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34366 The China Deal: If You Can't Sell It, Buy It -- rank: 1000
Brad De Long wrote: >No, trade is a positive sum game. But there *are* losers... Yes, no doubt about that. Shouldn't the point be trying to figure out how many losers, how many winners, and how much each lose and/or win? Rather than making unproven assumptions about loss (in the EPI/Weisbrot case) or gain (in the mainstream case)? Doug
Document Size: 4960
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed May 24 11:00:38 PDT 2000
34367 Jude Wanniski on Karl Marx -- rank: 1000
Michael Perelman wrote: >Sylvia Nassar is married to an old student/friend, Darryl McLeod, who used to >consider himself Marxist, but who has become very conventional in >his views. I >have never met her, but from mutual friends I understand that she comes from >very right wing Ukranian stock. She did a masters in econ under Leontief at NYU. From what I hear, she's a very diligent and thorough reporter who produces thoroughly uninteresting material. Doug
Document Size: 5034
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed May 24 10:30:22 PDT 2000
34368 US capital markets as weapon -- rank: 1000
Financial Times - May 23, 2000 US markets 'could be foreign policy tool' By Thomas Catán and Joshua Chaffin in New York and Stephen Fidler in Washington To enforce its will around the world, Washington has traditionally relied on the time-honoured trade embargo. But under a new set of legislative proposals, the US could also start to use its capital markets as a foreign policy tool. Fred Thompson, a Republican senator from Tennessee, is preparing to introduce an important but little-noticed amen ...
Document Size: 8214
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed May 24 10:16:27 PDT 2000
34369 Labor Boycotts MCI Fundraising Bash (Re: UAW prez slams Gore onChina PNTR -- rank: 1000
Nathan Newman wrote: >The tactical and ideological circles within circles mystify me at times, >but then I have a simplistic approach to politics. I support policies I >think are good for working class folks in the US and globally, and oppose >those policies I think will harm them. Yes those circles can be mystifying. You're the biggest defender of the Dems on this list, but no administration has put together so many free trade deals. Doug
Document Size: 5332
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue May 23 15:12:27 PDT 2000
34370 UK going global? -- rank: 1000
Carl Remick wrote: >"Didn't hurt the U.S."? As I look around this fat, dumb, >trigger-happy country and ponder the toll of imperial overstretch, I >see signs of moral and material ruination everywhere. But as I've >said before, I'm a gloomy guy. Of course, but I'm talking about as a global economic power. Maybe when Redmond Day comes, and our creditors call in their loans, the U.S. will shrivel, but right now, it has no rivals. For saying that, Mark Jones may denounce me ...
Document Size: 4923
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue May 23 14:45:26 PDT 2000
34371 Tulip-o-mania program -- rank: 1000
[Anyone in the vicinity of Amsterdam is invited...] A N N O U N C E M E N T Tulipomania DotCom A Critique of the New Economy An International Conference @ De Balie, Amsterdam, June 2 & 3, 2000 & @ Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, June 4, 2000 http://www.balie.nl/tulipomania P R E L I M I N A R Y P R O G R A M ------------------------------- Aim of the Conference ------------------------------- The conference Tulipomnania DotCom intends to develop an informed critique of the p ...
Document Size: 14280
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue May 23 14:31:24 PDT 2000
34372 not-yet-disbarred Clinton does poverty relief -- rank: 1000
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release May 23, 2000 Details of the New Markets / Renewal Communities Agreement NEW MARKETS INITIATIVES: This proposals have been constructed with the assistance of the many Members of Congress that are listed as cosponsors below and with substantial input from the Congressional Black Caucus led by Rep. Clyburn and the Congres ...
Document Size: 13401
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue May 23 14:14:49 PDT 2000
34373 UK going global? -- rank: 1000
Carl Remick wrote: >I have to wonder, though, if Britain's old and new imperial >escapades have anything to do with the mystery that Doug posed >earlier: "The story of British decline is a very interesting one, >and I'm curious why this inventiveness bore so little industrial >fruit. I know the story of the ascendance of financial over >manufacturing interests and the failure of British firms to get big >and professionally managed enough, but I was eager to hear more, ...
