Re: Further study.

2002-06-11 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 6/9/02 1:36:49 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Melvin P Thank you your reply The Commmodyfing capital seems to be difficult to understand. So I am now studying "radical problem of credit"(By YAMAMOY0) In it he argue new credit system analysis . You should

Re: Re: Text file: Further study.

2002-06-11 Thread Waistline2
I have theoretical questions that will not go away. In reply to "On Association" a theoretical argument was advanced that states that capital - as a historically evolved social relations have internal and external limits. The following was stated: "Capital has both internal limits -- surplus valu

PK on race to the bottom (a different one)

2002-06-11 Thread Devine, James
Title: PK on race to the bottom (a different one) The Rove Doctrine By PAUL KRUGMAN/New York TIMES/June 11, 2002 Some months ago an academic colleague -- a man with strong Democratic connections -- urged me to write a couple of columns praising the Bush administration. "What should I prais

Re: PK on race to the bottom (a different one)

2002-06-11 Thread Michael Perelman
Where? On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 06:47:00AM -0700, Devine, James wrote: > --- > > Schumpeter remarked that protectionism was the [U.S.] Republican's main > domestic policy tool during the so-called laissez-faire era. So is there a > return to form? > JD -- Michael Perelman Economics Depa

RE: Re: PK on race to the bottom (a different one)

2002-06-11 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:26704] Re: PK on race to the bottom (a different one) "Tariffs were, as Schumpeter put it, 'the household remedy' of the Republican Party." -- Charles P. Kindleberger, THE WORLD IN DEPRESSION, 1929-39, University of California Press (1973), p. 133. the footnote is to a book

RE: Noam Chomsky in the Ivory Tower

2002-06-11 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:26640] Noam Chomsky in the Ivory Tower LP writes: >Despite the fact that Robert Barsky's biography (http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-books/chomsky/) is written from the point of view of an unabashed admirer, there is troubling evidence in it that [Noam] Chomsky is far from perfect.

Re: Re: Invitation to NAFTA for Poland (July'92) - request forhelp

2002-06-11 Thread F G
>From: Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [PEN-L:26696] Re: Invitation to NAFTA for Poland (July'92) - >request for help >Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 16:02:27 -0700 > >I am sorry that nobody has responded to your reqest. Probably, the

Re: RE: Re: PK on race to the bottom (a different one)

2002-06-11 Thread Ian Murray
Title: RE: [PEN-L:26704] Re: PK on race to the bottom (a different one)   - Original Message - From: Devine, James To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 9:02 AM Subject: [PEN-L:26705] RE: Re: PK on race to the bottom (a different one) "Tariffs

bad economics and the dot.com meltdown

2002-06-11 Thread Michael Perelman
Liebowitz has been a strong opponent of the lock-in thesis; also a recipient of microsoft support for obvious reasons. "Network Meltdown: A Legacy of Bad Economics" BY: STAN J. LIEBOWITZ University of Texas at Dallas School of Management Document: Availabl

Re: Re: Re: Invitation to NAFTA for Poland (July'92)- request for help

2002-06-11 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, F G wrote: > A brief search at www.firstgov.gov with "NAFTA Poland" seemed to turn up > nothing. Probably if the speech is old enough it wouldn't be archived > anyway (I'm not pretending to be thorough here). I'm not quite sure, whether it was speech, or another form of doc

RE: RE: Re: PK on race to the bottom (a different one)

2002-06-11 Thread Max Sawicky
Tariffs were an important source of Federal revenue in the olden days. mbs \ "Tariffs were, as Schumpeter put it, 'the household remedy' of the Republican Party." -- Charles P. Kindleberger, THE WORLD IN DEPRESSION, 1929-39, University of California Press (1973), p. 133. the footnote is to a bo

the national interest

2002-06-11 Thread Devine, James
Title: the national interest [was: RE: [PEN-L:26708] Re: RE: Re: PK on race to the bottom (a different one)] Ian writes: >To the extent there is a Schumpeterian wing of Repug. thinkers on PE [dashed with a sprinkle of Mancur Olson] they have problems with the idea of a 'national interest.' A

