[PEN-L] Chinese Socialism

Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:54:19 -0800 Subject: Re: [PEN-L] China's Socialist Path (Hart-Landsberg and Paul Burkett) And then we have "bureaucratic authoritarianism" in Latin America throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Here the state played a very important role in bringing about structural change,

[PEN-L] Obama-Clinton

A question for all those election pundits, I will be voting for the first time from Copenhagen, how does one win a US election without money (big or small)? Do small donors mean they do not expect anything politically from their winning candidate ans does large donors necessarily want somethin

Re: [PEN-L] Losing an Edge, Japanese Envy India’s Schools - NYT

This is actually is serious stuff. Japanese education suffers from an identity crisis. The young generation brought up on affluence, with often no siblings find school tedious, boring, and irrelevant. It is true that professors are seen as boring, teaching with out of date curriculum. Their par

[PEN-L] H-ASIA: Malaysia's Indian Minority holds protest (fwd)

FYI Anthony P. D'Costa, Professor Comparative International Development University of Washington 1900 Commerce Street Tacoma, WA 98402, USA Phone: (253) 692-4462 Fax : (253) 692-5718 http://tinyurl.com/yhjzrm xx

Re: [PEN-L] WSJ Venezuela article

Yesterday, during my flight to Singapore I read the WSJ (that's the only time I do). But there was a very interesting article about Venezuela's oil refinery policy in the US. How this one student (senior) who wrote a thesis at Oxford arguing that Venezuela is losing out by not sending its cas

[PEN-L] UWT Faculty Vacancy

Please post, publicize, announce. I will be happy to answer any questions, although I will be in Asia from Nov 16-Dec 1. http://www.washington.edu/admin/acadpers/communications/ad/aa1923.html On another note, I have resigned from UW Tacoma, effective March 15, 2008. I have accepted an endowed P

[PEN-L] economic growth w/o development

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/business/04shelf.html?ref=business Anthony P. D'Costa, Professor Comparative International Development University of Washington 1900 Commerce Street Tacoma, WA 98402, USA Phone: (253) 692-44

[PEN-L] Was Multiplier: Low end phones, high profits

Technology October 18, 2007, 6:57PM EST text size: TT Nokia: High Profits in Low-End Phones The handset maker's third-quarter profit surged 85%, beating analyst estimates and proving there's money to be made on less expensive phones by Jennifer L. Schenker Maybe there is high profit potential

Re: [PEN-L] Rich and Poor Multipliers Again

I think by bringing the impact of spending on employment you are raising a slightly different question, although I know these are all interrelated processes. If we used business language, high value added goods tend to be more profitable. If technology-intensive then its likely to have to have s

Re: [PEN-L] The Economic Benefits of the Trickle-up?

r dollar of spending. Does a dollar spent by the poor have a different effect from a dollar spent by a rich person? On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 10:06:44AM -0700, Anthony D'Costa wrote: Rich groups always spend more absolutely, so the multiplier effect from sepnding will be high. In economies

Re: [PEN-L] The Economic Benefits of the Trickle-up?

Rich groups always spend more absolutely, so the multiplier effect from sepnding will be high. In economies such as in India such spending is responsible for high growth rates despite miserable incomes among other groups. In Japan the MPC has been low despite very high incomes. Low growth rates

[PEN-L] mark weisbrot in iht

International Herald Tribune What the IMF doesn't see By Mark Weisbrot Thursday, October 18, 2007 WASHINGTON: Finance ministers, bankers and businessmen are gathering in Washington this week for the annual fall meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. As is customary, the IMF

Re: [PEN-L] Savings Glut Conundrum

But labor markets are segmented, specific, and local in most cases. Hence, shortages coexist with abundance. Anthony P. D'Costa, Professor Comparative International Development University of Washington 1900 Commerce Street

Re: [PEN-L] Savings Glut Conundrum

Except that not all labor is exploitable to the same degree when it comes to relative surplus value. Thus a savings glut can also coexist with labor glut, which is independent of absorptive capacity of savings or investment outlets. anthony x

