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36451 Ginis -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: >Is there a gini coefficient and ranking for the once-promising Land of Oz? Here's the full list. Milanovic scales his ginis from 0-100 instead of the more conventional 0-1. For those not familiar with the gini, see <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/Gini_supplement.html>. (rur) is rural; (urb), urban. Doug ---- Gini Coefficient 1988 1993 1 Brazil 60.1 59.0 2 Paraguay 38.9 56.9 3 Lesotho 61.0 56.5 4 Chi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 17 07:07:36 PDT 2000

36452 the sickness of k'ism -- rank: 1000

[For some reason this struck me as crystallizing the brutal flattening of human possibility central to capitalism today.] "Stock Market Mean Reversion And The Optimal Equity Allocation Of A Long-Lived Investor" BY: JOHN Y. CAMPBELL Harvard University Dept. of Economics National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) JOAO F. COCCO London Business School FRANCISCO J. GOMES London Business School PASCAL J. MAENHOUT INSEAD European Institute of Business Administration LUIS M. VICEIRA Harvard ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 16 22:03:25 PDT 2000

36453 The "law" of wealth concentration -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Pareto's initial story was that if you had a complete redistribution of wealth >so that everybody had the same, soon the previously wealthy would end up with >about the same distribution of income. What about inheritance, which is responsible for 50-75% of the wealth distribution in the U.S.? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 16 21:33:55 PDT 2000

36454 The "law" of wealth concentration -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >transfer system? what's that? the way those tax revenues are dist >and used in programs? Income transfers - welfare payments, unemployment benefits, pensions, child allowances, etc. More broadly, programs matter (health insurance, tuition subsidies), but strictly speaking, transfers are nonmarket forms of income. Doug

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Date:	Wed Aug 16 21:30:38 PDT 2000

36455 Finkelstein's background -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Also the Wieseltier quotes. You know Norman's doing >something right. He is. Norman's a thoroughly admirable guy. In the mid-80s, he pretty much destroyed Joan Peters' preposterous book From Time Immemorial, which claimed there weren't any Palestinians in Palestine in the 1940s. A few years ago, he pretty much destroyed Daniel Goldhagen. He did both jobs by, among other things, looking up the original sources both cited and found serious, um, misrepresentations. For th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 16 21:21:00 PDT 2000

36456 Clinton's walk -- rank: 1000

Inside.com - August 16, 2000 Clinton's High Noon Walk Through Convention Choreographed by Hollywood Producer By Kim Masters Producers Harry and Linda Bloodworth Thomason did more than create the third in a series of heart-warming films about Bill Clinton to introduce the President at the Democratic Convention on Monday night. Harry Thomason also choreographed The Walk: Clinton's dramatic solo stroll -- which seemed to last almost as long as the eight-and-a-half-minute film itself -- down the whi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 16 14:09:57 PDT 2000

36457 Laying Bets: W Will Win -- rank: 1000

Dennis Breslin wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> I seriously doubt that >> Time/CNN is telling Gallup to spin their polls for W. > >And there you were the other day remarking on how the >pundits were under orders by the ruling class... Not under orders; achieving consensus among a committee that never meets as a committee of the whole. There's a big difference between a bunch of folks, of relatively common temperaments and interests, getting together and yakking with each ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 16 13:46:43 PDT 2000

36458 software -- rank: 1000

I'm reading a lot of stuff on the alleged productivity boom for the New Economy book, and the enthusiasts are saying that official price indexes are greatly understating the improvement in software quality (i.e., the price indexes should be falling faster than they are). The hardware price indexes are falling at a 20-30% annual rate, and it's argued that software indexes should be more like that, and less like the 2-5% annual average drop the official numbers report. Since there are quite a few ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 16 13:59:41 PDT 2000

36459 Finkelstein's background -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >He seems to be stirring up a lot more interest in Europe than in the >U.S. I'm still waiting for the NY Times to review his book. It was, in one of the nastiest reviews I've ever seen in the NYTBR, a place that almost never publishes a bad review. Doug ---- New York Times Book Review - August 6, 2000 A Tale of Two Holocausts By Omer Bartov THE HOLOCAUST INDUSTRY Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering. By Norman G. Finkelstein. 150 pp. New York: Verso. $23. ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 16 13:27:02 PDT 2000

36460 Laying Bets: W Will Win -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Sure , the head of the Central Intelligence Agency was >unintelligent, right. Lot of anti-intellecutals at Yale ? There are lots of smart people who are anti-intellectual. See your average bond trading desk or Fortune 500 boardroom for examples. And yes, there are a lot of anti-intellectuals at Yale. Hundreds of Q. Desmond Thistlethwaite IV's emerge from there every year, dreaming of a partnership at Simpson Thatcher and a yacht to call their own. Bush father & so ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 16 13:18:49 PDT 2000

36461 Finkelstein's background -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Does anyone know much about Norman Finkelstein's background? I mean >besides the overdetermining fact that both his parents went through the >Warsaw Ghetto and then each to a different a concentration camp. For >starters, I was wondering for various reasons whether his parents met in >the ghetto, before the camps, and were part of the resistence. Secondly, >I wondered whether they were leftists when Norman was growing up in >Brooklyn. And lastly, I ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 16 12:57:49 PDT 2000

36462 Laying Bets: W Will Win -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Most of the polls I hear about from the television, radio and >newspapers. Somebody pays for them. The people with the most money >can pay for the most polls. Many, many more than those with a little >money. Are you sure that everybody with influence and authority in >these polling processes is merely an independently self-sufficient >or I mean moneyly independent social scientist ? Well I wouldn't believe a poll the Tobacco Institute commissioned on smoki ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 16 12:40:41 PDT 2000

36463 The "law" of wealth concentration -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick quoted: >Every country in the world has a few rich people and then a long >tail of poorer and poorer people. In fact, not only does a >filthy-rich minority always hog most of the wealth, but the >mathematical form of the distribution is the same everywhere. "Almost the same" is a bit overstated. I'm curious what data they use on wealth distribution, since there's not much in the way of internationally comparable data. There is with income distribution, the Luxem ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 16 12:36:19 PDT 2000

36464 Laying Bets: W Will Win -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Both Bushes cultivate a fake anti-intellectualism Fake? Brendan Gill reported once on an overnight stay at the Bush family compound in Maine. Sleepless, he wandered about the house looking for something to read. All he could find was a volume called The Fart Book. Doug

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Date:	Wed Aug 16 11:07:11 PDT 2000

36465 Moody & Gaitskill on capitalism & sadness -- rank: 1000

Sex, capitalism and antidepressants By Rick Moody and Mary Gaitskill <http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2000/08/14/moody_gaitskill/index.html> Mary Gaitskill, author of the short story collections "Bad Behavior" (1988) and "Because They Wanted To" (1997) and the novel "Two Girls, Fat and Thin" (1991), and I have been corresponding by e-mail for some months on literature, sex and contemporary Western culture. Gaitskill is an incisive and fierce critic of what ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 16 11:27:59 PDT 2000