The Independent (UK) reports what is seen as a major victory by Ken
Livingstone over New Labour: he looks as if he has got to keep an
integrated London Tube system, by bringing in a New Yorker. But he may not
have got the right to raise bonds. Financing the development is still vague.
Chris
Though I haven't read his book, I've thinking about Hernan de Soto (or
whatever his name is exactly). His proposal, as I understand it, is to
create property rights for the poor (using publicly-owned lands?), which he
sees as a way to promote the development of capitalism (which he presumes
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Brazil's jet dogfight
By MARK
MACKINNON
From Saturday's Globe
and Mail
Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil A sleek collection of
factories and office towers set against a
Michael Hoover passed this on to me.
Published Thursday, February 1, 2001, in the Miami Herald
Open electric market needed
Competition would help, panel says
BY LESLEY CLARK [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TALLAHASSEE -- Florida's electricity market should be opened to
out-of-state companies
On Doug's show he never mentioned land reform or even the use of publicly owned
lands. Instead, he seems to mean regulations that make it difficult to get
credit for that restrict the ability to get business licenses.
Jim Devine wrote:
Though I haven't read his book, I've thinking about
Max (et at)
The whole purpose of the Swedish investment funds was that
worker profits would go to buy corporate shares that would
ultimately lead to -- ulp! -- worker ownership. This was sufficiently
upsetting to lead to a corporate (class) uprising to squelch any and
all moves to
it seems to me that Marx's vision and that of Engels (see below) aren't
totally in conflict and can be reconciled. Engels seems to see the problem
totally in microeconomic and technological terms. Marx, on the other hand,
sees depreciation as arising not only from technological factors but
Engels was concerned about the realism of bunching. Capital, he insisted,
is discarded because of market obsolescence, not age. Also, different
capitals have different expected lifetimes.
You could get a bunching of new investment -- capital widening -- but not
replacement investment, as Marx
I haven't read De Soto's work, but from what has been described on pen-l, it
sounds very much like several land distribution proposals which were popular in
the USA during the 19th century. There was one large movement, pre-Marx, which
also called for the abolishment of land ownership all
Maggie wrote:
I haven't read De Soto's work, but from what has been described on pen-l, it
sounds very much like several land distribution proposals which were
popular in
the USA during the 19th century. There was one large movement, pre-Marx,
which
also called for the abolishment of land
In response to Jim Devine:
I haven't read his book either and can go only on the reviews I have read.
I think you are misinterpreting him. To be pithy, his point is not that the
poor in the Third World should be given property rights in public lands, but
that they should be given property
David's reading squares with mine.
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 08:44:17PM -0800, David Shemano wrote:
In response to Jim Devine:
I haven't read his book either and can go only on the reviews I have read.
I think you are misinterpreting him. To be pithy, his point is not that the
poor in the
Given the mainstream view of Social Security projections
and your endorsement of AG, bursting chest and all, how
is the Gov supposed to pre-fund Soc Sec against the period
when the Fund runs a deficit?
If I believed that labor force growth was going to slow to zero and
labor productivity
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/04/world/04EURO.html?pagewanted=all
February 4, 2001
U.S. Tries Defusing Allies' Opposition to Missile Defense
By MICHAEL R. GORDON
MUNICH, Feb. 3 Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, the first senior Bush
administration official to visit Europe, tried today
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