It seems to me that land was NOT the issue in the takeover in Germany. As I have written before, it rather seemed to be the large Federal subsidies intended to...
Arno Mong Daastoel
am@...
Feb 1, 2003 1:45 pm
7670
Pat Buchanan comments the US trade deficit. In spite of its overdone partiotic senetiment, I enjoyed this article. - Intersting that he finds Clinton more...
Arno Mong Daastoel
am@...
Feb 1, 2003 2:42 pm
7671
FYI. Gunnar ***** Re. the following; ... I replied: No. And, after re-iterating the grounds for rejecting partial derivative analysis as logically admissible...
In a message dated 2/1/03 8:46:50 AM Eastern Standard Time, am@... ... Daer Arno, re your note, It seems to me that land was NOT the issue in the...
Hudsonmi@...
Feb 1, 2003 3:58 pm
7673
Asia Times Front Page War and the military-industrial complex By Henry C K Liu The evolving arguments for or against a renewed war by the United States against...
Arno Mong Daastoel
am@...
Feb 1, 2003 4:29 pm
7674
You are probably right concerning Berlin. The situation where I lived in Erfurt was very different - 200.000 inhabitants - the capital of the state of...
Arno Mong Daastoel
am@...
Feb 1, 2003 4:36 pm
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Further to my submission that partial derivative analysis is logically inadmissible in any and all economic models, two additional reasons for questioning on...
This was a good article on the two faces of foreign "sales" to the US, sales through expoort and through affiliates. Arno Global: Beyond Trade: The Global...
Arno Mong Daastoel
am@...
Feb 1, 2003 8:25 pm
7677
As usual, Buchanan deals in half truths and is alway only half right. Usually, he is right on thr facts and wrong on the conclusions. Stopping "free trade"...
Intellectual cowardice? FYI. Gunnar ***** ... I take this to mean that while you are willing to speak in sweeping terms about PK economics _sui generis_, you...
Arno, Thanks for that material on impact of a US slowdown. In the piece below, I have taken a longer view in time and a broader view in terms of cause. It...
j.schukte.baeuminghaus
cresscourt@...
Feb 2, 2003 8:16 am
7680
Henry, Not quite, I am not totally sure that you are right that autarchy would have strengthened China in the past 2 decades, since a part of the free trade...
Arno Mong Daastoel
am@...
Feb 2, 2003 8:47 am
7681
Interesting stuff (for me anyway): The "Friedrich-List Gesellschaft" (=Society) was founded in 1925 and voluntary discontinued in 1935 in order not to be run...
Arno Mong Daastoel
am@...
Feb 2, 2003 10:49 am
7682
Arno, This is good stuff. I hadn't seen this piece on Lautenbach before but it is in pleasing harmony with what I have been advocating for the economic crisis...
j.schukte.baeuminghaus
cresscourt@...
Feb 2, 2003 11:27 am
7683
FYI. Gunnar ***** ... Comment: The WHY concerns the principle of the thing. Namely, the absurdity of applying mathematical rigor to incoherent premises, ...
Arno and Henry --- Perhaps this should be posted to your group. It is Helga Larouche's speech to an EIR seminar in Berlin late last year, on Lautenbach. ...
Enclosed below is Dr. Uwe Burkheiser's comments upon the reunification of Germany from an economic point of view. Arno ... From: "Dr. Uwe Burkheiser"...
Arno Mong Daastoel
am@...
Feb 2, 2003 9:08 pm
7686
Dear Arno I'm still told that the effect - and evidently also the motive - for East Germany's disaster was a real estate grab. Many companies were bought by...
Hudsonmi@...
Feb 2, 2003 11:23 pm
7687
Dear Michael, No, No, No, Michael, NOT primarily the tax laws, but planning laws. Britain is not building enough homes to match the rise in the number of...
G W Gardiner
geoffrey.gardiner@...
Feb 3, 2003 9:22 am
7688
This from Cornelia: Land clearly was an issue. Most companies did exactly the said strategy: pretend to go on, cash in the subsidies, lay off workers, sell the...
Hudsonmi@...
Feb 3, 2003 12:47 pm
7689
In a message dated 2/3/03 4:23:03 AM Eastern Standard Time, ... Dear Geoffrey, As you can well imagine, I never could have deduced such nutty planning rules a...
Hudsonmi@...
Feb 3, 2003 12:53 pm
7690
At someone's suggestion, I subscribed to the Social Credit List the other day. Today's digest of postings contains, inter alia, the following exchanges...
Henry, ... "benefit more" is a term with many interpretations: There is little doubt that the US population would benefit more, as wealth creation and...
Arno Mong Daastoel
am@...
Feb 3, 2003 4:16 pm
7692
Chris, My experience is a bit parallel. I started studying economics in high-school (age 18), then a few years as a carpenter etc. and 1,5 years economics. ...
Arno Mong Daastoel
am@...
Feb 3, 2003 5:19 pm
7693
The "Nash Equilibrium" for strategic non-cooperative games applied Kakutani's fixed-point theorem that was later employed by Neo-Walrasians, and spawned much...
Chris, It may be of interest that Whewell's close friend, Richard Jones (took over Britain's 1st professorship in economics after Malthus, is seen as the first...
Arno Mong Daastoel
am@...
Feb 3, 2003 5:43 pm
7695
And your point is???? - that the distinction between plus sum and zero sum games is blurred? Sure, so what? I can also quote these pages Henry: ...
Arno Mong Daastoel
am@...
Feb 3, 2003 6:38 pm
7696
Dear Arno: Re. the following: Gunnar and I seem to be having a never ending discussion of this, but we do at least seem to get closer as misunderstandings are...
The point is that zero sum games are purposefully structured, not natural phenomena. Mostly motivated by greed, not need, particularly in games of power. Of...