China and the World Economy

2003-11-14 Thread michael
Earlier I asked about the impact of China on world commodity markets. I saw this today. Also, an earlier article this week describes how excess capacity is now driving down wages in China. It also mentions workers distraught by the wages that they were offered. Bahree, Bhushan. 2003. China's

Re: Re: End of U.S.-centric world economy?

2002-06-25 Thread Michael Perelman
I think his approach implies that Brazil falters. On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 07:15:28AM +0100, Chris Burford wrote: At 24/06/02 16:11 -0700, you wrote: Roach's report sounds pretty reasonable. Does anybody have any comments? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department I don't quite

Re: Re: Re: End of U.S.-centric world economy?

2002-06-25 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 9:04 AM Subject: [PEN-L:27177] Re: Re: End of U.S.-centric world economy? I think his approach implies that Brazil falters. == Isn't that a foil

Re: Re: Re: Re: End of U.S.-centric world economy?

2002-06-25 Thread Eugene Coyle
- From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 9:04 AM Subject: [PEN-L:27177] Re: Re: End of U.S.-centric world economy? I think his approach implies that Brazil falters. == Isn't that a foil for if the left get's

End of U.S.-centric world economy?

2002-06-24 Thread sdiamond
Global: The Trees or the Forest? Stephen Roach (New York) MorganStanley Financial markets are supposed to be a huge forward-looking discounting machine. Yet nothing could be further from the truth these days. Our strategists remain focused on whether this is the time to catch that proverbial

Re: End of U.S.-centric world economy?

2002-06-24 Thread Michael Perelman
Roach's report sounds pretty reasonable. Does anybody have any comments? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: End of U.S.-centric world economy?

2002-06-24 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 4:11 PM Subject: [PEN-L:27160] Re: End of U.S.-centric world economy? Roach's report sounds pretty reasonable. Does anybody have any comments? -- === He

Re: End of U.S.-centric world economy?

2002-06-24 Thread Chris Burford
At 24/06/02 16:11 -0700, you wrote: Roach's report sounds pretty reasonable. Does anybody have any comments? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department I don't quite understand why he puts such emphasis on contagious devalutaion in Latin America, but I suppose the main message is that the

An Asian World Economy? - 2

2002-06-07 Thread Ulhas Joglekar
An Asian World Economy? continued: Proposition 5, the thesis about Asia's decline, is the real can of worms. Empirically, the argument is that population growth accelerated in Asia leading to a resource imbalance. What has that to do with the world economy? The theoretical centerpiece

An Asian World Economy? - 1

2002-06-07 Thread Ulhas Joglekar
Economic and Political Weekly Review Articles August 4, 2001 An Asian World Economy? Tirthankar Roy ReOrient: Global Economy in the Asian Age by Andre Gunder Frank; University of California, Berkeley and Los Angeles, published in India by Vistaar Publications, New Delhi, 1998; pp xxx + 416

Japan in the world economy

2002-04-24 Thread Louis Proyect
powerful players in the world economy. In the U.S., the Big Three auto makers are complaining about the profit windfall that a strong dollar-weak yen combination gives the likes of Honda Motor Co. China's textile and electronics exporters are lobbying their government to guard their competitiveness

Re: Japan in the world economy

2002-04-24 Thread Charles Jannuzi
Of course I don't expect much from either WSJ or BW when it comes to covering Asia seriously, but the article derails at sentence one. First, at 130 yen to the dollar, the yen looks to be stuck at a fairly high level still--what I predicted, the US would not like anything past 135 and the markets

PBS series on world economy

2002-04-03 Thread Louis Proyect
in Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy, which arrives tonight on PBS in the first of three two-hour installments. The fear factor here, however, does not involve gruesome death by boredom, though there is sluggishness aplenty in the six hours. Rather, viewers who come to the program

Re: PBS series on world economy

2002-04-03 Thread Michael Perelman
Warning !!! Anyone who misbehaves on the list will be forced to watch this program as a punishment. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: PBS series on world economy

2002-04-03 Thread Joel Blau
Daniel Yergin, Beverly Hills High School, class of 1964. Joel Blau (BHHS, '62: at least when Jim has a classmate, it's Krugman, and I doubt he would trade Krugman for Yergin, even up!) Michael Perelman wrote: Warning !!! Anyone who misbehaves on the list will be forced to watch this

Re: Recession May Hit World Economy

2001-09-11 Thread Tom Walker
LONDON (Reuters) - The shock to financial markets from Tuesday's devastating plane attacks in the United States could have huge repercussions for an already-fragile world economy, stunned analysts said as they watched events unfold. - We have to assume that quite a lot of high producers

more on the implosionary world economy

2001-08-24 Thread Jim Devine
The Economist/August 25, 2001 EDITORIALS Get a parachute FOR the seventh time this year, America's Federal Reserve has cut interest rates, this time by a quarter-point to 3.5%, leaving the federal-funds rate a full three percentage points lower than at the start of 2001. Americans hope that

