BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1996:
__Prices received by producers of finished goods declined 0.3 percent
in January, reflecting decreases in food and energy products, BLS
reports. the O.3 percent seasonally adjusted drop in the Producer
Price Index for Finished Goods is the first
What Blair described is the ocassional human contract that manages to
seep into market society. Such events are so extraordinary that they
need to be singled out for comment.
I am off to Walmart
Michael Perelman
Michael, was that "human *contract*" or "human *contact*?"
Serious
Anders, thanks for your response to my comments about "academic dreamers"
and all that. I think/hope if/when you see my paper you'll find it
interesting, relevant and useful.
Blair
Blair Sandler
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"It is astonishing what foolish things one can
On Wed, February 19, 1997 at 07:29:33 (PST) Rich Parkin pointed out a
semantic oversight in my parody of Blair Sandler's (rhetorical?)
question about markets. Rich observes:
The difference is that "market" and "market" are synonyms. "Rape" and "sex"
are not!
Perhaps I should have phrased it
I completely agree with the healthiness and usefulness of the thought
expressed by Harry Cleaver as: "We've just GOT to be able to do better
than this" --- "this" being capitalism.
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Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 11:40:09 -0500
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Stuart Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Open Letter to the faculty and staff at Carleton
Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wednesday, February 19, 1997
An open letter to the
On 18 Feb 97 at 8:46, Nathan Newman wrote:
On Mon, 17 Feb 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There's a lot of truth to that, especially in Western Europe back
when social democracy ruled. But here in the US, if I am not
mistaken, the big increases in the progressiveness of the tax
From: Jim Westrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L:8727] Re: market socialism, planned socialism, ut
At 12:05 PM 2/19/97 -0800, Robin Hahnel wrote:
I'd start, of course, with not spending
two thirds of my federal taxes on the military and debt service.
This is a minor
Max Sawicky wrote,
Of course, when an asteroid exceeding
about 2 mi. in diameter hits the earth, it will
have paid to borrow after all, since much of the
consequent interest payments will be avoided.
You're taking the plot lines for recent made-for-tv movies a little too
much to heart.
Max Sawicky wrote,
Of course, when an asteroid exceeding
about 2 mi. in diameter hits the earth, it will
have paid to borrow after all, since much of the
consequent interest payments will be avoided.
However, if the money was borrowed to finance speculation on real estate,
the capital gains
At 12:05 PM 2/19/97 -0800, Robin Hahnel wrote:
I'd start, of course, with not spending
two thirds of my federal taxes on the military and debt service.
This is a minor point in relation to this overall thread (which I find
interesting and useful for a Free Skool/Open University of the Left
On 18 Feb 97 at 12:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I agree with Anders, but I think the differences between me and Max (and
Max's comment was a response to me) have nothing to do with concrete,
practical activity in the here-and-now versus fantasy projections about
some imagined future.
Only a thought: Why is it that income in a society must be tied to labor,
a la MRP or otherwise?
Larry Shute
At 01:29 PM 2/19/97 -0800, you wrote:
While one might hope that relative wages in a workers' managed market
socialism would be set according to some criterion other than marginal
revenue
While one might hope that relative wages in a workers' managed market
socialism would be set according to some criterion other than marginal
revenue products -- as Rosser implies they would/could be -- I know of no
analyst of such a system who does not conclude that the labor market in
such a
I was only remarking that in central planning wage rates do not have
to be equal to marginal revenue products in order to achieve static
efficiency. In market socialism, it seems to me they do. And that includes
employee managed market socialism a la Vaneck. I know that wage rates
were not fair
The market teaches people that they DESERVE to get in accord with the
market determined value of their contribution. The market teaches people
to think that way every day -- just ask my students! But progressive
taxation requires one to think that to each according to the market value
of his or
I agree with PBurns that central planning does not necessarily solve
external effect inefficiencies. What is required is for normal procedures
to correctly signal social costs and benefits. Trying to correct after the
fact is both intellectually and politically daunting -- as in, it won't
happen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What Blair described is the ocassional human contract that manages to
seep into market society. Such events are so extraordinary that they
need to be singled out for comment.
I am off to Walmart
Michael Perelman
Michael, was that "human *contract*" or
On Tue, February 18, 1997 at 16:22:18 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Am I just wrong, perhaps overly romanticizing, if I suggest that markets
can be fun when they are highly contextualized, a small part of an
extensive network of non-market relations? [...]
And Bill replies,
Excuse the venom,
On Tue, February 18, 1997 at 16:22:18 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Am I just wrong, perhaps overly romanticizing, if I suggest that markets
can be fun when they are highly contextualized, a small part of an
extensive network of non-market relations? [...]
Excuse the venom, but:
Am I just
The student occupation of York University President Susan Mann's
offices came to an end on the morning of Sunday, February 16. Both
Metro police (called in by the York administration) and campus
security were in full force when the protesters, who have been
occupying her office since Tuesday,
One of the greatest difficulties facing the financial oligarchies
of the entire world surfaced at their "World Economic Forum's"
annual meeting held on February 1-2 in Davos, Switzerland.
According to media reports, "Economic globalization, once seen as
an unstoppable trend, is running up
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