Re: [PEN-L] minimum wage and (unrelated) issue on comparative inequality

Here's a response I received from my friend: Anthony --- Dear Anthony, Thanks for digging these up. The Japanese data are for 1993 and the US data are for 2000. Moreover, the Japanese data have two problems: (a) the definition of income is not as comprehensive as the US definition a

[PEN-L] minimum wage and (unrelated) issue on comparative inequality

Friends: During my last dinner here in Singapore, hosted by my college buddy and also an econ prof here, we ended our evening debating the merits of minimum wage. He had the usual Republican position, while I maintained the liberal-Keynesian position. According to him minimum wages increase

[PEN-L] A shipping canal controversy in India and Sri Lanka?

FYI, my friend sent me this: http://www.countercurrents.org/sreekumar250907.htm for additional details see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sethusamudram_Shipping_Canal_Project Anthony P. D'Costa, Professor Current

Re: [PEN-L] Malaise in Malaysia?

esource scarce governments of the world, sought help from India's now-famed IT pool of talent. -raghu. On 9/25/07, Anthony D'Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: FWIW, I spent two days in Kuala Lumpur (KL) last month. I got to speak to an Indian Malay academic, Cambridge

Re: [PEN-L] Malaise in Malaysia?

FWIW, I spent two days in Kuala Lumpur (KL) last month. I got to speak to an Indian Malay academic, Cambridge trained, well estblished. He came from an impoverished family, whose goal in life was to become a policeman. He could not because of his eyesight so was encouraged to continue studyi

Re: [PEN-L] Queery about Greenspan and productivity

But do remember thinning workers does have a productivity effect in part due to outsourcing. If it takes 4 manhours (not to be sexist, there are v. few female steelworkers at the shoprfloor) to produce a ton of steel, given certain other backward links in the plant itself, and now some of thos

Re: [PEN-L] Queery about Greenspan and productivity

Increased demand allows economies of scale and scope and thus a fall in costs, thus increasing productivity. Anthony Anthony P. D'Costa, Professor Currently Comparative International Development Senior Visiting

[PEN-L] Big retail business not in the offing in India

Perhaps it is not big news outside India about the fierce battles that have been waging regarding the entry of Walmart and other similar big foreign retail chains, aiming to capture India's middle class consumerism. In the end small businesses won out, it seems, at least in some regions. Here

[PEN-L] State death

Perhaps this book might offer something about state survivability in the middle east environs. State Death The Politics and Geography of Conquest, Occupation, and Annexation Tanisha M. Fazal To read the entire book description or the introduction, please visit: http://press.princeton.edu/titles

Re: [PEN-L] "Hindu" rate of growth [was: funny!]

th [was: funny!] but what was _per capita_ growth of GDP? what about the growth of the true standard of living, corrected for the effects of external costs and the like? On 9/18/07, Anthony D'Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On an unrelated note, Indian growth rate per annum averaged an

Re: [PEN-L] funny!

On an unrelated note, Indian growth rate per annum averaged and actually pretty much revolved around 3.5% from roughly the 1960s to late 1970s. It was famously dubbed the "Hindu rate of growth." Anthony P. D'Costa, Profes

[PEN-L] Was Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy

Comrades: I must apologize for posting the article in the first place. I did it only as a matter of routine extension of a pre-existing discussion taking place. FWIW from my limited experience of US academia (18 years as an employee) I can say that there is a strong "soft left-liberal" positi

[PEN-L] on Israel lobby in the US and foreign policy

http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/academe/2007/SO/Feat/Drak.htm Anthony P. D'Costa, Professor Currently Comparative International Development Senior Visiting Research Fellow University of Washington

Re: [PEN-L] Ethnic nationalism

"However, even Modern India was born in the midst of the Pakistan/India split, so it is hard to say how successful India would be as a democracy if the split had not occurred." India is home to the second largest Muslim community (with many denominations) after Indonesia. So by partition India

