Has anyone read James Galbraith's new book *Inequality and Industrial
Change*, a collection of essays by Galbraith and a variety of
co-authors? Tom Ferguson gave me a copy of one of the chapters for
which he was co-author, The American Wage Structure: 1920-1947,
which I thought was excellent.
As I understand it, from my reading of Randy Wray and others, (all)
money is essentially debt of one sort or another. I equate the term
loan with debt. Is this correct?
Second question: Let's say I have a retirement account and a vacation
account. Let's say that from the retirement account I
On Saturday, February 9, 2002 at 06:47:19 (-0800) Devine, James writes:
Bill writes: As I understand it, from my reading of Randy Wray and others,
(all)money is essentially debt of one sort or another. I equate the term
loan with debt. Is this correct?
there are two differences that I can
On Sunday, February 10, 2002 at 15:58:56 (+) Michael Yaffey writes:
Bill Lear wrote:
As I understand it, from my reading of Randy Wray and others, (all)
money is essentially debt of one sort or another. I equate the term
loan with debt. Is this correct?
In my usage, there's a difference
On Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 07:52:51 (-0800) Devine, James writes:
In the US, liberals are quite excited by the prospect that the
McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill has passed the House of
Representatives in the shape of the Shays-Meehan bill and is quite likely to
be re-endorsed by
According to investorwords.com, dutch disease is:
The deindustrialization of a nation's economy that occurs
when the discovery of a natural resource raises the value of
that nation's currency, making manufactured goods less
competitive with other nations,
On Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 20:40:53 (-0800) Eugene Coyle writes:
Why wouldn't the cheaper natural resource, as an input to the productive
process, lower the cost of manufactured goods and make them MORE
competitive with other nations?
Exactly my question. As I understand it, the US has
On Monday, February 25, 2002 at 11:33:33 (-0500) Doug Henwood writes:
Tom Walker wrote:
This kind of hijacking selected words out of context and insinuating that
they mean something else is pointless. I would say juvenile, but would be
insulting to children. The context was the role of
On Monday, March 4, 2002 at 18:57:45 (-0500) Doug Henwood writes:
Devine, James wrote:
In all of these income numbers, are non-market sources of subsistence
measured? Is it possible that measured and reported gains in market income
are cancelled out if one subtracts the effects of the abolition
On Monday, March 4, 2002 at 18:56:42 (-0500) Doug Henwood writes:
Michael Perelman wrote:
Wasn't Wade's point that much of the increase in inequality was within
countries rather than between them?
Well yeah, but there's a tendency in left discourse to bracket out
China, except to talk about
On Saturday, March 9, 2002 at 22:35:26 (-0800) Tom Walker writes:
I see the hair-shirt left-wing gloomster crowd is at it again wringing their
hands in ghoulish glee at the misery that will befall the working class and
lead lickety-split to the final conflict. When will you guys ever learn
that
On Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 16:29:16 () Seth Sandronsky writes:
...
Officially, two million Americans can hardly be called fortunate. They
languish in U.S. jails and prisons, filled disproportionately with black and
brown people.
No argument from me here. Nor does this of course exhaust the
On Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 15:48:00 (-0600) Carrol Cox writes:
Bill Lear wrote:
I define slavery as a relation of compulsory subjection of one class
of persons to another. The mechanism bonding a person from one class
to a person from another class may vary --- ownership in chattel
On Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 17:28:09 (-0800) Michael Perelman writes:
Let's keep it cool.
Fine, but let's also stipulate that we attack the argument that a
person makes, instead of the fantasy du jour concocted in its stead,
and that we refrain from issuing childish claims that arguments are
On Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 20:18:49 (-0600) Carrol Cox writes:
Bill Lear wrote:
On Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 15:48:00 (-0600) Carrol Cox writes:
Sorry -- tone wrong. Didn't mean to start a war.
Graciously put, thank you. I'll try to be less bellicose myself.
