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29326 Radio Henwood -- rank: 1000
Tonight on my radio show (5-6 PM eastern US time, WBAI, 99.5 FM, New York and <http://www.wbai.org>): * Emilia Pires, advisor to the East Timor government on development, talking about the economic situation the country faces just after its independence (a perverse celebration of July 4 on my part), * me on the shareholder culture, the talk I gave in Munich. Plus commentary and music, since I'm a little short of material... Doug
Document Size: 4788
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Jul 4 11:01:55 PDT 2002
29327 Centralization -- rank: 1000
Bradford DeLong wrote: >They *are* experimenting with the process. How do you think >something like AT&T or Toyota manages its own internal division of >labor? I think the right point is not a Hayekian "planning is >impossible" point, but instead a question of accountability: what >(or whose) ends is the organization serving? Well, that's a political question about economic organization of the sort that price system mystics don't like to talk about. Doug
Document Size: 4833
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jul 3 20:17:28 PDT 2002
29328 same-sexers in the labor market -- rank: 1000
"Sexual Orientation Discrimination in Hiring" BY: DORIS WEICHSELBAUMER University of Linz Department of Economics Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=305140 Other Electronic Document Delivery: http://www.economics.uni-linz.ac.at/members/weichsel/w ork/paper/sexualorientation.PDF SSRN only offers technical support for papers downloaded from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection location. When URLs wrap, you must co ...
Document Size: 7388
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jul 3 15:40:22 PDT 2002
29329 academic labor market -- rank: 1000
"Studying Ourselves: The Academic Labor Market" BY: RONALD G. EHRENBERG ILR-Cornell University National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=314636 Paper ID: NBER Working Paper No. W8965 Date: May 2002 Contact: RONALD G. EHRENBERG Email: Mailto:rge2 at cornell.edu Postal: ILR-Cornell University Higher Education Research Institute Ithaca, NY 14853-3901 UNITED STATES Phone: ...
Document Size: 6500
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jul 3 15:35:52 PDT 2002
29330 marriage: an investigation -- rank: 1000
"Arranged or Love Marriage? That is the Question" BY: AMITRAJEET A. BATABYAL Rochester Institute of Technology Dept. of Economics HAMID BELADI University of Dayton Department of Economics and Finance Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=312152 Contact: AMITRAJEET A. BATABYAL Email: Mailto:aabgsh at rit.edu Postal: Rochester Institute of Technology Dept. of Economics 92 Lomb Memorial Drive Rochester, NY 14623-56 ...
Document Size: 6473
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jul 3 15:34:36 PDT 2002
29331 Centralization -- rank: 1000
Justin Schwartz wrote: >OK, you and Charles can cozy up with stories about how good it was >in the good old days. I actually know, or knew, a lot about the >Soviet economy, and in my judgment the picture in the Thurning Point >was fair, sober, reasonable, and realistic. It is not the case, as >your analogy suggests, that the Soviet economy basically healthy >with some glitches. Oh come on. Charles & I are miles apart. I don't think of the USSR as a utopia. But what imaginar ...
Document Size: 6750
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jul 3 14:48:51 PDT 2002
29332 Centralization -- rank: 1000
Justin Schwartz wrote: >Read The Turning Point by, damnh I forget, a couple of top Gorby >advisers, lots of graet stories to this effect. Nikolai Shmelev, I believe, who was quite the Market Stalinist, as I recall. I'm familiar with all these stories. They provide as fair a picture of the Soviet economy as a tale of nothing but fraudulent accounting and mass homelessness would of American capitalism. Doug
Document Size: 4782
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jul 3 13:54:53 PDT 2002
29333 rent -- rank: 1000
For a fine examle of monopolists' rents, take a look at <http://biz.yahoo.com/fin/l/m/msft_ai.html>. $7 billion in net profit on $25 billion in sales. Is there any other legal business on earth like it? Doug
Document Size: 4496
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jul 3 13:32:27 PDT 2002
29334 working class -- rank: 1000
Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Capitalists do not rent their labor power - their remuneration is >based on their monopoly position i.e. celebrity status or actual >control of the process of production - which in economics is called >"rent." Rent being the monopolist's return above the "normal" rate of profit.
Document Size: 4661
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jul 3 13:29:01 PDT 2002
29335 cops -- rank: 1000
Stannard67 at aol.com wrote: >We have to be aware that some people can come from the working >class, yet still be part of an element of society whose job is to >uphold the existing order. Didn't Henry Clay Frick say something like "I can always hire half the working class to kill the other half"? Anyone know if that's accurate? Doug
Document Size: 4654
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jul 3 06:33:35 PDT 2002
29336 Centralization -- rank: 1000
ChrisD(RJ) wrote: >Economic planning was (mostly) centralized in Moscow, but there were of >course feedback mechanisms on the municipal, local and republican level. It's been a long time since I read Hewett and Nove and the like, but as I remember, the planning mechanism wasn't anything like the rigid top-down caricature it was rendered as in the West. There was "market" feedback - not in price form, but more in volume form (e.g., no one bought the hideous shoes). And there was m ...
Document Size: 5058
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jul 3 06:24:01 PDT 2002
29337 IMF fires back at Stiggy -- rank: 1000
ChrisD(RJ) wrote: >What on Earth does this have to do with awakening faith in markets? Wow, you've really been out of the U.S. for a while. Collapse of formerly existing Communism = the impossibility of any nonmarket intervention forever and ever, Amen. Doug
Document Size: 4646
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jul 3 05:05:56 PDT 2002
29338 pledging allegiance -- rank: 1000
[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review] Q & A Atlanta Constitution Q: Do other countries have pledges to their flags, or is this a uniquely American custom? - Fred Gates, Norcross A: "Pledges of allegiance are marks of totalitarian states, not democracies," says David Kertzer, a Brown University anthropologist who specializes in political rituals. "I can't think of a single democracy except the United States that has a pledge of allegiance." When Hitler ruled in Germany and ...
Document Size: 5181
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Jul 2 12:38:23 PDT 2002
29339 IMF fires back at Stiggy -- rank: 1000
>New on the IMF Website > > An Open Letter to Joseph Stiglitz, by Kenneth Rogoff, >Economic Counsellor and Director of the Research Department, IMF, >http://www.imf.org/external/np/vc/2002/070202.htm > > Stiglitz, the IMF and Globalization -- Speech by Thomas C. >Dawson, Director, External Relations Department, IMF, >http://www.imf.org/external/np/speeches/2002/061302.htm >
Document Size: 5010
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Jul 2 11:50:52 PDT 2002
29340 Flag Waving -- rank: 1000
Chuck Munson wrote: >This is complete bullshit! This is what people want to say to pollsters, >but it doesn't reflect reality. I've been observing these behaviors since >9-11 and I would argue that a minority of people fly the flag from their >car or from their home. Where you been? In my parents' neighborhood in suburban NJ, theirs is about the only house without flags. Many lawns are festooned with multiple flags even. Most apartment bldgs in nonpoor neighborhoods of Manhattan have ...
Document Size: 4886
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Jul 2 09:55:25 PDT 2002
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