The appeasement of Nazi Germany by Britain and France before the Second
World War, was the result of their imperialist nature.
Similarly now, the refusal of the West to put pressure on Putin's Russia to
observe democratic rights in Chechnya is a fruit of their imperialist
desire *in these
BLS DAILY REPORT, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2000
RELEASED TODAY:
CPI -- The Consumer Price Index for all Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased
0.5 percent in September, seasonally adjusted, following a 0.1 percent
decline in August. The upturn reflects a sharp turnaround in the energy
index, which
G'day Gar,
why we should spend a little time on speculating on the nature of a
socialist society,
on as old whiskers said "creating recipes for the cookshops of the future".
...
Why -- because the myth of TINA (There Is No Alternative) is far more
widespread than it ever was in Marxes day. In
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Everthing I have heard is that he was personally honest (i.e. non-
corrupt) though he did not extend his personal standards to those
around him, including his immediate family.
Well, Bill Clinton hasn't *personally* benefited from slashing
Paul Phillips wrote:
... I would also use this opportunity to respond to some of Chris'
comments about Serb policy in the late 1980s re the privatization
of the 'socialist' property system. First, the pressure for the end of
the 'social property' system came from western-trained
economists, many
Michael: please sign me up on pen-l at
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This can also serve as notication to anyone who cares to have my new address.
--Justin Schwartz
I have another question for Paul. Wasn't the decline in workers' remittances a
major factor?
Also, when you think about it, penners, try to remove the re re re's from the
subject line.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
I'm reading Eichenwald's book on ADM and it reads like FBI spin or even a
print of handouts from the FBI. It is clear that he was fed enormous
helpings of FBI genetically engineered pap, and then defecates it for the
reader. The premise of his book is that the FBI was doing a great job but
got
Just send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] from your new address.
sub pen-l Justin Schwartz
Michael: please sign me up on pen-l at
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This can also serve as notication to anyone who cares to have my new address.
--Justin Schwartz
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Jim asks:
thanks for this message. I have a question: wasn't one reason for the
movement away from workers' control (socialized property?) is that there
was excessive decentralization, which led to continuous contracting and
re-contracting even within factories?
Under the 1976 Law on
This doesn't shed any light on GM crops. It shows that ADM is completely
irresponsible in allowing (GM) corn that is approved only for animal feed
into human foods. ADM then tries to make some of its opponents responsible
for ADM's own misdeeds. Of course the fact that it is GM has implications
http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/speeches/2000/200010192.htm
http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/speeches/2000/20001016.htm
...Unfettered competitive pressures will foster consolidation in the long
run as liquidity tends to centralize in the system providing the narrowest
bid-offer
#11
The Globe and Mail (Canada)
October 17, 2000
U.S. buttinskyism
Letter
STEVE GOWANS
Nepean, Ont. -- After allowing that Western oil companies have more than
$50-billion (U.S.) invested in Azerbaijan and that the country's oil
reserves are potentially a vital source of supply for the United
Hmm, the Eurobourgies seem to be getting their act together at last. Here
are official short-term interest rates, minus CPI inflation and minus per
capita GDP growth (giving a growth-adjusted proxy of the tightness of
monetary policy) for the US, EU and Japan in the 1990s. Note the
unprecedented
Doug just posted this to LBO. I'm reposting it here out of
self-interest since Democracy Now is a staple in my political education.
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 21:44:53 -0700
From: Eileen Sutton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: AMY GOODMAN UPDATE
Free-Speech Comrades:
I spoke to Amy Goodman tonight.
PRESS RELEASE
NEW YORK -- Gus Hall, long time Communist Party leader, died Friday Oct.
13 in New York City. He was 90.
Hall was one of the most famous American communists. He led an
extraordinary life of working class activism and was a participant in
nearly all of the most important social
I don't recall if this was posted before, so
here it is anyway.
max
Dear Colleagues,
Last year, ICARE (International Confederation of Associations for the
Reform of Economics) undertook an effort to query AEA officer candidates
on
their positions regarding pluralism in economics.
Here is
So how did Slovenia resist the neolib virus? Social democratic
parties? Strong unions? A developed welfare state?
-- Dennis
Actually, the latest Z Magazine has an article by Michael Parenti that
describes the stubborn refusal of the Slovenes to go whole hog with "shock
therapy". Apparently this
THE DEBATES: TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN SCIENCE FICTION
By Norman Solomon / Creators Syndicate
Earthlings have continued a tradition of bizarre rituals during their
planet's current season. A columnist from the Galactic Syndicate provides
this analysis:
From afar, we may be inclined to smirk at
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What is so special about hobbies like hunting and sport that elevates
people to a special status in this country, whereas work or protecting work
conditions does not. In fact, protecting workers' interests will not even
get you the public benefit status
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Ken is correct. The article tells nothing think about the qualities of GM foods
in themselves. But it does tell a lot about the companies which have the
responsibility for overseeing the quality of the food.
