Farida does not mention the 'possible solutions' being mooted by the government - because it is formed by her AL. However she can write at length about American models, British models, Indian models, historical models. Anything will do as long as it avoids laying ressponsibility at her party's door.
This is Bangladesh. AL supporters will talk about anything except AL. And BNP supporters will talk about anything except BNP.
Hypocrisy passes as 'politcal commentary' in Bangladesh.
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Farida Majid <farida_majid@...> wrote:
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> There are possible solutions to our present woes -- and these lie outside the box of American or Western (and/or Colonial) model. Isn't it funny that the models that are being suggested sound very similar to what economic structure India/ Bengal had two hundred and fifty years ago!
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> Subject: Fw: The Left-Behinds
> To: farida_majid@...
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> http://www.theatlanticcities.com/housing/2011/11/america-stuck/531/
> America the Stuckhttp://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/america-s-left-behinds-the-long-term-unemployed-20111117?page=1
> The Left-BehindsHow three decades of flawed economic thinking have helped to create record numbers of long-term unemployed and undermine America's middle
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> http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/11/haldanemadouros-what-is-the-contribution-of-the-financial-sector.html
> Haldane/Madouros: What is the Contribution of the Financial Sector?
> http://blog.syracuse.com/opinion/2011/11/community-ownership_model_poss.htmlCommunity-ownership model possible
> solutionA thought:This is as old as the pilgrims. The richest Chinese village also shares the wealth through community ownership.See also:
> "In the year 1871 was published, in England, under the ans|)ices of the Cobden club, a translation of a little German treatise, by Professor Nasse,* of the University of Bonn, on the agricultural community of the middle ages and inclosures of the sixteenth century in England. It
> was a work which may be called epoch-making in the history of real property and of conmuinal institutions in Great Britain. It awakened English lawyers to a consciousness of the survival in their very miilst of a system of local land tenure older than the Feudal system and dating back at least to the time of the Saxon concjuest of Britain. Ever since the days of BlaeU- Btoue, lawyers had puzzled themselves to account for certain extraordinary customs of village land holding in England, for certain phenomena of joint ownership in commons, like the lammas lands, which were common to an entire village for pasturage, after the 13th of August, old style, or like the so-called "shack lands," wiiich, after the above
> date, were common to the owners or possessors, but not to the whole
> village. Lawyers had found no solution to the problem of the origin of such communal practice, except in special j)rivi- leges granted to tenants by the lord of the manor, or else in immemorial custom. Professor Nasse derived his facts concerning the existence of such communal land-holdings in England, from a report of a Select Committee on Commons Inclosure, instituted in order to frame laws for the dissolution of common holdings, by order of the House of Commons, 1844, and from the reports of the Board of Agriculture, about the beginning of the present century, under charge of Sir John Sinclair. These latter reports were abridged by Mr. Marshall, a man often referred to by Sir Henry Maine. It appears that Marshall at this very early period was
> strongly impressed by the mere facts concerning the
> vast extent of communal land-holdings in England, and had come to the conclusion that once "the soil of nearly the whole of England was more or less in a commonable state."* The reports above mentioned revealed some most remarkable fact"concerning the survival of communal land holdings in parishes where the Feudal systemwas supposed to have centralised all forms of folkland, and to have destroyed all free peasant proprietaries.In Huntingtonshire, out of
> 240,000 acres, 130,000 were found to be held in common, that is, by no individual owners in particular,but by village or farming communities, uniler the supremacy of some manorial lord. "
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> "The most striking indication of historic connection between the village communities of New Eny;land and those of the Old World lies in the sovereignty of the people,
> particularly in its agrarian laws. Plymouth was not settled upon the principle of squatter sovereignty — every man for himself, but upon communal principles of the strictest character. These were not adoj)ted simply because of the co-partnership of the Pilgrims with London merchants or chiefly through the influence of a spirit of Christian communism, though doubtless both of these motives had considerable weight in the early management of the colony. There are features of communal administration in the matter of landed property too peculiar and too closely resembling those elsewhere considered, in the case of the historical village community, to permit of any other satisfac- tory explanation than that of inherited Saxon customs. Land community was maintained too long at Plymouth
> and in the towns which were planted around
> Plymouth on the same communal principles, to be accounted for on any theory of a temporary partnership of seven years or on religious grounds. Vestiges of the old Germanic system of common fields are to be found in almost every ancient town in New England. In the town of Plymouth there are to this day some two hundred acres of Commons known as Town Lands. This tract is largely forest, where villagers sometimes help themselves to fuel in good old Teutonic fashion. In studying the terri- torial history of the Plymouth plantation, I have gathered many interesting materials concerning the perpetuation of land community in that region. It is impossible in this con- nection to enter into details.""
> http://www.archive.org/stream/ germanicoriginof00adam/ germanicoriginof00adam_djvu. txtTHE GERMANIC ORIGIN
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> Read before the Harvard Historical Society, May 9, 1881
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> By HERBERT B. ADAMS, Ph. D. http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/travel/view/1164122/1/.htmlWelcome to China's richest village
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