Some more JG quotes

1999-06-02 Thread Thomas Lunde
This book has intrigued me more than almost any other book since reading Friendly Facism. As I read it, I made notations of things that seemed important. JG spent a lot of pages on the concept that the K-sector operates as a monopoly - that was a big idea and one I still am ruminating on. Anot

[Fwd: Fresh, Green Ideas (article in Ottawa Citizen)]

1999-06-02 Thread Steve Kurtz
This is the second positive article I've seen in Canadian mainstream press in the past few weeks. They are somewhat ahead of New England, which is the 'greenest' area in the US. Looks like we really may have picked a compatible city as our next home. Steve Original Message From

(Fwd) RE: The age of amateurs

1999-06-02 Thread Durant
An interesting contribution too your cathedral and bazaar topic from another list (skeptic) Eva ... In the world of open software, there is a comparison made between the cathedral and the bazaar (this is Eric Raymond's original paper). The cathedral represents the big software houses, producing

Re: the baby boomers war

1999-06-02 Thread Durant
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FW Internet Index #24 (fwd)

1999-06-02 Thread S. Lerner
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FW Monthly Reminder

1999-06-02 Thread S. Lerner
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Re: Created Unequal by James Galbraith

1999-06-02 Thread Steve Kurtz
Dear Thomas, I think JG's argument is a 'thought experiment': > As a first step, imagine a national economy entirely closed to trade. Such > an economy will have three basic types of activity in it. He never claims that reality operates in this fashion. Trade has been part of most national ec