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Thanks, Fikret, for your very informative posting and the refrences.
My scepticism about the Regulation School concerns mainly the
political economy towards which its Paris wing have tended. I found
Aglietta's original work extremely valuable, especially as a
contribution to the 1970s effort
Sorry, I accidentally sent my last posting before it was complete...
To continue: The second problem with the debates over the new
post-Fordist regime of accumulation /or mode of regulation is that
most of the regime/mode prognostications assume that the arena in
which the new social forms
Here are two recommendations: an article and a web service. The article is a
transcript of an address by Kari Polanyi Levitt's to the fifth annual
conference of the Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy. It was
published in the June 1995 issue of Monthly Review. It is available online
What's the scoop on Chris Sciabarra? Is he some kind of ultra highbrow
utopian libertarian? Is he just explaining Hayek to the Marxists? Or is he
another hippy capitalist academic riding the global fin de siecle serf? I've
been browsing web traces and he seems erudite and elusive. Are we going
I've never tried those little oxgen bags but sure they _were_ available
at kiosks several years ago. Today no one can remember what it was.
On Mon, 4 Dec 1995 20:08:49 -0800 Paul Z. wrote:
Jim, It's been available in Tokyo for a long time--in kiosks on the street
(so I hear). Paul
On Mon, 4
At least in Mexico City nobody sells oxygen for this purpose. Not that I
know, and I live here and breath smog every day (it has some taste,
anyway)...
Macario
Tom Walker wrote:
What's the scoop on Chris Sciabarra? Is he some kind of ultra highbrow
utopian libertarian?
I don't think so.
Is he just explaining Hayek to the Marxists? Or is he
another hippy capitalist academic riding the global fin de siecle serf? I've
been browsing web traces
And the next step, as a campaign fund raiser, Newt and the Newtites are going
to be bottling and selling hot air. maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Riccardo Bellofiore wrote:
I have doubts on the second problem raised by Hugo. First,
I think that Aglietta C. are not guilty of a strictly
'national' orientation (as Hugo himself aknowledges): they go on
analysing the arena of 'regional' supranational capitalisms, taking into
account
Maggie wrote:
And the next step, as a campaign fund raiser, Newt and the Newtites are going
to be bottling and selling hot air. maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Clinton and the Democrats have been bottling and selling hot air for some
time, Maggie. In preparation for the next presidential
Hugo Radice is on the mark in critiquing the RS. In extending this
critique, I want to point out where the RS starts messing up things is on
"post-Fordist" regimes. This is where the lean production stuff comes
in. I read a translation of Boyer. He had this nice little chart, where
There were kiosks that sold "oxygen cocktails" in many cities in the former
Soviet Union as well...
Bill Brown
University of Alaska
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Hugo Radice has called into question the claim that a transition to flexible
specialisation and lean production is occuring. I think it is important to
distinguish these two forms of organization. Flexible specialisation refers
to a model of networks of small firms bound together in relations
They are cuts in the growth of the program over time. Usually inflation and
other increases that are expected to occur are projected and included into
future budgets; these expected increases in future budgets are what will be
cut. Given that the baby boomers will be aging and shifting into
Tony:
For an account of "lean production" in the world automobile industry, see:
-- James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones Daniel Roos _The Machine that
Changed the World_, NY, Rawson Associates, 1990 (this work is based on
the MIT multi-year study on "The Future of the Automobile").
For a
Jerry;
touche'
maggie
I hope that I did not learn what I am about to write from this list, but
I'm pretty sure that I did not.
One part of the "cuts" rhetoric that is not getting much mention is how the
numbers are being added up, i.e., no matter how you define a "cut," what
does it mean when you describe a bill as
In his address [mentioned in another post, Kari Polanyi Levitt mentions Eric
Helleiner's analysis of global finance. Here is an excerpt from a review by
Virginia Haufler of Helleiner's _States and the Reemergence of Global
Finance: From Bretton Woods to the 1990s_, published in American
I would like to make one point and then respond to two posts directly.
First, I think the basic points about cuts that people are making are
important and correct. However, there is actual "cuts" (services
eliminated) in the current round of House proposals. The House is proposing
(or already
For those interested in the relation between struggles and theory,
there is a good critique of the regulation school in light
of the Italian class composition school written by
Giuseppe Cocco. "Croissance et crise du fordisme en Italie. Une
Analyse comparative des approches en terms de
Date: 4 Dec 1995 10:33:40 -0500
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PRIVACY WATCHDOG OUTS BIG BROTHER COMPANIES
IMF PRESSING OTTAWA TO SLASH BILLIONS MORE IN DEFICIT
FIGHT
OTTAWA -- The International Monetary Fund has been
pressing the federal government to impose draconian
spending cuts that would take billions of dollars a
year more out of the pockets of the unemployed, the
elderly, the sick, and even
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Legislative Update - Monday,
Thanks to Sid, as always, for posting the article on the IMF's
"recommendations" to Canada.
I do have a question, though. I hear a lot of Canadian lefties decry
austerity, and I'm certainly with them on that, but I rarely hear them say
anything about Canada's debt problem. It's real, isn't it?
I tend to agree with most of the posts from Doug Henwood. I tend to agree with
most of the post from Paul Zaremka. Hence, the recent disagreement between
Comrades Zaremka and Henwood -- to the point of irritation of Brother Paul
-- created an existential crisis of the higher order for me. :):):)
Patrick Mason presented a nice formal analysis of the minimum wage debate -
ending in not a crass but a deserved self-promotion - but didn't answer the
question - is it true for the US?
At 3:46 PM 12/5/95, Patrick L. Mason wrote:
[all that damn arithmetic omitted]
So, both Zaremka and Henvood
Pat Mason suggests if "capital intensity" has risen, then maybe
there isn't as much room as one would expect for a minimum-wage
increase despite increases in labor productivity. (That is, wages
can't increase as much as productivity without hurting the profit
rate.)
Doug Henwood wonders how
On writing assignment with tight deadline: anyone who has the latest
percentages of GNP and the CPI for the past quarters and projections for
the year? It would be appreciated.
Remember that an increase in minimum wages will encourage technical
change which will promote productivity.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 916-898-5321
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I think I have found an alternative explanation for the difference
between my conclusions and Doug's. Without looking up numbers of my own
and using Doug's 39.3% as the wage share, I realize that Doug is not
introducing unproductive labor into his calculations. Unproductive labor
is paid
While we're demanding an increase in the minimum wage, shouldn't we also
be demanding a COLA clause so that the minimum wage would be
automatically re-adjusted periodically to account for inflation?
Jerry
Tony, I agree on the distinction between flexible specialization
and lean production, as well as on the criticism to the former. Here in
Italy it has been seen as the miracle of the so-called Third Italy: it
has been greatly over-valued, though it has been 'sold' in English by
Sabel
On Tue, 5 Dec 1995 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tony:
For an account of "lean production" in the world automobile industry, see:
-- James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones Daniel Roos _The Machine that
Changed the World_, NY, Rawson Associates, 1990 (this work is based on
the MIT multi-year
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