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From: Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: michael pugliese [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 4/10/02 12:35:34 PM
Telos
No. 54, Winter 1982-83
Juan E. Corradi: The Mode of Destruction: Terror in Argentina
Drop dead.
Louis Proyect
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Why did Michael send a reply to Louis' well intentioned mail on
Argentina with this table of contents from Telos?
What kind of a journal is this Telos and what is the problem with
Juan E. Corradi's writing an article entitled The Mode of
Destruction: Terror in Argentina there?
I know Michael
I posted this to LBO Talk, but I thought I might try here because right now
I'm only participating a response from Chip Berlet on that list.
I was researching Carlyle Group investments in waste management (wanted to
see if any of their companies were up to anything like the alleged fraud at
Too many hours on the pc. I meant 'anticipating' a response from Chip in the
first post.
Here is an interesting follow up to CG's IT Group. It turns out it has
similar roots in Midwest USA garbage. The whole set of clippings from
Indybay segue nicely to 'dirt' on Waste Management, whose founder
The Economic Times
Monday, April 08, 2002
Foot-and-mouth travels down to Asia
AFP
KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian state has detected an outbreak of foot-and-mouth
disease and has banned the movement of cattle to all destinations from north
eastern Terengganu.
Fhaisol Mat Amin, state veterinary
Call To Action - Gas Prices
Subject: An Interesting example of power of Viral Marketing
I hear we are going to hit close to $3.00 a gallon by the summer. Want
gasoline prices to come down? We need to take some intelligent, united
action. Philip Hollsworth, offered this good
I wrote to Michael about this, but Michael's mailbox is full. I don't
want any taunting on the list.
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 11:40:40PM -0700, Sabri Oncu wrote:
Why did Michael send a reply to Louis' well intentioned mail on
Argentina with this table of contents from Telos?
What kind of a
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, DAILY REPORT, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2002:
RELEASED TODAY: A total of 1.7 million injuries and illnesses in private
industry required recuperation away from work beyond the day of the incident
in 2000, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The number of these
how is the old hippie, the author of the pot-soaked GREENING OF AMERICA?
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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In the article below, Varian explains Nash equilibrium. As an expert in game
theory, he points out that it's not a realistic prediction of how people
play most actual real-world games.
If so, why is Nash's equilibrium used for all sorts of things, such as
electricity regulation? (If I remember,
If so, why is Nash's equilibrium used for all sorts of things, such as
electricity regulation? (If I remember, the movie mentioned that.) Is it
that Nash equilibrium is basically a normative concept and that it's
applied
to improve the efficiency of electricity regulation (or what not) rather
FROM PORT HURON* TO KENT STATE
*Port Huron was the meeting place at which a statement of vision and
program was created in 1962 by Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).
Dear Friends,
Like you, we work at the things we do because we believe a better world is
possible. Moved by the
Jim writes
In the article below, Varian explains Nash equilibrium. As an expert in game
theory, he points out that it's not a realistic prediction of how people
play most actual real-world games.
If so, why is Nash's equilibrium used for all sorts of things, such as
electricity regulation? (If
Officials from an Ohio nuclear power plant assured federal regulators today
that they could repair corrosion that had eaten nearly all the way through
a reactor lid, but faced a barrage of questions from the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission staff.
Gil writes
... for what it's worth, the global overfishing problem (see the front-page
NYTimes article from a day or so ago) seems in many respects like a classic
instance of a suboptimal outcome to a prisoners' dilemma-style problem.
They presented the problem of overfishing at UC Berkeley grad
In today's GUARDIAN (U.K.), Seumas Milne likens the Israeli
occupation/destruction of Jenin and other places in the occupied territories
to the French policy of destroying the Casbah as a way to destroy popular
resistance to colonial rule. My thought was that it was a bit like the
destruction of
This will be my last message in this thread. It doesn't seem to be making
any progress.
Charles B. writes: Yes, Marshall Sahlins wrote that the politics of the
university is feudal or something like that. You sketch out more of the
details, although, I think you might want to get the lords and
a correspondent sent me the following quote from the Israeli newspaper
Haaretz, 25.1.2002:
In order to prepare properly for the next campaign, one of the highest
Israeli officers in the territories said not long ago, it's justified and in
fact essential to learn from every possible source. If
James Devine quotes Hal R. Varian of the NY TIMES:
What Mr. Nash recognized was that in any sort of strategic interaction, the
best choice for any single player depends critically on his beliefs about
what the other players might do. Mr. Nash proposed that we look for outcomes
where each player
Again, Phil Mirowski's new book is excellent on this.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bizarrely, even as the crisis continues, CNN International's Asia News last
night led off with 7 minutes about developments in Sri Lanka and then
limited coverage to 30 seconds of Powell talking.
Sure peace in Sri Lanka is a major development for Sri Lanka and for India,
but why should it be a
I don't have time to finish this book within this decade, but Mirowsky's
MACHINE DREAMS is indeed excellent. It's very well written. It's interesting
that he contrasts neoclassical economics (which is anti-cyborg) and the
cyborgian orthodoxy. He's absolutely right that economists always quote
Hmmm.
Yea, there is a lot of superficial truth in this account, at least as
relative to Canada. But there is also a lot of overgeneralization
and obfuscation in this account also. Since I have already
published several hundreds of pages and articles on this subject, I
am not about to
http://www.japantimes.co.jp
Ministers tell United States to drop steel curbs
The foreign and trade ministers on Thursday urged the United States to drop its
emergency tariffs on most steel imports in
separate meetings with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick in Tokyo, declaring
for
http://mondediplo.com/2002/04/08breach
US breaks the laws of war
The United States has invented a new category of captive, not covered by the Geneva
Convention: 'unlawful combatants'. And it has
made sure that nobody can question this unilateral designation by holding the
prisoners taken in
Paul 'Alcoa can't wait' O'Neill:
I made note of the fact that right now something of the order of 1,000
requests of exemptions (to tariffs) are being looked at and I think as
some of these exemption requests are processed that the shrillness of
this conversation will be reduced, O'Neill told
Michael wrote:
Again, Phil Mirowski's new book is excellent on this.
Thanks to Michael's previous reference, I read parts of the book
and loved it. I am about to start reading it from cover to cover.
One feeling I got from the book is that Nash equilibrium is some
kind of a paranoid
Warwick Armstrong, The Social Origins of Industrial Growth: Canada,
Argentina and Australia, 1870-1930, in Argentina, Australia and
Canada: Studies in Comparative Development, 1870-1965, edited by D.
Platt Guido di Tella:
Yet, within the general pattern of similarity which gave them their
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