What could be more democratic than to consult 6 billion people? (Answer:
to have the votes for your executive board distributed in proportion to
population rather than to accumulated national capital.)
Nevertheless a request is a request. And change may be under way, as
indicated by coded phrases
At 19:21 09/04/01 -0400, you wrote:
>At 11:53 PM 4/9/01 +0100, you wrote:
> >
> > No doubt for some, such initiatives are by definition opportunist. For
>others
> > they are sallies into an arena of struggle.
> >
> > Dialectically, they could be both.
> >
> > Chris Burford
> >
> > London
>
>
>Can'
Michael Perelman wrote:
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Hey, I never said that. In fact, the statement is incoherent.
All chapter 11s are "strategic" in some sense. What I did say, at
one point, is that companies rarely if ever file chapter 11 simply
to get out of collective bargaining agr
Earlier, David said that firms do not engage in strategic bankruptcy.
What about W.R. Grace?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Peter Ramus. "'Reform'" in scare quotes is about right. Ramus didn't exactly
advance logic. --jks
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>Louis's discussion of Java reminded me of the effect of (Peter? Philip?)
>Ramus's 16th century "reform" of Aristotlean dialectcs, as chronicled by
>Walter Ong. In a nutshell, Ramus made dialec
Ken,
Valpy, a regular columnist with the G&M, ran for the NDP in the
last federal election. The G&M has a few leftish columnists, most
noteably Rick Salutin.
Paul
Paul Phillips,
Economics,
University of Manitoba
From: "Ken Hanly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Democratic Workers Party? Whatever happened to Marlene Dixon? (Contemporary
Marxism was an ok journal, "Our Socialism" not, think they tried to takeover
west coast office of NACLA once) Three ex-members
wrote a summing up in Socialist Review around 1985. Knew one of the authors
when I was active i
> Ellen Ullman, "Close to the Machine", (City Lights Books, 1997):
> What worried me, though, was that the failure of the global electronic
> system will not need anything so dramatic as an earthquake, as diabolical
> as a revolutionary. In fact, the failure will be built into the system in
>
Ellen Ullman, "Close to the Machine", (City Lights Books, 1997):
Twenty years before my meeting with the vice president, I was a communist.
I joined an underground party. (I quit the party after one yearI was
expelled when I tried to leave. I then reviewed what I knew about computer
programming
Village Voice, Week of April 4 - 10, 2001
Mondo Washington by James Ridgeway
Nation Ignored Foot-and-Mouth Warning, Dooming 910,000 Sheep. A Special
Report From the Killing Fields
LAZONBY, CUMBRIA, ENGLAND, March 31Along the road into this northern
English village, a couple stand leaning on th
It is a bit surprising that articles such as this should be published in the
Globe a paper that touts itself as Canada's #1 daily business newspaper.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
The Globe & Mail
April 9, 2001
How Free Trade Threatens Democracy
by Michael Valpy
Why protesters are g
I wrote something along your lines, Louis, in my Class Warfare book:
Michael Cusumano's study of Japanese programming presents perhaps the most
influential case in favor of the Japanese model. Based on a sample of 20 U.S.
and 11 Japanese firms, he finds that Japanese programmers produced 60 to 7
At 11:53 PM 4/9/01 +0100, you wrote:
>
> No doubt for some, such initiatives are by definition opportunist. For
others
> they are sallies into an arena of struggle.
>
> Dialectically, they could be both.
>
> Chris Burford
>
> London
Can't we put this kind of baiting behind us?
Louis Proyect
M
No doubt for some, such initiatives are by definition opportunist. For
others they are sallies into an arena of struggle.
Dialectically, they could be both.
Chris Burford
London
Representative Bernie Sanders of Vermont sent a similar letter to the
World Bank.
--
Robert Weissman <[EMAIL PROT
http://www.charter99.org/index.html
Another Anthony Barnett creation.
Chris Burford
London
>April 6, 2001
>CBC Radio One Commentary
>by David Gracey
>
>These days the media is full of bad news stories about the economy. We
>hear of massive layoffs in the auto sector. Consumer confidence is plummeting.
>
>The same economists who only a few months ago were talking about a soft
>landing
Ellen Frank wrote:
>I just had a chance to read this exchange about T-Bills.
>The problem with retiring T-Bills is not that it
>complicates pricing problems in financial markets,
>but that it eliminates a riskless asset. Banks hold
>T-bills as "secondary reserves". Pension funds and
>annuities h
I just had a chance to read this exchange about T-Bills.
