An article by Andrew Goetz in The Journal of Transport Geography, March
2002 does a pretty convincing job on US airline deregulation. Among other
things, he notes that because of the economics of hub and spoke
routing/scheduing, one airline has come to more or less monopolize each
regional hub,
capitalist economies)? When the new economy bubble really bursts
and the relative prices of 'real' goods rise? won't there still be a very
large base for this increase in 'value'?
Bill Burgess
At 04:34 PM 15/08/2003 -0700, you wrote:
I have a question about the U.S. economy and a comment to make about
Hey Tom
I'm teaching Mike Lebowitz's old Marxist economics course at SFU this
semester. Any chance you would enjoy coming to talk to 40 economics
students about the world-historic issue of shorter work time on a Tuesday
or Thursday between 1.30 and 3.30? I can't really offer any benefit other
Apologies for mistakenly sending a message to Pen-L, but the result was
making making contact with others doing courses on Marx, so I don't feel so
bad.
Bill
Apologies, important sections were somehow excluded from the text that was
previously forwarded:
International Conference The work of Karl Marx and challenges for the
XXI Century - Second Call for Papers
The Institute of Philosophy of the Ministry of Science, Technology and
Environment of
Forwarded on behalf of Mike Lebowitz [the attachment is reproduced
below]:
Dear Friends and Comrades,
Attached (this time it should open!) is an announcement of a
conference next May in Havana which I have been helping to organise.
The
theme, Karl Marx and the Challenges of the 21st Century,
At 01:04 PM 12/2/2002 -0500, Louis quoted:
Maquiladora workers receive wages considerably below those paid to
non-maquiladora manufacturing workers.
What is it about the stats I've seen quoted by bourgeois economists that
makes it possible for them to represent the opposite as true?
Bill
neighbourhoods) as
an under-rated site of eco/class struggle. Louis P. describes such
criticism as 'brown Marxism', but I think that is off the mark.
Bill Burgess
At 10:24 PM 8/27/2002 -0700, Ken wrote:
Why is the distinction lost on you? Surely it is likely that the planet will
survive. The idea
. Would you chose this
criteria for valuation over mine?
Bill
Bill Burgess wrote:
IMHO it is important to put the USSR-Cuba economic relations in the
framework of the capitalist unequal exchange - Instead of subsidizing
Cuba, the USSR paid something closer to 'real' value of sugar
governments provide.
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.
Bill Burgess
I'm not
convinced by Irigarary that the _particular_ obstacle to better physics was
masculinity, but in any case, I don't see how the _general_ point about the
social construction of science and the rejection of pretensions to
objectivity is a (new) achievement.
Well, maybe the development of
I don't understand the physics, but wasn't Newtonian physics transcended
long before post-structuralism (by Einstein, a socialist, for one)? I'm not
convinced by Irigarary that the _particular_ obstacle to better physics was
masculinity, but in any case, I don't see how the _general_ point
of difference and commonality than we knew of
before?
Bill Burgess
Can someone name the main achievement of one author who has been dubbed
post-structuralist? It is much better to talk about one specific thing than
to go on and on about abstractions such as post-structuralism.
Achievement? Well, I
do you think about Charlie Andrew's
_Capitalism and Equality_ as a possible course text?
Bill Burgess
At 02:26 PM 09/07/2002 -0700, you wrote:
All,
I'm looking for a short book about Marx's
_social_ theory appropriate for undergraduates.
In the past I've used Berlin's biography, parts
Among others, I think the folks at the Canadian Centre for Policy
Alternatives have been producing stuff on this, but I didn't find a
specific title in my quick search at
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/bc/index.html. The BC government has set
up an agency to promote public-private
At 11:17 AM 21/04/2002 +0800, Grant wrote:
That wasn't my contention, which is more accurately that except for actual
formal/military imperialism, (e.g. Britain in India) imperialist and
imperialised have always been poles on a notional axis, rather than being
distinct and permanent things. I
from a smaller thief and
theft from non-thieves we will never stop thievery.
Bill Burgess
of
modern farming and manufacturing is corrected, and the bank-railway axis of
finance capital is made explicit.
