I would like to say the same thing that others have said in a slightly
different way. Gramm and the other SS-bashers are making, at best, a
fallacy of composition argument. It *may* be true that an individual
can get a higher rate of return by playing the market than paying into
SS. (I will
Michael Perelman wrote:
We have not heard much from Yoshie for a while, but it seems that she
has been very successful in her efforts.
Yes, we've accomplished some goals. For instance, we nixed the
management-proposed merit pay scheme (in my view the biggest
achievement). Raises for OSU
Doug Henwood wrote:
Well, the class war is an aggregate of sorts, and central bankers
like Greenspan are very aware of the balance of class forces. A 3.9%
unemployment rate disturbs their sleep.
Speaking strategically of the class war as aggregate, the advantage goes
to the side who can best
Yoshie,
the most important part -- what have you learned
about Politics and Life?
mbs
. . . From a working class perspective, the principle
underlying NAIRU -- for example -- could be more accurately called the
"non-advancing emancipation rate of coercion" (NAERC). In the absence of
such a number, it is nevertheless feasible to re-interpret the official
statistics and
Michael,
Fair enough. I accept that Marx's interpretation of
"the dictatorship of the proletariat" most of the time
included a democratic vision of sorts, even if it was
not "parliamentarist." Thus, he noted that the leaders
of the Paris Commune were elected by universal
suffrage, even as
MIne,
When Lenin closed it down, there had just been a
reasonably democratic election, the sort of thing
Marx supported. The SRs won, who were neither
monarchists nor lackeys of the aristocracy, very far
from it. One can criticize them and various aspects
of their politics, but not on
Charles,
Actually, Czechoslovakia was the only Central
European state to have a functioning parliamentary
democracy throughout the interwar period. Arguably
democracy thus began with independence at the end
of WW I. It was interrupted by the Nazi takeover, ended
by a combination of the
Sorry, I sent the message below by mistake. I finally got my voice
recognition software to run my email program, dictated the phrase as a
test, but forgot to delete it when I later told it to send my messages.
Bill
What is the source? Who is Don, MD?
Mine
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So Harry Hopkins worked on welfare. I don't think that this undermines Linda
Gordon's main point, any more than saying that Frances Perkins worked on
social security. History is never so neat as to allocate male reformers
exclusively to social insurance and female reformers exclusively to
I would like to take a broader overview of
this whole question, rather than the sort of nitpicking
that I and others have been engaging in, who said
what when where and what did they mean by it, blah blah.
There is both a broad link and a deep discontinuity
between Marx and what
Barkley,
Marx never supported a parliament working under the patronage of
monarchy. He was not a feudalist socialist. That being said, he was
critical of *both* monarchy and bourgeois constitutionalism, which is what
Lenin realized in Russia.
as i always say, socialist politics is a power
Amid explosive trade debate, China sends the United States jobs
JOE McDONALD, Associated Press WriterSunday, May 21, 2000
Breaking News Sections
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(05-21) 09:18 PDT QINGDAO,
After the debate about China and the WTO, I would like to know
what Max and Marty advocate regarding the legislation that grant
more H1B visas for immigrants with skills that employers say they
cannot find in the U.S. labor force.
The most telling point I've heard is that the U.S. should have a
Cameron, Lisa J. 2000. "Limiting Buyer Discretion: Effects on
Performance and Price in Long-Term Contracts." American Economic
Review, 90: 1 (March): pp. 265-81.
265: "When principals in the public sector delegate
procurement of complex assets, they often require their
purchasing
Doug Henwood wrote:
Well, the class war is an aggregate of sorts, and central bankers
like Greenspan are very aware of the balance of class forces. A 3.9%
unemployment rate disturbs their sleep.
Tom Walker writes:
Speaking strategically of the class war as aggregate, the advantage goes
to
Jim Devine wrote:
Also, can't it be said that within the context of
capitalism, any emancipation won due to fast growth and low unemployment is
at best transitory, since eventually the reserve army will be restored, if
not by Greenspan by the slow-down in accumulation that results from
On Sun, 21 May 2000, Jim Devine wrote:
I'd say that most workers would also like the idea of "non-inflationary
growth," given the fact that capitalism isn't about to crumble and die. Low
unemployment is great for the working class (after all, a lot of worker who
normally can't get jobs are
Title: Disability Issues, An arrow in the new economy
Greetings Comrades,
In the local press I noticed two different kinds of disability influenced analyses. I wanted to bring out some of the implications. I am looking at class structure in relation to disabled people and how disability is
Doyle, thanks for bringing disability issues to our attention! a very
_silenced_ topic indeed, just like race and women's isues..
