[PEN-L:4996] Re: Revolt of the Haves--global race to the bottom

1995-05-08 Thread glenn rayp
From raypg Mon May 8 13:33:29 1995 Return-Path: raypg Date: Mon, 08 May 1995 13:43:18 wdt From: raypg@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (glenn rayp) content-length: 2453 Paul I also think this is a key question. Perhaps we would be better to view globalisation not as a brute fact, but as an

[PEN-L:4999] humor

1995-05-08 Thread Michael Perelman
PROGRAM PATTERNS SOCIETAL EVOLUTION Researchers at the Brookings Institution have developed a computer program that generates artificial societies and tracks how they evolve over time. The Computerrarium program uses a "bottom up" approach, in which elaborate structures emerge from the collective

[PEN-L:4998] Can the US Catch Up with Europe?

1995-05-08 Thread Marianne Hill
Paul Cockshott argues for national controls on international capital based on the current political backwardness of the US etc relative to Europe. It would seem that a more straightforward approach would be to increase political awareness in the US of the need for international

[PEN-L:5001] Re: Revolt of the Haves

1995-05-08 Thread Jim Devine
In a post on Friday, Mike Meeropol wrote that: Result: the very basis on which the system was "held together" between 1945 and,say, 1989 is now GONE. The sluggishness of the recovery and the need to maintain unemployment so much higher than in the past and the persistence of the INCREASE in

[PEN-L:5002] Re: revolt of the haves

1995-05-08 Thread ROSSERJB
To Bill Mitchell: The ecology-based-anti-meat-food-shortage argument is only relevant for grain-fed meat. Does not apply to range fed (OZZIE mutton?), especially if fed on land that will not grow grain and is not wrecked by the feeding activity. Of course there are more spiritual

[PEN-L:5003] job announcement

1995-05-08 Thread Robert Naiman
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[PEN-L:5007] Re: Marx, Usury, Exploitation

1995-05-08 Thread GSKILLMAN
Question: is Marx's notion of "real subsumption" too vague to be useful, or can it stand on its own [with possible emendation]? Jim O'Connor writes: Marx's original sense of "real subsumption" is too vague, and also wrong. If you include "mode of cooperation" as part of the "labor process,"

[PEN-L:5008] profit-rate equalization

1995-05-08 Thread Jim Devine
awhile back, I sent the following message, which seems to have been lost in cyberspace: On Wed, 3 May 1995 14:55:23 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I can't imagine that the notion of adjusting rates of return for "systemic differences in risk" sits comfortably within Marxian economics. To begin

[PEN-L:5009] Re: Revolt of the Haves

1995-05-08 Thread Paul Cockshott
Peter Burns --- I'm all for class struggle--but violence must be confined to self-defense in extreme, last resort situations. Things are bad and getting worse, but I think there's still some way to go before we get to that point in Europe, North America, or even OZ. Paul If you

[PEN-L:5011] Re: Revolt of the Haves

1995-05-08 Thread kl811af
On Mon, 8 May 1995, Paul Cockshott wrote: Through the use of terror tactics in Germany they have suceeded in shifting the political spectrum there decisively to the right. For instance it is now politically dangerous for Kohl to come out and say that VE day was a day of liberation for

[PEN-L:5012] Re: profit rate equalization

1995-05-08 Thread ECAS
Alan Freeman says: I tend to think his [Marx's]actual view on this was governed by empirical fact. On p860 (CIII L/W) he writes "The market-prices rise above and fall below these regulating prices of production, but these fluctuations mutually balance each other. If one examines price lists

[PEN-L:5013] Re: profit-rate equalization

1995-05-08 Thread ECAS
Could you provide some reference from *Capital* Paul? As I understand, Marx did not write *Law of Chaos*. Cheers, ajit sinha Paul: However a quote from marx: We have thus demonstrated that different lines of industry have different rates of profit, which correspond to differences in the

[PEN-L:5014] Revolt of the Haves

1995-05-08 Thread Robert Peter Burns
Does anyone out there know if any cross-country studies have been made of the correlations or lack of them between levels of real wages and benefits at PPP, and levels of unemployment? I doubt if there is a correlation, but has anything of interest been observed in this matter-- we hear so