Dear Pen-L and Pkt
If any one is interested you can read the paper I am giving
at Ed Nell's conference in New York on Monday at
http://econ-www/economics/research/bse-openeconomy.pdf
it is in pdf. it explores the open economy considerations of my Buffer Stock
Employment model of Full
I didn't detect any forced choices, Doug.
My starting point is that world capitalism is in a deep hole, and the gaudy
spectacle -- the vast anomic architecture, the bright lights and shrill,
inhuman sexiness of it all, all that hypnotic stuff -- is just a chimera.
The more I read the more
Dennis,
Can *you* borrow money at 2 percent interest? 4 percent? That
money is so cheap it's almost free. Besides, what business does a
democratic government have handing over a lot of cash to corporate
fat-cats? Do you think the managements of Mitsubushi and
For the first time, instead of deepening the divisions between
Russian unions, the AFL-CIO is helping overcome them. The March strike was
greeted with solidarity statements by both John Sweeney, president of the
AFL-CIO, and Bill Jordan, head of the International Confederation of Free
Trade
WHERE WORKERS HAVE TO FIGHT FOR A PAYCHECK
U.S. and Russian Unions Move Beyond the Cold War
By David Bacon
MOSCOW (4/16/98) -- Today 20 million Russian workers, one out of
every four, don't get a check on payday. Their wages aren't just late by a
day or two. People often go months
The future will pay heavy bills for what's happening in Russia today.
The occasional injection of David Bacon's writing is fine and well,
but this list should have regular reporting from people on the spot
or nearby.
I could suggest as much re Germany as well. There should be a space
for
Bill, you'd defintely know about it if I started in on you for real, so take it easy.
You're a smart guy. Your article on Butler's NLR piece was good and I'm still
awaiting the follow-up.
As for Doug, who is a friend of mine, he really doesn't need your help.
As for evidence of your own myopia it
Mark Jones wrote:
So, just as you find my cassandra-ism risible, I am mystified
at the self-deception you are stricken with. Actually, I
find you schizoid -- on one e-list you can be seen expressing deep fears
for the globally-warmed, asphalted-over future; on another you are praising
to the
Dear Pen-Lers:
One of the unacknowledeg benefits of NAFTA? Note: "...revenues estimated at
anywhere from $400 million to more than $3 billion."
Canada Exports Potent Pot to US
By David Crary Associated Press Writer
Friday, April 17, 1998; 1:44 p.m. EDT
TORONTO (AP) -- In the past, Canada's
Clinton Honors Chile's Restored Democracy
By Thomas W. Lippman Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, April 18, 1998; Page A16
[snip]
Clinton, accompanied by first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of
State Madeleine K. Albright and senior White House officials, was effusively
welcomed by
A genetic engineer has created a mouse with ears that
glow in the dark, by splicing firefly genes into mouse DNA.
More practically, transgenic pigs that freeze to death if left
in the open because the human genes they've got don't let
them accumulate fat, already make our bacon. Coming soon:
On Sat, April 18, 1998 at 09:02:22 (+0100) Mark Jones writes:
William S. Lear wrote:
Nothing like a little exaggeration to help one's argument, is there?
Oh, yeah? Try this for size, from today's London Times (note the final
optimistic sentence). As for Doug Henwood's false optimism, since you
Friends,
Michael E's post of David Bacon's article on Russian workers is much appreciated.
A shorter version of the article is also in last week's Nation magazine. Bacon is
a fine labor journalist and photographer.
Michael E's own article on the U.S. labor movement appears in the latest issue
William S. Lear wrote:
Nothing like a little exaggeration to help one's argument, is there?
Oh, yeah? Try this for size, from today's London Times (note the final
optimistic sentence). As for Doug Henwood's false optimism, since you share the
same disease (myopia) to an even greater degree,
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