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41656 LRB on AS -- rank: 1000

[Here, for all you fans of copyright law, is the London Review of Books review of the Sokal/Bricmont book.] London Review of Books, July 16, 1998 LE PAUVRE SOKAL by John Sturrock review of: Intellectual Impostures, by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont. Profile, 274 pp., £9.99, 2 July, ISBN 1-86197-074-9 Way back in the pre-theoretical Fifties, a journalist called Ivor Brown used to have elementary fun at the expense of a serial intruder on our insular peace of mind, a bacillus known as the LFF, or La ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 8 10:55:22 PDT 1998

41657 The Nation - Selected Editorial -- rank: 1000

michael perelman wrote: >The way to save Social Security is to put the money in the stock market, >appoint Lt. Calley to run it and then move the operations to Mai Lai. >Why has the media let the repubs. use such Orwellian language? Because most reporters are upper-middle income and ape the preferences of their employers, who are members of the bourgeoisie. And because most reporters don't know what they're talking about, so they turn to consecrated "experts," who are in the p ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 7 13:39:27 PDT 1998

41658 Jonesing for the Dow/Savings Rate -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: >The failure to undergird >financial paper ("fictitious capital") with productive assets is what >bubbles are all about, right? Well, the Southeast Asians did plenty of investing in real assets - maybe too much. Can't you have a real sector bubble too, with overexpansion resulting in unusable (i.e., unprofitable) capacity? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 7 10:50:54 PDT 1998

41659 Greed is good -- rank: 1000

lk wrote: >I've been reading Linda McQuaig's "Shooting the Hippo", about Canada's >"deficit scare" of the early 1990's. There was a Canadian equivalent of >Stossell at the time, Eric Malling, whose show "W5" had a program about a >short-term currency crisis in New Zealand, presented as a deficit crisis >with implications for Canada. McQuaig writes: "To illustrate the concept of >the debt wall in Canadian terms, Malling presents us with an imag ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 7 10:45:58 PDT 1998

41660 colonization & growth -- rank: 1000

Further advances in economics.... "Did Colonization Matter for Growth? An Empirical Exploration into the Historical Causes of Africa's Underdevelopment" BY: GRAZIELLA BERTOCCHI Universita di Modena FABIO CANOVA Universitat Pompeu Fabra Universita di Modena Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) Document: SSRN Electronic Library Document Delivery: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=35765 Paper ID: Economics Working Paper 202 Contact: FABIO CANOVA Email: Mailto:canova ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 7 10:05:19 PDT 1998

41661 MSFT & the market -- rank: 1000

Speaking of Bill Gates and advances in economics.... Are these guys looking for consulting contracts from the company affectionately known as Mr Softee (thanks to its ticker symbol, MSFT)? "DOS Kapital: Has Antitrust Action Against Microsoft Created Value in the Computer Industry?" BY: GEORGE BITTLINGMAYER University of California at Davis THOMAS HAZLETT University of California at Davis Document: SSRN Electronic Library Document Delivery: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 7 10:01:04 PDT 1998

41662 Colombia -- rank: 1000

[this bounced] Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 22:02:48 -0500 (CDT) From: Colombian Labor Monitor <xx738 at prairienet.org> Sender: Colombian Labor Monitor <xx738 at prairienet.org> Reply-To: Colombian Labor Monitor <xx738 at prairienet.org> Subject: COLOMBIA (Was:Re: [PEN-L:589] War) To: pen-l at galaxy.csuchico.edu cc: Thomas Kruse <tkruse at albatros.cnb.net>, lbo-talk at lists.panix.com In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19980806164421.006b4e28 at albatros.cnb.net> Message-ID: <Pi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 6 20:12:22 PDT 1998

