The New Labour government in Britain has a strategic problem. The minister
for higher education, Margaret Hodge, was explaining it yesterday. It
believes that by 2010, 8/10 new jobs in Britain will require a university
education. Therefore it is trying to push the proportion of the relevant
When the U.S. bombed Panama in 1989, HRW prefaced its report by saying that
the ouster of Manuel Noriega...and installation of the
democratically-elected government of President Guillermo Endara brought high
hopes in Panama...The report neglected to mention the number of casualties.
Michael Perelman wrote:
The article came from Sid Shniad, who sent it to me. I assumed that it
was several years old.
Loooked scanned. The author isn't Heather Coffin, which is a pretty
funny misreading, but Cottin. She's the widow of Sean Gervasi, who
now seems to be writing for Workers
In a message dated 12/1/02 6:24:52 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The sort of inequalities that the difference principle would endorse was
illustrated in Alec Nove's The Economics of Feasible Socialism. In 1979,
Pravda admitted that the "complexity of the central plan", which
Title: hunger amid plenty -- in India
New York TIMES/December 2, 2002
Poor in India Starve as Surplus Wheat Rots
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/02/international/asia/02FARM.html?tntemail0
By AMY WALDMAN
KHANNA, India - Surplus from this year's wheat harvest, bought by the government from
When will the vast armies of
the working intelligentsia see the bigger picture on
a world scale?
Having recently left the academic sanctum - with
astronomic debts and tiny prospects of finding work, I
have some thoughts on the subject.
Tutition fees and student debt is necessary. Not to
pay
Devine, James wrote:
More than two decades after a green revolution made India, the world's
second-most-populous country, self-sufficient in grain production, half
of India's children are malnourished. About 350 million Indians go to
bed hungry every night. Pockets of starvation deaths, like
Title: RE: [PEN-L:32672] Re: hunger amid plenty -- in India
I quoted:
More than two decades after a green revolution made India, the world's
second-most-populous country, self-sufficient in grain production, half
of India's children are malnourished. About 350 million Indians go to
Sabri Oncu wrote:
Do you have any hard data supporting or refuting the bursting of
a housing bubble in the area? Or do you thiink this is just a
normal drop in a period of economic hardship?
Most U.S. housing indicators have been strong. New house sales fell
in Oct, but they'd been rising
Title: RE: [PEN-L:32674] Re: A question to FMC: Housing Bubble?
Sabri Oncu wrote:
Do you have any hard data supporting or refuting the bursting of
a housing bubble in the area? Or do you thiink this is just a
normal drop in a period of economic hardship?
Doug writes:
Most U.S.
Further on Johan Soderberg:
I think the student loans have a pernicious effect that may be implied
in what Johan writes but I want to make explicit. The loans make the
borrower as desperate for growth in the economy as are the capitalists.
Further on Chris Burford:
He mentions a
At 01:04 PM 12/2/2002 -0500, Louis quoted:
Maquiladora workers receive wages considerably below those paid to
non-maquiladora manufacturing workers.
What is it about the stats I've seen quoted by bourgeois economists that
makes it possible for them to represent the opposite as true?
Bill
Here in Boston, where prices have nearly tripled over the past 5
years, my impression is that housing demand is coming
mostly from owner- occupiers. This is in contrast to the bubble
of the late 1980s, when absentee-investors were buying, renting,
then flipping condos like crazy.
In a message dated 12/1/2002 2:02:03 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Although the agency has managed to file a record number of cases this year
and has adopted a series of tough rules, officials say the commission's
divisions have lost ground in their efforts to keep up with
- Original Message -
From: Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Russell Jacoby is a history professor at UCLA who has joined the ranks
of the Chomsky bashers in the bourgeois press, alongside Michael Berube
and other scoundrels. I suspect that he is now polishing up a piece on
Ramsey Clark
Statistical physics predicts stock market gloom
11:59 02 December 02
NewScientist.com news service
A statistical physics model is predicting that the US stock market recovery
suggested by recent rises will only last until spring next year, before
tumbling yet further.
Physicists Didier Sornette
Hi,
Does anyone have a good source for petty crime stats?
I'm specifically looking for breakdowns by type and amount stolen:
i.e. total or average value stolen per year from liquor stores, 7-11s, homes, etc.
Thanks,
Nomi
the nicked veneers and wobbly joints of Ikea regret
self-assembled furniture
requires retightening over time
We sold screwdrivers like you can't believe.
Tom Walker
604 255 4812
Bill Burgess wrote:
At 01:04 PM 12/2/2002 -0500, Louis quoted:
Maquiladora workers receive wages considerably below those paid to
non-maquiladora manufacturing workers.
What is it about the stats I've seen quoted by bourgeois economists that
makes it possible for them to represent the
What Louis quoted is true. What you may have seen is that the maq. wages
are higher than the prevailing wage, since manufacturing jobs are scarce
relative to the total job market.
