a miracle?

2004-02-23 Thread Devine, James
from Today's Papers (from MS SLATE): An op-ed in the NY [TIMES] argues that since Israel's security barrier goes deep into the West Bank it's a less than ideal security barrier: What this wall is really doing is taking Palestinian lands. That's not an original argument but the author is: Noam

Re: a miracle?

2004-02-23 Thread Shane Mage
An op-ed in the NY [TIMES] argues that since Israel's security barrier goes deep into the West Bank it's a less than ideal security barrier: What this wall is really doing is taking Palestinian lands. That's not an original argument but the author is: Noam Chomsky. Judging by a quickie Nexis

Re: a miracle?

2004-02-23 Thread dmschanoes
of Palestine, etc. dms - Original Message - From: Shane Mage [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 6:06 PM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] a miracle? An op-ed in the NY [TIMES] argues that since Israel's security barrier goes deep into the West Bank it's

Re: a miracle?

2004-02-23 Thread joanna bujes
That's eminently sane of them. Joanna Shane Mage wrote: An op-ed in the NY [TIMES] argues that since Israel's security barrier goes deep into the West Bank it's a less than ideal security barrier: What this wall is really doing is taking Palestinian lands. That's not an original argument but

Re: a miracle?

2004-02-23 Thread joanna bujes
of it than it is? It's an op-ed piece, that's all. NYT supported and supports the assault on Iraq, the occupation of Palestine, etc. dms - Original Message - From: Shane Mage [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 6:06 PM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] a miracle? An op

Re: a miracle?

2004-02-23 Thread dmschanoes
] Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 9:01 PM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] a miracle? No, it's significant even though it's only op-ed. This is an intra-bourgeois sign. Joanna dmschanoes wrote: Wait a minute-- this wasn't the NYT taking an editorial and reporting position. This was an op-ed piece

talk of US miracle overblown, says pen-l member

2004-02-01 Thread Eubulides
US miracle is based on longer hours for less pay Doug Henwood Monday February 2, 2004 The Guardian In the late 1990s the US was famous across the globe for its New Economy. Computers had unleashed a productivity miracle, recessions were relics of a transcended past, ideas had replaced things

a miracle!

2002-06-24 Thread Devine, James
Title: a miracle! From the NEW STATESMAN: The IMF representative in Malawi, Girma Begashaw, replied: We did not instruct the Malawi government or the NFRA [National Food Reserve Agency] to dispose of the reserves. . . . We have no expertise in food security policy. It said that the government

Productivity miracle or mirage?

2001-07-03 Thread Keaney Michael
Penners Here's an interesting interview with someone who sounds interesting on the topic of the IT investment boom and the great US productivity miracle. In the same edition of the FT, Harvard professor Martin Feldstein pens an opinion piece warning that thanks to this apparent miracle the US

Re: Productivity miracle or mirage?

2001-07-03 Thread Michael Perelman
, his work is not universally accepted. Keaney Michael wrote: Penners Here's an interesting interview with someone who sounds interesting on the topic of the IT investment boom and the great US productivity miracle. In the same edition of the FT, Harvard professor Martin Feldstein pens

Who said miracle? was RE: relevance

2001-06-21 Thread Stephen E Philion
: There was no productivity miracle. Well yeah, but this is the pen-l list, who is saying that a miracle occurred? improvements occurred in producitivity in the 1990's, especially in the manufacturing sector, no? Your argument against a 'new economy' emerging seems consistent with Brenner btw, who argues

Korean miracle?

