
Remember: Accepting all change challenges personal and institutional
boundaries; if you succeed you
Would be appealing if there was some sort of basic income in place which
gave flexworkers the strength/courage/dignity to be flexworkers. Some sort
of income support which could allow them to come in and out of the paid
formal workforce.
Arthur Cordell
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From: Gail
Two
comments.
Reich had choice.
He had a job waiting for him when he decided enough. Most people have
little or no choice -- real or perceived.
When Reich realized what
was going on in the labour market he did nothing about it as Secty of
Labor. Why not make some speeches, change the
And yet myth-making and myth-following seems to be at the heart of all
systems. Seems to be what that much cherished social cohesion is all
about.
So, how do we construct a quality control approach for myths. Or is there a
"best by.." date, after which its best to fund more for the
Maybe it's not about dumbing down, but rather tuning out, or tuning in to a
different message.
Admittedly a view from the right, but one worth considering.
Arthur Cordell
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2001 (A18)
Prole Models By Charles Murray
The Wall Street Journal
Whether you are for them or against them the trade unions are part of the
workplace.
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From: Sid Shniad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: February 19, 2001 3:26 PM
Subject: Labor leader sounds do-or-die warning - The New York Times
The New York Times
sent at 3:30 pm est
to FWers, please disregard. Sally and I are checking something on the FW
list.
thanx
nge
Commission steps in to restore fairness it never will again.
emMichael C. Perkins is a founding editor of Red Herring magazine and
co-author of "The Internet Bubble." He and Celia Nunez are authors of "A
Cool Billion," a novel about Silicon Valley./em
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From: Keith Hudson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: March 26, 2001 8:58 AM
To: Cordell, Arthur: ECOM
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Is government becoming irrelevant?
At 07:50 26/03/01 -0500, you wrote:
snip, snip,
Ed Weick
I would agree with Keith that all
From Newscan (details below)
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WORTH THINKING ABOUT: THE WAY WE ARE CHANGING
Hans Moravec, a professor of robotics at Carnegie Mellon University,
thinks that the world is getting ahead of its inhabitants:
"Today, as our machines approach human competence
so I would
agree, somewhat, with Brad.
Re: Hoover I would have to go along with Ed W. on this one. Hoover was of
his time. And acted accordingly.
Arthur Cordell
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From: Brad McCormick, Ed.D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: March 27, 2001 7:16 PM
To: Ed Weick
Cc: Corde
Here is what some of the kids are doing.
-Original Message-
From: Sid Shniad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: March 27, 2001 4:44 PM
Subject: We Are Everywhere Project
*PLEASE FORWARD!*
CALLING all activists, actionists, insurrectionists, revolutionaries,
artists, writers,
Yes they are similar. Eerily so. In fact they seem to be a parody, like so
much of our post modern culture these days. In a posting to Ed W. the other
day I said this somewhat stronger,
"A lot of what is going on in every day events really turns out to be
parody. Some protest is authentic
An op-ed from (of all places the Wall Street Journal) seems to fit with the
thread.
FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 2001 (A14)
Notes From the Hip-Hop Underground By Shelby
Steele
The Wall Street Journal
Think about it. If you were a slave, what sort of legend or
Well, if you are right, then the only thing we have to worry about is noise
pollution from the mobile boomboxes, ie., speakers disguised as cars.
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Sent: March 30, 2001 3:16 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Cordell, Arthur
: April 1, 2001 10:56 AM
To: Magic Circ Op Rep Ens; Cordell, Arthur: ECOM;
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: what's ailing kids
Crooked Face Harrell:
In our community we have children refusing to go to school. Not because
of
violence by recording but by the violence of professionals who bad mouth
Bravo!! The question is: Why is this happening? What sort of reaction can
we anticipate?
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Sent: April 26, 2001 11:11 AM
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Subject: Re: Musings on the FTAA
Maybe a better name would be Democracy
Ed W and Victor Milne
exchange,
snip.
I believe, to borrow the phrasing of a famous resolution in the British
House of Commons, the power of corporations has increased, is increasing, and
ought to be diminished. Surely, WTO, MAI, NAFTA and FTAA are none of them
effective means
-Original Message-
From: Sid Shniad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: May 2, 2001 4:47 PM
Subject: Looking for Quebec stories
Click on www.polarisinstitute.org and tell your story- for democracy's sake.
