The Columbian article failed to explicitly note that not only have I filed a
grievance, but per Clark College processes, my first level of appeal goes to
none other than Vice-president Ramsey ("please Mr. Himmler, at least fairly
consider the possibility thant anti-Semitism is evil and even
counte
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Response: And at the risk of being charged with "excessive teleology",
contexts and interests and contradictions shape contextual imperatives that
shape, constrain and trigger behaviors and postures. In my classes I bring in
Yes, how now can Summers begin to pass the buck? My own (perhaps
imperfect) information is that a) the memo was leaked to Greenpeace
by an environmental economist in the Bank, who shall go nameless, who
had lost enough debates with Summers to express her/his frustration
in such a manner; and b
Did anybody notice the article by Espstein on yesterday's (Monday's) Wall
Street Journal Editorial Page? He is describing the new copyright law as
an illegitimate transfer of wealth.
--
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Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [
>Brad, the problem is that governments like Ghana are not democratically
>elected. High ranking officials
>can make big bucks by agreeing to have others accept the brunt of the
>pollution. Even in the U.S., we see
>native american "leaders" willingly "accepting" toxic and nuclear waste.
>
>In ad
A bit unformatted from a telnet connection:
Brad De Long wrote:
The "no" argument is that it adds $700 or so to the cost of the
automobile.
That $700 could--if it were used wisely--be devoted to upgrading the
sewer
system, or building a water purification plant, or expanding the
electrical
g
I fully agree with Doug's column. In particular, he shows that the
conclusions of the memo follow with impeccable logic from the
presuppositions of Summers' own discipline and those of the World Bank.
Whether the memo was written by him or written as a lark is irrelevant.
As Henwood shows, th
I'm not going to defend Lant Pritchett's inept and overwritten memo, or
Lawrence Summers' signing it (although I would note that
Summers-as-academic is known for giving credit to RAs and elevating them to
co-author and lead-author status much more than most of his ilk).
But there is a serious iss
The Guardian
Monday December 21, 1998
One million rounds of bullets tipped with uranium were fired during the
Gulf war. They slice through tanks. And this is what they do to humans
Maggie O'Kane reports on Iraq's deformed children, victims of a war they
never knew
The movement inside her bo
The Columbian article on my case illustrates some painful realities: a) when
journalists uncritically act as stenographers for those whose patronage and
special access they require for further stories and "scoops" and when the
focus is on personalities rather than issues--within filler spaces arou
In a message dated 12/9/1998 9:32:33 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
<< The truth is that the French Revolution was led primarily by the
aristocracy who resented the abuses of the court. Furthermore, much of
Enlightenment thought was produced by the aristocracy and not the
In a message dated 12/8/1998 5:26:47 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< When conquest occurs and groups mix, it is usually
the conqueror who is the male and the conquered who is the
female. The Prussian is more likely to have a Slavic
grandmother and a Saxon or Thuring
The following is an exact reproduction (with translation) of a captured
SS document at Auschwitz.
Rentabilitatsberechnung der SS uber Ausnutzung
der Haftlinge in den Konzentratrationslagern
(Table of Profits (or yield) per prisoner in conentration camps (estab
> > Emne: Re: SAVE OUR PLANET. STATUS
> > Dato: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 10:05:54 -0800
> > Fra: National Centre for Sustainability <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> >
> > Dear Fjord:
> >
> > At 14:03 17/12/98 +0100, you wrote: "
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Could someone put out the infamous Summers Memo on pen-l.
Here's the relevant portion. At the end of that is an excerpt on the
revolution in production I found rather interesting. And I've tacked on a
piece I wrote for The Nation on the memo, too.
Doug
_Nuggets_
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Interesting argument below. However, I would prefer not to repeat one
neoclassical fiction (market rewards individuals according to their relative
marginal contributions to social product) in the course of exploring others.
G'day Ange,
We may be on the horns of an antinomy here. Much of what you say has a lot
going for it, but I remain convinced the dangers of humanism are not a
reason to throw out the project all together. Liberal capitalism does need
humanism, I think. But so, in my opinion, does socialism. My
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Could someone put out the infamous Summers Memo on pen-l. My copy is buried
somewhere and I don't have a scanner yet (Karl M. Klaus might bring me one).
It is a sight to behold.
Basically Frank, it says that when you calcul
Brad De Long wrote:
>
> >"I do a little number in my Micro classes called "Pareto Optimality at
> >Auschwitz" ... "
> >
> >Way back, I changed degrees half a semester into an education/economics
> >degree. Those who purported to teach how to teach couldn't teach, and
> >those who purpor
At 11:11 AM 12/21/98 -0800, Brad deLong wrote:
>I think famines work better because starvation is not a willed and desired
>objective of anyone in the market--while mass death certainly was a willed
>and desired objective of those who ran the show during the "final
>solution."
Hmm... Wasn't "
Vancouver (Washington State) Columbian, Sunday Dec. 20, 1998
Clark College restricts professor's computer use
E-mail feud with Canadian student triggers hints of defamation lawsuit
against college
By Richard S. Clayton, Columbia staff writer
A Clark College professor's e-mail battle with a for
> Vancouver (Washington State) Columbian, Sunday Dec. 20, 1998
>
> Clark College restricts professor's computer use
>
> E-mail feud with Canadian student triggers hints of defamation lawsuit
> against college
>
> By Richard S. Clayton, Columbia staff writer
..
>Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 19:51:08 -0500 (EST)
>From: Shawgi Tell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Who Is Richard Butler?
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The Financial Markets Center has launched a new web site - www.fmcenter.org -
that provides online access to three key sets of Federal Reserve documents: 1)
transcripts of pre-1992 meetings of the Federal Open Market Committee; 2)
minutes of discount rate meetings by the Fed's Board of Governors;
At 09:48 AM 12/20/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Here's to all of you, to praise the Jewish celebration of the liberation
>fight by the Jews against the Syrians (Hanukah), Black Americans'
>celebration of their African roots (Kwanza), the Roman celebration of the
>birth of the New Year (Saturnalia), the Ch
OK. I know its going to get me sent to the back of the room to sit in the
dunce seat and wear the dunce hat, but I have to ask
What is this infamous "Summers Memo"
Frank
Doug Henwood wrote:
Was my first interpretation correct after all! The other fellow wrote it
for him? Certainly, politicians and others have ghost writers for their
speeches etc. But if this were the scenario Summers can't disown
responsibility for the memo by claiming someone else wrote it an
No, it's not a parting shot about the impeachment and its
cloacal antecedents; it's worse.
Yesterday I passed a downtown corner on my way home, here in
Milwaukee. Though only a block off the main drag it was
a lonely place, especially for the young black man who was
producing his IDs for a
Wojtek writes: >Sorry, but all I get is an illegal operation message
followed by another
>message telling me that the operation could be executed due to restrictions
>placed on my system and asking to contact my system administrator. Is it
>some kind of a joke or indeed Bill Gates built a Big Br
responding to a parenthetical comment:
Rob writes: >A terrific supplement, I reckon (although I don't doubt a few
famines might
>have been deliberately orchestrated) - to complete the mutual constitution
>stressed in the slowly reawakening term 'political economy' (notice how
>it's back on the co
Ken Hanly wrote:
>Doesn't this make Summers look worse rather than better? After all, his
>name was on the memo, and therefore he approved the contents. At the same
>time, he represents the text as his own when it was written by someone
>else. In academia, at least in the past, that would be gr
In my last post--I hope it is my last-- there is a "not" missing. I
should have said why "wouldn't" Summers have written another memo
immediately (when he learned about the other memo).
CHeers, Ken Hanly
Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> Ken Hanly wrote:
>
> >As I recall, Summers later claimed that the memo was not meant to
> >be taken seriously and that he wrote it "tongue-in-cheek"--foot-in-mouth
> >would be a better description. Perhaps some politico noting the PR
> >disaster created for the World Ban
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Thanks Rob,
Some of my students--and the Administration--however, feel that I am number
one candidate for being the "Anti-Christ". They keep looking for 666 tatooed
on me somewhere. Some of the ultra-rightist students go ba
At 03:21 PM 12/18/98 -0800, Jim Devine wrote:
>In case anyone was wondering what I mean be neoclassical, here's a
>definition, which follows Phil Mirowski:
>
>1. employs mathematical modeling rather than institutional analysis or
>historical evidence as its main tool for understanding the world
(f
Ken Hanly wrote:
>As I recall, Summers later claimed that the memo was not meant to
>be taken seriously and that he wrote it "tongue-in-cheek"--foot-in-mouth
>would be a better description. Perhaps some politico noting the PR
>disaster created for the World Bank gave Summers a lecture on "damage
Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> Ken Hanly wrote:
>
> >As I recall, Summers later claimed that the memo was not meant to
> >be taken seriously and that he wrote it "tongue-in-cheek"--foot-in-mouth
> >would be a better description. Perhaps some politico noting the PR
> >disaster created for the World Ban
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Response: That is exactly right. Summers later claimed it was his own kind of
"reductio ad absurdum/nauseum" exercise he was doing. The problem is that that
memo had been widely circulated and quoted internally--seriously--b
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>"I do a little number in my Micro classes called "Pareto Optimality at
>Auschwitz" ... "
>
>Way back, I changed degrees half a semester into an education/economics
>degree. Those who purported to teach how to teach couldn't teach, and
>those who purported to explain human behaviour weren't talki
As I recall, Summers later claimed that the memo was not meant to
be taken seriously and that he wrote it "tongue-in-cheek"--foot-in-mouth
would be a better description. Perhaps some politico noting the PR
disaster created for the World Bank gave Summers a lecture on "damage
control." It does
wrote I:
>> Here's to all of you, to praise the Jewish celebration of the liberation
>> fight by the Jews against the Syrians (Hanukah), Black Americans'
>> celebration of their African roots (Kwanza), the Roman celebration of the
>> birth of the New Year (Saturnalia), the Christians' celebration
> I loved the reference to the infamous "Summers Memo" as a concentrated
> expression/self-parody of neoclassical economics "applied" and the resultant
...
> applied when they deign to descend the lofty heights of theory to actual
> impleme
I loved the reference to the infamous "Summers Memo" as a concentrated
expression/self-parody of neoclassical economics "applied" and the resultant
reductio ad/absurdum/nauseum/inhumanum. Imagine, how refined and sterile the
suggestion/assertion that the calculus of marginal "private" and "social"
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