you can take prayers out of the schools, but you can't take
the schools out of the prayers.
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all kinds of interesting implications for money, prices and credit).
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Michael Perelman wrote,
Does anybody know why Bensinger was fired? Every time I heard him, I was
impressed.
That could well be the reason.
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benefits can't even come up.
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doesn't receive $200 from anyone. Does that mean the cost
has been avoided? No, it simply means that the cost has not been properly
accounted for.
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his
class, he could be told, in the language of Prof. Perry, that 'there is no
use in arguing against any one of the four fundamental rules of arithmetic.
The question of wages is a question of division. . .'" (The Wages Question,
p.141-142)
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Tom Walker
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injustice is:
A. Good for business.
B. Bad for business.
C. May appear superficially good for business in the short term (because of
accounting discrepencies) but is ultimately ruinous.
D. There is no such thing as society, only individuals.
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difference between life and death.
But thanks for the image of a dog rolling in a roadkill carcass. One could
envision Larry Summers rolling in the human roadkill carcasses of the
Washington Consensus.
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Incredible! Only one question on the quiz and Valis got 3 out 3 right!
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tercard owe
me money or that 100 divided by 10 equals 10 divided by 100.
Exogenous? Endogenous? What's the difference?
Short-run? Long-run? What's the difference?
Exceptional case? Generalization? Doesn't it amount to the same thing?
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Tom Walker
, no premium)
If UI is included as an income tax on the worker, then the elimination of
unemployment would increase the real hourly wage without increasing total
employer cost.
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Tom Walker
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loss on industry.
As every good economist knows, there is no such thing as suctional
unemployment, as for alchemists there was no such thing as oxygen, though
they breathed the stuff shamelessly.
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is the mirror image of NAIRU, the very absurdity of NASURU proves that
labour markets are dynamic in one direction only. The theological concept of
uni-directional dynamism may be more colourfully described as stasis on a
merry-go-round.
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some sort of totalizing power on one side or other of the class struggle. I
offer NASURU as a thought experiment, not as a description of reality. On
second thought, wasn't Friedman's "natural rate" hypothesis presented as a
thought experiment?
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Tom Walker
ot;We are all Keynsians now"?
Thank you and best wishes for a healthy 1999.
Frank
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"Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any
intellectual influences are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.
Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy
from some academic scribbler of a few years back."
Tom W
the men."
_Trade Unions and Strikes_. T.J. Dunning, 1860, p. 22-3. cited by Marx in
_Capital_ vol. I
stint n. 2. limitation of supply or effort 3. a fixed or alloted amount of
work ('do one's daily stint').
Tom Walker
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Valis opined,
there's a story here that Toynbee would have relished,
And there's a hot dog here that Mustard would have relished.
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to the rescue?
If it IS a riddle (*IF*), it's taken me a century to solve it. So why should
I blurt out the answer all at once?
But here's another clue: "Schloss" may hold the key.
Tom Walker
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alist
analysis to grasp. Given the choice between investigating a topic that
exposes the limits of the marginalist analysis and imposing an intellectual
taboo on that topic, marginalism has chosen the taboo. The so-called
"lump-of-labor fallacy" amounts to a monumental intellectual fraud
perpetrated by textbook authors and editorial writers who probably don't
have the slightest suspicion that what they are saying is groundless,
archaic and contradictory.
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)
Richard Layard is a Professor at the London School
of Economics and Political Science. He has served as
an advisor to Boris Yeltsin.
John Parker is the European Editor of The
Economist. He was previously a Moscow
correspondent with that newspaper.
Tom Walker
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of the difficulties and evils that characterize the
present condition of the intercourse between master and man than to anything
else.
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on the ground are so that they can make sense of the
theoretical arguments.
Does anyone have suggestions?
Peter Dorman
Tom Walker
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.. . . we had a four-day work week?
The NEXT CITY asked Tom Walker, a social policy analyst with TimeWork Web,
and Jock Finlayson, vice-president of policy and analysis for the Business
Council of British Columbia, to comment.
go to:
http://www.nextcity.com/whatif/whatif14.htm
Who makes more
It's funny, really, that such certifiably educated folks would confound self
and subjectivity. That's the root form of *essentialism* that has been known
to philosophy for ages as solipsism.
Tom Walker
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r.
Both were failures, though perhaps not in their own minds.
