Rawls no doubt had a liberal welfare state in mind when he wrote A Theory
of Justice but the difference principle itself does not necessarily lead
to the conclusion that a liberal welfare state is the way to go. Even
Rawls, who was initially very naive about actually existing economic
systems
of work most academics admire or are well-suited for.
At 09:52 AM 11/10/2002 -0800, Devine, James wrote:
Thad Williamson
writes:If the progressive wing of the Dems, such as it is, is ever to
reclaim the party they will have to establish a propaganda machinery to
match what the DLC and related
according to the Democratic Leadership Council-types, if a Democrat,
centrist or progressive, loses an election it's because they were too
liberal. If a centrist Dems wins election it's because they were centrist.
If a progressive Dem wins election it's in spite of being progressive. In
short
Dear Pen-Lrs,
Please circulate the following job announcement and/or inform interested
persons. We will be hiring two editors in the next few months, one to start
in May, the other to start no later than August 1.
thank you--
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In the same general department, there is a rumor afoot that the NY Times is
suppressing its own story it was getting to run about the Florida vote,
recount, etc., which would have shown that Gore won, in the name of nat'l
unity. I have no evidence this is so, just Word in the street.
Thad
With all due respect and with no love lost for the CIA, the three quoted
paragraphs below are totally ridiculous and unhelpful.
On the other hand, I read with appreciation a letter printed in the Boston
Globe saying simply this: The United States has long bombed, invaded, and
subverted the
)
(See attached file: STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF PALM BEACH VOTE.doc)
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National Center for Economic and Security Alternatives, Washington DC
www.fas.harvard.edu/~twilliam
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respect readers' intelligence.
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annually.
I too would be interested in sustained analyses of Makhijani's point and
proposals. It is a little mind blowing to think about.
cheers,
Thad
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Dept. of Government, Harvard University (Cambridge)
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t bizarre is the voiceover that came on as credits rolled: "Stay
tuned for a `King of the Hill' update...brought to you by The Gap."
Thad
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Excellent job on this--I was impressed. I've passed on the announcement
to an activisty list I'm on (the Other Economic Summitt). Great idea!
Hope you don't get too swamped with it, though.
all best,
Thad
See Stephen M Rosoff,Henry Pontell, and Robert Tillman, "Profit Without
Honor: White Collar Crime and the Looting of America" (Prentice Hall, 1998. This is a
study
in textbook form; ch.1 includes a rough estimate that costs of white
collar/corp crime are at least $250 billion a year. Covers
Dear Pen-Lrs,
This is a very sad and distrubing message from the former staff of
Covert Action Quarterly in Washington. Please pass on to other
interested parties and list-serves.
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Someone asked me over the weekend for the "Marxist-historical" analysis
of all this, with a wink. I said, half-facetiously, anything that
discredits the antidemocratic institution of the presidency and paves
the way for a parliamentary system is good. In Canada or UK Bill would
be out on his
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in which a market share
greater than 10% of the U.S. market is required to exhaust all scale
economies--to reach the lowest (technologically) attainable cost per unit.
Does anyone know how true this is?
Doug
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")
John Mateyko, Witness for Peace
Ray LaForest, Disney/Haiti Justice Campaign
Yannick Etienne, Batay Ouvriye (Worker's Struggle)
Silvia Federici, Hofstra University
with a scheduled cameo appearance by Doug Henwood, Left Business Observer
*Please forward this note to friends and activists in the
Dear Pen-L'rs,
Does anyone know of an easy reference source for figures on the GLOBAL
distribution of income and wealth, and historical trends in regard to each?
Both internet and paper references appreciated.
thanks,
Thad
Thad Williamson
National Center for Economic and Security Alternatives
For anyone interested in what students at basketball hotbed UNC-Chapel Hill
are doing re Nike and the university's contract with them, go to:
http://www.northcarolina.com/tarheels/thad101997.htm
cheers,
Thad
ives, 4: 3 (Summer): pp. 179-92 had a piece along these
lines. Does anybody know of anything more solid on this subject.
Thanks.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
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presentation relevant to pomo stuff, I would like to make
point that studying postmodernism can lead to self-reinforcing effects on
outlook to world (despair, depoliticization, etc.) and use the economics
stuff as parallel.
