Woke up this morning wondering if today was going to be one of those triple
witching thingies (what with Halloween coming and the end of October). Doug?
Regards,
Tom Walker
knoW Ware Communications
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I agree with maggie coleman that HOW shorter work time is achieved is as
important as achieving it. One *could* argue (chicago boy style) that the
average work week *has* declined over the past several decades. But, of
course, that is an aggregate decline that lumps in an increasing number of
Michael Etchison seems to be labouring under the misapprehension that those
who _create_ intellectual products are the same people as those who _own_
intellectual property. Sorry Michael, the owners are frequently not the
creaters but the corporations who control access to the markets where
If you can find it, you may also want to try "Monetarism in Britain and the
Southern Cone" (approx. title) by John Wells. This compares the effect of
Friedman's policy advice in Thatcher's Britain, Chile and Argentina. I'm
afraid I can't remember exactly where it was published, but it was
On Monday, October 30, Quebeckers vote on a referendum to separate from
Canada. Whatever the outcome of that vote, the turning point in the campaign
was a threat from Canadian finance minister Paul Martin that separation
would cost Quebec 1,000,000 jobs.
This threat came from a man who has
Tom Walker 10/27 expresses his belief that I am
labouring under the misapprehension that those who _create_
intellectual products are the same people as those who _own_ intellectual
property.
Not exactly. I would say that, except in creation-for-hire situations
(come on, think of
I want to echo Tom Walker's comments on the ownership of intellectual property
and relay two personal anecdotes. I did an intermediate macro text with
Prentice-Hall in 1988. It wasn't a great success, but did have a niche of sorts
because it was one of the most PK macro books on the market at the
William S. Brown relates, 10/27, two anecdotes in which his publisher
did not do what he wanted them to do. I don't doubt the truth of his
stories for a moment. I can only wonder why he signed the contracts.
That is not just a smart-alec question. There might be something
Friends and comrades:
I received the request below from a colleague in our Women's Studies
program here who teaches a course in American pluralism. I wonder what
suggestions you may for her and thus our students. Thanks,
Paul Zarembka, SUNY at Buffalo
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.cuba
Subject: Fidel Castro's Speech at UN
Date: 25 Oct 1995 03:39:56 GMT
Translation of Fidel Castro's Address to the UN, October 22 1995
Mr. President, Mr. Secretary General, Excellencies ... Half
a century ago, the United Nations organization was born
after the
On Fri, 27 Oct 1995, Paul Zarembka wrote:
Friends and comrades:
I received the request below from a colleague in our Women's Studies
program here who teaches a course in American pluralism. I wonder what
suggestions you may for her and thus our students. Thanks,
Paul Zarembka, SUNY
"The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, the answer is blowin' in the
wind." Bob Dylan said that. (copyright 1962)
"I had to say something
To strike him very weird,
So I yelled out
'I like Fidel Castro and his beard.'" Bob Dylan said that, too. (copyright 1964)
"For the TIMESTHEY
Uncontrollable capitalism:
GOLDEN ECONOMIC ERA ENDS FOREVER...
By Eric Hobsbawm
The history of the 20 years after 1975 is that
of a world which has lost its bearings and slid
into instability and crisis. And yet, until the
1990s, it was not clear how irretrievably the
foundations
5
CURRENCY SPECULATORS
Who are they?
What can we do about them?
NATIONAL UNION OF PUBLIC AND GENERAL EMPLOYEES
Ottawa, March 1995
Introduction
There are only a few hundred currency traders
operating across the globe, but their activities
can make a mockery of democracy. Their
actionswhich
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From: "A. Gunder Frank" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fri, 27 Oct 1995 18:33:42 -0400 (EDT)
To: Michael Lebowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Publications (fwd)
Mike: Ppst to PEN-L in response to a query there? gunder
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Date: Fri, 27
Michael Etchison wrote:
Let's imagine that
someone would want Author's ideas if she but knew of them, but that
Author is unable effectively to get those ideas to her. Author could try
to amass the resources necessary to make that connection, or he could,
quite sensibly, do what he does
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From: "A. Gunder Frank", INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
TO: Alan Freeman, 100042,617
DATE: 10/27/95 10:04 PM
RE: Re: Publications
Andre Gunder Frank writes by way of info [in response to a complicated
message received about several subjects of
The article from the NATIONAL UNION OF PUBLIC AND GENERAL EMPLOYEES gives a
misleading account of the breakdown of the Bretton Woods monetary agreement.
Pressure on the U.S. dollar had been building throughout the 1960s and came
to a flash point in 1968, shortly after the TET offensive, when
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