mbs:
Suppose we turned the question around. What trade
policy would best serve service sector workers --
one that improved the (higher) wages of manufacturing
jobs (for which service sector workers were qualified)
and made these jobs more plentiful, or one that reduced
the price of consumption
mbs:
Maybe, maybe not. If I'm in Guatemala and life is better
in the U.S., a given improvement in my life here does not
necessarily deter me from seeking to migrate. It may in
fact give me more means to do so.
==
agreed given the individualism of your response, but if there is a net
increase
mbs: Ehrlich is not a credible person to me.
Agreed; butterflies he knows, the rest is c**p. For a great radicalization
of their formula [and critique] try "Dangerous Intersections: Feminist
Perspectives on Population, Environment Development" edited by J Silliman
Y King
Ian
ABSTRACT:
We present a model that can be used to analyse economically
optimal nutrient (nitrogen) stocks in agricultural lands. The
model is applied to study cattle ranching in humid Costa Rica.
The numerical results indicate that, for current meat prices and
discount rate, it is
Paris, Wednesday, August 9, 2000
Profit Surges At BP Amoco On Oil Prices
Compiled by Our Staff From Dispatches
LONDON - BP Amoco PLC said Tuesday that its profit in the second quarter
more than doubled because of rising oil prices, its takeover of Atlantic
Richfield Co. and cost-cutting.
some decent reports on electricity, etc.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/EMF/publications/index.htm
Is Brad deep undercover working for the Gore campaign on one of those
thick-slick policy tomes that float in DC bookstores between now and Jan.?
Since we haven't heard from Brad deLong on pen-l in a long time, here's a
snippet from his web-site
Jim D. wrote: "who is it that determines who a "real authority" is? Is there
a World
Congress of Philosophers who makes this decision?"
=
Roger Coase floated the idea that there should be a few years back...very
scary.
Ian
[from a draft report also given at the July 12-13 conference on The Next
Financial Panic]
http://www.cfr.org/financialvulnerability/simulation/sim_scenario.html
Ian
It's more complicated than that. The tragedy of the commons is real. But
many
communities developed effective ways of combating the tendencies and
avoiding its effects. That does not mean the tendencies are not real and
that
the effects do not occur. The problems we have with overfishing are a
Michael,
In Hardin's scenario, there already is private property rights: "As a
rational being, each herdsman seeks to maximize his gain. Explicitly or
implicitly, he asks, "What is the utility to me off adding one more animal
to my herd?"
So what you have under Hardin's schematic, in fact, is
Monday, July 31, 2000, 12:00 a.m. Pacific
Northwest rockfish face chancy future
Monday July 31st 2000
by Hal Bernton
Seattle Times staff reporter
Part two of a two-part series.
WARRENTON, Ore. - The skippers out of this Columbia River port take pride in
their skill at catching Pacific
Michael quoted:
"Heyne, Paul. 2000. The Economic Way of Thinking (Upper Sadle River, NJ:
Prentice-Hall).
334: "Firms do in fact have rights to discharge obnoxious substances into
the
air, as proved by the fact that they do it openly and are not fined. They
have
both actual and legal 'rights
Paris, Monday, July 31, 2000
Investors at a Loss Over Shrinking Debt Supply
By John M. Berry Washington Post Service
WASHINGTON - Claire Goldman, a 77-year-old retiree in Maryland, first got
annoyed with the U.S. Treasury in March 1998 when it announced that it was
not going to sell any more
http://www.iht.com/IHT/TODAY/THU/FIN/chicon.2.html
Paris, Thursday, July 20, 2000
China Plans Easing on Currency And Rates
By Thomas Crampton International Herald Tribune
HONG KONG - China's central bank governor affirmed plans Wednesday to loosen
currency controls and set a three-year
Since planning has an abundance of meanings and the price system[s] we
observe seem[s] to be as much an effect as cause of planning [see Minsky,
1986, Samuels and Tool, 1989]; what would Hayek, von Mises, Marx, Roemer,
and anyone else think about, say, the WTO? Is that not the result of immense
The Denver Post
June 25, 2000 Sunday 2D EDITION
SECTION: A SECTION; Pg. A-01
In one of the first jobs of the $7.7 billion Rocky Flats cleanup -
More of this money will go to folks who'll never be exposed to the muck than
to the workers on site, yet more grist for the
I'm not sure whether to feel exonerated or to call my shrink.
