Outsourcing IT overseas a problem? Nah, we just need more education!
http://www.cio.com/archive/092203/reich.html
Fall/Winter 2003 Issue of CIO Magazine
Robert Reich
Jobless in America
I.T. EMPLOYMENT is down 20 percent since early 2001. Salaries are down too. In 2000,
senior software
Network.
Thanks,
Anders Schneiderman
http://www.wra.org/government/land_use/wr_articles/wr0703_land_use.htm
Ten Myths and Facts About Wisconsin's Smart Growth Law
by Tom Larson
Over the last 12 months, Wisconsin's comprehensive planning law (a.k.a Smart Growth)
has received significant
Our friends at the Cato Institute already have a piece out in the New York Post making
the one argument I didn't think anyone would be crazy enough to make: let's get rid of
all the rules on the transmission system!
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Instead, why not try deregulating the grid? Kill the cap on
Maybe I'm not reading carefully enough, but did you answered Doug's question about
what your alternative would be? You say what you would not advise them to do, but
that's really not an answer. I'm sure they could come up all by themselves lots of
reasons why what their approach has serious
Posted on Mon, Aug. 04, 2003
Financial research joins outsourcing movement
BY HIAWATHA BRAY
The Boston Globe
JP Morgan Chase Co. plans to outsource some of its stock market research to Bombay
this summer, signaling possible new arenas for the trend that already has sent tens of
thousands of
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Ouch! Talk about kicking yourself in the head.
Anders
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FYI, URL for the site is http://www.debunking-economics.com/ . It's definitely worth
checking out.
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I hate to put it bluntly like this, but I don't think you should read
any of that Industrial Org stuff.
Take a look at Steve Keen's new book,
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But job loss was presented
as a fact of nature, about which we could do nothing - except go to
college and learn computers. But now the people who did the right
thing are taking hits too.
Has anyone heard what Robert Reich and other libs who pushed education
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what is interesting (at least to me, because i am in the space) is
that the high-paying privileged jobs in IT (the ones that ivy league
educated liberal white men filled) are being outsourced to india or
elsewhere, and some of the whining from these liberals
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I just found an article on Counterpunch by Standard Schaefer that
deals with this topic:
http://www.counterpunch.org/schaefer07262003.html
Here's an article from the corporate IT manager point of view, about how to spin in
for your employees as you send
easier to use
Java programmers in India, who get paid a fifth of what they do in the U.S.
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I've been wondering if business support for open-source software ---
from IBM, for example --- is really an effort to spread knowledge and
thus
anyone ever propose
something
similar to a Tobin
Tax on domestic stock trading (not quite the same,
since Tobin's focus was
speculation)? Either tax increases or tax cuts that
would encourage
longer-term investment? If so, what were the details?
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finding information on how this so-called
free-market solution has been doing in the real world.
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to a Tobin
Tax on domestic stock trading (not quite the same, since Tobin's focus was
speculation)? Either tax increases or tax cuts that would encourage
longer-term investment? If so, what were the details?
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Anders Schneiderman
were the details?
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ices where they pass
the cost on to others (e.g., patent attnys) and thus aren't particularly
price sensitive, and the direct overall effect of trade on currencies is
pretty small.
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from
the private sector...?
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The views above are my own and do not reflect those of my employer.
t comes from us dues-paying members
and not from a foundation. And that makes me very, very scared for our
future.
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slaughtering or interning people is a plus.
Second, this strategy was ultimately a failure: once the repression
stopped, the old ethnic tensions flared right back up again.
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fast (unless, of course,
you're in a Unix environment, in which case you can decide to not provide
any service and screw any hapless people who aren't hackers).
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doesn't get at
the more fundamental issues, particularly the issues of democracy and
accountability.
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. The question of
who'll be bombarded w/ pollutants at that level and who will be subjected
to a considerably lower level of pollutants is then left up to
corporations, not the community. It seems to me that the end result is
inherently undemocratic, even by a wimpy liberal definition of democracy.
Anders
and gnashing of teeth about it. The costs of coverting all the
software, providing new point-of-sale toys that can handle it, etc. are
quite scary. Coming on top of the last-minute frenzy over the Year 2000
problem, a number of folks on the IT side are saying that it's insane to do
it now.
Anders
of claims about Iraq and
our bioweapons programs that I'd love to learn more about. Do you know if
he'd be willing to post a few more details?