Were the prisoners of the gulag and the death camps victims
of failed self-styled artists? Or perhaps you mean Hitler
and Stalin were influenced by artists -- Hitler by Wagner,
for instance.
When I think of destructive true artists, Van Gogh comes to
mind. But then he destroyed himself, not others.
Ed weick
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of
union membership in the workforce, however, decreased from 14.1 percent in
1997 to 13.9 percent in 1998. ... (Daily Labor Report, page A13).
. . . on bad news.
Tom Walker
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Doug,
Would that be LBO as in LiBidO?
Help! LBO badly needs an intern (can we still use that word?). Any
volunteers or suggestions?
Doug
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. in addition; besides.
Tom Walker wrote:
piet,
Last night my five-year old son asked me:
"When you add two plus two,
is it that the first two is 'one, two'
and the second two is 'three, four'?"
Tom Walker
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piet,
Last night my five-year old son asked me:
"When you add two plus two,
is it that the first two is 'one, two'
and the second two is 'three, four'?"
Tom Walker
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The January effect fizzled within 2 weeks of the new year.
My theory is the Brazilians were just waiting for Doug and Louis to get into
a flame war so they could slip one past Pen-L.
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And here's a virtual real-ity check mangled headline from CBC Marketwatch:
YAHOO FALLS LOWER DUE RESIGNATION OF BRAZIL'S CENTRAL BANK CHIEF.
Huh?
Tom Walker
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Max wrote,
And here's a virtual real-ity check mangled headline from CBC
Marketwatch:
YAHOO FALLS LOWER DUE RESIGNATION OF BRAZIL'S CENTRAL BANK CHIEF.
We took our honeymoon in Yahoo Falls.
Wonderful place.
mbs
That's on the Amazon.com river, eh?
Tom Walker
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erican
hemophiliacs were getting their products from U.S. fractionators that had
closed the door on prison blood. "Connaught, without knowing it, became
the only fractionator in North
American that was using plasma collected in prisons," observed Judge
Krever. Almost all of that plasma, it seems, was coming from HMA in Arkansas,
where Mr. Clinton had been re-elected after being once turfed from office.
He was on his way to being known as the Comeback Kid.
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rank,
not of absolute level of costs. All the percentile rankings tell is that
production costs are lower in Hungary than in Japan. There's no way to tell from
a percentile ranking what the ratio of production costs are. They could as
easily be 99:100 as 1:100.
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ingle, coherent
theory the neoclassical synthesis, as it was called that would dominate
economic discourse for some three decades."
Didn't they leave out a purportedly or
two?
Tom Walker
Carrol Cox asked:
How do the controllers of a mutual insurance company
make their money.
I would imagine they worked extemely long hours and
saved every penny they earned. Isn't that how everybody does it?
Tom Walker
Deliberate or unconscious humour?
http://www.ezwrite.com/Store/itemdetail.asp?IDNO=116
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ischarge because of his
rareadaptability of tact and skill. He is a bright and patriotic American in
theprime of young manhood, frank, courageous, generous. a man who convinces
youis thinking well of what he says and is never careless as to the
impressionhe would convey. The judgment of such a man is entitled to
respect."
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damage control. But it also seems to me that
the stakes are too high for damage control to be blithely accepted by all the
players. According to the background piece inan NYT story on Enron, Lay
originally was thinkingof the name "Enteron" until someone told him it
meant intestines.
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ng; asset-hiding; insider stock-dumping all these were
supposedly beyond the ken of an audit committee and legal counsel blindly
reliant on the ethics and standards of "professional" accountants."
. . .
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harnesses it to
generate change in society.
I would cheerfully argue that the genius of
capitalism is that everything is tried and sometimes businesses get lucky
and in effect roll 20 straight passes.
Tom Walker
. To wina $20 million broadband services contract
from Rice University inHouston, for example, Enron donated $5 million to the
school, and KenLay's personal foundation kicked in another $3 million.
Unreported wasthe fact that Rice dropped the contract soon after.
Tom Walker
changed his politics, going from being an associate of Trotsky to being
an editor of William F. Buckley's Joe McCarthyite NATIONAL
REVIEW.
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ne is held in the grip of the 'argument from
design.'"
Perhaps, we could say O'Neill was trying
tocover his ass by pointing the finger atan invisible hand. Or is
that perhaps taking the notion of being 'in the grip of a picture' too
graphically?