Doug
Why? Gov't force you to seal up that window?
Ian
to make the larger point that energy
markets are already planned--just undemocratically.
Care to expand? (seriously)
Mark D H 'last time I hugged a tree it came' Lawrence-Jones
=
This guy did his Ph.D. on oil oligopolies in 1973...
-In Doyle's spirit
THINGS THAT IT TOOK ME 50 YEARS TO LEARN
by DAVE BARRY
1. Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and
a laxative on the same night.
2. If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the
human race has
One of the possible ways to make an eco-socialist message palatable to the
scientists/engineers currently under capital's thumb$$'s is to show that a
significant change in the property rights/class structure would vastly
accelerate trends that capital pays them to analyze but not communicate to
I have seen this before - the connection between the 14th amendment and
the rise of joint-stock corporations. Anybody care to explain
this for me?
Thanks, Ellen
"The court does not wish to hear argument on the question whether the
provision in the
New statement on anti-globalization activism.
I don't necessarily endorse all of this, but
it does give a sense of where the issue is going.
It certainly passes the internationalism test, at
least in terms of participation.
mbs
WTO - Shrink or Sink!
The Turn Around Agenda
It's time to turn
Michael,
There was an article in the July 20, 1999 WSJ about Vanu Bose [the
loudspeaker designer]and a patent dispute that involved him and his son.
The article does not mention the test, but there were several articles over
the summer investigating the Technology Licensing Office at MIT by the
Economist changes his opinion on breakup
Weakens Microsoft filing
Tuesday, May 23, 2000
By DAN RICHMAN
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
A Stanford economist who once opposed dividing Microsoft now says he would
support it, weakening a court document Microsoft filed yesterday that tries
As far as the ILO is concerned, on Henwood's list somebody
posted a quote from Robert Litan of Brookings to the effect
that it would be nice if the globalization protests could
be diverted to the ILO, since that was a nice "sandbox"
they could play in without putting sand in the gears
of commerce
[mbs] If you spend money it's the company that you deal
with, but if you WORK, where the job is and where you is
matter a great deal.
The bit about 'shaming' firms is pretty funny. ("Go
you Gates, and sin no more!") But actually the point is
ingrained in the views of others as well. If you
[mbs] The threat to move a manufacturing plant is central to
the ability of Capital to suppress wage demands. That's
hardly zilch. When this threat entails moving plants to
other countries, it exposes business firms to a combined
nationalist/laborist attack. In effect, Capital runs
New from EPI:
U.S. INVESTMENT IN CHINA
WORSENS TRADE DEFICIT
U.S. firms build export-oriented
production base in Chinas low-wage,
low labor-protection economy
by James Burke
. . .
" . . . Although in 1989 only 30% of imports from China
competed against goods produced in the
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By JILL LAWLESS-- The Associated Press
Wouldn't it behoove us to find out whether the firms that will make the
textiles etc. are Northern Corps. out to simply set up shop to capture rents
from the wage differential. If they are, say, US corps. then the suggestion
that some sort of levy or tax on their "import"[ation] into the US so
As a general trend is that more cost effective than simply taking wages "out
of competition" on an international scale? Or should global wage deflation
in goods with substantial international competition remain the norm for
another 40-50 years as firms relocate down the labor cost curve?
Ian
[ah, poor Dr. Coase...Also the air is much dirtier between Portland and
Seattle than it was a decade ago, contra the paper's claim]]
May 2, 2000
New York Votes Curb on Pollution Credits
By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ
ALBANY, May 1 -- The New York State Legislature today completed passage of a
bill
[from chapter 7 - Potentialities of Constituent Power of "Labor of Dionysus"
by Antonio Negri Michael Hardt]
"The world is turned upside down - definitively. We understand in the
crisis, better than we could understand in the struggle, how we ourselves
have constructed the prison cages of power
We have a welfare state and economic regulation? :-)
Ian
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Doug,
How many months old were you when you gathered your first statistic?