Re: more on the implosionary world economy

2001-08-24 Thread J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Subject: [PEN-L:16307] more on the implosionary world economy The Economist/August 25, 2001 EDITORIALS Get a parachute FOR the seventh time this year, America's Federal Reserve has cut interest rates, this time by a quarter-point to 3.5%, leaving the federal-funds rate a full three percentage

World economy slows in unison

2001-08-20 Thread Charles Brown
Grew at Slowest Since Early '93 in Spring Quarter (July 28, 2001) WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 The world economy, which grew at a raging pace just last year, has slowed to a crawl as the United States, Europe, Japan and some major developing countries undergo a rare simultaneous slump

World economy

2001-07-10 Thread Hinrich Kuhls
Wirtschaftsentwicklung 2001/2002 dated July 12th 2001: http://www.diw.de/deutsch/publikationen/wochenberichte/docs/01-28.pdf with comprehensive data and graphs related to the current slowdown of the world economy. hk

World economy

2001-07-02 Thread Hinrich Kuhls
Michael Perelman wrote: I would like to have us concentrate more on the issues of the world economy rather than some of the other issues that occupy us, Browsings: # 1 - World Economy Karl Georg Zinn: Schlafmützigkeit im Wirtschaftsabschwung, in: Sozialismus, Juli/August 2001, p. 14. Zinn

Studies on the capitalist world economy

2000-07-18 Thread Tausch, Arno
of the 1970s and 1980s. Then, dependency theory was considered to be the analytical tool at the basis of liberation theology. But the world economy - since the Fall of the Berlin Wall - has dramatically changed to become a truly globalized capitalist system in the 1990s. Even in their wildest imaginations

Re: Studies on the capitalist world economy

2000-07-18 Thread Timework Web
Hello Arno Tausch, Around 60 years ago, writing under the shadow of fascism and approaching world war, Walter Benjamin declared that theology was wizened and had to keep out of sight, but that it was nevertheless the "little hunchback" concealed behind mirrors who pulled the levers within the

[PEN-L:3286] Jim O' Connor on AGF's World Economy 1400-1800

1999-02-11 Thread Barbara Laurence
Between 1400-1800 the major nations/regions (and some minor ones) diversified their peoples' consumption basket via foreign trade. At the end of the mercantilist/absolutist era in the West, each major nation-state followed an import substitute industrialization (ISI) foreign trade/investment

[PEN-L:3067] Re: Re: A World Economy 1400-1800?

1999-02-09 Thread Ricardo Duchesne
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 14:11:20 -0800 From: Gar Lipow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Freedom Train To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:3047] Re: A World Economy 1400-1800? Gar Lipow wrote: So you are saying that Europe

[PEN-L:3047] Re: A World Economy 1400-1800?

1999-02-08 Thread Gar Lipow
outside of money economies entirely -- produced for use, for payment as feudal dues, or for barter. Ricardo Duchesne wrote: Today I like to initiate some arguments against Frank's thesis that there was a world economy in 1400-1800 dominated by China. That Europe suffered a chronic balance

[PEN-L:3041] A World Economy 1400-1800?

1999-02-08 Thread Ricardo Duchesne
Today I like to initiate some arguments against Frank's thesis that there was a world economy in 1400-1800 dominated by China. That Europe suffered a chronic balance of payments deficit versus Asia throughout this period is a well-established fact. The voyages of Vasco da Gama and Christopher

[PEN-L:2935] AGF's World economy 1400-1800

1999-02-05 Thread Ricardo Duchesne
Hellenic world, Rome, Islam each had their own type of world-economy. But note the hyphen in the term "world-economy", which Braudel uses to distinguish between a world economy, which concerns the whole world, and a world-economy which only refers to one part of the world, "

[PEN-L:2939] Re: AGF's World economy 1400-1800

1999-02-05 Thread Louis Proyect
Ricardo wrote: In his magisterial three volume work, *Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century*, Braudel had already challenged Wallerstein's "fascination" with the 16th century; "there have always been world-economies", he observed (Vol. 3, 24). I just want to say that I highly

[PEN-L:8] Re: Japanese recession rocks world economy (fwd)

1998-06-15 Thread Rosser Jr, John Barkley
Below the bottom line: In the longer run I wouldn't rule Japan out at all. It still has very strong fundamentals of many sorts. Don't forget that the leading world creditor of the 1920s took the world into a Great Depression only to come out of it as the clearly dominant world econo