Ken Hanly wrote:
This doesn't shed any light on GM crops. It shows that ADM is
Date sent: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 08:38:27 -0700
From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:[PEN-L:3248] Re: Milosevic and privatization
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Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have another question
At 12:22 19-10-00, Martin wrote:
The thing that I might find
distressing would be if a lawyer was needed -
and the same disparity in weighted value of hours exists. A lawyer could
get hundreds of hours of labor for a few hours of labored
citations.
Those who get paid in Ithaca money are
Lisa Ian Murray wrote:
This seems to be a gaping hole in left prescriptions for organizational
change at the micro and macro economic level. What would socializing IBM or
UPS, or McDonalds for that matter, look like?
As opposed to small, locally owned enterprises? What would
socializing
At 12:22 19-10-00, Martin wrote:
The thing that I might find distressing would be if a lawyer was needed -
and the same disparity in weighted value of hours exists. A lawyer could
get hundreds of hours of labor for a few hours of labored citations.
Joanna wrote:
Those who get paid in Ithaca
I am reading Bernstein, Peter L. 2000. The Power of Gold: The History of
an
Obsession (NY: John Wiley Sons).
Maybe some of you with more historical knowledge will find this book too
superficial, but it is filled with fun stuff.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State
I've been exchanging email with Mark M. Smith, the author of "Debating
Slavery". According to Smith, the debate is mainly between "Marxists" like
Eugene Genovese on one side and non-Marxists like Fogel, Engerman, and
Oakes on the other. The former tend to put forward the notion that the
"'To-Day' has become a mere 'symposium', i.e. a review in which everyone
can write for and against socialism. Next No. a critique of 'Capital'! I
was supposed to reply to this anonymous writer, but declined with
thanks."
-- Engels to Kautsky, Sept. 20, 1884.
The critique in question was titled
As I recall this devastating critique of Marx, Wicksteed concentrated on
Marx's lack of the theory of rent. I suspect that he never saw volume 3.
"'To-Day' has become a mere 'symposium', i.e. a review in which everyone
can write for and against socialism. Next No. a critique of 'Capital'!
At 05:49 PM 10/19/00 -0400, you wrote:
I've been exchanging email with Mark M. Smith, the author of "Debating
Slavery". According to Smith, the debate is mainly between "Marxists" like
Eugene Genovese on one side and non-Marxists like Fogel, Engerman, and
Oakes on the other. The former tend to
Charlie Andrews' book FROM CAPITALISM TO EQUALITY ends with two very
interesting chapters on how a "Labor Republic" would be organized. His
utopia is very interesting because he is quite conscious of pro-capitalist
criticisms of his scheme. So far, it makes a lot of sense. BTW, following
his
RE
non-Marxists like Fogel, Engerman, and
Oakes . . . . tries to show that
the plantation system was both
profitable and efficient on capitalist
terms.
I believe that current mainstream thought on
slavery is that:
1) slave holders wanted to make money but they did
not seek the highest
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I don't know what the contemporary take on it is, or even to what extent
it can be considered Marxist, but when I was an undergrad eons ago, I read
Industrial
Slavery in the Old South, 1790-1861: A Study in Political Economy by
Robin Starobin. It was quite an eye-opener to me at the time.
Peter
At 04:44 PM 10/19/00 -0700, you wrote:
I don't know what the contemporary take on it is, or even to what extent it
can be considered Marxist, but when I was an undergrad eons ago, I read
Industrial Slavery in the Old South, 1790-1861: A Study in Political Economy
by Robin Starobin. It was
Based on who you would vote for today, here are the current percentages:
Nader 58.79%
Bush29.79%
Gore9.17%
Buchanan1.89%
other .33%
http://www.time.com/time/campaign2000
Louis Proyect
Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org/
So this shows that Nader supporters are all tuned in to netvoting and have
lots of time to repeat votes. Yeh. I voted for Nader. First US election I
ever voted in.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
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From: Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday,
Michael Perelman wrote,
As I recall this devastating critique of Marx, Wicksteed concentrated on
Marx's lack of the theory of rent. I suspect that he never saw volume 3.
Volume III was published in 1894, Vol. II in 1885. Therefore, Wicksteed
could only have seen Volume I.
Ken Hanly wrote,
So this shows that Nader supporters are all tuned in to netvoting and have
lots of time to repeat votes. Yeh. I voted for Nader. First US election I
ever voted in.
I voted twice (just to check to see if they had any device to block
repeat voting). I'm not going to tell you
Ken Hanly wrote,
I voted twice (just to check to see if they had any device to block
repeat voting). I'm not going to tell you who I voted for because its a
secret ballot, eh? What struck me was that the number of votes
registered was over 1,000,000. Watch out for RSI, Nader fans! Having
said
This is appalling.
The Institute for Public Accuracy received this today:
To: Pacifica Executive Director Bessie Wash and Board of Directors
From: Amy Goodman
Cc: Personnel File
Date: 10/18/00
CRACKDOWN ON DEMOCRACY NOW!
