I'm organizing a study trip to Moscow from 28 Jul-23 Aug which explores
Russia's political, economic and social conditions.
It is the 14th year these have been offered, but the first time in the
summer. Many people have asked for this because it is the only time they can
get away, so our host
Thanks to Sally Lerner for her postings. Although I am not a sociologist,
I would like to discuss the nature of work and job creation on this net-
work. Just to tell you that economists are interested in the topic,
the Union for Radical Political Economists has chosen the theme of
its summer
I found the following posting by Charles S Young extremely convincing
Paul Phillips suggests that the media has essentially fabricated the
portrait of Serbian aggression against muslims, and that this gives
advantage to some American plot in Yugoslavia.
I've spent my adult life opposed
Pen-ners,
A short post to explain the relative territorial distributions in
Bosnia. At the time of the unilateral declaration of independence
by the Muslim led government, Serbs and Yugoslavs represented just
under 40 per cent of the population, but they inhabited approximately
60 per cent of
Paul Bowles asks if the TVEs in China should be considered market
socialism or state capitalism. Is there a difference between the
two?
What people usually advocate as market socialism seems to me
to be indistinguishable from state capitalism.
Joseph Medley maintains that China is "export-oriented," or following
"export-led growth." This view is propagated by the IMF and World Bank
as the secret of the success of the "littigers," including South
Korea. As I mentioned in an earlier message, South Korea typically
runs an import surplus.