Ian
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Condit and Co. were pissed 'cause they got their asses kicked on N30 :-)
Ian
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[Forwarded from a UW prof. PFFT/No to WTO worked with last year, please
spread far and wide]
Ward Morehouse (of the Program on Corporations, Law Democracy and the
Council on Internat'l Public Affairs) was arrested in Seattle with Cheri
Honkala as the two of them attempted to deliver the
I agree with your logic Doug, If the U.S. deficit with China approaches
even 100 billion I think the chances of a financial crisis for the U.S.
seems likely. But, Scott is predicting a collapse for China and a
devaluation of the Chinese currency; something rather unlikley if the
Chinese are
Brad wrote:
Now I am a card-carrying neoliberal: a believer that a bet on
increased international economic integration is our best hope for
rapidly moving to a truly human world, an advocate of NAFTA and GATT,
a former not-very-senior official in the Bentsen and Rubin Treasury
Departments, and a
http://www.house.gov/ways_means/trade/106cong/tr-18wit.htm
Ian
You do!
Ian
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I'm doing a book review of Cyber-Marx: Cycles
Justin,
You need to go and work in a large corporation for about 10 years; Coase'
work is just so much phlogiston theory.
Ian
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G'day Rod,
I really hope you've excited some threads with these big calls, Rod! This
is stuff we have to grab with both hands, I reckon. I mean, how
do CEOs get
away with extolling the virtues of capitalism when their own
firms, based on
internal non-market relations as they are,
Unlike the rest of economics? I mean, you aren't go to see general
equilibrium being attained or labor markets clearing. You won't see profit
maximization or factors of production being priced at their marginal
contribution. That's not news in these circles. You wil also not see labor
being
[From Rich Feldman--King County Labor Council]
During this next period of time, we will be subject to a sophisticated and
full-scale propaganda effort targeted at diminishing our impact on WTO in
Seattle. If you have been involved in union organizing campaigns, you have
gotten a taste of the
[from the folks in
Canada]
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1999 11:15 PMTo: Lisa Ian MurraySubject: Why Is
the WTO So Anti-Labor?Why Is the WTO
So Anti-Labor?
It [the Internet] will destroy one of the
You'd' think they'd learn from Relativity and Chaos Theory that space is
beyond control. Oh that's right we're talking about the Military.
Ian
Seattle
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Thursday October 21, 7:03 pm Eastern Time
Workers body says WTO labour rule would help poor
By Robert Evans
GENEVA, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Officials of the biggest global labour grouping
said on Thursday their demand for a social clause in World Trade
Organisation agreements would mainly benefit
Since Michael P. has asked a couple of times for elaboration on Seattle's
encounter with the WTO's MM, I'll try to be as reliable a witness to the
proceedings that took place Friday afternoon, October 1, 1999, at 4:30 pm at
the University of Washington. Apologies in advance for any perceptual or
To Michael P. and others, I'll respond to your WTO query tomorrow, as I've
spent the last 5 hours chasing Al Gore all over Seattle with about 60 other
mischief-makers. For now here's an interesting article from India on an
aspect of the economy we don't hear much about from the WTO, economists
Third, how should we understand the WTO in light of this analysis and the
current instabilities and crises. Assuming that the worst comes true, we
get the MAI, the Government Procurement Agreement, etc., will this
intensify competition and thus tensions, or will it enable MNCs to stamp
out
[From Robert Weissman Russell Mokhiber] An easy way to help workers.
ian
A few weeks ago, the Focus on the Corporation column was titled "A Law and
Order Regulation for Corporations." The subject was a proposal to prevent
the U.S. government from entering into contracts with companies
13 days ago we had Ellen Gould of the Council of Canadians speak in Seattle
about the GATS 2000 proposals regarding int'l trade in services. Her talk
would scare the p**s out of any public sector worker/union that heard it.
