Paul wrote:
BUT, using the PPP technique I described in earlier
posts, the World Bank
also calculates an imputed (imaginary) GNI. For the
same group of
countries this calculation boosts their Gross
National Income from $6.1 to
$20.5 trillion! This is a 320% increase - but just
on paper
--- Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
awhile back, a pen-pal from Bolvia forwarded a message
from Chile.
There, the home of the first neo-liberal revolution
(in 1973) -- the cult
of the cell phone had gone so far that some drivers
had whittled fake
ones out of wood so that they could look as
NY Times, July 25, 2004
For Corporate Donors, the Restraints Are Off
By GLEN JUSTICE
WASHINGTON, July 24 - As the political conventions begin, corporate big
spenders, who have been restrained by new campaign finance laws, finally
can cut loose.
The Raytheon Company, IBM and Fidelity Investments
NY Times Magazine, July 25, 2004
Wiring the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy
By MATT BAI
(clip)
By the time this election year ends, George Soros will have contributed
more than $13 million to the independent political groups known as
527's. (The term is shorthand for the section of the tax code that
Relative prices in different parts of the world
would
have to be considered to obtain a fair picture of
relative incomes. I can buy a banana for 3 cents in
my
city (Pop. 15 million). How much a banana costs in
New
York?
Ulhas
They are about $1 a kilo in Moscow (not exactly
Your tax-cut dollars at work.
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From: Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2004 5:25 AM
Subject: [PEN-L] Oink-oink
NY Times, July 25, 2004
For Corporate Donors, the Restraints Are Off
By GLEN JUSTICE
WASHINGTON, July 24 -
5 for a depreciated dollar on street corners in lower Manhattan.
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I can buy a banana for 3 cents in my city (Pop. 15 million). How much a
banana costs in New York?
Ulhas
As the driving force behind an open letter in support of the Cobb-Kerry
campaign, I am a little perplexed over whence you derive your authority.
Is it the fact that you star in the cable tv series 4400, about people
who were abducted by space aliens? Frankly, I would be far more
impressed if Fox
Give 'em hell, Louie! Don't back down. No matter how much they bully you,
threaten you, you go Louie, you two-fisted battler for humanity! You are
the Hulk Hogan of the open letter, and all that's good and right in the
world. And I for one look forward to supporting you in your open letter
sartesian wrote:
Checked for splling.
Then you should ask for your money back.
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Michael and Yoshie write:
Yoshie, you are not the only one that has been pestering Paul.
Michael Perelman
Paul, why don't you put together your notes on the PPP factor that
you've posted here and publish it as an article for the general
audience?
--
Yoshie
Many thanks, the encouragement is much
Ulhas Joglekar writes:
Relative prices in different parts of the world would
have to be considered to obtain a fair picture of
relative incomes. I can buy a banana for 3 cents in my
city (Pop. 15 million). How much a banana costs in New
York?
Thanks for bringing this up. Hold in your mind your
The Hindu
Sunday, Jul 25, 2004
The decline of the palace
[King Gyanendra faces dwindling support. -- Photo: AP
]
TWO INCIDENTS earlier this month, the details of which
were reported in the
Nepali press, confirmed for many their fears about
Crown Prince Paras.
Last Saturday, the Prince stormed
Like I said.
Thursday, July 22, 2004. Page 1.
Investors Caught in Yukos Crossfire
By Catherine Belton
Staff Writer Shocked investors continued to pile out
of Yukos stock Wednesday, a day after the government
raised the stakes in an increasingly vicious battle
with the company's owners by saying
Paul wrote:
The PPP numbers ARE used to show that
neo-liberal policies
in India would be better for India.
I don't know what you mean neo-liberal, but nobody
is using _PPP numbers_ in India to support neo-liberal
policies. Nor anybody in India is opposing _PPP
numbers_ to justify Marxists or
The American Plan
Time was,
not so long ago,when the decline of the dollar was seen as the end
of "US hegemony," and the re-ascent of Europe, as if there ever had been,
or is, anunified entity called "Europe." The dollar's
depreciation was supposed to be an indication of Europe's, as if
Excuse me, forgot to add: http://www.thewolfatthedoor.blogspot.com
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From:
sartesian
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2004 12:17
PM
Subject: Advert for self
The American Plan
Time was,
not so long ago,when the decline of
Economics is all about measuring in measurable. I was reading this week about
scientific racism in Victorian England, where people tried to develop mathematical
measures of how close various peoples came to being Africans. These measures showed
the Irish were almost Black. Such matters were
Speaking of scientific racism, ever read Chase's Legacy of Malthus?
Best work on it, I think.
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From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2004 10:01 AM
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] HDI, GNP and the PPP factor
Economics is all
Ulhas writes:
I don't know what you mean neo-liberal, but nobody
is using _PPP numbers_ in India to support neo-liberal
policies.
It is buried in the statistics they (the neo-liberal proponents)
use. For example, on Thursday you helpfully posted the Financial Express's
article on the
Paul wrote:
It is buried in the statistics they (the
neo-liberal proponents)
use.
I was making a simple point that the debate on
economic policy in India has little to do the utility
of PPP numbers.
Paul was trying to show how PPP numbers overstate the
economic growth in the developing
Ulhas Joglekar wrote:
I was making a simple point that the debate on
economic policy in India has little to do the utility
of PPP numbers.
But apparently _our_ understanding of that growth has much to do with
those PPP numbers. Your post on growth in India incorporated those
numbers, and we
On measuring the unmeasurable, 3.5 centuries ago, Sir William Petty, was devising
ways to measure the economy.
I wonder how silly we will look in the future, unless we continue to destroy the
future.
Routh, Guy. 1977. The Origin of Economic Ideas (New York: Vintage).
45: In comparing wealth
Yesterday my school buddy returned after having spent 2 months in
Hyderabad, the capital of Andhra Pradesh. He is an IT guy so he
attributed the suicides partly to water shortage, consistent with limited
monsoon rain in the region. But what he said was that Chandra Babu Naidu
the laptop toting
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