At 1:41 PM 5/25/95, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hate the Congress's welfare "reform" package (a.k.a. the Personal
Responsibility Act)? Well, now there's something you can do about it.
The Media Campaign for Fairness on Welfare is trying to run a signature (I
think) ad in the Sunday New York
Update on funding - Doug Henwood
American Psychological Association
Science Advocate Network
! INFORMATION UPDATE !
Behavioral and Social Science Groups Meet w/ Neal Lane
Yesterday morning, representatives from several behavioral and
I was very disappointed to hear that Food First is now against US
government to government nonmilitary? foreign aid, and I'd like some
details. Are you sure this is correct? No food aid in the face of famine?
I think any blanket opposition to foreign aid is counterproductive--when
If anyone's interested I recently penned an article for African
Agenda, a progressive new magazine out of Accra/Jo'burg, on how US
Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) are viewing the aid cuts. I
don't actually know Food First's latest position, but there are
certainly many good folk in outfits
Stalin's chief economist Varga's conceptualization of poverty was
challenged in tenth plenum of the Bosheviks in 1929 by Otto Kuuisinen.
Kuuisinen suggested that Varga remained beholden to bourgeois economics.
Here is an overview of the challenge from Richard B Day's "'The Crisis' and
the
I would like to agree with M. Hill that blanket disapproval of foreign aid is
a very poor policy. Part of the problem with disapproving aid for
governments 'we' think are 'undemocratic' is that the terms 'we' and
'undemocratic' are so poorly defined. For example, Marcos in the Phillipines
was
Folks -- From the following exchange on another list (about
3d-world economies), one could easily get the impression that
you Young Radical Economists have a bit of a PR problem. Anyone
care to help this guy out?
Ted Kuster
Thu May 25 15:41:25 1995
From: JAVIER STANZIOLA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Folks -- From the following exchange on another list (about
3d-world economies), one could easily get the impression that
you Young Radical Economists have a bit of a PR problem. Anyone
care to help this guy out?
Ted Kuster
(from Javier Stanziola):
Has anyone heard of the position
Who are the "Young Radical Economists"? The capitalization suggests an
organization. I haven't heard of the YRE -- is it a figment of someone's
imagination?
Jerry
On Fri, 26 May 1995 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Folks -- From the following exchange on another list (about
3d-world
Does anyone disagree with the following:
1) The purpose of US aid to other countries is not to improve the living
conditions of poor people in those countries but to prop up pro-US elites,
subsidize US corporations, thwart independent economic development, and
pursue other US political
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri May 26 12:38:59 1995
Date: Fri, 26 May 95 15:34 EDT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian Task Force on Central America BC)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: urgent action
May 26, 1995
R. Naiman writes 5/26:
1) The purpose of US aid to other countries is not to improve the living
conditions of poor people in those countries but to prop up pro-US
elites,
subsidize US corporations, thwart independent economic development, and
pursue other US political objectives.
Thanks to Alan for his cogent and detailed response to my post on the
Kliman/McGlone/Freeman (et al.) understanding of Marx's writing on
value and prices. I too am somewhat dismayed that a literature of
this age (since 1988 at least), size, and degree of internal
coherence has received so
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