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39751 planning -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >However, planning can be much closer to "perfect knowledge" than pure >market, because it can take advantage of the economies of scale in reducing >"transaction costs." (see Oliver Williamson, _markets and hierarchies_). And don't forget what Coase, who originated the line of thinking that Williamson developed, said in his classic article "The Nature of the Firm": "If a workman moves from department Y to department X, he does ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 27 08:56:48 PDT 1999

39752 Russian scandal widens -- rank: 1000

[from the World Bank's development clipping service] RUSSIAN MONEY-LAUNDERING SCANDAL WIDENS. The Russian prosecutor's office has asked federal investigators to look into allegations that billions of dollars from the Russian mob and perhaps from President Boris Yeltsin's entourage were laundered in the Bank of New York, AFP says ITAR-TASS reported yesterday. The Federal Security Agency (FSB) was asked to "carry out a verification of facts published in the Western and Russian press" abo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 27 08:26:34 PDT 1999

39753 Fwd: AUT: Global Trade Negotiations Home page (fwd) -- rank: 1000

[I think Rodrik is something of a closet pinko.] Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 09:30:08 -0500 (CDT) From: "Harry M. Cleaver" <hmcleave at eco.utexas.edu> To: aut-op-sy at lists.village.virginia.edu ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 17:01:55 -0400 From: dani_rodrik at Harvard.Edu Subject: Global Trade Negotiations Home page Dear Colleague, I want to let you know of a new web site we have set up at Harvard's Center for International Development in connection w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 27 08:38:09 PDT 1999

39754 Gore: creationism OK -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >The exclusion of religion from public education, by which >I do NOT mean from science courses, has gone >way overboard, leading to profound ignorance of it. I don't >think this is a good thing. On the one hand you (rightly) say the U.S. is one of the most professedly religious countries in the world. On the other, you say we're profoundly ignorant of religion. Either ignorance breeds faith, or the religions themselves are doing a very bad job of educating thei ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 27 08:34:20 PDT 1999

39755 Fwd: Berry Affirms Board's Plans to Sell KPFA -- rank: 1000

Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:36:57 -0700 From: savepacifica <savepacifica at peacenet.org> UPDATE: August 27, 1999 MARY FRANCES BERRY'S "STEALTH" VISIT TO WBAI Pacifica board chair Dr. Mary Frances Berry paid a series of stealth visits to WBAI, Pacifica's New York station, this week. Dr. Berry first demanded an hour-long interview on the air, without allowing either interviewer to prepare their questions. She refused to take live phone calls. She then requested an immediate meeting ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 27 08:13:33 PDT 1999

39756 labor's share -- rank: 1000

[bourgeois categories of course] "Measuring Labor's Share" BY: ALAN B. KRUEGER Princeton University Department of Economics National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Paper ID: NBER Working Paper No. 7006 Date: March 1999 Contact: ALAN B. KRUEGER Email: Mailto:akrueger at pucc.princeton.edu Postal: Princeton University Department of Economics Princeton, NJ 08544-1021 USA Phone: 609-258-4046 Paper Requests: Full-Text Availability at http://www.nber.org/wwp.html Papers can be do ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 27 06:59:06 PDT 1999

39757 Gore: creationism OK -- rank: 1000

August 26 7:59 PM ET Gore Shocks Scientists With Creationism Statement By Alan Elsner, Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Al Gore shocked scientists Thursday with a statement from his office that local school boards had the right to teach creationism, although he personally favored the teaching of evolution. ``The vice president favors the teaching of evolution in public schools. Obviously, that decision should and will be made at the local level and localities should ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 26 20:51:28 PDT 1999

39758 value of a worker -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >Marx's view is that >the value of labour power is a real and objective magnitude. Charles Brown wrote: >Charles: Isn't the value of labour power the value of the >commodities which must be consumed to reproduce the labor power? Yeah, but there's a lot of slippage in defining the reproduction of labor power. For the typical First World worker it includes a car and a TV; for a Mexican worker (who may be employed by Ford or Sony), it includes a house made of sheet ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 26 16:21:12 PDT 1999

39759 African position on WTO TRIPS AGRMT -- rank: 1000

[Bounced; reformatted by forwarder.] From: "Lisa & Ian Murray" <seamus at accessone.com> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 14:09:19 -0700 ________________________________________________________ TITLE: Joint NGO Statement of Support for the Africa Group Proposals on Reviewing the WTO TRIPS Agreement (Article 27.3b) DATE: August 1999 SOURCE: Third World Network, Penang URL: <http://www.twnside.org.sg/http://www.twnside.org.sg> NOTE: Groups and individuals wishing to sign this state ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 26 16:07:15 PDT 1999

39760 Planning, Market & Unemployment -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >In the main, however, central planning eliminated mass chronic unemployment >as a social problem. There was nothing comparable to working-class >districts in capitalist societies where jobless line sidewalks, hanging out >in summer and winter, in good years and in bad, a constant feature of the >social landscape. I'm no Soviet basher; they did accomplish a lot, and the dismantling of the system has been a total disaster. But the USSR did have a little probl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 26 16:02:38 PDT 1999

39761 planning (and the side issue of nazism) - was lots of other silly headers -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >liberal feminists like Katha Not to be too picky about labels, but I think Katha Pollitt calls herself a socialist. Others may dispute whether she is or not, but that's her self-designation. Doug

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Date:	Thu Aug 26 15:52:30 PDT 1999

39762 planning -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Marxists don't disagree with Bobbie Burns that the best laid plans >of mice and men often go astray. But a dialectical approach teaches >that in any problem parts must be understood in relation to the >whole, thus the concept of the whole or the total is a critical >aspect any problem solving including human social economy. The >critique of perfect knowledge does not refute this, because this >dimension is already cognized in the Marxist dialectic of re ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 26 10:30:26 PDT 1999

39763 Delta Force in Waco -- rank: 1000

[This comes as no surprise to anyone who saw that great video documentary, "Waco: Terms of Engagement." Hard to rent, but available from Amazon.com.] Dallas Morning News - August 26, 1999 More questions for FBI DPS OFFICIAL SAYS ARMY FORCE PRESENT AT WACO SIEGE By Lee Hancock A congressional committee chairman vowed a "thorough investigation" Wednesday as the FBI began its own inquiry and formally conceded that its agents "may have fired" pyrotechnic devices on the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 26 09:18:24 PDT 1999

39764 planning -- rank: 1000

This whole planning debate has gone on without much attention to what kind of planning we're talking about. Total, Soviet-style planning, with Gosplan and state-owned enterprises? Indicative planning with worker-run enterprises with some kind of spontaneous (meaning not planned from the center) links between enterprises and enterprises and enterprises and customers? Participatory planning a la Albert & Hahnel? I think that the Freudian/Hayekian critique of perfect knowledge does make it diff ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 26 08:30:56 PDT 1999

39765 Reagan speaks! -- rank: 1000

There's a RealAudio version of an 11-minute 1963 polemic against "socialized medicine" delivered by Ronald Reagan as part of an AMA-funded campaign against a precursor of Medicare at <http://www.ourfuture.org/readarticle.asp?ID=502>. The RealAudio file itself is <http://www.ourfuture.org/av/ronaldre.ram>. It didn't work with my RealPlayer 5.x; I had to upgrade to 6.x/G2. Maybe that was just my hard luck. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 25 17:52:40 PDT 1999