I'm sorry to see Milosevich go.
In God's name, why? Don't *ever* be sorry to see nationalist thugs
go. Were you sorry to see Tudjman go? Were you sorry to see Mobutu
go? Were you sorry to see Galtieri go?
Brad DeLong
==
Then we shouldn't be sorry to see the nationalist thugs at
[full article at http://www.iht.com/IHT/TODAY/FRI/FIN/ecb.2.html ]
Paris, Friday, October 6, 2000
ECB Raises Key Rate Amid Signs of Slowing
Move Isn't a Risk to Growth, Duisenberg Insists
By John Schmid International Herald Tribune
FRANKFURT - The European Central Bank surprised markets
I'm interviewing Hernando de Soto, the Peruvian libertarian
propagandist, on the radio tomorrow. Any ideas for questions?
Doug
+++
How many acres of trees have been exported to Japan since Fujimori's been in
power? How much of Peru is owned by Japan? Does he see that as a form of
[full article at http://www.iht.com/IHT/TODAY/WED/FIN/fdi.2.html ]
Paris, Wednesday, October 4, 2000
Investment Flow Grew in 1999, But Takeovers Took Big Share
By Tom Buerkle International Herald Tribune
LONDON - Flows of foreign direct investment to developing countries bounced
back
Money Laundering Measure Near Dead
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Bipartisan legislation designed to fight money laundering
appears doomed in Congress, while the United States and its economic allies
complain that Russia, Israel and 13 other countries are failing to crack
down on such illegal commerce.
[full article at
http://www.chicago.tribune.com/business/businessnews/article/0,2669,ART-4722
1,FF.html ]
Notion of traditional bank becoming obsolete
By Melissa Allison
Tribune Staff Writer
September 30, 2000
The record-setting economy that has lifted personal incomes and enriched the
full article at
http://www.chicago.tribune.com/business/columnists/barnhart/article/0,1122,A
RT-47225,00.html
Hedge funds' popularity in full bloom
The stock boom has made more individuals eligible for the unconventional
investment partnerships
September 30, 2000
The near collapse of the
full article
http://cnews.tribune.com/news/tribune/story/0,1235,tribune-nation-77489,00.h
tml
U.S.-Europe deal averts Sunday deadline
By Martin Crutsinger
The Associated Press
September 30, 2000 5:27 p.m. CDT
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A last-minute agreement Saturday with the European Union
gives
JD
speaking of which, I've noticed that the media make a lot of comparisons
between the last 20 years or so and the US "gilded age" of the late 19th
and very early 20th centuries. I think there's a lot of validity to these
comparisons (though no analogy is perfect). In the last gilded age, the US
Is this a sign? If so of what?
Remember Keynes. If savings=investment, then the US economy is eating
its own future.
Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The equivalence elides the "direction" of causality. If investment drives
growth and profitability [a la Minsky's
JDI tell my students that national defense, a clean environment, and the
legal system are "public goods." Because they can't be divided up into
individual bundles, because you can't exclude someone from the consumption
of them, and because one person's consumption of the good does not detract
[apropos, Thurow on the stock market; full article @
http://www.crn.com/sections/news/top_news.asp?RSID=CRNArticleID=20154#RESTO
FSTORY
CRN_ The tech sector is only 8 percent of GNP but plays a much larger role
in the stock market. How much of a danger is that to the economy, especially
if
[full article http://www.iht.com/IHT/TODAY/THU/FIN/cartel.2.html ]
Paris, Thursday, September 28, 2000
EU Proposes Broad Overhaul of Competition Oversight
By Barry James International Herald Tribune
BRUSSELS - That dawn knock on the door in the future may not be the local
police but a man
[full article http://www.iht.com/IHT/TODAY/THU/FIN/netprice.2.html ]
Paris, Thursday, September 28, 2000
Web Asks, How Much Can You Pay?
Retailers' Experiments With Variable Pricing Ignite Consumer Wrath
By David Streitfeld Washington Post Service
WASHINGTON - Few things stir up a consumer
By Chapter One of _Capital_, both Nature and human labor are
sources of use-values. Only human labor is a source of exchange-values.
