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41401 sex & stox -- rank: 1000

"Boys will be Boys: Gender, Overconfidence, and Common Stock Investment" BY: BRAD BARBER University of California, Davis TERRANCE ODEAN University of California, Davis, Graduate School of Management Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=139415 Other Electronic Document Delivery: http://www.gsm.ucdavis.edu/~odean/papers/gender/BoysWi llBeBoys.pdf SSRN only offers technical support for papers downloaded from the SSRN ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Dec 12 10:25:09 PST 1998

41402 Heartfield's post on GB UK etc -- rank: 1000

Greg Nowell wrote: >I found this edifying, but I think that there is some >linguistic confusion over "great" as in "outstanding" >versus "great" as in big. "Grande Bretagne" for >example simply points out that there is a big one which >is bigger than the little one (in France), and is to >my mind no more perjorative than the Greater vs the >less Tunb islands in the Persian Gulf. I do think >people can sometimes get hung up and ma ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 11 14:44:36 PST 1998

41403 cigarettes are code for proletarian -- rank: 1000

Louis Proyect wrote: >The tobacco trade is analogous to the oil trade. It is a form of colonial >domination. That has not changed over the centuries. Prime land in Honduras >is used to grow tobacco for cigars, while peasants are pushed into the >margins. Beef, oil, tobacco, sugar, etc. are commodities that make first >world countries rich at third world countries' expense. > >>Is it mere >>coincidence that the most anti-smoking president the U.S. has ever had is > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 11 11:42:09 PST 1998

41404 cigarettes -- rank: 1000

Louis Proyect wrote: >This is lacking totally in what should matter most, a historical analysis >of the role of tobacco in capital accumulation. Tobacco, coffee, tea, sugar >and rum are linked historically to the emergence of Western European >colonialism. New world indigenous societies were destroyed by the invading >maruaders and valuable land was used to create essentially habit-forming or >addictive products. As Warren Buffett once said, there is no better >profit-reward ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 11 10:35:14 PST 1998

41405 cigarettes -- rank: 1000

Enrique Diaz-Alvarez wrote: >When I was a teenager, my friends smoked 'cuz all the cool kids did it, >and the chicks dug it. Fascination of the sublime had very little to do >with it. > >Maybe I just had very shallow friends. Why was it "cool"? The association with outlaws, danger, the forbidden, no? And more young chicks smoke now than guys. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 11 10:20:41 PST 1998

41406 "Clinton Leads Toward a Plan to Invest Some Soc. Sec. Taxes in Market" -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >If we are looking at 1-2% of SS funds being in such mutual funds, they >could become quite serious players in pushing sociallly responsible >investments. If the wage earner funds failed so dismally in Sweden, why should SS funds in the U.S. have any positive political effect? They will be run along socially "neutral" profit-maximizing prudent-person lines. And it will become national policy to push the stock market higher, which means there will be strong ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 11 09:17:51 PST 1998

41407 cigarettes -- rank: 1000

Mike Yates wrote: >I don't want to enter into the discussion about the cigarette companies, >but I do urge Doug to refrain from citing the book about the sublime >nature of smoking! The last time I visited my father's grave, I told >him that cigarettes were sublime. He offered no response. The fascination of the sublime is in its power to overwhelm or destroy us - in art, Shelley's Mont Blanc, Jameson's Hotel Bonaventure, or even, as Tom Weiskel argued in The Romantic Sublime, nois ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 11 09:00:00 PST 1998

41408 steelworkers & enviros, again -- rank: 1000

________________________________________________ A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C E http://www.ainfos.ca/ ________________________________________________ A coalition of striking aluminum workers, members of the IWW and Earth First! successfully blockaded a shipload of Australian aluminum ore from docking at the port of Tacoma Washington on Monday, December 7. 3,100 members of the United Steel Workers of America local 7945 have been on strike against Kaiser Aluminum since September 30 citing ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 10 11:38:56 PST 1998

41409 Fwd: It's a Battlefield Out There -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >Doug, >yes, i will track down Ross' comments--I think they are in Donna's office >who seems to have forgotten about her debts to LBO and has not been reading >along for some time. My other point is that no matter how much life is >commodified and relations individualized, neo classical economics still >cannot be a realistic description of capitalist reality No, I agree. But the attitude of the neoclassicals is that if reality is at odds with theory, so ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 10 10:34:54 PST 1998

41410 Political Ecology -- rank: 1000

Louis Proyect wrote: >What the heck is "humanly made"? Harvey's problem is that he does not see >the creation of cities, suburbs, farms as the results of the capitalist >system. Eh? Did you read the same book I'm reading? Harvey writes about capitalism on virtually every page. In my first comment, I used the word "humanly" to include pre- and noncapitalist forms of society; non- and precapitalist societies alter nature too, though in different ways from profit-pursue ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 10 10:01:06 PST 1998

41411 FW: RE: Draft Amendment (was Bourdieu on neoliberalism) -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Re Charles': Draft XXVIII Amendment for >a right to a decent job. > >I find this proposal very impressive. Has any attempt been made to stir >grass-roots support for this measure? Does anyone on this list have a >serious philosophical objection to this amendment? Has anyone mentioned the fact that a similar amendment is one of the Labor Party's major organizing principles? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 10 09:41:19 PST 1998

41412 more on hurricanes -- rank: 1000

[from the Environmental News Network] Hurricanes' impact on wildlife worsens While natural systems in the Caribbean and the southeastern United States have weathered hurricanes for thousands of years, the impact of these storms may be greater than ever before due to human-related influences, according to government scientists. When large tropical storms course across the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico, their damaging effects are often magnified by ongoing, human-caused disturbances to coastal ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 10 09:27:44 PST 1998

41413 New Labour moves against tobacco profits -- rank: 1000

christian a. gregory wrote: >i don't get this at all. the state bans advertising, subsidizes patches, and >trots out a policy statement and somehow this counts as a move against >profits? Nothing like an anti-smoking campaign to get kids to start smoking. Says the U.S. Centers for Disease Control <http://www.cdc.gov/epo/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00055070.htm>: >Among persons aged 12-17 years, the incidence of first cigarette use >decreased from 1974 (132.2) to 1987 (98.6) and in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 10 09:20:50 PST 1998

41414 Fwd: It's a Battlefield Out There -- rank: 1000

[This bounced with a "fixme" plea. I have no idea what that means.] Delivered-To: fixup-owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com@fixme Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 20:57:24 -0700 From: Charles Miller <bautiste at uswest.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lbo-talk-digest <owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com> Subject: It's a Battlefield Out There James, Granting some of what you say here, I think it fair to say that Heidegger can still teach even socialists something about the scienti ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 10 08:50:18 PST 1998

41415 Earth at Its Warmest In Past 12 Centuries -- rank: 1000

Enzo Michelangeli wrote: >For a second opinion, see: > >http://www.reason.org/climatefaqs.html Cato, Reason, such lovely company the anti-warmers keep. I loved this passage from the FAQs (drawn from risk/reward theorist Aaron Wildavsky: >What's apparent in this anticipation / resilience framework is that it is >not our knowledge, but our uncertainties which most strongly indicate the >choice of pathway. This is because: 1) the conditions needed to assure a >reasonable chance ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 10 08:45:03 PST 1998