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28696 undoing economics education -- rank: 1000

"If Teaching Economics Discourages Cooperation, Can the Damage Be Undone?" BY: JEFFREY P. COHEN University of Hartford Barney School of Business HARVEY S. JAMES University of Missouri at Columbia Department of Agricultural Economics Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=296134 Date: December 2001 Contact: HARVEY S. JAMES Email: Mailto:HJames at missouri.edu Postal: University of Missouri at Columbia Department ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 24 11:21:17 PST 2002

28697 Flouncing chuckie huff -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: > > That paradise is courtesy of the CIA, from the same homicidal, >> drug-addicted, racist, warmongering shithole you crawled out of. That >enough >> stereotyping for you, dickhead? Free Republic's over there on the right, >> your fellow posters can't hear you from here. >> >> Hakki > >Believe me, dear friend, I would love nothing better than to see my tax >dollars finance something more constructive than that Kurd-killin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 24 10:54:13 PST 2002

28698 The Angry Right (Was Re: Lenin today) -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >All that said there are a lot of downright mean and angry leftists, >more now than at any time I can remember. No kidding, and there's plenty of proof of that in this list's archives, or those of any other left list. >Of course the targets of our anger are the strong rather than the >weak, by and large, and that goes a awy towards making up for it. Oh, it seems that our targets are each other at lesat as much. "Spineless social democrat!" "Meath ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 24 10:53:42 PST 2002

28699 terror lab story a hoax? -- rank: 1000

Observer (London) - March 24 2002 Britain accused on terror lab claim Story of find in Afghan cave 'was made up' to justify sending marines Peter Beaumont and Ed Vulliamy in New York Britain was accused last night of falsely claiming that al-Qaeda terrorists had built a 'biological and chemical weapons' laboratory in Afghanistan to justify the deployment of 1,700 Royal Marines to fight there. The allegation follows a Downing Street briefing by a senior official to newspapers on Friday which clai ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 24 10:46:37 PST 2002

28700 Spineless Max S. and Reactionary Slander (was RE: Russian Israelis) -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >Hyperbole like this would just be silly, were it not an example of >antisemite-baiting, as mentioned. > >It is in fact true that "the terror attack on the WTC by Muslims raised >discussions of the posture of American Muslims to an acrid level." It did >a good bit more -- it put a lot of them in jail. And one is not a racist >swine for noting the facts. > >Similarly, Cockburn was simply reporting what is the case when he wrote >tha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 24 10:37:05 PST 2002

28701 Lenin today -- rank: 1000

Bradford DeLong wrote: >What I don't understand is their longevity: Why does Howard Kurtz >quote Andrew Sullivan? Why didn't Dan Quayle fire William Kristol in >March of 1989? These are things I genuinely do not understand... Because mainstream liberals really do feel paralyzed by guilt, and harbor the secret conviction that the right really is right, and they are mushy and weak? Because the American mainstream still needs the myth of a subversive and dangerous left, as absurd as that i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 24 09:53:49 PST 2002

28702 Info. requested -- rank: 1000

Juan Jose Barrios wrote: >does anybody out there knows where to get info. on MNCs revenues (worldwide) >due to Patent/Intellectual Property/etc. protection?. Dean Baker's done stuff on this. Google promises a paper on the UNDP site, but it's not there anymore. His 1996 paper (a scan of a marked-up typescript - how low production standards used to be!) is at <http://www.lights.com/epi/virlib/Technical/1996/highc.PDF>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 23 16:00:54 PST 2002

28703 Info. requested -- rank: 1000

Juan Jose Barrios wrote: >does anybody out there knows where to get info. on MNCs revenues (worldwide) >due to Patent/Intellectual Property/etc. protection?. > >Thanks-jj > >ps: Doug and others, if this is not an appropriate request for this list, >please tell me so and it wont happen again. That's completely appropriate - I'd like to hear the answers. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 23 15:20:55 PST 2002

28704 ice shelf collapses -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >I read Deffeyes' Hubbert's Peak a few months ago. I thought he made a >pretty good case for the peak in world oil production occurring within >the next decade, and decreasing inexorably after that. I know arguments >from authority aren't absolutely convincing, but this guy is a geologist >who makes a living finding oil. What's wrong with his analysis? People have been saying this stuff for years, and it hasn't yet come to pass. It probably will, but the ma ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 23 11:54:22 PST 2002

28705 Lenin today -- rank: 1000

A bit from Michael Tomasky's review of David Brock's new book in this week's Nation: "Of parties at the home of archconservative fomenter Grover Norquist, who hung a portrait on his living room wall an doften quoted Vladimir Ilyich's dictum to 'probe with bayonets, looking for weakness'.... "

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 23 11:25:21 PST 2002

28706 Harper's -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >But, like, before it was Harper's it was mainstream/nonoblique somewhere, yes? They credit only the radio station the interview was on. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 22 16:15:18 PST 2002

28707 Bobby Fischer -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >I think Chuck was exactly right about how publishing such tripe is >in fact a way of censoring (by pretending to do the opposite) >rational and principled opposition to the war and to the U.S. >support of Israeli policy. Well that's not true either of me, who forwarded it, or Harper's, which published it originally. I can't think of another glossy mag that's as critical of Israeli policy as Harper's, in fact. The issue that the Fischer interview is in contains a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 22 14:54:31 PST 2002

28708 KPFK -- rank: 1000

rhisiart at earthlink.net wrote: >and if the thought appeals to you, you might want to ask them why >they give coop a false aura of legitimacy by allowing him to have an >emal address at a prestigious journal like the nation. Maybe because he's a contributing editor, a frequent contributor, hosts their radio show, and is quite liked by most of the staff? Even if he doesn't pass your purity test. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 22 14:16:03 PST 2002

28709 more on the Israeli spies -- rank: 1000

<http://www.atlanta.creativeloafing.com/2002-03-20/fishwrapper.html> Creative Loafing (Atlanta) - March 20, 2002 Creative Loafing has obtained a report detailing alleged Israeli spy activity in the United States. BY JOHN SUGG Editor's note: Portions of the report mentioned in this article can be found at http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/2002-03-20/news_dea.pdf. A major international espionage saga is unfolding across the United States, with some of its roots right here in the Atlanta are ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 22 14:09:14 PST 2002

28710 Bobby Fischer on 9/11 -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >But you realize the usefulness of publishing a quack like Fischer, is >to discredit any reasonable opposition to the whole war mongering >mentality sweeping the US; to discredit any examination of the >underlying reasons for attacks against the US; and the general >discredit the whole background of anti-american sentiment around the >world. It is as if to say, see, they are all like Fischer, >anti-semitic, irrational craziods. So the self re-enforcing wa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 22 13:52:49 PST 2002