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there any evidence for the increased
weirdness?
Newt Gingrich, whose favorability rating is still somewhere near the
Unabomber, has said he's going to run for President. Need we say more?
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tal fray.
I look forward to seeing your close reading of Harvey--supplemented by that
wonderful scanner of yours.
In Solidarity,
Anders Schneiderman
P.S. For the record, I think Harvey is a very smart guy--one of the most
interesting lefty theorists around. I just wish he wrote more clearly
not say, yes, we've
got to get out of the coal business over time, but we have to do it in a
way that leaves behind healthy communities w/ thriving economies?
The environmental movement has changed a lot in the last ten years, Max.
You might want to check it out sometime.
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y such litmus tests.
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I'd be interested to hear your analysis of Harvey's position. Again, from
what you cite here, it hardly seems like a sectarian sin. Isn't Harvey's
complaint about exactly the kind of problem that led to the Environmental
Justice movement?
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matic, thorough review of what's
been done and what actually works--what's saved companies time and money
(blah, blah, blah). At the very least, this oughta slow him down until you
can maneuver towards a slightly more sane outcome.
Anders Schneiderman
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P.S. At least
Does anyone know much about a group called the International Food Policy
Research Institute--their political slant, etc.?
Thanks,
Anders Schneiderman
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drawback is that it doesn't support Java and that you can
only use it for free for 30 days (after that, you need to shell out $30).
If you mostly use the Net for reading text, it's sooo much nicer than
Netscape or Explorer. So the next time you're feeling pissy at Microsoft,
check it out.
Anders
No sooner do I finish reading my email than Salon magazine handily provides
Exhibit A of my case. -- Anders
P.S. This is also an example of how useful complexity theory can be in the
real world; you can use it to make lots of money as a business guru...
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TRENDY THEORIES
b l o w B a c k PUNDITS WHO HAVE BEEN PONTIFICATING ABOUT PRESIDENT
CLINTON'S ALLEGED ADULTERY MAY SOON FIND THEIR OWN MORALS COMING UNDER
SCRUTINY.
BY JONATHAN BRODER
SALON MAGAZINE
WASHINGTON -- The next tasty treat in the media's feeding frenzy over
President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky
of vehicles that will never arrive." Among
the many possibilities are the use of Internet 2 by manufacturing companies
to securely transfer technical design data between offices and suppliers.
(New York Times CyberTimes 2 Feb 98)
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*
Dog" is looking more tame every day
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P.S. It's too bad Hunter Thompson is past his prime; he couldn't ask for
better material.
Just to give Penlrs a better sense of just how far Microsoft is prepared to
go...
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ently degrading when there are more than a few prostitutes who say
that they don't experience it that way. Putting women in economic
situations which they perceive as degrading, whether it's prostitution or
marriage, is evil. But arguing that all true lefties have to see sex the
same way is lit
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experimental equipment, helping to bond our nation together damper
dissent with a bit of spilled U.S. blood. These are benefits that you
can't get from pretend wars. Make war, not movies!
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Your tax dollars at work... -- Anders Schneiderman
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WILL ADVANCE TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM FUND ONLINE EDUCATION?
The Commerce Department is expected to decide early this year whether to
provide funding to learning technology ventures through the Department's
Advanced Technology
Your tax dollars at work... -- Anders Schneiderman
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WILL ADVANCE TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM FUND ONLINE EDUCATION?
The Commerce Department is expected to decide early this year whether to
provide funding to learning technology ventures through the Department's
Advanced Technology
in
ABI, the NYT index, WSJ index, etc., which is pretty odd. Does anyone know
more about them?
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o buy into
some form of p.e. that assumes people will somehow be transformed into
ideal citizens rather that the complex bundles of altruism and selfishness,
kindness and vengeful behavior we see today.
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certain behavior we won't.
And while we're rewriting the accounting standards of the countries that
blew up, why not change them so that risky behavior that we're not going to
bail out is on the balance sheet in such a way that makes its riskiness
very, very clear.
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search in the Washington Post, NYT, etc., I didn't find any articles on
them. Anybody know anything about 'em?
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o where do small companies fit in?
I don't know the statistics, but if you took all the
insects on the earth and weighed them, they'd
weigh a lot more than all the people.
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, incidentally, of banks, who tend to make money on only a
very small portion of their checking account clients. These are yet two of
many examples of why the unrelenting chorus of "let's have more competition
and we'll all do better" is such bullshit.
