Re: Jamie Galbraith on Brazil

2002-11-01 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] == For a complementary take: http://www.brazil.ox.ac.uk/workingpapers/dePaula28.pdf Expansion Strategies of European Banks to Brazil and their Impacts on the Brazilian Banking Sector The paper aims at

Re: Jamie Galbraith

2001-08-01 Thread Rob Schaap
http://www.sbs.com.au/insight/insight_set.html Now to the battle raging for the hearts and minds of Australian voters. Today the Government and Opposition slugged it out, yet again, over tax. The Opposition claimed the Government had a secret plan to increase the GST if re-elected - a claim

Re: Re: Jamie Galbraith

2001-07-30 Thread Rob Schaap
Free marketeers putting on a poor show By JAMES K. GALBRAITH *THE AGE* Friday 27 July 2001 Adam Smith, the patron saint of free markets, had a clear-eyed analysis of inequality. Servants, laborers and workmen of different kinds, he wrote, make up the far greater part of

Re: Jamie Galbraith

2001-07-26 Thread Rob Schaap
Thanks for the reply, Alex. Keynesian managed globalization -did such a thing ever existed?). Well, Jamie called the quarter century after the War 'managed globalisation' (or something very like it). I thought it an interesting characterisation, too, but then, Keynes did talk to the Americans

RE: Jamie Galbraith

2001-07-26 Thread Max Sawicky
Nobody intended for the tax cut to have a Keynesian effect, even w/no spending cuts. If you're a keynesian, it's too small ($40b this year) and maldistributed. If you're not, its size is irrelevant. mbs In any event, J. Galbraith is, IMO, right in stating that if behind a tax cut there comes

The global fisc v. global risk (was Re: Jamie Galbraith)

2001-07-26 Thread Tom Walker
Alex Izurieta wrote, Less unlikely, but not highly probable either, would be a sort of worldwide coordinated reflation. But _given the alternatives_ doesn't the normal improbability of such a response take on at least a more intense hue of possibility? The institutional skeleton is there,

Re: RE: Jamie Galbraith

2001-07-26 Thread Michael Pugliese
What about glomming onto Bob Greenstein CBBP, projections with that program #er crunchin' gizmo he has? Michael Pugliese - Original Message - From: Max Sawicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 8:20 AM Subject: [PEN-L:15563] RE: Jamie Galbraith

RE: Re: RE: Jamie Galbraith

2001-07-26 Thread Max Sawicky
? What about glomming onto Bob Greenstein CBBP, projections with that program #er crunchin' gizmo he has? Michael Pugliese

Re: Jamie Galbraith on Long Term Capital Management

2000-08-23 Thread J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Actually, I recently read something by Scholes where he admitted the importance of the normal distribution assumption and admitted that it does not hold. After initially following Mandelbrot to advocate the asymptotically infinite variance Pareto-Levy distribution, Fama later did some

Re: Re: Re: Jamie Galbraith on Long Term Capital Management

2000-08-23 Thread J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
, August 23, 2000 4:43 PM Subject: [PEN-L:768] Re: Re: Jamie Galbraith on Long Term Capital Management At 03:56 PM 8/23/00 -0400, you wrote: Actually, I recently read something by Scholes where he admitted the importance of the normal distribution assumption and admitted that it does not hold

Re: Re: Jamie Galbraith on Long Term Capital Management

2000-08-23 Thread Jim Devine
At 03:56 PM 8/23/00 -0400, you wrote: Actually, I recently read something by Scholes where he admitted the importance of the normal distribution assumption and admitted that it does not hold. was this before or after the Long-Term Capital Managment debacle? Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]