Re: [PEN-L] China: Was: Eavesdropping on a phone conference

g Henwood wrote: Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:08:40 -0400 From: Doug Henwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: PEN-L list To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Subject: Re: [PEN-L] China: Was: Eavesdropping on a phone conference On Sep 11, 2007, at 9:50 PM, Anthony D'Costa wrote: But to claim that C

Re: [PEN-L] Ethnic nationalism

India would fit any definition of being multicultural. It is multilingual, multireligious, multi-ethnic, multi-racial (though never used in India). In fact I would argue India is more multicultural than the US since the US demands "assimilation" (melting pot) whereas India doesn't (salad bowl)

Re: [PEN-L] Ethnic nationalism

Singapore is "managed" multiethnic. The majority are the Chinese, then Malays, and (Tamil Indians). There are small numbers of "euroasians" from the colonial days, some arabs also from the past. And a quite a separate expatriate community consisting of professionals from world at large but m

[PEN-L] China: Was: Eavesdropping on a phone conference

I agree with the notion that China is not an "ideological" threat. Obviously they follow the market principles diligently when needed and at other times bend them. That's what states do in a capitalist setting. But to claim that China hasn't enhanced its technological and organizational comp

[PEN-L] Changing the clock in India

Advance IST by 30 minutes, save Rs.10 bn: scientists Date: Tuesday , September 04, 2007 New Delhi: A group of scientists have suggested that the Indian Standard Time (IST) be shifted forward by 30 minutes to reduce peak time energy demand and save at least Rs.10 billion per year. According

Re: [PEN-L] The Mysterious Productivity Lead of the US Economy

Michael writes: Third, a country can become more productive merely by shutting down some of its less productive operations. In that sense, increasing productivity can be nothing more than an indication of deindustrialization. I don't think that is the case here, but the ongoing illumination o

[PEN-L] On Japan

Opinion: September 3, 2007 "Today's Disparities Echo Yesterday's 'Dual Structure'" Masahiko ISHIZUKA (Councilor for the Foreign Press Center Japan and a Lecturer at Waseda University) http://www.glocom.org/opinions/essays/20070903_ishizuka_today/ Despite economic growth, source of societal gap

Re: [PEN-L] And on India

different? On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 01:23:27AM -0700, Anthony D'Costa wrote: I should warn though Bihar is a case by itself. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

[PEN-L] And on India

I just attended a one-day event marking India's 60th Anniversary in Singapore. It was relatively small affair but for Singapore noteworthy since it is trying to figure out how to ride the global and regional wave. The usual foreign policy bureaucrats were there with an assortment of academics

[PEN-L] On Singapore

Since I am in Singapore and pen-l occasionally has discussions on Asia, here's a little reporting from the IHT (which may be reported in the NYT too). http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/29/asia/lee.php?WT.mc_id=newsalert

[PEN-L] H-ASIA: CFP China in Africa: A Moment of 'Second Imperialism' or Pressive Partnership, volume of essays (fwd)

FYI Anthony P. D'Costa, Professor Currently Comparative International Development Senior Visiting Research Fellow University of WashingtonAsia Research Institute 1900 Commerce Street

Re: [PEN-L] Venezuela and 6 hour day?

From NYT: "But what if there’s a trend under way here? The list of countries who use the half-hour system does not inspire much confidence. There’s Burma. And Afghanistan. And then there’s Nepal. When the countries around it are at 3 p.m., Nepal believes it to be 3:45. This may have something to

[PEN-L] Here's an Indian Conundrum

India will become one of the world's top 10 drugs markets by 2015 as incomes rise and "lifestyle" ailments such as heart disease become more common, global consultancy McKinsey said Wednesday. Underpinning the rosy scenario for the pharmaceuticals market is an expected rise in per capita disposabl

Re: [PEN-L] Books/ articles criticizing this eurocentric idea

At the risk of more rants, I will also recommend Sen's "The Argumentative Indian". There are a couple of chapters (the first two) that deal with democracy, pluralism, and voice in a broad (Indian) historical sweep making precisely the argument that democracy is neither new nor western in pract