=
I know that. My question was trying to get at whether Marx was saying that
even though nature is the source of use-values, it "in-itself" does or does
not
CB: So do you not feel that there will inevitably , eventually
be a danger
to the economic system as a whole ? Are you saying that
capitalism might be
eternal, permanent, unending ?
yup.
mbs
===
But Jean-Luc Piccard says that in the 24th century material gain and
economic
JD
I think that for Marx, as with Locke, nature has no value _in society_
unless someone mixes labor with it. Both present theories of society when
they present their labor theories.
Locke's labor theory is a theory of property, BTW. That is, it's a (poor)
theory of why some people have
[full article http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/27/national/27HARV.html ]
September 27, 2000
U.S. Seeks Millions in Suit Against Advisers to Russia
By CAREY GOLDBERG
BOSTON, Sept. 26 Federal prosecutors today filed a civil suit contending
that two Harvard University advisers who helped mold
But Marx does not explicitly equate use-values with wealth in his opening
rebuttal sentence. Value, use-value and wealth are confused and entangled in
his retort. Is the source of use-values itself a use-value, a value or
wealth? Doug's query from a while back hits the last sentence below quite
If a reproducible commodity ain't scarce, it has no value. We can
make oxygen out of water and electricity, but no one would say that
the cost of air is determined by its cost of reproduction...
Brad DeLong
===
So math has no value?
Ian
ah, yes, we're in that "place" Marcuse called "repressive desublimation"
where sexual permissiveness has been to work in the service of the
established economic order Michael Hoover
==
What's sexual permissivenss? The recent posts on this thread look like the
popularization of Gary
Conveniently failing to notice that this same spread of real-time
information adds exponentially to the variables and the dynamic relations
between 'em all. I mean, Greenspan has a point if you define 'information'
as a 'lessening of uncertainty', but that'd mean you have to call stuff
that's
[Asian leaders are probably foaming at the mouth over this shit]
[full article http://www.iht.com/IHT/TODAY/SAT/FPAGE/traders.2.html ]
Paris, Saturday, September 23, 2000
Banks Catch Traders on Wrong Foot
By Tom Buerkle International Herald Tribune
LONDON - Like many of the world's currency
"...the common substance that manifests itself in the exchange-value of
commodities, whenever they are exchanged, is their value. The
progress of our
investigation will show that exchange-value is the only form in
which the value
of commodities can manifest itself or be expressed. For
full article at http://www.iht.com/IHT/TODAY/FRI/FIN/banks.2.html
Paris, Friday, September 22, 2000
As U.S. Economy Surges, Banks Make Riskier Loans
By Kathleen Day Washington Post Service
WASHINGTON - Troubled loans to U.S. businesses have more than doubled in two
years, to $100 billion,
JD I wish Marx had been clearer about this. Andrews is, though he
presents the
issue very differently than I do here. One of the great things about
Andrews' book is that he seems to say everything that Marx said, but in a
different order that makes everything clearer. Following the 20th century
[full article at
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Europe/2000-09/strike210900.shtml ]
New EU charter toughens 'right to strike'
By Stephen Castle in Brussels
21 September 2000
Europe's new charter of citizens rights has been toughened to enshrine the
explicit right to strike and union
[full article at http://www.iht.com/IHT/TODAY/THU/FIN/rules.2.html ]
Paris, Thursday, September 21, 2000
New Accounting Rules For the New Economy?
Changing U.S. Business Climate Spurs Shift
By Albert B. Crenshaw Washington Post Service
WASHINGTON - A clash of cultures has set off a heated
[full article at http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/21/world/21KORE.html ]
September 21, 2000
South Korean Aide Resigns Over Loan Accusations
By SAMUEL LEN
SEOUL, South Korea, Sept. 20 In the latest scandal involving high- ranking
members of the South Korean government, a close aide to
[from http://www.senate.gov/legislative/legis_legis_committees.html
tomorrow.]
2:30 p.m.
Foreign Relations
To hold hearings to examine issues relating to
Fidel Castro.
SD-419
[Bello is the consummate trade "deadhead", a master of jet lag. Full article
at http://www.tni.org/ under "What's New"
Globalization Unravels III: The Debacle in Seattle Freedom, said Hegel, is
the recognition of necessity. Freedom, the proponents of neoliberalism like
Hegels disciple, Francis
Does California have decent co-op/worker ownership laws like Oregon's so a
health services for seniors co-op could be set up.
Also, there is a pretty major direct action against Labor Ready that is
going to go down soon at multiple sites in the Seattle Tacoma area.
