Re: Wade vs Wolf

2002-03-05 Thread F G
>From: "Ian Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [PEN-L:23494] Wade vs Wolf >Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 15:21:17 -0800 > >< http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk > >Are global poverty and inequality getting worse? [snip] >

Re: Re: BLS Daily Report

2002-04-10 Thread F G
>From: Sabri Oncu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: PEN-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [PEN-L:24781] Re: BLS Daily Report >Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 16:19:02 -0700 > > >From today's BLS daily report: > > > Education increases income, says USA Today, > > in its page 3B box show

Fortune on Pakistan

2002-04-19 Thread F G
"Pakistan: Kidnapped Nation" http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=207350 _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.

Sustainable development

2002-06-04 Thread F G
"Brazil´s Elites Fly Above Their Fears" [...] Despite a lackluster economy, a $2 billion-a-year security industry is thriving across Brazil. Brazilians are armoring and bulletproofing an estimated 4,000 cars a year, twice as many as in Colombia, which is in the midst of a 38-year-old civil war

El Salvador's monopoly capitalism

2002-06-05 Thread F G
Michael expressed some desire to hear from other people on the list who are familiar with the economic situation in other countries. That said, I'll throw two cents in about the situation in El Salvador. The concentration of wealth and investment flows has reached extraordinary levels- I don't

Office of the USTR on NAFTA

2002-06-06 Thread F G
From: http://www.ustr.gov/releases/2002/05/2002-05-28-Statement.htm NAFTA FREE TRADE COMMISSION: JOINT STATEMENT "A Foundation for Future Growth" A gem: "As we look back over the eight years since NAFTA entered into force, we are pleased with its unconditional success. The Agreement has brought

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: 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

Re: Re: Leave the dollar alone

2002-06-15 Thread F G
>From: Sabri Oncu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: PEN-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [PEN-L:26929] Re: Leave the dollar alone >Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 23:38:26 -0700 > > > There may be a legitimate role for government > > in limiting excessive volatility, but if underlying >

Re: Re: Reading List

2002-06-22 Thread F G
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [PEN-L:27113] Re: Reading List >Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 14:47:26 EDT > >In a message dated 6/22/02 9:10:26 AM Pacific Daylight Time, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > A reader of my web site asks for a list of

Re: Patents and drugs

2001-12-07 Thread F G
Greetings penners! I´m dropping out of lurk mode after some months of lurking... >From: "Ian Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [PEN-L:20431] Patents and drugs >Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 08:46:41 -0800 > >Duke Law & Technology Review >Decemb

Re: Taliban screwed it up?

2001-12-12 Thread F G
>From: Steve Diamond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [PEN-L:20580] Taliban screwed it up? >Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 16:56:32 -0800 > >Or they were just called off by Pakistan - how else to explain the >relatively orderly retreat from Kabul and the

Re: Dignity for everyone

2001-12-17 Thread F G
>From: "Ken Hanly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "pen-l" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [PEN-L:20685] Dignity for everyone >Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 09:50:54 -0600 > >Refugees meeting hears proposal to register every human in >GENEVA, Dec 13 AAP|Published: Friday December 1

Re: Re: growing inequality

2001-12-17 Thread F G
>From: "William S. Lear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [PEN-L:20686] Re: growing inequality >Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 10:46:14 -0600 > > >As a representative of an administration that supported the illegal >destruction of unions, among other

SCEPTICISM ON IMF LENDING TO ARGENTINA GAINS CONGRESSIONAL SUPPORT

2001-12-18 Thread F G
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The reluctance of the Bush Administration and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to provide more subsidized IMF loans to Argentina won support today from two leading Congressional advocates of IMF reform. Majority Leader Dick Armey and Joint Economic Committee (JEC) Chair

Re: Brazil

2002-01-15 Thread F G
>From: ALI KADRI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [PEN-L:21378] Re: Argentina--how the asset stripping took off >Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 23:20:46 -0800 (PST) > >Isn't Brazil in a much worse position, macro >accounting and socially. Th exposure is

Re: RE: RE: Re: RE: Re: crisis causes the end of capitalism?

