G'day Penners,
I've just been reading *Business Week*'s (26/1) 'How to stop the currency
crisis and get Asia going again'. Y'know, I don't think they can do it!
I'd love some comment on this (and shall offer mine as soon as I'm sure
they're not daft).
Here's the gist of it - in 9 phrases that
In my latest post I referred to a paper by myself as
being in the May 1975 issue of _Land Economics_. That was
the May 1995 issue. Among other things I noted the large
literature showing that many traditional societies handled
problems of managing common property resources very well
Dear Penners:
I returned from a trip to Chile not long ago, and intended to make some
quick notes for list on impresions and reacitons to the time there. It
kinda grew, thorugh no fault of my own, of course I will be sending
installments over the nex couple of days. As I am still
[I wrote this in response to the William Greider piece which appeared in the
Nation and was also widely distributed on the Internet. The Nation refuses
to run it, so I'm "self-publishing" it. Feel free to pass along.]
Saving Ourselves - And Others - From The Global Economy
We
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Jay,
You are certainly right in the short term. As far as I can see, the
point is that the medium-long term situation
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In This Issue:
One Small Victory
Has anyone read Greider's chapter "The Ghost of Marx" in which he
propounds a quasi-Schumpeterian analysis--that despite endemic excess
capacity, there is ever more investment and 'creative destruction' of
existing capacity. As crises of apparent overproduction/underconsumption
are overcome
U.S. TAXPAYERS AND INVESTORS AND THE BLOOD OF
ACTEAL, CHIAPAS TAKE ACTION ON FEBRUARY 9, 1998 --
THE 3RD ANNIVERSARY OF THE MILITARY ASSAULT ON
REBEL COMMUNITIES IN CHIAPAS.
"While Chiapas, in our opinion, does not pose a fundamental threat to
Mexican political
This kid, little Johnny, was assigned to do a high-school paper on
"What is a market economy?". At dinner, he asks his Father to help
him. The father, somnewhat flustered, remembering the D he got when he
took economics, said: "Well a market economy is a system in which
people play different
From: "Rosser Jr, John Barkley" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Barkley,
Who's to say that traditional societies were more
'ecologically conscious' only because they did not
have available to them more advanced technologies
which would have provided greater benefits from
exploiting natural
From: "Rebecca Peoples" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have been examining the matter of the European single currency. Ireland is
poised to join it.
There are those that say that joining will entail surrendering the power of
the Irish state to more freely manage economic policy --monetary,
3. Valparaíso 1: Impressions
Much to my partner's chagrin, I have an aversion to what the urban planners
call "primate cities": usually 3 to 5 times larger than the second largest
city, they dominate the economic, political and cultural life of the country
(Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Lima,
Reuters January 28, 1998
POPE HOPES FOR POLISH-STYLE CHANGE IN CUBA
By Philip Pullella
VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul said Wednesday he hopes his recent
visit to Cuba will bear fruit similar to his 1979 trip to Poland when he
helped
The U.S. National Park Service uses the following slogan to encourage safe
behavior on the part of its visitors:
"Nature doesn't care."
Steven Zahniser
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On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Thomas Kruse wrote:
An anecdote: An Aymara farmer once said here to a friend of mine:
"God
From: Sid Shniad [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My impression is that the Irish are underpricing the rest of
the EU in labor and other costs and benefiting for that reason,
thus for them in particular a lowering of trade barriers will help
more than hurt.
Max, aren't there one or two
On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Richardson_D wrote:
Thus we get to the question as to what to replace it [the U.S. dollar as
world reserve currency] with. This is a
very hard question for the individual but also for the monetary
authorities -- there just aren't many currencies out there that look
So why are you holding out on us? Let's see the piece.
Sid
In this vein, FYI, I wrote a piece in New Economy (the
Brit soc-dem/labour journal) criticizing the evolution
of EU tax policy. By some odd coincidence, my advice
on EU policy seems to be solicited somewhat less often
these days.
4. Imaginings
In Valparaíso I had the chance one afternoon to accompany a friend to his
interview with a leader of an urban Mapuche group. Up and up the bus
climbed, often backing down to let descending buses pass. Our destination
was a wood building, 10 feet below the edge of the road down
Awhile back, when I was a young 'un, one of the things that shocked
Puritanical citizens of the the US about President Nixon was the large
number of obscenities he used on a tape. This undermined support for him in
what his erstwhile Vice President, Spiro Agnew had called "middle America,"
and
Jim Devine wrote,
as usual, time will tell.
Time never tells. People just move on to something else. Whoops, that's two
thoughts for the day. We're over our quota.
Regards,
Tom Walker
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Know Ware Communications
Vancouver, B.C., CANADA
Dear PEN-Lers:
Before the ASSA conference becomes a distant memory, I would like to thank
Ron Baiman for the wonderful URPE reception held at Roosevelt University.
The URPE gathering was certainly the "classiest" reception that I attended
during the meetings, replete with good food, interesting
A couple of days ago, someone posted a copy of the full text of the Pope's
closing speech. I inadvertantly deleted it. If someone still has it in
electronic form, could you forward a copy to MY INDIVIDUAL ADDR. The list
probably doesn't want to see it again.
Doug Orr
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I don't know how many of you are subscribed to the CM-150 list,
but those who are should know that its digest is not yet being archived.
Anyone who, like me, has occasional disasters in hard file-management,
would much prefer to see this neat resource properly stashed on the Web,
as well as
My impression is that the Irish are underpricing the rest of
the EU in labor and other costs and benefiting for that reason,
thus for them in particular a lowering of trade barriers will help
more than hurt.
MBS
Max, aren't there one or two other issues of relevance in discussing the
EMU
Taking this position -- that socialists have no interest in the issue of
the EMU -- ignores the fact that the influence of this organization will
have enormous effects on people's living standards, ability to regulate,
etc.
It's not as if other political/economic struggles will be unaffected by
This just showed up on the Communist-Manifesto mailing-list. I haven't had
a chance to read it, but it should provoke some discussion related to
recent threads on the role of capitalism, etc. It is pretty radical stuff.
Part 2 tomorrow and 3 the next day.
Louis Proyect
Folks,
I have been examining the matter of the European single currency. Ireland is
poised to join it.
There are those that say that joining will entail surrendering the power of
the Irish state to more freely manage economic policy --monetary, interest
rate policies etc. They argue that single
So Karl Marx dies and shows up at the gates of heaven to be met by
Saint Peter.
"Name?" asks Peter.
"Marx, Karl Marx." replies the famous author.
"Hmm," says Peter to himself, "why do I know that name?"
"I am Marx," Marx said, beaming with pride, "founder of socialism
and the driving
Tom,
What a great example!
I'm bring it to class next tuesday
Jason
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RELEASED TODAY: On a seasonally adjusted
2. Crossing
At the day to day level, I am used to life in Bolivia, and true to form we
had to cajole a uniformed fellow out of his post-lunch lethargy to unlock
the gate so we could cross into Chile. Five km down the road, the Chilean
customs and migration people were waiting, precise and
1. Baggage
Last "fall" (seasons in the northern hemisphere) my work running a semester
abroad program here, a sort of "3rd world 101" for US college students, left
me absolutely exhausted and doubting the usefulness of the enterprise
generally. It was time to get out.
We set off by land to
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