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30706 Fwd: AUT: Empire in Freenet -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >So who doesn't approve? Harvard University Press? I assume not. The paperback is already in its fourth printing, and they're selling foreign rights for big bucks. Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 5 13:16:54 PDT 2001

30707 Brazil gets 40% cut on AIDS drugs -- rank: 1000

James Baird wrote: >In the case of consumer goods, where adapting to >customer feedback is a large part of the process, >private applied research is probably a lot more >flexible. But consumer feedback is not an issue in >drug development - it's simply a matter of finding >"the best drug". If only it were. It takes time to do that, and results are often ambiguous. But when you have MegaPharmaCorp flying docs to conferences in Aruba in February, salespeople lining up ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 5 10:42:36 PDT 2001

30708 Brazil gets 40% cut on AIDS drugs -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I bet the U.S. government can do a pretty good job in packaging & >marketing as well. It sold the world on abstract expressionism, for >instance. Yeah, but it contracted out to a bunch of old money Yalies to do the job. Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 5 10:27:04 PDT 2001

30709 Jude to Alan: 'fess up -- rank: 1000

From: "Rita Brosnan" <rbrosnan at polyconomics.com> To: <memo at polyconomics.com> Subject: Memo on the Margin: What Greenspan Has to Do Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 12:12:58 -0400 September 5, 2001 What Greenspan Has to Do Memo To: Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan From: Jude Wanniski Re: Acknowledging Error It is getting time, Alan, for you to find a way to admit you have been making a long series of mistakes in your management of monetary policy. You can do it directly, in a speech, ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 5 10:17:30 PDT 2001

30710 Fwd: Re: Victory to Iraq -- rank: 1000

X-From_: LeoCasey at aol.com Wed Sep 5 12:04:01 2001 From: LeoCasey at aol.com Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 12:03:22 EDT Subject: Re: Victory to Iraq To: lbo-talk-digest <owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 >This from a man who thinks we should debate whether or not Nato was a >sufficient way to stop the impending genocide on the poor Kosovars- and >thinks those who call the trial false are simply deluded, but thinks the >media is somehow trustworthy on the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 5 10:14:36 PDT 2001

30711 Images of Palestinians in US media -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Which is a key point- Israel kills quietly for specific political and >military results, while the Palestinians bombers concentrate on generating >horrific images. Different strategies are available when you have a powerful state, subsidized and armed by the U.S., and when you don't. Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 5 07:59:40 PDT 2001

30712 Images of Palestinians in US media -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >>So why haven't Sabra and Shatila, or the routine bulldozing of >>houses, had a similar effect on Israel's image? Is it because the >>attentions of the image-shapers are, um, asymmetric, to use an >>economist's word? >> >>Doug > >Fewer videocameras. And why are there videocameras in one place (sites of Palestinian "terrorism") and not in another (sites of Israeli state terrorism)? Because the editors and producers who decide ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 5 07:49:16 PDT 2001

30713 Fwd: AUT: Empire in Freenet -- rank: 1000

[Michael Hardt totally approves of this crack, by the way.] Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 14:37:46 +0200 From: Peter van Heusden <pvh at egenetics.com> I notice that Empire (both printable PDF and text versions) is now available in Freenet (for those who don't know about Freenet, look at http://www.freenetproject.org). Look at: PDF version freenet:SSK at 1EfIMWvpRAC0VEpeKbWeILAfvX4QAgE/autonomist/Empire.pdf Text version freenet:SSK at 1EfIMWvpRAC0VEpeKbWeILAfvX4QAgE/autonomist/Empire.txt Peter -- ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 5 07:04:06 PDT 2001

30714 Jackson Hole query -- rank: 1000

So Brad, did Alan G give any hints about monetary policy while you were all sitting around the campfire? Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 5 06:57:52 PDT 2001

30715 epistolary economics -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Stuart Chase, Tyranny of Words >John Gunther, Inside Europe >Irving Babbitt, Rousseau & Romanticism >Philip Wylie, Generation of Vipers >Vance Packard, _______ (forget the title) >Velikovsky, Worlds in Collision >White or Whyte, Organization Man >[forget his name], Greening of America >Hardt/Negri, Empire >Little Orphan Annie >Forever Amber You becoming a language poet in your retirement, Carrol? Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 5 06:50:57 PDT 2001

30716 Victory To Iraq -- rank: 1000

Luke Benjamin Weiger wrote: >On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Macdonald Stainsby wrote: > >> Red herring > >Yep, if you're able to demonstrate relevant distinctions... This kind of thing is pointless and annoying. No Hitler-Stalin tit-for-tat stuff here. Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 5 06:39:29 PDT 2001

30717 Images of Palestinians in US media -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >I think Said underestimates the long-run effect of the hijackings of >the early 1970s: the images of hijacked airplanes in the Jordanian >desert, the murder of the Israeli Olympic athletes at the Munich >airport in 1972, Entebbe--these are very powerful images that have >shaped the international response to the Palestinian cause, images >that return to the mind's eye of everyone who passes through an >airport metal detector. > >I suspect that when h ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 5 06:43:30 PDT 2001

30718 Brazil gets 40% cut on AIDS drugs -- rank: 1000

James Baird wrote: >Why would a government bureaucracy, with relatively >limiltless resources and no bottom-line pressures, be >less likely than private business at making "risky >long term bets"? Would private business have funded >the space program? Sure didn't fund the early days of computers and the internet - too risky, you know. Or rather too uncertain. As any Keynesian knows, statistically quantifiable risk is way different from radical uncertainty. Business like ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 5 06:36:37 PDT 2001

30719 Fwd: WIPOUT Essay Contest Launched Today -- rank: 1000

[attachment severed] Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 09:14:28 +1200 (NZST) From: WIPOUT Endorsers <wipout_endorsers at yahoo.co.nz> Subject: WIPOUT Essay Contest Launched Today: Update for Endorsers Greetings, My name is Stephanie Howard (from Aotearoa New Zealand) and I am WIPOUT liaison for the endorsers of the IP counter essay contest. Today is launch day for the competition. The website is now officially up and running (www.wipout.net) and a publicity campaign is in full flight. As you can see, ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 5 06:12:16 PDT 2001

30720 epistolary economics -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >Gelatinous mass of woolly post-Foucaultian abstraction Is gelatinous wool one of those GM things? Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 4 21:17:34 PDT 2001