At 2003-06-22 06:43 -0400, Michael Hoover wrote:
an article was published in the New York Times
a couple of days ago about the new specialty of neuroeconomics.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/17/science/17NEUR.html
It is described as a revolution in economics, and should go a long
way towards
Turkey offers 1,200-1,800 soldiers to assist US in Iraq
The United States Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz
declared that Turkey offered relief aid and other assistance in
the rebuild of Iraq, as well as 1,200 to 1,800 troops.
According to a news article published in influential
From:Chris Burford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Coincidentally I was doing a Google search and came across this
contribution to LBO-talk in October 2001 by Greg Schofield, which seems to
put the issue well.
[Unfortunately his email address no longer seems to be working. If anyone
can forward me
is nicely summarized at
http://xymphora.blogspot.com/
under the June 21 date. (Didn't the space shuttle diasaster get a serious
investigation begin in within 2 hours!?)
Paul
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Confronting 9-11, Ideologies of Race, and
Grant Lee:
My point was not to lionise free trade. The Venezuelan situation raises many
questions in my mind. I mean, for example, protectionism, like land reform,
is very far removed from a genuinely socialist/communist society, assuming
that _is_ what Chavez and the Bolivarians want to achieve.
(LP: I will respond to this in a separate post.)
Hallo Louis,
we just recently came across your mail on Marxs writing on the British
rule in India. On the background of ongoing discussions about a
progressive imperialism we realized that quite a few former leftist
scientists seemed to support
Hi PEN-L,
Paul Zarembka visited the VoteToImpeach.org voting site, cast a ballot supporting
impeachment, and is sending you this note asking you to participate by casting your
vote in the campaign to impeach George W. Bush for having committed high crimes and
misdemeanors.
The war in Iraq,
How about wheat, corn, soybeans, kilowatt-hours, cement, etc., etc.,
etc., etc.,etc., etc., etc., etc.
How about vitamins, graphite electrodes, lysine, citric acid, gas
turbines, large transformers?
Pharmacueticals are a good example. Buying your drugs from Canada? Even
the US Senate is thinking
Thomas Rathgeber wrote:
In contrary to the statement, that Marx had only limited and outdated
information on Indian society, a position you obviously agree with, we
determined, that Marx had read most of the recently published books on
India. His excerpts and some quotes in the articles show,
There is another tweak to the idea. In some cases, modern information
technology has reduced the marginal cost of some superficial forms of
variety. So, for example, it magazines can print something personalized
for you in their advertisements or automobile companies can vary the color
scheme on
Title: Re: Ashcroft wants to reach out to the
people
Further, they reveal
that angels have been declared an endagered
species.
Horrors! Not that many Bin Ladens can dance on the head of
a pin.
Dan Scanlan
Title: RE: [PEN-L] market competition fails again
Is there empirical evidence that the problem of low marginal costs and high fixed costs is so important to the economy that it changes the over-all dynamics of the economy?
BTW, I hope no-one is trying to reduce _all_ of the problems of the
Jim, you are absolutely correct on both counts. I tried to make that
point in my much-maligned book, The Natural Instability of Markets.
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 09:10:12AM -0700, Devine, James wrote:
Is there empirical evidence that the problem of low marginal costs and high
fixed costs is so
NY Times, June 23,2003
The Homes of Argentines Are at Risk in I.M.F. Talks
By LARRY ROHTER
BUENOS AIRES, June 22 After a decade as renters, Ariel and Norma
Brofman were finally able to buy a small house here four years ago. But
if the Argentine government yields to International Monetary Fund
Title: FW: [PEN-L] On free trade Re: Query from a Venezuelan
Chris Burford writes:
The so-called free trade of the present period is no more than
international capital giving itself the freedom to price fix unhindered,
the freedom to exercise its plans without let, the freedom to use one
NY Magazine, June 30, 2003
This Media Life
WMD, FCC Tina
Theres a reason big media has given Bush a pass on weapons of mass
destruction, but it has to do with a Powell other than Colin. Plus: I
love Tina Brown (really!).
By Michael Wolff
Im going to follow a thread linking the weapons of
Sabri wrote:
That must be the Marsden effect. He has a tendency to put people to
sleep.
i've seen him give talks, and he's a fine, dynamic speaker. But this
literary trend he is a part of is a dead end.
I have one of his books with Hughes from 1976, A short course in
fluid mechanics and it
Michael Perelman writes:
very interesting, but this sort of crap did not interest the right wing
when Blacks were moved out.