2001-03-14 Thread Jim Devine
[was: Re: [PEN-L:8986] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Indonesian minister warns of nation's demise-paper] Brad wrote: Real GDP up 10% in 1999 and 10% again in 2000? Unemployment down to 4%? Rob writes: Hang on, mate! Haven't you just finished telling me (perhaps over on Doug's list) that the only

Re: Rifkin on the Economic Miracle

2000-11-05 Thread Jim Devine
/04/2000 -0600, you wrote: The Guardian Tuesday October 24, 2000 Like the Roaring 20s, the latest economic 'miracle' has been bought on credit Another wolf at our door By Jeremy Rifkin While the US presidential debates were in full swing, I was pondering what I would ask the candidates if I had

Rifkin on the Economic Miracle

2000-11-04 Thread Ken Hanly
The Guardian Tuesday October 24, 2000 Like the Roaring 20s, the latest economic 'miracle' has been bought on credit Another wolf at our door By Jeremy Rifkin While the US presidential debates were in full swing, I was pondering what I would ask the candidates if I had the opportunity to pose

Re: Murray Dobbin on the NZ Miracle

2000-08-16 Thread Brad De Long
Larry Ball's interpretation of New Zealand is that it is a victim of intensive monetarism: that as you look across the OECD, the more aggressive the fight against inflation was, the longer it was pursued, the the feebler were the stimulative policies of the late 1980s, the greater was the

Re: Murray Dobbin on the NZ Miracle

2000-08-16 Thread Timework Web
Shows the advantages to be gained from not practicing what you preach, if what you preach is a load of BS. Is there any evidence to suggest that the "Washington Consensus" was NOT a deliberate ploy by the U.S. to gain macroeconomic advantage by sabotaging the performance of its acolytes? Brad

Re: Re: Murray Dobbin on the NZ Miracle

2000-08-16 Thread Brad De Long
Shows the advantages to be gained from not practicing what you preach, if what you preach is a load of BS. Is there any evidence to suggest that the "Washington Consensus" was NOT a deliberate ploy by the U.S. to gain macroeconomic advantage by sabotaging the performance of its acolytes? Brad

Re: Re: Re: Murray Dobbin on the NZ Miracle

2000-08-16 Thread Bill Rosenberg
New Zealand has made a habit of practicing what others preach, and then getting naively offended when others don't. That applies not just to monetarism but to trade liberalisation, privatisation, marketising society, and so on. I only skimmed Murray Dobbin's article (if I'm thinking about the

Re: Murray Dobbin on the NZ Miracle

2000-08-16 Thread Timework Web
Brad De Long wrote, Good God! Ever since the start of the Clinton Administration the line has been that if the U.S. needs to be more "classical" that Japan and Europe and the rest of the OECD need to be more "Keynesian." The inflation rate needs to be

Re: Murray Dobbin on the NZ Miracle

2000-08-16 Thread Michael Perelman
Bill, if NZ growth is slow, how far down the income distribution do you have to go before you find stagnating incomes? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: Murray Dobbin on the NZ Miracle

2000-08-16 Thread Brad De Long
Bill, if NZ growth is slow, how far down the income distribution do you have to go before you find stagnating incomes? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not very far at all. My belief was that every

Re: Re: Re: Murray Dobbin on the NZ Miracle

2000-08-16 Thread Michael Perelman
Brad, you do have a nice style of presenting your material. I have never used the concept of "slot." As a result, my typical explanation of that phenomenon is pretty clunky. The first I saw of Krugman's discussion was: Krugman, Paul. 1992. "The Right, The Rich, and the Facts: Deconstructing

Re: Re: Re: Re: Murray Dobbin on the NZ Miracle

2000-08-16 Thread Doug Henwood
Michael Perelman wrote: My question concerned New Zealand. I was wondering how much it differed from the U.S. in terms of the distribution of the growth of the pie. Maybe Doug's studies of the Luxembourg work indicates how other countries have fared in this respect. NZ isn't in the LIS. Branko

Murray Dobbin on the NZ Miracle

2000-08-15 Thread Ken Hanly
push devastated the country, rather than saving it. It has been so long since anyone in the business press has praised the New Zealand “miracle” it is almost as if we imagined the whole thing. But, of course, the current silence is really no mystery. The fifteen year free market experiment has

An 'Asian Miracle' Now Seems Like a Mirage

1997-10-22 Thread Louis Proyect
is happening to them. "We all believed things were just going to get better and better," said a well-to-do woman who insisted on anonymity. "Nobody ever stopped to think. This has hit us in the face. We wonder if the Asian miracle was ever there, or whether it was an Asian mirage."