It's open season on the civil service, folks. Everything from
On a Tuesday around 3:35 in the afternoon Capitalism was invented as the
quest for a type of inequality that was different from the previous type of
inequality.
ian
(couldn't resist)
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A former Philosophy professor who just moved to Seattle from Brazil told me
[through his new wife who translated] that the Rentier Class in Brazil has
no intention of ever paying off the debts and that if you want real reform
in Brazil the left should go after the Church's economic holdings [now
One wonders if Levitt's been reading Peter Albin.
http://www.nytimes.com/library/financial/092499market-sec.html
September 23, 1999
S.E.C. Chief Wants One Site for Posting Stock Prices
By GRETCHEN MORGENSON
he chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed a system
Thursday for
http://www.ictsd.org/html/seattlecalendar.htm
Events Around WTO Seattle Ministerial Conference
(30 November-3 December)
To submit an event or correction to this list, please contact
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ICTSD will be using this space in the forthcoming months to announce events
that will take
(What is the largest
"privately-held" corporation?)
Cargill. Pretty close behind is UPS, but they are going to go partially
public (1%) by the end of the year.
ian
$50billion or so in sales
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5202/carinc.html
ian
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Well perhaps a few of those satellites will fall on Carillon Point where
he's been playing Dr. Evil on this project.
ian
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Looking for info on the labor-green coalitions trying to stop privatization
of utilities in Wisconsin. Any leads would be greatly appreciated.
ian
come join the party
ian
ANALYZING THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION
TRADE, LABOR AND THE ENVIRONMENT
An Educational Conference in The Longhouse
The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington
Friday afternoon through Sunday, October 22-24, 1999
Registration
let's hear it for passivity in the face of a wonderful opportunity!
ian
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In an age in
One of the major impediments to recovery in Asia is the corruption in the
banking sector. In the last week or so, the NYTimes, of all places, has
been writing several pieces on just how extensive this corruption is. Here
is one on Indonesia from today's NYT. A recent book on the political
what a great t-shirt slogan
ian
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andmaterial/social
I
Wasn't Garten out there before the 'crisis' cheerleading for the Tigers and
their Fortune 500 sponsors? That's it, I'm getting the National Enquirer
from now on
ian
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Out of curiosity, I wonder how this blob of ectoplasm known as a fetus is
regarded. What do people think it is exactly, or philosophically? Is it
like an appendix, a second-class Siamese twin, or what?
cheers,
mbs
a symbiotic-ecosystem on a slippery slope towards a possibility for
Maybe I'm just burned out, I don't know. What I wrote I truly feel, but I
apologize for the language or any inference or implication that various
forms of struggle other than the forms and venues in which I am
participating are less than effective and necessary forms of struggle.
I haven't had a
Contains a quick note on financial warfare; reminds one of Yuan-Li Wu's
'Economic Warfare'
China Ponders New Rules of 'Unrestricted War'
By John Pomfret
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, August 8, 1999; Page A1
BEIJING In 1996, colonels Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui were in Fujian
August 8, 1999
Govt Unit To Control Flow of US News
Filed at 12:17 p.m. EDT
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Clinton administration, dismayed by the success of
anti-American propaganda worldwide, is striking back with an information
offensive of its own: a State Department
U.S. remains world's leading arms merchant
Saturday, August 7, 1999
By TOM RAUM
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON -- The United States retains its title as the world's largest
supplier of weapons, raising its total to $7.1 billion even though demand
has been slumping worldwide, a
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Lisa Ian Murray wrote:
Would planning the design of "private" decentraliz
Hayek had the ultimate plan for the state; plan the design of the state in
such a manner to foil all attempts at planning. As inspector Cleuceau said:
"a plan that cannot possibly fail." Hayek was also amiss on the problem of
the transition to capitalism [i realize he was dead, but if he was
Keynes advocated state trading in basic commodities in the context of
international trade. See Robert Gilpin's "The Political Economy of
International Relations" for the direct quote [mine's on loan]
ian
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Self exploitation of Gen-X continues. The situation is nowhere near as rosy
as Greenhouse portrays it.
$50,000 a year at 70 hour weeks come to a little over $14 an hour
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/07/biztech/articles/26labo.html
July 26, 1999
High-Technology Sector Unmoved
or the grip metaphor is misleading.
