I have printed my initial statement and Tom Kruse's response below. Tom, I
don't disagree with you at all, but my statement was meant to be a sarcastic
commentary on military involvement IN the drug trade, not a comment on the
generosity of the drug fighting budget. [basically, this is a great
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is not clear to me in this thread is are we
looking for a 'leading indicator' of cyclical
fluctuations or of 'standard of living'. If it is
the former, then it seems to me unlikely that the
kind of social indicators (drug use, incarceration
rates, crime, child
Tom Kruse did some inspired digging to answer Maggie's question on
drugs and the military, however, the first thing I thought of was
all those customs-jumping ships and planes of the armed forces
as they arrive home from the 100-plus countries where they
currently are based, thanks to
Thomas Kruse wrote:
Agreed, totally, except insofar as they're a window on a very perverted
cultural context and political process. For exmple, an interesting Harper
Index kinda stat might be "number of times drug wars declared since the
Harrison Act of 1914"
It's all one drug war, it just
Tom Kruse offers:
Tom is vulnerable for what he discloses and where he is; we should be
ready to launch a major networking campaign if he were to suddenly
drop off the scope.
That's thoughtful, but fortunately unnecessary. What I report all came
from public internet space and one kind
C. Kruse,
What the heck is chicha?
peace
Tom is vulnerable for what he discloses and where he is; we should be
ready to launch a major networking campaign if he were to suddenly
drop off the scope.
valis
That's thoughtful, but unfortunately unecessary. What I report
Doug:
I doubt I'll ever include anything on drug use, since that's a very
ambiguous indicator, and the stats are probably worthless;
Agreed, totally, except insofar as they're a window on a very perverted
cultural context and political process. For exmple, an interesting Harper
Index kinda stat
Regarding:
i think including illicit drugs is a good idea, but as an indicator of how
much cash the american military complex has added to its supply. maggie
coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
According to the official data, it's not all that impressive -- just around
a billion or so, that is, just
In a message dated 98-03-23 14:08:33 EST, bhottivista writes:
I occurs to me that illicit drugs should be considered as well. If
one could control for "supply shocks" like changing governments, transient
eradication efforts, etc. It would seem that something like planted domestic
acreage
C. Henwood,
Someone told me that the price of zinc had an interesting
relationship with inflation. I would also be curious if there is a way to
measure loan-swaps volume, price and direction.
peace
Doug,
I occurs to me that illicit drugs should be considered as well. If
one could control for "supply shocks" like changing governments, transient
eradication efforts, etc. It would seem that something like planted domestic
acreage of marijuana, or the average
On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, MScoleman wrote:
In a message dated 98-03-20 12:56:27 EST, you write:
Increases in antidepressant use, 1995-1996, by teens and pre-teens
Drug 1995 1996 Increase
Dear Doug:
On indicators. Since you put out the call for input, I've been trying to
come up with suggestions that would the indicators have a healthy
internatinoalist content. By that I mean they consider the role of the US
in the worl (in shaping things as varied as trade polciy, cultural
You might recall that the lynching of blacks was inversely correlated with
cotton prices. In bad times, scapegoating becomes more prevalent.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 916-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, March 20, 1998 at 12:28:36 (-0500) Doug Henwood writes:
Speaking of indicators, The Nation has asked me to put together a set of
economic/social indicators, to be published quarterly, that would be
revealing, interesting, and against the grain of conventional thinking.
Any suggestions?
In a message dated 98-03-20 12:40:19 EST, Doug writes:
Speaking of indicators, The Nation has asked me to put together a set of
economic/social indicators, to be published quarterly, that would be
revealing, interesting, and against the grain of conventional thinking.
Yeah -- previous
Tim Stroshane:
How about the number of estimated homeless population per 1,000
resident population? Another indicator could perhaps include the
percent of households in America paying 50 percent of their
income in rent, then the percent of households at or below 50
percent of their regional
Sperm counts.
Doug Henwood wrote:
Speaking of indicators, The Nation has asked me to put together a set of
economic/social indicators, to be published quarterly, that would be
revealing, interesting, and against the grain of conventional thinking.
Any suggestions?
Doug
Doug asks:
Speaking of indicators, The Nation has asked me to put together a set of
economic/social indicators, to be published quarterly, that would be
revealing, interesting, and against the grain of conventional thinking.
Any suggestions?
Harper's notorious Index has items based on all
Louis Proyect wrote:
Related to this is the question of the number of people living in
apartments, those who are not homeless but who are miserably crowded. The
NY Times ran articles last year about the horrible problems facing Mexican
and other immigrants who are crammed 10 to a one-bedroom
Sure, let's use an index of the prescription of Prozac, Ritalin, etc. But
for what? as a measure of how mentally ill our society is?
It's definitely true that it's not just individuals but society that's
mentally ill: egged on by school bureaucrats and drug companies -- and
allowed by scared and
Doug,
Glad to hear the Nation wants you to do such a regular feature.
As a housing planner for Berkeley dealing with homeless policy,
services and programs, I have some indicators kinda close to my
heart for you to consider.
How about the number of estimated homeless population per 1,000
Speaking of indicators, The Nation has asked me to put together a set of
economic/social indicators, to be published quarterly, that would be
revealing, interesting, and against the grain of conventional thinking.
Any suggestions?
Doug
Jim,
I like your idea! Isn't there a "contrarinan" shool of invesment analysts who
use Time covers and the sort (I think somebody uses this at Barron's). The
key thing, is that economists are so full of crap (most of the time) re:
"turning points" that your indicator is probably an indicator
What about an index of the percent of the population on Prozac and the
percent of children under 12 on Ritalin. Those are leading indicators ...
but I'm not sure what they indicate.
Gene Coyle
ILS, that's good, has a certain, je ne sais quoi.
I would also like to propose an
ILS, that's good, has a certain, je ne sais quoi.
I would also like to propose an indicator -- the HQI. Or, the Head Queen
Index. As the head queen, I would look at the red sector, then the white
sector, then reverse them in the looking glass, THEN I would say brilliant
things like; 'retail
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