[any guesses as to why this would be in the Arts section of the NYT?]
[New York Times]
January 10, 2004
Free-Market Iraq? Not So Fast
By DAPHNE EVIATAR
There is no doubt about American intentions for the Iraqi economy. As
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has said, Market systems will be
At 01:16 PM 1/10/2004, you wrote:
[any guesses as to why this would be in the Arts section of the NYT?]
[New York Times]
January 10, 2004
Free-Market Iraq? Not So Fast
By DAPHNE EVIATAR
There is no doubt about American intentions for the Iraqi economy. As
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has
Didn't the Washington Post obmudsman recently apologize for burying an
important story in the style section?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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Michael Perelman wrote:
Note the date on my note that follows.
Baily, Martin Neil. 1982. "The Productivity Growth Slowdown by
Industry." Brookings
Papers on Economic Activity, No. 2: pp. 423-59.
434: Construction industry is a mystery. If construction output
and the l
. This is not a
cyclical question, but a product of the
transformation of the industry. Deunionization and
deskilling should lead to both lower productivity
and more human misery.
But hasn't deunionization/deskilling been happening in construction since the
early 1970s? This long-term trend
Note the date on my note that follows.
Baily, Martin Neil. 1982. "The Productivity Growth Slowdown by Industry." Brookings
Papers on Economic Activity, No. 2: pp. 423-59.
434: Construction industry is a mystery. If construction output and the labor
input in that industry were re
But surely Charles has a point. Physical characteristics are used , rightly or
wrongly, as
a basis for racial identification even though race is a social construct. That is,
there
is a gross physical basis for people's recognition of someone as being of a certain
race. It is
because of that
I seem to recall that when his subjects complained
about Papa's oppressive rule he responded:
" Yes, but it's a black hand that holds the whip."
This is, of course, a totally outrageous comment. It hurts just as much-if
not more.
I guess Papa must have had no "white blood" and enjoyed
Papa Doc was not a particularly admirable figure. The point of the story --
what I found interesting -- was that you can construct racial categories as it
pleases you. His black whip hand attitude confirms my point.
Ken Hanly wrote:
I seem to recall that when his subjects complained
about
Jeez, it's hard to get through to some people.
Charles Brown wrote:
That race is a socially constructed category means two things especially.Firstly,
skin color, hair texture and facial features ( the main elements of the modern
concept of race), though determined in part by heredity
That race is a socially constructed category means two things especially.Firstly,
skin color, hair texture and facial features ( the main elements of the modern concept
of race), though determined in part by heredity are not correlated with a hereditary
determination of "humanness", virtue,
"This is how we define .. . in this country." This definition or usage
of "social construction" exhibits exactly the ambiguity of the term
which has led me to avoid it. If this is what people mean by social
construction of racism, then it is off the wall. It rather ex
A reporter supposedly asked Papa Doc, what percentage of the population
of Haiti is white? Papa Doc responded 90 percent. The reporter could
not believe what he heard. He asked several times to make sure that got
the right answer. Each time Papa Doc responded in an identical
fashion. Finally,
was at the vortex
of the rally, just as it has been trying for two years to energize the
other building trades.
"A carpenter needs to be able to use a screw gun and read plans and make
cuts with sheet rock knives," said Hellstrom, assistant organizing director
of Local 79 of the Construction an
Here are some notes concerning the making of high brow and low brow
theater:
Wilentz, Sean. 1984. Chants Democratic: New York City and the
Rise of the American Working Class (New York: Oxford University
Press).
255: The unions promoted a code of "radical rectitude," yet
many workers retained
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