Bill
On Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 18:27:36 (-0800) Rakesh Bhandari writes:
In economic terms, the current rot can be traced to a business
backlash against gains made by labor after WWII. Galbraith and
Ferguson point out that government policy was vastly better 40 years
ago than it is today, despite,
On Friday, March 22, 2002 at 14:42:23 (-0800) Devine, James writes:
Paul Phillips writes:The problem has arisen in Canada as a result of
declining fish stocks. Apparently, it is not a problem of flushing pills
down the drain but with so many women taking birth control pills, the
concentration of
On Monday, April 8, 2002 at 16:48:00 (-0700) Devine, James writes:
is there a half-decent introductory microeconomics textbook out there? (One
that isn't too filled with details.)
I've recommended it before, and not sure I'd call it a textbook, but
I really like Yanis Varoufakis, *Foundations of
On Wednesday, April 17, 2002 at 09:24:23 (-0700) Devine, James writes:
...
In any event, I don't see the USSR as totalitarian, simply because it didn't
have very efficient labor-power markets (or other markets) of the sort
that capitalism has. ...
...
Yes, there's always a dictionary definition.
On Thursday, April 18, 2002 at 11:14:50 (-0400) Charles Brown writes:
...
CB: In using your model, I would say that even though there is a
partially democratic hierarchy in the U.S. governments, the
totalitarian corporate system rules the U.S. governments
substantially, such that the U.S. system
On Thursday, April 18, 2002 at 15:51:57 (-0500) Forstater, Mathew writes:
You can call me anything you like. Call me a monster or a murderer...
Better a live Judeo-Nazi than a dead saint... Even if you prove to me
that the present war in Lebanon is a dirty immoral war, I don't
care... We shall
On Monday, May 13, 2002 at 07:13:16 (-0700) Michael Perelman writes:
deficits = high interest rates = strong dollar.
= cheap imports = protectionism = militarism
Bill
On Monday, May 13, 2002 at 10:29:43 (-0700) Devine, James writes:
Hey, just about the whole world is heterodox!
hey, why is the logical opposite of heterodox called orthodox when the
logical opposite of heterosexual is called homosexual?
orthophobically yours,
Because ortho means right or
Drug Dealer Settles With Spritzer
By Bon Whate
Warshington Pist Stuff Writer
NEW YORK, May 21--Notorious drug dealer Joe Scumbag has reached an
agreement with New York Attorney General Eliot Spritzer that requires
the him to pay a $100 million fine and express contrition
for the behavior of his
On Monday, May 27, 2002 at 08:54:58 (-0700) Michael Perelman writes:
Eric, I'm not sure that the Internet will do much to empower consumers
relative to sellers since it allows sellers to monitor each other as well
as consumers. ...
As someone who participated in designing and building very
On Sunday, June 2, 2002 at 14:07:01 (-0700) Michael Perelman writes:
Broadcasting Chomsky for three minutes on CNN was
a big deal.
But of course, not without the balance of the usual anodyne
right-wing fanatic.
Bill
On Monday, June 3, 2002 at 14:39:44 (+) Justin Schwartz writes:
[Doug Henwood writes:]
Bourdieu argues in his book On Television
http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Why_TV_sucks.html that
competition produces sameness, not diversity.
Doug
What's his reasoning? Or is it just an observation?
On Monday, June 3, 2002 at 14:22:17 (-0400) Doug Henwood writes:
Bill Lear wrote:
...
If by competition, Bourdieu means ...
He was talking about the modern media system, with many outlets
competing for eardrums and eyeballs.
Which we might take to have been ushered in during the late 1920s
On Tuesday, June 11, 2002 at 21:24:19 (-0700) Sabri Oncu writes:
...
Very interesting document. Apparently, another key component is
Emergency Preparedness and Response, whose central component
will be FEMA or Federal Emergency Management Agency, which also
will become a central component of the
On Monday, June 17, 2002 at 21:36:24 (-0700) Michael Perelman writes:
How does microsoft put a cookie on my system every time I use my
computer? Can I block that particular cookie?