More than 60,000 citizens went to Quebec City in late April 2001 to express
their
I agree with much of Ed's analysis. I wonder though what would have
happened if the USSR had responded to the spending of star wars by
declaring that they would unilaterally disarm. What would the US military
industrial complex have done? What would have happened to the US economy?
And the
As an economist (Ph.D., many years ago) all I would like to add to this is
what I used to teach in Economics 101. Money is what money does. Try
giving your corner grocer zlotys, then try giving dollars. Dollars does
something for you, zlotys does not.
Arthur Cordell
-Original
Ed.
More later, but for the moment, the zloty is the Polish monetary unit,
like the pound or the dollar. I understand that it has been relatively
stable and that Polish grocers would likely accept it.
Arthur
Try zlotys in Canada.
Keith responds to
Arthur and Ed,
At 14:12 08/05/01 -0400, you wrote:
(AC)
As an economist (Ph.D., many years ago) all I would like to add to this is
what I used to teach in Economics 101. Money is what money does. Try
giving your corner grocer zlotys, then try giving dollars. Dollars does
I remember Bentham for his felicity calculus. A precursor (I think) to
today's utility curves in economics and maybe to attempts to create
genuine indicators for economic progress.
Also (I believe) for his attemptes to create a system which led to the
greatest good for the greatest number
-Original Message-
From: Sid Shniad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 6:27 PM
Subject: Anti-Thomas Friedman Page now online
Anti-Thomas Friedman Page now online
Thomas Friedman is the international affairs columnist for the new
York Times. His
The server was down for a few days but all seems to be working OK
now.
Thanx to Marko Dumancic at Univ of Waterloo for fixing the problem.
Arthur Cordell
Because in certain circles, in govt and out, when one wonders about the
merits of globalization--Friedman's book is seen as the answer to quell all
doubts.
Arthur Cordell
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From: tom abeles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 5:51 PM
To: Cordell
testing (again)
sent at 9:00 am
-From Brad McC
(snip,)
Example of the positive social
unconscious of permissions: In any competition,
there is a winner and there are
losers. Everybody consciously tries to
win. But the spirit of
competition grows stronger no matter who wins or loses.
Only when nobody shows up for the
with that kind of exchangability.
arthur
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From: Mike Hollinshead [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, May 28, 2001 11:48 AM
To: Cordell, Arthur: ECOM
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Downturn, Deflation Haunt Japan, IMF Finds
Arthur,
Getting rid of cash would not eliminate
. It is these latter costs which cause the
deterioration of the environment.
Arthur J. Cordell
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Subject: RE: Desk Rage
Arthur Cordell wrote
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From: S. Lerner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 9:19 AM
To: Basic Income/Canada
Subject: Fwd: [workfare] Did somebody mention GAI?
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Keith,
snip, snip..
The idea of a public health service is still so sacrosanct that one has to
be very careful of what one says about it in England. In the
highly-intelligent, highly-liberal social world in which I move (choirs and
choral singers mainly) I have to keep my mouth shut most of the
And I would add to John Foster's posting that those that have Capital,
generally have national police forces and armies to help them out as they
seek to protect their Capital.
arthur cordell
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From: John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 7:52
Aug 19@5:00pm
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Subject: Foreign Firms' Layoffs Hit Home For U.S. Workers - WP
The Washington Post 6 August
2000
Foreign
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Subject: Workers' Rights Suffering as China Goes Capitalist - NYT
The New York TimesAugust 22,
2001
Workers'
For those who may have missed this sad news.
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MICHAEL DERTOUZOS, HEAD OF MIT's LAB FOR CS, DEAD AT 64
Michael L. Dertouzos, director of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology's Laboratory for Computer Sciences, died Monday night in Boston
of unknown causes. MIT
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From: e-network [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 4:20 PM
To: e-network
Subject: CPRN to launch www.jobquality.ca on Labour Day / Lancement du
site www.qualitetravail.ca par les RCRPP à la Fête du Travail
le français suit.
CPRN to launch
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Subject: China - Fighting to Organize - The Far East Economic Review
The Far East Economic Review September 6, 2001
Telecommunications (A Special Report): Decisions, Decisions
---
Is there a downside to being connected all the time?