Thanks,
Thad
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National Center for Economic and Security Alternatives
Just went down this afternoon to the rally led by UNITE! and other labor
organizations to protest sweatshop conditions in overseas plants...the rally
took place just across the street from the Disney Store in Times Square and
featured frequent references to Michael Eisner and his $190 million a
ost Americans lives today in the
sense that is a sphere for self-determination when so many other spheres are
closed off to democratic self-determination (Cross, Miller, Norton.)
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the living conditions there, but
there was a different cultural ethos. The comparison with homeless people
in the US is not at all apt.
Thad
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Union Theological Seminary (New York)
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tal damage was a little too facile
for my taste but reasonable on the whole.
could be a good resource for small group meetings or classes. they said you
can order the video at 1-800-937-5387.
Thad
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than you would
assume by looking at how industry is presently structured. [i.e. that we
could decentralize to smaller industrial units if the capitalists didn't get
in the way, etc.]
Thanks for any and all help. Actually, even much older references would be
helpful too.
thanks,
Thad
Thad
of UPS that its employees own
that the strike would be over soon.
Who owns UPS?
How much does labor own?
--
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packers
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vea and in many ways admirable,
still
think abortion is a sin and march against it. The hypocrisy of religion
and its
own numerous and execarable sins against humanity helped me to become an
atheist
and nothing I have seen since has made me even begin to doubt that I made the
right decision.
to
reduce consumption, they must somehow reject the heart of capitalism.
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One more that hasn't been mentioned yet (I think):
Grapes of Wrath w/Henry Fonda, quite a radical movie with vivid
portrayal of migrant labor. Might go well alongside one of the
contemporary documentaries on labor conditions the UFW has.
Thad
On p. 3 of today's NY Times:
"Capitalism Poses a Moral Problem"
(It's an article about Poland.)
cheers,
Thad
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Union Theological Seminary (New York)
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ading list that would be accessible to the intelligent lay person.
Suggestions?
Paul Phillips,
Economics,
University of Manitoba.
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http://www.northca
Etzioni had a book in the early '80s on the need to reindustrialize America,
framed as a moral issue practically. it was not very progressive but not
reaganomics either. can't remember what his prescription was exactly.
the journal is actually called Review of Social Economy I think (or is this
ogressives or do more
organizing around issues. Instead, the strategy emphasizes a conscious
effort to nurture grassroots-level alternative economic institutions that
might be able to reconstruct, from the ground up, the experience of
democratic participation and the community-level sense that "th
al triumph on monday morning.
Thad
p.s. Nice to see some attention given, finally, to agriculutral workers,
also on p.1
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Thad Williamson writes:
Problem #1: For Alperovitz, a structural solution to the first problem
requires that firms must be able to "internalize" the externalities;
functionally, this means that they should be community owned, or own
Well I stand with Hahnel almost 180 degrees opposed to Proyect in this very
interesting debate on "utopianism", this posting is one of the funniest
things I've seen in a while. Congratulations, Louis.
Thad
At 06:13 PM 3/30/97 -0800, Louis N Proyect wrote:
On Sun, 30 Mar 1997, Robin Hahnel
ic debates in general.
A substantial (i.e. liveable) but not lavish stipend will be paid to the
person hired, and it is envisioned that the researcher will be credited as a
contributing co-author to the completed bibliography.
Interested applicants may contact Thad Williamson via email at
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nned/semi-market/decentralized socialism. The conference starts
Sunday at 1:30; unfortunately, the conference fee is substantial. Contact
Rick Ulfik (212-704-0888) for registration info.
Thad Williamson
National Center for Economic and Security Alternatives (Washington)/
Union Theological Seminar
expansion.) What's
the explanation(s)? Interest rates, mainly? More stable business climate for
investment? Something else?
cheers,
Thad
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National Center for Economic and Security Alternatives (Washington)/
Union Theological Seminary (New York)
212-531-1935
http
n analyses on the economy/current trends would be welcome.
(Yes, Doug, I do have the LBO site covered, but maybe you know other stuff too!)
Thanks much.
Thad
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Union Theological Seminary (New York)
212-531
Not to let him off the hook, but I was impressed with some of Stiglitz's
kind words regarding the success of collective enterprise in China in
Whither Socialism. The book as a whole is a corrective to privatization
mania, from within new keynesian discourse...
