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From: Michael Eisenscher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 11:18 PM
Subject: Re: Why merger? Too much DC?
Excuse my intervention in this discourse, but it strikes me as way off the
mark.
Small is beautiful. vs. More democracy
Whereas on the one hand the improvement of the means of transportation and
communication brought about by the progress of capitalist production
reduces the time of circulation of particular quantities of commodities,
the same progress and the opportunities created by the development of
Penners
I've just got back from London, having attended the Association for
Heterodox Economics 3rd annual conference. I had attended last year's event,
which was called The Other Economics Conference. The change in name
appears to reflect a significant change in emphasis.
Last year's event was
Private Eye
No. 1030, 15-28 June, 2001
How the new government will work
Tony Blair and Gordon Brown are in two minds: should they privatise the
entire delivery of public services or just some of it? To help them decide
they are consulting the best minds money can buy.
For a start, Downing
SINGAPORE TOPS RANKING IN NEW GLOBALIZATION INDEX
FROM A.T. KEARNEY AND FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE
Since which time, I notice, Singapore has produced two consecutive quarters of
'negative growth'. That's officially a recession, right? Any tenable
associations between these two data come to
Curbs on illegal sales of arms blocked
IAN BRUCE
The Herald, 11 July 2001
THE United States yesterday thwarted a UN move to curb illegal trafficking
in small
arms by declaring that it was prepared to defend the rights of weapons
manufacturers
and gun owners, even if it meant the continuation
The truth about Rupert and Tony
Tony Blair famously wooed Rupert Murdoch before the
1997 election. But, as this exclusive extract from a
controversial new book by Neil Chenoweth shows, there
was a price to pay
The Independent, 10 July 2001
In March 1998, three separate disasters had come
Penners
Right now there is an unexpectedly intense battle going on for leadership of
the Opposition Conservative Party. The favourite, Michael Portillo, is a
former Defence Secretary whose staunch punk Thatcherism has noticeably
mellowed since being ejected from Parliament in 1997 and returning
Actually the NRA's info-mercial is quite amusing with its jingoism and
xenophobia, what with the Statue of Liberty framed behind Wayne LaPIerre
telling the viewer that foreign interests would take away your rights and
your long gun.
I would wager that the serial numbers are still on the guns our
Aw, come on. Please just give us the killer quote. Don't tease.
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Subject: [PEN-L:14976] Lord Layard of Highgate
See page 198, Working Time: International trends,
Ann Li writes:
I fail to see how (inter)national record keeping will curb the continuation
of a trade which kills 1000 people a day worldwide.
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I think it has to do with the US legal mentality: Admit not the least
potential liability. Aren't there these parent groups and others trying to
See page 198, Working Time: International trends, theory and policy
perspectives, edited by Lonnie Golden and Deborah M. Figart, Routledge, 2000.
Tom Walker
Bowen Island, BC
604 947 2213
Michael Keaney wrote:
Aw, come on. Please just give us the killer quote. Don't tease.
(Oh, alright. BTW, the Lord of Layard relies frequently and centrally on the
supposed lump of labour [or output] fallacy to disparage any alternatives to
his vicious and untenable welfare-to-work panaceas.
There was a typo in the URL for the Layard paper. Here is the corrected URL:
Welfare-to-Work and the Fight Against Long-term Unemployment, a report to
Prime Ministers Blair and D'Alema and the Council of Europe, March 2000
http://cep.lse.ac.uk/welfare.pdf See also
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, DAILY REPORT, JULY 10, 2001:
Economists overwhelmingly predict that the U.S. economy will avoid
slumping into a recession, but they say the business climate during the
second quarter was the worst they have seen since the 1990-1991 recession,
according to the
I wonder how much US farmers have to fear from Brazil. Brazilian soils
are unstable, unlike the deep, deep topsoils of the US midwest, which are
unique. I am not sure how long they will be able to farm those soils
without great care.
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 08:15:48AM +0200, Hinrich Kuhls
I don't think tort actions from foreign governments or individuals carries
much weight in US courts although it is clear that given our military
blunders some would like to see such reparations become more pervasive; the
three-hour-tour boat in Honolulu for example aka Gilligangate and the
Dear Penners - I have a question for any of you out
there who keep up with academic microeconomic
theory, which I do not.
This past weekend, I read The Winner's Curse by
Thaler. An interesting book. My main criticism is
that Thaler failed to draw out even the most
minimal implications of his
Ellen, the leading experimental economist is probably Vernon Smith, who
many regard as the founder. He is a neo-classicist who just moved to
George Mason.
