Neokeynesian-Neoclassical synthesis

2004-08-04 Thread Galapagos
Hi all, maybe it could be a silly question but I was wondering if the neo keynesian theory and the neoclassical synthesis are similar school of thought. Are not they ? Thanks in advance Galapagos

A Wave of (Israeli) Jews Returning to Russia

2004-08-04 Thread Chris Doss
A Wave of Jews Returning to Russia By Anatoly Medetsky Staff Writer Vladimir Filonov / MT As the Iron Curtain began to fall, Igor Dzhadan left the Soviet Union with his family, bound for Israel and a longforbidden opportunity. Dzhadan was luckier than most of the 11,000 Soviet doctors who

Marxmail connection problems

2004-08-04 Thread Louis Proyect
All mailing lists based on Hans Ehrbar's server, including Marxmail, are not functioning right now due to a system-wide problem in the economics department at U. of Utah. Will make another announcement when we have a handle on the situation. -- The Marxism list: www.marxmail.org

Re: The NY Times, the Democratic Party and Italian fascism

2004-08-04 Thread Chris Doss
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Re: What is the total wealth ?

2004-08-04 Thread Julio Huato
Carrol Cox wrote: I don't think estimates of total wealth tell one much. What counts for your purposes is the flow of material goods and services available at any given moment. Or perhaps the productive capacity if everyone were employed, but I doubt anyone could make even a wild estimate of that.

Re: Neokeynesian-Neoclassical synthesis

2004-08-04 Thread Devine, James
Economists never get together at conventions to standardize naming conventions, but in the vernacular there's sort of a family relationship between the neoclassical synthesis, neo Keynesianism, and new Keynesianism. the neoclassical synthesis arose after WW2, with Paul Samuelson: the idea was

Re: What is the total wealth ?

2004-08-04 Thread Daniel Davies
Julio H wrote: I cannot make an educated guess about net global income, so I'll just say it's 30 trillion USD. Global capital can be now treated as an annuity, which is very convenient because its present value formula is net income flow/r. To calculate the present value, we discount net income

Re: What is the total wealth ?

2004-08-04 Thread Julio Huato
In one of the last paragraphs of my previous posting, I wrote: Say, the labor force will grow at 4% per year in the future and per-capita income at 1%. I meant: Say, the POPULATION will grow at 4% per year in the future and per-capita income at 1%. Doug's figure is per capita, not per worker.

Russian left-wingers' linkup seen as step towards

2004-08-04 Thread Chris Doss
From the Putinoid press, owned by Boris Berezovsky. BBC Monitoring Russian left-wingers' linkup seen as step towards manageable opposition Source: Kommersant, Moscow, in Russian 3 Aug 04 The Motherland faction has announced its plans to coordinate its actions with the Communists in the Duma. The

1.9 billion of Iraqi money to US firms

2004-08-04 Thread ken hanly
$1.9 Billion of Iraq's Money Goes to U.S. Contractors By Ariana Eunjung Cha Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, August 4, 2004; Page A01 Halliburton Co. and other U.S. contractors are being paid at least $1.9 billion from Iraqi funds under an arrangement set by the U.S.-led occupation

Re: What is the total wealth ?

2004-08-04 Thread Devine, James
I'm glad that someone still remembers the CCC. Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine From: Daniel DaviesSurely this is the entire problem at the heart of the Cambridge CapitalControversy; you can't work out what the total amount of capital is withoutmaking an

Re: What is the total wealth ?

2004-08-04 Thread Julio Huato
Daniel Davies wrote: Surely this is the entire problem at the heart of the Cambridge Capital Controversy; you can't work out what the total amount of capital is without making an assumption about the rate of profit and vice versa. You caught me! Yes, you're absolutely right. My exercise is

Re: What is the total wealth ?

2004-08-04 Thread Jonathan Lassen
Sorry if this has already been quoted. ...when the limited bourgeois form is stripped away, what is wealth other than the universality of individual needs, capacities, pleasures, productive forces, etc., created through universal exchange? ... The absolute working-out of his creative

Re: What is the total wealth ?

2004-08-04 Thread Doug Henwood
Julio Huato wrote: Say, the labor force will grow at 4% per year in the future and per-capita income at 1%. Then, the next best alternative is expanding global net income at a rate of 5% per year. This growth rate is assumed constant (since there's no risk, no volatility). So that's the global

Re: What is the total wealth ?

2004-08-04 Thread Doug Henwood
Daniel Davies wrote: Surely this is the entire problem at the heart of the Cambridge Capital Controversy; you can't work out what the total amount of capital is without making an assumption about the rate of profit and vice versa. Yeah, but nobody cares about that anymore. It was an obsession of

Re: What is the total wealth ?

2004-08-04 Thread Michael Perelman
Right, they should teach that marginal productivity theory created economic justice because everybody got rewarded according to their marginal product. Sraffa proved that it was BS. Samuelson and others attempted to refute him, but were unsuccessful. Solow said that it was a tempest in a

Re: What is the total wealth ?

2004-08-04 Thread Michael Perelman
Of course, the current thinking is that it is human capital that is responsible for most of the productivity. Has anybody made a recent estimate of the aggregate human capital? On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 12:06:08PM -0400, Doug Henwood wrote: Another approach. According to the BEA, the value of

What is the total wealth ?

2004-08-04 Thread Charles Brown
Wow . Thanks Julio. I have to study your calculation more to understand it. What are the parts of this whole ? Like Max's Brooklyn Bridge. What proportion is fictional (?) capital ? What proportion is owned by the wealthiest individuals ? by Julio Huato I'm not sure I understand your

What is the total wealth ?

