[PEN-L] Will Gaza Become De Facto Egyptian Territory? Egypt Tries to Close Gaza Border, But Fails - VOA

An Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman was unavailable for comment Friday, but he said on Thursday that the border would eventually be closed and, in his words, things would go back to normal. Officials from Gaza's ruling Islamic group Hamas say they want the Rafah crossing to remain open, and

[PEN-L] interesting quote

-QUOTE The great advances in the world have often aggravated the inequities in the world. The least needy see the most improvement, and the most needy get the least -- in particular the billion people who live on less than a dollar a day. There are roughly a billion people in

[PEN-L] Cap and Trade versus Carbon Tax

The carbon tax center http://www.carbontax.org/ says that cap and trade is inferior to a carbon tax for the following reasons: (1) Cap and trade is extremely complex. This complexity allows stakeholders to manipulate the policies and game the process, and it defers action because of the time

[PEN-L] Bank Failures in Second Life

I have never seen how Second Life works, but I am fascinated by the game's connections with the real economy -- often replicating some of its worst aspects. For example, players hire people in China to make play money for them then sell the play money for real dollars -- a relatively obvious

Re: [PEN-L] Cap and Trade versus Carbon Tax

I'm partial to a carbon tax, but . . . ehrbar wrote: The carbon tax center http://www.carbontax.org/ says that cap and trade is inferior to a carbon tax for the following reasons: (1) Cap and trade is extremely complex. This complexity allows stakeholders to manipulate the policies and game

Re: [PEN-L] Cap and Trade versus Carbon Tax

Lee S. Friedman (no intellectual relation to Milton) wrote a textbook called Microeconomic Policy Analysis some years ago. It is now in a new edition under a slightly different title. In it he claims that a transactions-cost analysis could easily show that regulation is the most efficient

[PEN-L] Listening to Grasshoppers - ARUNDHATI ROY

Listening To Grasshoppers Genocide, Denial and Celebration It's an old human habit, genocide is. It's a search for lebensraum, project of Union and Progress. ARUNDHATI ROY http://outlookindia.com/fullprint.asp?choice=2fodname=20080204fname=Cover+ Story+%28F%29sid=1 Jayson Funke

Re: [PEN-L] Percentage breakdown of world GDP for past 500 years

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/images/bilynxandhare.gif Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2008/01/20/share-of-world-gdp/ - Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search.

[PEN-L] We Wanted Social Justice And All We Got Were These Dumb Ghettoized Poli Sci Textbooks

Related note: I had a rather heated discussion with a Sociology professor a few years back about why the lecture-related film on 'class' featured a black family in Texas who owned a home with a swimming pool, and anther black family in the same town who's (also owned) home needed roof repairs

[PEN-L] Believe It Or Else... Measuring Data Believability: A Provenance Approach

From ResourceShelf: http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/01/25/paper-measuring-data-believability-a-provenance-approach/ Measuring Data Believability: A Provenance Approach Data quality is crucial for operational efficiency and sound decision making. This paper focuses on believability, a major