The second "law" of thermodynamics is true regardless of whether we live in
a socialist society or a capitalist society; this is not the same as
succumbing to scientism, just that some statements are true whether we wish
them to be so or not. The weirdness of
Everybody seems so uptight today...workers of the world, relax. It's
freakin' hot..Grab a beer. BTW here's some more bad news.
Ian
Tuesday July 20, 1:00 pm Eastern Time
FOCUS-New Zealand's Moore set to get top WTO job
(recasts throughout)
By Robert Evans
GENEVA, July 20 (Reuters) - Former
Microsoft and American Airlines also use prison labor
Ian
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But it was great!
Ian
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You
and virginity
ian
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Sam wrote:
Kant's ethics make extraordinary
what's inviolable about the human being?
Ian
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Sam wrote:
Kant's ethics
are
not rational.
Shouldn't the conclusion be that some humans are not consistent?
Cheers, Ken Hanly
Lisa Ian Murray wrote:
The problem is that neither Kant, nor anyone else, has established the
criteria (or in comp. sci. parlance; decision procedure)for adequately
defining just what
Enjoy.
Ian
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10JUL99
I thought this contribution to the Friends of the Earth UK
The problem is that neither Kant, nor anyone else, has established the
criteria (or in comp. sci. parlance; decision procedure)for adequately
defining just what rationality consists of. He could not overcome the
gauntlet laid out by Sextus Empiricus.
The 20th century should convince us that
The transendental ego is not identified with an 'empirical' individual self.
It constitutes the possibilities of experiencing empirical reality as well
as the possible objects of experience; Reality(metaphysical)= TE, hence
Idealism. The project was intended to displace the need for metaphysics,
Which is why we should no longer read Kant!
Ian
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Kant wrote: "Another finds himself
As was Ireland...
ian
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Brad De Long wrote:
Your fight is with Amartya
they also kick the ecological/economic costs of making the machines onto the
public...
http://www.svtc.org/
ian
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Socialist democracy is an absolute necessity. Parliamentary elections
will never form part of any viable socialist democracy. What socialist
democracy is remains to be determined by future practice and criticism
and self-criticism within the revolutionary forces of a given country. Its
shape
"The important difference between steel and the program is not the labor
that goes into the production, but the fact that the program and the
information can be used costlessly by others, expect for the protection of
intellectual property. In contrast, if I use the steel to build a car, you
Watchin' the watchers.
From House Ways and Means hearings 6/8/99
Statement of Robert A. Kapp, President
United States-China Business Council
Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Trade
of the House Committee on Ways and Means
Hearing on United States-China Trade Relations and
Jim,
However, I think that while capitalism and socialism have contradictions, we
perpetuate a self misunderstanding of ourselves as organic beings when we
state we are in conflict with nature. It is the thought that makes it so.
A
genuine Pygmalion effect if you will. The "fall" never
One of the many problems that emerges from L an L's views on contradiction
is that they never specify when and where epistemology leaves off and
ontology begins. This a boundary that is extreeemly fuzzy (logic).
Mathematical physics tirelessly strives to create self-consistent models of
natural
Contradiction is polysemous and I am more than comfortable with it's usage
in all things human.
However, I think that while capitalism and socialism have contradictions, we
perpetuate a self misunderstanding of ourselves as organic beings when we
state we are in conflict with nature. It is the
"the separation between city
and countryside undermines the very essence of an ecosystem: recycling of
nutrients into the soil."
Ecosystems have no essence; boundaries and material flows are observer
defined constructs. Cities are ecosystems. There is a whole "new" field
called industrial
Inconsistencies and contradictions are linguistic artifacts; nature does not
"contain" a nor or a not function in it's dynamics. Does a marine ecology
"contradict" a terrestrial one? A natural balance is always a temporary
eddy/stability in a relentless flux. Ecological apocalyptics are simply
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Position
BATTLE ROYAL FOR WTO LEADER'S POST
By Martin Khor
So how can they be "the only true hope for human progress" then?
All 6 billion of US?
Ian Murray
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Subject:
While it's becoming increasingly clear that the domestic imperatives in the
US with regards to Kosovo are to placate Arms sales, we've paid little
attention to realpolotik issues of immediate concern to the US, Britain and
Germany; all of whom will suffer from full EMU 1/1/2002. Rants about
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