That is how many orders of magnitude(?) greater than a similar "whoops" I
made back in late 1995 or early 1996 which yielded about 10 million with
one of the early search engines... I was rather impressed at the time with
that many documents online... how things change...
Apologies, seems my mailer has been dropping messages, Mike Gurstein stuck
this up in November apparently. I hadnae seen it...
I'm getting double postings back of stuff I put up onto this list - are
they coming up to anyone else as double postings? Let me know, please.
Malcolm
The web page for the PDF file is:
http://www.open.gov.uk/co/seu/bbt.pdf
Malcolm
An interesting snippet pulled off a futurework mailing list a few months
ago which didn't seem to attract any comment: a summary of The Capital
Myth, article in Foreign Affairs May/June 1998, by Jagdish Bhagwai,
apparently Economic Policy Adviser to the GATT.
Apostasy in that raises the
The Guardian published today a full page article on the MAI, only about
the second or third appearance in a UK broadsheet I am aware of.
The angle taken by the author was essentially that of we might as well
tear up our voting cards if the MAI goes through, as corporations would be
promoted to a
First time I've spotted something in a national newspaper re usury-free
investment vehicles... this is the first part of a longer article about
investment funds in the Guardian's Saturday financial section (remainder
snipped as moved onto other investment schemes). Of potential significance
Haven't read it yet, but of potential interest to FW'ers?
OTHER NEWS:
British Researchers' Hot Solutions To Hot-Money Crises
Special ID21/PANOS report By Teena Gill
Researchers at the UK Institute of Development Studies (IDS) have come
up with new suggestions to prevent the kind of market
I thought people would be amused by this! I wonder if it is true? :-)
If so, I get an unusual warm feeling of approval for the Chinese powers
that be wicked grin
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Wonderful item about the
There was a terrifying documentary on the BBC this evening looking at the
sort of next-generation weaponry that the US military industrial complex
is developing. It is clear that there is simply no defence or response
possible against these technologies.
This sparked of some rather bleak
I've lost it off my database (clumsy fingers on a purge :-( ) and
yesterday a pigeon which had struggled valiantly across the Atlantic
delivered two of his books he's sent to my door here in Oxford. I wanted
to say "thanks"!
So if anyone can forward me his email address, be much appreciated!
Thanks to Tom Lunde for giving me this.
The Guardian 11-05-1999
How microcredit nurtures outside the mainstream
John Dunn
For many people, starting a small business too often remains little more
than an idea. Single parents, the unemployed, those on benefits, people
who have been made redundant, some immigrants can find it
Interesting report over 2 articles in The Guardian, 25/06/99. Here's both:
1. Social Chapter does not destroy jobs by Larry Elliott and Mark Atkinson
2. In pursuit of prosperity- The evidence does not confirm
the classic right-wing claim that getting rid of unions prevents
wunch, n, collective noun for a group of financial professionals: a wunch
of bankers
I've lost most of my notes in a dreadful diskcrash and corrupted backup
tape, alas. The other tape drive has failed so my plan of dual backups
just went to hell as well... :-(
Can anyone tell me who was putting about arguments about "dematerialising"
of economies? Someone first used the term,
That should read in the scribbling above globalism "is in fact creating a
global "one company" town out of everywhere ' not isn't... doh.
M
Copied from a discussion... any comments anyone? Is "globalisation" really
an American issue?
"Will we permit the future history of the world to become the history of
America? Of the American Corporation - or more precisely the
American-dominated financial system? And just how short a history
Snipped off the Register (www.theregister.co.uk, worth checking out
regularly):
Craft guilds answer to techno-exploitation
The Internet could see workers scurrying to Medieval-style guilds
for protection, according to Government-appointed crystal ball
gazers.
The Department of Trade and
I think where this original comment was going was something along the
lines of the political struggle against global corporatism (etc.) being
essentially a political struggle that has to be engaged with upon American
territory - cultural, political, and also in terms of corporate laws.
I
I think where this original comment was going was something along the
lines of the political struggle against global corporatism (etc.) being
essentially a political struggle that has to be engaged with upon American
territory - cultural, political, and also in terms of corporate laws.
I
I've lost it in a disk crash, and all references. For some reason searches
on the net ain't turning it up - anyone got a copy of Lawrence Summers
notorious memo on exporting pollution, lives of an India worth onl x% of
that of an American etc.? Be much appreciated if you could send it to
Oh dear. I'm sorry, I should have said the full text - not the notorious
cut out bit about the value of a indian compared to a yank...
There were some other pretty interesting bits in it apparently.
Thanks to those who posted me the notorious snippet anyway!
Re comments about backup - yes I know. But what do you do when the tape is
corrupted?
Look to your backup equipment - don't assume its working until you find
out otherwise :-(((
This is a public service announcement.
The comment I'm picking this up from is made in an article in left
business review, which quotes a little known bit of the infamous memo -
hence my interest in seeing the fuller version, not the shock-horror bit
everyone loves and knows so well. The link given on the webpage doesn;t
got to
Was it on this list someone posted a note of some research from the USA
that showed that "economic growth" since the late 70s or early 80s has
been largely down to an escalation of the number money supply, rooted
in capital debt and property valation etc. and not in actuality
material
Forwarded:
Don't know if anyone's interested but yesterday's Times contained
this rather negative and depressing report on the situation in Russia
and elsewhere.
-- jP --
My comment: hey, big surprise, what?
=
Michael Binyon
Institute of Development Studies 10 part WTO Briefings
In case this was missed by anyone (source Oxfam UK)
Trade and Investment background briefings to the World Trade Organisation
(WTO)negotiations at the Seattle Conference of world trade ministers, have
been produced by the Institute of
THIS ain't such a silly idea Any thoughts on how one could go about
it, either a good dot.com, or a physical site...? Perhaps we are going to
have to start reinventing - for similar reasons - what our 19th century
ancestors had to do in Britain with the cooperative movement...
*From:*
Interesting you should mention enclosure - just last night I was
bouncing some ideas off a local academic economist whilst our kids
were playing, as I've been mulling some thoughts (not developed them
beyond just mulling) along the lines of:
The likes of MicorSoft "enclose" cyberspace, i.e.
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