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Paul Zarembka
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Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 00:18:35 EST
From: Susan1218 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Open Letter from Assata Shakur
Open Letter from Assata Shakur
My name is
C. Phillips,
Was Tito simply "elected" for thirty years?
peace
This is a request for help on Ramsey pricing from you neo-classical micro
whizzes: You can reply directly to me to avoid burdening the List.
I know what "Ramsey Pricing" is. My questions have to do with
how straight neo-classical micro thinks of it.
For an industry (or a
An analysis of Department of Commerce data by Dartmouth College
economist Matthew J. Slaughter shows that the domestic share of
employment among U.S.-based multinationals has held steady at around 74
percent for 20 years
It's quite possible. Part of the problem is how it's measured. Are we
My adult son and I will be spending three weeks in Slovenia, Hungary,
Western Rumania (
Cluj area), Trieste and the Czech Republic with a car rented in Munich on
May 22. This is considered a professional junket since I teach Comparative
Economics (Andy Zimbalist - when do we get a new
In Slovenia you may contact:
Andreja Crnak Meglic
Faculty of Social Sciences
Institute of Social Science
Kardeljeva ploscad 1
1000 Lubjana
phone 386 61 168 3118
Her first name is pronounced 'Andreya'); she is knowledgeable about the
local NGO scene so she may be able to help you making a few
A friend of mine who teaches at Lehigh says one of his students had a
Nike
swoosh tattooed onto his ankle.
Doug
Here in Portland, OR the Willamette Weekly newspaper ran a story
sometime last year about employees at Nike headquarters, mentioning
that many had tatoos of the swoosh on various
Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
At 01:39 PM 4/3/98 -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
homework and piecework strategies. As my pal Larry Summers put it, I don't
see exactly what the supposed revolution in production has actually
revolutionized.
How about the destruction of the household as the production
Some background might be needed to understand the article. Ayman and Adil
Qaadan are trying to buy land in a new housing development Katzir in
Galilee, inside Israel. He is a health worker, and has been allowed to
care for Jews in a hospital. But he has not been allowed to buy a house in
this
So the term "globalization" obscures more than it reveals? but can we say
anything different about the term "monopoly capitalism" or "late
capitalism" or "finance capital" or "social structure of accumulation"
(pick your poison)? can we say anything different about the word
"capitalism"? In a lot
To whom...,
I think Rakesh is right. Industrial production has moved away
from consumption centers. The US and Britain have become the
*facilitators* for capital movement and thus they are taking a bigger
piece of the pie despite their relatively poor per capita
At 01:39 PM 4/3/98 -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
homework and piecework strategies. As my pal Larry Summers put it, I don't
see exactly what the supposed revolution in production has actually
revolutionized.
How about the destruction of the household as the production unit? Moving
production
JoAnn Chesimard's (sp?) autobiography Assata is very worth reading. I
don't don't agree with Assata's call for an independent black party
(it's the anti-Leninist in me; anways she raises some very good
criticisms of the Black Panther Party), but the need for radical
autonomous black politics is
From a Marxian point of view, it also matters where productive labor is
concentrated. Since sales remain concentrated in the imperialist world,
one would imagine that a greater percentage of the workforces there is
engaged in unproductive labor, e.g., retail, advertising,capitalist
accounting etc
Tom Kruse speculates:
.. The pattern indicates that sales, not wages, have
been the principal motivation for establishing foreign affiliates
(Business Week, April 6, page 30).
What do you make of such arguments? The intention is clearly to challenge
analyses that suggest
James Devine wrote:
Advertising and marketing are taking over the world. Pretty soon the April
Fool's story that (US) NPR had a couple of years ago will come true: in the
story, teenagers were having brandnames tattooed on their foreheads in
exchange for discounts on products. Saith one: "living
Thomas Kruse wrote:
What do you make of such arguments? The intention is clearly to challenge
analyses that suggest globalizaton is driven be the search for low wages.
I think it shows that the word "globalization" is so vague as to be
useless, even misleading. There are electronics workers in
Speaking of advertising, when I went to the grocery store (Pavilions)
yesterday I noticed that the rubber dividers people use to separate their
food from that of others on the moving belt at the cashier's station had
been replaced by stiff bars which had advertisements on them.
Advertising and
not attached?
April 3, 1998
Salvadorans Who Slew American Nuns Now Say They Had Orders
PicturePictureRelated Articles
5 Salvadorans Are Found Guilty In Slaying of U.S. Churchwomen (May 25,
1984)
Two Murdered American Nuns
I think that the problem comes with the definition of employee. The Nike
sweatshop workers do not work for Nike. Instead, you would have to have a
measure of the change in the entire employment structure associated with a
deindustrialization shift. [Wierd phrasing, but I hope that you
Friends:
I just read the following in the BLS daily report:
An analysis of Department of Commerce data by Dartmouth College
economist Matthew J. Slaughter shows that the domestic share of
employment among U.S.-based multinationals has held steady at around 74
percent for 20 years Despite
From BUSINESS WEEK, April 13, 1998
HOW HIGH ARE FAMILY TAXES?
A liberal-conservative debate rages
As a current spat between the conservative Tax Foundation and the liberal
Center on Budget Policy Priorities illustrates, taxes are a red-hot
topic in the nation's capital these days. Piqued by
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FYI John Greenlees is the Asst. Comm. of Labor Statistics for Consumer
Prices and Price Indexes.
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From:
Salvadorans Who Slew American Nuns Now Say They Had Orders
New York Times, April 3, 1998
By LARRY ROHTER
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador -- After 17 years of silence, all four of the
former national guardsmen convicted of killing three American nuns and
a lay worker here in 1980 have said for
At 09:40 PM 3/31/98 -0800, Michael E. wrote:
While there is more than a little truth in your observation about how unions
allocate their political resources, it is not entirely accurate to say
"Virtually none of it is spent on building up a grassroots machine." I
can't speak about the entire
G'day Mark,
I hate to quibble, but the forges of Chelyabinsk (not
Magnitogorsk) did not start churning out T-72s until at least the
1970s.
Alright, T34s then. Most were blooded in 1943 at Kursk, as I remember -
something like 5000 tanks involved - the German's famed tiger tank was not
yet off
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BLS DAILY REPORT, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1998
RELEASED TODAY: In February, 221 metropolitan
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BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1998
The composite index of leading economic indicators rose 0.4 percentage
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