Tom Walker
ke
things work; it is what Joseph Schumpeter called "creative destruction," i.e.
the ability to drive out firms that cannot compete.
The genius of capitalism is that it allows people to oppress themselves
Although the genius of capitalism is indeed production, the genius of
socialism is indeed distribution.
Tom Walker
Gene Coyle wrote,
In my dreams I imagine that an alert CBS journalist immediately asked
Lieberman "Just how DO you want capitalism to be?" And in my
nightmares I can hear his answer.
Wouldn't that just be where the Enronsgive
70% of their campaign contributions to the Demos? Or am I
uot;? Presumably Ms.
Collums was thinking of fresh air and "windows of opportunity". The image that
comes to my mind, though, is of people jumping out the windows of a burning
high-rise.
Tom Walker
agencies, investment bankers, lawyers and accounting
standard-setters -- who operate and regulate our financial markets. The
confidence of individual investors depends on honest, independent gatekeepers.
Sadly, the collapse of Enron shows this system urgently needs
reform.
Tom Walker
Colin Powell
Mikhail Gorbachev
Nelson Mandela
Eduard Shevardnadze
Alan Greenspan
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Whoops! I hope no one confuses my signature line as
being part of the list included in my previous message. I am not now, nor have I
ever been a recipient of the Enron prize.
Tom Walker
quot;Nehme jede Arbeit an!", which translates as any work accepted.
Tom Walker
Gene Coyle wrote,
We should take umbrage at anything over
3.0.
I take umbrage where ever I can findit.
Tom Walker
to our advantage. I would say
the time toraise the Time issue is when the economy is in what is
ordinarilythought of as good shape.
Tom Walker
with
a plane-load of fresh-faced nurses. I suspect it might all be part of the bigger
plan to 'integrate' Canada into the U.S. health maintenance industry. See also
the press release below.
Tom Walker
Michael Perelman wrote,
The nurses do not exist in those numbers. He is
grandstanding -- unless
Here's the Nehme jede ARBEIT an
montage:
http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/genius.htm
Tom Walker
program
for use by unions in collective bargaining.
It would also help immensely if people would pay a bit more attention
themodest heap o'work that has already been done on the issue, like
Anders Hayden's Sharing the Work, Sparing the Planet andAndre Gorz's
Critique of Economic Reason.
Tom
The genius of capitalism personified,
Kenny-boy,joins the sandwich parade:
http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/genius.htm
Tom Walker
t;forget about Enron, forget about John
Walker Lindh, let's hear more about this 'eyes-glazing-over-factor'
thingy."
Tom Walker
decreased regulationand the defeat of labor. Enron and the dot.com
bubble makes me think morein terms of fraud. Any thoughts on
this?
Tom Walker
. . . And the New Thinking About
Money Is That Your IrrationalityIs PredictableBy Steven
PearlsteinWashington Post Staff WriterSunday, January 27, 2002; Page
H01
Tom Walker
Would you agree that those limits are at least a
contributing factor to the bursting of bubbles and the unravelling of
Enrons?
Jim Devine wrote,
it seems to me that it's quite possible that the
measured rate of profithas been high due to accounting tricks and the
like. But there
demise has discredited a vicious market ideology and givena boost to
the anti-corporate causeMadeleine BuntingMonday
January 28, 2002The GuardianIt's hard to overstate
the enormity of the impact of Enron'simplosion.
Tom Walker
Yahoo market overview:
"Fears of accounting irregularities ruled the day today."
Tom Walker
* at the end of the recession tunnel.
*Hint: Chainsaw Al, rebates, Arthur
Andersen
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,but the price level went down more (3/10's%). We'rein
a deflationary recovery. Will wonders never cease.
Tom Walker
NYTimes Quote of the day:
The reason I got involved is that Andersen is in big trouble
and they were looking for someone to sprinkle some holy
water on them.
-PAUL A. VOLCKER JR.
The articulate, mocking genius of capitalism strikes again.
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of peanuts.
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the total. As Max pointed out, the recent
surge in 4th quarter GDP was in real terms, after adjusting for price
deflation. That number included car sales bloated by 0% interest rates.
Lies, damned lies and audited financial statements.
Tom Walker
little different from recession. But there's not much point in
ignoring the evidence.
Tom Walker
Oncu wrote,
By the way, I am saying these as a scientist, not as some leftist
who wants revenge!...
