In the 18th Brumaire, Marx wrote of how the despotic Bonaparte regime had
to search out new sources of political legitimacy, for instance, through
the "hallucination" of the revival of the Napoleanic empire.
America now imagines that it is feeding the hungry in Somalia, enforcing
the
I apparently have offended Brent McClintock and my old friend
Jim Devine by saying I thought their arguments were weak. Sorry
about that. In the case of Brent, I don't see how pointing out
that an anecdote is an anecdote is "condesending," but sorry
anyway. As for Jim, I did, and do
I've been itching to get into the very interesting "P/A social
conscience" discussion initiated by Jim Devine, but I've been hung up
with other duties. Since as a result many posts on the subject have
already flown by, I won't attempt a close response to the various
issues, but here are
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1. In Jim's opening remarks, he says "[Roemer's] scheme doesn't seem
to deal with the principal/agent problem any better than capitalism
does."
I believe that Roemer's position on this is
that his version of market socialism won't
I would like to second many of your observations about John Roemer's
"vision" of a coupon economy -- I am reluctant to call it "coupon
socialism" even though I no longer am anxious to use the label "socialism"
for the kind of participatory economy I favor. In the case of Roemer's model
I think
Good jobs lacking even for skilled:
EDUCATED POOR ON RISE, STUDY FINDS
-- by Gay Abate
Higher education is becoming less of a
protection against poverty than it used to be,
says a new study which found that the number of
poor families in Canada in which salary earners
have a
While Bob Pollin "urged Jim Devine to look more carefully into the Roemer
model before being so dismissive," I would urge Bob Pollin to read Roemer's
book more thoroughly before endorsing the model. Pollin writes: "capital
assets have been evenly distributed, so that all non-wage income is evenly
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Jim Devine points out that the greater atomistic individualism, the
more serious principal/agent problems become and the greater the degree
of social conscience the less seriuos p/a problems will be. Doug Henwood
asks "how do you begin to encourage cooperation and a social conscience
in a society
So, after reading his five messages, I gather that Robin Hanel
isn't taken with Roemer's model or Romer himself (more on that in
a bit). Since Robin asked, let me briefly clarify my position.
1. I never "endorsed" Roemer's model. The term itself
strikes me as totally
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