Ian
-Original
[full article at http://www.timesofindia.com/today/20indi6.htm ]
India will continue its growth trend: UNCTAD
The Times of India News Service
NEW DELHI: The Indian economy will continue its growth momentum this year on
top of a near 7 per cent growth in 1999 achieved despite a sharp slow-down
Does California have decent co-op/worker ownership laws like
Oregon's so a
health services for seniors co-op could be set up.
Tell me more about the Oregon laws. --jks
=
From the horses mouth call; 503-986-2200 or
http://www.sos.state.or.us/corporation/corphp.htm
I couldn't find
full speech at
http://www.federalreserve.gov/BoardDocs/Speeches/2000/2918.htm
...The subsequent evidence appears persuasive that the combination of a
lender of last resort (the Federal Reserve) and federal deposit insurance
have contributed significantly to financial stability and have
Is this Black hole a metaphor , or is it mathematically exact analogy ?
CB
In either the July or August Federal Reserve Bulletin, they do sound pretty
scared about the trade deficit. Also the latest issue of Foreign Policy has
a piece by Martin Wold titled "The Mother of All Meltdowns"
full article at http://www.iht.com/IHT/TODAY/TUE/IN/cern.2.html
Paris, Tuesday, September 19, 2000
Glimpse of 'God Particle' Reported
Atom-Smasher Upgrade on Hold as Physicists Pursue Object
By Curt Suplee Washington Post Service
WASHINGTON - Officials at the European Laboratory for Particle
[full article at http://www.iht.com/IHT/TODAY/MON/FPAGE/robot.2.html ]
Paris, Monday, September 18, 2000
The Robot Revolution Is on the Way
From Cyberpooches to Nursebots, Devices Are Entering Everyday Life
By Curt Suplee Washington Post Service
WASHINGTON - In Cambridge, Massachusetts, a
[full article at http://www.iht.com/IHT/TODAY/MON/IN/han.2.html ]
Paris, Monday, September 18, 2000
In China's Wild West, a Face-Off Between Development and Unrest
Beijing's High-Stakes Gamble /Who Will Reap Gains?
By John Pomfret Washington Post Service
URUMQI, China - It is boom time here
I guess this means Bill G. and a whole 'lot of folks'll be lining up for
waah waah handouts when their commodities go belly up a la Schumpeter...
[full article at http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/16/science/16CLIM.html ]
September 16, 2000
OPEC States Want to Be Paid if Pollution Curbs Cut Oil
September 16, 2000
Forecaster Sees Dow Going to 110, 000 by 2025
By REUTERS
Filed at 8:55 p.m. ET
BEAVER CREEK (Reuters) - While day trading captures the headlines and
investors check their portfolios daily on the Internet, others are looking
further down the road to see where the Dow Jones
I doubt this would reveal much. In my experience, the role of
oligopoly or
monopoly in gas prices mostly causes asymmetry: gas prices rise
quickly in
step with oil prices, while they fall slowly following oil prices
down. The
high gas prices have to do with high oil prices
[full article at http://www.iht.com/IHT/TODAY/FRI/FIN/mob.2.html ]
Paris, Friday, September 15, 2000
The Mob in the Markets: FBI Sees Bigger Presence
By Sandra Sugawara Washington Post Service
WASHINGTON - Organized crime's presence on Wall Street is growing and there
are increasing signs that
[full article at http://www.iht.com/IHT/TODAY/THU/IN/beijing.2.html ]
Paris, Thursday, September 14, 2000
Secret Trials of Chinese Officials Begin
Agence France-Presse
XIAMEN, China - Trials in the biggest corruption scandal in Communist
China's history opened Wednesday with senior officials
[full article http://www.iht.com/IHT/TODAY/THU/FIN/union.2.html ]
Paris, Thursday, September 14, 2000
Colombia Tops Unions' Peril List
The Associated Press
GENEVA - At least half of the more than 140 union members who disappeared or
were killed last year came from Colombia, making it the
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/0,6957,,00.html
Brown runs into a barrage of criticism from unions
Seamus Milne and David Gow
Wednesday September 13, 2000
Union leaders yesterday lashed out at Gordon Brown for failing to act over
"the disaster" overtaking British manufacturing and what
[wonder if these folks have seen chapter 6 of Paul Ekins latest book? Full
article at
http://www.iht.com/IHT/TODAY/WED/FPAGE/oil.2.html ]
Paris, Wednesday, September 13, 2000
Wider Cost Of Oil Rise: Chaos for Economies
By William Drozdiak Washington Post Service
VIENNA - For much of the past
[from