By Rebecca Blumenstein
09/10/2001
The Wall Street Journal
ROBERT REICH, the former secretary of labor, has consistently questioned
whether the
Tom:
An all-out bid that consists of fiddling and talking? Astonishing. The
untold story is that wars cannot be fought on just-in-time flexible labour
practices. As Michael Moore and Paul Krugman each pointed out recently,
airport security is an oxymoron when security guards are paid $9.00 an
Some Employees Balk at Flying,
Creating Conflicts With Bosses
09/18/2001
The Wall Street Journal
As Joie Pacifico opened her regular Monday staff meeting yesterday with a
rundown of key
projects, she looked around the table and asked who was willing to fly to
the Midwest
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-76318sep23.story
Sept. 23
THE FINANCIAL FALLOUT
'New Economy' Is a Thing of the Past
By PETER G. GOSSELIN and JUBE SHIVER JR., TIMES STAFF
WRITERS
WASHINGTON --
IMHO,
Sept. 11 marks the beginning of the 21st century. Like the Titanic or WW1
marked the real beginning of the 20th century. Just as with a kaleidoscope
the landscape has shifted. Will it shift back. Unlikley. It
will shift. but not back. "Can't step in the same stream twice and all
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From: Keith Hudson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2001 5:34 PM
To: G. Stewart
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: A hypothetical exam essay question
snip, snip
You bet! In England two of our airlines, EasyJet and Ryanair, are offering
*accommodate* many of these goals--and does so through legislation of
various kinds, civil rights, equal rights, etc...
For me, the key is balance.
arthur cordell
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From: Ed Weick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 1:18 PM
To: Cordell, Arthur: ECOM; [EMAIL
And fat cats
there are. Fat cat families too.
-
There are 60,000 families worldwide with net worths of $30 million or more,
according to a report released in May by Cap Gemini Ernst Young, a
consulting firm. At the time, the
For those dissatisfied with current trends in economics
International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics
http://www.econ.tcu.edu/icare/main.html
I would guess
that demand for air travel is--in the light of events of Sept. 11--quite
inelastic. This is to say that lowering prices would not lead to more
ticket sales. Lowering prices will just lead to lower over all
revenues.
arthur
cordell
-Original Message-From: G.
To KH's list below I would add point 4.
4. Mature traders began to manufacture all over the world. They slowly
began to see
themselves as true global traders. Local laws need not apply to them. In
fact when local
sovereignty was put forward to fine polluters, or not dump toxic wastes or
AUTOMATED ANSWERS TO EMAIL
A program, developed by EchoMail Inc., Cambridge, Mass.,
sorts, analyzes and even answers some
of the e-mails sent to companies such as Kmart Corp.,
American Express Co. and Calvin Klein Inc.
Now, after two years of
, an increase that is not registered in
any formal economic account.
Arthur Cordell
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From: David Peat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 6:50 AM
To: Cordell, Arthur: ECOM
Subject: Life in a small community.
Amazing how things can get done
Polaroid, in Chap 11, Seeks Exec Bonuses
Dec 6, 1:23 PM ET
Polaroid Corp. (PRDCQ.OB), which slashed jobs and
retiree
benefits before filing for bankruptcy protection in
October, wants
to
As the saying goes in the end, opinion is king. I am sure that Mr. Creed
will do quite
well having captured the opinion of the opinion makers.
I guess it says a lot about a) the state of the world (as I believe that
artists are the distant early warning line of where we are about to be) b)
the
Keith said,
For stability (and, for goodness sake, a sufficient retention of sufficient
natural wildernesses in the world) we could do with a population at least
half of what we have now.
And Cordell asks,
Which half should we do without?
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From: Keith Hudson
Keith said below,
In truth, although governments are supposed to be the true originators of
money, interest rates and so on, they are really quite inept at controlling
the system. They've tried all ways in the course of the last century since
they nationalised the previous gold-based
Since we discovered that buildings could be built (rented and sold) at
dollars per square foot and return on investment became part of all
activities, I guess safety factors and the idea that buildings could be
built with an aesthetic approach became part of yesterday's thinking.
I agree, we
Economy to be found.
