Of course, the tricky phrase is 'a major political crisis' which is... the
return of the republicans to the executive? the revival of the left wing
of the democrats? the return of ross perot? Or a new constitutional
convention? I think almost anything short of the last, and we would have
to consider your prediction inadequate.
Steve Sherman
Binghamton U.
On Mon, 4 May 1998, Daniel M Green wrote:
> Resolved: The Euro will mark a watershed in the eclipse of the American
> economy, reducing the USA to the status of just another large economy and
> causing a major political crisis in this country within the next 4-5
> years.
>
> Daniel Green
> University of Delaware
>
> On Sun, 3 May 1998, Judi Kessler wrote:
>
> > ...Here comes the "euro" - Now is the opportunity to generate some great
> > 1998, down-to-earth, concrete, political-economy discussion.
> > For those of you who are still bound up in counting capitalism's years (or
> > centuries), use some restraint and back off. Same goes for those of you
> > who are tempted to argue ad nauseum which "long cycle" (circa "the first
> > appearance of homo homo sapien") is been responsible for the European
> > monetary union.
> > Come out, all you Euro WS people who follow events in THIS century.
> > Who am *I*? No one. Just a very informed doctoral student, bored to tears
> > with the WSN.
> >
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> > Judi A. Kessler
> > University of California, Santa Barbara
> > Department of Sociology
> > Santa Barbara, California 93106
> > (805) 893-3751
> > fax (805) 893-3324
> >
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