41663 the kindness of strangers -- rank: 1000

[this bounced for some reason] From: Harald_Schumann at spiegel.de Received: from notes2.spiegel.de (notes2.spiegel.de [112.11.0.2]) by mail.spiegel.de (8.8.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA25370 for <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 18:57:23 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by notes2.spiegel.de(Lotus SMTP MTA v1.1 (385.6 5-6-1997)) id C1256658.005D6901 ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 19:00:17 +0200 X-Lotus-FromDomain: SPIEGEL To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Message-ID: <C1256658.00588EB9.00 at notes2 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 6 10:35:09 PDT 1998

41664 Oct. 2-4 Conference Information -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: >The only disappointment at the last one of these meetings was Comrade >Henwood, who after his usual breathtaking and charmingly cynical >talk on the state-of-the-world financial system, gave us no hints of >subversive political implications. But now he's got a last chapter >in his book and will have no problem expanding from its >gringo-centrism for his talk to the conference this year, right? Only under your guidance, and Mzwanele's, too, when he gets to t ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 6 08:46:26 PDT 1998

41665 Oct. 2-4 Conference Information -- rank: 1000

Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 15:15:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Njoki Njoroge Njehu <njoki at igc.apc.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Precedence: bulk Sender: owner-50-years at igc.apc.org Subject: Oct. 2-4 Conference Information To: 50-years at igc.org, rcaplan at igc.org X-Sender: njoki at pop.igc.org (Unverified) Dear 50 Years Is Enough Activists: Greetings One and All! I'm sure all of you marked your calendars in January in planning for the October conference. At last here is some information to assist you i ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 5 15:27:29 PDT 1998

41666 Bill Gates writes RN on Wealth disparities letter, Ralph Nader's comment -- rank: 1000

>Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 17:28:52 -0400 (EDT) >Reply-To: love at cptech.org >Originator: info-policy-notes at essential.org >Sender: info-policy-notes at essential.org >Precedence: bulk >From: James Love <love at cptech.org> >To: Multiple recipients of list INFO-POLICY-NOTES ><info-policy-notes at essential.org> >Subject: Bill Gates writes RN on Wealth disparities letter, Ralph Nader's >comment >MIME-Version: 1.0 >X-Comment: To unsubscribe from this ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 5 15:11:59 PDT 1998

41667 The Savings Rate -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >Capital gains count toward income if they are realized in >a taxable account Nope, not in the national income and product accounts. Income must be charged against production, so the two sides of the NIPAs balance. Since there is no product corresponding to a capital gain, it's not income. Doug

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Date:	Wed Aug 5 13:49:04 PDT 1998

41668 Jonesing for the Dow -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Just the opposite. Less saving means >more consumption and less negative >impact on employment. > >More to the point is the timing of >changes in fiscal and monetary policy. >The Fed govt is poised to run budget >surpluses, despite the fact that the >economy has visibly slowed down, which >is the opposite of the appropriate >policy. Liberals like to say there's an investment deficit; I do believe that EPI has devoted no small amount of paper ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 5 13:36:03 PDT 1998

41669 capitalists' nerve -- rank: 1000

[this bounced from James Heartfield] Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 18:14:02 +0100 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: James Heartfield <James at heartfield.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: executive pay In-Reply-To: <l03130309b1ee28e1717f@[166.84.250.86]> References: <RHdkVAAfRBy1Mwea at heartfield.demon.co.uk> <l03130301b1ecf65f2cff@[166.84.250.86]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 11:29 05/08/98 -0400, you wrote: >I recognize here on of ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 5 13:10:48 PDT 1998

41670 War in Colombia -- rank: 1000

[this bounced from Tom Kruse] Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 12:48:18 -0400 To: pen-l at galaxy.csuchico.edu, lbo-talk at lists.panix.com, Resource Center of the Americas <rctamn at maroon.tc.umn.edu> From: Thomas Kruse <tkruse at albatros.cnb.net> Subject: War in Colombia Cc: rivarme at colomsat.net.co Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by dont.panix.com id MAA29531 Dear List Members: I just got the following note from a colleague in Colombia ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 5 13:09:09 PDT 1998