Sale and Lease Back

2002-09-06 Thread Natasha Potter
Last week it was reported that Hilton hotels were selling their buildings and land to a Scottish banking group and leasing them back. Sounds like a good way of getting capital 'up-front' by companies. It's effectively a mortgage. As for comments that this will reduce debt ratios - I'm not so

Deirdre McCloskey. was Re:Post-Autism in the Micro

2002-09-06 Thread Carrol Cox
Eugene Coyle wrote: I have been reading the exchange. I was most impressed by the essay that triggered the debate. The Deirdre McCloskey piece in the current issue seems to me to be defensive and missing the point. I think I could pass the test he poses at the end In September of

Support for Vandana Shiva

2002-09-06 Thread Louis Proyect
Doug Henwood says that he heard that she has no support in India from anti-globalization activists. I find this highly unlikely since she is an iconic figure for exactly this movement. He does accurately cite Ulhas, but his political agenda is utterly hostile to traditional farming. (I

Re: Re: r.biel@ucl.ac.uk

2002-09-06 Thread ravi
Doug Henwood wrote: ravi wrote: Doug Henwood wrote: Shiva's biggest fans are among Western NGOs. She has almost no followers in India. can you back up this statement? I've heard it from people in the antiglobo movement, and from Ulhas Joglekar on either this list or lbo-talk. but

Re: Smear Campaign Against Economist

2002-09-06 Thread ahmet tonak
Can anyone direct me to a web site that describes the official policy of the INS vis-a-vis foreign professors at US campuses? Relatedly, I want to know the current practices of different universities and controversial cases. Thanks. Ahmet Tonak Michael Perelman wrote: M. Shahid Alam is a

McCloskey Post-Autism

2002-09-06 Thread Devine, James
Title: McCloskey Post-Autism Gene Coyle writes: The Deirdre McCloskey piece in the current issue seems to me to be defensive and missing the point. I think I could pass the test [s]he poses at the end -- I did have the Stigler book as my undergraduate text, and loved it at the time. I don't

Teach your children well

2002-09-06 Thread pms
http://www.non-sequitur.com/archives/

U.S. Eliminated From B-Ball World Championships

2002-09-06 Thread Michael Pollak
[The loss against Argentina was just a first round loss. This is for keeps] New York Times September 6, 2002 U.S. Eliminated From World Championships By HARVEY ARATON I NDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 5 Already stripped of its unblemished record and even its home-court flavor, the United States

Re: U.S. Eliminated From B-Ball World Championships

2002-09-06 Thread Michael Perelman
Maybe Paul can tell us how Yugo. plays as a team, rather than as separate Serbs, Croats, Until recently, the US could not even field Blacks and Whites together. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL

Re: Re: U.S. Eliminated From B-Ball World Championships

2002-09-06 Thread Paul Phillips
The Yugo team is just made up, as far as I know, of Serbs and Montenegrins who constitute the current Yugoslavia -- soon to be renamed as Serbia and Montenegro when the new constitution is adopted. The Croats and Slovenes have separate teams. However, it should be pointed out that one of the

John Foster Bellamy answers his critics

2002-09-06 Thread Louis Proyect
A while back on the Marxism list, I replied to critics of John Bellamy Foster's Marx Ecology who had piled on in the pages of James O' Connor's journal Capitalism, Nature and Socialism. The constraints put on Foster's rejoinder convinced him it was not worth the effort to reply there. Paul

Gould's vacuum

2002-09-06 Thread Ian Murray
Stephen Jay Gould fought the Darwinian fundamentalists with elegance. But since his death, no one else has stepped to the plate. http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/17/blume-h.html

Re: John Foster Bellamy answers his critics; the linkis not operational...

2002-09-06 Thread ahmet tonak
Louis: Your link to your article produced the following message, I guess you should fix it: The requested URL was not found on this web server: /~lnp3/mydocs/ecology/foster-o File does not exist: /u/3/l/lnp3/public_html/mydocs/ecology/foster-o Ahmet Tonak Louis Proyect wrote:

Re: Re: Post-Autism in the Micro

2002-09-06 Thread Ben Day
At 09:40 AM 9/5/2002 -0700, Eugene Coyle wrote: The current Galbraith piece is appealing, but professors need a more concrete road map at this point -- his level of abstraction sets the stage, but what to actually do? I dunno about this - even as an abstract map, I don't find Galbraith's

