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31906 tax cut -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >Dean Baker says that if capital inflows halted, it wouldn't have much of a >negative effect. The dollar would plummet, the current account would >dramatically improve, which would add to output and profits, making up for >some of the lost foreign savings. This is what the textbooks say but it >seems too mechanical to me. Where does Dean say this? It seems a little, oh, sunny to me. An economy suddenly deprived of foreign finance would run out of scratch and g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 9 12:42:58 PST 2001

31907 reparations & exploitation -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >If Black workers were to withdraw from the situation where they >interacted with white workers (bith otherwise everything else >remained constant), would they be better off? Roemer would say, if >so, they are exploited. And do what, starve? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 9 11:29:30 PST 2001

31908 Good Riddance -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >maybe we should cut one another and ourselves some slack once in awhile eh? Yeah. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 9 11:28:17 PST 2001

31909 Horowitz/Reparations for slavery -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: > But you also know that Yoshie puts a great deal of emphasis on race >& gender but you still asked her why she didn't or something like that. I know she does, and so I'd never claim to the contrary. "Something like that" won't cut it in this context - what exactly did I say? I do wonder why she doesn't want to invoke the word "exploitation," when it seems to me that something very like exploitation occurs along racial and gender lines. And it doe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 9 11:26:58 PST 2001

31910 reparations & exploitation -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >i don't think anyone here doesn't believe that! what is at issue >isn't that! what is at issue is whether you can say that white >workers benefit from racism by calling that exploitation. does the >woman who hires a housekeeper exploit that housekeeper? does the >couple who buys all the meals preprepared and eat off disposable >dishes exploit the people who make the disposable tableware and the >food they eat? does the dot.com worker or lawyer exploit th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 9 11:20:57 PST 2001

31911 Horowitz/Reparations for slavery -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >It is impossible to make use of empirical data comparing categories >_until_ those categories have been identified. Doug, on the other hand, >assumes that his spontaneous and unexamined categories have a platonic >existence of their own. That is, he believes that "white working class" >is a category established by God I believe no such thing, and I have no idea why you think I do. I think the w.w.c. exists because people think and act as if they're mem ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 9 08:42:43 PST 2001

31912 reparations & exploitation -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >oh my god! yes, it's true that women in same occupations, with same >experience, education, work commitment etc often get paid less than >men. but the reason why women are paid less is explained MORE by >occupational segregation and further segregation within occupations. >(women tend to be food service managers, h.r. managers, etc) Yeah, I know this, and it's responsible for most of the pay gap. But even *after* all those things are accounted for, nonwhite nonmen ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 9 10:32:54 PST 2001

31913 World 'equity culture' at risk -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >--- kelley <kwalker2 at gte.net> wrote: > At 05:59 PM >> >> >> well fuckmedead! did anyone ever type in >> www.lbo.com? obviously doug >> has. ya get freaking Capital.com!! you oughtta >> sue for squatting doug! heh. >> Capital.com 'is a business marketplace where premier >> financial institutions >> compete to provide capital and financial services." >> shit! > >sadly, among th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 9 08:30:22 PST 2001

31914 Fwd: {FP} Rep. Major Owens Wants to Hear From US -- rank: 1000

From: "Lyn Gerry" <redlyn at loop.com> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 23:42:14 -0500 Dear All, As you probably already know, Congressman Major Owens made a speech on the House floor today wherein he addressed being pulled off WBAI during his Buillding Bridges interview by Utrice Leid, and also the hostile corporate takeover of Pacifica. He contextualized this within the overall problem of corporate domination of the airwaves and the lack of media serving the interests of working families. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 9 08:26:31 PST 2001

31915 reparations & exploitation -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >I don't know whether this is what is bugging Yoshie, but some people >might want to say that classes are exploited, races are oppressed. >Thts eems to be mechanical to me. Black slaves in America where both >oppressed and, in the technical sense, exploited, wrongfully forced >to produce surplus (value) that was appropriated by others. If black and women workers are paid less than would be predicted by their education, occupation, and experience - and the co ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 9 08:19:02 PST 2001

31916 reparations & exploitation -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Exploitation takes the form of the expropriation of surplus from one >class by another. Therefore slaves were by definition exploited. >Who were the exploiters, however? The ruling class or all white >men? The ruling class. If white men enjoy an income advantage (and that's the flip side of the 10-15% penalty I was just talking about for nonwhite nonmen), then they do share in part in the fruits of exploitation. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 9 08:20:13 PST 2001

31917 World 'equity culture' at risk -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: >Doug, I don't understand what Bhagwati is getting at when he says the >"Quad", i.e. rich, countries are starving the WTO and that it's not their >preferred institution. Who pushed to create it? The rich countries, n'est >pas? Yes, but Bhagwati's point is that they have a hard time dominating it the way they dominate the WB & IMF. That it's entire budget is less than the IMF's travel budget is an amazing factoid. The Quad tried, in conjunction with some ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 9 07:59:05 PST 2001

31918 Glass resurfaces -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: > >The Washington City Paper published a story on its Web site today >>revealing that former New Republic writer Stephen Glass, whom >>colleague Ruth Shalit once described as the "Milli Vanilli of >>journalism," has obtained a clerkship with the D.C. Superior Court > >I thought that former New Republic writer Shalit had also embellished. <http://www.brillscontent.com/2001feb/notebook/ruth.shtml> Brill's Content - February 2001 The Tr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 9 07:25:31 PST 2001

31919 Fwd: Asian Developmental Bank -- rank: 1000

[no word yet on the illegitimate events] Counter ADB Events in Honolulu May 4-11, 2001. Official list of legitimate NGO events planned from May 4-11, 2001. Venues, times and details to follow. May 4-6 KAHEA's conference on indigenous economics and cultural rights. May 7 - evening: Teach-in on Globalization by the International Forum on Globalization. This is a speaker's bureau of world-renowned experts on globalization addressing the impacts on the environment, governments, Indigenous people, e ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 6 07:06:01 PST 2001

31920 "Purposiveness" and Austrian economics -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: >The economist is truly the new priest, eh? Yeah, but what does s/he have to offer? Not intercession with god or eternal salvation, but... Pareto-optimality? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 5 09:59:19 PST 2001