2002-01-15 Thread F G
>From: "Forstater, Mathew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [PEN-L:21408] RE: RE: Re: RE: Re: crisis causes the end of >capitalism? >Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 13:56:55 -0600 > >I don't know if anyone is familiar with Darity's thesis about manager

Re: Re: Who will be the next Marx

2002-01-21 Thread F G
>From: Chris Burford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [PEN-L:21675] Re: Who will be the next Marx >Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 07:34:49 + > >We will be. > >Collectively. > >(and not just those on this list) > >Interesting that they seem to be look

Re: convergence?

2002-07-31 Thread F G
>From: "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "Pen-l (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [PEN-L:28969] convergence? >Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 14:34:29 -0700 > >[comments?] > >THE ECONOMIST / July 20, 2002 > >Convergence, period > >MOST people who have a view on

Re: RE: convergence?

2002-08-01 Thread F G
>From: "Davies, Daniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [PEN-L:28988] RE: convergence? >Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 08:40:41 +0100 > >[comments?} > >Sala-i-Martin is a good lad; he's a Catalonian Nationalist and thus >familiar

Re: Jim Blaut on world systems analysis

2002-08-03 Thread F G
>From: Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [PEN-L:29024] Jim Blaut on world systems analysis >Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 18:56:12 -0400 > >(From the late Jim Blaut's regrettably out-of-print "The National >Question". Sh

Friendly Fascism, Counterterrorism and the embrace of Trotsky

2002-08-04 Thread F G
This is just bizarre. >From Military Review: Cashiering Freedom for Security: Lessons in Modern Terrorism J. Michael Brower "Reflecting on the indispensability of the terrorist technique in 1920, Leon Trotsky, the first Soviet Commissar for War, wrote about the issue while on a military train

Rodrik

2002-08-21 Thread F G
Since we´ve been discussing dissident "mainstream" economists on the list recently (Stiglitz, Krguman v. neoliberalism in Lat Am), I thought it was worth mentioning Dani Rodrik, who surprisingly has yet to be brought up. He has certainly critiziced global neoliberalism. His book, "The New Glo

Comments on CAFTA etc.

2002-09-23 Thread F G
>From what I've read in the U.S. press, there seems to be silence with respect to the forthcoming CAFTA. Here in El Salvador, it has demogogically been sold as a panacea (ditto with dollarization) to a population that hardly understands what is involved. The central government has generated

Re: Re: Comments on CAFTA etc.

2002-09-24 Thread F G
>From: Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [PEN-L:30492] Re: Comments on CAFTA etc. >Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 18:54:41 -0700 > >What could possibly make the leadership of a country move in this >direction? Are they merely going for p

Re: Brazil's Debt Menaces U.S. Markets

2002-10-01 Thread F G
>From: Sabri Oncu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: PEN-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ALIST <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [PEN-L:30749] Brazil's Debt Menaces U.S. Markets >Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 18:01:17 -0700 > >Brazil's Debt Menaces U.S. Markets It's important to keep in mind th

Re: Re: U.S. port closures batter Korea's economy

2002-10-07 Thread F G
>From: Doug Henwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [PEN-L:30986] Re: U.S. port closures batter Korea's economy >Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 12:50:45 -0400 > >Sabri Oncu wrote: > >>It appears that Korea is not doing well in these days. I remember >>th

Easterbrook's claims

2002-11-20 Thread F G
I followed the link posted by Lou where Easterbrook review's Singer's new book: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0211.easterbrook.html Much of the article is not worth responding to, since it argues that "globalization" is good without bothering to define it. However, I was inter

Re: Counting the poor

2002-12-05 Thread F G
From: Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:32777] Counting the poor Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 10:30:35 -0500 HOW NOT TO COUNT THE POOR Sanjay G. Reddy and Thomas W. Pogge Abstract: The estimates of the extent, distribu