Recall that his section in the Journal of Economic Perspectives was
labeled anomolies, stuff that does not quite fit, but not shocking
Dear Penners - Can anyone out there direct me
to information on realized capital gains -- i.e,
how much income was reported from realized
gains in the last several years? Is this available
from the IRS? Is there info aroung that
specifies the source of reported gains --
i.e., real estate,
Ann wrote
I don't think tort actions from foreign governments or individuals carries
much weight in US courts
The emerging trend is more in the direction of suing foreign
nationals in U.S. courts, I think:
* The New York Times
June 21, 2001, Thursday, Late Edition - Final
SECTION:
See Len Burman's recent book, The Labyrinth of Capital Gains Tax Policy.
IRS web site has tables with realized cap gains, though there is
a time lag in reporting. The latest numbers are for '97 or '98.
max
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I didn't realize that Smith moved to GMU. That is an interesting
development. Kind of solidifies GMU as sort of *the* free market
'heterodox' dept. or alternative mainstream dept, depending on how you
define orthodoxy, etc. They have Buchanan (Public Choice), Vaughan,
Boettke, D. Lavoie et al
And Li Peng (some distant relation, I suppose) via an arbitrator in an
out-of-court settlement will perform voluntary community service (or
re-education!) and give up some of his Brooks Brothers suits.
Ann
Last year, five Chinese natives sued the former Chinese prime
minister, Li Peng, in an
[Imagine $6billion for ecological research...]
[Full piece at NYT]
JUL 10, 2001
Particle Physicists Plan the Next Big Thing
By JAMES GLANZ
SNOWMASS VILLAGE, Colo., July 7 - The directors of major physics
laboratories in Europe, the United States and Japan gathered at this
mountain resort this
Yamani's position is indeed that oil reserves will remain untapped at the
end of the oil era but because of technological advances that will make for
cheaper production in non-OPECnations and the development of alternative
energy sources for transportation etc.. Yamani's argument seems to be as
Ellen Frank wrote:
Dear Penners - Can anyone out there direct me
to information on realized capital gains -- i.e,
how much income was reported from realized
gains in the last several years? Is this available
from the IRS? Is there info aroung that
specifies the source of reported gains --
Supes look at Redistricting Options
Butte Creek Canyon Pivotal in Discussion
by Tim Bousquet
The explosive growth of Chicos east and north side
over the past decade will result in big changes in
Butte County Supervisorial districts, including
bringing more of the Chico area into the district
Apologies. I mispost the Supes article to the wrong
listserve. Please ignore it.
tim
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I didn't realize that Smith moved to GMU. That is an interesting
development. Kind of solidifies GMU as sort of *the* free market
'heterodox' dept. or alternative mainstream dept, depending on how you
define orthodoxy, etc. They have Buchanan (Public Choice), Vaughan,
Boettke, D. Lavoie et al
a colleague who mentioned Keynes at a seminar told me WW came up to him
afterward and asked him if he knew K was a dirty faggot.
Forstater, Mathew wrote:
a colleague who mentioned Keynes at a seminar told me WW came up to him
afterward and asked him if he knew K was a dirty faggot.
Didn't Haykek make some similar kind of slur?
Doug
I talked to Walter once at a Cato event.
You could see a mean streak. I've got
one myself. It just takes other forms.
mbs
a colleague who mentioned Keynes at a seminar told me WW came up to him
afterward and asked him if he knew K was a dirty faggot.
Im sorry I dont understand the significance of hydrogen being a carrier not
a source of energy. It is a source of energy. Is your point that it uses
more energy to extract the energy carried or what? Anyway perhaps Yamani
does not have the intellectual capacity you credit him with. Perhaps he
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, DAILY REPORT, JULY 11, 2001:
Sales at wholesalers fell in May and inventories rose more than at any
time in the last 6 months, a sign that businesses may be reluctant to
order more goods until the economy picks up. Wholesale inventories rose
0.2 percent, led by
I know that this e-mail will create some controversy, but I think that it is
a political issue that needs a full airing.
In the last few weeks on LBO-Talk, someone made a comment, in passing, that
suggested that Hoffa had not been such a bad leader of the Teamsters. I
disagreed, but it didn't
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The report forwarded on the Teamsters was written by Greg Tarpinian of the
Labor Research Association, a group which has been a primary front group of
the Communist Party with regard to its labor movement work. It continues a
pro-Hoffa perspective that the LRA and the
Speaking of opportunism, Leo, what do you make of Hillary Clinton
endorsing Rudy's position on abolishing the NYC Board of Ed, and
putting the schools under mayoral control? What's the union's
position on this?
Doug
Sales at wholesalers fell in May and inventories rose more than at any time in the
last 6 months, a sign that businesses may be reluctant to order more goods until the
economy picks up.