If by every time I use my computer, you mean every time I use my
browser, then the answer is to 1) use a browser
On Saturday, June 22, 2002 at 12:10:15 (-0400) Max B. Sawicky writes:
A reader of my web site asks for a list of suggested
books on economics for the lay person. I'd like to
post such a list and hereby ask for nominees. ...
Economics broadly considered, I certainly hope:
John Kenneth
On Sunday, June 23, 2002 at 19:24:29 (-0400) Max B. Sawicky writes:
Thanks.
A single list that is too long does not serve
my purpose, which is to answer the question,
'what's the best intro to radical econ for
the lay reader?'
I fear some of the suggestions, although they
don't have equations
On Thursday, July 4, 2002 at 14:06:16 (-0700) Michael Perelman writes:
Help me out here Doug. Usually, I would be inclined to believe Census figures
over something from Texas, but
Texas Transportation Institute. 2002. 2002 Urban Mobility Study
http://mobility.tamu.edu/ums/
Congestion is growing
On Tuesday, July 9, 2002 at 14:26:24 (-0700) Eric Nilsson writes:
Rogoff letterAll,
I'm looking for a short book about Marx's _social_ theory appropriate for
undergraduates.
In the past I've used Berlin's biography, parts of the Cambridge Companion
to Marx, and Wood's KM in the past but want
On Wednesday, July 10, 2002 at 20:01:28 (+) Justin Schwartz writes:
...
Well, there's a tension there. But like the bumblebee, supposedly
aerodynamically impossible, the old whore keeps going along, which means
she's not as crooked as some say. Btw democracy is notoriously a sinkhole of
On Thursday, July 11, 2002 at 03:25:48 (+) Justin Schwartz writes:
[I wrote:]
Funny that you should define democracy by looking so far backward.
During de Tocqueville's time, the US hardly merited the term
democracy; nor do the flaws of today's political system deserve to
be dumped at the
On Monday, July 22, 2002 at 18:55:19 (-0700) Michael Perelman writes:
Robert, could you please elaborate on this paragraph? Thanks.
Robert Manning wrote:
By the way, I am an expert witness in a civil suit against
FIRSTUSA which has Enron like potential if the judge permits our
On Tuesday, July 23, 2002 at 18:58:14 (-0400) Doug Henwood writes:
Devine, James wrote:
I'd have to look again at this, but the Fed often has let the
discount rate follow the market -- and market rates were clearly
falling. According to Friedman Schwartz, market rates may have
fallen more
On Tuesday, July 23, 2002 at 20:24:12 (-0700) Devine, James writes:
Bill, sorry about your tired fingers, but I think you're missing the point
of the discussion between Doug and myself. That's okay, since I didn't
really understand it either and got bogged down in detail. I quoted Epstein
On Tuesday, July 23, 2002 at 22:29:25 (-0700) Ian Murray writes:
Robert Dahl is
eighty-six years old. He knows what he is talking about. And he
thinks that the Constitution has got something the matter with it.
On Wednesday, July 24, 2002 at 12:32:19 (-0400) Doug Henwood writes:
Bill Lear wrote:
On Tuesday, July 23, 2002 at 22:29:25 (-0700) Ian Murray writes:
Robert Dahl is
eighty-six years old. He knows what he is talking about. And he
thinks
On Friday, July 26, 2002 at 23:31:51 (-0700) Gar Lipow writes:
July 27 -- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bankruptcy bill before the U.S. House
of Representatives that would make it harder for individuals to walk
away from their debts ran aground over an abortion related-provision
early on Saturday,
On Thursday, August 8, 2002 at 22:42:10 (-0700) Michael Perelman writes:
I read that Dick Army, Sen. Lugar Hagel are questioning the war. What
Dems. have spoken up?
