Jerry wrote,
Whether the losses are recovered or not by the mutual funds "investors",
before you consider whether these people are going to pull their $ out of
the market, you have to consider their alternatives. Given the rates of
interest on savings accounts, what choices do most of these
Hi Sid;
The paper in question is called:
"Going South: Cheap Labour as an Unfair Subsidy in North American Free
Trade", by jim Stanford (Ottawa: Canadian Centre for POlicy Alternatives,
1991, 52 pp.
I can send a copy to whoever is interested.
All the best,
JS
Does anybody on this list have access to Nexus, where you could check the
number of cites for the Multilateral Agreement on Investments (formerly
known as the Multilateral Investment Agreement)? A correspondent on another
list said she had not seen it in a U.S. newspaper. I don't recall seeing
Sleeping with the Enemy: Why New York's Unions Backed the Most Antilabor
Mayor in History
by Bob Fitch
With only a few days left in the race, in a city with over 500 union
locals, the Democratic nominee, Ruth Messinger, who's walked more picket
lines than all but the most veteran labor
Ajit wrote:
history. As long as one holds that historical and dialectical materialism
is the 'true' theory and the road to truth (as Lenin did), then many crimes
against humanity can be justified in the name of history and human destiny.
A Stalin can always justify killing millions of
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FYI Marvin Kosters (Item 2) was Bush's 1992 nomination for Comm. of
Labor Stats. The
Larry Shute asked for a list of the most important
institutions in the market to try to educate his
colleagues about the important constraints on the
neoclassical fraud (er. sorry "model") of the economy.
Unfortunately, I don't think this is a viable approach
to the problem. Commons defined an
Gerald Levy wrote:
Whether the losses are recovered or not by the mutual funds "investors",
before you consider whether these people are going to pull their $ out of
the market, you have to consider their alternatives. Given the rates of
interest on savings accounts, what choices do most of
Please expalin to me how the crash is a sympton of a long-time monetary
crisis.
Rebecca
Romain
Certainly you are not. But that crash is only a symptom of a long-time
monetary crisis, and that's this crisis which discredits not only
"neo-liberalism", but simply capitalism.
Hong Kong's unelected legislature votes out labor rights
-- October 29, 1997 Web posted at: 5:06 a.m. EST (1006 GMT) --
HONG KONG (Reuters) -- Hong Kong's China-anointed legislature on
Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to strike down a set of labor rights
laws, passed by a former colonial
Richardson_D wrote:
Contrary to popular belief, average pay has steadily risen in the last
25 years, according to a report by American Enterprise Institute
economist Marvin H. Kosters.
[etc.]
This is brilliant! If you don't like what the data say, adjust them three
or four times to achieve the
Ajit Sinha quotes Marx in some ways praising the British colonization of
Hindustan. This reminds us that no-one can be understood outside the
historical context in which he or she wrote (i.e., Victorian Britain for
Marx). But we knew that. This also tells us once again to avoid an
uncritical
Contrary to popular belief, when Humpty-dumpty used words they meant
whatever he wanted them to mean. Also contrary to popular belief,
Procrustes' bed could accomodate guests both tall and short. Marvin Koster
gives everyone a pay boost by defining average pay in a most peculiar way.
Whew is
(posted by Siddhartha Chatterjee on the Marxism-International mailing-list)
This is a continuation of the excerpts from the book "Non
Eurocentric Marxism And Indian Society" by Ashok Rudra
(People's Book Society, Calcutta, India, 1988, 1991).
In the chapter presented below, Rudra assesses the
Can anyone tell me URPE's web sight?
Jeff Fellows
Ajit:
This is a serious problem with teleological theory of history, as well as
the Marxist theory of praxis, which accepts the teleological theory of
history. As long as one holds that historical and dialectical materialism
is the 'true' theory and the road to truth (as Lenin did), then many
On October 18, Pepsi-Cola workers voted by 98.5% for an unlimited
general strike. "This result," said union spokesperson Michel
Deziel, "is a sign of the frustration that the workers have
accumulated over the last few years."
Right after the vote, the workers went to set up their
strike
Tuesday, October 28 was the second day of a province-wide
shutdown of Ontario's elementary and secondary schools as over
126,000 teachers continued to stay away from work to protest the
Harris government's Bill 160, The Education Quality Improvement
Act.
While the doors to some
I don't know if this helps, but I have a price index for wage workers
1827-1842. A friend of mine is developing one for British wage workers
throughout the nineteenth century.
maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 14:13 28/10/97 -0800, Michael Perelman wrote:
Be careful taking Marx's writings on India at face value. These writings
were part of an effort to undermine Henry Carey, who was an important
figure at the NY Tribune and how was a major influence on Duhring. Carey
emphasized that everything
Dear Penlrs,
As we watch the Amazing Market Rollercoaster, something else to keep in
mind: what is all this--markets crashing, currencies roiling, etc.--going
to do to the dervatives market? And what are the D's going to do to
corporate america? I've been tracking the fights w/ the SEC and
Friends,
I would appreciate your help in compiling a list of the 50 -100 basic
economic and social institutions in the US, possibly Canada as well. What
are the basic institutions that you feel economics students should have a
working knowledge of? Any and all suggestions are welcomed. I'm
From: Ajit Sinha [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I think you are trying to find an easy way out for Marx. Marx's writing
on
India is definitely problematic. After saying things like,
I don't know what "easy way out" means. Marx himself describes his
intentions in a letter to Engels.
I have elaborated on
Tom Walker wrote:
As Doug pointed out a while ago, many mutual fund
"investors" had come to expect annual increases of that magnitude as a
matter of course. To "recover most of the air pressure" would require not
only that recent losses be cancelled out but that something like the
previous
I think that it will be interesting to follow the future application of
Kosters' data. Stuff like that will probably soon appear in the Wall
Street Journal, find constant repitition, and finally end up as an
established fact.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State
Marches européennes / NEWS
Reduction in working hours: France gives the time
The French prime minister announced on Friday October 10, a new bill for the
legal reduction of the working week without loss of salary. French employers
swiftly made their opposition to the new measures known. The
Quoth Laurence Shute, in part:
I would appreciate your help in compiling a list of the 50 -100 basic
economic and social institutions in the US, possibly Canada as well. What
are the basic institutions that you feel economics students should have a
working knowledge of? Any and all
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