Re: [PEN-L] Amartya Sen on India

Bukit Timah Road #10-01 Fax : (253) 692-5718 Singapore 259770 http://tinyurl.com/yhjzrm Ph: (65) 6516 8785 xx On Sun, 19 Aug 2007, Jim Devine wrote: Anthony D'Costa wrote: Speaking

Re: [PEN-L] uncle sam's banker

What the Chinese can do is gradually wean away from the US dollar. This I believe has been already part of the strategy. It does give the US room for some adjustment but these are structural issues. How is the US going to (re)industrialize is an interesting thought in sectors that it has alr

Re: [PEN-L] More on Gregory Clark

Ah, so, in contrast to Clark and Cowan, education and training do matter in skill development. This is where India will face a challenge as to how to move away on a large scale from an elitist education system to a more inclusive one. If they can pull it off India will supply itself and the ROW

[PEN-L] Another patent issue between US and India

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2253466.cms Anthony P. D'Costa, Professor Currently Comparative International Development Senior Visiting Research Fellow University of WashingtonAs

Re: [PEN-L] Indian law on generic drugs is upheld

xxx On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Michael Perelman wrote: Will pressure from the US reverse this? On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 09:10:05PM -0700, Anthony D'Costa wrote: http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/06/business/drug.php -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University

[PEN-L] Indian law on generic drugs is upheld

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/06/business/drug.php Anthony P. D'Costa, Professor Currently Comparative International Development Senior Visiting Research Fellow University of WashingtonAsia

Re: [PEN-L] Does Roberts Get it Right?

Raghu hits it right, which paraphrases a brief discussion I wrote last week. There is considerable fuzziness over this. In fact separating the abstract and the concrete connotations of exploitation might be helpful. Many IT professionals from India are also entrepreneurs (who literally self-

Re: [PEN-L] Does Roberts Get it Right?

We need some evidence for the following: "Meanwhile, US colleges and universities continue to graduate hundreds of thousands of qualified engineers, IT professionals, and other professionals who will never have the opportunity to work in the professions for which they have been trained. America t

[PEN-L] Oxf Rev Econ Policy Table of Contents for The Solow Growth Model: Spring 2007; Vol. 23, No. 1 (fwd)

FYI Anthony P. D'Costa, Professor Comparative International Development University of Washington 1900 Commerce Street Tacoma, WA 98402, USA Phone: (253) 692-4462 Fax : (253) 692-5718 http://tinyurl.com/yhjzrm xx

[PEN-L] Caste? and Politics in India

International Herald Tribune Low-caste party defies expectations in Indian state vote By Somini Sengupta Sunday, May 13, 2007 NEW DELHI: In the age-old caste divisions of India, a new political calculus has emerged. The elections in Uttar Pradesh, the largest state in India and traditionally a b

Re: [PEN-L] Poverty and Inequality in Venezuela

East is east and west is west and the twain shall always misunderstand. This article shows how ignorant Venezuelan writer Fausto Mas was about Calcutta. Perhaps street vendors were common to both cities but crime in Calcutta was highly politial in the 1960s and 1970s. And I know my Bengali ch

Re: [PEN-L] Populism?

My own reading of Peruvian politics a couple of decades ago suggested that populism was precisely aimed at the masses as opposed to the "European" elites, which for all practical purposes a good number of politicians then fomenting populism were elites themselves. But it also suggested political

Re: [PEN-L] Cheap shots and a hot tirade

My two cents worth: the poor don't have to be bad at aethetics. Otherwise how do we explain traditional crafts and Balinese houses in the midst of rice paddies? It is clearly capitalist market dynamics that drive to industrial forms of consumption. Anthony x

Re: [PEN-L] On another subject

Please stop using this header, it's annoying. Anthony P. D'Costa, Professor Comparative International Development University of Washington 1900 Commerce Street Tacoma, WA 98402, USA Phone: (253) 692-4462 Fax : (253) 692-571