What does it mean to question the war? Are they engaging in the
usual tactical pessimism, thus setting the bounds of responsible
In the Dean Baker's Economic Reporting Review of July 22, 2002, he
makes the following claim:
A rising stock market is primarily a redistribution from people
who own little or no stock, who are mostly middle income and
poor, to people who own a great deal of stock, who
On Friday, August 16, 2002 at 20:36:34 (-0700) Eugene Coyle writes:
Well, before the market went up your neighbor had $9,999,990 more money (in
this asset) than you did. Afterwards he has $19,999,9980 more. I think he
has done better than you have.
No, because distribution of wealth is
On Saturday, August 17, 2002 at 06:42:57 (-0700) Gar Lipow writes:
...
You are forgetting that the wealthy have more disposable income than the
rest, and can afford to put more in the stock market.:
So if you have around 9% of your wealth in the Stock Market, (because
your home, car, household
On Wednesday, August 21, 2002 at 20:33:59 (-0700) Michael Perelman writes:
It seems crazy. The simple formula of our current society is absolute
freedom for corporations; control of most people.
I think Doug has raised the point before: what do we do about paying
people for their work? Are
On Tuesday, August 27, 2002 at 16:41:15 (-0400) Doug Henwood writes:
Devine, James wrote:
The number of disinterested seekers of truth is very small in
academia, especially among economists.
David Card comes to mind. Anyone else?
Does James Galbraith count?
Bill
A recent story by AP tells of a white teacher who was apparently
reprimanded for teaching her class the word niggardly. A black
parent complained and the conservative press has been aglow with the
usual sniggering. I wanted to pursue this a bit, and of course the
context is all-important. In
On Wednesday, September 11, 2002 at 13:20:19 (-0400) Joel Blau writes:
The best resource to answer your questions is the Center on Budget and
Policy Priorities. They do a state-by-state
breakdown of poverty rates. The new rate comes out 9/30, but that's a
national number,and it usually takes a
On Wednesday, September 25, 2002 at 16:59:30 (-0700) Ellen Frank writes:
A colleague of mine said recently that world merchandise
trade was only $20 billion in 1913 compared to $7 trillion
today. Now obviously the 1913 figure could be increased by
an order of magnitude simply by adjusting
On Saturday, September 21, 2002 at 16:16:58 (-0700) Devine, James writes:
New York TIMES/September 19, 2002
Are Political Contributions Worth the Money?
By ALAN B. KRUEGER
...
I haven't followed the entire discussion and have quickly read the
article, so I may have missed something, but as Tom
On Friday, September 27, 2002 at 10:15:37 (-0700) Michael Perelman writes:
Didn't the withering process begin with the post Watergate dems coming to
Congress?
Or maybe with Teddy Roosevelt coming into office? The massive
corporate consolidation begun at the end of the 19th century allowed
On Monday, September 30, 2002 at 14:11:58 (-0700) Michael Perelman writes:
Is Cooper really worth our time?
I'm wondering if much besides trying to stop a war with Iraq is
worth our time right now.
Bill
On Tuesday, October 1, 2002 at 20:43:03 (-0700) michael perelman writes:
Here is a nice succint explanation from Chuck Grimes on LBO:
Okay, the more realistic issue is that shipping clerks who run the
computers for automated inventories and FOB manifests port-side, are
at the moment, unionized
On Wednesday, October 2, 2002 at 06:26:52 (-0500) Bill Lear writes:
...
I've had some experience with this sort of technology, to use a poor
term (it has more to do with organization of work). The problem with
this explanation is that it assumes remote links do not degrade the
efficiency
On Monday, October 7, 2002 at 13:50:31 (-0700) Devine, James writes:
US 'dumping unsold GM food on Africa'
...
But while the EU and other countries have mostly given money for countries
to buy food on the open market, US food aid to southern Africa has been tied
to heavily subsidised GM food
Thomas Ferguson forwarded this story to me. It was published in
yesterday's LA Times (Sunday, October 13).
