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33121 Australia vs. California -- rank: 1000

[same address prob] Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 17:25:10 -0700 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: Brad DeLong <jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu> >[speaking of Australia...] > ><http://papers.nber.org/papers/W8408> > >Australian Growth: A California Perspective >Ian W. McLean, Alan M. Taylor > >NBER Working Paper No. W8408 >Issued in August 2001 > >---- Abstract ----- > >Examination of special cases assists understanding of the mechanics >of long- ...

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33122 dependency theory -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of an address kink] Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 08:59:21 -0700 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: Brad DeLong <jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu> Subject: Re: whither dependency theory? >A quick question: where does dependency theory stand today? Has it pretty >much been thrown out the window? Are there new and better theories which >incorporate its main thesis of underdevelopment? And more specifically: how >does Baran's "Political Economy of Growth" hold up? ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 10 09:00:20 PDT 2001

33123 capitalist internationalism -- rank: 1000

Friday August 10 2:39 AM ET CEOs Urge Bush Over Taxes With EU By CURT ANDERSON, AP Tax Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Fearing a debilitating trade war with Europe, top executives at 74 of America's biggest companies want the Bush administration to settle a dispute over a U.S. corporate tax break. In a letter to President Bush (news - web sites) and Cabinet officials, the executives said the United States must reach a ``mutually acceptable solution'' with the 15-nation EU, which won a ruling last month ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 10 07:24:29 PDT 2001

33124 UNITE sweatshop campaign -- rank: 1000

[belatedly...] New York Times - August 8, 2001 Labor Groups Join Coalition to Eliminate Sweatshops By STEVEN GREENHOUSE The continuing fight against exploitative conditions in garment factories took a new turn yesterday when labor unions from around the world formed a new coalition to undertake the biggest campaign to fix the problem of overseas sweatshops. The coalition began its campaign with a noisy protest march down Broadway in Manhattan, followed by demonstrations in front of Ann Taylor, B ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 10 06:19:54 PDT 2001

33125 Fwd: A novel economic program -- rank: 1000

[sent to listowner rather than list] From: Chris Doss <chrisd at russiajournal.com> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 12:36:13 +0400 I received this in my inbox this morning. The Rastafarian way to overcoming global poverty. A TEMPLE OF GOLD I have written how I believe that scripture reveals that the Temple described as Ezekiel's temple in the 40 to 47 chapter of Ezekiel will be built in preparation for the return of the Lord and will be given to him upon his return with all the saints from heaven t ...

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33126 eco-optomism, capitalism, and food -- rank: 1000

Terry Tapp wrote: >Regarding eco-optomism: Since the global population is dependent on >high agricultural productivity to sustain itself at 6 billion, and >since this productivity is based on the use of pesticides which are >petroleum-based, what happens to global population when the oil runs >out? I don't see this problem being addressed anywhere. An Essay on Principle of Population (Penguin English Library) by Thomas Robert Malthus, Antony G. Flew (Editor) List Price: $10.95 Our ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 10 06:05:47 PDT 2001

33127 help me scam my students -- rank: 1000

Lawrence wrote: >From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>> >> Average household incomes usually come in below per capita GDP, > >Why? Uh, I misphrased that. Since a household usually consists of more than one capita, obviously HH incomes are going to be higher than per capita ones. What I should have said is that per capita incomes reported in household surveys come in below GDP divided by population. The reason is mostly the portion of GDP accounted for by ...

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33128 lbo-talk-digest V1 #4722 -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Communication (a) >offers no difficulty Right. And this mailing list is proof of that. Doug

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33129 Wing-Nut Site -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Brimelow and the paleo's are into the Christian nation >concept, so more white folks are fine with them. Brimelow's South African, right? An immigrant with a nostalgia for apartheid? Doug

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Date:	Fri Aug 10 05:51:03 PDT 2001

33130 help me scam my students -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Would taking into consideration only private final consumption expenditure >(less NPISH) instead of GDP do the trick? These data are easily available, >at least for OECD countries. That would help, but expenditures differ from income by the amount of saving. And for most OECD countries, with the prominent and unfortunate exception of Japan, detailed income data are available from the Luxembourg Income Study. Doug

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33131 AFL-CIO: enemy of caribou -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >Was job growth higher in the Clinton years than under Reagan? Total employment growth: RR: 17.6% BC: 20.9% Doug

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33132 help me scam my students -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > >Average household incomes usually come in below per capita GDP, with >>the discrepancy tending to widen with income. Milanovic uses >>household survey numbers. >> > > >But it is difficult to estimate without launching a survey. Assuming that >GDP is by definition the sum of all factors of production, we can >approximate income inequalities if we know the GDP, the total population, >and the percent share per quintile. Uh, may ...

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33133 help me scam my students -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >The World Bank, _World Development Report 1994_ Table 30 also gives >percentage shares of income by quintiles by country for 132 countries. >That will allow you calculation of the mean income for each quintile in >each country if you know the population size and the GDP. Average household incomes usually come in below per capita GDP, with the discrepancy tending to widen with income. Milanovic uses household survey numbers. Doug

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33134 help me scam my students -- rank: 1000

Michael McIntyre wrote: >So how can you help? Well, I'm looking for a little technical >support here. To make the second part work, it would be good to >have data on the world distribution of income fine-grained enough to >allow me to interpoate per capita incomes at specified percentile >levels (17, 31, 44, 56, 67, 75, 83, 89, 94, and 97 to be exact). If >that data is out there, I haven't seen it. I'm willing to go with >relatively unrefined data (non-PPP adjusted, base ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 9 08:19:22 PDT 2001

33135 EuroRoboCops -- rank: 1000

[only a few days late - what's with the "33,000" German radicals? - who's counting, and how do they know?] Guardian (London) - August 6, 2001 Call for Europe to form anti-riot force Rory Carroll in Rome and Rebecca Allison A dedicated pan-European police squad trained in latest riot control techniques was proposed yesterday because of fears that anti-globalisation protesters - spurred on by the recent policing fiasco in Genoa during the G8 meeting of world leader - could prevent intern ...

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