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P.S. Fro
back their
consumer markets, and push harder for export-led growth using strategies to
make their goods less expensive. Isn't this bound to exaccerbate the
problem of too many goods chasing not enough money and, in a few years,
push the global economy into even more trouble?
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l control can stomp on
minorities or dump a community's crap on its neighbors if it isn't strongly
counterbalanced by larger entities. So, what's so great about starting
locally, as opposed to starting locally _and_ regionally _and_ nationally
_and_ internationally?
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Financial Markets Center
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Opinions here do not necessarily represent the
views of the Financial Markets Center
t ensuring that people who work can afford to retire.
Anders Schneiderman
Research and Education Director
Financial Markets Center
Dear Penlrs,
Now that James Glassman and other right-wing idiots are using the new book
by the Thernstroms to argue that racism is bascially gone, I guess it's
time to take a quick look at it. Anybody seen a decent review?
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Research and Education Director
Financial Markets
you think appropriate. Also, any grad student who's interested in the
contest should email me so I can get in touch with more details.
Thanks,
Anders Schneiderman
Financial Markets Center
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problem isn't the
mortgage deduction; it's our entire housing policy, which has stopped
trying to make housing or home ownership more affordable for anyone but the
rich.
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. ``You see great cars and you think `Only Batman would own
that,' but years down the road, the climate control system in Batman's car
will be common.''
("Microsoft puts face on Windows 98," 7/23/1997)
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't mean that if women were running things, we wouldn't have
domination, competitiveness, back-stabbing, etc. But in our form of
capitalism, sexism isn't just a matter of how much men vs. women get paid,
it's built into the fabric of how power operates at a day-to-day level.
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/ sustainable
development as a metaphor. Also, has anyone in economics done research
using complexity theory that's reasonably accessible? I know Kenneth Arrow
was doing some work, but I was curious who else has done interesting research.
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with
ordinary folks.
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, the joys of unfettered free
enterprise
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unfettered free
enterprise....
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are
supposed to be a safer bet, no? Then again, I just moved from Berkeley to
Syracuse NY (on my way to DC), and my brain is suffering from intense sun
deprivation.
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rdous." Kind of like the kid who kills his parents and then
throws himself on the mercy of the court on the ground that he's an orphan.
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P.S. Has anyone on Pen-l read the Russian Absurdists? I remember a
wonderful short a piece that's a serial
Dear Pen-lr,
Does anyone know why certain companies are referred to as "blue chip"?
Where did the term "blue chip" come from?
Thanks,
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e hope.
So Sid, what's wrong with this plan?
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that no one really understood.
So if we don't understand the neurophysiology of these much simpler
phenomena, it's pretty hard to take seriously Chomsky's talk about genes
and justice.
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Perotistas. Here, the balanced budget is obviously a symbol for a
larger disenchantment with government (and, often, for racist feelings
about welfare, as Greenberg's work demonstrated).
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c planning, whether
at the local or national level (an issue I remember Lenin smartly addressed
in an essay back before he came into power).
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if we can create a
fiasco even worse than what happened with the SLs.Does anyone know
more about the details or, more importantly, if this is something we need
to worry about or if it'll be stomped to death by the conflicting financial
interests?
Thanks,
Anders Schneiderman
P.S. On my trek acro
complex than your average skilled
construction job. Rather than bashing foreign skilled workers, we ought to
ensure that this industry is opened up to poor people, particularly poor
people of color, in this country.
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And a lot of them are probably "Lockheed Libertarians" (i.e., greedy
selfish pigs).
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n I read the paper in the morning, but I
can't believe I missed all this.
Thanks,
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Progressive Communications
ny of them were ever convicting of serious violations.
The other place for scandal comparisons is, obviously, DoD contractors. I
don't know if there are/were any in your neck of the woods, but folks like
Lockheed, etc. walked away with what amounted to a wrist slap.
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s it, it's ok. Welcome to the 21st century!
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ce example of poetic justice.
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I wrote:
billion/yr. If European unions had put just 1% of their budgets into
funding + protecting their lighter-skinned brothers and sisters overseas,
pushing world-wide wages
Oops, make that darker-skinned. :)
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d probably provide a bunch of sociology readings she'd find
useful.