Bill
Oil Economics Lubricates Push for War
The U.S. may be smacking its lips over the financial benefits
expected from a regime change, but the price could be enormous.
By
Here's a text version.
Bill
Challenging the Growth Gurus
October 19, 2002
By MICHAEL MASSING
As the chief economist of the World Bank in the late
1990's, Joseph E. Stiglitz got a firsthand look at how
policy was made at its sister institution, the
International Monetary Fund, and he was
A rather extensive piece, which should be of interest to PEN-L
readers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/20/magazine/20INEQUALITY.html
For Richer
By PAUL KRUGMAN
I. The Disappearing Middle
II. The New Gilded Age
III. Undoing the New Deal
IV. The Price of Inequality
V. Inequality and Politics
VI.
Business as Usual
By PAUL KRUGMAN
NY Times, Oct. 22, 2002
The mood among business lobbyists, according to a jubilant
official at the Heritage Foundation, is one of optimism, bordering on
giddiness. They expect the elections on Nov. 5 to put Republicans in
control of all three branches of
On Tuesday, October 29, 2002 at 07:34:57 (+) Chris Burford writes:
From today's Guardian
...
I agree with Hugo Young that there is a remarkable atmosphere of a one
modern state in Britain. But I do not put the blame mainly on the
Conservative Party. I think Hugo Young underestimates how
And a few others while he is at it.
Bill
The Pitt Principle
By PAUL KRUGMAN
NY Times, November 1, 2002
So Harvey Pitt decided not to tell other members of the
Securities and Exchange Commission a small detail about the man he had
chosen to head a crucial new accounting oversight board,
On Tuesday, November 5, 2002 at 15:27:16 (-0800) Michael Perelman writes:
Mark, I cannot believe that you really think Doug is an apologist for
Sharon. He overreacted and then you poured on more fuel. This sort of
behavor is destructive.
Doug was not overreacting. Jones is an intellectual
On Tuesday, November 12, 2002 at 10:26:09 (-0800) Devine, James writes:
Reading the article on Brazil's debt problem and the IMF by James Galbraith
at http://www.levy.org/docs/pn/02-2.html, the conclusion is pretty clear to
me (though it's not the same as Jamie's). As President of Brazil, Lula
On Friday, November 15, 2002 at 06:55:45 (-0800) Michael Perelman writes:
Gore is coming out for single payer; Bush is talking about privatizing
government jobs. Could the Dems be ready to be a real opposition party?
Are the Greens partially responsible for the Dems giving signs of moving
to
On Friday, November 15, 2002 at 16:35:44 (-0500) Doug Henwood writes:
...
Already on the site: interviews with Christopher Hitchens (on Orwell
and his new bellicose self); ...
I don't have the appropriate hardware to listen to these, though I'd
like to. How was Hitchens?
Bill
On Wednesday, November 20, 2002 at 16:17:51 (-0800) Devine, James writes:
...
1) while it makes sense for Stalin to make a deal with Hitler from a
nationalist perspective given the circumstances, does it make sense on the
basis of socialist principles? probably not, which suggests that socialist
On Wednesday, November 20, 2002 at 20:31:43 (-0800) michael perelman writes:
...
David LeDuc, public policy director of the SIIA, said the issue is
whether there should be publicly funded competition for commercial
search services.
LeDuc said free government services could drive out corporate
On Tuesday, November 26, 2002 at 08:20:24 (-0800) Devine, James writes:
comments on cap-and-trade?
The following exchange is from Robin Hahnel.
Bill
Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:08:24 -0500
Robin Hahnel ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Max B. Sawicky wrote:
If government gives away emissions permits, then
On Wednesday, November 27, 2002 at 08:35:37 (+) Chris Burford writes:
...
