Re: Reasons for successful Federalism

1994-06-21 Thread Mike Gurstein
I think the US and Australia are probably not particularly useful analogues for the Caribbean and federalism there. Both countries are reasonably homogeneous or with a fairly wide dispersal of ethnic/religious/etc. minority/majority populations. The tensions in the Canadian federal system

Re: IMF/WB on social policy within G7 ?

1994-06-21 Thread Doug Henwood
The IMF is absolutely making such suggestions, though the WB isn't so much. See for example the chapter on labor market reforms proposed for the EU in the May 1994 issue of the Fund's World Economic Outlook. In a phrase, the recommendation is - become more American! An interesting bit in the

communism group

1994-06-21 Thread Leo_Kaplan
An article in today's world famous New York Times on "hiking" on internet pathways refers to a group on communism. Does anyone know how one would subscribe to this list???

Re: Fact and Value (over and out)

1994-06-21 Thread BMCFARLING
On Sun, 19 Jun 1994 23:17:32 -0700, Alan G. Isaac wrote I will offer a couple heuristic arguments to try to clarify further what I mean by there being a fact/value distinction that anyone entering a discourse must acknowledge. One way of pointing to this is to note that we do not attempt to

Re: quote of the day (political system thread) (resend)

1994-06-21 Thread BMCFARLING
The first few lines of my earlier message was somehow stripped it (truncation in reverse? who knows) The first paragraph should have read: - First, Many thanks to Steve and Bill for the info ("facts"?) on the impact of the Aussie electoral system and party politics. It definitely adds

Re: My E-mail to Bill

1994-06-21 Thread BMCFARLING
Tue, 21 Jun 1994 13:04:34 -0700, Steven Zahniser seriously underrepresents Bill Clinton's committment to fundamental change. Steven writes: Yesterday I received a form letter from Bill Clinton himself in which he expressed his commitment to ... restoring Major League Baseball's four division

Response to Mike Meeropol

1994-06-21 Thread D Shniad
Mike Meeropol talks of an NPR segment on the right-wing PAN candidate's meteoric rise in the polls and the fact that Mexico's business and financial elites would have no problem with PAN's ideology. From everything I've been able to gather, PAN's policies are indistinguishable from those of

Re: Public finance of fascist regimes

1994-06-21 Thread ECOELT
One of the best sources of information on Nazi fiscal policy was published by the National Industrial Conference Board in 1936, asI r ecall. This is the original name for the Conference Board today. There was deficit financing which surprisingly produced smaller overall deficits. In other

Re: PAN candidate in Mexico

1994-06-21 Thread ZAHNISER STEVEN SCOTT
I think I met Diego Fernandez once in a Mexico City restaurant. I was carrying a copy of that day's La Jornada, which happened to have his picture on it. He offered to autograph it, without my having asked! I still have the newspaper somewhere at home. Steven Zahniser [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PWW] COSATU interview, SA Unions fighting (fwd)

1994-06-21 Thread Arthur R. McGee
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 1994 21:42:59 -0400 (EDT) From: PNEWS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PWW] COSATU interview, SA Unions fighting [***PNEWS CONFERENCES] From: Scott Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **Labor looks to the future: A