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39766 radio -- rank: 1000

I don't think WBAI's net connection is working, so this is meaningful only to people in & around NYC. Tomorrow I'll be interviewing George Friedman, head of the mysterious Stratfor, about the state of the world and the Clinton strategic vision, and Dana Frank, author of Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism (she doesn't like it). Thursday 8/26, 5-6, WBAI, 99.5 FM, NYC. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 25 12:38:09 PDT 1999

39767 anti-Grameen -- rank: 1000

There's an interesting critique of the Grameen Bank and microcredit in general in Al-Ahram Weekly <http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/1999/443/in5.htm>. Among its many virtues is that it cites Gina Neff's LBO articles <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/Micro.html> and <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/Micro_summit.html>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 25 11:46:24 PDT 1999

39768 evolution -- rank: 1000

[from the American Association for Public Opinion Research list] Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 13:26:32 -0400 From: George Bishop <george.bishop at uc.edu> I suspect that the story on 45% of Americans believing in a literal, creationist view of evolution probably originated from a University of Cincinnati press release on an article I wrote for The Public Prespective about a year ago: "The Religious Worldview and American Beliefs about Human Origins" ( 1998,Volume 9, No. 5, August/Septe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 25 10:47:45 PDT 1999

39769 The Health Care Industry -- rank: 1000

Steve Perry wrote: >*Why* have costs spiralled upward so dramatically in the past 20 >years? Lots of reasons. Comparative international studies, like those by the OECD, show that every aspect of the U.S. healthcare system is excessively costly - you can't point to just one factor. You've got extreme pricing power from drug and equipment makers, without offsetting buying power (as is the case with national systems, which have much more negotiating power vs. Merck & GE); you've got drug ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 25 09:57:43 PDT 1999

39770 political practice -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >If the respective moderators of m-fem and lbo think that cross-posting >without the consent of authors should be banned, I'll henceforth comply >with the rule. In that case, others should comply with it also. My assumption is that anything posted here can be forwarded unless the author requests it not be. But I think cross-posting is confusing to those to whom it isn't redundant. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 25 09:32:23 PDT 1999

39771 replies to Rakesh, Wojtek, Charles, Chris Anarchism /Marxism debates -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >I bet they don't keep life expectancy stats by class, huh ? That >might beget a revolution. No, they don't. Vicente Navarro has argued that the racial gaps in health indicators are actually capturing "class" differences, which begs the question of why race should be an influence on class in the first place. There was a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in the early 1990s showing that even after controlling for income - yeah, I know that' ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 25 09:10:51 PDT 1999

39772 The Health Care Industry -- rank: 1000

gcf at panix.com wrote: >The ascendancy of HMOs is bringing corporate power and >industrial methods to medical services. My impression is >that presently the HMOs are trying to cut costs and improve >profits by reducing the quality of the services, but they >do seem cognizant of price resistance. Years ago, skeptics said that HMOs would probably result only in a brief capping of costs, and it looks like they were right. U.S. medical inflation fell to just 0.6-0.7 percentage point ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 25 08:53:19 PDT 1999

39773 drug-o-nomics -- rank: 1000

[Levitt is busy!] "An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances" BY: STEVEN D. LEVITT University of Chicago American Bar Foundation SUDHIR ALLADI VENKATESH Harvard University Paper ID: NBER Working Paper No. W6592 Date: June 1998 Contact: STEVEN D. LEVITT Email: Mailto:slevitt at midway.uchicago.edu Postal: University of Chicago 1126 East 59th Street Chicago, IL 60637 USA Phone: 773-834-1862 Fax: 773-702-8490 Co-Auth: SUDHIR ALLADI VENKATESH Email: Mailto:venkates ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 24 18:12:22 PDT 1999

39774 economists are weird -- rank: 1000

"The Uneasy Case for the Flat Tax" BY: F. H. BUCKLEY George Mason University, School of Law ERIC BENNETT RASMUSEN Indiana University at Bloomington Department of Business Economics & Public Policy Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=170696 Other Electronic Document Delivery: http://www.bus.indiana.edu/~erasmuse/@Articles/Unpubli shed/king.pdf SSRN only offers technical support for papers downloaded from the S ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 24 17:51:13 PDT 1999

39775 replies to Rakesh, Wojtek, Charles, Chris Anarchism /Marxism debates -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Hi Kelley: > >for example: > >in 1870 only 37% of women born in 1870 survived to age 65. [surely the 63% > >can't be entirely explained by infant/child morality] > >in 1930 77% of women born in 1930 reached the age of 65. > >Must be in part because the reduction in fertility reduced the deaths of >women in childbirth, among other reasons. What percentage of improving >life expectancy should be attributed to the reduction in fertil ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 24 15:52:32 PDT 1999

39776 U5MR -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I haven't been following this thread so I'm ignorant of how these >figures are calculated. Do they refer to life expectancy at birth? >If so, they don't tell us much. Very nearly the whole of the gain >in life expectancy (in the U.S.) from 1890 to 1950 was in >decreased infant and child mortality. The life expectancy of >a 40 year old man in 1890 and 1950 were not much different. Most development analysts - like the UNDP or UNICEF - foreground the under-5 mor ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 24 14:11:55 PDT 1999

39777 USTR -- rank: 1000

Tom Lehman wrote: >Bert, I'm sure Doug may have some insight into the motivation of >Mrs.Barshefsky. > >This is her website: > >http://www.ustr.gov/ > >Tom Lehman > >Bert Davis wrote: > > > Doug, is USTR Barshefsky an employee of the U.S. Government? If so, why > > is she constantly intouch with members of the US Biz Rountable for her > > orders? > > bcd Sorry, been away. U.S. government employees get lobbied by biz all the time. That's ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 24 13:42:05 PDT 1999

39778 Gates merges funds, becomes biggest philanthropist -- rank: 1000

[In his latest book, George Soros said that Gates would step up his philanthropic activities to spruce up his image after the antitrust lawsuit - "as a business strategy." Takes one to know one, I guess.] Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - August 23, 1999 Gateses Merge Foundations to Create America's Wealthiest Philanthropy By ALISON SCHNEIDER Bill Gates, the chairman of Microsoft, is merging two of his foundations to form the wealthiest philanthropy in the United States. Offi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 24 13:35:03 PDT 1999

39779 Giuliani eliminates freedom of assembly in NYC Parks -- rank: 1000

From: ARTISTpres at aol.com Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 12:31:48 EDT Subject: Giuliani eliminates freedom of assembly in NYC Parks MIME-Version: 1.0 To: undisclosed-recipients: ; NYC Parks: Mayor Giuliani Cuts the Free From Freedom of Assembly Joining some friends and their children for a picnic in a New York City park? Planning a poetry reading under the trees? Want to sit on the grass with fellow Bhuddists and silently meditate on the latest teachings of the Dali Lama? Do the members of your church ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 24 12:51:22 PDT 1999

39780 Russia shrinking -- rank: 1000

[And they say the Soviet's cooked the books! Now they don't even bother. From Johnson's Russia List.] Los Angeles Times - August 21, 1999 DEMOGRAPHICS In Postponing Census, Russia Reveals Fears About Its Future By MAURA REYNOLDS, Times Staff Writer MOSCOW--Don't go looking for trouble, a Russian saying goes. These days, the Kremlin appears to be applying the lesson in an unusual area: the census. Russia has postponed--indefinitely--a national census scheduled for this year. It would have been th ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 21 09:56:36 PDT 1999