At 31/10/02 15:24 -0500, e. ahmet tonak
wrote:
Devine, James wrote:
[was: RE: [PEN-L:31729] RE: Re: RE: Sweezy's
occ\Shaikh]
In a private message, Michael Perelman opens a can of worms:
unprod. labor seems an appropriate subject.
-
We (Sungur Savran and myself --and obviously Anwar
--- Charles Jannuzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BP's interests in all this are fairly obvious.
1. They have been a buyer of Iraqi oil
post-sanctions, and would like to increase the
amounts they buy.
2. Russian oil companies have moved into Iraq,
both for marketing to the west and for
Charles Jannuzi wrote:
And I forgot to say: Kuwaiti interests own 10% of
BP.
Who owns Kuwait?
Mark
the british east india company. because all the sheikhdoms were formed as an antidote to piracy in the persian gulf and indian ocean at the behest of BEI by the crown.
trying to connect this is a test
Mark Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Charles Jannuzi wrote: And I forgot to say: Kuwaiti
Title: sectarians and anti-war demos
From an article from the current L.A. WEEKLY, on the San Francisco anti-war demonstration:
Following the Flags in San Francisco
by Steven Mikulan
...
Lately, another kind of debate has swirled around the doctrinaire beliefs of the anti-war movement's
Title: against lesser of two evils
I know this guy's on some people's hate-list, but this column is useful.
BTW, I'm thinking that when faced with lesser of two evils, we should
eliminate the middle man and vote for Satan.
Jim
NOVEMBER 1 - 7, 2002/L.A. WEEKLY
Dissonance
No
Marc Cooper wrote:
My vote will go to Green Party
candidate Peter Camejo. Not because of anything particularly alluring
about Camejo (whom I find kind of out to lunch) or about the Greens
(whom I find increasingly to be little more than sentimental amateurs).
But it seems to me that the real
http://www.levy.org/docs/pn/02-2.html
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Title: RE: [PEN-L:31735] Re: FW: unproductive discussion
I've read this before; it's good.
I guess I didn't make it clear what I was talking about. The distinction between P and UPL is very clear in theory, but often fuzzy in practice, especially when indirect productivity is acknowledged.
Published on Friday, November 1,2002 by the Associated Press
Thousands Protest Free Trade Talks in Ecuador
by Edison Lopez
Thousands of demonstrators marched in Ecuador's capital Thursday to protest
free trade talks scheduled for Friday, setting off clashes at police
barricades.
Police fired
Sabri Oncu wrote:
The official unemployment is around 11% as far as I know. It is
based on a work force of roughly 25 million and which means that
officialy the rest of the nation are not actively seeking work.
So, officially we have about 2.8 or so million unemployed in a
population of 68
And a few others while he is at it.
Bill
The Pitt Principle
By PAUL KRUGMAN
NY Times, November 1, 2002
So Harvey Pitt decided not to tell other members of the
Securities and Exchange Commission a small detail about the man he had
chosen to head a crucial new accounting oversight board,
Global: Asia Is Now a Zero-Sum Game
Stephen Roach (from Shanghai)
Apart from China, there is no dynamism in Asia these days. At the end of a
two-week Asian tour, I am struck by a grim sense of foreboding that is
evident throughout this once vibrant region. While the growth story in China
is
Phony Prices May Hide Import-Export Profits From IRS
By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, November 1, 2002; Page E01
Razor blades imported from Britain for $113 apiece. Tweezers from Japan for
$4,896 each. Cut rubies from Burma for $38,192 per carat. And for U.S.
trading
Mostly in the informal sector, which is huge, and agriculture. Regarding
the informal sector we all know that there are some many measurement related
problems. However, one of my former students from Middle East Technical
University is currently writing his thesis on this topic at UMass and I
Ahmet wrote:
I would never take the figures that Sabri used, i.e.
11% unemployment rate or the labor force, seriously.
They are literally harmful!
We are in complete agreement. My rule of thumb when it comes to
official Turkish numbers is to use a huge fudge factor. In the
case of
Slight change of plans for tonight. As it turns out, tonight is the one
night that the dance performance will start at 9 p.m. That shouldn't be too
late for the kids, so we can still go see that. There's also going to be a
huge light show, which the kids should enjoy. AND, I did buy three
Oooops. Sorry about that everyone; the email was meant to go to Sabri.
Joanna
At 10:54 AM 11/01/2002 -0800, you wrote:
Slight change of plans for tonight. As it turns out, tonight is the one
night that the dance performance will start at 9 p.m. That shouldn't be
too late for the kids, so we
The plot is completely Byzantine, as befits the
culture that Mustafa Kemal tried so hard to stamp out.
It mostly consists of one kung fu fighting sequence
after another as the two heroes of the film, including
Arkin in a Han Solo type role, dispatch their evil enemies.
