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29566 Russians long for the old days -- rank: 1000

[via Johnson's Russia List] Poll: Russians long for pre-reform era MOSCOW, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- The majority of Russians prefer the lives they had lived before the country's stormy economic reforms were launched in 1991, a poll said Sunday. The survey, conducted by ROMIR-Gallup International public opinion research group, queried 2,000 respondents throughout Russia on New Year's Eve. According to the poll results, 55.1 percent of those asked said they wished they could have their pre-reform living st ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 7 07:33:14 PST 2002

29567 women economists: still oppressed -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - January 7, 2002 Women Economists Have Not Advanced as Readily as Male Peers, Scholar Says By D.W. MILLER After making great strides in the 1980s, women's drive toward parity on the nation's economics faculties stalled out in the 1990s, a new study finds. There are far fewer female economists -- among tenured professors, department heads, and deans in particular -- than one would expect from looking at the number of women who entered the profession a de ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 7 07:30:11 PST 2002

29568 The making of a hawk -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2002/01/03/hawk/index.html > > Pointed out by paleo-con, Justin Raimondo here, >http://www.antiwar.com/justin/justincol.html > >Michael Pugliese Hmm, Salon must be going down and Talbot needs a job. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 7 06:47:43 PST 2002

29569 The story on RAWA -- rank: 1000

Chris Kromm wrote: >I remember this thread coming up before, but I can't remember what people >said. Does anyone have insight to offer on RAWA (Revolutionary Association >of the Women of Afghanistan), which appears to have become the group of >choice for U.S. leftists to support in Afghanistan? I'm curious about their >history, political orientation, size, etc. Some people say they have a Maoist core. Tariq Ali told me they're a mix of ideologies; as Afg has gone through successiv ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 6 20:52:29 PST 2002

29570 US economy turning? -- rank: 1000

Charles Jannuzi wrote: >?Doug Henwood wrote: > >>>Stocks are priced for a recovery in profitability > >>This strikes me as a bit of an understatement. > >Seth > >Since so many companies don't pay dividends anymore, one has to wonder what >the calculations (conscious or subconscious) are. In the third quarter of 2001, U.S. corporations paid out over 88% of their profits in dividends, the highest payout ratio since the early 1930s (when firms continued paying ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 6 09:04:39 PST 2002

29571 Davos in NYC - forum -- rank: 1000

Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2002 00:46:55 -0500 From: Shaun Richman <shaun at americansocialist.org> Organization: http://www.americansocialist.org Date: Friday, February 1 at 7:00 Location: 322 W. 48th St. in NYC In early February, the World Economic Forum - an elite business group comprised of representatives of 1000 of the world's largest corporations - will meet in New York City to discuss their free trade agenda. The American Socialist Foundation - a new think tank comprised of artists, activis ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 6 08:58:33 PST 2002

29572 Barrios paper -- rank: 1000

[this bounced bec it was too long, and bec it was an attachment - anyone who wants a copy, please contact Juan Jose Barrios directly] Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 21:19:48 -0300 From: Juan Jose Barrios <jota at netgate.com.uy> hi Cian and Doug. The WB, IADB and other institutions have been doing a lot of research over the last 7 years or so about the relationship between inequality, growth and poverty. I am attaching a draft of a paper I am writing on this topic. On section 4.3 you can look at ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 6 08:46:03 PST 2002

29573 W, national icon -- rank: 1000

The lead article in today's NYT week in review explains why W is our national hero. A choice quote: >Bruce J. Schulman, the director of American Studies at Boston >University, argued that Mr. Bush "was never as silly or shallow as >many people depicted him before." Nonetheless, he said, "It may be >that certain of his qualities that seemed less than presidential >before - the inarticulateness, the folksiness, the seeming lack of >sophistication - now have become ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 6 08:43:00 PST 2002

29574 inequality & health - evidence disappears -- rank: 1000

Juan Jose Barrios wrote: >Comment here: studies trying to relate INCOME inequality to other >variables (such as growth rate) tend to have mixed results. However, once >the independent variable chosen is a broader one, say ASSET inequality, >the results are different. For example, there is a strong negative >correlation between asset inequality and growth rates.-jj Where do you get good data on wealth distribution? How many countries have something comparable to the Fed's Survey of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 5 14:28:09 PST 2002

29575 inequality & health - evidence disappears -- rank: 1000

Oh yes, the BMJ articles also show that poorer people are sicker than richer ones - there's no doubt about that. Just about inequality as an independent factor in morbidity/mortality. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 5 12:48:42 PST 2002

29576 inequality & health - evidence disappears -- rank: 1000

[Thanks to Chris Burford for pointing this out. The argument was that inequality itself was a risk factor for population health - in other words, given two countries at similar income levels, the more unequal one would be sicker. Broader studies have refuted the thesis. The whole package of papers is available on the BMJ website - just follow the links from the edit. Christopher Jencks told me that he did research into this topic and found that you could make the relation between inequality appe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 5 12:24:45 PST 2002

29577 Negri on globo -- rank: 1000

The latest from that enemy of the Third World & the working class - isn't that right, Carrol? - Toni Negri <http://slash.autonomedia.org/article.pl?sid=02/01/05/003250>. posted by Uncle Fluffy on Friday January 04, @07:02PM from the star-fuckers-anonymous dept. hydrarchist writes: " This translation is the work of Ed Emery. The following is a contribution by Toni Negri to a meeting in 2001 at the Literature Faculty of the La Sapienza university, organised by the group Laboratorio ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 5 11:23:22 PST 2002

29578 US economy turning? -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >Christian Gregory asks: > >>> Doug Henwood wrote: >>> >>> Stocks are priced for a recovery in profitability >> >> By the way, what is the formula for figuring how how the price of a >> stock predicts or anticipates profits--I mean, in real number terms? >> How is the price or market capitalization related to earnings >> expectations? > >They aren't; Doug was being sly along the lines of "If you t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 5 11:07:37 PST 2002

29579 life after welfare -- rank: 1000

New York Times - January 5, 2002 City Fires 3,500 Former Welfare Recipients By NINA BERNSTEIN On the last day of the Giuliani administration, the city's departing welfare commissioner ordered the dismissal of more than 3,500 former welfare recipients now working at union wages for the city parks department, and withdrew the promise of such jobs from about 1,200 others who were reaching their federal welfare time limits last month. The dismissed workers will be referred to a temporary staffing a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 5 10:57:06 PST 2002

29580 US economy turning? -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > >>Stocks are priced for a recovery in profitability > >This strikes me as a bit of an understatement. It's my style, what can I say? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 4 21:48:10 PST 2002