NDP MP Lorne Nystrom has introduced a motion
in Parliament, M-239, that urges the Government
of Canada to implement a Tobin Tax.
That motion will be voted on in February, 1999
George Soros indicates below that a Tobin Tax
may not be effective.
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I feel a need to express some further observations on
this topic that came up in conjunction with the social
democracy thread. Why did regional inequalities get so bad
in Yugoslavia?
One aspect of this that is especially puzzling is that
there was quite a bit of regional
(excerpted from a review article by John Hess in the latest Monthly Review)
The New York Times Book Review summarized Todd's Albert Camus: A Life as a
"biography of the near-proletarian from Algeria who reached the top of the
literary pole in Paris, then fell silent when he could not defend the
At 02:58 PM 12/22/98 EST, you wrote:
No, unlike Bill's, my apology is sincere and as for close to Bill's, well you
know the rest..."close but no cigar".
But you know, reductio ad absurdum/nauseum as a instrument of rhetoric and
reasoning does not so much suggest analogy as to expore the inner
In a message dated 12/18/1998 9:26:27 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On the plus side we have a somewhat smaller set of countries spending a
generation or two under the rule of Communist regimes of varying
quality--from Pol Pot or Mao or Kim Il Sung at the bottom end to
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No, unlike Bill's, my apology is sincere and as for close to Bill's, well you
know the rest..."close but no cigar".
But you know, reductio ad absurdum/nauseum as a instrument of rhetoric and
reasoning does not so much
Patrick Bond queries:
Anyone have anything quirky and insightful to say on the IMF
report on world economic prospects? I have to go on South African tv
tomorrow morning at 5:30 GMT to chat about it with a bourgeois
economist. Any hints?
Why not just challenge the clown to take a personal
At 10:58 AM 12/22/98 -0800, Tom Walker wrote:
What you get then is not some inexorable totalitarian argument leading from
the market to the gas chamber, but a soppy mush of sycophantic string music
that acts as recorded background for the arbitrary and seemingly
uncontestable exercise of power.
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To Jim Devine's reposne I have to agree. There is a real danger in
trivializing the most horrible with analogy overreach or fallcy of "proof" by
analogy. On the other hand, Auschwitz was an inexorable result--not a
Comrades,
Anyone have anything quirky and insightful to say on the IMF
report on world economic prospects? I have to go on South African tv
tomorrow morning at 5:30 GMT to chat about it with a bourgeois
economist. Any hints?
P.
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Patrick Bond
I'd like to point out a few weaknesses in the Auschwitz example:
1. 'the nazis' are definitively others -- "they're not like us" -- which
gives the student an escape hatch.
2. the nazis were presumably 'undone' both by the barbaric irrationality of
their ideology and by the forces of good
Stalinists Commemorate Dictator's Birthday
MOSCOW, Dec. 22, 1998 -- (Reuters) Several hundred Russian Communists
marched to Red Square on Monday to lay carnations at the Kremlin wall tomb
of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin on the 119th anniversary of his birth.
The solemn scene, amid a light
Jim Craven writes: The reason I see Auschwitz as an inexorable
metaphor/expression of
libertarianism is on the plane of the sterile, cold, calculating, selfish
calculus of maximization, "optimality", "efficiency" dog-eat-dog and rat-race
individualism embodied in the libertarian perspective
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IMHO this is wonderfully argued and quite historically accurate--and an
excellent and concentrated metaphor. The libertarian "voluntarism" is the a
priori, hypothetico-deductivist or de jure coupled with no notion or
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Brad De Long wrote:
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
At 04:36 PM 12/21/98 -0800, Ken Hanly wrote:
This is quite a different situation than people voluntarily trading to an
equilibrium in a market. No libertarian would approve of Auschwitz. It is
a clear
violation of rights. Jews didn't voluntarily work in the labor camps or go
to the
gashouses
The WTO, the World Food System, and the Politics of Harmonised Destruction
Gerard Greenfield
Education Programme Organiser (Indonesia)
IUF-A/P
IUF-A/P Globalisation Seminar II: Globalisation and the Future of Agri-Food
Workers
November 16-18, 1998, Ahmedabad, India
Queried Jeff "Deep Mole" Fellows of CDC:
Valis, did you even read the article?
"Even"? I guess I should cop to your expectation that I read it
with a divided attention or not at all.
What did I miss or misinterpret?
valis
Valis, did you even read the article?
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From: valis
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Vancouver (Washington State) Columbian, Sunday Dec. 20, 1998
Clark College restricts professor's computer use
E-mail feud with Canadian student triggers
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On the comments blow, my own comments are:
a) I can think of a long list of "non-democratic"/anti-democratic regimes set
up and social systems engineered as non-democratic/anti-democratic regimes in
the service of US and
G'day all,
A lovely follow-up to the MUA story (remember the Ozzie wharfies' strike?) ...
The government, interest groups and Patrick Stevedores may yet be laid low!
But not by the union.
Nope. The spectre that haunts them is that of the scabs! These blokes are
suing for millions in
G'day Brad,
Thanks for this:
I think famines work better--they make the point that if your labor-time
endowment has no value, then your utility has no weight in the social
welfare function that the market maximizes, and so you starve to death: the
market's equilibrium weighs each person's
G'day Jim,
You'd written:
"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
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