Does anyone have a rough figure for the amount of public money that
has gone into building the Internet? The more detailed a breakdown
that can be given by years, or types of investment, the better.
Bill
Fidel Castro was recently awarded the Health for All medal for his
country's achievement in reaching and surpassing all of WHO's health
standards. This is part of his speech excerpted from CCPA's Monitor. The
Monitor has the full text:
According to the calculations of renowned economis
Gar Lipow wrote:
>
> Actually socialism under Marxism (which is only one type of socialism)
> is each according to their work (with I presume exceptions for the
> disabled, the retired, children, those in ill health). I personally
> would interpret "To each according to their work" as "to each
>
Gar Lipow wrote:
>I would be very curious to know if there is some
>reference source that would let someone do this calculation on a
>Country by Country basis for the entire world, or whether someone has
>already gone to the trouble of doing this. Are there standard
>purchasing power parity tables
> BTW, number two on Berlecon's list is Paul Davidson.
Not to take anything away from Paul,
but who is Berlecon, and who did
they poll?
We now need to start talking about
Nobel Prize rescinding. Obviously
the LTCM guys would be first in line.
Or people could be designated with
negative pr
BTW, number two on Berlecon's list is Paul Davidson.
Barkley Rosser
On Fri, 9 Oct 1998 12:46:39 -0700 (PDT) James Cypher
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My vote is for Ernesto Zedillo--Ph.D. MIT, and successful savior of the
> Mexican Economy,
>
>
> Second For Krugman--most self congratulato
Yeltsin is 'suffering senile
dementia'
By Marcus Warren in Moscow
Russia Today October 9, 1998 citing the
Eletronic Telegraph
On October 7
Dennis Redmond wrote.
--
> The Soviet Union sold a hell of a lot of oil and gas on world markets,
but that's
Gar Lipow wrote:
> I know that equality of wealth and income is not the only point of
> socialism, but it is one of the points, and an important one.
>
I wasn't aware the equality of wealth and income was something
that socialism aimed at. The Marxist slogan, at least, is to each based
Well, Berlecon has been doing polling and finds
Amartya Sen well in front as the leading choice. Given
that people are eating bark in Indonesia right now, he
looks like the person to beat for this year.
Barkley Rosser
On Thu, 08 Oct 1998 15:00:36 -0700 James Devine
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr
Uhh...what was the question...? :-)
Barkley Rosser
On Thu, 08 Oct 1998 17:27:58 -0700 Tom Walker
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Max Sawicky wrote,
>
> >I do not smoke cigars,
> >and I am not a crook.
>
> Yes, Max, but have you ever inhaled?
>
> Regards,
>
> Tom Walker
> ^
Actually socialism under Marxism (which is only one type of socialism)
is each according to their work (with I presume exceptions for the
disabled, the retired, children, those in ill health). I personally
would interpret "To each according to their work" as "to each
according to their effort or s
Tom Walker wrote:
>It seems to me that for every dollars worth of equities sold by someone,
>there has to be a dollars worth bought by someone else. At least that's the
>theory. I'm not sure to what extent such an equilibrium shows up in the flow
>of funds breakdown. But the big net acquirers of
My vote is for Ernesto Zedillo--Ph.D. MIT, and successful savior of the
Mexican Economy,
Second For Krugman--most self congratulatory category.
Third, Larry Summers--most succesful manager of international financial crisis
At 02:57 PM 10/9/98 -0400, you wrote:
> Well, Berlecon has bee
Tom Walker wrote:
>Who was the mass that the psychosis took hold of? It wasn't households. They
>dumped $1.15 trillion dollars worth of equities between 1992 and 1997. Nor
>did they replace them dollar for dollar with mutual funds. Households
>acquired $900 billion in the same period.
Different
Pat Bond:
>> Should, in other words, the various popular movements
>> link arms across borders and continents to try democratising
>> the embryonic global economic-management state (the existing
>> IMF, World Bank, World Trade Organisation), or should their
>> objective be to smash such embry
I'm interested in Arjun Makjani's theory not only as a basis for
program, but as a basis for analysis. I've always assumed (as a
dedicated egalitarian) that one (not the only but one ) of the things
we were fighting for was a pretty equal distribution of wealth and
income among the worlds populati
October 9, 1998
A Champagne Evening Awash in Gloom
By LESLIE WAYNE
WASHINGTON -- To the casual observer, the meeting of international finance
ministers and central bankers that ended here Thursday had all the elements
of a glittery affair of the type often portrayed in movies: a mix of big
mone
Doug Henwood wrote,
>Different households, possibly? Have the very rich, who are more likely to
>own stock directly, been effectively selling shares to the less rich? If
>so, then maybe that old rule about being careful when buying something from
>someone seriously richer than yourself comes into
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from SLATE: >Only the LAT [L.A. TIMES] front pages the award of a Nobel
Prize to Portuguese novelist Jose Saramago. The novelist is not only a
card-carrying Communist, he, like last year's winner, is an official enemy
of the Catholic church--one of his stories depicts Jesus losing his
virginity to
Doug Henwood wrote,
>It can go into the bank, or into T-bills. There's no reason on earth why it
>has to go into stocks, except that a mass psychosis took over around 1992,
>that seems to be lifting right now.
Who was the mass that the psychosis took hold of? It wasn't households. They
dumped $1
India Escaped East Asia Crisis On Good Debt Mgt- State Min
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HYDERABAD, India, Oct. 2 (Dow Jones)--India escaped the economic crisis that
recently swept east Asian countries, due to its prudent debt management and
focus on lo
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