I want to concur with Gina Neff's comments about the upcoming conference. As
the days wore on since my ill-tempered dismissal of it, I have felt more and
more reason to see it in a much more favorable manner, especially when I
received a postcard last night listing the Monthly Review workshops:
Louis Proyect wrote:
There is a political
current emerging around journals such as Socialist Register, Monthly Review
and the German magazine "Socialismus" that will be more and more visible at
these sorts of venues.
The first couple of times I saw this misspelling I let it pass, thinking
Louis wrote:
I
would give a hundred dollars for a ticket to see Doug Henwood debate Stanley
Aronowitz debate Doug Henwood on the disappearance of jobs, ...
Hey, I'd pay a lot more than that to see Duo Dougs (or, for that matter,
Dueling Deconstructing Dougs, if that was an effort on your part
Karl Carlile wrote,
KARL: The kind of circus event is just one more of a multiplicity of
events on the circus circuit. Basically they constitute no more than
a means by which many of these lefty media stars promote themselves
and thereby their pocket, their status and fame. Despite the
thousands
BLS DAILY REPORT, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1997
RELEASED TODAY:
CPI -- On a seasonally adjusted basis, the CPI-U rose 0.3 percent
in February, following an increase of 0.1 percent in January. The
food index, which declined 0.3 percent in January, advanced 0.3
percent in February The
Exactly how much would you pay? By next year's Socialist Scholars
Conference we ought to be able to clone Doug. Presently, we have the
venerable New York law firm of Lucre, Prestige, Status Wealth checking
out the intellectual property issues involved in cloning. BTW, can money
be cloned? Is
On 20 Mar 97 at 11:41, Peter Bohmer wrote:
1. Does anybody have an estimate of the daily value in dollars of stock,
bond and other financial transactions, excluding new issues, in the United
States. This would include the various stock market, futures, bond
markets, etc. I am trying to
1) Jon Elster's Methodological Individualism
"There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women,
and there are families."
--Margaret Thatcher, 1987
"There are no societies, only individuals who interact with each other."
--Jon Elster, 1989
I'm not a Marxist, but I have a strong interest in some of the issues
Louis P. raises, so let me reply:
1) Jon Elster's Methodological Individualism
Elster has muddied the waters here. I would distinguish between strong
and weak methodological individualism (MI). Strong MI says that all
If it's of any help to anyone, I can state my position on markets
very simply: Regarding markets I'm an abolitionist but not a fool.
By which I mean:
(1) Markets play NO part in an economy that I consider desirable. [Desirable
can be spelled out at great length but I believe markets are
Rosser Jr, John Barkley wrote:
Heck, I'll butt in here. Louis P. asked me off list
to use my near minimal influence with Jerry to get him to
calm down. snip
Please calm down, Jerry.
Although Michael would prefer that I not continue this thread, I think a
reply is in order. To
According to ypu, Pierson has two main
objections to market socialism.
1) A market socialist economy cannot be a "pure" free market economy but
will require extensive government regulation to deal with externalities,
2) Market socialism cannot be achieved by reformist means.
--Justin
Jerry, you have made your point. Can't we leave it there?
Gerald Levy wrote:
Michael Perelman wrote:
Yes, Jerry, you are absolutely correct. Maybe Louis would be willing to
admit that his is unsympathetic to the RM and that he reviewed it. I
don't know. Even if he would 'fess up'
A friend of mine is looking for a master's program in International
Development (perhaps International Relations is ok). She had been doing good
anti-imperialist organizing in the US and would like to continue this kind
of work, just wants a program that would further her education in a way
Robin,
(1) Markets play NO part in an economy that I consider desirable. [Desirable
can be spelled out at great length but I believe markets are inherently
incompatible with economic justice, efficiency, environmental sustainability,
and meaningful economic democracy. They also have highly
Michael Perelman wrote:
Yes, Jerry, you are absolutely correct. Maybe Louis would be willing to
admit that his is unsympathetic to the RM and that he reviewed it. I
don't know. Even if he would 'fess up' to doing so, why would that
confession help us?
