Dear Doug,
This reply has nothing to do with your latest contribution, in fact, it's a
repeat of one trhat I sent from home (excuse the duplication, but I wasn't
sure if trhe home message got through, so am trying from work -
I've read your interventions on the various sutes with interest and
BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1996
RELEASED TODAY: On a seasonally adjusted basis, compensation costs in the
Employment Cost Index for civilian workers (private industry plus state and
local governments) rose 0.6 percent during the June-September 1996 period.
The March-June increase
At 3:24 PM 10/29/96, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The last book that Alejandro cites Dumenil Levy, The Economics
of Profit Rate, does not show a downward trend from 1869 to the
present. Rather, the data show a pattern of the following sort:
"Considering the trend of the accounting profit rate, th
At 10:43 PM 10/29/96, Doug Henwood wrote:
After much languishing in darkness and neglect, the LBO website
(http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home) has now been much upgraded. A bit
snazzier, easier navigation, and more content.
Duh, that's http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html.
Sorry.
At 11:00 PM 10/29/96, Ajit Sinha wrote:
As far as your comments about multiculturalism being nothing but pluralism
and deconstruction being "old idealism" are concerned, they seem as flimsy
as "yeah right". I remember, only a little while ago when a criticism of
your position was presented in
The master of the theology of the dematerialized market is George Gilder.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 916-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phew, some letter! Well, I am certainly glad that aiusa did not oppose the
unionization of its staff. It would, however, be interesting to find out
some of the history of the debate just for general discussion. Obviously
there was some sort of 'felt need' because a large number of staff signed
Is this the same George Gilder who defends regressive taxation as a boon
to the poor since it motivates them to get into higher tax brackets.
This doesn't seem very dematerialised. No doubt Shawgi could tell us that
it is in the material interests of those who are well off!
Cheers, Ken Hanly
In reference to my citing of Dumenil Levy's research, Doug
says: Weird periodization here. From the 1910s to the 1940s -
what happened during the 1920s and 1930s, very different and very
important decades both of them? And what happened between 1951
and 1989? Any pattern to profit in the
Krugman wrote a terrible and uncritical review of Pete Peterson's
latest garbage on social security in the NYT book review on Sunday,
Oct. 20 (I missed some pen-l around then so I don't know if anyone
has already discussed this). Anyway, among other stupidities he
blindly accepts Peterson's
On Wed, 30 Oct 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Phew, some letter! Well, I am certainly glad that aiusa did not oppose the
unionization of its staff. It would, however, be interesting to find out
some of the history of the debate just for general discussion.
Maggie,
As noted in my post, I
At 9:03 AM 10/30/96, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anti-intellectualism has a long lineage in America that rarely gets
mentioned in this now tedious debate. Economics qua economics is as
subject to the politics of expertise and the vernacular as is "discourse
analysis". This is why we need
Since I didn't want to go on on, I didn't make it as clear as I
should have. (1) I don't see the development of co-operatives as
a building socialism; rather, under capitalism they are a limited
way people can survive and sometimes get a better deal. (2)
co-ops under capitalism tend to be
Why yes, the same one, who was considered to be one of the inspirational
leaders of the good old Reagan days.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is this the same George Gilder who defends regressive taxation as a boon
to the poor since it motivates them to get into higher tax brackets.
This doesn't
I have been a supporter of AI but I am not going to contribute to any
organization that defends Taft-Hartley.
--Nathan Newman
Ditto.
Fikret
+Fikret Ceyhun voice: (701)777-3348
It has been estimated that over one million workers and other
employees did not go to work Friday, October 25 in Toronto. Hundreds
and thousands organized protest rallies in various parts of the city
and its suburbs. Toronto was effectively shut down. Such a thing
can only happen because the
Max, Michael, et. al..,
Thanks for filling me in on Krugman - this was my impression
before I read his Nov/Dec 1996, Mother Jones article (which I have as my
Mom got a subscription - I stopped some time ago due to , I believe,
similar reservations about its California like focus on
Just quoting Teresa Ebert there - and not a trace of "psychobabble"
visible, at least as I know psychobabble. If I wanted to psychobabble, I'd
ask in an oily voice, "What's the matter? Does her remark *threaten* you?"
