Quebec: New Statistics Show The Scope Of The All-Sided Crisis

1997-10-27 Thread Shawgi A. Tell
According to a brief submitted by Action Toxicomanie Montreal, alcoholism and drug addiction affects 10% of the residents of Montreal. The brief, which was submitted to the Regional Board of Health and Social Services, evaluates that the problems of alcoholism and drug-addiction in Montreal

Re: Asian ecological crisis

1997-10-27 Thread valis
Whatever one's theory of their sources, the recent economic/ecological crises to sweep SE Asia (currency crashes, regional pollution disasters, stock market swoons) represent a serious legitimacy problem not only for heads of state and governments in that part of the world, but to exponents

FDI in U.S.

1997-10-27 Thread john gulick
Pen-L'ers, As many learned observers on this list have noted, U.S. government officials in the last few years have come to tout gov't deregulation/labor flexibility as the reason why capitalism Anglo-American style has outperformed capitalism continental European style in recent years

Re: Asian ecological crisis

1997-10-27 Thread john gulick
Pen-L'ers, Whatever one's theory of their sources, the recent economic/ecological crises to sweep SE Asia (currency crashes, regional pollution disasters, stock market swoons) represent a serious legitimacy problem not only for heads of state and governments in that part of the world, but to

Re: Any UFFO's? (Unidentified Flying-Financier Objects)

1997-10-27 Thread Tom Walker
A c-c-c-correction . . . p-p-p-profit t-t-t-taking . . . n-n-n-nervousness . .. . n-n-n-nothing more. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ knoW Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296

Hearings on the MAI

1997-10-27 Thread Sid Shniad
The Toronto Star October 25, 1997 CANADIAN PARLIAMENT TO HOLD HEARINGS INTO THE MULTILATERAL AGREEMENT ON INVESTMENT (MAI) By Rosemary Speirs OTTAWA - Trade Minister Sergio Marchi says critics have built "a phantom" out of the

Any UFFO's? (Unidentified Flying-Financier Objects)

1997-10-27 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Yo Doug, Anything interesting happening in your neck of the woods? Let me say that if the socialist revolution is finally upon us, I always have been deeply sympathetic. Secretly Marxist Max === Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy

Marx's Modern Theory of Colonization

1997-10-27 Thread James Devine
Louis writes: Marx was attempting to put these questions on the terrain of capital accumulation rather than philosophy when he wrote chapter 33 of volume one of Capital, titled "The Modern Theory of Colonization." He says: "In Western Europe, the homeland of political economy, the process of

Scholars Artists Writers for Social Justice (fwd)

1997-10-27 Thread Sid Shniad
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 21:55:49 -0500 Reply-To: Forum on Labor in the Global Economy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: Forum on Labor in the Global Economy [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Tom Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Scholars Artists Writers for Social Justice (fwd) Comments: To:

Re: truth

1997-10-27 Thread Ajit Sinha
At 15:43 16/10/97 -0400, Ricardo wrote: Ajit's basic claim is that all claims to objective truth assume the objectivity of truth. Whichever way they turn, the defenders of objectivity cannot avoid making this assumption. And Ajit will keep on reminding them of it. However, this does not

Re: price indexes

1997-10-27 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 22:45:20 -0500 Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: price indexes Does anyone know of any work on different price indexes for different income classes in the U.S. A

Re: price indexes

1997-10-27 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 22:45:20 -0500 Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: price indexes Does anyone know of any work on different price indexes for different income classes in the U.S. A

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1997-10-27 Thread Richardson_D
This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. -- =_NextPart_000_01BCE2C9.DD4C4BC0 charset="iso-8859-1" BLS DAILY REPORT, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1997 The experimental geometric mean version of the

International Business Cycle Research

1997-10-27 Thread Trevor Evans
Does anyone on pen-l know if the Center for International Business Cycle Research, located at Colombia University in the early 1980s, is still in business, and if so, what its e-mail address is. Many thanks, Trevor Evans Paul Lincke Ufer 44 10999 Berlin Tel. fax 49 30 612 3951 Email

Re: Marx's Modern Theory of Colonization

1997-10-27 Thread michael perelman
James Devine wrote: Marx really didn't spend much time on the other types of colonies. see: Marx, Karl. 1968. Karl Marx on Colonialism and Modernization: His Dispatches and Other Writings on China, India, Mexico, the Middle East and North Africa, ed. with Shlomo Avineri (Garden City:

First tentative agreement at a Wal Mart (fwd)

1997-10-27 Thread Sid Shniad
http://www.newswire.ca/releases/October1997/27/c5889.html Attention News/Labour Editors: TENTATIVE CONTRACT SETTLEMENT AT FIRST-EVER UNIONIZED WAL-MART WINDSOR, Ont., Oct. 27 /CNW/ - Eight months after the Ontario Labour Relations Board (OLRB) certified the United Steelworkers to

panic@plan.sys.cosm

1997-10-27 Thread valis
Anyone here want 4000 shares of Flatwheel Traction, really cheap? Then how about 3500 of Club Med - Indonesia? Sidney Soundbite Financial

Canada's ideological paymaster

1997-10-27 Thread Sid Shniad
The Toronto StarOctober 25, 1997 Right-wing causes find a rich and ready paymaster CANADA 'TOO 'LIBERAL,' SO DONNER FAMILY IS TAKING FOUNDATION DOWN A MORE CONTROVERSIAL PATH By Thomas Walkom FOUR YEARS ago, a small but influential U.S. family

Re: Asian ecological crisis -Reply

1997-10-27 Thread Tim Stroshane
I was struck by the off-hand remark in the NY Times article supplied us by Louis Proyect that this ecological disaster in southeast Asia somehow "coincided" with the economic slow-down now occurring in Indonesia and other states. I am hardly knowledgeable about southeast Asian affairs, but the

Re: Any UFFO's? (Unidentified Flying-Financier Objects)

1997-10-27 Thread Doug Henwood
Max B. Sawicky wrote: Yo Doug, Anything interesting happening in your neck of the woods? Let me say that if the socialist revolution is finally upon us, I always have been deeply sympathetic. Secretly Marxist Max No one hitting the pavement yet, as far as I can tell, though there was a very

Re: FDI in U.S.

1997-10-27 Thread William S. Lear
On Mon, October 27, 1997 at 16:58:54 (+) john gulick writes: As many learned observers on this list have noted, U.S. government officials in the last few years have come to tout gov't deregulation/labor flexibility as the reason why capitalism Anglo-American style has outperformed capitalism

FDI in U.S.

1997-10-27 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
How to explain FDI in the US? Higher rates of exploitation? Supersized market which more than compensates for relatively slower growth rates? Circumvention of explicit and hidden protectionism: voluntary export restraints, trigger price mechanisms and targeted trade practices--all devious

the crash and politics

1997-10-27 Thread Michael Perelman
Am I wrong in suspecting that the crash [if it is not just a passing blip] may doom fast track and discredit neo-liberalism? Is it time to get working? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 916-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Any UFFO's? (Unidentified Flying-Financier Objects)

1997-10-27 Thread Laurie Dougherty
For years my son has been hoping that my interest in economics would result in investment advice. So here we have it. So, do you have any suggestions on what to buy? Honest-I'm-Not-Asking-On-My-Own-Behalf-Laurie Sez Doug, our man in the belly of the beast: This is a very