instructive thread.
If untaxing dividends tilts the balance further in favour of finance
capitalist corporations then how much are the supposed democracy of
shareholders really the beneficiaries?
Presumably every share likely to benefit from this change in
taxation, will have enjoyed an
what word but ''empire'' describes the awesome thing that America is
becoming?
Michael Ignatieff Jan 5
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/05/magazine/05EMPIRE.html?pagewanted=printposition=top
After a long pause (10 years or so) I realized that I should offer an
INTRODUCTORY (i.e. no prior knowledge about the region and a very
introductory exposure to economics) course on the political economy of the
middle east with a sufficient emphasis on the historical processes and
current
I'd suggest the first two chapters of
*Confronting 9-11, Ideologies of Race, and Eminent Economists, Vol. 20
RESEARCH IN POLITICAL ECONOMY, Elsevier Science, 2002.
namely,
The Deep Politics of September 11: Political Economy of Concrete Evil
David MacGregor, King's College, University of
Branko gave a nice seminar at EPI. I commend his
work to all. I would say it's a definitive survey
of what we know and don't know about world inequality.
You should be able to find some on the WB web site.
mbs
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* January 8, 2003
Venezuela to Tighten Control Over Oil Co.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 10:47 a.m. ET
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- President Hugo Chavez, battling a strike
that has paralyzed the world's fifth-biggest oil exporter, will
restructure the state oil company to tighten
Nationalism and Class Struggles in the Arab World by Ahmad El Kodsy (I
recall hearing this was a pen name of Samir Amin?) is dated but very
useful still. It was included in the Monthly Review book THE ARAB WORLD
AND ISRAEL, and the other piece in that by Eli Lobel may also be useful.
Arie Bober's
It gets tiring to read that a lockout is labeled a strike! Paul
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Confronting 9-11, Ideologies of Race, and Eminent Economists, Vol. 20
RESEARCH IN POLITICAL ECONOMY, Paul Zarembka, editor, Elsevier Science
Title: RE: [PEN-L:33648] Re: Venezuela: PDVSA Restructuring Tax Revolt
Paul Z writes: It gets tiring to read that a lockout is labeled a strike!
isn't it a strike? I thought that the elite oil workers were in alliance with the managers against Chavez. If so, it's either a combined
New York Times January 7, 2003
Venezuela Plans to Split State Oil Company
By GINGER THOMPSON with NEELA BANERJEE
CARACAS, Venezuela, Jan. 6 - Energy Minister Rafael RamÃrez said
today that the government planned to take the state-owned oil
company, the world's fifth largest, and break it in
Jim's approach depends on defining managers as workers.
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 08:58:59AM -0800, Devine, James wrote:
Paul Z writes: It gets tiring to read that a lockout is labeled a strike!
isn't it a strike? I thought that the elite oil workers were in alliance
with the managers against
Can anyone recommend a good article on the causes of stagflation in the US
in the 1970s? Thanks.
--
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Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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For anyone interested in game theory, Phil Mirowski's Machine Dreams is
great, but it is also about more than game theory.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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I just learned that the law prohibits reporting drop out rates by class or
ethnicity. I assume that they knew in advance what the results would be.
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 04:19:32AM +, Seth Sandronsky wrote:
PEN-L:
Greetings. Here's my take on the politics of education reform in the
Title: RE: [PEN-L:33651] Re: RE: Re: Venezuela: PDVSA Restructuring Tax Revolt
Paul Z writes: It gets tiring to read that a lockout is labeled a strike!
I wrote: isn't it a strike? I thought that the elite oil workers were in alliance with the managers against Chavez. If so, it's either a
Title: RE: [PEN-L:33652] quesion from Michael Yates
Michael Perelman writes:
Can anyone recommend a good article on the causes of
stagflation in the US
in the 1970s? Thanks.
see, for example, James Devine, The Rise and Fall of Stagflation: Preliminary Results, Review of Radical
Hi!
We sent out this call for submissions last month, and since then
we've heard from a lot of folks who are really excited about being
part of this project, but who just don't have the time to work out a
piece of writing or art for it by now.
In an effort to include as many of you as
Title: RE: [PEN-L:33652] quesion from Michael Yates
You might want to check out Edward Nell, Prosperity and Public Spending, and also some of the
contributions in another book edited by Nell, Free Market Conservatism. I also
vaguely recall there being something in one of the URPE readers,
Danish Professor Denounced for 'Scientific Dishonesty'
Panel of Scientists Assails Scholarship of Book Praised in Press -- 'The
Skeptical Environmentalist'
By Eric Pianin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, January 8, 2003; Page A20
Once hailed as a brilliant iconoclast who challenged
CounterPunch
January 7, 2003
Why is Capitalism in Crisis?
