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37186 GDP is unscientific and unfair for poor people. -- rank: 1000

chang wrote: >When there is a large GDP and a high growth rate of 9% a year, you >will say that >the economy is great and the financial officer will be proud of it. But I will >still say that the economy is bad. It is because poor people's >living standards >haven't been raised. They don't have work. They have been left out >of prosperity. Not all poor people don't have work; lots of them work very hard and are still poor. It's not the case that GDP growth does nothing for t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 2 16:03:41 PDT 1999

37187 market eugenics -- rank: 1000

[Apropos the recent discussions of privatized eugenics] Cracked Logic by Salim Muwakkil "If you are addicted to drugs get birth control--get $200 cash," read the billboards that have materialized in two of Chicago's poorest neighborhoods. That pitch summarizes the program of an organization called CRACK (Children Requiring a Caring Kommunity) that offers cash to drug addicts for sterilization or long-term contraception. For addicts chronically short on cash, $200 is an alluring offer. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 2 12:42:55 PDT 1999

37188 Countering bigoted rightwing attack on Free Speech -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >People may of caught the nasty David Horowitz column in Salon attacking the >NAACP's lawsuits against the gun lobby where he argued that black leaders >should "[abandon] the ludicrous claim that white America and firearms >manufacturers are the cause of the problems afflicting African-Americans. It >would mean taking responsibility for their own communities instead." See >http://www.salon.com/news/col/horo/1999/08/16/naacp/index.html > >Ja ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 2 12:31:37 PDT 1999

37189 IMF may raise Japan projections -- rank: 1000

[Just as the NYT front-pages a story on Japan's debt problem...] Financial Times - September 2, 1999 JAPAN: IMF may raise its forecast By Gillian Tett in Tokyo The International Monetary Fund is now upbeat on the outlook for Asia and is considering raising its forecast for Japanese growth this year from 0.25 per cent to 0.5 per cent, Hubert Neiss, Asia-Pacific IMF director, said yesterday. The IMF's optimism, which comes as many other private sector economists are also revising up their forecast ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 2 10:05:01 PDT 1999

37190 GDP is unscientific and unfair for poor people. -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Since, capitalism is not about to be unfair ,doesn't demanding that >it be fair, that we not use GDP, seem liike a step in bringing along >people who don't quite realize yet that capitalism is not about to >be unfair and GDP is being used to hoodwink them ? Hoodwink? Capitalism is about the accumulation of wealth in money form. GDP, and its associated measures, is one account of that process. Capitalism, like the national income accounts, doesn't give a damn ab ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 2 09:46:20 PDT 1999

37191 Mike Moore @ WTO -- rank: 1000

Anyone know anything about this new guy at the WTO, New Zealander Mike Moore, identified as someone "with a labor background"? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 2 08:34:58 PDT 1999

37192 literature as capital -- rank: 1000

"English-Language Dominance, Literature and Welfare" BY: JACQUES MELITZ Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST-INSEE) Paper ID: CEPR Discussion Paper Series No. 2055 Date: January 1999 Contact: JACQUES MELITZ Email: Mailto:melitz at ensae.fr Postal: Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST-INSEE) Bureau 2018 15 Boulevard Gabriel Peri 92245 Malakoff Cedex Paris, FRANCE Phone: (33 1) 41 17 60 46 Fax: (33 1) 41 17 60 34 Paper Requests: CEPR Discussi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 2 07:52:23 PDT 1999

37193 Japan's soaring public debt -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >But perhaps for that we need the IMF to start issuing global currency. You mean the IMF should become a transnational state? But somehow one not dominated by the U.S. and its junior partners in the G-7? Chris, you're dreaming with your typing fingers. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 2 07:46:29 PDT 1999

37194 news from La Frontera -- rank: 1000

[The headline in the U.S. edition is a little more provocative - "Will El Cenizo's present be America's manana?" (or maņana, if your character set can handle it)] Financial Times - September 2, 1999 EL CENIZO ADOPTS SPANISH By Hillary Durgin in El Cenizo Until last month, El Cenizo was just another poor and dusty community on the Texas shores of the Rio Grande, inhabited mainly by Mexican immigrants or the sons and daughters of immigrants wearied by routine Border Control checks of the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 2 07:03:29 PDT 1999

37195 Scruton -- rank: 1000

Sam Pawlett wrote: >oops. I also wanted to say that Scruton's books on sexuality are >strongly homophobic. One gets the impression that the purpose is to show >that homosexuality is wrong or immmoral or whatever...just not cool with >Mr. Scruton. But you don't get it. His position is *objective*! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 2 05:49:39 PDT 1999

37196 Derrida down under -- rank: 1000

Catherine Driscoll wrote: >Damnit Doug I'm aiming for at least version 2 000 000. >And at least Derrida is a different focal point. Catherine, your version is not likely to be some tedious iteration. Don't let me stop you! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 1 20:09:54 PDT 1999

37197 GM strike -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec not-yet-sub'd] Hi Doug and all, please re sub me. I am back in town. The URL below has an analysis of the Detroit Public Schools strike. Please circulate. Letters of support for the strikers can be sent to me. We are setting of a www page for that. Don't forget to smash the state. best r http://www.pipeline.com/~rgibson/DPSStrike.htm Rich Gibson Program Coordinator of Social Studies Wayne State University College of Education Detroit MI 48202 http://www.pipeline.com/~rgibson/index.h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 1 15:07:18 PDT 1999

37198 Wolf on civil society etc. -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - September 1, 1999 UNCIVIL SOCIETY The ill-fated multilateral agreement on investment shows the need to confront the claims of pressure groups hostile to globalisation, writes Martin Wolf <Martin.Wolf at ft.com> In 1997, according to the World Bank, the 10 economies with the highest incomes per head were, in order, Singapore, the US, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Norway, Japan, Denmark, Belgium, Austria and Canada. Two things should strike anyone who looks at this list: first, t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 1 12:50:07 PDT 1999

37199 Derrida down under -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Not to return to the Judith Butler inferno of many months ago, but I >certainly endorse this criticism, found in this piece: "John Raulston >Saul could not be described as conservative, but like Scruton, he has >problems with Derrida, arguing that he is obscure, and therefore likely >to castrate the public imagination. Clarity is always the method of >those who serve the public imagination, he says, claiming that obscure >writers serve what he calls ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 1 11:37:41 PDT 1999

37200 Derrida down under -- rank: 1000

[From Kirsten Nielsen. There's also some thumbsucking about the meaning of Derrida in the piece, including some bleats from Roger Scruton about godlessness and meaninglessness.] In re derrida visit to Melbourne: >All this week, Derrida was mobbed by awe-struck students and >teachers. They wanted to hear him, touch him and get him to sign >everything from books to train tickets. One Victorian College of the >Arts student wanted him to stand on his foot. Why is a mystery, but >Derri ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 1 09:58:00 PDT 1999