Bill Burgess
At 07:51 PM 11/04/02 -0400, Louis P. wrote:
Warwick Armstrong, The Social Origins of Industrial Growth: Canada,
Argentina and Australia, 1870-1930, in Argentina
) does
an absurd regression between inherited wealth and variables like the level
of public debt and social assistance in various countries, but the data
they collect is generally consistent with a connection between ownership
concentration and social democracy.
Bill Burgess
At 07:06 PM 15/01
to accompany increases in per capita GDP.
It does seem as though the US is a bit of an exception to the general rule
-- that it is hard to prove the relation between health and inequality
through regression analysis.
Bill Burgess
to fixed capital, which
in turn is crucial to determining the fluctuations in aggregate demand. In
other words, I accept Keynes' emphasis on fixed investment.
Fair enough. If I can figure out where/how to get numbers for M, I'll try
to answer my question.
Bill Burgess
. It
only has an effect as part of a welter of different forces affecting K/Y.
I accept this, but isn't it striking that in the output and producitivity
data, a 2 industry tail has supposedly wagged the all-industry dog ?
Bill Burgess
computer prices have declined massively, the fixed capital numbers may not
reflect their service life. Another question - how much of computer-type
purchases are counted as fixed capital?
Bill Burgess
At 11:34 AM 27/12/01 -0800, you wrote:
For those interested, I recently gave a talk
at depicting these differences using maps.
Orfield has a new book out, _American Metropolitics_. I take it you are
looking at a rebalance in state-municipal financing while I think Orfield
focuses more on fiscal capacity within metro areas. However, I think the
general issues are similar,
Bill
of informal collections of
resources aimed at teachers of economics, teachers in other discipines, and
for use in other spheres?
Bill Burgess
the
addition of funds this week by the Fed was 20 times the normal amount.
Bill Burgess
At 12:51 AM 16/09/01 -0400, you wrote:
A question for Doug Henwood (Hi Doug) and others:
The New York Times reported on Friday that the Fed purchased government
bonds of $70 billion on Thursday (after buying $38
in
Canada and the US, including doing some aggregating of data to build up
SMSA-level data on local government finances. It's a nightmare, so if
anyone knows of similar efforts please contact me directly.
Bill Burgess
Bill Burgess
(on top of many issues regarding measuring health), but is this what you
have in mind? If so, can you cite a non-econometric-technical summary of
these problems, especially as they apply to health?
Bill Burgess
At 03:12 PM 24/08/01 -0400, you wrote:
I'll try to respond to this when I have
, of a
developed nation trying to deny Brazil the tools it needs to build up
companies like [Canada's] BombardierThe message being sent is that
Canada exports airplanes, Brazil exports coffee beans, and that is the say
it should stay.
Bill Burgess
At 10:05 AM 12/08/01 -0500, Ken wrote:
Sorry
My thanks to all who replied on and off list to my question about trade theory.
Bill Burgess
this issue, and that
quickly summarizes various other trade theories (e.g. 'new' trade theory)?
I'm filling in for an absent colleague in a second year class discussion
where these issues may come up.
Bill Burgess
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For a quick review of research on inequality and health check out
http://www.inequality.org/healthdcfr.html
Bill
The non-linear effect is examined by Wolfson et al. at
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/319/7215/953/DC1At. Their modeling
suggests it is not responsible for the observed relation between inequality
and health in the US.
Bill
01:54 PM 01/03/01 -0500, you wrote:
Doug,
I have not dug
sorry, try
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/319/7215/953/DC1 (BMJ 1999, 319)
If it doesn't work go to bmj.com (British Medical Journal) and look under
income inequality
At 08:40 PM 01/03/2001 -0800, you wrote:
This URL seems to be wrong.
The non-linear effect is examined by Wolfson et al.
true this can be 'fixed' with fancy adjustments to the regression
equation and results?
Bill Burgess
Wilkinson kicked a lot of this work off, using Luxemburg Income Study data
to compare inequality and mortality in a dozen or so countries.The data
points available then seemed to fit the income inequality increases
mortality relation, but data for additional countires that has become
recently discussed on Pen-L.
If anyone is working on similar points, please contact me to compare notes.
