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> Copyright (c) 1998, Reuters, All Rights Reserved
>
> Consumption of goods and services has skyrocketed globally, but lurking
> beneath the affluence is a widening gap between the world's rich and
> poor, a new U.N. report warns.
>
> Highlighting "gross inequalities
below is quite long, Michael Hoover
> EH.NET BOOK REVIEW
>
> Published by H-Business@eh-net and EH.Net (August, 1998)
>
> William G. Roy. _Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large Industrial
> Corporation in America_. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press,
> 1997. xv + 338 pp. Figure
> The conversation about butts here the other day made me one-click Richard
> Klein's Cigarettes Are Sublime (Duke U P, 1993). Here are the first few
> paragraphs of the intro.
> Doug
> Cigarettes are not positively beautiful, but they are sublime by virtue of
> their charming power to propose wh
> I'm looking for a good book or two on the history of U.S. immigration
> policy: when did they start regulating immigration and why? How did
> employers use immigration (if they did) to divide the workforce and push
> down wages? What were the successive structures of immigration policy in
> the
> The purpose of the copyright and patent laws is to encourage invention
> and creativity. It's in the US constitution as a matter of fact. The theory
> is that no one would bother inventing or writing if they didn't get a return
> and also cannot control the use made of the products of their imag
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> H-NET BOOK REVIEW
> Published by [EMAIL PROTECTED] (April, 1998)
>
> Lawrence B. Glickman. _A Living Wage: American Workers and the
> Making of Consumer Society_. Ithaca and London: Cornell
> University Press, 1997. xvi + 220 pp. Notes, bibl
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> Subject: Gates Leads Rally Against Government
> By John Borland, Net Insider (05/05/98; 4:47 p.m. ET)
>
> Microsoft executives led a rally of business leaders in Manhattan
> Tuesday, warning an economic disaster would strike if government
> officials postpone the W
> >I get questions like this all the time, and never know what to answer. Any
> >advice?
> >I purchased your "Wall Street" and I find myself lacking substantially
> >enough economics background. I was wondering if you could recommend to me,
> >an introductory text on economics, preferably from th
> Most students today, unlike
> a generation ago, have to work at jobs much longer hours during school
> --Nathan Newman
not only do a majority of today's students work more, over 40% attend
part-time and about 40% are enrolled at night...they make up a large
portion of what educrats call 'non-
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> Whose labor day is it really?
>
> by Fred Gaboury
>
>from the September 1.1995 issue of the
>People's Weekly World.
>
>Who founded Labor Day -- and w
> Most prominent scientists agree that some sort of "deus-ex-machina" event
> created the catastrophic climactic changes that killed off the dinosaurs of
> the Mesozoic age 65 million years ago and ushered in the modern Cenozoic
> Age of Mammals. The differences are over exactly what the nature of
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> THE INCARCERATION INDUSTRY:
> TEEMING PRISON ROLLS BODE WELL FOR PRIVATE JAILS
>
> 3.12 p.m. ET (1912 GMT) April 22, 1998
>
>
> By Jeremy Quittner, Fox News
>
> NEW YORK - As federal and state governments struggle to
> cope with a soaring prison population, a ha
> Is it not also the case that in hurricanes, tornadoes, etc. trailer parks and
> similar such structures are the worst hit? Who lives in these, rich or poor?
> michael yates
I read somewhere recently that more than a few US folks (don't recall %)
believe that such storms are attracted to mobile
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> > X-URL: http://www.mngt.waikato.ac.nz/ejrot/DIALOGUE/Entine1.htm
> >
> >
> > When Rainforest Ice Cream Melts:
> > The Messy Reality of 'Socially Responsible Business'
> >
> >
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> Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 22:35:40 -0500 (CDT)
> From: kerryo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: IPS: Marxist Lessons For Beleaguered Asia
>
> ECONOMY: Marxist Lessons For Beleaguered Asia
> By Dipankar De Sarkar
>
>L
apologies if below has already appeared on pen-l...forwarded by Michael
Hoover
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> Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 13:47:14 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "Donald Z Osborn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [TECHLIST:16] Invitation to TechNet-EDI-WTO Think Tank, April 27 to May 1
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> IBM's board of directors thanked chairman and CEO Louis Gerstner for
> restoring Wall Street's faith in the company with a $4.5 million bonus
> and stock options in 1997, according to a financial statement filed
> Monday.
>
> Last year's bonus marks a 38 percent inc
re: length of women's skirts and business cycle...some listers may
be interested in cyber-feminist and new electronic media artist
Nancy Paterson's installation *Stock Market Skirt*...Michael Hoover
> URL: http://www.bccc.com/nancy/skirt.html
>
>A bl
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> From: "Siddharth Chatterjee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 04:18:03 +
> Subject: M-I: Battle for Basmati
>
> Another vignette of the workings of the "free" market that is forced
> down the throats of the
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> Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said, in an ABC News "20/20" program
> interview to be broadcast Friday, that his donations to society would
> exceed $1 billion during his lifetime.
>
> "Well, at age 42, I've given at this point a little over
excerpt from an article that appeared in the 1/11 edition of the
Orlando Slantinel, er, Sentinel...
"The former rich flock to Thailand's flea markets (AP)
Sniffing a bargain, the middle-aged woman in a fashionable silk dress
squeezes through the crowd to take a closer look at the second-hand r
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> Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 07:47:17 +
> From: "K. Austin Kerr (by way of Richard Jensen
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: H-B: REVIEW: Rise of Big Government in U.S.
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> = H-BUSINESS POSTING
> So tickets went on sale for Diana's gravesite, at the equivalent of US$15.
> Proceeds will benefit her memorial charity. She married into one of the
> most pointlessly rich families in the world, and yet her frenzied mourners
> are going to fund her legacy.
> Doug
gee, given the subject header,
> There is only one place in Lenin's writings where he specifically describes
> what a "vanguard" means. It is the section "The Working Class as Vanguard
> Fighter for Democracy" in "What is To Be Done". The notion of a vanguard
> emerges out of Lenin's struggle with the "Economists", *not* the
>
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