Bring Them Home Now: Leaflets Website (from Stan Goff)

2003-07-22 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Stan Goff his comrades got the campaign to Bring Them Home Now website up and running: http://www.bringthemhomenow.com/. He sent me two temp leaflets to be used in the campaign. I uploaded them to the Student International Forum website of which I am the webmaster. You can download the leaflets

Runaway shops

2003-07-22 Thread Louis Proyect
NY Times, July 22, 2003 I.B.M. Explores Shift of White-Collar Jobs Overseas By STEVEN GREENHOUSE With American corporations under increasing pressure to cut costs and build global supply networks, two senior I.B.M. officials told their corporate colleagues around the world in a recorded

Re: Slightly more patient capital?

2003-07-22 Thread Anders Schneiderman
Hi Max, Thanks for the Burman cite; if you ever excavate the papers and find the name of the person, could you drop me a note? re: where I've been: working as an IT manager to pay off grad school bills recover from political activism burnout. I'm now the Information Manager at SEIU, but I

Joseph Wilson's wife outed as CIA agent

2003-07-22 Thread Louis Proyect
(This has Watergate possibilities, in my opinion.) NY Times Op-Ed, July 22, 2003 Who's Unpatriotic Now? By PAUL KRUGMAN And while we're on the subject of patriotism, let's talk about the affair of Joseph Wilson's wife. Mr. Wilson is the former ambassador who was sent to Niger by the C.I.A. to

Re: Of Coase

2003-07-22 Thread Eubulides
- Original Message - From: Max B. Sawicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] nice. mbs === For an hilarious send up of a Coase-Nozick libertarian economy see Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. Privatization and protection rackets run amok... Ian

Re: Of Coase

2003-07-22 Thread Devine, James
for a pro-libertarian Science Fiction book, see Heinlein's THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS. In the end, the whole libertarian edifice turns out to be based on a secret dictatorship, though Heinlein didn't see this as a bad thing. Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Of Coase

2003-07-22 Thread andie nachgeborenen
Another libertarian utopia by a Scot Trot, The Stone Canal by Ken MacLeod. His communist fantasy is The Cassini Division. I find this less interesting. His revolutionary novel, The Star Fraction, is quite interesting. Then there is The Sky Road, an uneven but inreresting exploration of a non-u-(or

chomsky

2003-07-22 Thread Dan Scanlan
Title: chomsky Collateral Language An Interview With Noam Chomsky David Barsamian Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT. He is the author of scores of books-his latest are Power and Terror and Middle

Re: Bring Them Home Now: Leaflets Website (from Stan Goff)

2003-07-22 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Stan Goff his comrades got the campaign to Bring Them Home Now website up and running: http://www.bringthemhomenow.com/. He sent me two temp leaflets to be used in the campaign. I uploaded them to the Student International Forum website of which I am the webmaster. You can download the leaflets

Redstockings URPE

2003-07-22 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Seth, invite Jenny Brown to the Marxist School of Sacramento. * Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:13:16 -0400 (EDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [lbo-talk] various self and other promotion To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Subscribe: http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk, I'm on the

Uchitelle on jobless recovery

2003-07-22 Thread Devine, James
July 20, 2003/New York TIMES. New Reality Is Leaving Growth in the Mire By LOUIS UCHITELLE FOR nearly 29 months, the nation has struggled through a recession and a weak recovery. That is a long struggle, a new form of hardship for many Americans, who are tantalized with incessant forecasts that

Canadian Dimension special issue on Cuba controversy

2003-07-22 Thread Louis Proyect
http://www.canadiandimension.mb.ca/frame.htm Louis Proyect, Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

forwarded from Rakesh on transaction costs

2003-07-22 Thread Michael Perelman
- Forwarded message from Rakesh Bhandari [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 11:24:03 -0700 From: Rakesh Bhandari [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: transaction costs Hi Michael Pen-l readers may be interested in this paper

Saudi Arabia

2003-07-22 Thread Eubulides
Saudis start their charm offensive Terry Macalister Wednesday July 23, 2003 The Guardian Saudi Arabia yesterday launched its first gas licensing round in an attempt to attract some of the western investment heading for Iraq, Kuwait and other oil nations now favoured by America. Saudi energy

Future of Economics conference

2003-07-22 Thread Eubulides
[from Geoffrey Hodgson] Dear Colleague The Cambridge Journal of Economics is organising a conference on the Future of Economics in Cambridge (UK) on 'Economics for the Future'. The conference will encourage open dialogue amongst all those concerned about the future prospects for economics -

Re: forwarded from Rakesh on transaction costs

2003-07-22 Thread Eubulides
- Original Message - From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Forwarded message from Rakesh Bhandari [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Hi Michael Pen-l readers may be interested in this paper http://www.econ.uconn.edu/working/1995-03.pdf Richard Langlois on transaction costs,

another exquisite contradiction

2003-07-22 Thread Eubulides
[New York Times] July 23, 2003 Butting Heads With the Pentagon By LESLIE WAYNE There is no better friend of the Pentagon than Duncan Hunter, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. A conservative and a hawk on defense, Mr. Hunter has long been someone the military could count on to push