[PEN-L] On languages in India

FYI, http://www.wakeupcall.org/ I have not evaluated the site but the fact that information is presented in multiple languages on the web does suggest something positive. Cheers, anthony Anthony P. D'Costa, Professor Comp

Re: [PEN-L] Social Power and Everyday Class Relations (Reviewed by Kalpana Wilson)

This article also shows that the poor (even in Bihar) are not all together politically excluded. anthony Anthony P. D'Costa, Professor Comparative International Development University of Washington 1900 Commerce Street Tacom

Re: [PEN-L] On another subject

7, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: On 4/16/07, Anthony D'Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The rural folks in India want electricity, water, roads, and schools. Without these they continue to suffer at the hands of landlords. Could it be the other way around? It's (much of) the Indian

Re: [PEN-L] On another subject

The rural folks in India want electricity, water, roads, and schools. Without these they continue to suffer at the hands of landlords. I believe it is the responsibility of the government to provide these. Whether you do it by large-scale dams or small-scale irrigation systems is another matter b

[PEN-L] Multilingualism

Since Roy,language, politics is the subject may I offer another brilliant Malayali author O. Vijayan. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._V._Vijayan#Translations_into_English His "Legends of Khasak" is a work of art, which won India's literary award many decades ago. It was also translated int

Re: [PEN-L] class and language (cont)

This is also true to low castes and the dalits in India. The reservation system works for the "creamy layer" and some but many do not finish. This is a vexing problem for many of India's top public schools: how to retain those who are in but some studies suggest that underprivileged students do

[PEN-L] On another subject

The Roy posts were illuminating. They illustrate how difficult it is to position yourself on the left if you are materially and professionally successful. In fact virtually all academics would fit this bill and academics are most prone to such attacks. Though these days any middle class individ

[PEN-L] Outsourcing to India from IHT

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/03/business/rupee.php Anthony P. D'Costa, Professor Comparative International Development University of Washington 1900 Commerce Street Tacoma, WA 98402, USA Phone: (253) 692-4462 Fax : (

Re: [PEN-L] outsourcing to India?

There are several developments taking place regarding outsourcing to India. I will mention only a few key ones. First, is the general form of outsourcing, keep core activities at home and outsource domestically or internationally various other non-core activities. The decision to make or buy dep

Re: [PEN-L] India and labor

The puzzle of Indian employment growth. 1. The ISI strategy did not generate employment as anticipated. The reason is technological change and demand growth. ISI did not generate growth either. 2. The ISI strategy created its own vested interests both within the state and in the private sector

Re: [PEN-L] 40 million US Jobs ar risk from trade

2 Fax : (253) 692-5718 http://tinyurl.com/yhjzrm xx On Sat, 31 Mar 2007, Anthony D'Costa wrote: A quick answer is that representative politics does work except some interests are overrepresented and some underreprese

Re: [PEN-L] 40 million US Jobs ar risk from trade

inyurl.com/yhjzrm xx On Sat, 31 Mar 2007, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: On 3/31/07, Anthony D'Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The Indian growth model is NOT FDI-driven, far from it. A paltry $10 billion (with a good chu

Re: [PEN-L] 40 million US Jobs ar risk from trade

The Indian growth model is NOT FDI-driven, far from it. A paltry $10 billion (with a good chunk of it in portfolio investment) is no real driver. In fact the FDI in selected sectors (auto, IT) have been pretty good in terms of India's technological spillovers and firm capabilities. The Chinese s

Re: [PEN-L] self-promotion

But then we are victims of the market-driven publishers. Prices and break-even points are what publishers are interested in. Cheers, anthony Anthony P. D'Costa, Professor Comparative International Development University of

Re: [PEN-L] India's Maoists and Coal

The Economist is overestimating the Naxal movement. The Maoists are confined to pockets Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Chattisgrah (a new state carved out of Bihar, West Bengal, and Orissa), and West Bengal. In WB they have been routed over the years and many Naxalites have joined the mainstream by c

Re: [PEN-L] international finance question

Good question but I don't think all debts are dollar-denominated. The portfolio of outstanding debts is quite varied--short and long term, concessional and private loans, and grants, and so on. One will have to look at the breakdown of debts to get a sense of this. anthony xx

Re: [PEN-L] Who is Ben Bernanke?

