New Labour is preparing the ground for tax rises in Britain for the state
health system.
In the Critique of the Gotha Programme, Marx said that under socialism out
of the total social product that which is intended for the common
satisfaction of needs, such as schools, health services, etc
The Scottish Labour party is to the left of British New Labour. The
Scottish multi-party government has just introduced a law permitting
crofters to buy their land from the great landlords who depopulated so much
of Scotland 200 hundred years ago. It also gives whole communities the
right to
Given the somewhat unfocussed response we have had so far to
my suggestion, I am hereby proposing a more directed response.
List members who have a specific article/book to recommend write
a one or two paragraph summary/abstract complete with URL or
bibliographic reference as appropriate.
Carrol, post modern emerges with both transformations in modern art and
post-structuralist discourses. perhaps they merge in the 1960's with the
situationists, guy deboard,et al, the involvement of Henri Lefebvre with
a
political-arts movement that rejected orthodoxy of all forms, defined
Madrick writes: Good health care is fundamental to a productive work force.
But health
care is unequal in America, and inadequate for tens of millions. Nearly 13
percent of newborns do not survive to 60; in Canada, it is only 9.5 percent.
The most efficient way to protect Americans is through
Well, it is not perfect, but for the NY Times, it is great.
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 09:15:13AM -0800, Devine, James wrote:
Madrick writes: Good health care is fundamental to a productive work force.
But health
care is unequal in America, and inadequate for tens of millions. Nearly 13
percent
The largest business Chamber in Venezuala voted to hold a 12 hour
national strike on Dec. 10th.
Seems to me to be an echo of Chile in the early '70s. While the world
watches elsewhere, is there a program to destabalize/overthrow the
government in Venezuala? Anybody know what's going on?
Gene
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the appropriate level of democracy: that answers it.
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Ali's
Inequality
by Henry C.K. Liu
The World's Income Distribution: Turning the Corner? by J. Bradford
DeLong is dated February 2001, a month before the official date of the
currnet recession in the US. Still, his blind optimism can only be
explained that perhaps news of the collapsed of
Venezuela???
by Eugene Coyle
29 November 2001
The largest business Chamber in Venezuala voted to hold a 12 hour
national strike on Dec. 10th.
Seems to me to be an echo of Chile in the early '70s. While the world
watches elsewhere, is there a program to destabalize/overthrow the
government in
. . . what do you pacifists and fatalists and revolutionary defeatists
suggest be done? Just let them be? Act nice? Invite them over for
coffee?
This simply baffles me. All I can do is give a series of anecdotes,
fictional and actual.
The nice thing about problems/questions in many math texts
Devine, James11/29/01 9:15 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The most efficient way to protect Americans is through their employers.
I don't get where this last sentence comes from. Does Canada protect its
citizens' health through their employers? (rhetorical question alert!)
substantive issue overlooked
EURASIA INSIGHT November 29, 2001
RUSSIAN PLANNERS REEXAMINING GREAT GAME CONCEPTS FOR CLUES ON FUTURE
POLICY
Igor Torbakov: 11/28/01
The attempt to stabilize Afghanistan is sure to spawn new geopolitical
challenges for countries in the region. With Russian diplomats and
military advisors now
Number of Individuals Exhausting Unemployment Insurance Benefits Up Sharply
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
The number of individuals exhausting unemployment insurance benefits already up
sharply -- 735,000 exhaustees in third quarter up 42 percent from preceding
year.
Christian, excellent comments fleshing out the commodification of
situation-alist attempts at anti-commodification expropriation of their
work. Lefebvre may have been the Hegelian contribution about which you
mention, but there may also be possible links to Luckas the Frankfort
group,
Carrol Cox wrote:
. . . what do you pacifists and fatalists and revolutionary defeatists
suggest be done? Just let them be? Act nice? Invite them over for
coffee?
This simply baffles me. All I can do is give a series of anecdotes,
fictional and actual.
The nice thing about
Comment from Rudy Fichtenbaum:
I just skimmed over the article outlining Stigliz and Krugman's
critiques. Considering the fact that they are not Marxists I think
their criticisms are pretty significant. I think that on one level it
is probably worth supporting them because people will actually
I forward this because I believe it casts a sidelight on the question of
conspiracy theories. I have not read much about the specific case, but
such narrowly-focused conspiracies as is charged here are utterly
different in their political impact than the grander and more
spectacular kind of
I just heard an interesting comment from an interviewee on
NPR was comenting on the effect of Enron's fall (about which there has been
surprisingly little discussion on this list, speaking of projects btw).
This observer commented that Enron's fall could be potentially bad for
alternative
sigh, the ridiculous become sublime, or at least news, in this montage of
bizarre word spins of the USA power elite in their attempt to justify a
rather hodge podge of so-called policy to attack and destroy anything or
anybody anywhere that visibly and forcefully opposes its attempts at
hegemony.