Mine
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June Hopkins, Harry Hopkins: Sudden Hero, Brash Reformer New York: St.
Martin's Press, 1999. 271 pp. Bibliography and index. $29.95 cloth ISBN
0-312-21206-2
Reviewed by Jeff Singleton, Boston College
The Missing Harry Hopkins
In histories of the depression era, Harry Hopkins
http://www.allnewspapers.com/middeast/
Al-Ahram Weekly
11 - 17 May 2000
Issue No. 481
Labour on the fence
By Fatemah Farag
"My brothers, the workers:
From the first day in the 23 July, 1952 Revolution, it was
clear that this
revolution
We had an earlier discussion of dollarization. This article is
relevant.
ECONOMY-ECUADOR: 'Dollarisation' Brings Inflation, Pessimism
By Kintto Lucas
QUITO, May 19 (IPS) - The official adoption of the dollar as
Ecuador's currency on Apr 1 has triggered inflation and led to
even broader
Like almost everybody else, I am hooked to the energy corporations, which I
do not admire. I hope to become less hooked to them. In my work, I try to be
as little hooked to them as possible. As a farmer, I do almost all of my
work with horses. As a writer, I work with a pencil or a pen and a
by Wendell Berry
Love the quick profit, the annual raise,
vacation with pay. Want more
of everything ready-made. Be afraid
to know your neighbors and to die.
And you will have a window in your head.
Not even your future will be a mystery
any more. Your mind will be punched in a card
and shut
I think the absence of a widely shared utopia on the left is killing us.
I'm convinced by the evidence (as well as the logic) that prospect
theory is essentially right in its depiction of how people evaluate
their conditions. All evaluations are relative to a standard of
comparison. If
Thad Williamson wrote:
The Dec/Jan issue of lingua franca has an excellent, thorough article by my
friend Eyal Press discussing about a dozen different academic economists'
views on free trade. Very nice introduction to the landscape on this issue.
The c9nclusion has to be soft-pedaled in
James Madison College of Michigan State University seeks candidates with
demonstrated teaching promise for a three-year, non-tenure stream
appointment in political economy, specialty in applied scholarship with
an
emphasis on policy, institutions, and market-state relations starting
academic year
My sense is that the critical lender of last resort function in East
Asia is being obstructed by a conflict between the US (through the IMF)
and Japan. The US wants any bailout to be linked to the dismantling of
the Japanese-inspired (and coordinated?) network of state capitalist
institutions in
As for the right of *states* to regulate commerce (admittedly a
different issue), there is a nice account of the circumstances leading
up to Munn v. Illinois in Cronon's NATURE'S METROPOLIS. (It's the
chapter on the grain trade.)
Peter Dorman
Marxist School of Sacramento Opens
May 21, 2000
Reports about the death of Marxism are greatly exaggerated. A crowd of 300
people who attended Michael Parentis lecture on May 20 that launched the
Marxist School of Sacramento are proof of that.
Before Parenti spoke, local performers and
Thanks, Seth!
Might a printed version of Parenti's lecture be in the offing at all?
Cheers,
Rob.
Dani Rodrick's short book HAS GLOBALIZATION GONE TOO FAR? (Institute for
International Economics, 1996) has some very interesting stuff in it.
The *least* interesting stuff (trade economists' boilerplate) was
printed this year under the same title in THE CALIFORNIA MANAGEMENT
REVIEW. Rodrick's
James Devine wrote:
We forget about the _benefits_ of tobacco: by killing people off, it allows
the social security system to remain solvent longer. Also, by killing off
those with weak wills, it could improve the quality of the gene pool. (This
is a joke on my part, but there are actually
I recall from grad school days that the critical scale economy -- one
that is almost never exhausted -- is marketing. The marketing cost per
unit just keeps going down the higher the level of output. There may
also be financial returns to scale up to a higher level; I would be
interested to
This skill business really needs some serious deconstructing. A few
general observations:
1. "Skill" is an inherently nebulous and even ideological term. Daycare
teachers require (or should require) vast amounts of skills, as also
many other low-paid service workers, etc. From a conventional
Excuse me. I'd like to put in a good word for 60's counterculture and
Paul Goodman. (Never liked Herbert Marcuse or Charles Reich and don't
like all this pomo "theory" stuff. I read Telos out of a mistaken sense
of duty but eventually tired of it. I would much rather read a good
progressive
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