Full text: bin Laden's 'letter to America'
We really ought to be able to discuss this without fear of any suspcion we
are sympathising with terrorism. But unless there is a culture of
discussion around this, each
On Thursday, December 5, 2002 at 10:57:29 (-0800) Michael Perelman writes:
If United goes bankrupt, then it will have a decided edge on the rest of
the industry. It will not have as heavy debts and the unions will be
defanged.
Other carriers will have to break their unions to compete.
...
On Thursday, December 5, 2002 at 12:21:31 (-0800) Michael Perelman writes:
No. Southwest does not have unions, I believe, but they treat their
workers well.
Hmm, according to the NPR story either this morning or yesterday, they
do. They even invite them to company events and address them as we,
On Monday, December 9, 2002 at 09:46:00 (-0500) Doug Henwood writes:
Isn't this kind of amazing? The Reps are now the party of deficits
and a weaker currency, and the Dems the party of fiscal orthodoxy and
a strong currency.
Very good point. Chomsky noticed this as well a while back:
In
Paul Krugman writes in today's NY Times that the Bush administration
has stated that religious organizations that receive federal funding
can take faith into account in making employment decisions. I
wonder why schools that receive federal funding cannot take racial
discrimination into account in
On Tuesday, December 17, 2002 at 08:27:59 (-0800) Devine, James writes:
...
Okay, my thought, about one fundamental which could be behind the bubblish
data: one of the things that also happened is the widening gaps in the
income and wealth distributions that has been sustained over the last 25 to
On Thursday, December 19, 2002 at 05:56:40 (-0500) Ellen Frank writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
New Tax Plan May Bring Shift In Burden
Poor Could Pay A Bigger Share
The Republicans are definitely on to something here. The
federal tax system is progressive, even counting Social
Security.
On Thursday, December 19, 2002 at 09:32:34 (-0500) Ellen Frank writes:
But shouldn't living standards be determined by
what people contribute? And shouldn't people who
contribute more get more? Rather than being
penalized for their hard work and success?
So you are saying Ken Lay deserves
On Thursday, December 19, 2002 at 10:44:24 (-0500) Ellen Frank writes:
Bill -- I haven't participated in pen-l in quite a while, so
maybe, not knowing who I am, you misread my intent.
(maybe this is why I stopped participating in pen-l!).
I am playing devil's advocate here. ...
I realize
On Sunday, December 29, 2002 at 12:42:17 (-0800) Eugene Coyle writes:
Because the right relentlessly
preaches competition, competition, competition, competition, as the
essence of the free enterprise system, there is no way a politician
can come forward
On Sunday, December 29, 2002 at 13:19:06 (-0800) Eugene Coyle writes:
Agreed, they want profit -- but they talk competition.
Yes indeed, and they (corporations) are very good (read, they have
lots of money to pay for exquisitely detailed propaganda services) at
pretending that what they crave is
On Sunday, December 29, 2002 at 16:51:25 (-0500) Doug Henwood writes:
Eugene Coyle wrote:
Agreed, they want profit -- but they talk competition.
So why did capital back deregulation in so many industries if it's so
opposed to competition?
Because short-term competition can weed out weak ones?
On Tuesday, January 7, 2003 at 09:26:35 (-0800) Devine, James writes:
I've been reading GAME THEORY AND ECONOMIC MODELLING by David M. Kreps. It's
a useful survey because it doesn't get bogged down in the technical details
(as textbooks do) and provides some philosophical reflection on the whole
On Monday, January 13, 2003 at 06:59:36 (-0800) Devine, James writes:
...
By Larry Paquette
...
However, I feel no need to defend my position. Over the years I have worked
hard and earned every dollar of the obscene wealth I am accused of hoarding.
This is where he goes right off the rails.
On Monday, January 13, 2003 at 11:52:55 (-0800) Ian Murray writes:
...
washingtonpost.com
A Big 'Thank You' To the Wealthy
Monday, January 13, 2003; Page A20
Last week my wife and I braved the inclement weather and went to the
National Gallery of Art to view the trompe l'oeil exhibition.