Tom Walker
Doug Henwood wrote,
Just this morning, CNBC had a Chicago stock futures trader on who
said that Enron was big news a few weeks ago, but now we've moved
beyond that.
That's because Enron is an allegory traders think in symbols.
Tom Walker
THE JUDGES FROM Russia, China, Poland and Ukraine represent an axis of
cheaters, Mr. Bush said to a standing ovation in a special joint session
Shouldn't that be the *axles* of evil?
Tom Walker
of
the IMF, leading to the conclusion that we need to do away with
capitalism. At this point the audience broke out into spontaneous
applause.
Tom Walker
thousand and one adults pulls in some stirring narrative possibilities
regarding sex, death and suspense.
Tom Walker
, but the grave the
bonded drapers' hall and ware house.
- Johann Christoph Männling, Theatre of Death, or funeral orations, 1692.
Used by Walter Benjamin as a motto to his section on allegory and
trauerspiel in Origin of German Tragic Drama (Ursprung des deutschen
Trauerspiels) .
Tom Walker
Stavridou, a
Darpa contractor and director of the Systems Laboratory at SRI International
in Menlo Park, Calif.
John is very well respected technically, she said. He understands these
issues, and that makes him extremely valuable.
Tom Walker
their regrets.
Tom Walker
What Poindexter is up to.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0917/news-genoa-09-17-01.asp
Tom Walker
here's the latest on the John Firewall Poindexter caper:
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0218/web-darpa-02-18-02.asp
Feb 18, 2002, DARPA spokeswoman confirms appointment.
Tom Walker
private information vendors and public libraries soon followed. At
the same time, a wide range of other activities by the federal government
further
threatened to restrict access to information.
Tom Walker
The Information Awareness Office (IAO) develops and demonstrates information
technologies and systems to counter asymmetric threats by achieving total
information awareness useful for preemption, national security warning and
national security decision-making.
http://www.darpa.mil/iao/
Tom
and policy makers in both friendly and
unfriendly countries, military officials said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/international/19PENT.html?todaysheadlines
Tom Walker
Clairtone, BCCI, Bre-X, Barrick, Enron, GenesisIntermedia . . .
On second thought, don't connect the dots. You don't want to know. And don't
ask me. I never heard of any of them.
Tom Walker
function of God is precisely to stand as other to all the
common parts of speech and thus to remind us of the incompleteness, the
inadequacy of any conceivable utterance. God is the unique grammatical term
for the ultimate unutterableness of being.
Tom Walker
. That too is inherent in the
limitation of language. Tower of Babel and all that.
Tom Walker
Jim Devine wrote,
As far as I can tell, there's no logical argument either for or against the
existence of god.
I agree absolutely there's no logical argument for or against. My own
position is based entirely and radically on grammar.
Tom Walker
://csf.colorado.edu/pen-l/2002I/msg01951.html
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. The
rationale and highlights will unfold serially on sandwichman.blogspot.com.
Tom Walker
This kind of hijacking selected words out of context and insinuating that
they mean something else is pointless. I would say juvenile, but would be
insulting to children. The context was the role of advertising in the media
and culture. The point is about advertisers promising people things they
commercialization).
Tom Walker
What I see that I object to is not so much asceticism as good old fashioned
oppositional smugness. I object to it, though, with some humility. There's a
long tradition of smugness alternating between politically correct
asceticism and bohemian hedonism. For chrissake think of the sixties maoists
be pleazant and zexy, without also
demanding that they be politically correct? And what if commodified
products are actually *nicer* than their non-commodified equivalents? This
is certainly true of the brewing industry, and quite possibly of many
others.
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: the struggle to overthrow
it. It makes little sense to disparage the effectiveness of individual
consumer choice while extolling the emancipatory virtues of the individual
sale of wage labour.
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-gahs
on earth.
I'm kidding, of course. Just wanted to save Doug the trouble of his usual
rant.
Tom Walker
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Italian guerilla group blamed for economist's murder
I condemn this brutal and senseless act of violence. Where are the
investment bankers?
Tom Walker
Charles Jannuzi wrote,
Because US chicken is so full of anti-biotics one drumstick cures the
clap!
Is that administered topically, orally or intravenous?
Tom Walker
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,
but this is one mans opinion. And I don't believe it is inferior to that
of
your professor.
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