On the issue of valuing stock options: Can't
they just apply Myron Scholes' formula?
Gene
Greetings from Ankara Gene,
I don't know if anyone answered this but here is my answer. It is not appropriate to
use the BlackScholes formurmula for the employee stock options.
Firstly, BlackScholes
[Apologies for the cross-posting.]
The Australian government's Productivity Commission [sic] has just released
a report on social capital. Considering the enthusiasm for the concept by
mainstream politicians --- right and left --- the report is surprisingly
critical, although it fits with the
Regulation is not popular in America. But it could regain its popularity,
if the alternative is a continual loss of jobs in every
state.
Even so, the Bush administration has in reality regulated a lot. As
mentioned in a previous PEN-L post, regulations governing US business
reached an all-time
Long life and prosper...
Mike B)
'Ape diet' lowers bad cholesterol levels
21:00 22 July 03
Shaoni Bhattacharya
A vegetarian ape-diet, based on the foods our simian
cousins eat, is as effective in lowering cholesterol
as an established cholesterol-lowering drug, reveals a
new study. High
so does this mean I have to EAT the lice I pick off my wife?
Jim
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Just groom her nicely, Jim and remember the difference
between flora and fauna.
Mike B)
--- Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
so does this mean I have to EAT the lice I pick off
my wife?
Jim
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From: Mike Ballard
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Dan Scanlan wrote:
Collateral Language
An Interview With Noam Chomsky
David Barsamian
It also led to the rise of the public relations industry. It's
interesting to look at the thinking in the 1920s, when it got started.
This was the period of Taylorism
Hi Mike,
Great you're back again. I don't think that Jim should eat insects. But look
at it this way, if present trends continue, then within a few hundred years
there might be little else to eat. A Toronto research institute did research
on this, and found that if you fry them properly, certain
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From: Jurriaan Bendien [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Even so, the Bush administration has in reality regulated a lot. As
mentioned in a previous PEN-L post, regulations governing US business
reached an all-time high in 2002, according to the Cato Institute; more
than
75,600
Below is editorial comment by Progressive editor John Rothschild
about the importance of the Bari/Cherney vs. FBI case in the context
of the fascist police state we have suddenly found ourselves living
in. The commentary was published a day after the verdict was
announced last year.
BULLETIN:
U.S. Doctors, Stressed at Work, Escape to Hedge Funds, Business
July 23 (Bloomberg) -- Chip Skowron had visions of happily practicing and
teaching orthopedics after finishing the Yale School of Medicine with M.D.
and Ph.D. degrees in 1998. Then, he met what he calls the ``harsh''
reality of being
Journal of Agrarian Change, Vol. 3 No. 3, July 2003
Plantation Slavery and Economic Development in the Antebellum Southern
United States
by CHARLES POST
Borrowing Robert Brenners concept of social property relations, the
article presents an alternative analysis of the dynamics of plantation
...the issue is not more versus less government [or big government versus
small government], but rather to whose interests the government gives
effect.
Hi Ian, of course you are correct here, your point is excellent, this is
what I like to call excellent reframing, I continue to marvel at your
Hi Jurriaan,
When I was a kid in the 50s, somebody was selling
chocolate covered ants at the farmers' market in Los
Angeles. Never ate them myself.
As for those meek rats and roaches inheriting the
Earth, yes quite possible, as long as most humans
persist in fetishizing commodity production.
what's the point here? it can't be that Brenner somehow agrees with Locke, since
that's not true.
As for Locke, he was an addle-headed apologist: on the one hand, he asserted that if
you mix your labor with something and create a product, it's your property. But then
it turns out that if
I remember Judi and Darryl asking for seed money for
this lawsuit at the IWW Assembly in SF the year they
were bombed. We all sang the old songs and some new
ones too. Utah Philips was there, lending a helping
hand. J D were Wobblies as well as Earth Firsters in
those days, all part of the
Very wise ! Don't think we have had a point of genuine disagreement yet,
except you're older and more streetwise than me, I don't underestimate you
at all. This is what I like best about the more intelligent anarchists;
their ability to transcend theoretical disputes and return us to the basics
of
Devine wrote:
what's the point here? it can't be that Brenner somehow agrees with Locke,
since that's not true.
As for Locke, he was an addle-headed apologist: on the one hand, he
asserted that if you mix your labor with something and create a product,
it's your property. But then it turns out
Louis,
You are correct. Ceteris paribus, slavery (formal or de facto) in modern
capitalism is bound to increase in the future. This has to do not just with
combined and uneven development, but with the quantitative extent of the
unevenness and the exploitability of the whole human being with
I have problems with the idea that we have to choose between emphasizing
imperial extraction or domestic surplus extraction. I think both were
very important.
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 09:19:49PM -0400, Louis Proyect wrote:
Devine wrote:
what's the point here? it can't be that Brenner somehow
Hi Jurriaan,
My friend Bernie, who is a jazz afficiando, went to
Cuba and was very impressed with the amount of music
surrounding him. At almost every cafe, there were
people singing or making music of one sort or another.
It's not a communist society; but it's not as bad as
the capitalist
I have been reading a very nice article about the railroad industry of the
19th-century. Some of it is not entirely new -- for those of you familiar
with Tales of the Erie, but it does a nice job of showing how Enron-like
shenanigans were common at the time and the importance of duping the press
- Original Message -
From: Jurriaan Bendien [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 3:27 PM
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Uchitelle on jobless recovery
...the issue is not more versus less government [or big government
versus
small government], but rather to
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From: Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am preparing a lengthy reply to Charles Post, which involves a review
of
a lot of material I've never looked at before--starting with Phil
Foner's
fascinating account of ties between NYC merchants and the Southern
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From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have been reading a very nice article about the railroad industry of
the
19th-century. Some of it is not entirely new -- for those of you
familiar
with Tales of the Erie, but it does a nice job of showing how Enron-like
Coca-Cola boycott launched after killings at Colombian plants
Sibylla Brodzinsky in Bogota
Thursday July 24, 2003
The Guardian
Trade unions around the world have launched a boycott of Coca-Cola
products, alleging that the company's locally owned bottlers in Colombia
used illegal paramilitary
Ellen Meiksins Wood views him [John Locke] as a kind of patron saint of the
agrarian bourgeoisie in Great Britain, which was the vanguard of capitalist
transformation.
Likely this is because the agrarian bourgeoisie -- and the urban one too -- viewed
Locke as a kind of patron saint. He's the
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