Arthur
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From: Harry Pollard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 12:26 PM
To: Brad McCormick, Ed.D.; Cordell, Arthur: ECOM
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: not so fast!
Brad,
The fist
Agree with Creuss. And it gets worse. These so-called professional players
are really parts of corporate entities. So when the various news casts
bring updates on the sports news, they are really reporting on corporate
activities. So the sports corporations get a free ride. This is not to
nt: Monday, December 17, 2001 1:32
AMTo: Cordell, Arthur: ECOM; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
[EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: money for baseball
players
Everyone has their rant. You know how
I respect you both but you are both wrong about this.
1. they are no more "so-called" profe
Mothering as an export in the global economy. From today's Wall Street
Journal.
Child Cares:
To Be a U.S. Nanny,
Ms. Bautista Must Hire
A Nanny of Her Own
---
She Can Send Good Money
To Her Filipino Children,
But Pays a Heavy Price
---
12/18/2001
Maybe I have been attending too many holiday receptions, but conversations
seem to be of the following:
Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence
of a witness. (Margaret Millar)
There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are
only
Finally got around to this one.
KH
The road to hell in 2001 is paved with the good intentions of 1945.
AC
I wonder where the good intentions of 2001 will lead?
arthur cordell
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From: Keith Hudson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 7:54 AM
My view is that information technology is like no other. It is
energy saving, capital saving and labour saving.
It is also distance insensitive. Put more bluntly information
technology brings 'the death of distance.'
I think it is still early days as to how IT will
Glad to have a participant from Argentina.
If there was a simple answer to this complex problem I am sure someone would
have come up with it by now.
The only plausible solution seems to be to offer the same sort of outcome
that is typically offered to corporations who are close to defaulting on
KH
I have great sympathy for Carmen. I think I know what she is feeling. Some
15 years ago one of my friends was a young Argentinian poet who had to
leave his university and the country hurriedly because his friends were
being picked up by the death squads, becoming part of the thousands of the
So we have bought a whole lot of stuff? What about all the productivity
advances from, say 1955 to date? Was all this productivity used to surround
ourselves with the toys of the information age? Maybe. Maybe this is why we
didn't go to the 30, then 20 hour work week that Theobarld used to
To all FWers. Good health and good attitude for 2002.
May we continue this exchange/conversation for some time.
Arthur Cordell
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From: Ray Evans Harrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 12:22 AM
To: Brad McCormick, Ed.D.; Keith Hudson
Cc:
Brad,
My proposal as to what to rebuild on the NYC World Trade
Center site would be a branch of a new Universal Library
(a new Alexandrian Library), and not a new Temple to Mammon
or a monument of any sort (all monuments ultimately
just contribute to making ordinatry persons be even
smaller
and we have much more stuff around us.
There must be something more.
arthur
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 6:06
PMTo: Cordell, Arthur: ECOM;
[EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: Very gentle reminder
I guess our
economy is not so much about business, rather it seems to be about
busyness.
-Original Message-From: Brian McAndrews
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002
6:17 AMTo: futurework-scribe.uwaterloo.caSubject: Re:
Very gentle reminder to Ed
http://www.umass.edu/preferen/gintis/soccapej.pdf
Article on social capital (and why it is a misnomer) and community may be of
interest to some.
lives of the Silicon Valley temps
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/01/20/IN.DTL
This may be of interest.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 6:56 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: The twin debacles of globalisation - Walden Bello in ZNet
Znet
The twin debacles of globalisation
By Walden
Bit biased (anti-Republican), but still of interest.
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Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 7:14 PM
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Subject: The scandal that has left the credibility of American politics
in shreds - The Independent
Keith
Butnot for a decade or so -- by then most of our pension funds will be
safely
invested somewhere else (Canada? China?), so I wouldn't lose any sleep over
it.
arthur
Or, maybe a good basic income programme will be in place and pension plans
will be a thing of the past, an artifact of an
Nah...You're a public good, Keith. We'll all take up a collection to keep
the external benefits that flow from your wisdom
arthur
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From: Keith Hudson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 4:26 PM
To: Cordell, Arthur: ECOM
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED
Harry,
Could you
please tell us (offer examples) about some free markets you find interesting,
some markets operating somewhere that meet your test of neither socialistic nor
capitalistic. A free market where decisions are made by
people.
arthur
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Harry
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