Sunday July 7, 7:36 pm Eastern Time
Reuters Business Report
Globalization Has Helped Poor, Study Says
By Jeremy Gaunt
LONDON (Reuters) - Far from creating poverty as critics claim, rapid
globalization of the world economy has sliced the proportion of abject poor
across the planet, according to
original NOTE: Anti-imperialism is almost dead is in large parts of
Asia (Palestinian struggle excluded) and there is no sign that it will
be revived in the foreseeable future. Thus, the contradiction between
Asia and the developed world is not present either. BTW, the binary
image of the world
The New Yorker, 07/15/2002
MASTER OF DISASTER
by JOHN CASSIDY
A leading economist says the protesters have a point about the I.M.F.
In 1998, Joseph Stiglitz, a Columbia professor who shared last year's Nobel
Prize in Economics, visited a village in rural Morocco where aid workers
had been
joanna bujes wrote:
Private school tuition ranges from $8,000/year to $20,000/year...and
it goes up every year.
My alma mater is up to $34,030! That's nearly 2,300 hours of work at
the average wage, twice as much as in 1973, when I was there.
But do we know how much people really pay? Most
Ulhas Joglekar wrote:
Anti-imperialism is almost dead is in large parts of Asia (Palestinian
struggle excluded) and there is no sign that it will be revived in the
forseable future. Thus, the contradiction between Asia and the developed
world is not present either.
BTW, the binary image of the
Venezuela and Argentina: A Tale of Two Coups
by Greg Palast
New Internationalist Magazine - July 2002
The big business-led coup in Venezuela failed, where international finance's coup in
Argentina has succeeded. Greg Palast gives us the inside track on two very different
power-grabs.
Devine, James:
Ulhas writes:There is no undiffrentiated mass of nations called the Third
World.
Of course. What's constant amongst these countries, though, is the
relationship between the center and the periphery, the relationship of
domination and subordination. In addition, some countries are
Ulhas:
1. How does one know this without having studied in depth each social
formation in the periphery so-called?
Good point. That is why read over 2000 pages on Argentina in order to
prepare a series of posts. In general, there is far too much blather on the
internet about such questions, even
Everyone knows that the US balance of
payment deficit an engine of growth on the Asia-Pacific region and China
is
biggest beneficiary there. What domination/subordination model is involved
here?
Ulhas
- US trade balance deficit means that the USA pays only 75% of its
importations. The
An explanation of Antagonism as contradiction
Introduction
(Please skip the Introduction if you have an aversion to ideology and go to Presentation)
The concept of antagonism in contradictions remains perhaps the most difficult of Marx and Engels conception of social development and process
In a message dated 7/7/02 7:41:36 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Carrol
P.S. I think Mao is given a bad rap by those who wrench his works out of
their context in the Chinese Revolution. In his use of the terms
"antagonistic" and "non-antagonistic" contradictions Mao (at
I am new to this list. I wanted to introduce myself. I look forward to
learning much on the subject of progressive economics. I have a certain
amount of experience so I may eventually make a little contribution after
finding my feet.
To start, let's assume that I am a market socialist with a
[pardon the Gilder-ism]
Telecom Sector May Find Past Is Its Future
Giant Phone Companies Offer Stable, Well-Funded Option
By Peter S. Goodman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, July 8, 2002; Page A01
About 500,000 people have lost their jobs. Dozens of companies
have gone bankrupt. As much
Doug Henwood wrote:
I'm sympathetic to what you're saying, but I'd like to hear more. Why
is anti-imperialism dead? Don't Indian farmers, for example, resent
and resist the demands of the WTO? Or are internal class conflicts
more relevant now, given the industrialization and
To start, let's assume that I am a market socialist with a model including
both state-managed and owned manufacturing and construction sectors and
non-profit distributing service sectors.
Sé.
Hi, Natasha. Is that lets' assume the economists' let's assume, that is,
not really, but in an
9. Foreign policy issues are not important domestic politics. Why should
they be important? We are free and independent nation. Marxists,
particularly of anti-imperialist variety, don't appreciate that calling
independent nations 'semi-colonies' and 'peripheries' is the worst possible
insult.
Merck Shares Fall on Worries About Accounting at Medco Unit
By REUTERS
Filed at 9:40 a.m. ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Merck Co. Inc. (MRK.N) shares fell nearly 4 percent
on Monday after news it recorded revenue of over $14 billion from its
pharmacy-benefits subsidiary Medco that the unit never
Title: RE: [PEN-L:27729] Re: core vs. periphery
Ulhas writes:There is no undiffrentiated mass of nations called the Third World.
I wrote:
Of course. What's constant amongst these countries, though, is the relationship between the center and the periphery, the relationship of domination
Title: RE: [PEN-L:27739] Re: Re: Imperialism in decline?
Ulhas:9. Foreign policy issues are not important domestic politics. Why should they be important? We are free and independent nation. Marxists, particularly of anti-imperialist variety, don't appreciate that calling independent nations
Title: RE: [PEN-L:27741] RE: Re: Re: Imperialism in decline?
Ulhas:9. Foreign policy issues are not important domestic politics. Why should they be important? We are free and independent nation. Marxists, particularly of anti-imperialist variety, don't appreciate that calling independent
Devine, James wrote:
I should mention that I am far from being a hard-core Wallersteinian
(especially since I don't read his stuff very often). In some ways,
the core/periphery distinction is useful, while in some ways it's not:
the model doesn't seem to allow for the fact that
Title: RE: stages of imperialism.