Some years ago I had offered an intuitive argument that China is keeping prices low in the US, to which Doug had asked if I had any evidence. The following extract from the post below seems to suggest it has become mainstream view: Mr. Bernanke, however, said increased trade with China has reduc

[PEN-L] News Alert: Wall Street Plummets After Chinese Stocks Take a Big Hit (fwd)

fyi Anthony P. D'Costa, Professor Comparative International Development University of Washington 1900 Commerce Street Tacoma, WA 98402, USA Phone: (253) 692-4462 Fax : (253) 692-5718 http://tinyurl.com/yhjzrm xx

Re: [PEN-L] more puzzlement for me

I think the absorptive capacities of these economies, including China, must be a factor for the continued lending. China is certainly not growing slowly because it is lending money to the US. It just that it can't utilize that amount of capital in its domestic economy. It's a classic structural

Re: [PEN-L] Falun Gong

It's capitalism with bureaucratic state socialism, where the CPC still weilds considerable control over ideological matters. Hence, there is still an attempt to separate the spheres of politics and economy on the part of the Chinese politburo. Cheers, anthony

Re: [PEN-L] structure and agency [was: Robert Pollin versus the "Amherst School" of Marxism]

) 692-5718 xx On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Jim Devine wrote: Anthony D'Costa wrote: Parsons was a functionalist (neo if you like) where structures are determined by (social) functions. It does not give room to agency (which is also a problem for many marxian analys

Re: [PEN-L] Robert Pollin versus the "Amherst School" of Marxism

t University of Washington 1900 Commerce Street Tacoma, WA 98402, USA Phone: (253) 692-4462 Fax : (253) 692-5718 xx On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: On 11/6/06, Anthony D'Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [PEN-L] Robert Pollin versus the "Amherst School" of Marxism

One of the best pomo books I have read is by Dorrine Kondo, a cultural anthropologist (Crafting Selves) on Japanese workplace identity, where it's concrete and perhaps more useful in its application. Anthony P. D'Costa, Prof

Re: [PEN-L] Robert Pollin versus the "Amherst School" of Marxism

Doug's definition does not do justice to the label, although he is right. I don't like pomo. Basically pomo is what we call post structuralism. Social realities do not come in neat categories as in say the modernization process (traditional versus modern structures) but rather increasingly there

Re: [PEN-L] Intolerance in India

Over the years I have signed several petitions against such right wing tirades, inlcuding a CA state school textbook material on Indian history and of course signing a petition that successfully prevented Gujarat's chief minister (who turned a blind eye toward carnage sponsored by BJP types) f

Re: [PEN-L] Iran in the news

The Scandinavian cases also provide alternatives to both Iran and "left" view of "feminism." In Scandinavia children are encouraged both socially and as part of state policy. Both parents work: they must because of high taxes (in addition to women's rights issues) but they are supported by the s

Re: [PEN-L] Iran in the news

Let's consider another case. The Singapore government encourages more children (through economic incentives) but parents are expected to be college graduates. Singaporeans, both males and females, live well. Cheers, anthony xx

[PEN-L] IESS--unassigned articles--PLM

Dear Friends and Colleagues: If you are interested in contributing to the International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences, edited by William Darity please see the message below and contact the editor. Anthony Anthony P. D

Re: [PEN-L] Columbia's Phelps Wins Nobel Prize in Economics

It is interesting that the Swedes would give him the prize for saying the exactly the things that the Swedes actually want to do--be less productive, not work, take life at an easy pace, and consequently have a high quality of life. Phelps should also learn about Scandinavian "design" activiti

Re: [PEN-L] From Copenhagen

I don't know the answer to this really but my suspicion is that foreign population does not exceed more than 4%. However, of this 4% a great majority, from superficial observation, tend to be Muslims from a variety of countries but especially from Arab countries. I must admit though I was surp