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 10:22:17AM -0800, Bill Burgess wrote:
At 01:04 PM 12/2/2002 -0500, Louis quoted:
Jacoby has written very interesting material, but it seems to have some
left, some right threads. He came to Chico last year. We had a very nice
talk until I questioned something about his work. He has been associated
with Telos -- at least he participated in the Telos conference held here.
Monday, 2 December, 2002, 11:24 GMT
New US-EU trade war looms
Steve Schifferes
BBC News Online economics reporter
The United States is considering a fresh trade war with Europe over the issue of
genetically
modified (GM) foods.
The move would increase tension with Europe at a delicate time for
Also, many of the maq's are shutting down as contractors flee to China and
other low cost labor.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
POSTED AT 9:04 PM ESTSunday, December 1
In the shadow of the elephant
Canadian Press
Montreal - Canadians are much more informed than Americans when it comes to
knowing the identity of their neighbours' political leader, national capital
and largest city, an opinion poll suggests.
Ellen, some areas of the housing market are defaulting. For example,
Hallinan, Joseph T. and Mitchell Pacelle. 2002. Conseco's Mobile-Home
Mess Has Tenant: Lehman Brothers. Wall Street Journal (25 November): p. C
1. Conseco as 19,000 repossessed mobile homes from bad loans.
What percentage
[momentarily escaped from his double super secret bunker]
In the terrorists, however, we have enemies who have nothing to defend. A
group like the al Qaeda cannot be deterred or placated or reasoned with at
a conference table. For this reason the war against terror will not end in
a treaty.
Of course, since we will never know if we have exterminated the final
terrorist, the war must continue forever.
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 06:21:13PM -0800, Ian Murray wrote:
[momentarily escaped from his double super secret bunker]
In the terrorists, however, we have enemies who have
- Original Message -
From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Of course, since we will never know if we have exterminated the final
terrorist, the war must continue forever.
=
If protection rackets represent organized crime at its smoothest, then
war
Well, Cheney is either an ignorant fool or willing to have eternal war
at whatever cost.
Gene Coyle
Ian Murray wrote:
[momentarily escaped from his double super secret bunker]
In the terrorists, however, we have enemies who have nothing to defend. A
group like the al Qaeda cannot be
Washington Post, Dec. 2, 2002
Antiwar Effort Gains Momentum
Growing Peace Movement's Ranks Include Some Unlikely Allies
By Evelyn Nieves
Washington Post Staff Writer
AMHERST, Mass. -- The idea was hatched on a bright day in August, when
Daphne Reed was celebrating her daughter's and
WSJ, Dec. 2002
Globalization Gets Mixed
Grades in U.S. Universities
Columbia Spat Isn't Academic: Students
Often Go On to Top Posts Back Home
By JON E. HILSENRATH
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
NEW YORK -- Santiago Pardo remembers listening to an inspiring pro-trade
speech in 1995
Monthly Review, December 2002
Challenging Neoliberal Myths: A Critical Look at the Mexican Experience
by Martin Hart-Landsberg
(clip)
The best way to understand why Mexicos working people have not
benefited from their countrys recent growth is to study the operation
of the countrys most
(Russell Jacoby is a history professor at UCLA who has joined the ranks
of the Chomsky bashers in the bourgeois press, alongside Michael Berube
and other scoundrels. I suspect that he is now polishing up a piece on
Ramsey Clark and the Workers World Party for the Wall Street Journal
editorial
International Viewpoint, Nov. 2002'
Imperialism in the 21st century
Claudio Katz
(Claudio Katz teaches at the University of Buenos Aires and is involved
in the Argentine network 'Economistas de Izquierda' (EDI, 'Left Economists')
(clip)
In arguing that globalisation dilutes the frontiers
A while back, after my last fiasco with a submission to a scholarly
print journal, I resolved never to go that route again. Not only does it
save me and my victim unpleasantries, it also allows me to concentrate
on writing for email lists, especially Marxmail. Not only don't I have
to feel
Michael wrote:
I don't think that Brad DeLong is a right winger
or a troll. Among economists, he would rank as a
left liberal.
I don't know what troll means but I happen to have some ideas
about right wingers. I hold that a necessary, but not sufficient,
condition for being a leftist is the
[speaking of protection rents...]
US hawk wants Turkey in EU
Richard Norton-Taylor
Tuesday December 3, 2002
The Guardian
A leading hawk in the Bush administration hailed Turkey yesterday as a
democracy which could be a model for other Muslim countries - including a
post-Saddam Iraq - and said
[claim the need for more analysis while you choke off the funds needed to
do so..typical..]
[New York Times]
Can Global Warming Be Studied Too Much?
By ANDREW C. REVKIN
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 - On Tuesday, the Bush administration convenes a
three-day meeting here to set its new agenda
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