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for April 16 in Washington. Caravans are
Michael,
I suggest you cut this thread off before it becomes a total battlefield
between the politically correct and common usage types. I have
friends with Schizoid kids and it is quite terrible, but the kind of
political correctness that wants to eliminate the common usage
from discourse I
I must say, I have some sympathy with Max on this point. First of
all, I would argue that WTO type 'free trade' is bad for workers in
both the developed and underdeveloped countries. Quite apart from
the human rights issue, extending WTO to China would tilt the
balance of power within China
Any one who harboured any doubt that the NATO pusche in
Kosovo was anything other than an imperialist junket, allied with
criminal, drug-pushing elements, should read the article in the
most recent issue of *Canadian Dimension*, entitled "After Kosovo:
A marriage of heroin and war in the new
In response to Michael's plea for more economics ...
There was an article in Todays Winnipeg Free Press by John Cunniff attributed to Associated Press entitled "U.S. middle class fragile." He starts of by noting the popular assumption that America's middle class is secure and comfortable. He
I have always liked Polanyi's designation of labour (land and
money) as "fictitious commodities" because they are treated as if
they were commodities (bought and sold on the market) but which
are not produced for the purpose of selling on the market.
Mathew Forstater wrote:
1) is labor
Michael,
The Winnipeg Folk Festival brought in the Tuva singers a few years
ago and I had the opportunity to see them several times. In fact
they were so popular that the festival brought them back the
following year so I had the chance to see them once again. I have
never figured out how
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It may in interesting to look
It seems to me somewhat strange that the European countries that
bombed Yugoslavia and killed thousands of innocent civilians in
order to install a right-wing mafia government on Kosovo is now
bemoaning and trying to prevent a somewhat less predatory party
from sharing power in Austria.
Paul
Can anyone tell me why the US economy, reputably the strongest
and most vibrant (in terms of technological improvement) in the
world, is increasingly forced to dragoon its aged to work in order to
maintain the minimal (frequently poverty level) standard of its senior
citizens? Is this the
I thought the list might be interested in this.
Paul Phillips,
Economics,
University of Manitoba
Listing cultural genocide that KLA under KFOR protection is doing.
Are NATO leaders, in particular Sir Michael Jackson and Kushner,
engaged again in WAR CRIMES. Is the ICTY, (Hague Tribunal)
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This
We are introducing two new economic theory courses next year in
Political Economy -- one labled production and distribution (more or
less micro) and one labled employment, inflation and growth in a
global economy (i.e. macro). These are second year courses and
replace the standard
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In response to Bill's questions below, I would just like to make a
few observations as I don't have the time to respond in detail. It is
important to set out the region and the timing of land settlement.
In quebec, from which there was heavy outmigration particularly in
the second half of
Rod,
I took all my economic history from Fowke over a number of years
as well as my 'history of thought' and a graduate seminar in the
role of the state in the economy. I have also published several
articles on his life and times and on his economic thought. I also
was, in a very limited
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Thanks, Paul, for your excellent
Here is the last installment (Part 5)
Paul Phillips: Staples, Surplus, and Exchange
Implications for Interpretation
In the staple literature, little or no distinction is made between a staple
trade and a staple industry. Yet this is critical in resolving the seeming
contradictions
Part 4, Contd
First, my thanks to Louis for his posts on Louis Riel. Just a footnote or
two. Last I heard, a number of prominent Metis in Manitoba were
opposed to the private members bill that would exonerate and
rehabilitate Riel because it would, in effect, exonerate white society
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Paul. I have
Here is part 3:
Canada did not exist, either economically or politically, in 1850 when
Britain cut the British North American Colonies off from its mercantile
empire with the adoption of free trade. Rather it consisted of a number of
independent colonies with little or no economic or
The Canadian case: part 2
The "industrial revolution" in Canada originated, by and large, in
what is now Ontario, though in functional economic terms,
Montreal at this time can be thought of as part of the southern
Ontario economic system. Agriculture had been the staple
industry in
Jim, While this may or may not be true of the southern half of
North America, it was not true for the most part of what became
Canada, at least until the 19th Century (except in the east?)
During the fur trade era which, in the west lasted until the mid-19th
C and even later is some
Jim wrote:
I don't get this. I have not now and have never been a Canadian. Not only
that, but I'm not related to the former PM of Saskatchewan.
We can all be thankful for that. I he were Jim would probably be in
jail like half of his Conservative cabinet minister for fraud and all
sorts
Carrol Cox wrote:
Jim Blaut obviously is passionately devoted to nailing down the history
of technology and *seems* to me to disregard social relations. I think
techology is fairly important, but completely subordinated to transformations
in social relations. Our arguments whiz pass each
In parallel with the recent thread on the IMF, WB and other
international agenies advancing US imperialism, the following
appeared in the Can Assn of Univ Teachers Newspaper, "The
Bulletin" in the latest edition.
New Trade Rules Target Education
CAUT Bulletin,
September 1999
Education
I, like Michael, am among the 'greying' and soon to be retiring
corps of economics profs. I could have retired early but I haven't,
for two reasons,: one, I still love teaching, and my students still
give me high marks on their teaching evaluations -- plus I have a
wonderful crop of
In the discussion that followed the query on the 'acceptableness' of
SLM theory within the orthodoxy, no one thought to mention the
major contribution of Michael Piore to the development of Dual and
Segmented labour market theory. I would refer particularly to his
book with Doeringer,
Jim wrote:
This fits with my reading of what happened in the US. One reason for the
increased conservatism of the AFL during the 1920s, for example, was that
as it shrank, what was left were only small building-trades locals (and the
like) which were best able to withstand the slings and
Jim,
We should also look at the bright side of the Bolivianization process. The
decrease in worker insecurity -- corresponding to the shrinkage of the
importance of the "good jobs" in the primary sector -- also means that
employees are less loyal their employers and thus perhaps more
I think that it is probably safe to say that we all agree that the
neoclassical concept of competition is bankrupt in the sence of
implying any concept of maximization or dynamic of investment.
What is curious is that concept seems to have almost a mystical
power within the othordoxy despite
Ajit wrote:
I personally do find the idea of 'normal profit' of neo-classical economics to
be extremely difficult to get hold of. Normal profit is a notion related to the
long run situation under a perfectly competitive market structure. Now, if we
accept the neo-classical marginal
Louis wrote:
The issue is ECONOMICS. Milosevic wasn't ready to turn over the
keys to the
country to western banks. I am surprised that PEN-L'ers have done so little
to dig into this question. Except for Paul Phillips who has a vested
professional interest in Yugoslavia from what I can
Right on Bill,
and I am beginning to wonder when Germany will begin to realize
that it is the biggest loser in the war on Yugoslavia since it is
designed to consolidate American control at the expense of
Germany and France. This of course explains toady Blair's going
along with the US since
At the public meeting I spoke at on Saturday against the war on
Yugoslavia, the speakers (other than myself) included Michael
Bliss, the Canadian historian who is usually associated with the
political right but is opposed to Canada's "ready, eye ready"
response to US international policy
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