Re: wikipedia?

I think Ravi said he'd be willing to host it. I'd be happy to get it (it being MediaWiki at http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net/index.php/MediaWiki_development) set up if Ravi's still willing to host it, and someone is willing to foot the modest bill ($10? 15?) of buying a domain name. Provided that

Re: a chilling report

I found Niall Ferguson's piece in the NY Times equally as chilling. He states that the US should be trying to emulate the role of Britain in 1920: And this brings us to the second lesson the United States needs to learn from the British experience. Putting this rebellion down will require

Re: China question

Hi Michael, Land tenure is changing. After the rural reforms in the early 80s when the communes/brigades were disbanded, rural land usufruct rights were given to households while ownership remained in the hands of the state at the local level. Rural land usufruct rights are now increasingly

Re: leftist encyclopedia

I suppose people could set up a leftist wikipedia under PEN-L auspices, but that kind of defeats the purpose of the existing wikipedia: it's encyclopedic embrace. At the same time, though, I very much agree that we need better ways to communicate and be able to build on our strengths, knowledge

Re: Job flight

joanna bujes wrote: The truth is they don't have a clue on how to manage intellectual labor. They try to do it as it were an assembly line. Doesn't work. Offsourcing Hi- tech means managing intellectual labor accross great geographical, cultural, and sometimes linguistic divides. Not what I would

Re: Job flight

Hi Michael, I think the jury's still out on this one. In certain national contexts (usually advanced capitalist ones), the economists are probably not eating crow. (Basso's work shows that working-time is increasing in advanced capitalism) At the global scale, (the only proper level to examine

Hobbes and Darwin in China

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/29/weekinreview/29zhao.html China's Wealthy Live by a Creed: Hobbes and Darwin, Meet Marx By YILU ZHAO BEIJING — The rich in China these days are moving into the villages of Napa Valley, Palm Springs, Long Beach, Upper East Side and Park Avenue, all in the suburbs

Foreign firms export most of China's electronic goods

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200402/21/eng20040221_135425.shtml Foreign firms export most of China's electronic goods Foreign-invested enterprises exported 70.7 percent of China's electromechanical products last year, according to a national work conference on export, import of

Bestseller exposes social powderkeg in rural China

Bestseller exposes social powderkeg in rural China —No-holds-barred book blows the lid on shocking injustices against the country's 900 million peasants Straits Times | 21 feb by Chua Chin Hon http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/asia/story/0,4386,236301,00.html BEIJING - Like any hot-blooded

new frontiers of property rights theory in China

Shareholding System Becomes 'Major Trend' of China's Economic Development Hong Kong Hsin Pao (Hong Kong Economic Journal) in Chinese 21 Nov 03 p 15 HSIN PAO (HONG KONG ECONOMIC JOURNAL) In the article, entitled: New Theoretical Breakthrough of Third Plenary Session carried in this column on 31

Chinese workers strike in Hubei

http://www.china-labour.org.hk/iso/article.adp?article_id=5235 Over 20 workers detained in bloody clash after massive protests continue in Tieshu Textile Group Factory China Labour Bulletin has learned that since 8 February 2004, an estimated 2,000 workers and retired workers from the Tieshu

China bubble mitosis - was: is AG blowing a China bubble

Thanks for posting the Bloomberg artice, Ian. What a huge story it is. Beijing rolls out red carpet for the stars —Capital offers incentives to lure talent to the city SCMP | 12 feb by Alice Yan and Alex Lo Eager to compete with glamorous cousin Shanghai, Beijing is rolling out the red carpet

Japanese Business Ties With China Explode

http://www.ctnow.com/business/nationworld/ats- ap_business15feb08,1,4715544.story?coll=sns-business-headlines AP | 8 feb by Joseph Coleman KIMITSU, Japan -- One after another, red-hot slabs of metal emerge from the blazing maws of the furnaces at Nippon Steel and are squeezed and stretched into

Made in China -- With Neighbors' Imports

Made in China -- With Neighbors' Imports ¡ªRegion Growing Dependent on Giant Market Washington Post | 5 feb by Peter S. Goodman http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14093-2004Feb4.html TANGKAK, Malaysia -- With a decisive yank of his long-handled scythe, the worker sliced away a palm

China: Fears of social unrest as rural land grab worsens

Fears of social unrest as rural land grab worsens 40 million farmers have lost out in the name of progress SCMP | 5 feb by Nailene Chou Wiest http://www.chinastudygroup.org/index.php?type=newsid=4619 Each year two million mainland farmers lose their land and drift into the cities, only to be

China: Amnesty called on corporate crimes

Amnesty called on corporate crimes In a promising sign for the wider private economy, firms in Hebei province will be 'forgiven' for financial misconduct SCMP | 2 feb by Wang Xiangwei In what could turn out to be a watershed in the mainland's stop-go efforts to liberate the private economy,

U.S., China Are on Collision Course Over Oil

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-luft2feb02,1,370578.story? coll=la-news-comment-opinions LA Times | 2 feb Gal Luft Sixty-seven years ago, oil-starved Japan embarked on an aggressive expansionary policy designed to secure its growing energy needs, which eventually led the

Re: China's new Marxist left

Louis, I believe it's the situation that's ironic. michael's assessment is right on the mark. Jonathan Michael Lebowitz wrote: I was struck by the vigour with which the assembled Chinese Marxist economists were discussing the law of value--- in particular, how to demonstrate that utility yields

Re: re China's new Marxist left

Michael, The academic left is much more marginal in China than in the US, and even more removed from the experiences of the producers than here. Zuo Dapei, wrote a short piece on heterodox economics in China. It gives a sense of what's 'left' in economics (which is, as in the US, *the* hegemonic

Re: re China's new Marxist left

Sorry, forgot to give the place! The bookstore/salon is in Beijing. jl - This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/

Re: Interesting Wall Street Journal stories

Sabri asked, By the way, I guess, we are dealing with a neither observable nor verifiable claim, which is the most difficult problem in contract theory. Does anyone know how to deal with unobservable, unverifiable claims, by the way? 1) repeat said claim until others are convinced and it becomes

Mirowski quote

“The allocation of the epithet ‘rational’ on the part of neoclassical economists has been a defalcation on a grand scale: as we have argued, they have altogether overlooked the prevalence of price as ratio as one of the prime bits of evidence that market operations have been restricted to limited

Defeating Homeland Security

That would be fun, but I think those currently in the panoptic driving seat would just re-tool their biometric algorithms to find better Principal Components, and perhaps give us more color-codings! This is a machine that knows no essentialisms. Cheers, Jonathan Actually, wecould defeat this

pan-ops in China

http://www.chinastudygroup.org/index.php?type=newsid=4494 (still peanuts compared to the 200,000 pan-ops working just in Securitas (which ate up Pinkerton and Burns in 1999-2000) (also - note Shenyang is the Flint Michigan of China, see: http://www.chinastudygroup.org/index.php?type=articleid=45

Bubblewatch: Ten Hidden Dangers Affecting China's Economic Operations

Liaowang Airs 'Hidden Dangers' in PRC Economy Beijing Liaowang in Chinese 24 Nov 03 No 47, pp 6-8 LIAOWANG Monday, November 24, 2003 Journal Code: 306 Language: ENGLISH Record Type: FULLTEXT Document Type: Daily Report; News Word Count: 2,702 Article by Li Xinxin: Ten Hidden Dangers Affecting