Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: fashion, obsolescence, and cultural bankruptcy

2002-10-16 Thread topp8564
What is so odd about Mill's dilemma? It seems eminently sensible, given that the distribution of power derives from discrepancies of wealth rather than absolute wealth. That's something which, as I mentioned earlier, is intensely experienced by people in Melanesia (and I suppose elsewhere):

digital dilemmas

2002-10-16 Thread Ian Murray
[New York Times] October 16, 2002 In the High-Tech Sector, Optimism Is Just a Faded Memory By JOHN MARKOFF SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Oct. 15 - At this year's Agenda conference, traditionally an upbeat gathering of the computer and Internet industries' elite, attendance was low and the mood even lower.

End of UK national state pay scales?

2002-10-16 Thread Chris Burford
The boom in property prices in London and the South of England may in part be the result of government intervention to keep interest rates low, at a time of falling stock prices, while keeping the economy circulating and people in employment. Money instead has been invested in property in what

Turkey: What does this common sense mean?

2002-10-16 Thread Sabri Oncu
Below is an article from Turkishpress.com. I just read an article by a finance columnist at the Turkish daily Radikal a short while ago, arguing the possibility that the American support of the Kurdish in Northern Iraq is to pave the road for Turkey to enter Iraq and let them clear the way before

Re: plagiarism rewarded

2002-10-16 Thread Charles Jannuzi
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RE: fashion, obsolescence, and cultural bankruptcy

2002-10-16 Thread Charles Jannuzi
Joanna How right you are. I remember a bestselling Italian author (just can't remember his name, I know it wasn't Puzo, and he died in the late 80s)who remarked something to the effect: 'fashion is a form of bourgeois terrorism'. Still, fabrics have DEFINITELY improved, for the most part. Most

The Oil factor

2002-10-16 Thread Louis Proyect
LA Times, Oct. 16, 2002 Oil Is Factor in Iraq War Equation Regime change might mean a rise in output. For Russia, that could put prices, deals at risk. By Warren Vieth , Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON -- The prospect of military action against Saddam Hussein has touched off an international

Re: Balinese banned from bombed club

2002-10-16 Thread Grant Lee
Partly true: The Sari Club, an open-air bar and discotheque a short stroll from Kuta beach, banned Indonesians except those with foreigners. The ban kept out the Indonesian prostitutes and touts who linger along adjacent Jalan Legian, the busy street that runs through Kuta's main tourist area.

New Demo. Economic Plan

2002-10-16 Thread Michael Perelman
Richard Gephardt announced his economic plan. According to the New York Times, the main component seems to be tax cuts. How heroic! All this tactic does is open up the door to more regressive Republican tax cuts as the appropriate economic policy. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department

Re: RE: fashion, obsolescence, and cultural bankruptcy

2002-10-16 Thread Michael Perelman
I mentioned that work in the extract from my book that I posted. On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 05:20:01AM -0700, Charles Jannuzi wrote: How right you are. I remember a bestselling Italian author (just can't remember his name, I know it wasn't Puzo, and he died in the late 80s)who remarked

RE: New Demo. Economic Plan

2002-10-16 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:31407] New Demo. Economic Plan Gephardt spoke to the EPI, the organization that Max leads (at least on the spiritual plane). Here's an exerpt from the NYT article: ... Mr. Gephardt offered a five-point plan under the rubric of a new economic agenda for a new House. The

Economic Reporting Review, 10/15/02

2002-10-16 Thread Robert Naiman
Economic Reporting Review, 10/15/02 By Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research Outstanding Stories of the Week At Firms, Dual Profit Pictures Jonathan Weisman Washington Post, October 10, 2002, Page A1 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3551-2002Oct9.html This

Six years from my policy workbench to the editorial pages of the NYT...

2002-10-16 Thread Tom Walker
Robert Reich, who elsewhere has written about the problem of overwork, frames his proposal in the NYT in terms of putting more money into consumers' pockets. It would indeed do that. But his proposal's strategic structural effects are even bettter: it would reduce perverse tax incentives that

Re: Re: RE: fashion, obsolescence, and cultural bankruptcy

2002-10-16 Thread joanna bujes
At 09:10 PM 10/15/2002 -0700, you wrote: Anyone have the stats on sales of women's clothes, fashion accesories, perfumes etc. since Reagan and Thatcher? I suspect they've been brisk. Probably, but what's pushing it forward is not fashion change but the by-now compulsive impulse to buy.

Turkey: On war and related matters

2002-10-16 Thread Sabri Oncu
These articles are as of October 15th 2002. Sabri US GULF COMMANDER GEN. FRANKS TO VISIT TURKEY (HURRIYET) Gen. Tommy Franks, commander of United States forces in the Persian Gulf region, is due to visit Turkey next Monday. Franks is set to meet with Chief of General Staff Gen.

RE: RE: New Demo. Economic Plan

2002-10-16 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Excuse me but 'Dick' did not address EPI. He gave a speech after being introduced by EPI president Larry Mishel. It was not an EPI event. EPI people were among the audience. I wasn't there. I'm not clear on exactly who organized it, but it wasn't EPI. Leads on a spiritual plane. That's the

China: energy appetite

2002-10-16 Thread Ian Murray
[Far Eastern Economic Review] [ http://www.feer.com ] SINO-U.S. RELATIONS A GLOBAL HUNT FOR SAFE SUPPLIES TROUBLE IN IRAQ, INDONESIA ALARMS BEIJING By David Murphy Issue cover-dated October 24, 2002 It's all about balance. When China awarded a $12 billion natural-gas contract to Australia in

financing al qaeda

2002-10-16 Thread Ian Murray
[didn't the Bushies say something about bombing anyone connected to financing ObL and his ilk] [the CFR report is at http://www.cfr.org/publication.php?id=5080 ] washingtonpost.com Report Decries Saudi Laxity U.S. Must Act to Dry Up Al Qaeda Funds, Policy Group Says By Douglas Farah

Re: fashion, obsolescence, and cultural bankruptcy

2002-10-16 Thread Charles Jannuzi
--- Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mentioned that work in the extract from my book that I posted. On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 05:20:01AM -0700, Charles Jannuzi wrote: How right you are. I remember a bestselling Italian author (just can't remember his name, I know it

Re: New Demo. Economic Plan

2002-10-16 Thread Charles Jannuzi
And Gephardt is the man leading the Dems off to Bush's war, too. C. Jannuzi __ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos More http://faith.yahoo.com