Whether you like Louis or vice versa
Gerald Levy wrote:
Although Michael would prefer that I not continue this thread,
Yes, Jerry, you are absolutely correct. Maybe Louis would be willing to
admit that his is unsympathetic to the RM and that he reviewed it. I
don't know. Even if he would 'fess up' to doing so, why would
At 2:17 PM -0800 3/20/97, Robin Hahnel wrote:
If it's of any help to anyone, I can state my position on markets
very simply: Regarding markets I'm an abolitionist but not a fool.
Robin, I've read only a bit of your stuff, an oversight I promise to
rectify soon, but do you ever define what you
At 11:41 AM -0800 3/20/97, Peter Bohmer wrote:
Does anybody have an estimate of the daily value in dollars of stock,
bond and other financial transactions, excluding new issues, in the United
States. This would include the various stock market, futures, bond
markets, etc. I am trying to
On Wed, March 19, 1997 at 20:57:38 (PST) Rosser Jr, John Barkley writes:
...
What is your solution to the problem of aggregating
upwards of the participatory planning process? I see your
approach as working well in localized situations and
worker-managed situations, etc. But, how about
I totally agree with Louis Proyect that Elster's presentation and critique
of Marx is either almost or totally worthless. His opus, MAKING HASH OF
MARX, seems nothing but a collection of errors. I haven't had the patience
to read the whole book. But every time I have dug into it in order to get
KARL: Thank you for replying Gina. I am not saying you dont mean well.
However I still stand by what I said.
Karl,
As someone who is working on trying to get people out to conference, I
feel that I must respond to your message.
Yes, there are several "lefty media stars" at this years'
Peter,
The still incomplete work I've done on just this question is in:
"Main Street vs. Wall Street: Taxing the Big Casino," (with Dean Baker and
Marc Schaberg), The Nation, May 9, 1994, pp. 622-24.
A much more detailed version is well along, but awaits some final
touches.
1. Does anybody have an estimate of the daily value in dollars of stock,
bond and other financial transactions, excluding new issues, in the United
States. This would include the various stock market, futures, bond
markets, etc. I am trying to estimate the tax revenue from a 1% tax on
these
Bob, congratulations on the living wage victory! We are working away
on the study for one in Boston. Marc Breslow.
Heck, I'll butt in here. Louis P. asked me off list
to use my near minimal influence with Jerry to get him to
calm down. Since Louis P. has been cooperating with
everybody on pen-l here lately, I'll cooperate back. So,
here goes.
Please calm down, Jerry.
More generally I
BLS DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1997
Producer prices for finished goods posted their largest drop in 2-1/2
years in February, BLS reported, but that was apparently not enough to
allay many investor's worries that the Federal Reserve may raise
interest rates to keep inflation in check
Quite typically, you avoided the substance of what I wrote. I.e. that it
was irresponsible for the editors of _Sozialismus_ to publish a review of
the Rethinking Marxism conference by someone who had already publicly
trashed that conference before he had even seen the entire schedule. In
I agree and disagree with Louis P's posting.
I did not say that Jerry or anyone else was uncontrollable, but that I
have no control over anybody on the list.
I do agree with Louis that personal feuds have no place on pen-l.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
I don't give a rat's ass how to spell the name of the mag. When I wrote
about the Amherst conference on the Spoons list, Hinrich Kuhl asked me to
put something together for the February issue. And I did.
I have known Hinrich for a couple of years now and introduced him to Eric
Canepa who has
I'm working with a Bay Area coalition of unions, welfare rights organizers,
churches, and various liberals and lefties called People for Bread, Work,
and Justice. As part of building a campaign to fight around welfare,
living wages, and jobs, we're kicking around the idea of a statewide
would give a hundred dollars for a ticket to see Doug Henwood debate Stanley
Aronowitz debate Doug Henwood on the disappearance of jobs, but I suspect
that Stanley prefers preaching to the converted instead.
Oh yeah, this is not a typo. This is just a highly literary way of
expressing Doug's
Karl,
As someone who is working on trying to get people out to conference, I
feel that I must respond to your message.
Yes, there are several "lefty media stars" at this years' Socialist
Scholars Conference, and we as an organizing group are proud of that. Rob
Saute and Robin Isserles have
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