Re: Re: Re: U.S. Eliminated From B-Ball World Championships

2002-09-06 Thread Michael Perelman
The Sacto. Kings have 2 players for Yugo. Divac is a Serg. Stoyakovic (sp?), a Croat. On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 01:04:22PM -0500, Paul Phillips wrote: The Yugo team is just made up, as far as I know, of Serbs and Montenegrins who constitute the current Yugoslavia -- soon to be renamed as

economic news from a convicted felon

2002-09-06 Thread Devine, James
Title: economic news from a convicted felon ERDMAN'S WORLD Sponsored by: cbs marketwatch The pessimistic view, from Tokyo Commentary: If the Nikkei is our model, trouble lies ahead By Paul Erdman, CBS.MarketWatch.com Last Update: 10:56 AM ET Sept. 6, 2002 SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- A

FLOSS final report index

2002-09-06 Thread ravi
i don't understand a word of it, but i am willing to bet this gets some of you reaching for the viagra ;-): http://www.infonomics.nl/FLOSS/report/ -- Overview of the FLOSS project This project remedies the lack of information on Free/Libre/Open Source Software [1]

Re: economic news from a convicted felon

2002-09-06 Thread Ian Murray
economic news from a convicted felon - Original Message - From: Devine, James To: Pen-l (E-mail) Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 1:19 PM Subject: [PEN-L:30094] economic news from a convicted felon ERDMAN'S WORLD Sponsored by: cbs marketwatch The pessimistic view, from Tokyo

RE: Re: economic news from a convicted felon

2002-09-06 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:30096] Re: economic news from a convicted felon What'd Erdman do? I don't remember, but he says that what he did was what bankers normally do but that the Swiss caught him. He's one of the few rapidly anti-Swiss thinkers out there. He probably won't even eat their

Re: Re: John Foster Bellamy answers his critics; the link is not operational...

2002-09-06 Thread Louis Proyect
At 03:48 PM 9/6/2002 -0400, you wrote: Louis: Your link to your article produced the following message, I guess you should fix it:The requested URL was not found on this web server: /~lnp3/mydocs/ecology/foster-o File does not exist: /u/3/l/lnp3/public_html/mydocs/ecology/foster-o Ahmet

Re: RE: Re: economic news from a convicted felon

2002-09-06 Thread Eugene Coyle
As distinct from the slowly anti-Swiss thinkers? "Devine, James" wrote: > What'd Erdman do? I don't remember, but he says that what he did was what bankers normally do but that the Swiss caught him. He's one of the few rapidly anti-Swiss thinkers out there. He probably won't even eat their

Re: Re: economic news from a convicted felon

2002-09-06 Thread Eugene Coyle
Hey, there are a lot of convicted felons doing quite well. The WSJ runs pieces by some of them quite often. I can't remember what Erdman did -- some international banking white collar crime. Switzerland clings to one of the holes in memory that it slid thru. But it was quickly brushed aside

Re: FLOSS final report index

2002-09-06 Thread Eugene Coyle
Viagra? Software? ravi wrote: i don't understand a word of it, but i am willing to bet this gets some of you reaching for the viagra ;-): http://www.infonomics.nl/FLOSS/report/ -- Overview of the FLOSS project This project remedies the lack of information on

attention needed

2002-09-06 Thread rawlings5
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RE: Re: RE: Re: economic news from a convicted felon

2002-09-06 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:30100] Re: RE: Re: economic news from a convicted felon From: Eugene Coyle As distinct from the slowly anti-Swiss thinkers? right. I meant rabidly. Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine Devine, James wrote: What'd Erdman do? I don't

RE: economic news from a convicted felon

2002-09-06 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: economic news from a convicted felon from an on-line review of Erdman's novel, _the Set-Up_: Where Erdman does stand out is in his description of a Swiss jail--no surprise seeing as he spent three months in the Basel hoosegow in the 1970s during an investigation of a commodities

The Two Americas

2002-09-06 Thread Louis Proyect
(These two articles appear on page one of today's NY Times business section) G.E. Expenses for Ex-Chief Cited in Divorce Papers By GERALDINE FABRIKANT Papers filed yesterday in the divorce of John F. Welch Jr., the former chief executive of General Electric, by his wife contend that G.E.

Re: Re: Re: Re: U.S. Eliminated From B-Ball World Championships

2002-09-06 Thread phillp2
There are, of course, Croats and other nationalities who live in Serbia and have for generations (also, the Albanians, not only in Kosovo but in Serbia proper.) Last census data I have is that just over 2 per cent of the Serbia population were ethnic Croats. Over 7 per cent of the Vojvodina