Re: Important book review: corporation nation

1998-12-06 Thread Michael Spencer
Caspar Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> remarked: > Michael Spencer recently noted (on the futurework listserv) the > sociopathic nature of the publicly-held corporation. The correct word > is sociopath ("a person who lacks social or moral responsibility > because of a mental illness"- World Book Dicti

Re: simulating ownership and democracy

1998-12-06 Thread Edward Weick
>It's hard to answer anything but "maybe" to these questions, which doesn't >really satisfy me. "Ownership" is quite an abstract concept, and for all >that Marxists talked about materialism they sure attached a lot of >importance to something so abstract. Back to some rudeness. I'm really begi

Fw: World Bank Economic Forecast

1998-12-06 Thread Edward Weick
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: usa-today.money,alt.politics.economics Date: Thursday, December 03, 1998 6:22 PM Subject: World Bank Economic Forecast > > >December 2, 1998 > >The World Bank (Wednesday) says the Asian financial and economic cri

Re: [CE] Year 2000 Problem (fwd)

1998-12-06 Thread Michael Gurstein
Since we have a number of people on this list with an apparent interest in a computational approach to social analysis...perhaps they might apply their thoughts to the discussion in the URL below. M --- Date: Sun, 06 Dec 1998 09:15:38 -0600 From: Jim Cou

FW: London union conference (fwd)

1998-12-06 Thread S. Lerner
"Changing work - changing unions" Unions 21 Conference on Saturday 27 February 1999 9.30 - 5pm at TUC Congress House, London, WC1 Featuring an opening plenary with Peter Mandelson MP Trade and Industry Secretary and John Monks TUC General Secretary Building on its reputation Unions 21 brings yo

FW: UN calls for repeal of Ontario Act (fwd)

1998-12-06 Thread S. Lerner
Date:Fri, 4 Dec 1998 17:23:08 -0500 From:Roy Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: UN Calls for Repeal of Ontario Act MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII United Nations Calls for Repeal of Ontario's Prevention of Unionism Act Now it is official. The United Nations'

FW: Book review of Corporation Nation (fwd)

1998-12-06 Thread S. Lerner
I haven't read this book, but it sounds relevant. Sally >Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 14:36:31 -0500 >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Precedence: bulk >From: Robert Weissman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Multiple recipients of list CORP-FOCUS <[EMAIL

FW: Videos on worker struggles for a living wage (fwd)

1998-12-06 Thread S. Lerner
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joan Sekler) >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], >[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Alternative media in 1999 >Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 22:14:36 -0800 {snip} >1. The video collective of LAAMN will be producing short 10-15 minute >videos

Re: simulating ownership and democracy

1998-12-06 Thread Durant
> > is it all based on the present ownership mode? > > Can your scheme simulate a system based on a different > > economic base, such as common ownership? > > It's hard to answer anything but "maybe" to these questions, which doesn't > really satisfy me. "Ownership" is quite an abstract concept

Re: [CE] Year 2000 Problem (fwd)

1998-12-06 Thread Dennis Paull
-- Hi all, I try not to be a doomsayer. I truly believe that world civilizations will not come to a screeching end on Jan 1, 2000. Still, I do believe that we may suffer some serious inconveniences, comparable to fires, floods, earthquakes, tornados, etc. And we have had all those emerge