A few days ago, I was given a shocking
She claims that the large slave operations were efficient.
Field, Elizabeth B. 1988. "The Relative Efficiency of Slavery
Revisited: A Translog Production Function Approach." American
Economic Review, 78: 3 (June): pp. 543-9.
Hoffer, R.A. and S.T. Folland. 1991. "The Relative Efficiency of
The whole point of the book, as I recall, was to rebut the claim (most famously
voiced by the young Frederick Law Olmsted) that slavery was incompatible with the
transition to mechanized production. Starobin pointed out that there were at
least isolated instances of industrial production in the
If those few labored citations saved you from time in jail, or saved you a
lot of money in liability, or won you a lot of money in a settlement, well,
maybe it would be worth it. A lot of people seem to think that law isn't so
hard--as a friend of mine from my days as a philosophy professor
Michael wrote,
... claims that the large slave operations were efficient ...
Field, Elizabeth B. 1988. "The Relative Efficiency of Slavery
Revisited: A Translog Production Function Approach."...
Hoffer, R.A. and S.T. Folland. 1991. "The Relative Efficiency of
Slave Agriculture:
Today's Wall St. Journal has a front page feature on teaching economic
with romance and mystery books. I found the following paragraph
interesting. "The kids" are discerning.
Gene Coyle
Each year, about 1.4 million U.S. college students enroll in an
introductory
economics course. It's
Peter wrote,
So you could say that the deeper
question was whether slavery confined
the South to a plantation-based economy,
whether cotton or sugar or tobacco.
Bateman, Fred and Thomas Weiss, A Deplorable Scarcity: The Failure of
Industrialization Industrialization in the Slave South
At 07:00 PM 10/19/2000 -0700, you wrote:
Michael Perelman wrote,
As I recall this devastating critique of Marx, Wicksteed concentrated on
Marx's lack of the theory of rent. I suspect that he never saw volume 3.
Volume III was published in 1894, Vol. II in 1885. Therefore, Wicksteed
could
At 08:30 PM 10/19/2000 +, you wrote:
Michael wrote,
... claims that the large slave operations were efficient ...
Field, Elizabeth B. 1988. "The Relative Efficiency of Slavery
Revisited: A Translog Production Function Approach."...
Hoffer, R.A. and S.T. Folland. 1991. "The
At 08:34 PM 10/19/2000 -0700, you wrote:
Each year, about 1.4 million U.S. college students enroll in an
introductory economics course. It's "easily one of the most difficult
subjects to teach. It's advanced calculus in disguise," says Murray
Wolfson of California State University, Fullerton.
Justin Schwartz said on 10/19/00 7:28 PM
If those few labored citations saved you from time in jail, or saved you a
lot of money in liability, or won you a lot of money in a settlement, well,
maybe it would be worth it. A lot of people seem to think that law isn't so
hard--as a friend of mine
http://www.qut.edu.au/arts/human/ethics/conf/flat.htm
A relatively large number of references to distributional issues can be found
in Wicksteeds
non-economic works in this later period. It is of some interest to record,
for example, Wicksteeds
views of the distribution of income at about
Eric, isn't your critique true of a good deal of econometric work?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael wrote,
... claims that the large slave operations were efficient ...
Field, Elizabeth B. 1988. "The Relative Efficiency of Slavery
Revisited: A Translog Production Function
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/20/business/20TAX.html
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Absolutely, yes.
At 08:34 PM 10/19/2000 -0700, you wrote:
Each year, about 1.4 million U.S. college students enroll in an
introductory economics course. It's "easily one of the most difficult
subjects to teach. It's advanced calculus in disguise," says Murray
Wolfson of California
Does he tell how Irish workers were used when the work was too dangerous, since their
lives were worth less than the slaves?
Peter Dorman wrote:
The whole point of the book, as I recall, was to rebut the claim (most famously
voiced by the young Frederick Law Olmsted) that slavery was
Wolfson is the author of a pretty good book on Marxisn economics, btw. So
one wonders what he is teaching them, and what they are not believing. --jks
From: Eugene Coyle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: Pen-L Pen-l [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L:3288] WSJ on teaching
Michael, you are taxing my aging memory. I don't recall that particular detail, but it
sounds plausible.
BTW, I had heard that Starobin committed suicide shortly after writing this book. A
depressing topic indeed
Peter
Michael Perelman wrote:
Does he tell how Irish workers were used
Jim asks:
Murray
Wolfson of California State University, Fullerton.
isn't he the author of a worthless screed against Marxian economics?
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine
I haven't read his 1964 Reappraisal of Marxisn Economics in many years,
although I have
From the point of view of the working class (the margins) the lady with
the scale has taken a hike. When Alan G puts the brakes on, as someone
suggested earlier in the thread, he'll use the law to effect his agenda.
The exchange in hours between lawyer and defendant will be
counter-productive,
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