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Americas/2000-09/worldbank130900.sht
ml ]
World Bank shamed by 2.8bn in poverty
Campaigners and street protesters force rewriting of rules to ease the
damaging effects of capitalism on Third World
By Diane Coyle, Economics Editor
13 September
Paris, Tuesday, September 12, 2000
[this one raises the specter of that age old social science question: do
events in history refute a hypothesis? full article
http://www.iht.com/IHT/TODAY/TUE/FIN/hot.2.html ]
U.S. Options Exchanges Censured in Competition Suit
The Associated Press
[full article at http://www.latimes.com/business/2910/t85112.html ]
Sunday, September 10, 2000
Japan Giving Its Start-Ups a U.S. Education, With Limited Success
Asia: It is sending fledgling firms to American incubators to learn
entrepreneurial ways. But applicant pool is thin, and
[full article at
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42059-2000Sep9.html ]
Pastors Find Their Work With Workers
By Chris L. Jenkins
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, September 10, 2000; Page A01
Sliding out of his red pickup, the Rev. Gerald Rodgers glances at his watch
and heads
I have been reading and recording what is going on in Yugoslavia
and the US involvement in murder, genocide, torture, etc. Is there
nothing that the US government will not resort to, is it totally
devoid of any human principles, are the American peoples willing
to allow their governments to
Do you think the folks who programmed the algorithms for all those special
effects in the film were being pragmatists or platonists or constructivists
with regards to induction etc.? Or were they merely wage labor?
Ian
At 03:31 PM 09/09/2000 -0500, you wrote:
Going down the road of
Any number of problems that Popper cited were rejected, and
finally, when Popper turned to problems of moral justification,
Wittgenstein asked for an example of a moral rule. Since Wittgenstein
had happened to pick up a poker from the fireplace and was waving it
around while making his points
Echelon is working overtime... and the latest econ. report of the prez. show
a big leap in nanotechnology investment. better, smaller "bugs" to put on
those plastic plants... :-)
Ian
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Perelman
How are they like either of these or are you just being funny?
The joy of greeting a loved one depends upon there being loved ones but I
don't see how laws of physics depend upon this; also, they apply
whether we
see something beautiful etc. or not. I must confess that I am not
sure what
[full article at http://www.iht.com/IHT/TODAY/THU/FIN/indicom.2.html ]
Paris, Thursday, September 7, 2000
Indian Telecom Workers Strike, Seeking Job-Security Assurance
Compiled by Our Staff From Dispatches
NEW DELHI - More than 300,000 employees of India's state-run
telecommunications
Uh, Jim,
I don't want to be a stick in the mud. But let's say you lived to 2060.
Would you really be able to say whether it was a super duper neural network
hooked up to an big ol' database of human knowledge you were conversing with
on the "other side" of your screen or a human person? Could
September 6, 2000
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/06/technology/06LESS.html
LESSONS
Questioning the Labor Shortage
By RICHARD ROTHSTEIN
To alleviate apparent shortages of computer programmers, President Clinton
and Congress have agreed to raise a quota on H-1B's, the temporary visas for
September 6, 2000
650 Professors Strike
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
YPSILANTI, Mich., Sept. 5 (AP) More than 650 full- time faculty members at
Eastern Michigan University went on strike today after contract talks broke
off.
The fall semester began last week for the university's 23,000 students.
I don't want to be a stick in the mud.
why not?
Because given your next sentence, you're playing that role :-)
you're right, _if_ I lived in the year 2060. But I'm currently
living in 2000.
Thanks for missing my point.
maybe, but at present we're stuck with what we've got at
The big difference between capital imports to the developing US and the
rest of the world was that we defaulted and got away with it.
--
Ah, the pre-IMF Eden, how I miss it so..
Ian
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel.
Okay, so I've revealed myself as an amateur, self-educated, philosopher,
since I confused metaphysical realism with epistemological realism.