Bill Burgess
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 12:15:07AM +1100, Rob Schaap wrote:
G'day all,
I see the best-cities-to-live-in poll for the year is out. If memory
serves,
Vancouve
Brazil's jet dogfight
By MARK
MACKINNON
From Saturday's Globe
and Mail
Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil A sleek collection of
factories and office towers set against a
was
planned in Montreal.
Bill Burgess
At 10:13 PM 14/11/00 -0800, Michael wrote:
Let me ask a different type of question. Suppose Castro were to hold an
election. Suppose he had every intention of making it free and
fair. Wouldn't
it be a disaster? It would be open season for the CIA to try to do everything
it could to muck
At 12:36 PM 09/11/00 -0500, Norm wrote:
OK, health care is worse than in W.Europe and some don't have it at all in
the US, but it's far better for most US citizens than just about anywhere
else.
Far better for most US citizens? I doubt this.
But more to the point - why is _health_ in the US so
tween
the two kinds of relations with bigger-power imperialism has long been a
key failing of socialism in Canada (and I think the same applies to
Australia and New Zealand).
Bill Burgess
entina did not,
despite its formal political independence. Many apply to the club. Only a
few are allowed in.
I think the (pomoCanadian?) attitude of being "at the margins" reflects
_envy_ of major imperialist status.
Bill
Bill Burgess wrote:
Actually, Canada has often been compared t
It is rank nationalism.
If the complaint was that film production is less unionized in Canada than
in the US (I don't know if this is true) I could at least partly sympathize
with the comment about skill levels, job loss, etc. Otherwise, it is a
wonderful example of the arrogance that comes
Doug wrote:
This seems a bit overstated - not from the point of view of Argentina, but
the parallel to Canada. Canada may be under the shadow of the U.S., but it
is a rich G7 country and the home to major multinational corps and banks.
It is, vis a vis the outside world except for the U.S.,
This is too good to not pass on.
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The Globe and Mail Thursday, August 3, 2000
WTO's next challenge? Unfair use of sushi
By Jim Stanford
This just
Statistics Canada
The Daily. Friday, July 28, 2000
Income inequality in Canada and the United States
1974-1997
Income distribution patterns in Canada and the United States have diverged
during the
past 10 years despite free trade and increased economic integration between
the two nations,
billionaires in the latest _Forbes_ billionaire rankings, per
capita. Canadian residents still control 6 times as many corporate assets
in Canada as do US residents. Canadians hold more FDI in other countries
than foreigners own in Canada.
Bill Burgess
that manufacturing profits in
Canada did not equalize between places, and I think he and M. Webber have
shown the same for the US in their _The Golden Age Illusion_ . But perhaps
you are looking for equalization between (not within) sectors.
Bill Burgess
%, but that may be wrong).
Bill Burgess
At 12:20 PM 07/07/00 -0500, you wrote:
High prices are not beneficial to Canadian consumers. They benefit energy
producers many of whom are US multinationals. There is an ongoing battle
between ranchers and oil and gas producers. A recent bill
At 08:07 AM 28/06/00 -0400, Louis wrote:
Can the capitalist system resolve these [ecological] problems? This is a
theoretical
question that has challenged a wide variety of thinkers. David Harvey's new
book "Justice, Nature, and the Geography of Difference" argues that it can.
Harvey does
I forget who Simon's bet was with (Paul Erlich?), but it is undeniable that
better technology and higher relative prices can increase reserves of
non-renewable resources faster than they are depleted through the
outragious rate of consumption in rich countries.
For example, according to a
Just to be clear, I was not referring to the accumulated natural production
over millions of years (see below), but to the 'proven reserves' that are a
function of current technology and priceand world politics.
If Mark rejects the 'official' estimates of (rising) oil reserves I quoted,
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if I thought that what you wrote was correct, I would have to kill myself.
Bill
At 05:08 PM 19/05/00 -0400, you wrote:
Statistics
if I thought that what you wrote was correct, I would have to kill myself.
Bill
At 05:08 PM 19/05/00 -0400, you wrote:
Statistics
v Number of people in the world, (pop. 5.5 billion) that live in abject
poverty: 1.4 billion
v Number of people currently expected to die from starvation: 900
Sorry I was unclear. I was disagreeing with the positions quoted below
(which I attributed to Sam P), that Lenin and Trotsky were Eurocentrist in
politically important ways and that Stalinism = Eurocentrism.