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have done some work on the subject as part of a corporate campaign. I'm
also interested in tracking down info on urban redevelopment organizations
in CA; I have sporadic info on SF and a few larger cities, but nothing
comprehensive. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Anders
the administrators could do w/o getting fired if they didn't
have very vocal, organzied faculty support.
There will always be Dogbert-like administrators running colleges. But I
doubt they'd be trying the lunacy you describe if faculty had stood up when
the axe was first falling on welfare moms.
Anders
to pose
the impossibility/necessity of the Subject or some some shit).
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an insane amount of time?
I don't have an answer to these questions. Then again, I don't know if
they're answerable. We may be in the position of someone in 13th century
England trying to imagine what modern capitalism would look like.
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-the-rich-and-create-a-jobs-fund ballot initiative.
Does anyone have any suggestions for what the jobs part should consist of?
Has any other state (or small country) done something similar?
Thanks,
Anders Schneiderman
Progressive Communications
P.S. Does anyone know what's going on with Sustainable
Bob wrote:
Finally, some very good news for the left and labor movement. After
a long, bitter struggle, the LA Living Wage ordinance passed 12 - 0, with
three abstensions. Mayor Richard Riordan had promised to veto the
ordinance, but with a 12-vote majority, the ordinance is now veto
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Tarkvara Design wishes to announce the first beta
for Democracy: the Net is still too
complicated for mere mortals.
Thanks,
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the proposed changes. To subscribe, send the following message to
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and then follow the instructions it sends back.
Thanks For Your Help!
Anders Schneiderman, PhD.
Nathan Newman
P.S. If you have ideas about other Internet Toys for Democracy, and you're
either a classroom teacher or
only explanation that makes sense." I'm glad that reality doesn't get
in the way of his "empiricist" mathmatical models.
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Dear Penlrs,
Does anyone know roughly what percentage of the U.S. stock market is made
up of pension funds? Are similar figures available for 401ks?
Thanks,
Anders Schneiderman
Progressive Communications
to get help
for tracking down this kind of info is your local public reference
librarian (if not, try calling UCBerkeley's business library).
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ents will be avoided. In
the long run we all file for bankruptcy and
repudiate our debts.
I look forward to your EPI briefing paper, "Borrow Till Kablooie."
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"Liberal Welfare State"). Or come up with something else that's
theoretical but useful. It doesn't have to be "the answer"; a lousy,
half-right idea is a hell of lot more useful than no idea. Otherwise, it's
just killing trees for no good reason--not something the environmental
justice movement would approve.
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ke over the California state government, what
economic policies would we want to be fighting for," the stack would be
pretty tiny.
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ope failed miserably, and he says that unfettered laissez-faire
policies may destroy our society. Not exactly a shocker for folks here, but
it's fun to have someone like Soros to smack Right-wingers over the head.
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operates incorporates what we know
about advertising?
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Has anyone done any work in economics on the macroeconomics of
advertising--i.e., to what extent advertising shapes markets? I'm sure
nobody in mainstream economics has touched it, because it raises too many
issues they'd rather ignore, but have any of our lefty bretheren?
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SLs,
which "was botched big time," but he doesn't include it when figuring out
our "savings." See Jim, this is why you don't understand that most working
families are doing well; when you calculate how much money they've made,
you forgot to drop out their credit card debt and their
light exaggeration of what happens every day. In many ways, it's
one of the best anthropological analyses of corporate life in the 1990s,
and a careful reading of Dilbert can do a lot to debunk some of the core
myths about the way our economy works; it's an excellent addition to _Lean
and Mean_.
A
o is be willing to look at what's right in
front of our face.
Anders Schneiderman
Progressive Communications
P.S. These comments are based on the experiences of myself and of friends
and acquaintances at Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, Sun, and many other
Fortune 500 Corporations.
P.S. One more comment from someone who works for a major corporation
that's regularly lauded by Business Week and the Economist, someone who
wanted to respond anonymously to this debate so they don't jeopardize their
job:
I sent email to the "Economist" and told them they should cover Scott
Friends, My apologies for posting my reply to Michael Yates to
everyone. It's late and I'm tired. Larry Shute
It seems like late night is a bad time to send email; my apologies for
posting my E-NODE column to Penl when I meant to send it to someone else.
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Friends, My apologies for posting my reply to Michael Yates to
everyone. It's late and I'm tired. Larry Shute
It seems like late night is a bad time to send email; my apologies for
posting my E-NODE column to Penl when I meant to send it to someone else.
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