Give me a break. It wasn't the right-wing that supported urban renewal in the
post-WWII era. A staple of conservative book lists used to be The Federal Bulldozer:
A
On Monday, June 23, 2003 at 10:34:16 (-0700) Devine, James writes:
...
that's right. It's important to distinguish free trade in theory (the
general lowering of tariffs and quotas on imports and the end of export
subsidies) and what it usually means in practice (free movement of capital
but
Title: RE: [PEN-L] property rights
David is partly right. The liberals often used eminent domain for social engineering.
For example, the Chavez Ravine communities (populated almost entirely by Mexican-Americans) in Los Angeles were torn down as part of the urban renewal project flowing
Chris Burford writes:
The so-called free trade of the present period is no more than
international capital giving itself the freedom to price fix unhindered,
the freedom to exercise its plans without let, the freedom to use one
group of workers to compete against another on a world scale.
Title: RE: [PEN-L] FW: [PEN-L] On free trade Re: Query from a Venezuelan
I wanted to add a point: back in the 19th century, Germany and the US were able to successfully use tariffs to promote national economic development. But part of this success was the relatively small technological gap
On evictions in Argentina.
Larry Rothers Brofmans (and many thousands like them) will not be
seriously menaced before the last turn of elections, this year, takes place.
Same can be said of the jeopardized owners of millions of hectares of
land who were so indebted that their situation does
Louis Proyect wrote:
On evictions in Argentina.
This was from Nestor Gorojovsky, btw. As was probably obvious.
--
The Marxism list: www.marxmail.org
More hyperbolic shazbot from Business 2.0.
The ad itself is interesting as actual art -- kind of the old game
Mousetrap meets the Art Gallery of Ontario -- funded by an auto
manufacturer. (www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,50151,00.html)
As actual advertising, it is another familiar novelty.
Car insurance signs clear: bumpy road ahead
Complex reasons for rising rates
THOMAS WALKOM
Toronto Star
June 21 2003
Ontario's auto insurance system doesn't work. After three governments
and almost 15 years of tinkering, that's the sad reality.
The obvious problems are well known. Premiums are
At 2003-06-23 11:05 -0700, Jim Devine wrote:
I wanted to add a point: back in
the 19th century, Germany and the US were able to successfully use
tariffs to promote national economic development. But part of this
success was the relatively small technological gap between them and the
market
As to the recent multilateralist tensions...
Is there some deeply entrenched reason that North America and Europe
(whether the UK ever decides to be in that or not) have different
reactions to world events -- including socialist ideas?
Maybe a burn out factor, to use a colloquial term?
For
Les:
i love a nice looking piece of math, in fact i tend
to get it only if i can see the artwork effort which
went into creating it.
Between you and I, me too. Not only that, I pay great attention
to make my mathematics writing look beautiful. Unlike most people
believe, mathematics is not
David, I don't know what sort of break you want. I doubt that anyone here
supported the old Urban Renewal programs. I always heard them referred to
as Negro Removal. If you mean that they were Great Society programs they
were, but I think that all of us viewed them [those programs] with
Michael Perelman writes:
David, I don't know what sort of break you want. I doubt that anyone here
supported the old Urban Renewal programs. I always heard them referred to
as Negro Removal. If you mean that they were Great Society programs they
were, but I think that all of us viewed them
Title: FW: From New Zealand to Iraq; a reflection on Bremer's theory
[I wonder: what happened to the balance of political power in NZ that pushed and allowed Rogernomics? -- Jim]
From: Jurriaan Bendien
Bremer was quoted as saying:
A fundamental component of this process will be to force
Science World here in Vancouver runs a continuous loop of the 1987 Fischli
and Weiss film The Way Things Go. The borrowings of the Honda ad from the
film are obvious to anyone who has viewed both. What is also obvious -- and
ominous -- are the non-borrowings: the autotalitarian elision of the
PEN-L:
My rant on the Sacramento ag expo:
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles6/Sandronsky_Ag-Expo.htm
Seth Sandronsky
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Tom Walker wrote:
Science World here in Vancouver runs a continuous loop of the 1987 Fischli
For another take on The
Way Things Go, here's an excerpt from Arthur Danto:
http://www.postmedia.net/999/fischweiss1.htm
From Danto:
the individual episodes seem to happen one after another
I was wrong about trade
Our aim should not be to abolish the World Trade Organisation, but to
transform it
George Monbiot
Tuesday June 24, 2003
The Guardian
A few years ago I would have raised at least two cheers. The US
government, to judge by the aggressive noises now being made by its trade
Or, digging deeper into the ruins...
