Global Economy Needs Salesmanship THINKING AHEAD / Commentary
International Herald Tribune
Tue, Feb 24 1998
A worthwhile attempt to improve and streamline the rules governing
international investment has become the latest target of zealots seeking to
stem the tide of economic globalization
Bill Burgess:
It is not sectarian in the least to identify the class content in different
environmentalist positions, or to note the reactionary edges (he reminds us
the Nazis were the first radical ecologists to hold state power).
Well, that's the problem. As I have pointed out a number of
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I love this one! "in the name of science"
Ok, the story behind this... There's this nutball who digs things
out of his back yard and sends the stuff he finds to the
Smithsonian Institute, labeling them with scientific names,
insisting that they are actual archeological finds. The
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In a message dated 98-02-24 12:12:01 EST, you write:
The character Rose as a metaphor
for all the women
Well, before getting into this I should 'fess up that
in the mid-1970s I participated as a low-level flunky at
the State of Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources Bureau of
Water Quality in setting up the very first tradeable
permits scheme ever established anywhere (a pretty
ineffective
Before we assume that the environmentalists present a viable arena, we
should be aware that, at least in the leadership, they have been
acquainted with socialism and have found it distasteful. The following
is from Sam Smith, local DC curmudgeon, national Green Party figure, and
(I had thought)
In a message dated 98-02-24 12:12:01 EST, you write:
The character Rose as a metaphor
for all the women who are told that the ultimate and pinnacle of
achievement is to become an ornament of some rich scum and who seek
self-actualization and independence in a system that commodifies
In a message dated 98-02-23 18:28:31 EST, you write:
The John Birch society used to make a big deal that Earth Day was
celebrated on Lenin's birthday.
This is very funny. Which one were they trying to disparage -- earth day or
Lenin?
maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Max B. Sawicky wrote:
Replies to Perelman, Schneiderman, Hahnel, Meyer, Proyect
Farmer Perelman said:
Emissions trading is a crock. If you want to give polluction
credits, why not give everybody an equal credit instead of rewarding
people for historical patterns of pollution?
I'm glad Louis P. intends to look at David Harvey's new book more
carefully, because I think Harvey has been somewhat misrepresented (there
are clearly also real political differences).
Harvey is no point-of-production-only 'Marxist'. Quite the contrary. I
don't know what he said on this at the
Rakesh,
I have a paper on this in the March 1992 issue of JEBO.
Barkley Rosser
On Tue, 24 Feb 1998 01:44:10 -0500 (EST) Rakesh Bhandari
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Hi, does anyone have any favorite readings about Darwin in relation to
political economy from which he derived analogies,
The main suggested metaphors for capitalism received so far, along with my
categorical comments:
the Walrasian model.
a big two-person noncooperative game.
Dante's Inferno -- why not just say that "capitalism is hell"?
Sisyphus -- this is Rosa Luxembourg's metaphor for the labors of the
Yes, there are grassroots
environmental groups with a broader consciousness, Earth First! being an
obvious example, but they are so marginal to the broader movement that it's
a bit like citing the United Electrical workers and saying the union
movement during the Cold War was not hostile to
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[Harvey's] latest book is a highly sophisticated attempt to set directions
for
Marxist participation in the green movement. Anybody who took his advice
to
heart would soon alienate green
I think that I posted this once before, but what the hell!
Pool, Robert. 1989. "Strange Bedfellows." Science, vol. 245 (18 August): pp.
700-5.
701: Physicists at the Santa Fe institute were amazed at how
mathematically sophisticated economists were.
701: The economists were shocked at the
OK how about Faustus?
To add to the Titanic Metaphor list: The character Rose as a metaphor
for all the women who are told that the ultimate and pinnacle of
achievement is to become an ornament of some rich scum and who seek
self-actualization and independence in a system that commodifies
Replies to Perelman, Schneiderman, Hahnel, Meyer, Proyect
Farmer Perelman said:
Emissions trading is a crock. If you want to give polluction
credits, why not give everybody an equal credit instead of rewarding
people for historical patterns of pollution?
This is not AT ALL the way permits
Does the coal miner jobs problem suggest an approach that the Swede's
developed in their macroeconomic policies?
This approach is their combination of labor market and solidaristic wage
policies that keep employment and inflation low by moving workers out
of unproductive firms? The crucial
We have had an enormous outpouring of support for Dr. Bronfenbrenner. At
this point, we don't need further endorsements. We will be going to the
media today (Wednesday, February 23, 1998) with the petition and the
hundreds of endorsements.
We will try to provide updates as newsworthy events
One healthy antidote (among many) to the political problems involved in "red
vs. green" is the work of Jorge Hardoy (Argentine planner, now deceased) and
Co. in the journal Environment and Urbanization. Looking principally at the
3rd World, they focus their environmental concerns on living
Sisyphus.
Jeff Fellows
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Date: Monday, February 23, 1998 5:47PM
In a message dated 98-02-23 15:57:51 EST, you write:
Can anyone think of a better metaphor than the Titanic one?
Well, Jim, since you asked, how
ANC GUERRILLAS TURN TO CRIME
By Alec Russell in Johannesburg
In a nightmare for post-apartheid South Africa, former African
National Congress guerrillas have become disillusioned with their political
masters and turned to crime.
[snip]
From guerillas to criminals is a story
There is one serious political problem with pollution taxes --
one I believe is solvable. Much of the right wing of the
environmental movement hopes to sell green taxes by substituting them
for all
MBS: Actually the latest rage is to substitute them for
payroll taxes, which is
BLS DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1998
There were 1,608 mass layoff actions by employees in December, involving
170,110 workers, BLS reports. The numbers were higher than that
reported by BLS in November, when there were 1,143 layoff actions
affecting 97,509 workers
.(Daily Labor Report,
Does the coal miner jobs problem suggest an approach that the Swede's
developed in their macroeconomic policies?
This approach is their combination of labor market and solidaristic wage
policies that keep employment and inflation low by moving workers out
of unproductive firms? The crucial
Someone mentioned Brian Arthur and his part in Mitchell Waldrop's book
"Complexity". That book
had a fairly interesting and novel (novel to me anyway) critique of the
mathematical "culture" of
Economics. The critique originates from a group of physicists called to
the Santa Fe institute
to do
Hi, does anyone have any favorite readings about Darwin in relation to
political economy from which he derived analogies, homologies, and/or
metaphors for the development of his theory of descent with modification
through the mechanism of natural selection? There is of course a chapter
review in
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