On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, john gulick wrote:
Your persistent celebration of Central European and Japanese
neo-mercantilism misses the flip side of the dialectical coin -- neo-liberal
America with its super-dollar and its credit card Keynesianism realizes the
value that these countries' workers
BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1998
RELEASED TODAY: In the fourth quarter, productivity rose in both the
business and nonfarm business sectors by less than it had in the
previous quarter For the year 1997, productivity increases in both
sectors were about the same as the 1996
Los Angeles Times
Wednesday, March 11, 1998
PERSPECTIVE ON AFRICA
A Forced March to Congress' Tune
A bill emerges to impose business-friendly U.S. and IMF
development standards on sub-Saharan countries.
By RANDALL
At 06:33 PM 3/10/98 -0500, Doug Henwood cited:
Foreword by Marc Bousquet: "The degree holder is the waste product
of a job system that produces Ph.D holders but does not use them.
In language and literature more than any other field the teaching
machine runs on non-degreed labor. . . ."
While
On Wed, March 11, 1998 at 09:20:07 (+0800) Anthony D'costa writes:
... in today's
highly competitive world economy.
Doesn't this imply selling at (near) marginal costs, ergo zero (low)
profits? Are today's profit levels consistent with this
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Anthony D'costa wrote:
In a nutshell the US has the most "conducive" sets of institutional
arrangements for the reproduction and expansion of capital in today's
highly competitive world economy.
Says Wall Street. The downsized Main Streeters kaizening for Hyundai and
Dennis R Redmond wrote:
Ah, yes, this explains the amazing resurgence of that British car
industry, yes?
Dennis, your fascination with widgets blinds you to certain truths about the
contemporary set-up.
As well as those powerhouse Brit electronics/software/
semiconductor firms, busily
I would like to second at least one part of Wojtek's
remarks. The idea that somehow economists are much nicer
people and fundamentally better colleagues than
language/lit professors is not credible, indeed plenty of
evidence to the contrary exists, if anything. We as a
group are a
BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1998
The economy is generating millions of new jobs every year, but most
Americans' standard of living is stagnant, says Louis Uchitelle (New
York Times, March 8, page 1, section 3). What's wrong? With new
competitors all around and customers growing
Anthony D'costa wrote:
In a nutshell the US has the most "conducive" sets of institutional
arrangements for the reproduction and expansion of capital in today's
highly competitive world economy.
If Anthony means that the U.S. has been effective in smashing organized labor
and quelling
On Wed, March 11, 1998 at 16:55:06 (-0500) Rosser Jr, John Barkley writes:
...
It is safer to stick with the relative demand growth
argument. Language/lit demand simply has not kept pace.
Isn't it also true that these "liberal" programs have been
relentlessly attacked and defunded by
This is the first of two trivia quizzes. Actually, not really trivial,
because both of the questions came up in classes I am teaching and I hope
to provide answers for my students.
Who said: "I can hire half of the working class to kill the other half."
Thanks,
Doug Orr
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DOUG ORR wrote:
Who said: "I can hire half of the working class to kill the other half."
Was it Henry Frick?
Doug
Madrick wrote:
All this requires greater use of the one
characteristic that machines cannot
replace: human
imagination. The modern economy, I
would argue, may be returning to a
high-technology version of a crafts
economy, based on worker skills,
thinking, and inventiveness, rather than on
the
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This is the first of two trivia quizzes. Actually, not really trivial,
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The old wobbly spirit is still alive?
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The latest instance of
Whatever liberalism came out of FDR's time has
now split between a quasi-social democratic view
which is oriented to labor and living standard
issues on one side, and a more middle-class
focus on 'the poor,' ecology, reproductive
rights, civil liberties, and at its worst,
'identity
Friends,
A couple of days ago, Louis P. posted part of an article by Marc Cooper
on Chile 25 years after Allende's murder. It is also in this week's
Nation magazine. Jim D. reacted to Louis's comments, a little too
critically in my view. This article is really excellent, a fine
combination of
DOUG ORR wrote:
Trivia question number two. This may be one of those "urban myths" but back
in the distant past when I was in graduate school, I was told about a study
that found that there was a correlation between the lengths of women's skirts
and the business cycle. About six months after
== This concerns yet another Internet censorship bill quietly snaking
its way through Congress even as I peck, and what you can do about it.
Personally, I think it's past-due time to dismantle Washington brick
by overpriced brick, but I'm copping to Civics 101A on this one,
just
Trivia question number two. This may be one of those "urban myths" but back
in the distant past when I was in graduate school, I was told about a study
that found that there was a correlation between the lengths of women's skirts
and the business cycle. About six months after skirt lengths
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Ken Hanly wrote:
Although intense competition is part of the global mix other
developments lessen competition in favor of monopoly.
I agree 100% with Ken here and with a semingly different comment by Bill Lear.
Marginal cost pricing would spell doom for capital. Although the world
This message is going to several lists simultaneously.
Some time ago on several lists there was a discussion
regarding how it came to be that in the US "liberal" came
to mean someone who favored government intervention in the
economy, in contrast to "classical liberalism" and how the
Doug,
You should have said "take that, Post Keynesians!"
Most garden variety Keynesians who believe in the ISLM
model (supposedly nobody does, but all policymakers and all
macroeconometric forecasting models do) would and did
predict that taxing the rich to reduce the deficit would
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Mark Jones wrote:
The US is not falling behind, it is
moving ahead. And Japan and Germany are not going to catch up and
overtake Anglo-Saxon capitalism anytime soon, if ever. BTW, people write
off Rule Britannia too easily. As the 51st state of the Union, we are
doing
James Devine wrote:
At 12:12 PM 3/11/98 -0600, Bill wrote:
On Wed, March 11, 1998 at 09:20:07 (+0800) Anthony D'costa writes:
... in today's
highly competitive world economy.
Doesn't this imply selling at (near) marginal costs, ergo
(concluding section of essay in www.nybooks.com/nyrev, the electronic
version of the NY Review of Books)
--
What is holding US productivity back?
Economists have come up with no
generally accepted answers. But one
question that should be more deeply
explored,
At 12:12 PM 3/11/98 -0600, Bill wrote:
On Wed, March 11, 1998 at 09:20:07 (+0800) Anthony D'costa writes:
... in today's
highly competitive world economy.
Doesn't this imply selling at (near) marginal costs, ergo zero (low)
profits? Are
In a message dated 98-03-11 09:36:51 EST, Mark writes (amongst other things):
Anglo-Saxon world dominion has
lasted for almost three centuries and will probably last as long as
capitalism.
Mark
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While for the moment there's not much to be said or speculated upon
re the Microsoft anti-trust hearings, Citizen Emperor billg has trouble
coming at him along quite a different trajectory (although it too
originates in Washington). Has no one noticed?
Very soon Congress holds the vote on NATO
Dennis wrote:
The point is that East Asia and Central Europe are going to be the key
battlegrounds for the global class struggle; in a world-economy where the
US makes up only around 20% of total production, and is trillions of euros
in debt to the new metropoles, we like Britain before us
The ability of capital to restructure, reorganize, (or reengineer), and
reinvent are critical to its reproduction. I have examined this rather
vacuous statement in my study of the global restructuring of the steel
industry. Two elements to this story are innovations (Marxian or
Schumpeterian,
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