A bit of rational behaviour that helps put the whole at risk: I won't buy
until things get better, which
Rob Schaap wrote:
All very nice, except the BLS Report told us yesterday of ...
a little secret in the employment report that you should know about. The
Labor Department said payroll employment fell 114,000 in June. What it did
not tell you is that this reported change includes a bias
Leo,
I can't comment on why Tarpinian and the LRA would take the ridiculous
position that they do. But you mischaracterize the TDU and Labor Notes,
something of which I have intimate knowledge,a t least wrt to Labor Notes.
The founders and leaders of LN are _not_ Trots. Maybe some of them
I am rushing out the door to go to Washington, DC for an AFT conference, so I
may not do this full justice. The UFT has taken a position, for some time
now, against abolishing the Board of Education and against direct mayoral
control. Our view has historically been that there needs to be some
the changes that have already happened pale in comparison with those that
could take place this century. In the 20th century, the planet heated up by
about 0.60C. This century, the IPCC predicts,temperatures will
rise 1.40C-5.80C , the fastest rate of change for 10,000 years.
G'day Doug,
It's wrong at turning points; it underestimates job creation
early in recoveries, and overestimates it at peaks and early in
recessions. But that's not most of the time (which you'd never know
from reading PEN-L).
Fair enough. But we have had evidence for well over a year (in
In 2000, Bill Clinton spoke at a LRA event.
Front pg. photo in the NYT had a smiling Clinton and Hoffa, Jr.
Michael Pugliese
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Ellen Frank wrote:
Dear Penners - Can anyone out there direct me
to information on realized capital gains -- i.e,
how much income was reported from realized
gains in the last several years? Is this available
from the IRS? Is there info aroung that
specifies the source of reported gains --
According to tonight's BBC Newsnight, the IPCC report to be issued tomorrow
collates evidence from 3000 scientists confirming that the world is warming
faster than at any time for 10,000 years. One extrapolation is that the
Arctic could be ice free every summer within 80 years, with off course
http://www.lemonde.fr/article/0,5987,3260-5379-165291-,00.html
I do not recommend using internet automatic translation for the following:
Chris Burford
23.3.01
EMPIRE de Michael Hardt et Antonio Negri. Traduit de l'anglais (Etats-Unis)
par Denis-Armand Canal, éd. Exils, 560 p., 160 F (24,39
[Penultimate paragraph laid out for easier reading on internet]
Today, after so many capitalist victories, after socialist hopes have
withered in disillusionment, and after capitalist violence against labor
has been solidified under the name of ultra-liberalism, why is it that
instances of
Rob Schaap wrote:
Which little statistical fib. . .
Doug responded:
This is not a fib.
I generally have a lot of respect for the data produced by the BLS. They do a
very good job at trying to figure out what is going on in the economy. They
occasionally do introduce adjustments to take
Doug Henwood wrote,
remember, the U.S. economy has expanded for about 75% of
the time since the end of WW II
That sounds like an underestimate to me. All I've got handy is annual GDP
figures for Canada, 1962-99. They show 3 years out of 38 contracting.
Assuming those 3 minus years contracted
Dump those prejudices
The left must learn to love the World Trade Organisation
Special report: globalisation
Philippe Legrain
Thursday July 12, 2001
The Guardian
Many on the left obsessively loathe the World Trade Organisation, in
the way Tory Europhobes hate the European Union. Just as
Ask the workers
Public services could be vastly improved if those who deliver and use
them were given a say
Hilary Wainwright
Thursday July 12, 2001
The Guardian
The centralised hierarchies that still persist in parts of the public
sector were originally modelled on the armed forces. Such
Argentine debt crisis infects markets
Buenos Aires losing fight to stay solvent
Larry Elliott and Mark Milner
Thursday July 12, 2001
The Guardian
Financial markets were gripped by fears of a full-blown emerging
country crisis last night amid mounting expectations that Argentina
could be forced
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/11/business/11ARGE.html
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/World/Argentina/
News Stories
- Investors in Argentina lose faith in stocks and bonds - Financial Times
(Jul 11, 2001)
- Wall St. Considers Argentina's Default - Reuters (Jul 11, 2001)
Argentina's Woes
From the standpoint of a higher economic form of society, private
ownership
of the globe by single individuals will appear quite as absurd as
private
ownership of one man by another. Even a whole society, a nation, or
even
all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not the
owners
http://esa.sdsc.edu/statement0601.htm
ESA Statement on Genetically Modified Organisms
The Ecological Society of America, which represents 8,000 ecological
scientists, supports the judicious use of biotechnology. Genetically
modified organisms (GMOs) have the potential to play a role in
Why should we assume that Third World countries, as they industrialize,
will
not act to limit environmental damage?
How are they to pay for it? World Bank loans? I try not to assume anything,
but it's safe to say that LDC countries will follow the path of least
resistance (i.e. the cheapest)
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