As we
On Monday, January 13, 2003 at 15:47:38 (-0500) Doug Henwood writes:
Bill Lear wrote:
Another truckload of crap. We have created princes and when they
bestow us with a trickle of benefactions, our knees weaken in their
divine presence. It would be more accurate to say God damn the rich.
How
On Monday, January 13, 2003 at 13:11:45 (-0800) Ian Murray writes:
- Original Message -
From: Bill Lear [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Another truckload of crap. We have created princes and when they
bestow us with a trickle of benefactions, our knees weaken in their
divine presence. It would
On Monday, January 13, 2003 at 13:43:05 (-0800) Ian Murray writes:
- Original Message -
From: Bill Lear [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You do the emotionally hard and intellectually easy work of getting
your ass in front of people and talking to them, educating them (I
prefer the didactic mode
Does anyone know what arguments in favor of Affirmative Action are
being presented to the Supreme Court?
I was wondering about this: I constantly hear that we can't have
Affirmative Action because it discriminates. So, I was wondering if
the solution was ever stated as just a very plain process
On Thursday, January 16, 2003 at 06:26:16 (-0800) andie nachgeborenen writes:
...
So, I
was wondering if
the solution was ever stated as just a very plain
process of
statistical adjustment.
The argument you state below has not been adopted by
any court that I know about. It would almost
I'm curious what the technical name for this sort of barrier to
economic efficiency is. Has anyone ever cataloged this sort of
thing? I'd be very interested if so ...
Bill
Printer industry seeks to keep lock on cartridge profit
By Dawn C. Chmielewski
Mercury News
Your printer and ink
On Friday, January 17, 2003 at 09:55:04 (-0800) Michael Perelman writes:
I thought Bill Lear's question yesterday was very interesting. Given his
background, I'm surprised he did not relate his question to software. For
example, Microsoft makes it difficult to run its programs on Linux.
With
On Friday, January 17, 2003 at 13:15:17 (-0800) Michael Perelman writes:
The technical name is the Lear effect.
I like that. Can I copyright the phrase and gather royalties? I
think 2 cents per usage should cover it...
Bill
On Saturday, January 18, 2003 at 20:08:43 (-0800) Eugene Coyle writes:
I think IBM was actually forced to stop the tie-in of the punch cards,
but my memory is hazy. There is a book about it, titled Big Blue or
something like that -- pretty good book, but it has been a long while
since I looked
On Saturday, January 18, 2003 at 20:29:47 (-0800) Michael Perelman writes:
This article affirms the sort of dual pricing system that I mentioned.
Competition on the printers keeps prices down, while IP rights keep
cartridges expensive.
It's interesting. Competition has focused on a certain
This is from an article by Tom Gorman in from today's Counterpunch on
the web, http://www.counterpunch.org/gorman01222003.html:
The Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution ensures
that, In suits at common law, where the value in controversy
shall exceed twenty
On Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 09:17:56 (-0800) Devine, James writes:
so Mankiw may replace Hubbard? I didn't know he was that conservative.
Are you using that in the modern sense of willing to lie to serve
power?
Bill
On Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 11:24:26 (-0800) Michael Perelman writes:
I just read Burke yesterday. He emphasizes how the US consitution
structures government so that the courts are the only recourse here --
unlike in Europe.
Definitely sounds worth reading.
Bill
On Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 18:50:05 (-0500) Doug Henwood writes:
Michael Perelman wrote:
I don't here any upsurge of business support for the war; I don't recall
any from Daddy's war either -- yet the war is fought in the interest of
the corps. Any thoughts?
Sorry to keep touting the work
I'm looking for stats on military spending here in the U.S., say over
the past 20 years. It might be helpful if the space program were
listed as well, as I think that is largely military.
Any good sites for this?
Bill
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