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32806 missing women -- rank: 1000

[apropos the missing women issue] "A Turning Point in Gender Bias in Mortality? An Update on the Number of 'Missing Women'" BY: STEPHAN KLASEN University of Munich (LMU) Department of Economics CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute for Economic Research) CLAUDIA WINK DEG-German Investment and Development Company Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=287035 Paper ID: Munich Discussion Paper Series N ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 23 11:43:59 PST 2001

32807 A Modest Proposal for The "Feminist" Empire -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Madeleine K. Albright, "Women in American Foreign Policy," _SAIS >Review_ 20.2 (Summer-Fall 2000): 65-70. And what's the point of this long quote? That anyone who expresses support for the liberation of Afghan women is an imperialist butcher? That imperialist butchers will stop at nothing to promote their bloody designs? Please clarify. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 23 10:15:03 PST 2001

32808 A Modest Proposal for The Empire 9 -- rank: 1000

It took nine long quotes to make what point? That some right-wingers are nostalgic for 19C colonialism? What's next, an 18-parter showing that bourgeois economists are insensitive to human need? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 23 10:10:42 PST 2001

32809 A Modest Proposal for The Empire -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Unlike Hardt & Negri, Paul Johnson isn't afflicted with the optimism >of intellect.... Um, Yoshie - Johnson seems to prefer old-style imperialism to new-style Empire; H&N, and most of their fans (even critical fans like me) want to overthrow Empire, but don't think that national revolutions are the way to go. A not insigificant difference, don't you agree? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 23 10:08:45 PST 2001

32810 Global Capital, Empire and Argentina -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Nations in which women outnumber men at a higher ratio than they do >in the USA seem to fall into a bewildering variety of categories, >economically and politically (from Haiti to Belgium, Russia to >France). We might ask why so many men are missing in some nations. Just guessing, I'd say in the case of the European countries, it's a function of the welfare state; in the case of Haiti, men emigrate looking for work; in Russia, the men drink themselves to dea ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 23 10:06:14 PST 2001

32811 Global Capital, Empire and Argentina -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I don't know what the intentions of Negri & Hardt were, and I have >ceased to be very interested in what its admiring readers get from it, >but it looks very much to me as a banal replay of the traditional tune >of the ultra-left: All is hopeless. Struggle is pointless. Wow, and I thought that among Negri's great faults was that he's too optimistic, too eager to see any unrest as revolutionary. Wasn't it you who thought it was pointless to struggle against the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 23 09:58:28 PST 2001

32812 Global Capital, Empire and Argentina -- rank: 1000

Bradford DeLong wrote: >Growth in real GDP per capita of 4.0% in 1993, 4.5% in 1994, -4.2% >in 1995, 4.2% in 1996, 6.8% in 1997, 2.6% in 1998. These left >Argentina in 1998 with real GDP per capita levels 18% above what >they had been six years earlier--a pace of growth that, if it could >have been sustained, would double Argentinian material standards of >living in 24 years. Distributed how? According to Branko Milanovic, Argentina had a gini of .496 in 1993, making it the 13t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 23 09:51:12 PST 2001

32813 From Nestor on Argentina -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Indeed, as the outcome is so predictable, why should anyone bother, >when we all have last-minute Christmas shopping to do! :-0 Argentina can't do much on its own. With its neighbors and with a few more allies in the North - then things could happen. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 23 09:44:22 PST 2001

32814 Global Capital, Empire and Argentina -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Argentina's room for maneuver is very limited. It's a small country >> with big debts. It has less wiggle room than a larger country, like >> Brazil. If it were to default as a conscious, explictly rebellious >> strategy, it would be screwed - frozen out of global markets, unable >> to finance the import of basic goods. Without a change in the >> creditor countries, or without the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 23 09:04:50 PST 2001

32815 Cockburn/St. Clair: Enron and the Green Seal -- rank: 1000

Chris Kromm wrote: >While people on this list bleat on about how A. Cockburn is too hard on >liberals, here he shows just why he has to write such pieces -- this one >taking the environmental establishment to task for being in bed with Enron. I'm guessing that A. Cockburn had less to do with that piece than J. St Clair, but hey, Ace is a renaissance man with a workshop approach to composition, and we shouldn't get all hung up on bourgeois notions of authorship and individuality. Yeah, i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 23 09:03:26 PST 2001

32816 From Nestor on Argentina -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox quoting the legendary "Nestor": >We can be told anything BUT small. As Yoda would say, "large we are >enough to >break the IMF the back". And we are very angry. Good luck. I'd be very surprised if the IMF's back is the one that ends up broken. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 23 08:53:35 PST 2001

32817 Argentina a "small" country? -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Nestor wrote: > >> Will they send in the 82th Airborne and occupy a country the size of >> the USA East from the Mississipi? Will they risk transforming Buenos >> Aires, a 12,000,000 people city, in a giant concentration camp, or a >> giant Beirut? No of course they won't. Are these serious questions? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Dec 22 11:38:41 PST 2001

32818 Global Capital, Empire and Argentina -- rank: 1000

Bradford DeLong wrote: >Devalue, default, and dollarize is my favorite option. Dollarization >helps you avoid the hyperinflation that is the likely consequence of >a large devaluation. If you structure default in a way to preserve >the principal while cutting back interest to U.S. Treasury levels, >the New York banks won't be *that* unhappy. And devaluation is >needed if you are to have any hope of generating an export boom. But how do you devalue and dollarize at once? Or if y ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Dec 22 09:37:36 PST 2001

32819 Global Capital, Empire and Argentina -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >In Empire, Negri and Hardt posit that there is no >outside to Empire...we are all embedded in the nexus >of global capital and there is no longer an escape >route through a struggle known as "national >liberation". > >Now we have seen a heroic revolt in Argentina this >week, but one has to wonder how even the best >intentioned group that came to power could free the >country from the clamps of the IMF and World Bank. Is >it possible ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Dec 22 07:21:38 PST 2001

32820 Mark Crispin Miller sings -- rank: 1000

The Nation's National Entertainment State issue is out, a publication that Mark Crispin Miller had a strong hand in creating. This inspired me once again to promote the downloading and appreciation of his demo tape "Queen of the Forest," in which he strums and sings folkily. If this is the media he wants, I may prefer what we've got. This delightful item is at <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/MCMillerQueen.mp3>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 21 16:49:19 PST 2001