Obviously lacking a
- Original Message -
From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
==
For a complementary take:
http://www.brazil.ox.ac.uk/workingpapers/dePaula28.pdf
Expansion Strategies of European Banks to Brazil and their Impacts on the
Brazilian Banking Sector
The paper aims at
joanna bujes wrote:
Oooops. Sorry about that everyone; the email was meant to go to Sabri.
what, we cant come to the show too? what's so special about sabri except
that he is an internet consulting millionaire dabbling in economics? ;-)
--ravi
Ravi wrote:
what, we cant come to the show too? what's so special
about sabri except that he is an internet consulting
millionaire dabbling in economics? ;-)
Hey. I am not a millionaire. My son keeps asking me when we will
become millionaires but with a crazy dad like me, he will have to
wait
Title: RE: [PEN-L:31755] Re: Re: Re: Turkey-Iraq
On the other hand, if Turkey has a weak unemployment insurance system (and a weak welfare state in general), it's extremely hard for anyone to survive while being unemployed. So they are driven to the informal sector or agriculture to survive.
In order to come to the show...or to hang out with all the sexy belly
dancers I know, you and Divya have to pony up some $$ to Jet Blue...and
I'll pick you up at the airport...you...youspoiled Brahmin you...
Love,
Joanna
At 03:16 PM 11/01/2002 -0500, you wrote:
joanna bujes wrote:
I'm still trying to book up on this topic, but it seems to me that China's entry
into the export-led growth game has been a crucial factor for many years now,
and probably played a contributing role in the 97 financial crisis. Export-led
growth of the east asian variety has always been zero or
Jim wrote:
how's my font?
Your font is beautiful.
Sabri
Devine, James wrote:
From an article from the current L.A. WEEKLY, on the San Francisco
anti-war demonstration:
Following the Flags in San Francisco
by Steven Mikulan
...
Lately, another kind of debate has swirled around the doctrinaire
beliefs of the anti-war movement's organizers.
Title: RE: [PEN-L:31747] Re: against lesser of two evils
From: Louis Proyect [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Interesting that Cooper uses the same perspective writing about either
Camejo, Chomsky or the Pacifica protest movement. They are held up under
his microscope to see if they are
Devine, James wrote:
it seems to me that there's no force in the world that has the
legitimate right to decide who and who does not have the right to
judge the left. Even when such judging is off-the-wall, we on the left
should be conscious of the critiques.
When I write, Did anybody ever
At 05:21 PM 11/01/2002 -0500, you wrote:
Yes, and he should have stayed away from that batty Frieda Kahlo as well.
Hell, he didn't even get a portrait out of it.
Joanna
While none of the other films I saw during the Fourth Annual Turkish
Film Festival achieved quite the artistic level of the comic masterpiece
Sergeant Shakespeare, all of them were useful windows into the complex
reality of a country that stands right now as a crucible between two
powerful
I understood that unemployment in construction rose last month or that
emploment went down. Could this be a sign? Also, I saw a notice in the
Wall Street Journal that GM says that even 0% financing isn't moving cars.
Maybe we better hurry up and invade.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
From: joanna bujes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 05:21 PM 11/01/2002 -0500, you wrote:
Yes, and he should have stayed away from that batty Frieda Kahlo as well.
Hell, he didn't even get a portrait out of it.
Joanna
No, not of himself. Instead, he was honored in a more characteristically
Title: RE: [PEN-L:31768] Re: sectarians and anti-war demos
I wonder if Corn worries about leftish Democratic Party politicians who participate in such movements. (I doubt that he does.) Just like the Maoists, etc., they have their own agendas and try to sway the movement to fit them. The
Devine, James wrote:
I wonder if Corn worries about leftish Democratic Party politicians
who participate in such movements. (I doubt that he does.) Just like
the Maoists, etc., they have their own agendas and try to sway the
movement to fit them. The agendas are different (and more
"Devine, James" wrote:
> This is not principled politics.
It is
> old-fashioned liberal pragmatism.
so are you saying that Leon Trotsky should have rejected
any connection with John Dewey, because he was the leader of liberal pragmatism?
Jim
As a fan of Dewey in his more radical moments (see
http://news.findlaw.com/legalnews/documents/index.html#microsoft
Title: More Bubble Watch
Sabri forwarded this:
Top Financial News
11/01 16:26
U.S. Economy: Payrolls Fall, Manufacturing Shrinks (Update2)
By Siobhan Hughes and Carlos Torres
Washington, Nov. 1 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. unemployment rate rose
to 5.7 percent in October from 5.6 percent a
Hello,
I have been a silent lurker here on this list learning
and reading with interest discussions of various
political and economic subject matters while
considering whether or not to resume studies in the
direction of economics.
When I saw the posting of Bush's Pseudopoem of
'Bushisms' as
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