.. you can start reading the story of Iraq from
around 1890 if you want- the Ottoman/Persian wars in
which a third of the iraqi population perished, see
Lotsky, the history of modern arab states. under
british control, from 1919 until 1958, Iraq ranked
extremely low in terms of development and
February 18, 2001
Iraqis Protest U.S. Airstrikes
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 7:51 p.m. ET
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Thousands of Iraqis marched in the rain Sunday
to protest U.S. and British airstrikes, and Iraqi television showed
damaged houses and shops in a town where one man was killed
I think the purpose of all this is a search for a
means to offset limitations of a formal approach to
growth theory. Diminishing returns of capital and
labour
set in quickly in a Cobb Douglas setting, then you
need human capital to offset diminishing returns. i
have done something like that for
URL for his article is http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/choss/bombs.htm
www.tenc.net [Emperor's Clothes]
How War and Globalization Support American Business€
As Billions Flow to Oil and Defense Companies - Bombing Of Baghdad Staves
Off Financial Uncertainty by Michel Chossudovsky
It seems elementary that a country should be able to defend itself from
foreign
aggression against its sovereignty, yet the US and Britain deny this ability
to Iraq. Western media almost never remark on this when reporting on US and
British air strikes against air defence facilities in Iraq. The
Mat,
I have responded to your questions below with answers pertaining to human
capital, which if I remember correctly is close to social capital according
to economists. Barkley can correct me if I am wrong.
-Nico
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Ken,
True. Just a thought. Although I don't think that paying for resistance
makes it any less of a resistance. And if you go far enough with your
resistance and get a Ph.D. your return on your investment is hardly worth
the effort.
-Nico
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Sunday, February 11, 2001
Car Makers' Productivity Bubble Pops
By DAVID FRIEDMAN Los Angeles Times February 11, 2001
DaimlerChrysler's sobering announcement last week that it will fire 26,000 workers
caps months of bad news from U.S. auto makers. Driven by what were touted as
interestingly, there was _another_ op-ed in today's L.A. TIMES about IBM's
involvement in the Buchenwald, etc. This one gave a lot of details. (I
really wonder why the Nazis needed to do all that data processing, given
the simplicity of the killing task at hand? they must have been very
At 08:30 AM 2/19/01 -0600, you wrote:
It seems elementary that a country should be able to defend itself from
foreign
aggression against its sovereignty, yet the US and Britain deny this ability
to Iraq. Western media almost never remark on this when reporting on US and
British air strikes
Allan Nairn wrote a great piece back in 80's for The Progressive or The
Nation on how Control Data was essential to G-2, Guatemalan military
intelligence, in their slaughter. The National Security Archive website at
GW has alot of docs from FOIA requests on this. Also check out CIABASE at
PIR.
I apologize for mislabeling the source of the
article in question. Here is a full and exact citation.
Melvin W. Reder, "The Anti-Semitism of Some
Eminent Economists," History of Political Economy,
Winter 2000, volume 32, no. 4, pp. 833-856.
Barkley Rosser
Nicole et al,
As currently described, human capital and
social capital are supposed to be different concepts,
with the former representing education and skills,
whereas the latter is inherently a result of social
relationships.
One of the critiques of a lot of human capital
studies to
Well some in the media see things the way some on Pen-L do as well !
Cheers, Ken Hanly
February 18, 2001
Bombing Iraq
By Saul Landau
I asked my Washington national security source why'd Bush
bomb Baghdad?
"To show toughness to those Americans and foreigners who
thought him both stupid
As far as what prompted it, I would say the fact that before it came
along,
neoclassical growth theory was dead dead dead!!!
What do you mean by this, though? Was it not able to predict the growth
rates of postwar Japan? Or was the fashion for it over? It had no more
explanatory power? (If
Christian wrote:
What do you mean by this, though? Was it not able to predict the growth
rates of postwar Japan?
Are you familiar with Shaikh's HUMBUG production function?
Mat
Anwar Shaikh, 1974, "Laws of algebra and laws of production" Review of Economics
and Statistics, 51, 1, pp. 115-20.
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At 03:12 PM 2/16/01 -0500, you wrote:
I thank Mat for noting Marx's use of the
term "social capital" in Volume II of Capital.
Of course, this was one of the volumes not
published in his lifetime, much less translated
into English by him, in contrast
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/16/01 05:19PM
Here is part of Carrol's original message:
I have always assumed that a precondition for a marxist
understanding of the world is the premise that one can't
know what any thing is by examining it physically. A
[steelplant] might be a steelplant, but on
i hope everyone understood, as I thought it would be obvious from my other
comments, that I was not proposing that Marx was using the term in the same way,
it was just further evidence supporting my own objection to the term "social
capital" as it is used by the "lonely bowler" school.
Charles has hit it I think. Socio-historical context is what is being discussed.
In the case of the frown of concentration versus frown of disapproval, in other
cultures, in historical context, a frown means approval. i made that up, but it
is true that in some cultures sort of what we take for a
NEW STATESMAN
Brotherhood of man and roundworm
Ziauddin Sardar Monday 19th February 2001
The left can celebrate the latest news on genes, but not too much. By
Ziauddin
Sardar
Rejoice, my fellow lefties! We were right all along. Human beings, it
turns out, are much more than the products of
At 03:28 PM 2/19/01 -0600, you wrote:
Well some in the media see things the way some on Pen-L do as well !
Cheers, Ken Hanly
February 18, 2001
Bombing Iraq
By Saul Landau
of course, Saul Landau is one of the "usual suspects" on the left. He's
hardly "some in the media," i.e., part of
Pacifica Begins Removal of Finance
Records
Attorney General Intervention Urgently
Needed!
Pacifica has started to remove its
finance records out of
state, shortly before the deposition of
Controller Sandra Rosas
in the Local Advisory Board lawsuit
against Pacifica. This is
supposedly being done
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