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MUST DEMOCRATS MOVE TO THE RIGHT TO WIN IN '96?
NOT ACCORDING TO A NEW ANALYSIS OF THE
My favourite, reproduced badly from memory, is
from Tschukolsky:
Nichts ist schwerer, und Nichts erfordert mehr Karakter,
als gegen seiner Zeit zu standen, und laut zu sagen
'Nein'
Nothing is more difficult, and nothing demands more
character, than to stand up to one's Age and clearly say
With regard to the naming and self-naming of people: what about the
citizens of the USA? They have appropriated the name of a continent,
not only for the name of their nation-state, which only unites a
small proportion of the territory of the Americas, but they have also
attached the
Peter? St. Thomas Acquinas (!!)??
He was an "economist" at least according to Schumpeter's History of Economic
Analysis!
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Mike Meeropol
Economics Department
Cultures Past and Present Program
Western New England College
Springfield, Massachusetts
"Don't blame us, we voted for George
I overheard a Buchanan speech which was full of (very justified) complaints
about the Mexican bail-out of the big money-center banks in the US. This
class conscious rhetoric is important and has gotten him a response. If he
continues climbing in the GOP primaries, watch the ruling class get
One more devastating analysis of THE BELL CURVE is Bill Dickens', in a
Brookings book on TBC.
Peter Dorman
Buchanan's rhetoric is extremely troubling, even his ostensible support for
workers in the U.S. In fact, there is nothing in his program that would
increase the *power* of U.S. workers; the nice speeches are simply recruiting
tactics. The real question is, who would gain power if he wins?
Peter
OK, I'll take a crack at it.
Fascism in its classic European form is distinguished by the
following three characteristics.
1. A populist appeal to middle strata on the basis of perceived
threats from both above and below them in the social scale.
2. The location of the solution to this
As promised here is the definition of the "costs of past wars" that the
War Resisters League includes as part of their analysis of the US budget:
" 'Military Debt and costs of Past Wars' includes the portion of the
interest on the national debt that has been estimated to be due on
military
Please don't forget that the fascists and nazis appealed most
of all the working class - just as Buchanan is doing. They promised
(and were able) to put everyone to work within two years. The
fact that this work took place under miserable conditions and
Blair, yes, use Real World Macro. You might also want to consider our
new reader, "Decoding the Contract," $7.50 for students. Also, in
the March/April Dollars and Sense I will have an article that
summarizes and reviews the "Redefining Progress" model -- its
shorter and clearer, and digs into
It might amuse you that just two weeks ago there was
a theater evening of short works and poems by Kurt Tucholsky
using your quote as a motto (Nichts ist schwerer und nichts
erfordert mehr Charakter, als gegen seiner Zeit zu stehen und
laut zu sagen:
Whenever I hear about the "free" market, I call to mind this quote:
"There is none so enslaved as the one who falsely thinks himself free."
This, too, is from the German, and I'd greatly appreciate anyone's giving
me the original, as well as the name of author. (For some reason I think it
was
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OK, I'll take a crack at it.
Fascism in its classic European form is distinguished by the
following three characteristics.
1. A populist appeal to middle strata on the basis of perceived
threats from both above and below
Gina Neff wrote:
As promised here is the definition of the "costs of past wars" that the
War Resisters League includes as part of their analysis of the US budget:
" 'Military Debt and costs of Past Wars' includes the portion of the
interest on the national debt that has been estimated
Hi Folks,
I am looking for left critiques of CGE models and General Equilibrium
analysis preferably as applied to a third world context. Any pointers
and/or references much appreciated.
Alan
Alan Cibils
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Economics
American University
Washington DC
Dear PEN-Lers,
I would also enjoy reading about critiques of CGE modelling, so please
share any reading suggestions with the whole group. Thanks!
Steven Zahniser
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On Thu, 8 Feb 1996, James Michael Craven wrote (quoting Rousseau):
The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself
of saying 'This is mine', and found people simple enough to believe him,
was the real founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and
Other than bemoaning the lack of national loyalty of U.S. TNC's as
a recruiting device for the "anxious classes," does Buchanan actually
have a _plan_ to rein in capital mobility ?
To the best of my (admittedly limited) knowledge, Buchanan has concrete
plans for sealing off U.S. borders,
Paul Cheney recently wrote:
In other words
it is simple to criticize the
institution of property, but our cherished assumptions about individual
freedom are grounded, orginally, in the attempt to elaborate individual
rights vis a vis property. Is there any other institution
besides
Jese, I'm repeating myself for the benefit of pen-lers. Check out
American University Washington D.C for URPE course outlines - somebody
there is putting them togehter.
Ron Baiman
Economics
Rossevelt Univ.
Chicago, IL
A good person to contact re CGE models is Jim Stanford. Where is he these
days?
Peter Dorman
Paul B. Cheney wrote:
. . . our cherished assumptions about individual
freedom are grounded, orginally, in the attempt to elaborate individual
rights vis a vis property. Is there any other institution
besides property that does not reduce individual rights in mass
society to a mere grant
Dear Pen-lers:
Those of you who jumped all over me for treating property as a natural
right will notice that in my initial comments I reproduced Rousseau's
distinction between possesion and property (Social Contract, I,viii).
Thanks anyway for the lesson in early modern political theory.
As
Had you all stumped, eh. Well, I did say it was a tough
one. The answer is: St Ambrose. A lot more good
stuff in similar vein can be found in Charles Avila,
OWNERSHIP: EARLY CHRISTIAN WRITINGS (Maryknoll, NY:
Orbis Books, 1983)--PBsj
"Not from your own do you bestow upon the poor man,
but
I had the pleasure of listening to Laura Tyson on NPR this afternoon. She
was speaking at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. She said something
very revealing:
(I can't quote exactly) The reason I have concerns as an economist about
replacing a federal entitlement to welfare, food stamps
commenting on a quote by Jim Craven from Rousseau's 'A Discourse on the
Origin of Inequality', 1755, Paul Cheney writes that Rousseau is a bit
more complicated on property than this. See for instance in his Discourse
on Political Economy...
Yes, but in the SOCIAL CONTRACT, which reflects
Recently Justin wrote:
Finally I note that Ken and a number of others have repeated a fallacy. Of
course it is true that to be effective property rights require property
law and state enforcement of such law. It does not follow that morally
speaking property is a grant front the state. The state
Rousseau is always a bundle of contradictions. If you look at his account
in Emile of how he teaches the boy about private property, you will see
that it's quite possible to give it a sort of natural rights spin,
although this has to be severely qualified. AT least it's clear that he
wants Emile
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