Re: RE: RE: Re: PK on race to the bottom (a different one)

2002-06-11 Thread Michael Perelman
Which is why business supported the income tax. On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 01:17:43PM -0400, Max Sawicky wrote: > Tariffs were an important source of Federal revenue > in the olden days. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail

RE: bad economics and the dot.com meltdown

2002-06-11 Thread Davies, Daniel
Very interesting that he writes a whole big paper on the subject of "lock-in" and the dot com era without once mentioning branding as a source of competitive advantage for first movers, despite that fact that this is surely where most of those dot com dollars went, and is surely the big difference

Re: the national interest

2002-06-11 Thread Ian Murray
Title: the national interest   - Original Message - From: Devine, James To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 10:12 AM Subject: [PEN-L:26712] the national interest [was: RE: [PEN-L:26708] Re: RE: Re: PK on race to the bottom (a different

Re: Re: RE: RE: Re: PK on race to the bottom (a different one)

2002-06-11 Thread Ian Murray
they no longer feared populist tax revolts. - Original Message - From: "Michael Perelman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2002 10:40 AM Subject: [PEN-L:26713] Re: RE: RE: Re: PK on race to the bottom (a different one) > Which is why business support

Salon.com Technology | Venture capitalists suffer huge losses

2002-06-11 Thread ravi
Venture capitalists suffer huge losses - - - - - - - - - - - - By Michael Liedtke June 10, 2002 | SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- After escaping serious damage in the early stages of the high-tech wreck, venture capitalists suffered even deep

RE: Re: the national interest

2002-06-11 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:26715] Re: the national interest Ian, please don't send HTML files. Use plain text. Despite the common abuse of the concept of the "national interest" (cf. Dubya and his ilk), it does make sense in the limited context of democracy at the nation-state level. However, it shou

Re: RE: Re: PK on race to the bottom (a differentone)

2002-06-11 Thread Doug Henwood
Devine, James wrote: >"Tariffs were, as Schumpeter put it, 'the household remedy' of the >Republican Party." -- Charles P. Kindleberger, THE WORLD IN >DEPRESSION, 1929-39, University of California Press (1973), p. 133. > >the footnote is to a book by E.E. Schattschneider, POLITICS, >PRESSURES,

RE: Re: the national interest

2002-06-11 Thread Ian Murray
Ian, please don't send HTML files. Use plain text. Despite the common abuse of the concept of the "national interest" (cf. Dubya and his ilk), it does make sense in the limited context of democracy at the nation-state level. However, it should be remembered that democracy does not entail just maj

the wages of sin

2002-06-11 Thread Devine, James
Title: the wages of sin from SLATE's on-line news summary:>The NY [TIMES's] fine obit on [mobster John] Gotti runs over 3,000 words. (By comparison, the recent obit for scientist Stephen Jay Gould was about half that long.)< Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine

RE: Re: RE: Re: PK on race to the bottom (a different one)

2002-06-11 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:26719] Re: RE: Re: PK on race to the bottom (a different one) I wrote: > >The point is that in the earlier long period of U.S. rule by the > >GOPsters (1861-1932, with short periods of DP rule, under Cleveland > >and Wilson), they regularly raised tariffs. For example, any

Re: RE: RE: Re: PK on race to the bottom (a different one)

2002-06-11 Thread F G
>From: "Max Sawicky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [PEN-L:26711] RE: RE: Re: PK on race to the bottom (a different >one) >Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 13:17:43 -0400 > >Tariffs were an important source of Federal revenue >in the olden days. > >mb

EU enlargement

2002-06-11 Thread Ian Murray
New dispute on subsidies threatens EU enlargement Ian Black in Luxembourg Tuesday June 11, 2002 The Guardian Plans to enlarge the EU suffered a setback yesterday when governments failed to agree on the hyper-sensitive issue of making direct payments to farmers in candidate countries. Germany, t

RE: RE: Re: RE: Re: PK on race to the bottom (a different one)

2002-06-11 Thread Max Sawicky
My impression is the AFL-CIO was pro free trade until the early 1980's, when Bluestone/Harrison and others began writing about the vanishing 'middle class.' mbs -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Devine, James Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002

Judi Bari Wins!

