Paul --
Let me get something straight: I don't support NAFTA. To me the
agreement is not about free trade; it is about liberalization, curtailing
of internal regulatory power, and reactionary agrarian reform (of course,
that's what "free trade" is coming to mean these days, but I stick with
>Norway's NO to the EU is not only good for Norway, it will also send a
>very neccessary shock into the Eurpean debate, and be a stimulus to all
>those inside EU who are opposed to this bureaucratic and market
>liberalist abomination. Our NO gives hope to those who oppose the so-called
>"inevitabl
Congratulations, Trond! I look from Germany with an envious
eye toward Norway. It was a delight to find your message
now, after coming home late. I go to bed with the feeling:
"it is possible".
Marianne Brun
It is 02:00, night in Trondheim, Norway. In spite a slight buzz from
several beers, I am still able to proudly announce that Norway has said
NO to membership in the European Union with 52.6% of the votes!!! Some
votes remain to be counted, but they are so few that they can't
fundamentally change
Robin Hahnel's mention of LBBS reminds me that the URPE steering
committee has belatedly accepted Michael Albert's invitation to become a
co-sponsor of the system. We need an URPE volunteer to be our presence on
the board. Anyone in the PEN-L virtual community want to be the lucky
agent. I am
I seem to have come in at the middle (or perhaps at the tail end)
of an extended debate. All I wanted to say was that when Trond
Andresen says that California's pollution control innovations
are a good example of why policy should be made in small political
units rather than big ones (such as
Doug Henwood asks who it was who celebrated the ability of economics
departments to resist the rot of deconstructionism, John Maynard Keynes,
etc. I don't have the text (in a manner of speaking) in front of me, but the
quote sounds a lot like the report John Silber gave to the Boston Universi
I am glad to hear that Gil Skillman thinks that the static efficiency
properties of markets are the "least important" features that recommend
them. In other words, Gil is conceding that markets generate reasonably
accurate estimates of social benefits and costs of different goods and
services -- o
Who wrote these vile but sadly accurate words? Not Herb Gintis, I'm assuming.
Doug
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On Mon, 28 Nov 1994, Brian Eggleston wrote:
> I just encountered this in the most recent Chronicle of Higher Ed. a
Maybe it's just not meant to be. The full text of the "turkey"
message was not sent. I am starting to believe that I may have a
system problem. Here's one LAST (I promise) attempt.
"The creeping rot of multiculturalism, feminism, deconstructionism, and
other fashionably radical intellectual tr
Sorry folks. My keyboard froze up before I could sign the "turkey"
message.
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| Brian Eggleston, Ph.D.| |
| Associate Professor and Chair | "It is by invisible hands that we
I just encountered this in the most recent Chronicle of Higher Ed. and
couldn't resist passing it along. So, if you didn't get enough
turkey over the holiday..
"The creeping rot of multiculturalism, feminism, deconstructionism, and
other fashionably radical intellectual trends has spread to
Just a short excursion to my office workstation from what is now a
budding victory party for the NO side: Two election day polls have been
presented, giving a mean of 51.4% (one 50.2% and one 52.6%). Those
polls are from today, 7590 respondents, and therefore quite accurate.
It seems that a NO vic
Trond Andresen says: "I challenge list participants to give specific
examples of how supranational blocs are better at saving the
environment, as opposed to smaller national units being free to make
own decisions and play a pioneer role or come together under the UN
umbrella and make voluntari
Just a short note, 90 minutes before the first results are announced:
Extreme weather in the Northwest and north of norway, with rain, sleet
snow and up to full storm on the coast. On the radio: Interview with
81-year old walking 3 km each way in full storm to vote. On the other
hand, calm and cle
By coincidence, from another list, here's an example of bioregionalist
thinking.
-- Forwarded message --
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 10:07:50 -0500 (EST)
From: PNEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: BIOREGIONALISM
[PNEWS CONFERENCES]
From: Inst. for Bioreg.
Trond Andresen writes that California's pioneering work on clean air
standards is an example of the benefits of national sovereignty.
Am I mistaken then in believing that the technical emissions standards
adopted by California for automobiles and other air pollution sources,
are in response t
Many greens are opposed to trade, and look to the bioregion as the
appropriate scale for organizing social life. They're subnationalists in
that.
Doug
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On Sun, 27 Nov 1994, Ajit Sinha wrote:
> I d
It's not so clear that there was job loss from NAFTA based on the figures
presented in the article. To begin with, there was growth in both exports
and imports--so an increase in the net trade balance is not the only story.
The growth in exports would normally be expected to produce additional jo
> I don't understand why environmetanlists would be nationalists...Most of the
> environmental problems are global in nature and poses the most serious
> challenge to the nationalist politics.
>
- says ajit sinha.
Here we go again. This discussion reminds me of the great debate one+
year ago on
Voting has been going on since yesterday, results will
be ready possibly by midnight, possibly as late
as tomorrow due to close race between the two sides.
Today's opinion polls are 49, 50, and 52 % for the NO side, i.e. the
YES side seem to have gained some 2% since Friday. My earlier
predictio
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