Though it may not be compatible with the received definition of
"epistemological realism," I would amend the above to say that
"ideas/theories have
Full article at
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Europe/2000-09/nigeria050900.shtml
Major banks named in $3bn Nigeria fraud
By Imre Karacs in Berlin
5 September 2000
Swiss investigators searching for the loot of the late Nigerian dictator
General Sani Abacha yesterday launched a
Friday September 1 3:51 PM ET
Administration To Push Tax-Breaks
By MARCY GORDON, AP Business Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Over European objections, the Clinton administration will
continue to push for enactment of legislation creating new tax breaks for
U.S. companies that export goods or make them
[Have to wonder how many offshore accounts the Republicrats have?]
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Europe/2000-09/architect020900.shtml
Kohl's offshore funds architect 'laundered drugs cash'
2 September 2000
A close friend of Helmut Kohl, who helped set up the former German
I would guess bananas and GM foods, not Echelon.
Michael, yes those cases pissed the EU off, but the "fines" only come to
191million$$ or so a year. Attacking the US FSC' laws was a massive
escalation of rivalry, around 3billion$$ a year. I'm no conspiracy theorist
but something tells me
Max,
If you hear any juicy gossip on multilateral governance issues blah blah can
you ill us in?
Ian
The question came up a while ago on this list as to who gave Queen Victoria
the evil weed. An article in today's USA Today states that it was one Sir
John Russell Reynold.
Full article at http://usatoday.com/life/health/doctor/lhdoc000.htm
Ian
full article http://www.iht.com/IHT/TODAY/FRI/FIN/chifund.2.html
Paris, Friday, September 1, 2000
China Plans to Introduce Western-Style Mutual Funds
Bloomberg News
HONG KONG - China will try to spur its mutual-fund industry as early as next
year by introducing pilot open-end funds, according
[full article at: http://www.iht.com/IHT/TODAY/THU/FIN/launder.2.html]
Paris, Thursday, August 31, 2000
Swiss Discord on Money Laundering
By Elizabeth Olson International Herald Tribune
GENEVA - Two top officials responsible for tracking money laundering in
Switzerland resigned this week on
[full article http://www.iht.com/IHT/TODAY/THU/IN/china.2.html
Paris, Thursday, August 31, 2000
Farmer Unrest Erupts in China
Rioters Protest Heavy Tax Burden and Corruption
By John Pomfret Washington Post Service
BEIJING - Tens of thousands of farmers in a southern Chinese province have
[full article at
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51364-2000Aug30.html ]
Temporary Workers Win Benefits Ruling
By Frank Swoboda
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, August 31, 2000; Page A01
Recognizing the changing nature of the American work force, the National
Labor Relations
full article http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/asia/083100china-econ.html
August 31, 200
Factory Closings in China Arouse Workers' Fury
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
TIANJIN, China, Aug. 29 -- The brick-walled Meite Packaging factory
compound is nearly deserted now, its managers and machines
Another Business Week gem. Business Week says that the U.S. and Europe
had a gentleman's agreement not to attack each other's tax systems in
the WTO. In other words, corporations and states would be free to
dismantle environmental laws but the tax breaks were to remain
untouched. I
"Rather it is the machine which possesses skill and strength in place of the
worker, is itself the virtuoso, with a soul of its own in the mechanical
laws acting through it..." Grundrisse p.693
[substitute evolutionary algorithms for soul and mechanical laws and
presto...substitute evolution or
Monday August 28, 11:48 am Eastern Time
WTO judges say U.S. should change anti-dumping law
GENEVA, Aug 28 (Reuters) - World Trade Organisation (WTO) judges on Monday
ruled that the United States must change a law which for 84 years has
provided for civil and criminal penalties on foreign firms
TheStandard.com
Fast, Cheap and Out of Control
By Stewart Taggart
Care to bank from a Pacific Island, store your online data in Scandinavia
and pay taxes in Barbados? A nicer mix of financial secrecy, data privacy
and low government levies would be hard to imagine.
If this multijurisdictional
Can anyone out there please point me in the direction of a bio of Pareto
wherein his relationship to fascism is spelled out?
Thanx
Ian
Wall Street Journal - September 30, 1999
FEDERAL RESERVE OFTEN TOSSES OUT IMF ADVICE ON ECONOMIC POLICY
By Michael M. Phillips
Staff Reporter Of The Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON -- Which country has received the worst economic advice
from the International Monetary Fund over the past few
[Could an Aussie enlighten us on the property rights design on this one?]
