I don't think it's worth my time forwarding the articles on Mozambican
cashews to Krugman, since he's already staked his reputation on the cashew
question in the NY TIMES and is unlikely to back down.
But we have someone who's a pretty orthodox economist on pen-l. Brad, what
do you think of
I don't think it's worth my time forwarding the articles on
Mozambican cashews to Krugman, since he's already staked his
reputation on the cashew question in the NY TIMES and is unlikely to
back down.
But we have someone who's a pretty orthodox economist on pen-l.
Brad, what do you think of
from today's SLATE Magazine: The NYT off-lead, by the paper's national
crime reporter, Fox Butterfield, a story nobody else fronts, is that a new
comprehensive study purports to show that black and Hispanic teenagers are
treated more severely than their white counterparts in the juvenile
this bounced because Jim used a bad word in his subject line (v*cation)
Today's Paul Krugman column in the NY TIMES (at
http://www.nytimes.com/library/opinion/krugman/042600krug.html) is on
the
proposal to break up Microsoft into two near-monopolies. Anti-trust is
not
my field and I'm
G'day Michael,
Whilst I am wholly aware of JMK's insistence that a fight between the
bourgeoisie and the great unwashed would find him firmly on the side of the
former, I still think there's room for a generous reading of all this. It
seems, for instance, wholly consistent with the writings of,
Here is a partial list of the 149 economists who have endorsed the
legislation to give China Permanent Normal Trading Relations. This is a
big question that is easy to ask. What's wrong with this list? I'd like
some ad hominem, if anybody's got some.
The Nobel laureates who signed the
Michael Perelman wrote:
Hayek, F. A. 1952. "Review of Harrod's Life of J. M. Keynes." Journal of
Modern History, 24: 2 (June).
197: Keynes "had not long before coined the phrase of the
"euthanasia of the rentier," and in a deliberate to draw him
out I k the next
On Wednesday, April 26, 2000 at 12:54:36 (-0400) Doug Henwood writes:
Michael Perelman wrote:
Hayek, F. A. 1952. "Review of Harrod's Life of J. M. Keynes." Journal of
Modern History, 24: 2 (June).
197: Keynes "had not long before coined the phrase of the
"euthanasia of the
From: Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't think it's worth my time forwarding the articles on Mozambican
cashews to Krugman, since he's already staked his reputation on the cashew
question in the NY TIMES and is unlikely to back down.
Joe Hanlon's the english-language guru on the
Doug Henwood quoted Keynes as follows:
"We were not aware that civilisation was a thin and precarious crust
erected by the personality and will of a very few, and only
maintained by rules and conventions skilfully put across and
guilefully preserved. We had no respect for traditional
I have seen summaries of a Deloitte and Touche report supporting the
Mozambique cashew-nut producers, described as saying:
The new study was carried out by international consultants Deloitte
Touche and the World Bank's previous policy "should be abandoned"
[because]:
1) Indian subsidies to
BUT IS IT TOO LATE?
But is it all too late? The export tax was cut to 14%
this year and more than half of Mozambican raw nuts
were exported to India. Factories ran out of nuts and
by mid-year began to shed staff. Most of the 14
factories are now closed; 7000 of the 9000 workers
(most women) are
I think, for instance, Habermas's recounting of the significance of
French
salons and British tea houses (the 'bourgeois public sphere') is
important
stuff. There, the nascent bourgeoisie articulated and substantiated the
great (bourgeois) revolutionary age. Humanity was redefined, and human
1. Which study is SLATER magazine referring to? Who did the study?
SLATE magazine is Microsoft's on-line magazine of opinion, edited by
Michael Kinsley. Its line is similar to that of the NEW REPUBLIC, but more
coherent. The article is from their daily news summary.
2. Minority people are
The San Francisco Chronicle Monday, April 24, 2000
CHINA REPORTS BIG SURGE IN LABOR UNREST DURING 1999
Disputes over unpaid pensions, wages, fraud
By John Pomfret, Washington Post
Beijing -- The number of labor disputes in China has skyrocketed -- to
more
Jim Devine wrote:
the author, Scott Shuger, was simply asking questions about these issues. I
was hoping for answers to these questions rather than name-calling based on
a partial reading.
The Slate report must have been based on the following article, which
Doug fwd to lbo.
New
1. Which study is SLATER magazine referring to? Who did the study?
SLATE magazine is Microsoft's on-line magazine of opinion, edited by
Michael Kinsley. Its line is similar to that of the NEW REPUBLIC, but
more
coherent. The article is from their daily news summary.
My question was *not*
Subject:
Offer of Internship
Date:
Wed, 26 Apr 2000 13:16:23 +0200
From:
"Christoph Erdmenger" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Offer of Internship
Assistant in ICLEIs Eco-Procurement and Eco-Efficient Economy
Programme
The International Council
forwarded by Michael Hoover
[Surprise, surprise, the government has found another way to treat poor
people unfairly.]
World Socialist Web Site http://www.wsws.org
Poor in US more likely to face tax audits
By Shannon Jones
22 April 2000
New statistical evidence demonstrates that
Does Krugman have "a profound knowledge of the actual facts of industry and
trade" in Mozambique and of "the relation of individual men to them"?
Doesn't he assume, as he does in his "analysis" of Japan, that "rational"
choice theory is not only applicable but universally applicable?
"Ambitious
Ted Winslow wrote:
Ambitious men and women with large egos" usually
have very weak egos.
Their "ambition" and "large egos" are in fact signs of clinical narcissism.
This blinds them to obvious facts including the fact of their own ignorance.
Ted Winslow
--
Ted Winslow
E-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From Alan Sceptor:
The debates on the Fair Trade list over China and Global Exchange reflect
an
even deeper debate over the anti-globalization movement: should it be
anti-capitalist or liberal reformist? The following article attempts to
dissect and articulate this debate from an
ops,his last name is Spector.. Spector is a wsn fellow who forwarded
article..
From Alan Sceptor:
The debates on the Fair Trade list over China and Global Exchange reflect
an
even deeper debate over the anti-globalization movement: should it be
anti-capitalist or liberal reformist?
Poor in US more likely to face tax audits
By Shannon Jones
22 April 2000
Another side of this issue is that the General Accounting
Office did a report to follow up on the infamous Roth hearings
that ventilated citizen tales of IRS abuses. GAO found that
none of the anti-IRS charges held
Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/26/00 12:54PM "How can I accept a doctrine
[Marxism] which sets up as its
bible...an obsolete economic textbook which I know to be not only
scientifically erroneous but without interest or application for the
modern world? How can I adopt a creed which,
So, how is this liberal model, closer to the fact of the last seventy years in
capitalist countries more democratic than the models used in socialist countries ?
"Technocracy " is bureaucracy. Galbraith endorsed technocracy, no ? The private
corporations have technocrats/bureaucrats too, yet
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