Reply to Jim D.

2000-08-12 Thread Seth Sandronsky
Jim D. sez: Look at how the FBI was unleashed against the anti-war movement during the 1960s. Nixon wanted to set up camps for that movement(and if I'm not mistaken, the plan to do so is still being held in reserve). Look at the way the cops treat those who protest the GOP/Dem political

Re: now you know

2000-08-12 Thread Michael Hoover
Justin: Holmes came around to the view that id the dictatorship of the proletariat was popular, there was no constitrutional objection to it. Charles: In theory. In practice, when he voted in the first First Amendment cases, he put socialists in jail, the quivering liberal. As

frontiers of environmental economics

2000-08-12 Thread Michael Perelman
Here are abstracts of two articles that represent the state of thinking today. I should say that people as early as the 1920s also discussed optimal soil depletion. "The Economics of Soil Nutrient Stocks and Cattle Ranching in the Tropics: Optimal Pasture Degradation in Humid Costa Rica"

Re: Mike Andreas goes to jail?

2000-08-12 Thread Eugene Coyle
Michael, thanks for mentioning this book, which I didn't know about but which I'll find soon. I've got a clipping file on ADM with a fantasy of a film script someday. Sounds as if Hoesch is already on that job. ADM got prosecuted not because the justice Dept was on the job but because the

frontiers of environmental economics

2000-08-12 Thread Lisa Ian Murray
ABSTRACT: We present a model that can be used to analyse economically optimal nutrient (nitrogen) stocks in agricultural lands. The model is applied to study cattle ranching in humid Costa Rica. The numerical results indicate that, for current meat prices and discount rate, it is

Fwd: Re: FW: CEPR paper--World Bank Research Faulted

2000-08-12 Thread Max Sawicky
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Re: Nader Demands Banning, Pulping of Harry Potter

2000-08-12 Thread Max Sawicky
BDL's new piece on Nader is civil enough, but it got me to thinking about a point that has come up before -- the business of comparing consumer benefits to worker losses in trade debates. Henwood brought this up (once) and provoked in me the realization that the logic of this exercise

Re: Re: Mike Andreas goes to jail?

2000-08-12 Thread Michael Perelman
Gene, if you are really interested in the film, I might be able to find Hoech's number among my papers. Eugene Coyle wrote: ADM got prosecuted not because the justice Dept was on the job but because the head of one of the ADM divisions went to the authorities and assisted in videotaping the

Re: Fwd: Re: FW: CEPR paper--World Bank Research Faulted

2000-08-12 Thread Michael Perelman
Sen, Amartya Kumar. 1999. Development as Freedom (NY: Knopf) does an excellent job of showing the weak link between growth an development. I described his graph in an earlier post -- showing that growth of life expectancy was negatively related to growth. As Galbraith noted, the tearing down of

Re: Nader Demands Banning, Pulping of Harry Potter

2000-08-12 Thread Brad De Long
BDL's new piece on Nader is civil enough, but it got me to thinking about a point that has come up before -- the business of comparing consumer benefits to worker losses in trade debates. Henwood brought this up (once) and provoked in me the realization that the logic of this exercise

Re: Re: Nader Demands Banning, Pulping of Harry Potter

2000-08-12 Thread michael
Not long after Jevons et al. formulated neoclassical economics, political commentators began to tell workers that they should evaluate their situation in terms of rising levels of consumption rather than their working conditions. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State

krugman???

2000-08-12 Thread michael
Jim Devine asked me to forward this quote, which sounds Krugmanesque. "The efforts of economists during the last hundred and fifty years has resulted in the establishment of a body of generalizations whose substantial accuracy and importance are open to question only by the ignorant and the

Re: krugman???

2000-08-12 Thread Diane Monaco
Michael Perelman wrote: Jim Devine asked me to forward this quote, which sounds Krugmanesque. "The efforts of economists during the last hundred and fifty years has resulted in the establishment of a body of generalizations whose substantial accuracy and importance are open to question only by

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Rising Bankruptcy

2000-08-12 Thread Michael Perelman
The New York Times published this article about rising business defaults and another article describing why people from abroad want to invest in the U.S. economy. In a Humming Economy, a Rising Din of Defaults ROBERT D. HERSHEY Jr. With the economic expansion setting records for longevity,

Re: Re: Re: Mike Andreas goes to jail?

2000-08-12 Thread Eugene Coyle
Michael, the description of the incident in the Honolulu hotel room was reported in a daily newspaper. I probably read it in the Wall St. Journal but not sure that was the source. I've read, as you report below, that the money was secretly transferred to employees to be non=taxable bonuses.