Yes, this is the first thing that occurred to me. But figuring out what the
specific mechanisms that effect health status is tricky. I can think of a
number of candidates the fall under the Reich-type of phenomena. A higher
prevalence of dirty industries with low occupational health and safety
Wisdom from NBER.
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At 08:24 PM 08/28/2001 -0700, you wrote:
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right to free association, freedom from discrimination, prohibitions on
child labor and forced labor are widely accepted norms in international law.
I hope that you are not proposing an exception to these principles, thus
allowing nine year olds to
At 09:43 AM 08/29/2001 -0400, you wrote:
But figuring out what the
specific mechanisms that effect health status is tricky. I can think of a
number of candidates the fall under the Reich-type of phenomena. A higher
prevalence of dirty industries with low occupational health and safety
standards
G'day Penpals,
It gets tougher to be Australian every day ... anyway, fresh from our role in
the undoing of any good Kyoto might have done the world (in which case we
could at least argue we weren't any more disgusting than messrs USA and
Canada), we've now taken the lead in the mad race for
Yes, but it would be a lot more compelling to document evidence on the
proximal link to health status. The Deaton finding was kind of a big
surprise, at least to him. I think some follow-up work on this could be
important.
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From: Jim Devine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
*The Industry Standard* is doing it tough just now, but consoles itself with
the thought they won't be alone in this. The following rings pretty
convincing, I reckon.
Cheers,
Rob.
OPINION: ERIC J. SAVITZ
Price Choppers
http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,28832,00.html
In case the tech
right. I think one major point is that it's useful to do regressions (like
Mike Reich) of ecological independent variables vs. a ecological
dependent variable for SMSAs or some other geographical units, whereas (if
I understand it correctly), Deaton's result is ecological independent
Deaton's results show that including percent Black knocks out income
inequality as (partly) explaining mortality in US metropolitan areas. I
wonder if the the reverse is not also be true -- are they two not well
corellated? So how can his results be taken as refuting the
Wilkinson-type argument
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the grander the better. Devine, for instance,
should write, Homer
At 12:22 PM 8/29/01 -0400, you wrote:
Include your academic affiliation and title,
the grander the better. Devine, for instance,
should write, Homer Simpson Chair of
Excellence in Political Economy.
actually, I model myself after Charles Manson. I have a bracelet that reads
WWCMD? (standing
Bill wrote:
I like the (Reich-type?) political 'explanation' of these issues --
variables like income inequality roughly represent relative social power.
Mortality rates in the US are worse than in other countries because the
capitalist minority in the US has relatively more power to impose their
Recently on hippie Haight St. here in S.F. I saw a girl, say
about 4 yrs, old, unaccompanied by any parent or other adult,
with a Charles Manson t-shirt. And, remember that Charlie was
pals with the Beach Boys.One of their mid-60's albums has a song
written by Manson. (Under another name.
the NBER writes:
DOES GLOBALIZATION MAKE THE WORLD MORE UNEQUAL?
In Does Globalization Make the World More Unequal?
(http://papers.nber.org/papers/W8228), authors Peter Lindert and Jeffrey
Williamson find that increasing globalization has probably mitigated the
effects of inequality between
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/27/01 10:51PM
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If a tariff is a tax then what were really seeing is a global shifting
of the tax burden away from capitalists, but states have yet to seek
compensatory increases in taxes on wages or other income. Perhaps they
feel that lowered expectations on the
NY Times, August 26, 2001
FREE AT LAST
The Enduring Legacy of the South's Civil War Victory
By DAVID BRION DAVIS
Partly as a result of this denial of slavery's centrality in American
history, few Americans today know that black bondage had long been
legal in all 13 colonies when the American
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/28/01 06:05PM
At 11:55 AM 08/28/2001 -0400, you wrote:
Yes, this is all correct. I have recently completed an extensive review of
this subject for cancer that supports this. BUT, what Deaton found was that
the average health status of WHITE men as well as Black men is
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, DAILY REPORT, AUGUST 29, 2001:
RELEASED TODAY: In July, 208 metropolitan areas recorded unemployment
rates below the U.S. average (4.7 percent not seasonally adjusted), while
117 areas had higher rates, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. Five
metropolitan
but Australia should be all right
New Scientist 1st September:-
Bush's missile defence system could cause US-bound warheads to
drop on Europe and Canada instead
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns1210
Concise observation from the Communism List:
Significantly the IMF report has been critical of the Bush Administration's
fiscal policy. However the administration pays almost no notice to this
criticism. In general the IMF report on the US economy is not an event in the
US. By contrast it is
((
CB: Here is risk again. I agree with what you say , but ..re: our
previous discussion of risk...the biggest corps use their power to
avoid risk.
===
Right but that's not the same as saying risk does not exist or that
risks are never *taken*--passive third person. It's who
Chris Burford wrote:
but Australia should be all right
Well, that's the main thing.
Anyway, we're all for the US missile defence thingy (as we're all for
greenhouse gases, exclusive bilateral trade-distortion agreements with the
USA, welfare degradation, and gratuitously offending the
Sum total of books in the University of Washington library under the
Library of Congress category of *exploitation*:
Num Mark LC SUBJECTS (1-2 of 2) Year
Exploitation
1Exploitation / Alan Wertheimer c1996
2Financial Exploitation Of The Elderly : Field Hearing Before The
Ah, but, type in , communism, at www.barnesandnoble.com
and get lotsa irrelevent titles, esp. Biblical exegesis!
We found 5,892 titles with the keyword communism.
Michael Pugliese
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Anger at boom in executive pay
Call for government action as unions and investors condemn effects of
top bosses achieving 28% rises
Jill Treanor and David Gow
Thursday August 30, 2001
The Guardian
Unions, powerful City investors, and company directors united
yesterday to round on the boards of
Top Turkish cleric says sermons to help lift lira
ANKARA, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Turkey's top Islamic cleric said on Tuesday
sermons at the country's mosques would urge the faithful to use the battered
lira currency in an effort to stop the tender's months-long slide against the
dollar.
We will
[gotta sustain those debt levelsFT]
The bail-out champion bales out
As he leaves the IMF, Stanley Fischer defends its ad hoc policy in
emerging markets to Alan Beattie
Published: August 29 2001 18:47GMT | Last Updated: August 29 2001
20:23GMT
Stanley Fischer leaves the International
[Full piece at Wash. Post]
Global Economy's New Guardian
D.C.'s Answer to IMF, World Bank Protests: Miles of Chain-Link
By David Montgomery
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, August 30, 2001; Page C01
The D.C. police are old hands at crowd control, but they never went
this far before.
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