Aside from Dubya's and Smith's divergent views on taxes, Smith also saw unions
as necessary and legitimate to balancing the imbalance of power in the market
place between wage workers and business owners. Smith goes on for many
passages about how business owners are able to unfairly pursue wage
Bush is an appointee of the Supreme Court, he wasn't elected. I mean, that is
the definition of appointee, isn't it? maggie coleman
Jim Devine wrote:
the lead letter to the editors of the Los Angeles TIMES, today [1/25/01]:
* Sam Fleischacker's excellent piece on Adam Smith's view of
The title of the article should be, "Capitalism brings shortages in basic
goods." maggie coleman
Ken Hanly wrote:
Seems that Russia is striving now to catch up to and surpass the US in
buck=passing. Everything bad is the result of previous administrations...in
the Russian case, the
Max Sawicky wrote:
It's like a mini-Ayn Rand burst out of his [Greenspan's] chest, a la
Alien.Great image!Max Sawicky also wrote: Then there was some
babbling about the prohibitive expense of liquidating Treasury debt.
This was simply an expression of willful ignorance.I think there is
another
(This example is taken from the phone company building on east 38 street in
manhattan, but the set up is roughly the same everywhere in the usa) In the
operator's work place, there are tall poles every so many feet with lights at
the top of the pole. If the operator has to go to the bathroom she
To sum up, yes I think Serbia could privatize (gradually and through
worker buyouts), maintain much of its social security
(scandanavian welfare state apparatus) but not by adopting shock
therapy. Rather, it needs an orderly process of deregulating prices
and liberalizing trade and capital
Ben Day wrote:
This is bullshit. The reason that national union membership is shrinking is
because the labor force is being recomposed with contingent work - temp
jobs, part-time jobs, adjunct workers - and the AFL-CIO refuses to fight
for contingent workers or to challenge the legislation
* New York Times 27 January 2001
Masochism Finally Gets Even
By SARAH BOXER
Masochism means never having to say "Stop! Stop! Enough!"
At the Modern Language Association's annual meeting last month, three
hours were devoted to masochism. And that isn't counting the
lectures and
As MAx points out, consciousness has a long way to go And, it looks
like Bush will do his best to speed up the process. He already started
with cutting funding to international groups which have pro-abortion
policies. maggie
* Goodbye civility: Bush's attack on the poorest women
Doesn't this encourage operators with diarrhea to phone in sick :)
Is this what economists call a moral hazard?
Cheers, Ken Hanly
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Vandana Shiva Beaten By Police in Davos
by Bill Vaughan 2:54pm Sat Jan 27 '01
Vandana Shiva came out of the Public Eye on Davos Conference (the anti-WEF
conference) to join the street protest. As she tried to climb over a police
barricade, a policeman grabbed her and
Masochism seems like an appropriate psychological accompaniment for the
transition from communism to capitalism in Russia and the Ukraine. The
citizens are being screwed so best that they like it and continue under the
whip of the oligarchs, and receive shock-treatment by following the policies
At 07:48 AM 01/27/2001 -0600, you wrote:
Bush is an appointee of the Supreme Court, he wasn't elected. I mean, that is
the definition of appointee, isn't it? maggie coleman
what does one call someone who got in office via a _coup_?
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
right. Also, I should note that in my efforts to engineer the letter to
make sure that it got published, I forgot the sentence at the end.
"Therefore, workers shouldn't have to pay taxes."
At 07:47 AM 01/27/2001 -0600, you wrote:
Aside from Dubya's and Smith's divergent views on taxes, Smith
At 09:56 AM 01/27/2001 -0500, you wrote:
While Russia and Ukraine are fighting over masochism's provenance,
American scholars are arguing over Sacher-Masoch's message. "Venus in
Furs" begins with the narrator (not Severin) dreaming of a statue of
Venus. As he dreams, the hand of Venus is
At 08:10 PM 01/26/2001 -0500, you wrote:
the highlight: Milken "'became the leading disciple of the theory that
sheer greed is what drives our national securities markets. . . .'"
but isn't that theory true? and why are they "our" national securities
markets, since they belong to the rich?
Jim
During the communist era, criticism by Solzhenitsyn would be front page
news and on TV in all the western media outlets. There seems to be not that
much coverage either of Putin's abolishing environmental and forestry
committees nor even all that much about the draconian new labor laws
At 09:56 27/01/01 -0500, you wrote:
* New York Times 27 January 2001
Masochism Finally Gets Even
By SARAH BOXER
Marx's last known letter, to his doctor is said to contain a jaundiced
aphorism that physical pain is the only antidote to mental pain. But the
letter is not part of the
Yoshie wrote:
I don't know why Paul Barkley Rosser seem to say there is a
possibility of gradual orderly privatization, when Mladjan Dinkic
(the economic advisor to Kostunica now central bank governor) is
calling for _swift_ privatization.
Yoshie, if you read what I wrote, it was
Some letter writer in The Nation came up with "Scaliawag."
Michael Pugliese
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Date: Saturday, January 27, 2001 8:18 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:7359] Re: Re: Bush vs. Smith
At 07:48 AM 01/27/2001 -0600,
what does one call someone who got in office via a _coup_?
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine
El Chefe? Der Fuerher? Il Duce? Vozdh? Or, if he's from Texas, Boss?
The Dems have a great blackmail scheme going: next time help us win, wo
we'll confirm the next
This was a reaction to a report posted by someone on the list, and
specifically to a union official quoted therein - not addressed to any of
pen-l's contributors.
