Thursday, December 11
7:30 pm
Brecht Forum
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BOOK PARTY/FORUM
Post-mortems on the Boom
Doug Henwood Robert Pollin
During the 1990s boom, we heard constantly about the New Economy--a
technological and
The BEA just released the first comprehensive revision of the NIPA in 4
years. In addition to updating the reference year from 1996 to 2000 there
were some important methodological changes (along with the usual
statistical updating).
http://www.bea.gov/bea/newsrel/2003cr_newsrelease.htm
1) Such
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/12/10/nobel.peace/index.html
Nobel winner slams war on terror
OSLO, Norway --This year's Nobel Peace Prize winner says the September
11 attacks have been used as an excuse to violate international law and
human rights.
Iran's Shirin Ebadi, the first Muslim
For your information, here are the notes of a talk I gave to a bunch of
Rotarians yesterday:
http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine/talks/rotarians12-03.htm.
I didn't get a chance to ask them if they'd read Sinclair Lewis' IT
CAN'T HAPPEN HERE.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Discount Nation: Is Wal-Mart Good for America?
December 7, 2003
By STEVE LOHR
Essence of the Story:
- In what has become an annual ritual, Wal-Mart continues
to grow and eliminate rivals (this time, toy retailer
FAO Schwartz).
- Economists generally believe that Wal-Mart
Dean Organizers Take Lesson From Labor
December 5, 2003
By ADAM NAGOURNEY
HANCOCK, N.H., Nov. 30 - The sun was setting over the
wooded hills of western New Hampshire as David Steinberg,
22, a Columbia University student from Baltimore, asked 12
local Democrats to gather their chairs in a circle.
today's papers [MS SLATE magazine]
By Eric Umansky
The Los Angeles Times' lead
says Governor Schwarzenegger has backed off on two of his
campaign promises, namely that he would reimburse local
governments for the loss of the car-tax [which finances police, fire,
and rescue workers] and that he
[it turns out not just the US military is stretched to it's limits]
http://www.senate.gov/~govt-aff/_files/120903yager.pdf
GAO
For Release on Delivery
Expected at 10:00 a.m., EST
Tuesday, December 9, 2003 HUMAN CAPITAL
Significant Challenges
Confront U.S. Trade
Agencies
In recent years, the
* A Diplomatic Revolution
Algeria's Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era
Matthew Connelly
0195170954, paperback, 424 pages
Also In Stock : hardback
2003 In Stock
Price: $26.00 (06)
SH: $5.00 (US) $10.00 (INTL)
Sample Chapters:
Apparantly, we can contain the problem of civilian causalties by ceasing
to count them!!
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storycid=540e=13u=/ap/20031210/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_civilian_casualties
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Patenting Air or Protecting Property?
Information Age Invents a New Problem
By Jonathan Krim
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, December 11, 2003; Page E01
Universities, corporations and tens of thousands of Web site providers
across the country probably never imagined they would be rooting
* YOUSSEF CHAHINE, director of some 40 films, is probably the
most independent of Arab film-makers, producing what he thinks is
important, even at his own expense, and raising issues that disturb.
Born in 1926, son of a Syrian lawyer and a Christian family in
Alexandria, Egypt, Chahine
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