2002-06-11 Thread Dan Scanlan
OAKLAND,CA - The jury in the Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney federal civil rights lawsuit against four FBI agents and three Oakland Police officers awarded plaintiffs $4.4 million for violation of the activists' Constitutional rights and returned a verdict largely in favor of Earth First! activis

"World Day Against Child Labour"

2002-06-11 Thread Ian Murray
Press Release: Index Note to Correspondents ILO launches first "World Day Against Child Labour" 12 June 2002 Wednesday 5 June 2002 ( ILO/02/27 ) GENEVA (ILO News) - The first World Day Against Child Labour will be observed worldwide on 12 June 2002. The International Labour Organization (ILO) w

Re: Invitation to NAFTA for Poland (July'92)- request for help

2002-06-11 Thread Sabri Oncu
Is that not wonderful to see an exchange between a Polish and an El Salvadoran on this list? I wish we have more of this. It is nice to learn about how things are going elsewhere. Hey, non-Americans, please keep in mind that this world does not belong to these bloody Americans only. We live there

An English revival

2002-06-11 Thread Ulhas Joglekar
Business Standard Friday, June 7, 2002 ASIA FILE An English revival The demand for conversational English teachers had never been greater and English teaching as an industry had never been more profitable, says Barun Roy When the founding fathers of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) chose to lo

DARPA and more Star Wars

2002-06-11 Thread Ian Murray
Aviation Week & Space Technology, 4/8/2002, Vol. 156 Issue 14, p36 Section: WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS DARPA EYES MATERIALS FOR 'MORPHING' AIRCRAFT The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is investigating the use of smart materials to create shape-changing, multi-mission aircraft and bring abou

Turkey: Turbulence continues

2002-06-11 Thread Sabri Oncu
By the way, below is old news from yesterday. Today, 1 US dolar is 1,510,550 Turkish liras and the stanbul Stock Exchange national 100 index is at 9721 points. Sabri +++ Ankara - Turkish Daily News June 11, 2002 Politics casts shadow on good economic news Despite an appearance

Re: Judi Bari Wins!

2002-06-11 Thread Michael Perelman
This is excellent news, but just think what the trial would have been like if the judge had allowed the COINTELPRO story to be told. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cyber security

2002-06-11 Thread Ann Li
>From Cyberia The President's Plan for a new Dept. of Homeland Security has a paragraph addressing cyber security. The full plan is available at http://www.whitehouse.gov/deptofhomeland/book.pdf Our nation's information and telecommunications systems are directly connected to many other critica

Re: cyber security

2002-06-11 Thread Sabri Oncu
> The full plan is available at > > http://www.whitehouse.gov/deptofhomeland/book.pdf 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 centr

Re: Re: cyber security

2002-06-11 Thread Michael Perelman
My experience with FEMA came when I arrived early at the Federal Reserve for a lunch with George Stigler. The Fed pulled my name from a pool of people; the rest were his students and buddies. They sent me to the dining room before the earlier group had finished. The FEMA boys were explaining ho

Poland in the NY Times

2002-06-11 Thread Michael Perelman
The Times, following our discussion, found it necessary to jump in on the subject of Poland. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/12/international/europe/12POLA.html By the way, would anybody know why my account would be giving the wrong time on my messages to pen-l? -- Michael Perelman Economics Dep

Re: An English revival

2002-06-11 Thread Chris Burford
One world, one economy, one language, one culture, one security system, one body of armed men, one state. Chris Burford

Wider electronic surveillance - of revolutionary email

2002-06-11 Thread Chris Burford
This article in the Guardian (UK) below, shows how far the UK and the USA have gone in assuming state surveillance of emails. That is not under debate - only the range of the agencies allowed to monitor. The implications for all radicals, let alone revolutionaries, using the internet have been

Re: cyber security

2002-06-11 Thread Sabri Oncu
Well. I usally send e-mails meant for A-LIST to PEN-L but this time I did the opposite. Please excuse this absent minded scientist. Best, Sabri -Original Message- From: Sabri Oncu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 10:13 PM To: ALIST Subject: Re: cyber security I f