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33931 everything's really ok -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >Consider, however, a Mexico that did *not* have access to the U.S. >market. Given the rate of increase of Mexico's labor force, what >would the labor market look like if exports *had not* risen from $61 >billion in 1994 to $150 billion in 2000? All other things being equal, it's better that Mexico have access to the U.S. market than not. But why should we accept the other things being equal? What would be best for Mexicans is an internally rather than externally o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 12 08:35:00 PDT 2000

33932 Milo & war crimes -- rank: 1000

<http://www.transnational.org/pressinf/2000/pf100MilosevicNoHague.html> Transnational Institute - PressInfo # 100 - October 11, 2000 Why Milosevic won't get to the Hague By Jan Oberg, TFF director Western politicians insist that Slobodan Milosevic must be brought to the Hague Tribunal and stand trial as a war criminal. Media and commentators raise the issue time and again. But there are reasons to believe that this is make-believe. The indictment of Milosevic leaves much to be explained - ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 11 16:18:58 PDT 2000

33933 everything's really ok -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >But the East Asian financial crisis was not the apocalypse. It was >not the end of capitalism. It wasn't even the terminal crisis of the >East Asian mode of development. Instead, it was a standard variety >creditors' panic. > >It did set economic development back one year in South Korea, two >years in Thailand and Malaysia, and (I hope) less than five years in >Indonesia. It could have been much, much worse. It wasn't much much >worse because Camdes ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 11 15:15:05 PDT 2000

33934 archives? -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >There was a message posted re the LBO archives -- I did not read it >obviously. >It must have had to do with access to the archives cause I just tried to >get there and cannot get in. >Technical difficulties? Any suggestions? Technical difficulties. Should be repaired soon. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 11 13:51:20 PDT 2000

33935 everything's really ok -- rank: 1000

Those of you who don't subscribe to Brad de Long's list missed this: >A couple of years ago everyone seemed to agree that the >international financial institutions needed major reform--even >though half of critics (the Jeffrey Sachs-Joseph Stiglitz wing) >believed the institutions were too scrooge-like, and the other half >(the Ralph Nader-Wall Street Journal wing) believed the institutions >were too generous and liberal. The IMF was forcing countries into >deflationary poli ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 11 12:44:34 PDT 2000

33936 econ nobel -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: >Wish they could tell me why I keep sending babble to LBO when I've other >things to do ... If your "babble" were embedded in important-looking equations, you might be a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Economic Science! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 11 10:54:03 PDT 2000

33937 econ nobel -- rank: 1000

[The Nobel site is <http://www.nobel.se/announcement/2000/economics.html>.] Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - October 11, 2000 Nobel Prize in Economics Goes to Berkeley and Chicago Scholars By D.W. MILLER This year's Nobel Prize in economics will be awarded to two American economists, James J. Heckman, of the University of Chicago, and Daniel L. McFadden, of the University of California at Berkeley. The pair were cited for their work in separate areas of microeconometrics, for wh ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 11 09:53:52 PDT 2000

33938 evil workers -- rank: 1000

<http://papers.nber.org/papers/W7945> Class Struggle Inside the Firm: A Study of German Codetermination Gary Gorton, Frank Schmid NBER Working Paper No. W7945 Issued in October 2000 ---- Abstract ----- Who should control the firm? What should be the firm's objective function? If contracts are incomplete, then the group of input providers that most needs their interests protected should be allocated control rights to the firm. Existing theories argue that the suppliers of capital are most i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 11 09:41:05 PDT 2000

33939 Ralph on race -- rank: 1000

[non-sub'd address] Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 18:12:55 -0700 (PDT) From: chris niles <chajib at yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Ralph on race To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Nor can he speak inspiringly about race. I certainly don't doubt Ralph's preference for a world free of "racism" and his response here is refreshingly free of any nasty personal digs. But he really did not answer the charge. Nor has he addressed the glaring fa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 11 09:32:29 PDT 2000

33940 Fwd: -- rank: 1000

X-From_: Labor4Nader at worldnet.att.net Wed Oct 11 01:29:18 2000 X-Sender: Labor4Nader at postoffice.worldnet.att.net Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Recipient List Suppressed: ; From: Labor for Nader <Labor4Nader at worldnet.att.net> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 03:41:45 +0000 To: All Labor 4 Nader people From: Sean Sweeney Let's get New York Labor in the picture at Friday's Madison Square Garden Super Rally for Ralph Nader! Nader has drawn huge crowds in a number of cities in recent weeks...but we hav ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 11 06:49:56 PDT 2000

33941 Casey Johnson's story -- rank: 1000

[A walking argument for a confiscatory wealth tax. Her explanation of why she dropped out of Brown is a dazzler....] New York Observer - October 10, 2000 'If it's [a party] for Puff Daddy, I'm not going to call my grandmother and say, "Hey granny, come to Puffy."' - Heiress and publicist Casey Johnson How to Be the 'It' Girl by Deborah Schoeneman It's the kind of dilemma a lot of 21-year-old women in New York might like to face: What do you do if you come from a fabulously wealthy esta ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 11 05:59:44 PDT 2000

33942 Cisco's taxes -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >While the tax implications might be neutral, what impact would options have >on estimates of the rate of profit? Doug, maybe you, posted something >about Microsoft's overstated profits due to stock options a long time ago. >Would this effect be large enough to show up in the aggregate data? Could be - some of these are major profit generators. Since they've been stock market leaders, too, the financial effect could be greater than the NIPA effect. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 10 16:50:49 PDT 2000

33943 No subject -- rank: 1000

[bounced for excessive length - if something's 33k, please just post a tease and a URL] From: Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net> Subject: Ronald Radosh :The Strange Case of Comrade Aptheker, Laureate of Stalinism. Ronald Radosh: The Strange Case of Comrade Aptheker: Laureate of Stalinism Put this next to the Science & Society, from the late 50's, hit piece by Eugene Genovese reprinted in his, "In Red and Black." Was a review of the dreadful book from Marzani & Muns ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 10 16:32:38 PDT 2000

33944 Fwd: Two Excellent New References on Cisco Systems Scheme -- rank: 1000

From: "Bill Parish" <bill at billparish.com> To: "kramerich-leslie" <kramerich-leslie at dol.gov>, "Lynn Turner" <Turnerl at sec.gov>, "herman-alexis" <herman-alexis at dol.gov>, <robert.t.parry at sf.frb.org> Subject: Two Excellent New References on Cisco Systems Scheme Today a leading business publication in the UK, The Register, published an expose by Graham Lea on Cisco Systems and Microsoft's financial practices. If you ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 10 16:15:24 PDT 2000

33945 Bear market? -- rank: 1000

brettk at unicacorp.com wrote: >How about your favorite indicator? Are you getting lots of calls from >reporters these days? No. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 10 15:14:25 PDT 2000