2004-08-04 Thread Charles Brown
I don't have the next thought wellformed, but don't the wealthiest people have to guarantee that they own a certain portion of the total wealth/social capital in order that it be capital with capital power ? If the bottom 6.28 billion people had a larger portion of the total, they could live

Re: Neokeynesian-Neoclassical synthesis

2004-08-04 Thread Galapagos
- Original Message - From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 4:04 PM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Neokeynesian-Neoclassical synthesis the neoclassical synthesis arose after WW2, with Paul Samuelson: the idea was that the government and the

Re: Neokeynesian-Neoclassical synthesis

2004-08-04 Thread Devine, James
Galapagos (who proves that no man is an island) writes: thanks for your reply.it's a pleasure. Finally, I have understood that both neo Keynesians and new Keynesians have a kind of common roots in the neoclassical synthesis. Could they be considered a kind of evolution of the neoclassical

poor old MF

2004-08-04 Thread Devine, James
From MS SLATE, Today's Papers (Aug. 4, 2004): The [Wall Street]Journal goes high with word the Kerry campaign's impending release of endorsements from 200 big businessmen. Many of them supported President Bush in 2000. "George is a really good guy personally," said one. "He had an

The Manchurian Candidate: The Return of the Repressed

2004-08-04 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
The Manchurian Candidate: The Return of the Repressed (If Fahrenheit 9/11 is a perfect filmic expression of the Anybody But Bush ideology of liberal intellectuals, The Manchurian Candidate unexpectedly -- despite the intentions of its creators -- serves as a cinematic vehicle for the return of the

Re: What is the total wealth ?

2004-08-04 Thread ken hanly
The BSers of the world have united. The revolutionary result is mainstream economics.. Cheers, Ken Hanly - Original Message - From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 11:38 AM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] What is the total wealth ?

Imam in Virgin Mary Drag in the Green Zone

2004-08-04 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Imam in Virgin Mary Drag in the Green Zone: http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/08/imam-in-virgin-mary-drag-in-green-zone.html.

Re: What is the total wealth ?

2004-08-04 Thread Daniel Davies
it is surprising what a man can understand when his pocketbook depends on him not understanding it, or some such. dd -Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael Perelman Sent: 04 August 2004 17:38 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: What is the total

Re: The Manchurian Candidate: The Return of the Repressed

2004-08-04 Thread Devine, James
it's interesting that in the Manchurian Candidate, neither a George Bush nor a Dick Cheney character appears. On the other hand, there's an evil senator who reminded me of Hillary Rodham Clinton and her son, who seemed vaguely like John Kerry because of the whole emphasis on his war-heroic

Re: What is the total wealth ?

2004-08-04 Thread Carrol Cox
ken hanly wrote: The BSers of the world have united. The revolutionary result is mainstream economics.. For many years I taught a course in ancient (greek) literature in translation -- including the Odyssey and the Oresteia. One of the problems was convincing the students that, yes, Homer (the

Wallerstein on the elections

2004-08-04 Thread Louis Proyect
Now here's something you don't see everyday. Olympian, long-wave, crypto-Hegelian, world-systems arguments for voting Kerry. http://fbc.binghamton.edu/142en.htm -- Marxism list: www.marxmail.org

Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression, Erratic Behavior

2004-08-04 Thread Robert Naiman
From Capitol Hill Blue Bush Leagues Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression, Erratic Behavior By TERESA HAMPTON Editor, Capitol Hill Blue Jul 28, 2004, 08:09 http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4921.shtml President George W. Bush is taking powerful anti-depressant drugs to

Re: Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression, Erratic Behavior

2004-08-04 Thread Carrol Cox
Robert Naiman wrote: From Capitol Hill Blue Bush Leagues Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression, Erratic Behavior By TERESA HAMPTON Editor, Capitol Hill Blue Jul 28, 2004, 08:09 http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4921.shtml President George W. Bush is taking powerful

Re: Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression, Erratic Behavior

2004-08-04 Thread ken hanly
Joyful gospel songs? Cheers, Ken Hanly - Original Message - From: Carrol Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 7:23 PM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression, Erratic Behavior Robert Naiman wrote: From Capitol Hill

Re: Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression, Erratic Behavior

2004-08-04 Thread Doug Henwood
Carrol Cox wrote: What in the hell would a weak anti-depressant drug be? White wine spritzers? Doug

Re: Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression, Erratic Behavior

2004-08-04 Thread Carrol Cox
ken hanly wrote: Joyful gospel songs? :-) Now that is really depressing. As a friend of mine in the local Depressive Support Group once observed, Just because you're crazy doesn't mean you're not also a jerk! There is no difficulty in demonstrating that Bush and his friends are one large

Re: Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression, Erratic Behavior

2004-08-04 Thread Devine, James
On US NPR's "Day to Day" today, MS SLATE's Timothy Noah reported that Fidel Castro talked about this ina recent speech, citing some of the same sources. (Noah's point, however, was that he respected Bush more than he respected Castro and that he wished that the latter hadn't cited one of his

Re: Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression, Erratic Behavior

2004-08-04 Thread Dan Scanlan
What in the hell would a weak anti-depressant drug be? A Democrat for president? Dan

Re: Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression, Erratic Behavior

2004-08-04 Thread Fred Feldman
Title: Message I actually think this kind of thing is wretched US bourgeois politics. The author of Bush on the Couch is a liberal psychiatrist who has never had Bush on the couch, never interviewed him, and has no deep and directknowledge of his mental state except for his disagreement