Mine wrote:
Bill Burgess wrote:
it was Eurocentric
to expect a revolution in Germany
buted most, theoretically, organizationally and politically to the
fight against this problem, e.g. Lenin.
Bill Burgess
the
cardinal differences between the Stalinist policy of the Comintern in
China, Turkey and Indonesia and the 'Lenin-Roy' approach adopted by the
Third Congress?
Bill Burgess
At 11:42 PM 12/04/00 -0700, you wrote:
Carrol wrote:
My objection to the label "eurocentrism" is not to
. Again, my
question is whether the 'political economy of land' shouldn't occupy some
of the space usually given to the 'political economy of staples'.
Bill Burgess
public finance sounds too
important to have to wait for completion of your book. Can you give at
least a rough outline of the argument?
Bill Burgess
endous pressure on the federal government to buckle to
business's calls for tax cuts.
Same as above. But why not see this as some Canadian imperialists
successfully penetrating the biggest market in the world?
Bill Burgess
Madison (OECD,
1995). Since some of you probably know this area well, any comments on how
good these estimates are, especially Bairoch's industrial output in
physical terms?
Bill Burgess
R. Hilferding, 1981, _Finance Capital_, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul
At 07:56 PM 16/09/99 -0400, you wrote:
Speaking of Hilferding, anyone know if Finanz Kapital has
even been translated to English, and if so, how to get it
(the book, not the finanz kapital)?
max
Company:
"The Committee of the Society stated that the Indians were the real
producers of the huge wealth from the fur trade, estimated on competent
authority at £20,000,000, which had already gone to England."
Bill Burgess
rial firms are essentially
self-financing, using aggregate data. But as noted above, 'Wall Street' has
been gaining power. Isn't this a contradiction?
Bill Burgess
I wrote:
3% does not sound like much (assuming that figure is about right). But if
we assume that imports from non-industrial core countries are goods rather
than services, and that about 2/3 of GDP is services, a more relevant
figure for this discussion is 9%...
Bill Burgess
Brad replied
assume that imports from non-industrial core countries are goods rather
than services, and that about 2/3 of GDP is services, a more relevant
figure for this discussion is 9%, without considering unequal exchange.
Bill Burgess
who were Punjabi and Chinese and women were
a) hired in the first place and b) promoted by seniority because our union,
however unevenly, opposed discrimination by race and sex.
Bill Burgess
his really the "kinder and more gentle" country our ruling class likes to
talk about?
Bill Burgess
be sold back to the parent corporation who would then
close it. They also said conditions had improved greatly since the the
organizing drive.
Bill Burgess
ntral social fact and affirmative
action is a necessary part of overcoming the legacy of racism.
Bill Burgess
a wonderful opportunity in our classes to debunk
the concept of race, and I agree with Rod on that. Actually, I'd appreciate
more discussion on this issue of race as a category, so I can do a better
job on this than when I tried last semester.
Bill Burgess
I would greatly appreciate it if you would send them to me
directly.
Bill Burgess
to choose the best time to impose its own and so
entrench its position within Europe. I know the idea of inter-imperialist
competition is not fashionable, but it seems to me it is a necessary part
of any explanation.
Bill Burgess
by non-Indians. But where did Harvey do this?
Bill Burgess
non-human nature, a pretty large
qualitative difference.
If I read it correctly (I don't have it, so someone correct me if I'm
wrong) they are on the other side, i.e. with Engels, that nature, matter IS
dialectical, IS contradiction.
Bill Burgess
.
Bill Burgess
Right now, I am terribly behind schedule with lots of
deadlines and the fuss associated with the SA election next
Wednesday, so can't say anything original. But this debate
is very inspiring. When it emerged last year and Louis was
raving against "brown Marxists" I was mo
ed by Riel was touched off when Canadian surveyers began to
drive square grid survey pegs into the Red River long lots.
Bill Burgess
Barkley wrote:
French long lots are "feudal" and square-grids are
"capitalistic"? Give me a break.
The French long lots simpl
e of these points, but Louis' version is a gross
exaggeration.
