something in line with this: Responding to a recommendation that progressive tax reforms should represent a first measure to expand fiscal public spendingin a very poor and underdeveloped third world country, a government offical sitting behind his desk said that is socialist and as you know
last sentence corrected: do you consider the staete you are in as a sucesssoula avramidis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
something in line with this: Responding to a recommendation that progressive tax reforms should represent a first measure to expand fiscal public spendingin a very poor and
I would assume the redistribution of state property to private ownership that occurred
in Russia in the 90s exceeded the US experience. Moscow now has more billionaires than
New York. It used to have zero.
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From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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When the torture story first broke, Rush Limbaugh made a number of
outrageous remarks about the revelations, including calling the abuses
by U.S. soldiers pretty thoughtful and a brilliant maneuver. But two
of his fellow right-wing shock jocks have since spewed rhetoric on the
air waves that makes
NY Observer, May 19, 2004
Sen. Kerry: Engage! Tour Iraq by Humvee, Drive Down to Najaf
by Robert Sam Anson
John Kerry got in touch the other day.
Its always nice to hear from a chum of 30 years ago, and considering
how busy hes been with the campaign, taking time out to write seemed
awfully
The widely held view that the US-Europe rift is only a temporary one which
will disappear with the Bush administration looks to be wrong, according to
the latest Economist. The magazine says the transatlantic rift that opened
up because of Iraq shows little sign of healing. On the contrary, it may
[So with all that price control in the oil industry, speculation has
finally moved from the usual risky profit making environment
to a riskless one more akin to arbitrage. Buying low
and selling high for a riskless profit for the select few who will have
knowledge of the natural market force
Michael Perelman wrote:
Writing about the transfer of wealth to the rich in the US, would it
be fair to say, United States has witnessed in recent decades what
is probably largest transfer of wealth and income in the history of
the world -- larger than what occurred during the Russian or
Less anyone continue to indulge American exceptionalism and claim the U.S.
doesn't have a potential Nazism in it... This gives new force to the old
observation that anthropology is the handmaiden of imperialism.
Savage is a despicable dog.
I can't even say what I actually think about this
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U.S. Reportedly Kills 40 Iraqis at Party
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Don't insult dogs.
I don't get the anthro
reference. His degree was in botany.
mbs
. . .
Savage is a despicable dog.
Louis Proyect:
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He also made sure to plug his credentials.
I'm going to give you one further example from my background as an
anthropologist just so
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Dear Prof. Rosen
It was clearly a positional error. The pilot thought he was in...
Massachussetts!
U.S. Reportedly Kills 40 Iraqis at PartyBAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A U.S.
helicopter fired on a wedding party early
Wednesday in western Iraq, killing more than 40 people, Iraqi officials
said. The U.S. military said it
From the section (pp. 335-49) in Philip Mirowski's *Machine Dreams* on what has come in retrospect to be regarded the signal mathematical development in game theory in the 1950s, the event most consequential for the subsequent history of *economics*, the invention of the 'Nash equilibrium'
I wonder if anyone can (a) confirm/correct the following anecdote and
(b) identify a source for it. I read it someplace long ago but no longer
remember where.
Shortly after one of Marx's vacations in Germany in which he had been
luxuriously entertained by some of his aristocratic friends, someone
Major General Antonio M. Taguba, the author of the Article 15-6
Investigation of the 800th Military Police Brigade that probed into
torture of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib, is by all accounts a good
man who is compassionate as well as professional. A New York Times
article gives us a glimpse of
just because
Nash was crazy doesn't mean that he was always wrong. However, the popularity of
his concept of equilibrium may reflect the craziness of the economics
profession.
BTW,a
game matrix can be seen as a simplified picture of a social structure. The
motivations of the "players"
Jim D. wrote:
just because Nash was crazy doesn't mean that he was always wrong.
Who are you arguing with here?
What specifically from the summary of his ideas by Mirowski would you
select as demonstrating brilliant insight into human motives and
behaviour? He believed himself possessed of such
it's true that you didn't draw out the conclusions you had come to from all of the
quotes from Mirowski. As far as I could tell, you were saying that because Nash was
crazy, NE was wrong in some sense. I feel it's enough to think that NE is wrong due to
other reasons.
Jim
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Jim:
As far as I could tell, you were saying that
because Nash was crazy, NE was wrong in some
sense.
Jim,
It was Mirowsky who wrote those pieces Ted sent, not
Ted.
I happen to have read the book too and I must confess
that I was greatly influenced by his Machine Dreams,
as well as by his
As usual, I screw up the title again.
The above should have been the title of my previous
post.
What was that thing with which I once embarrassed
myself: Alzheimer's or so?
I guess I am suffering form that at this not so late
age.
Best
Jim D. wrote:
it's true that you didn't draw out the conclusions you had come to
from all of the quotes from Mirowski. As far as I could tell, you were
saying that because Nash was crazy, NE was wrong in some sense. I feel
it's enough to think that NE is wrong due to other reasons.
I did say
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 5/19/2004 9:05:42 AM
When the torture story first broke, Rush Limbaugh made a number of
outrageous remarks about the revelations, including calling the abuses
by U.S. soldiers pretty thoughtful and a brilliant maneuver.
was radio channel surfing the other day and heard
The headline for today's column by Cal Thomas (I didn't read the column
itself) blames the problems in Iraq on Coed Basic Training. :-)
The Army has become increasingly dependent on women in its ranks; that
could conceivably cause them as much trouble as racism caused in the
'60s.
Carrol
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