Ben
At 08:57 PM 1/26/01 -0800, you wrote:
Ben is new here, but he needs to know that we don't address each other
like that
Yoshie wrote: We need to criticize Bush's anti-abortion policy, but we also have
to
point out that supporters for "international family planning
organizations" include an unsavory bunch of people who are obsessed
with "overpopulation."
When we compare Kerala the rest of India, it's clear that
Lisa Ian Murray wrote:
It's precisely those groups who take their cue from T. Homer-Dixon's paradigm.
No Lakshman Yapa on their reading lists!
Ian, this is a bit terse.Which groups? And is T. Homer-Dixon, whoever
he is, a good guy or a bad guy? Not very clear.
Carrol
(This example is taken from the phone company building on east 38 street in
manhattan, but the set up is roughly the same everywhere in the usa) In the
operator's work place, there are tall poles every so many feet with lights at
the top of the pole. If the operator has to go to the bathroom she
At 03:57 PM 1/26/01 -0500, Charles Brown wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/26/01 12:40PM
He's a Randite. He's always been a Randite. Conditional on the
government's size being fixed, he's in favor of budget surpluses. But
give him an opening where he thinks there's an opportunity to shrink
f a recent Reuters story.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010127/ts/forum_economy_dc_1.html.
Commentators generally believe that the US is going to come out of
recession within 6 months. While that would be nice, it appears to be
highly unlikely. Any stimulating effect of Bush's tax cuts would
this is an analysis of the pardons of Roger Clinton and Marc Rich
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:01:25 -0600, Forstater, Mathew wrote:
what could the
justification possibly have been for pardoning his own brother, who was arrested
for trying to sell coke to a cop??
Since ancient times, the sovereign
Masochism seems like an appropriate psychological accompaniment for
the transition from communism to capitalism in Russia and the
Ukraine. The citizens are being screwed so best that they like it
and continue under the whip of the oligarchs, and receive
shock-treatment by following the
Also known as lobbying. Also known as the committee system in Congress
through which lobbying frequently takes place. Also known as supposedly
independent regulatory commissions staffed by people recruited from the
industries allegedly being regulated.
No, we liberalish types aren't bitter at
Jim Devine wrote:
At 08:10 PM 01/26/2001 -0500, you wrote:
the highlight: Milken "'became the leading disciple of the theory that
sheer greed is what drives our national securities markets. . . .'"
but isn't that theory true?...
A little more than half true. Fear is almost as strong (and
I believe getting into office via a coup implies a military take over, and Dubya
and Gore and whoever emphasized the fact that this was a peaceful exchange of
power.. Besides, do we really see him as a military leader? H, maybe. But
I have a hard time seeing Dubya as someone who would
I think what we need to do is support pro-CHOICE, which is not the same as
pro-abortion, though abortion is a very important part of choice. The main point
being that it is up to the individual woman to choose whether or not to have
children -- and make that a real choice which includes ALL the
In about 1979 there was a wild cat strike of ATT operators in NYC. So they sent a
group of technicians from the office where I was working over to the operator
center to fill in (the techs sent were all male). This group of 5 guys set out at
8:15 a.m. and were back by 9:00. The foreman asked
Max Sawicky wrote:
It's like a mini-Ayn Rand burst out of his [Greenspan's] chest, a la
Alien.
Great image!
Great, great image!
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Andrew Hagen wrote:
the highlight: Milken "'became the leading disciple of the theory that
sheer greed is what drives our national securities markets. . . .'"
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Jim Devine wrote:
but isn't that theory true? and why are they "our" national securities
Yoshie, when I go to that URL, [Endnotes omitted; the full article is
available at
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/world_politics/v051/51.3kullberg.html.] I
get this.
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I think that the masochism might be a bit far afield for us.
In contrast, I thought that the energy thread and the Milken thread were
useful, although the latter may have outlived its usefulness.
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 07:16:12PM -0800, Michael Pugliese wrote:
Yoshie, when I go to that
David Gallo of our department gave a
very convincing talk on the energy
crisis in California. His analysis that
the supply problem will be fixed fairly
easily into three years. One basic
assumption of this that I had a little
trouble with suggested that natural gas
prices would not go up too
At 07:16 PM 1/27/01 -0800, you wrote:
Yoshie, when I go to that URL, [Endnotes omitted; the full article is
available at
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/world_politics/v051/51.3kullberg.html.] I
get this.
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At 07:42 PM 1/27/01 -0800, you wrote:
I wish we knew how to translate the
anticorporate sentiments that are
bubbling up in California into an
understandable political analysis. What
I sense now is an emotional response to
some "bad" corporations.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
Inside the New York Telephone Company by Elinor Langer. Chicago, Quadrangle
Books, Langer's account of the lives of her female co-workers at the phone
company in the 1960s.
http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/women/litworks.html
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From: Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL
Shrag is a reporter for the Sacramento Bee. He is a liberal that writes
about education for the most part. The referenda are an abomonation since
advertising is usually able to sway the electorate -- except for a couple
of tobacco measures.
The vote to deny the utilities the bailout of their
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,429512,00.html
Bankers slam UK euro policy
Special report: economic and monetary union
Larry Elliott in Davos
Saturday January 27, 2001
The president of the Bundesbank, Ernst Welteke, raised the temperature yesterday
in the debate over
So, "they" can gamble away 3 trillion, but by golly, the South has got to pay
those debts!!!
full article at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/28/business/28WATC.html
January 28, 2001
Market Watch: Eroding Paper Gains May Undo a Remarkable Resiliency
By GRETCHEN MORGENSON
Stock market investors
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