At 2003-07-15 21:04 -0700, Ian wrote:
Right but the dictionary entry is saying 1873. I'm reading a review of
Heckscher's book [it's Tuesday and I don't have a tv :-)] and I'm asking
in an historiographical and nominalist sense...
The complete Oxford English Dictionary which I have on disc,
The sensational death of Dr David Kelly is part of the accelerating
fall-out from the Iraq war. It seems almost certainly stress-related and
very possibly suicide. The results of a post-mortem have not been announced
yet, but may be later today.
(note: 1 NZ dollar = 0.57 US dollar)
Down and out on the Poor List
New Zealand Herald, 19.07.2003
By TIM WATKIN
The annual parade of elite wealth hit the streets yesterday as the business
weekly National Business Review published its latest list of the country's
wealthiest 183 individuals and
NZ brothel law condemned at UN
19.07.2003
By HELEN TUNNAH, deputy political editor
Members of a key women's committee at the United Nations have asked the New
Zealand Government to overturn the law to decriminalise prostitution.
Hungarian Kristina Morval told the UN committee prostitution
BBC 13:11 GMT 14:11 UK
Police have confirmed a body found in
Oxfordshire woodland is Dr David Kelly, as Tony Blair comes under intense
pressure over his death.
A spokesman said a post-mortem revealed the death was caused by a cut to
the left wrist and a knife was found nearby, along with a
suicide? or murder?
calling Miss Marple!
Jim
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Probably some of both, I would say - although in order to understand this,
one would need to do an investigation beyond a legal verdict of homicide and
suicide. It's dreadful, regrettable news, but even so, it never ceases to
amaze me how, in bourgeois society, a social and political issue (in
Carrol Cox wrote:
Why this lust for innovation? Most innovations are either (1)
destructive or (2) desperate attempts to compensate for the
destruction brought by prior innovations.
within the engineering world that i am familiar with, the lust for
innovation is one of several things:
1.)
Victim of a trade recession, engineer Nick Marlow has reached the end of
his rope. When he finally gets a job offer from the Spartacus Machine Tool
Company to take charge of their branch office in Milan, he is relieved to
be working once again. Without any strong convictions about politics in
Another material basis might be, where the employment contracts of higher
executives are based, in part or as a whole, on performance, and this
performance may be evaluated according to the ability of the executive to
solve new problems which arise in the conduct of business. Therefore, the
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Les is correct about innovation. Most studies indicate that innovation is
much more rapid in depression conditions. During booms, firms have less
pressure to innovate. I don't have time to elaborate, since I am under
deadline to finish the index for my new book.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics
i forgot one category of innovation lust:
3a.) the sales/marketing departments of a company decide it's
current product line is old in the tooth and sales people are
requesting something they can go out and sell more
enthusiastically. Some years ago someone in the company said why
I sent the following joint statement to the United for Peace and
Justice Steering Committee Staff (http://www.unitedforpeace.org/)
International ANSWER organizers
(http://www.internationalanswer.org/), in support of the Northeast
Ohio Anti-War Coalition's call for a Unified Anti-War Action in
NYTimes.com
Bending to Protests, Hong Kong Leader Will Revisit Security Bill
July 18, 2003
By KEITH BRADSHER
HONG KONG, July 17 - Retreating further in response to
street protests, Hong Kong's leader announced this evening
that he would begin another round of public consultation
over
A special announcement for Facing South readers:
July 2003
NEW LOAN SHARKS MAKING BIG PROFITS BY PREYING ON LOW-INCOME AMERICANS
New issue of Southern Exposure looks into the burgeoning poverty industry of
subprime home lenders, payday check-cashers and other financial institutions that
Come on Robert Manning, chime in here and tell us more.
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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Hi,
What do people make of the nearly unanimous call for China to revalue the
yuan and/or go off the dollar peg? Industrialists, US senators and now Alan
Greenspan and EU officials have jumped on the bandwagon.
Cheers,
Jonathan
2003-07-16
Financial Times
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Hi,
What do people make of the nearly unanimous call for China to revalue
the
yuan and/or go off the dollar peg? Industrialists, US senators and now
Alan
Greenspan and EU officials have jumped on the bandwagon.
Cheers,
Ian,
They don't believe so: China has the right to decide its exchange rate
policy and no international agreement forbids that. from:
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200307/01/eng20030701_119224.shtml
But they've agreed in principle to gradually phase out capital controls in
the future (as part
Here's a report from Senegal on Bush's visit. The report has been
circulating among folk music forums.
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Subject: Bush's visit to Senegal
Dearest friends,
As you probably know, this week George Bush is visiting Africa.
Starting with Senegal, he arrived this morning
Would we be out of the recession without the Boskin inflation adjustments?
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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Ian,
They don't believe so: China has the right to decide its exchange rate
policy and no international agreement forbids that. from:
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200307/01/eng20030701_119224.shtml
But they've
The Boskin Commission found that the CPI is overstated by as little as .6%
and as much as 1.5%, from what I can figure out, the upward bias being
probably in the range of 0.65 percent, down from 1.1 percent for the
1995-6 period..
I haven't read Robert Gordon's paper though, and the percentage
The Concord coalition has some useful articles on overstatement and
understatement, see e.g.
http://www.concordcoalition.org/entitlements/cpi0598.html
Does anyone know of literature where an attempt is made to express the
current magnitude of the US National Debt (and more specifically total
local/central government internal/external debt, and total private
internal/external debt) in comprehensible, meaningful comparisons ?
Doing a rough
You should not send in such nice quotes without giving a more precise
source so that I can steal them.
..
From a rhetorical standpoint, a description is a verbal representation of
some object to some audience, such that the speaker is able to change the
audience's attitude toward
Of course, the measurement of depreciation represents a major hurdle for
getting net investment.
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 06:18:19PM -0400, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
http://www.bea.gov/bea/dn/nipaweb/SelectTable.asp?Selected=N#S5
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You should not send in such nice quotes without giving a more precise
source so that I can steal them.
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Quote #2 is in the archives as similar issues have come up before:
[Kim Scheppele in Another Look
[A lesson worthwhile for those engaged in political economy-ecology. From
the Ecological Society of America...]
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Warren,
Mathematics is very
Enter the dragon
China is growing with bewildering speed. When Tony Blair arrives for a
historic visit, he will find a country undergoing social upheavals on the
way to becoming an economic superpower, reports Jonathan Fenby
Sunday July 20, 2003
The Observer
Conventional wisdom insists that
washingtonpost.com
How a 401(k) Loophole for the Rich Can Mean a Windfall for the Poor
By Albert B. Crenshaw
Sunday, July 20, 2003; Page F04
In the name of closing a loophole in the anti-discrimination rules
covering 401(k) plans, the Bush administration last week issued what seems
to be a
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