Re: US-China trade

2003-08-20 Thread Eubulides
- Original Message - From: "Eubulides" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > < http://www.feer.com > > Fighting China on U.S. Soil [John Gulick asked me to forward his comments the article as he is having trouble 'subbing. Michael Perelman can you help him out?] Post title:

Re: The great electricity swindle: the New Zealand case

2003-08-20 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
The Cato rhetoric sounds like aiming to do what has already happened in New Zealand. The NZ Magazine Revolution ran an article on it in the latest issue (no. 21), from which I have adapted the following excerpts: In 1990, the Labour Government inaugured the abolition of the system of state power b

query

2003-08-20 Thread Devine, James
In Steve Keen's interesting book, DEBUNKING ECONOMICS, he refers to Piero Sraffa's view that a company with a fixed plant facing low demand wouldn't utilized the whole plant but would use it in (rough) proportion to the variable inputs. Does anyone know the specific reference? If it's in Sraffa's 1

Wall Street externalities

2003-08-20 Thread Eubulides
By Michael Gormley Associated Press Writer Wednesday, August 20, 2003; 11:45 AM ALBANY, N.Y. -- A New York official said Wednesday that corporate scandals of the last two years have cost the state nearly $13 billion and cut the value of retirement accounts for many older workers by 10 percent or

Cato fun and games on fixing future blackouts

2003-08-20 Thread Anders Schneiderman
Our friends at the Cato Institute already have a piece out in the New York Post making the one argument I didn't think anyone would be crazy enough to make: let's get rid of all the rules on the transmission system! --- Instead, why not try deregulating the grid? Kill the cap on tran

Leo Panitch: left-nationalist?

2003-08-20 Thread Louis Proyect
(Turns out that Leo Panitch has a bit in common with Hardt-Negri. His solution, however, is not in the miscegnating multitude but in what they used to call the Great White North on SCTV. Blowed up real good.) Socialist Worker 407, August 6, 2003 N www.socialist.ca Socialist Project launched in

Niagara Mohawk

2003-08-20 Thread Louis Proyect
NY Press Finding NiMo George Pataki is shocked, shocked by the power outage. by Matt Taibbi Here’s a fun activity you New York blackout veterans might want to try: Go online and check out the website of Niagara Mohawk (www.niagaramohawk.com), the Western New York utility that has been fingered

US-Canada lumber dispute redux

2003-08-20 Thread Eubulides
[Federal Register: August 20, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 161)] [Notices] [Page 50123] >From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr20au03-31] --- DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE International Trade Adminis

working class

2003-08-20 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
Carrol wrote: "Working Class" means something different within different analytical frameworks. In marxism, it is a historical not a sociological (i.e., weberian) category, and it is only as a sociological category that one can make such general statements meant to apply to individuals. I am awar

Re: PK on Big Blackout

2003-08-20 Thread Patrick Bond
- Original Message - From: "Sabri Oncu" [EMAIL PROTECTED] People "steal" electricity regularly in Turkey (maybe Patrick Bond would offer some information about a similar phenomenon in South Africa) not only because they cannot pay for it but also because it is very difficult to determine wh