[was: To JD vis-a-vis stages of imperialism.]
Scott writes:
It seems to me that very different types of stages are being mixed up in this discussion so far.
Capitalism/imperialism can be divided into stages or periods in any number of ways. ONE very
Ulhas Joglekar wrote:
1. Domestic prices of grain are higher than prices in the world market. But
Indian government fixes prices every year. These prices are
annually hiked. Such increases are disproportionate to the domestic rate of
inflation. The government is committed to procure any
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/07/06/1025667073364.html
Abbott: a boon to the dark satanic mills
By Terry Lane
July 7 2002
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/07/06/1025667073364.html
Is it possible that Mr Tony Abbott MHR is a time
traveller? Could he really
How does this comport with Vandana Shiva's dire tales of Indian
farmers miserably exploited by international agribusiness and the
gene modifiers?
Doug
Ulhas was writing about rich farmers, not the poor majority. Why he did is
anybody's guess. It is like asking somebody about the situation of
Doug Henwood :
How does this comport with Vandana Shiva's dire tales of Indian
farmers miserably exploited by international agribusiness and the
gene modifiers?
The question Doug asked was about the WTO and its impact on Indian farmers.
So I answered accordingly. Poor farmers hardly have any
Ulhas:
The question Doug asked was about the WTO and its impact on Indian farmers.
So I answered accordingly. Poor farmers hardly have any surpluses to be
affected by the WTO. Doug's question was not about the state of poor and
marginal farmers.
Subject: Massive mobilisation in India against the
New Delhi, Jan 11, 2000
While more than 200 activists were staging a demonstration outside,
three protestors sneaked into a heavily guarded venue session of the
Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Partnership Meet 2000, here
today. WTO Director General Mike Moore had just finished speaking
Title: more more stock options
BUSINESSWEEK/JULY 15, 2002
An Overdose of Options
Depressed stock prices are prompting companies to issue more options than ever
Stock options were supposed to be the great motivator, letting top management reap a share of the gains they produced for
Problem is, options don't work in a bear market.
At Sun, they've given out options a couple of times since the stock price
slide (120s to 5) -- but the problem is that since the stock is heading
down relentlessly, a few weeks after you get say 1000 options at 18, the
stock goes underwater to
Title: RE: [PEN-L:27753] Re: more more stock options
joanna writes:Problem is, options don't work in a bear market.
right, but BW says that that's making companies issue more of them -- and, more importantly, encourages the market to be even more bearish.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Title: RE: [PEN-L:27753] Re: more & more stock options
REjoanna
writes:Problem is, options don't work in a bear market.
But when the stock market does
start to go up--and a huge overhang of stock options are finally cashed in--what
might happen to the stock market?
Eric
.
(Feel free to distribute)
Expense those options!
By Stephen F. Diamond*
As the dust clears from the collapse of Enron, WorldCom and Arthur
Andersen, major structural change in the behavior of American corporations
and financial markets seems less likely. The lobbying power of accounting
At 12:48 PM 07/08/2002 -0700, you wrote:
RE
joanna writes:Problem is, options don't work in a bear market.
But when the stock market does start to go up--and a huge
overhang of stock options are finally cashed in--what might happen to the
stock market?
Eric
.
Exactly,
Joanna
http://www.flonnet.com/fl1914/19140730.htm
Market failure: A convincing case
VENKATESH ATHREYA
The Market that Failed: A Decade of Neoliberal Economic Reforms in
India by C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh; Leftword Books, New
Delhi, 2002; pages 192, Rs. 275.
THE period of nearly 11 years
The market will likely not recover fast enough to
put most outstanding options "in the money" tho companies will attempt to
reprice options downward and issue new options at lower strike prices. As
Joanna says in a bear market all bets are off- the interesting question is
whether employees
CMAJ 1999 Jun 15;160(12):1730-4; Canadian health expenditures: where do
we really stand internationally? Deber R, Swan B. Department of
Health Administration, University of Toronto, Ont.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
There are different ways to measure how much
Canada spends on
At 02:38 PM 07/08/2002 -0700, Steve Diamond wrote:
The market will likely not recover fast enough to put most outstanding
options in the money tho companies will attempt to reprice options
downward and issue new options at lower strike prices. As Joanna says in
a bear market all bets are off
Working the land to feed the people
Brazil's landless workers' movement has radical solutions to the
country's problems, writes Jan Rocha
Thursday July 4, 2002
Guardian Weekly
Hunger is spreading in a world of plenty: in Brazil, one of the
world's big food producers, a third of the population
The Economic Times
Thursday, July 04, 2002
Kazakhstan targets China, India oil export
REUTERS
OVERLAND PARK: Fresh from confirmation last week that Kazakhstan's Caspian
Sea shelf holds the largest oil find in 30 years, Kazakh officials said on
Monday they were exploring new pipeline routes
Basle accord set to change banking landscape
By James Mackintosh and Charles Pretzlik in London
Published: July 8 2002 20:14 | Last Updated: July 8 2002 20:14
The small Swiss town of Basle will this week play host to what could go down
in financial history as a momentous event: agreement in
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