... One theory is that, since democracy has never emerged in any country without some kind of market economy and because autocratic countries with market...
Lawerance Elliott
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May 4, 2000 12:35 am
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... As the saying goes, the problem with Decomunization is that it never happened!...
Aaron Agassi
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May 4, 2000 2:29 pm
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... Good point. The frontal attack by the IMF and World Bank doesn't seem to be working very well so perhaps something more subtle is needed. How about the...
Lawerance Elliott
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May 5, 2000 1:58 pm
65
... Are the unpaid starving coal miners still on strike? They could become quite wealthy by cutting a co-venture deal with Western coal and oil corporations, ...
Aaron Agassi
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May 5, 2000 3:08 pm
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... Your various proposals for reforming the Russian economy suggest you have been paying a lot more attention than I have to what has been going on in the ...
Lawerance Elliott
intools@...
May 11, 2000 3:04 pm
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... Last I heard, private farmers where proving themselves more effective than the old wasteful collectives, in Russia, who where therefore obstructing ...
Aaron Agassi
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May 11, 2000 3:29 pm
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... Or people who are so far behind may be able to skip over several outmoded, intermediate steps and take advantage of the latest technology (cell phones in...
Lawerance Elliott
intools@...
May 15, 2000 2:12 pm
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... Again, the people to apply the pressure to get that done are the coal miners. What ever happened with their strike? And how can they be approached with...
Aaron Agassi
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May 15, 2000 4:09 pm
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... I wonder if this is the kind of thing we should be most concerned about. Fights over ownership of existing assets is the kind of politics-as-usual that can...
Lawerance Elliott
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May 18, 2000 4:52 pm
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... What has that got to do with anything? This is not about contesting ownership of existing assets. Just about protecting the ownership of new equity. The...
Aaron Agassi
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May 18, 2000 5:35 pm
72
... Tell us about it ......
Lawerance Elliott
intools@...
May 20, 2000 3:06 pm
73
... Dysfunctional Societies often suffer from permeability to noxious stimuli from noxious elements. Sometimes the gap is the law and regulation, other times...
Aaron Agassi
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May 20, 2000 4:25 pm
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Aaron, I want to comment on your "Clique Buster" idea and will do so in a separate posting, to keep this one from becoming too long. Before getting into that...
Lawerance Elliott
intools@...
May 24, 2000 11:43 pm
75
... CASA will match for all of the above and more. ... Many things serve the public interest that are not clearly driven by the public interest. And many...
Aaron Agassi
agassi@...
May 25, 2000 1:28 am
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... Seems to me what you are talking about is a "vigilance committee" which, as you say, is not a very popular idea these days but has quite a respectable...
Lawerance Elliott
intools@...
May 28, 2000 2:25 pm
77
... Yes, exactly, a very mild soft-core Vigilance Committee, doing nothing actually against the law. All that the Clique Busters TM will take into their own...
Aaron Agassi
agassi@...
May 28, 2000 4:40 pm
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... Sorry, but while I can see that Clique Busters might have some personal appeal for many people, I just don't see any source of "social" legitimacy for it...
Lawerance Elliott
intools@...
May 31, 2000 2:39 pm
79
... That's like saying that people must have lost all sense of right and wrong, every time the society fails to live up to better standards. This is tempting,...
Aaron Agassi
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May 31, 2000 4:32 pm
80
On venturevortex.com I found an abstract of a start-up venture by the name of FILMTHEM.com . I have been unable to establish contact with THEM. But I realized...
Aaron Agassi
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Jun 1, 2000 9:53 pm
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... No, I am saying that if people do not take the trouble to reach some consensus about what is right and wrong then there are no standards for anyone to live...
Lawerance Elliott
intools@...
Jun 4, 2000 12:06 am
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... Sounds fair enough. And that's what Clique Busters TM is really about. ... It is generally accepted, for example, that the faction known as the Police can...
Aaron Agassi
agassi@...
Jun 4, 2000 12:31 am
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... That is a truly astonishing statement. Do you really not know the difference between a legitimate police force (or vigilance committee) acting in the...
Lawerance Elliott
intools@...
Jun 7, 2000 2:27 pm
84
My challenge stands. (MORE) ... Certainly I know the difference. Not all types of faction are identical or equal. You take my point. ... I'm sure that...
Aaron Agassi
agassi@...
Jun 7, 2000 2:54 pm
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Ref: http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/index.html & http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/ I am reaching out to you as someone who might understand and...
Aaron Agassi
agassi@...
Jun 8, 2000 4:39 pm
86
This is just to report upon my recent telephone conversation with Rajesh Pradhan about building Strategic Partnership and Promotional Exchange with the school...
Aaron Agassi
agassi@...
Jun 8, 2000 7:10 pm
87
... No, I'm afraid I don't see your point. If the difference is merely relative then there is no real difference. And if the members of each faction regard ...
Lawerance Elliott
intools@...
Jun 10, 2000 4:08 pm
88
... That does not follow at all! The difference in degree between the most barberous at one end of the spectrum and the most civil at the other, are crucial. ...
Aaron Agassi
agassi@...
Jun 10, 2000 5:58 pm
89
... Yes, that would be true in a civil society. But to have a civil society, people must be able to define the criteria of civility in such a way that it is...
Lawerance Elliott
intools@...
Jun 18, 2000 2:55 pm
90
I challenged you to describe a day to day personal problem with bullying cliques, so that I could describe how the Clique Busters TM would help. But for some...
Aaron Agassi
agassi@...
Jun 18, 2000 8:43 pm
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... I am reluctant to do so for two reasons: First, I did respond to your challenge with the example of a renegade police clique. But you said that was beyond...
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