But I don't psychobabble. Unless psycho-babbal is something different.
Doug
The profit rate question is forcing me out of lurker status. D. Henwood
has noted that Dumenil and Levy's periodization is weird as regards the
20s and 30s, and J. Devine points out they get these trends using
econometric techniques. I would be greatful to anyone who can comment on
these
How pleasant to have the warm agreement of Jim Devine when the external
environment greets me with minus 27 degrees windchill with snow squalls!
Here for general interest is most of what is called the Calgary Declaration
or Programme of 1932. This programme was replaced by the Regina Manifesto
of
Bill Burgess says: A fellow student who was less
econometrically challenged than I claimed the econometrics D and
L used ASSUMED the falling, rising, falling wave pattern for the
whole period, e.g. that it cuts out the fluctuations associated
with the roaring 20s, great depression and WW2!
German Metalworkers Strike
Source: Associated Press
BONN, GERMANY : More than 400,000 autoworkers, shipbuilders and others in
the metalworking industry walked off their jobs across the nation Thursday
to protest sick-pay cuts, union leaders said.
- The mass walkouts occurred on
Christian Task Force on Central America--URGENT ACTION-GUATEMALA
October 29, 1996
Dear Friends,
We received an update and request for urgent action
*Despite virtually no real progress on worker rights in Guatemala this
year, the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) is expected to end the
A colleague forwards the following question to me...Any responses from the
collective wisdom of Pen-L would be greatly appreciated!
What would prevent the U.S. from CONTINUOUSLY (PERHAPS SLOWLY) DEVALUING THE
DOLLAR on a de facto basis over the next decades so as to continue expanding
exports?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Casey and Borsody)
Subject: RELATIONSHIP STRETCHED BETWEEN ALP AND UNIONS
Comrades/Friends,
a report from me for those of you around the world interested in latest IR
developments Down Under.
STRAINS ON TRADITIONAL RELATIONSHIP
verne said:
Anti-intellectualism has a long lineage in America that rarely gets
mentioned in this now tedious debate. Economics qua economics is as
subject to the politics of expertise and the vernacular as is "discourse
analysis". This is why we need (political) public intellectuals, like Mr.
Chico hosted a conference for Telos. I used to read their journal in the
70s. Interesting left hegelian stuff.
They brought in paleoconservatives that made Newt seem progressive. The
editor for the Chronicles suggested that literacy be restricted to the
elites. Another called for the
bill mitchell wrote:
Doug said:
But really, we popular types should stay out of theory, right? The hell
with that. I had my first confrontation with theory at Yale in 1971, a very
early beachead for the French invasion. In continued with it at the
University of Virginia English department.
A prerequisite for giving any theory hell by critiquing it is first
*understanding* that theory. I haven't heard Doug give a critique of *any*
of the writers that he refers to. I have only heard him *dismiss* those
writers and their theories. Perhaps he does have a critique of
post-modernism but
I have a question I would like to address to the members of the
list. I raised this question in another list (REMI-L for REMI Economic
and Demographic Models) and received one interesting response. But the
other members of the list do not seem interested in the question.
If
From: Gerald Levy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A prerequisite for giving any theory hell by critiquing it is first
*understanding* that theory.
well... 'Understanding' denotes there is a certain 'logic'
underneath. What if there is any ? What if the so-called theory is a
non-theory, as
At 08:09 AM 10/30/96 -0800, you (Doug Henwood) wrote:
At least the WSJ is clearly written without being dumbed down to USA Today.
I think the awful writing style perpetrated by pomos is a legit topic not
only of criticism but of inquiry - just *why* do so many of them write so
badly? Why the
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