Japan---yet another kakistocracy update....

2002-01-10 Thread Ian Murray
< http://www.feer.com > The Yakuza Recession SOMETIME DURING Japan's annual cherry-blossom festival last April, one of Tokyo's top private economists held a meeting that would reverberate across the Pacific and trigger alarm bells at the highest levels in Washington. At his office in a glass skys

Ford

2002-01-10 Thread Ian Murray
Ford plans to cut up to 20,000 jobs David Teather in New York Friday January 11, 2002 The Guardian Ford Motor Company will today announce plans for mass job cuts as part of an overhaul designed to drag the struggling car manufacturer back to profitability. Estimates on the number of employees w

Re: RE: (Fwd) (Fwd) for Pen & PKT?

2002-01-10 Thread phillp2
Karl Paul Phillips, Economics, University of Manitoba From: "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject:[PEN-L:21304] RE: (Fwd) (Fwd) for Pen & PKT? Date sent: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:34:

OOOPs Excuse me Re: Query on a book & its author

2002-01-10 Thread Carrol Cox
I screwed up by writing the original too carelessly. Thanks much to all those who have informed me of the book's availability. But I wanted primarily to determine if whoever "owns" it at present is willing to have it scanned and e-mailed or put on e-lists or websites. I own several copies of the

Screening: _The Myth of the Liberal Media_ (Tue., Jan. 15)

2002-01-10 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Progressive Film Series: Critical Perspectives on Wars, Classes, & Empires _The Myth of the Liberal Media: the Propaganda Model of News_ (Prod. the Media Education Foundation, 1999) Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky demolish the myth of the "liberal media." Using systematic empirical research, th

Students

2002-01-10 Thread Ian Murray
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/money/53910_debt10.shtml College grads hit by double whammy: huge debts, few jobs Thursday, January 10, 2002 By MARTHA IRVINE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Christian Miller can't get a car loan and, at age 27, has returned to his parents' New Jers

Re: Query on a book & its author

2002-01-10 Thread W. Robert Needham
Title: Classes in the United States : workers against capitalists / Charles Loren. -- Author: Loren, Charles. Published: Davis, Calif. : Cardinal Publishers, c1977. Subject: Social classes -

RE: (Fwd) (Fwd) for Pen & PKT?

2002-01-10 Thread Devine, James
>The Polanyi Institute at Concordia University< is this Michael or Karl Polanyi? Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine

(Fwd) (Fwd) for Pen & PKT?

2002-01-10 Thread phillp2
--- Forwarded message follows --- The Polanyi Institute at Concordia University has announced an upcoming publication that many of you will find very interesting: >"Economy and Society. Money, Capitalism and Transition." Fikret Adaman and >Pat Devine, editors. Black Rose Books, 2001. I

RE: RE: FW: today's papers: The Enemy of My Enemy is My...Enemy

2002-01-10 Thread Devine, James
I'm sure Israel imports equally nasty stuff (while having nuclear bombs). And Isreal has attacked the PA again and again, so there's no need to bring in fears of aggression from Jordan. Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine > I had the same thought, but reportedly

Re: Re: Query on a book & its author

2002-01-10 Thread Carrol Cox
Alan Cibils wrote: > > i might regret this giving out this prized bit of information, but have you > tried http://www.bookfinder.com ? the best source for used and out of print > books on the web that I know of. > Thanks -- but I wrote the post sloppily. I own several copies of the book, and

Re: Query on a book & its author

2002-01-10 Thread Alan Cibils
i might regret this giving out this prized bit of information, but have you tried http://www.bookfinder.com ? the best source for used and out of print books on the web that I know of. a quick look found several copies listed... alan At 1/10/2002, you wrote: >Charles Loren, _Classes in th

Query on a book & its author

2002-01-10 Thread Carrol Cox
Charles Loren, _Classes in the United States: Workers Against Capitalists_, Davis, CA: Cardinal Publishers, 1977. This book is long out of print, and I believe the publishing company no longer exists. If anyone on any of the lists to which this post is being sent knows Charles Loren or knows any