When I was in China, the Marxist economist (and translator of the
nefarious Henwood's book Wall Street I might add) Han Deqiang used quote
after quote from Stiglitz in speeches he gave to university audiences to
debunk the adoration of the WTO in Chinese academia. There was another
person he
At 29/11/01 13:00 -0500,
the model neglects the fact that under globalized
finance capitalism, the savings of the rich are siphoned off to US
capital markets, draining the local economy of needed captial. This
increases the cost of capital for the poor economies which have to offer
returns
I wonder how Gene Coyle would respond.
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 11:44:51AM -1000, Stephen E Philion wrote:
I just heard an interesting comment from an interviewee on
NPR was comenting on the effect of Enron's fall (about which there has been
surprisingly little discussion on this list,
Michael Perelman writes: I wonder how Gene Coyle would respond.
good question: I'd like to hear his answer. BTW, it looks like the governor
of California, Grayest Davis, has really f*cked up. He locked in a lot of
long-term contracts to buy energy at what now turn out to be high prices,
since
Gar Lipow wrote:
Carrol - I think ...
We
need to be able to answer the question: what would you do if you were
in charge?.
I and others, on this list and elsewhere, have put the arguments against
this about as fully as they can be, so endlessly repeating them seem
futile. As I told
Max wrote
Somebody should do a number on how Krugman's
academic work deflates free trade theory/ideology.
It does and it doesn't. Krugman is a free trader because, and not despite,
of his academic work.
Krugman's work is similar to that for an optimal tariff in that it is
possible to,
We
need to be able to answer the question: what would you do if you were
in charge?.
I sometimes say this is what I would do if I were in charge (such as not
terror-bombing Afghanistan) but I immediately qualify this by stating that
it's impossible that such policies would be implemented
The probable demise of Enron will have no adverse effects on the environment
in my opinion. Enron did have a small wind farm but more for PR reasons than
fostering investment.
NRDC in the person of Ralph Cavanagh worked with Enron on legislation and
once, a couple of years ago, when enviros
Re the discussion of mainstream trade theory.
The ideological function of undergraduate trade textbooks is to argue for
free trade. But mainstream theory doesn't necessarily support this
perspective.
All changes in trade leads to winners and losers. Neoclassical welfare
theory has long
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-2001552748,00.html
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 29 2001
French strike threatens euro launch
BY CARL MORTISHED, INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS EDITOR
FRENCH bank workers are threatening to wreck the country's switch to
the euro by going on strike on the day that notes and
the latest issue of Ecological Economics; 39 (2) November 2001 has an
essay 'Globalization and Sustainability: Environmental Kuznets Curve
the WTO by Clem Tisdell [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Ian
In response to a post by Carroll, I said:
Weneed to be able to answer the question: what would you do if you were
in charge?.
Devine, James wrote in reply:
I sometimes say this is what I would do if I were in charge (such as not
terror-bombing Afghanistan) but I immediately qualify
I thought that we had put this to bed.
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 08:43:51PM -0800, Gar Lipow wrote:
In response to a post by Carroll, I said:
Weneed to be able to answer the question: what would you do if you were
in charge?.
Devine, James wrote in reply:
I sometimes say
http://europa.eu.int/comm/trade/speeches_articles/spla86_en.htm
The Multilateral Trading System and Global Governance after Doha
Deutsche Gesellschaft f. Auswärtige Politik (German Council on Foreign
Relations), Berlin, 27 November 2001
Delighted to be here today at DGAP to discuss where we
What about the idea of immiserating growth.
Bhagwati, Jagdish. 1958. Immiserating Growth. Review of Economic
Studies, 25 (June): pp. 201-5.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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All,
Hello. A friend of mine got this in The Sacramento Bee.
Seth
Other Views: A glimmer of hope for Palestinians
By Mary Bisharat -- Special to The Bee
Published 7:53 a.m. PST Thursday, Nov. 29, 2001
It was fall 1947 when I met my new parents-in-law, Sheikh and Mrs. Hanna
Bisharat, who
http://www.brookings.edu/views/papers/perry/20011024.htm
* New York Times 25 November 2001
For Tony Kushner, an Eerily Prescient Return
By PETER MARKS
LONG before Kandahar and Jalalabad became household words, before CNN
began familiarizing viewers with the hostilities between Pashtuns and
Tajiks, before Al Jazeera was reporting nightly on
Interesting call for the speedy introduction of bourgeois democracy in
Saudi Arabia. IHT Thursday.
The proposal came from Prince Walid ibn Talal, a billionaire investor.
Prince Walid said in an interview here that he was addressing the
politically taboo subject to augment what he called
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