By AHMAD FARUQUI
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, much ink has been spilled on the virtues
of capitalism. Last year, Andrew Bernstein of Pace University capitalized
on this momentum by issuing a declaration On the Principles and
Mind the gap
The debate over global inequality heats up
By Laura Secor, Boston Globe Staff, 1/5/2003
WHEN TRADE BARRIERS BEGAN to fall in the late 1970s, politicians and
pundits boasted that economic globalization would usher in a capitalist
utopia: The circle of prosperity would widen,
Chronicle of Higher Education, January 10, 2003
Searching for Respect
Richard Sennett's latest work examines the costs of meritocracy
By DAVID GLENN
In 1946, an aspiring writer named Dorothy Sennett moved with her 3-year-old
son, Richard, into Chicago's Cabrini Green housing project, which
(first of what appears to be an extraordinary 3 part series in the NY Times
intended to supplement a PBS TV documentary on the same topic that airs
tomorrow.)
NY Times, Jan. 9, 2002
DANGEROUS BUSINESS
At a Texas Foundry, an Indifference to Life
By DAVID BARSTOW and LOWELL BERGMAN
Additional
The story forwarded up to Pen-l referred to the strike in V. (then
turned to events in the oil sector). Most businesses out of operation
were by lockout and shop owners in malls even experienced viligantes
enforcing closures. In any case, the retail lockout has greatly subsided.
Strike has
I sent this reply to a student who asked questions (see below)
about my comment in class this morning about the Bush proposed
tax cuts. If I have got it wrong and anybody wants to provide
alternatives, please do so.
Paul
--- Forwarded message follows ---
From: Paul
Alan Blinder, The Great Stagflation, but it was not too good.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Title: Iraq Dossier Debated
UN inspectors 'cast doubt on UK evidence dossier'
John Hooper in Berlin
Wednesday January 8, 2003
The Guardian [UK]
The head of the UN's weapons inspectors in Iraq, Hans Blix, will tell the security council tomorrow that several of the key claims in Tony
At 08/01/03 11:11 -0500, you wrote:
Branko gave a nice seminar at EPI. I commend his
work to all. I would say it's a definitive survey
of what we know and don't know about world inequality.
You should be able to find some on the WB web site.
mbs
I can see that Branko Milanovic is an
Although the main purpose of my visit to Istanbul was to meet my in-laws, I
had no doubt that broader cultural and political concerns would make
themselves felt. Chief among them was Turkey's role in the impending war
with next-door neighbor Iraq, the lingering effects of a severe economic
Michael,
Any cites or sources for this law?
Seth
I just learned that the law prohibits reporting drop out rates by class or
ethnicity. I assume that they knew in advance what the results would be.
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 04:19:32AM +, Seth Sandronsky wrote:
PEN-L:
Greetings. Here's my
Can anyone give me citations for attacks on the Phillips curve hypothesis?
I am posting this for a friend involved in a full employment coalition.
Thanks.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Greetings Economists,
Marta Russel used to be on this list. This essay analyzes a fold hero in
the U.S. Helen Keller in later life recoiled from many of her progressive
views. Marta makes a powerful summary of an icons life. Well worth the
read. Not so much for the economic information but
My source was Wm. Luker of the University of North Texas
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 01:28:37AM +, Seth Sandronsky wrote:
Michael,
Any cites or sources for this law?
Seth
I just learned that the law prohibits reporting drop out rates by class or
ethnicity. I assume that they knew in
A very Tory kind of history
Niall Ferguson's feel-good television series on the British empire is a
blinkered and sentimental romp
Hywel Williams
Thursday January 9, 2003
The Guardian
It was British, it was benign, and it was very, very big. In remembering
it we have nothing to lose but our
How Opec's hawks turned dove - and saved the western world
The oil cartel that sparked recession in the 70s is now cast as an
economic cavalry
Larry Elliott and Charlotte Denny
Thursday January 9, 2003
The Guardian
Thirty years ago, the idea of Opec meeting as the world was planning war
in the
washingtonpost.com
Lawyers as Stool Pigeons?
SEC May Force Attorneys to Blow Whistle on Corporate Clients
By Kathleen Day
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, January 9, 2003; Page E01
A Virginia lawyer who learns a client is about to shoot someone must
tell the police, the idea being that
WTO panel to examine softwood duties
By ROMA LUCIW
Globe and Mail Update
Wednesday, January 8 - Online Edition, Posted at 6:03 PM EST
The World Trade Organization has agreed to establish a fourth panel,
this time to hear Ottawa's challenge of U.S. dumping duties on Canadian
exports of softwood
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Cethswayo Estate
Generation-South Africa.
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Enormously important question close to the legal and philosphical basis of
capitalism.
(BTW thanks for Ian for his persistently shrewed and thought provoking
clippings. All the more helpful because he is posting from the west coast
of the USA and has already caught the early editions ready for
This will not be totally unwelcome to Tony Blair, as he manoeuvres for the
attention of George Bush.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/ukresponse/story/0,11017,871256,00.html
He has after all, made the opportunist assessment of the balance of forces
a scientific principle.
Chris Burford
London
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