Homage to New York 1960
http://www.artmuseum.net/w2vr/archives/Kluver/00_Homage.html
I asked Jean what I could do for him. Jean explained that he wanted to make
a machine that destroyed itself and that he needed bicycle wheels...
...It was all over in 27
Carrol Cox wrote,
This high and higher efforts that Danto speaks of, leading to chaos,
must owe something to Laurel and Hardy as well. And of course Chaplin's
Modern Times. In fact to much of the great slapstick, 1915-1940.
Yes, also constructivism and dada. As Walter Benjamin wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Tom Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Carrol Cox wrote,
This high and higher efforts that Danto speaks of, leading to chaos,
must owe something to Laurel and Hardy as well. And of course Chaplin's
Modern Times. In fact to much of the great slapstick, 1915-1940.
Kenneth Campbell wrote:
...BMW clearly stands ahead of NA
car companies in trying to find a viable hydrogen car
Daimler-Chrysler is, about half, a NA company. And it
is far ahead of BMW in developing a viable hydrogen
car--Daimler-Chrysler busses, powered by Ballard
(another NA company) fuel
Monbiot:
So let us campaign not to scrap the World Trade
Organisation, but to transform it into a Fair Trade
Organisation, whose purpose is to restrain the rich
while emancipating the poor. And let us ensure that
when George Bush tries to sabotage the multilateral
system in September, we
I would rather call for the strengthening of the International Labor
Organization than the WTO. Any organization that emphasizes trade rather
than people's lives is not likely to do much good.
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 08:27:06PM -0700, Sabri Oncu wrote:
Monbiot:
So let us campaign not to
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From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I would rather call for the strengthening of the International Labor
Organization than the WTO. Any organization that emphasizes trade rather
than people's lives is not likely to do much good.
=
I would
Grant, asked what I like about the Humphrey McQueen book using Coca-Cola
as the prototypical multinational corporation.
I haven't gone into it much farther since I read Michael Lewis's Moneyball
yesterday. Although it deals with the management of the Oakland
Athletics, it actually contains some
Yes, the tech gap was much smaller between UK and Germany. Today it is
much wider between OECD and the rest. But there are some areas where the
gaps are much narrower, even if the economic base (market size, etc) are
quite disparate. The IT industry would be a good example of this. But
not
Besides tariffs, Germany developed the finest educational system in the
world. For example, most of the most famous American economists studied
in Germany. The chemical industry was probably leading industry in the
late 19th century. German chemical science led the world.
Regarding Jim
IMF Chief Meets with Troubled Argentina
Reuters
Monday, June 23, 2003; 11:05 PM
By Hugh Bronstein
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - The head of the International Monetary Fund began
talks with Argentina's President Nestor Kirchner Monday, as the country's
new government made a fresh start at pulling the
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From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Besides tariffs, Germany developed the finest educational system in the
world.
For males.
Ian
I have mentioned several times that I have written about Marx and India.
My research led me to believe that Marx was more concerned about refuting
Henry Carey than about India. Carey was trying to sabotage Marx's
relationship with the New York Tribune. He believed that England was
responsible
You might have said CERTAIN males, since their system was hardly
egalitarian.
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 09:19:28PM -0700, Ian Murray wrote:
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From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Besides tariffs, Germany developed the finest educational system in the
world.
- Original Message -
From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 9:22 PM
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] FW: [PEN-L] On free trade Re: Query from a Venezuelan
You might have said CERTAIN males, since their system was hardly
egalitarian.
There is no promised land, there's evolution and us; an
open-ended adventure.
Ian
Sure Ian, although there is also the _possibility_ of revolution!
But this still remains true:
How will we know when we are there? How will we know?
Compare this against:
And let us
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From: Sabri Oncu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why can't we be againts both Bush and the WTO?
=
Most definitely we can. It's how to create collective action-imagination
for designing institutions for the 21st century that is at issue given
lefty norms.
[and when will he write TRAGEDY?]
[NYTimes]
June 24, 2003
Denial and Deception
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Politics is full of ironies. On the White House Web site, George W. Bush's
speech from Oct. 7, 2002 - in which he made the case for war with Iraq -
bears the headline Denial and Deception. Indeed.
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