A Tale of Two Fisheries
As New Englanders overfish their way to ruin, Australians have profited by
becoming conservationists.
By JOHN TIERNEY
John Sorlien, a lean, sunburned fisherman in rubber overalls, was loading
his
full article at:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/Business/Inside_Business/2000-08/ruby27080
0.shtml
'Ruby' bank collapses
By Paul Lashmar
27 August 2000
Grenada's government has taken over the controversial "$26bn" First
International Bank of Grenada in a further twist to one of the
Word is they wondered why the activists who've bothered everyone else for
the past nine months left them off the social calendar :-)
[full article at NYT]
August 27, 2000
ECONOMIC VIEW
Economic View: Global Calm Prevails, but Is It Deceptive?
By RICHARD W. STEVENSON
JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. -- When
JBR Jr. wrote: I would note
more generally that the new "econophysics" movement is
full of a lot of people who don't know any economics and
think they are "rebuilding economics from the ground up,"
when all they are doing is exhibiting their ignorance of the
economics literature.
=
Not to
oops wrong list..no caffeine yet...
-Original Message-
From: Lisa Ian Murray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 8:42 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Directed Polymers and the Distribution of Wealth
JBR Jr. wrote: I would note
more generally
Who wrote this: "Economics is surely the only discipline in which a scholar
can win the Nobel Prize for proving the existence of that which plainly does
not exist."
Ian
F.M. Scherer; referring to General Equilibrium in "New Perspectives on
Economic Growth and Technological Innovation"
Is economics a discipline where math is consciously used for fictive
purposes [as in GE] or is it just because economists have worse luck at
finding/creating math that refers to
If, in the US, then
If you were to estimate what caused the increasing rate of profit during
the last decade, how much credit would you give to
weakening unions [8%]
globalization[6%]
lower environmental/regulatory standards [4%]
financial shenanigans (i.e., manipulating pensions)
The rest,
including technology, is guesswork, IMO.
mbs
===
What would need to happen to get adequate metrics for the other factors?
Ian
lower environmental/regulatory standards [4%]
Max,
I guessed at this being above zero on the odds that firms litigate their way
to exemptions which have a cumulative effect of hollowing out enviro. regs.
despite their being formally on the books.
Ian
[full article http://www.iht.com Meanwhile, Hurricane Debby heads toward
St. Croix where the largest oil refinery in the western hemisphere is
located...]
Paris, Wednesday, August 23, 2000
Energy Crisis? Fuel and Power Shortages Worry U.S.
LOS ANGELES - For the first time in a generation,
I wrote:
US telecom corps are big pushers for privatization of state run telecom
networks and are currently prepping to take Mexico to the WTO over the
issue; with Taiwan in the WTO they'd have their wedge to gobble up that
market too.
Ian
===
Little did I know they were doing so as
Missed Carrol's remark first time around. What do you make of this
bit from the Grundrisse?
"Money is therefore not only an object, but is the object of greed.
It is essentially auri sacra fames. Greed as such, as a particular
form of the drive, i.e. as distinct from the craving for a
Carrol wrote: Ian's emendation seems reasonable, except that he
leaves out something important in Marx's formulation, hedonism IN THE
ABSTRACT.
The worker (and I include most college students under this category)
essentially wants the things money can buy, not money as self-expanding
value.
please ignore this message.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine
Is this a koan?
Ian
[From the latest Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. Full essay at:
http://www.bullatomsci.org/issues/2000/ja00/ja00fetter.html There is also a
larger essay by the author which can be reached from the link below the
excerpt]
July/August 2000
Vol. 56, No. 4, pp. 28-38
By Steve Fetter
Although the
Title: SCMP.com - Asia's leading English news channel - FullText
No wonder the US
supports Taiwan entering the WTO separate from China.
Ian
US telecom corps are big pushers for privatization of state run telcom
networks and are currently prepping to take Mexico to the WTO over the
issue; with Taiwan in the WTO they'd have their wedge to gobble up that
market too.
Ian
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.nrel.gov/international/china/energy_efficiency.html
http://www.pnl.gov/china/
ian
[so Brad, did you get on a plane and do a sample of those in 49th percentile
and below in the countries listed below or did you just read some stats?]
Emerging Markets Are Back. Thanks, IMF
By J. Bradford Delong
Fortune
August 14, 2000
Just two years ago, emerging economies were in heaps of
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