Document Size: 5299
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue May 23 13:55:20 PDT 2000
34374 Fwd: [PEN-L:19486] CFP: MARXISM 2000 -- extended deadline 15 July -- rank: 1000
RETHINKING MARXISM announces its fourth International Gala Conference MARXISM 2000 21-24 September (Thursday-Sunday) 2000 University of Massachusetts at Amherst JOIN WITH Jack Amariglio, Enid Arvidson, Margot Backus, Carole Biewener, Joseph Buttigieg, Antonio Callari, John Cammett, S. Charusheela, Stephen Cullenberg, Angela Davis, Mike Davis, Gerard Dumenil, Gregory Elliot, Susan Feiner, Benedetto Fontana, John Foster, Harriet Fraad, Rob Garnett, Norman Geras, Katherine Gibson, Julie Graham, Mic ...
Document Size: 16117
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue May 23 13:13:47 PDT 2000
34375 Labor Boycotts MCI Fundraising Bash (Re: UAW prez slams Gore on China PNTR -- rank: 1000
Nathan Newman wrote: >Too bad most of the usual third party folks >on this list can't hype the Dem's betrayal of the working class, since >they are in the cheering section with the Wall Street Journal, the DNC and >the RNC for passage of the China trade deal :) Yeah, I'm tired of being poor. I want big checks, fame, posh seats in think tanks. A TV show would be nice, too. As they used to say on the Lone Star Cafe, too much ain't enough. Doug
Document Size: 5323
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue May 23 12:51:22 PDT 2000
34376 The China Deal: If You Can't Sell It, Buy It -- rank: 1000
Brad De Long wrote: >But Heckscher, Ohlin, Stolper, and Samuelson say that there is a >very strong presumption that increased trade is bad for the *scarce* >domestic factor of production--which in the case of the U.S. today >is labor. What about trade between the U.S. and other First World countries? Doug
Document Size: 4971
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue May 23 12:01:30 PDT 2000
34377 Cooper on SUVs -- rank: 1000
Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Tough Driving >> SUV owners: Park it - right now, before I hurt you >> >> By MARC COOPER >> >> Indeed, taking you with me is a sacred civic duty. As the >> gaps between rich and poor widen, the gaps in income, in housing, in the >> very political geography of this city, the allure of the Sport Utility >> Vehicle grows ever stronger. > >While I don't mind seeing SUVs and their driv ...
Document Size: 5564
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue May 23 10:15:07 PDT 2000
34378 Gallup on China bill -- rank: 1000
<http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr000517.asp> POLL RELEASES May 17, 2000 Americans Think Increased Trade With China Will Help U.S. Economy but Hurt Workers Expect economy and human rights in China to benefit by Jeffrey M. Jones GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- Congress will vote this month on whether or not to permanently normalize trade relations with China, which would allow China to join the World Trade Organization (WTO). Many members of Congress have still not decided whether ...
Document Size: 10020
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue May 23 10:06:52 PDT 2000
34379 The China Deal: If You Can't Sell It, Buy It -- rank: 1000
Max Sawicky wrote: >But if you see well-being springing from lower prices, >then you ought to oppose all manner of industrial >action, trade unionism, public spending, etc., and >join the G.O.P. > >Why stop at cross-border transactions? Occupational >health & safety? Screw it. Reduce prices. >They key social relation is that of the worker, >not the consumer or taxpayer. The fundamental >cause is labor income and the social wage, NOT >the price level or &q ...
Document Size: 6227
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue May 23 09:53:39 PDT 2000
34380 'The Web was invented by the British but exported to the US... We don't want that to happen again.' -- rank: 1000
M A Jones wrote: >Probably it's wrong to be teasing; but >what the history of technology clearly shows, and Nathan and Les just showed >it again now, is not that, as Doug (wrongly) puts it, 'the US developed >other people's ideas because they were too stupid, incompetent etc >to do it themselves' (paraphrasing not much) Paraphrasing very much. The story of British decline is a very interesting one, and I'm curious why this inventiveness bore so little industrial fruit. I know the ...
Document Size: 6196
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue May 23 09:26:14 PDT 2000
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