As summarized by Jeffrey Sachs in the penultimate Foreign Affairs, Paul
Krugman had warned in the same journal a few years back that as Asian
growth was driven by capital accumulation rather than pure productivity
gains, the marginal productivity of capital would be likely to decline as
the
Translated by: Arturo Lopez for Nuevo Amanecer Press
*
La Jornada, January 9, 1997
Attorney General: The official version of Acteal has no credibility
outside Mexico.
by Jesus Aranda
The Attorney General of Mexico, Jorge Madrazo Cuellar, recognized
yesterday that
DESTROYING NATIONAL CURRENCIES
by
Michel Chossudovsky
Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa, author of "The Globalisation
of Poverty, Impacts of IMF and World Bank Reforms, Third World Network,
Penang and Zed Books, London, 1997. The author can be contacted
I found the passage from Stephanie Koontz describing the meanness of 19th
century Lakota society posted on the Marxism-International mailing-list
most interesting. Stephanie was in the SWP around the same time as me, but
I never got to know her that well. She was very close intellectually and
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Walker)
relevant tax here an overtime tax. Define "overtime" as weekly hours worked
in excess of a standard attained by dividing total labour force hours worked
by total number of labour force participants (both employed and seeking
employment). This
Just to give Penlrs a better sense of just how far Microsoft is prepared to
go...
Anders Schneiderman
Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 19:02:07 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: James Packard Love [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Animated Characters
At 03:21 PM 1/9/98 PST8PDT, Jim wrote:
Surely nobody disagrees with the idea that sex-slavery or underage
prostitution is wrong. The sex-workers comments were not aimed at
coerced or non-consensual prostitution, but at prostitutes who bject to
being criminalised in the name of saving their
excerpt from an article that appeared in the 1/11 edition of the
Orlando Slantinel, er, Sentinel...
"The former rich flock to Thailand's flea markets (AP)
Sniffing a bargain, the middle-aged woman in a fashionable silk dress
squeezes through the crowd to take a closer look at the second-hand
At 12:26 PM 1/11/98 -0800, Jim Devine wrote:
Louis writes: On the eve of the Gulf War, [Baudrillard] argued that
television made actual war superfluous.
Baudrillard was absurd, but it sure suggests the recent Robert de
Niro/Dustin Hoffman flick "Wag the Dog," in which a spin doctor and a
Anders writes: Too bad they didn't have the guts to base the movie on
Larry Bensky's _American Hero_... "Wag the Dog" was roundly dismissed by
critics, largely because it's absurd to suggest that you could get away
with staging a pretend war ... Even if you could fake it, why would you?
It makes
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 21:12:30 -0800 (PST)
Subject: URGENT ACTION ALERT
Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
C I S P E S
ACTION ALERT
Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador
National Office: P.O. Box 1801, New York, NY 10159 ~ 212-229-1290 3
Regional
If the people of East Timor had declared themselves to be legal tender,
would the IMF have come to their rescue? Or maybe they should have
declared their island to be a bank instead of a sovereign nation.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Louis Proyect wrote:
From the pen of one of its most sophisticated thinkers--Leon Trotsky--we
discover that capitalism is a
"straight-jacket on the means of production" and socialism will remove it.
What a telling analogy! A straight-jacket is used to restrain a violent,
insane person.
All times are Eastern.
09:20 NY STOCKS SEEN OPENING LOWER AS EUROPE, ASIAN MARKETS FALL.
09:16 US TREASURY SEC RUBIN WARNS THAT U.S. LIVES IN 'ONE-WORLD ECONOMY'.
09:16 US TREASURY SEC RUBIN: KEY TO INDONESIA STABILITY IS IMF REFORMS.
09:15 US TREASURY SEC RUBIN: 'VERY HARD TO
14 matches
Mail list logo
