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Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said, in an ABC News "20/20" program
interview to be broadcast Friday, that his donations to society would
exceed $1 billion during his lifetime.
"Well, at age 42, I've given at this point a little over $500
In message l03102806b0f789b5b05f@[166.84.250.86], Doug Henwood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Apologies to all you non-USers - and maybe a few USers too - who don't
share the present obsession with Tailgate.
Don't apologise. The whole world waits with baited breath to see what
the President will come
Max B. Sawicky writes:
It's not clear how a little extra income, only some of which goes to
capital formation, dramatically affects competition. Moreover, presumably
some capital is exported and improves the competitiveness of some other
country, whatever that means.
in most of time period
I'll break my self-imposed quota to note that economics can spawn a literary
spat up there with Gore Vidal vs. Norman Mailer or Salman Rushdie vs. John
Le Carre. See
http://www.slate.com/Features/Krugman/Krugman.asp
for the spat between my old college roomie (and Barkley Rosser's inspiration
On Sat, January 31, 1998 at 08:42:17 (-0800) James Devine writes:
I'll break my self-imposed quota to note that economics can spawn a literary
spat up there with Gore Vidal vs. Norman Mailer or Salman Rushdie vs. John
Le Carre. See
http://www.slate.com/Features/Krugman/Krugman.asp
for the spat
In message l03102805b0f90ec15daf@[166.84.250.86], Doug Henwood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
James Heartfield wrote:
Permanent scandal is getting to be the norm for the
political process in most countries.
Replacing real politics, I suppose, a process the U.S. probably leads the
world in.
I wrote
So this Krugman brouhaha got me spidering, and I came across this at the
Santa Fe Institute web site (http://www.santafe.edu/):
SANTA FE INSTITUTE
Economics
Since its founding more than a decade ago the SFI economics program has
been building an adaptive,
James Heartfield wrote:
. . .
In fact the descent into scandal has more to do with the failures of the
right-wing opposition - in Britain and in America. Rather contesting the
policies of Blair and Clinton, the right have latched onto sexual and
other scandals to make up for their lack
Without challenging what Bill Lear said, there appear to be some useful
insights to be gained from the SFI crew, whatever their motivations and
political conclusions.
I've just started to familiarize myself with the SFI, but my impression
is they are serious mainstream scientists, doing some of
Doug,
I'm skeptical about the Santa Fe Institute. I think the Los Alamos "cloud
of smartness" hangs over them. I know a recent doctoral student at the New
School had a fellowship there. I'm sure their $'s are probably come from
those that fund both MIT and Cal Tech.
Jason
On Sat, January 31, 1998 at 15:44:10 (-0500) Doug Henwood writes:
William S. Lear wrote:
I don't have
time to get into the details, but this sort of thinking is designed to
cut off any notion of social action in an economy. It's all
individuals and the beautiful patterns they create, so just
On Sat, January 31, 1998 at 17:45:56 (-0600) valis writes:
I was really troubled by the way this Santa Fe thread was developing
until Andrew and Anders almost breathed some truth and depth into it.
Paul Krugman may or may not be more than a minor excrescence on the body
of the Institute's core
From: Rich Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: The Federalist Society, Proposition 209, and Monica Lewinsky
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Following up the Lewinsky case and Hillary Clinton's allegations of a
"conspiracy," yesterday's _New York
From the Scout Report:
2. What Caused Asia's Economic and Currency Crisis and Its Global Contagion?
[.pdf, .ps]
http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~nroubini/asia/AsiaHomepage.html
Nouriel Roubini, Associate Professor of Economics and International
Business, Stern School of Business, New York
A friend writes:
I went up to Danbury CT Federal penitentiary with [] and some of
her
activist friends (She's beginning a 6 month term for an SOA arrest). Two of
them said how much they hate Holly Near's "Gentle Angry people" and I said I
knew someone who knew a parody, but I could only
Most of the "Simple rules, complex systems" school actually ignore the fundamentals
of complexity theory. Cyberlibertarians may think of Godel's incompleteness theorem
as old hat now that it's no longer a favorite plaything of the nuagers, but it
remains rather essential to the particular
I was really troubled by the way this Santa Fe thread was developing
until Andrew and Anders almost breathed some truth and depth into it.
Paul Krugman may or may not be more than a minor excrescence on the body
of the Institute's core concerns. Until you say "artificial life" (AI)
you're
Dear Pen-lers:
In recent months there has been a good bit of discussion on "Indians",
"Native Americans", etc. Now and again someone would interject that the
terms "Indians" (a product of the European imagination, largely) covered
over a lot of heterogeniety in terms of culture, experiences,
William S. Lear wrote:
I don't have
time to get into the details, but this sort of thinking is designed to
cut off any notion of social action in an economy. It's all
individuals and the beautiful patterns they create, so just stand back
and be amazed at the wonders of the market
Not to
At 10:16 31/01/98 +, you wrote:
In message l03102806b0f789b5b05f@[166.84.250.86], Doug Henwood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Apologies to all you non-USers - and maybe a few USers too - who don't
share the present obsession with Tailgate.
Don't apologise. The whole world waits with baited breath
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