Thanks for the input! See below.
State supplied utility benefits such as electricity
are in Russia's
national accounts in Ruble terms, so yes they are
included in these
comparisons.
Even with the recent price hikes, my monthly
electricity bill in Moscow (pretty large Stalin-era
apartment,
just to note that a lot of the hidden assumptions that Paul has been talking
about in the context of PPP figures are actually there when you're comparing
figures for the same country over time. I wrote a piece for my weblog this
morning (http://www.crookedtimber.org/archives/002321.html) about
Thanks to Doug Henwood for his help with my article.
http://www.newsreview.com/issues/sacto/2004-08-12/guest.asp
Seth Sandronsky
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Shleifer should get a chutzpah award, writing about ethics, given his
history with USAID and Russia. He got fired from Harvard, no?
At 09:43 PM 8/11/2004 -0700, you wrote:
Paul deserves criticism for his summary of Shleifer -- he is far too
gentle. Shliefer insists that market-induced competition
Robert Naiman wrote:
Shleifer should get a chutzpah award, writing about ethics, given his
history with USAID and Russia. He got fired from Harvard, no?
Hey, it takes one to know one. Why do you think FDR made Joe Kennedy
the first head of the SEC?
Doug
Did he get fired? Just from the development institute?
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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BTW this is the Russian newspaper Izvestia commenting
on Schleiffer's fall from grace.
Izvestia
August 10, 2004
HARVARD PROFESSOR'S SPOUSE LINED HER POCKETS IN
PRIVATIZATION
An update on the scandal around the so called Harvard
Project.
Author: Konstantin Getmansky
[from WPS Monitoring Agency,
Seth may well be understating the cost of the war. The budget of Walter Read is
probably
left out of these estimates. The cost of caring for the next generation of homeless
people
who never found their way back from the horror. The extra costs associated with the
anger
generated abroad.
Michael wrote:
Paul deserves criticism for his summary of Shleifer -- he is far too gentle. Shliefer
insists that market-induced competition does not create undesirable consequences. It
is non-market corruption that is bad.
Response Jim C: I have been invited to present a
A young friend, about 20 or so, spent time in Iraq during his on-going 4
year enlistment in the Air Force. He's now stationed in the states but
will go back to Iraq in February.
The conversation with him was depressing. He denounced Kerry because of
his association with Jane Fonda -- and
Code Red: John Kerry's Neighborhood Terrorist Watch (Copying Bush
and Ashcroft, Kerry calls on Americans to do more to protect
themselves against terrorism by setting up neighborhood watch
groups. Plus, my brand-new color-coded advisory system that allows
liberals and leftists to evaluate Threat
Why would an affair make him resign? Is the Lt. Gov. a dem?
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
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E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
from what I hear, the problem was not so much the affair, as the revelation
that he's a friend of Dorothy.
dd
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Why would an affair
from what I hear, the problem was not so much the affair, as the revelation
that he's a friend of Dorothy.
dd
Who the hell is Dorothy?
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Title: Re: One Iraq veteran
A young friend, about 20 or so, spent
time in Iraq during his on-going 4
year enlistment in the Air Force. He's now stationed in the
states but
will go back to Iraq in February.
The conversation with him was
depressing. .
The spin is frightening.
Gene Coyle
The
Open Letter to the LSB from Concerned KPFA Paid and
Unpaid Staff
KPFA is first and foremost a radio station whose
listeners count on the Pacifica Radio airwaves to
provide an invaluable, independent source of
multicultural news, information, music, and arts
programming. There has been
Here is to educating Americans on who pays for and who profits from imperial
war, and why.
Seth
Re: Paying the price for war
by Michael Perelman
12 August 2004
Seth may well be understating the cost of the war. The budget of Walter
Read is probably
left out of these estimates. The cost of caring
Just added to my radio archive
http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html:
August 12, 2004 Deborah James, director of the Venezuela Information
Office, on Chavez and the August 15 referendum * Robert McChesney,
author of The Problem of the Media and one of the founders of
freepress.net, on the
Charles Brown writes:
Why is your personal opinion relevant? I mean, I am sure I can find
somebody
(Melvin P.?) who apparently highly values going 100. Therefore, your
opinion
is cancelled out. Now what do we do?
^
CB: Well, it's like why vote ? Your vote is only one in millions.
(In line with Mark Lause's delicious Monty Python post, this was
something that just showed up on Leo Casey's mailing list that is made
up exclusively of trade union functionaries, social democratic hacks and
other diehard reformists. The author is a New Politics editor who must
have found the
The Onion
VOLUME 40 ISSUE 3211 AUGUST 2004
WICHITA, KSDelivering the central speech of his 10-day Solution For
America bus campaign tour Monday, Democratic presidential nominee Sen.
John Kerry outlined his one-point plan for a better America: the removal
of George W. Bush from
F A C I N G S O U T H
A progressive Southern news report
August 12, 2004 * Issue 86
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INSTITUTE INDEX * Who Is Watching?
Number of government surveillance programs currently in operation: 14
Year that Congress voted to de-fund the Total Information Awareness surveillance
program due to
This is very sad. I have no idea what is at stake. The other letter
that I saw also had endorsements from people that I respect. All that I
know is that I hope that Sasha the other people at KPFA continue their
good work. I am very dependent on the information that I get off the
station.
I
Charles wrote:
It's hard because the Soviet Union (and all socialist
inspired economies) had to put so much economic
emphasis on military defense because capitalism was
constantly invading them or threatening to nuke 'em.
This throws off all ability to measure from Soviet and
socialist inspired
David interprets the car as a capitalist commodity. I partially agree
with him, but for different reasons since I don't like cars.
But the question would be how the automobile industry depended heavily
on the state -- to build roads, to dislodge street cars
Michael Perelman
Economics
I like cars. I do not think there is some particularly capitalist
element about them... except their development.
But the subject of state subsidization is fair.
It is amazing, in a city the size of Toronto, how taking the subway
turned from a 1960s futuristic method of transport (say, 1967,
Kenneth Campbell wrote:
Respectfully, David, your response is itself a cop out. Yugo... you be
nice now.
Just this eve, I was spending some time talking about history with a
friend. She brought out a book with a variety of graphs. The most
salient one, in this regard (thread), was the shift of
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