[PEN-L] From Copenhagen

Danish wake-up call on Islam By Dan Bilefsky International Herald Tribune TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2006 COPENHAGEN On Sept. 5, the day Danish police arrested nine Muslim suspects in connection with a foiled terrorist plot, a slender book warning of conquest by Islamic fundamentalists in Europe a

[PEN-L] East Asia's Dollars

FYI, this may be of interest (from Japan Focus edited by Mark Selden) http://japanfocus.org/products/details/2208 xxx Anthony P. D'Costa, Professor Senior Visiting Researcher Comparative International Development Cent

Re: [PEN-L] ironies of globalization

That's right, India was never socialist. On the other hand, if state ownership of the means of production is any indicator then there was a time when industrial assets and banks were heavily owned by the state. anthony xxx

[PEN-L] ironies of globalization

When IBM (and Coca Cola) packed their bags in 1977, the Indian government created Computer Maintenance Corporation (to maintain IBM and ICIL (UK)) machines in India. All ex-IBM and ICIL employees joined various Indian companies. The prohibitive tariff on imported hardware forced Indian compan

Re: [PEN-L] Origins of Money

My finance prof in the mid-1970s defined money as "Money is what money does." But the way said sent the entire class reeling with laughter. Anthony xxx Anthony P. D'Costa, Professor Senior Visiting Researcher Compa

[PEN-L] on the subject of "happiness" and Japan

FYI Anthony P. D'Costa, Professor (Currently at Univ of Oslo) Comparative International Development University of Washington 1900 Commerce Street Tacoma, WA 98402, USA Phone: (253) 692-4462 Fax : (253) 692-5718 xx

[PEN-L] China's Growth Policy

Is China's growth rate overheating? Saturday, July 22,2006 BEIJING: On July 18, the National Bureau of Statistics issued the latest economic data for the first half of the year. According to the statistics, China's GDP grew by 10.9 per cent, 0.9 percentage points faster than the same period of

[PEN-L] Reserve Bank of India and Reddy

Spotlight: India slowly opens to the world By Karina Robinson Published: July 14, 2006 LONDON It is interesting to sit across from a bespectacled, 64-year-old bureaucrat who inspires lust in foreign bankers - or, to be more accurate, who supervises banks in India that inspire foreigners with an o

[PEN-L] BBC News

Italian trio relegated to Serie B Clockwise: The badges of AC Milan, Fiorentina, Lazio and Juventus AC Milan, Fiorentina, Juventus and Lazio were implicated Serie A sides Juventus, Lazio and Fiorentina have been demoted to the second division for their involvement in Italy's match-fixing scandal.

Re: [PEN-L] The two Indias

I have the same view of Gurcharan Das. At a private conf in 2003 in Baltimore he was one of the key speakers. I was quite appalled about his optimism and walked out. The then ruling coalition wanted to field him as a candidate for the next general elections. He was one of those who was sure a

Re: [PEN-L] African soccer

versity of Washington 1900 Commerce Street Tacoma, WA 98402, USA Phone: (253) 692-4462 Fax : (253) 692-5718 xxx On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: On Jul 7, 2006, at 12:59 AM, Anthony D'Costa wrote: You a

Re: [PEN-L] African soccer

You are right that a great many Africans play for European teams. But many of these seemingly African were either born in Europe or went there early on. Those Africans who play for foreign clubs but hold citizenship of their home countries play for their national teams, if they get selected in s

Re: [PEN-L] Japanese economy question:

) 692-5718 xxx On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Michael Perelman wrote: Aren't the Koreans following a similar strategy. On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 08:59:17PM -0700, Anthony D'Costa wrote: It's a true picture. One thin

Re: [PEN-L] Japanese economy question:

It's a true picture. One thing the author did not mention explicitly is the singlemindedness of Japanese corporations to produce the "perfect" product, which place them ahead of most manufacturers. In Japan, Japanese phones are used and Vodafone (a UK company based on an acquisition of a Japa

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