The problem with retiring T-Bills is not that it
complicates pricing problems in financial markets,
but that it eliminates a riskless asset. Banks hold
T-bills as "secondary reserves". Pension funds and
annuities hold T-bills to cover out
Louis's discussion of Java reminded me of the effect of
(Peter? Philip?) Ramus's 16th century "reform" of Aristotlean dialectcs,
as chronicled by Walter Ong. In a nutshell, Ramus made dialectic more
"teachable" by reforming it into a vast hierarchy of dichotomies. The
resulting knowledge may be
Nah, much better not to try to get one's arguments from the left, responding
to neo-con, neo-lib or centrist bilge. ;-) Why bother to send it to the Post
if you did not want to get published? Let those conservatives totally
dominate the public sphere...
Michael Pugliese
- Original Message ---
One of the myriad of Washington Post house conservatives ran an OpEd last
week saying he was for reparations to African Americans. But, he basically
said they should take $50K per family and forever after shut up about
affirmative action. Here is my response, to be published in the Washington
Po
Charles Brown wrote:
>CB: I thought central banks weren't important in the Anglo-American
>,as opposed to German, system ?
Central banks - e.g., the Federal Reserve, the Bank of Japan, the
European Central Bank - are extremely important. Without them, the
system would periodically come flying
Perhaps some Pen-L might comment on this..
Cheers, Ken Hanly
April 6, 2001
CBC Radio One Commentary
by David Gracey
These days the media is full of bad news stories about the economy. We
hear
of massive layoffs in the auto sector. Consumer confidence is
plummeting.
The same economists who
Economics Reporting Review
Week of March 31 to April 6
By: DEAN BAKER
OUTSTANDING STORIES OF THE WEEK
"For the Boss, Happy Days Are Still Here," by
David Leonhardt in the New York Times, April 1,
2001, Section 4, page 1.
"Leaving Shareholders in the Dust," by David
Leonhardt in the New York T
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>I wrote:>>So what? I'm sure that capitalism can adapt to not having
>a T-bill market.<<
>
>Asks Doug: > It can adapt, but happily? Where else you going to park
>your cash balances in
>a riskless instrument? What will the Fed
> BLS DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, APRIL 9, 2001:
>
> A surprisingly weak employment report -- showing a loss of 86,000 jobs in
> the nonfarm sector -- set off alarms on the economy's health, but few
> analysts say the March figures are a sure sign of a recession. Rather,
> most economists agree the re
[Michael Bloomberg is the 105th richest man in America, mostly on the basis
of financial information terminals that he leases to banks, brokerages,
etc. He launched this business in 1979 with capital from a severance
package he got from Salomon Brothers after being on the losing end of power
strug
>I think your objection is overstated. Creating a
>language that all users can use, no matter what
>platform, seems like a good thing to me. Of course,
>capitalist entities will attempt to use that language
>in ways that benefit them or to bastardize (as
>Microsoft has), but they do that to *every
I think your objection is overstated. Creating a
language that all users can use, no matter what
platform, seems like a good thing to me. Of course,
capitalist entities will attempt to use that language
in ways that benefit them or to bastardize (as
Microsoft has), but they do that to *everything*
from SLATE, Microsoft's on-line rag:
>The [Washington POST] reports that the doctor who pioneered the concept of
>"aerobics," Kenneth Cooper, is in discussions with the Bush administration
>about maybe becoming the next surgeon general. The paper says he's
>endorsing federal tax breaks to encou
"Smash the fascist insect the preys on
the life of the people!" SLA slogan, circa '74
M.P.
P.S. Another sick humor moment for y'all. Does not the hard left have such
gifted rhetoricians!
> >"Dig! First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room
> >with them, and they even shoved
I emailed this to may college drop-out Web programming son in New Zealand.
I'll see what he thinks about it. Proyect and others might enjoy his
thoughts on progamming and the 20-something's Web culture at
www.benbrown.com
-Original Message-
From: Louis Proyect [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
S
Is this Aristotle or Proyect? Worms and spiders are insects?
Computer science - A
Biology - F
Within insects, you have worms, spiders, moths, etc.
Last week I was at Sun's education center in NYC taking Introduction to
Java 275. All of the programmers on the Financial Front-End system I work
on are being trained in the language in order to migrate the user interface
to the worldwide web, where more and more of Columbia's internal business
fu
Call for proposals/abstracts
Eighth Annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics
Conference Dates: October 24-26, 2001
Abstract/Proposal Due Date: May 31, 2001
Completed Paper Due Date (if accepted): September 1, 2001
Sponsored by the Institute for Business and Professional Ethics,
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> Moldova returns to communism
>
> April 4, 2001
>
> CHISINAU, Moldova -- Moldova has become the first former Soviet state to elect a
communist as its leader.
>
> The eastern European nation's parliament elected Communist Party leader Vladimir
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