Dollars & Sense articles from July 2002

Dollars & Sense archives from July 2002

The best of the Dollars & Sense archives.(Editorial)
July 1, 2002... The Dollars & Sense collective is pleased to present this special summer issue. In lieu of our standard slate of feature articles, we look back at some of the best and still-relevant work D&S has published in the past two decades. We also...

The short run.
July 1, 2002... Privatization The Invisible Hand in Outer Space Once a source of mystical awe, the moon has become a hot piece of 21st-century real estate. Case in point: The folks at a new commercial venture called the Artemis Project are working...

Comings & goings.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... This summer, Dollars & Sense says good-bye to its two superb coeditors, Alejandro Reuss and Tami J. Friedman. Alejandro will rejoin the collective while applying to graduate school in economics. Tami is relocating to her beloved Madison,...

The declining average wage in imported clothes. (Second Thoughts).(Brief Article)(Industry Overview)(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2002... In "Economy in Numbers: The 'Race to the Bottom' in Imported Clothes" (Dollars & Sense, January/February 2002), I estimated that, in 1998, the average hourly wage for producers of imported clothing ranged from $2.06 to $1.95. By 2001, it had...

Baseball: a marxist analysis. (Primer).(Brief Article)(Illustration)(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2002... Despite fastballs and double plays, major league baseball games are longer than they used to be. An average game that might have taken two and a half hours in 1978 (when this cartoon first appeared in Radical America magazine) takes around...

Silent depression economic growth and prosperity part company: do traditional indicators of economic prosperity mean average Americans are doing well? Probably not. (The Best of the Archives).
July 1, 2002... In the spring of 1992, President George Bush was riding high after a war in the Middle East. The U.S. economy, according to traditional economic measures, was nearly a year into an economic recovery. But most people were complaining that they...

To make a tender chicken poultry workers pay the price: once you know about working conditions in a typical poultry processing plant, you may never eat chicken again. (The Best of the Archives).
July 1, 2002... Not unlike The Jungle--Upton Sinclair's classic 1906 expose of the meatpacking industry--Barbara Goldoftas's account of hazardous conditions in poultry processing plants, published in Dollars & Sense in September 1989, was a chilling wake-up...

Fewer jobs, slower growth: military spending drains the economy. (The Best of the Archives).
July 1, 2002... Since 1984, the United States has experienced another cycle in military spending, the third since World War II. The military budget rose through the 1980s, fell in real (inflation-adjusted) dollars during most of the 1990s, and has been rising...

A prop, not a burden: the U.S. economy relies on militarism.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2002... "A Prop, Not a Burden" first appeared in Dollars & Sense in January 1984, in the midst of the Reagan military buildup. Within the current context of military preeminence, it is once again necessary to critically assess the impact of U.S....

Who wants to be a cheerleader for a sweatshop? UNC basketball's close relationship with Nike has damaged its reputation as a progressive athletic program.(Excerpt)
July 1, 2002... Last winter, Dollars & Sense published my book More Than a Game: Why North Carolina Basketball Means So Much To So Many, which takes a hard look at sports fandom in the United States: How are attachments between fans and teams created? Are...

Enron in the third world: Enron played its fast-and-loose version of the energy game not just in the United States but all over the developing world. And U.S. taxpayers contributed more than $4 million to the fiasco.(Excerpt)
July 1, 2002... THE INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES The Institute for Policy Studies' (IPS) new report, Enron's Pawns: How Public Institutions Bankrolled Enron's Globalization Game, documents the extent to which Enron's ascendancy depended on public-sector...

Half English, all internationalist. (In Review).(England, Half English )
July 1, 2002... Billy Bragg and the Blokes, England, Half English (Elektra, 2002). When England's national soccer team took on Sweden on June 2 to kick off its World Cup campaign, five English players of African descent were in the starting eleven and a...

The Best of the Archives.(income disparity)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Dear Dr. Dollar: The media constantly report that "there is a growing disparity of wealth," and as far as I know this is true. But I would like to know why I should care. For all those who say it is important, I have a simple question:...

"The 1990s, the decade of the worker": Business Week's April fool's joke. (Economy in Numbers).(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2002... The biggest winners of the 1990s were workers, not investors. That is the punch line of "Restating the '90s," Michael Mandel's cover story in the April 1, 2002, edition of Business Week. No, it is not an April Fool's joke. Mandel is quite...

Letters.
July 1, 2002... Praise for Dissent To the Editor: I was sooooo impressed by Laura Orlando's article "Industry Attacks on Dissent" on AlterNet.org (originally published in Dollars & Sense, March/April 2002) that I immediately did some background,...

Urpe Summer Conference 2002.
July 1, 2002... Our World or Theirs? Challenging Global Capitalism August 17-20. 2002, Camp Chinqueka, Bantam, Connecticut Sliding scale ($120-307), including food and lodging in cabins The Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE) invites...