BTW, I thought the related thread on the contradiction of academic writing
and politics is worth discussing more in a forum like Pen-L. My take on
this is to try to remind myself every day to not confuse my academic
activities with advancing left-wing politics. How do others view this?
Bill Burgess
because this is another edition of the white mans' burden.
My 'plan' is: Stop the imperialist war on Yugoslavia, '30 for 40',
affirmative action, and cancel the third world debt.
Bill Burgess
At 04:04 PM 13/05/99 -0400, Tom L. wrote:
What we do here sets the standard for the rest of the world!
This is partly true, but when linked to various protectionist-like schemes
it really means "we" come first, which is not a sound basis for
international solidarity.
Bill Burgess
orld domination, is transposed
upon their respective working classes as well. The war opened the eyes of
German social democrats to this fact, that historically considered, it is
still too early to speak of an international solidarity of the working class."
Bill Burgess
d
opposition to social service cutbacks, unemployment and the like - which
were part and parcel of the resort to market mechanisms, reliance on
imperialism and so on. As always, national and social demands are mixed up
togeather.
Bill Burgess
c
tensions. It is ABC that social factors are the real underlying issue.
Bill Burgess
form without
crystal-clear assurances of national rights, which include the right to
make the occasional 'wrong' decision.
Bill Burgess
.
Any thoughts on why the output and productivity growth in these sectors is
so great compared to others? How much of this is real? Was there some shift
in the data methods or industry definitions?
Bill Burgess
Estimated # of persons killed:
In Iraq due to US-led
sanctions: over
1,000,000
In the Sudan over the
past 15 years:
1,500,000
In Rwanda over the
last 5 years: 500,000
In Chechnya: 80,000
Around the world
each day because of
lack of water, clothing,
shelter, food or
medicine:
by NPR.
What's "objectively anti-imperialist" about this?
Bill Burgess
be a step forward. In
the old Yugoslavia, national equality was very much a "top-down" process.
I completely agree with the idea that we should push for our governments to
allow in Yugoslav and Kosovar victims of the war.
Bill Burgess
irst" line and Buchanan's
"economic patriotism"?
What is the difference, really?
Bill Burgess
Left off this list is what would have been included a few years ago -
NATO/US encirclement of Russia, military backing for the restoration of
capitalism. I don't think we can assume this has already happened, and
reduce our political analysis of war!!! in Europe!!! to ratings and stupidity.
Bill
Louis, can you elaborate on your post about Harvey and Leibniz and material
destruction of the earth? I don't understand the attention he gives
Leibniz; my eyes glazed over in these sections of the book.
Bill Burgess
ere is news coverage of Native struggles
every day; a couple of decades ago it was the silence of the grave. Racism
remains a central problem but let's not forget the progress that has been
made and how it happened.
Bill Burgess
ine racist attitudes
of fellow white workers by explaining it is because we fear castration.
Does this really work? Like, where?
Bill Burgess
At 06:20 PM 13/02/99 -0800, Tom W. wrote:
There's one point that I would differ with Bill on.
I agree that left nationalists have offered a lot of tactical advice. But I
think "fighting" the bourgeoisie is too pugilistic and indiscriminate a term
for what the left should be doing. The left
ical tactical advice
on how to be a better bourgeoisie - invest more in R and D, become more
competitive in world markets, etc., instead of figuring how to fight the
bourgeoisie. Maude Barlow and the Council of Canadians is more of the same
pie in the sky.
Bill Burgess
m much too far in the other direction.
Bill Burgess
I was wrong in suggesting that the innoculations I mentioned before were
for smallpox or polio; my parents thought it was "BCG", which is aimed at
TB, tetenus and typhoid. Apologies if I muddied the waters on this question.
Bill Burgess
for, they got infected, and
left nasty scars.
Bill Burgess
At 09:06 AM 03/02/99 EST, you wrote:
The use of religion to mark Pikanii Children in Canada for the depths of
hell.
Copyright 1999 by Long Standing Bear Chief
"Judgement is prepared for scorners, and st
his argument. Hasn't this approach, including the definition of "dumping"
imposed by rich countries, proven to be a reactionary dead end for the
labour movement?
Bill Burgess
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