Thad
At 02:13 PM 12/11/96 -0800,
ren't the Democrates in majority in both houses when Clinton's health bill
was defeted? If so, then what are you talking about? Cheers, ajit sinha
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wn opportunity where blame
has to be laid at the door of the (non)candidate. If Ralph runs a real
campaign with real money, almost certainly he would have broken into the
scoring column. As it was, I think he only succeeded in reinforcing the
perceived quixoticness of 3rd parties on the left.
Thad
Thad
practical matter? What is to stop this strategy???
Thad Williamson
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Union Theological Seminary (New York)
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Can anyone direct me to existing proposals to reform, reconstitute,
restructure, abolish, etc., the Federal Reserve System?
Is this something taken up in your new book, Doug?
thanks much,
Thad
Thad Williamson
National Center for Economic and Security Alternatives (Washington)/
Union
to work woman stays
home" model, to the detriment of women's lives; but if you were to get
serious about changing the planning process, you'd have to change the
underlying structure of urban political economies, and from there you have a
clear argument into public ownership of land (etc.)
was being portrayed on Earth: extremists,
communists, vandals, saboteurs, reds, terrorists. Never the words *rebel*
or *revolutionary*, words of which half the Earth (at least) might approve.
No, they were isolated groups of insane, destructive terrorists."
Okay, that's all. I'm intere
yed on Earth: extremists,
communists, vandals, saboteurs, reds, terrorists. Never the words *rebel*
or *revolutionary*, words of which half the Earth (at least) might approve.
No, they were isolated groups of insane, destructive terrorists."
Okay, that's all. I'm interested in comments from others
or an integrated model that pulls together radical political economy,
ecological insights, and radical democratic thought.
(This is in fact, to add a self-serving note, what we're trying to at NCESA
and what will be discussed in the book-in-progress by Gar Alperovitz I'm
helping out with.
Whoa! sorry for sending previous message to the list.
Thad
y--William, Harvey, , McGeorge, whiich is sure to do plenty to
contradict Schlesinger's shameful quote in the Times re Bundy as a man
of "integrity".
Thad Williamson
I was just reading McGeorge Bundy's obit in the NYTimes, which goes into
considerable detail abo
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in the story is a
lot more ambiguous
Thad Williamson
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community as seen in the government-sponsored communal camp, the
conviction that the "people" will go on and on, and of course simply
the reminder that not 60 years ago such conditions existed
has there ever been a better left-wing film from Hollywood?
Thad Williamson
National Center fo
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er decades rots, people move, and in the meantime say Tuscon is
rapidly growing and requires major new infrastructural investments to
accomodate the migrants who are following the jobs) with not a great
deal of success.
cheers,
Thad Williamson
National Center for Economic and Security Al
of the alienation of labor would no doubt spark a rousing discussion on
this list.
Thad Williamson
National Center for Economic and Security Alternatives
Re Nafta reports, for a good critical view and reports, contact
Sarah Anderson at the Institute for Policy Studies, 202-234-9382.
Thad Williamson
Kari Levitt Polanyi, his granddaughter I think , runs a Karl Polanyi
Institue based in Canada. I can provide address tomorrow if desired.
Thad Williamson
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Feb 25 14:06:25 1996
Reply
is simply the appreciation of already
existing wealth, which would be another way to look at it.
I too would be interested in hearing from those who are on top of this
question more precisely.
best,
Thad Williamson
Dylan's Maggie's Farm is absolutely not an anti-labor song. Lyrics follow:
I aint' gonna work on maggie's farm no more (first line always repeats)
I wake up in the morning fold my hands and prary for rain
I got a head full of ideas that are driving me insane
it's a shame the way she makes me
the Pentagon but says "we're not
the ones to do it."
All in all, a nice little seminar on the limits of national politics in
an era of stalemate. Or to put it another way, yes, the bond markets
really do run the country.
Best,
Thad Williamson
National Center for Economic an
. Our ideal result would be to be able to
construct a century long data-set showing the trends in both pretax
and posttax/transfer income distributions.
Many thanks for any pointers you may have!
Thad Williamson and Gar Alperovitz
National Center for Economic and Security Alternatives
2040 S St
inheritance
practices but labor theories of value as well.
Thad Williamson
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Institute for Policy Studies
Washington, DC
imate in which John Maynard Keynes would thrive."
I think he's an honest guy but he represent the utter inadequacy of
liberal politics in the 1990s.
Thad Williamson
National Center for Economic and Security Alternatives/
Institute for Policy Studies
Washington, DC
I thought maybe this list
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