BLS Daily Report

2002-01-10 Thread Richardson_D
> DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 2002: > > RELEASED TODAY: The U.S. Import Price Index decreased 0.9 percent in > December, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. The decline followed > drops of 1.4 percent and 2.3 percent in November and October, > respectively. The Export Price Index a

Fw: Re: Fw: confidential

2002-01-10 Thread Karl Carlile
- Original Message - From: "jomo kambule" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 3:12 PM Subject: Re: Fw: confidential WHY ARE YOU SENDING THIS MESSAGE TO MANY PEOPLE? Karl Carlile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Karl Carlile (Communist Global Group)

RE: FW: today's papers: The Enemy of My Enemy is My...Enemy

2002-01-10 Thread Max Sawicky
I had the same thought, but reportedly the shipment included C4 explosives and other implements that go well beyond the needs of a police force. Unless you think the PA feared aggression from Jordan. mbs > I don't get this: doesn't the Palestinian Authority have an army and a > police force? i

re: myth of the self-made man

2002-01-10 Thread Tom Walker
Jim Devine asked,   >Tom, since when do you examine sites that sell term papers to student>plagiarists?    When I was a sessional instructor in the late 1980s I once encountered a plague of plagiarism in my class. I think the total number of offenders was eight or ten. Coincidentally, I also

RE: Re: Re: state power theory of money

2002-01-10 Thread Forstater, Mathew
he wouldn't say his dad is too "liberal," but too socialist. liberal for people like David Friedman means classical liberal or libertarian. by the way, for the austrian take on the state theory of money there is a good article by Selgin called "On Assuring the Acceptability of a New Fiat Curr

RE: state power theory of money

2002-01-10 Thread Forstater, Mathew
the argument as it has been developed recently is that there are "horizontal" and "vertical" components of the money supply process. The horizontal component is the state money component. The "vertical" component covers most of these other instruments you refer to, which are basically underst

FW: today's papers: The Enemy of My Enemy is My...Enemy

2002-01-10 Thread Devine, James
from SLATE: >The NYT notes that six U.S. congressmen canceled a meeting with Arafat, "citing an American intelligence briefing that they said proved Arafat was personally responsible for the attempt to smuggle munitions aboard the freighter Karine A." >"These guys are nailed," said one congressm

RE: Re: Re: state power theory of money

2002-01-10 Thread Brown, Martin - ARP (NCI)
I believe that the father has also advocated for abolishen of the FDA. While I don't agree with father or son on this at all, I do think it can be argued that in addition (but not instead of) its regulatory role, the FDA would serve the public interest a lot better by providing a lot more informat

RE: Re: Re: state power theory of money

2002-01-10 Thread Devine, James
Michael Perelman writes: > Back in the 1960s, I spent a couple of afternoons with him [David Friedman, son of Milton] at his apartment. He had a good sense of humor. He also thought that his father was too liberal. He wanted to abolish the FDA. Companies that sold bad medicine would be punished

Re: Re: state power theory of money

2002-01-10 Thread Michael Perelman
Back in the 1960s, I spent a couple of afternoons with him at his apartment. He had a good sense of humor. He also thought that his father was too liberal. He wanted to abolish the FDA. Companies that sold bad medicine would be punished in the market place. "William S. Lear" wrote: > On Wedne

RE: myth of the self-made man

2002-01-10 Thread Devine, James
Tom, since when do you examine sites that sell term papers to student plagiarists? -Original Message- From: Tom Walker To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 1/9/02 11:20 PM Subject: [PEN-L:21282] myth of the self-made man Deliberate or unconscious humour? http://www.ezwrite.com/Store/itemdetai

Re: state power theory of money

2002-01-10 Thread William S. Lear
On Wednesday, January 9, 2002 at 20:03:44 (-0800) Steve Diamond writes: >David Friedman, the anarcho-capitalist son of Milton, has a piece arguing >for private money. ... This is the same idiot who in his book *Hidden Order* argues that Americans give gifts in non-cash form because of a "hostili

"ten more countries to join euro"

2002-01-10 Thread Chris Burford
Peter Hain, at first described as somewhat eurosceptic, when appointed UK Europe Minister last year is increasingly making news items about Europe probably carefully crafted to manage media and public expectations no doubt under the guidance of Alistair Campbell, now that the war against the T