Does anyone know of a historical account of changes in U.S. income
distribution beginning in the late 19th or early 20th century?
Rudy
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Council urged all concerned in that country to
Didn't Williamson and Lindert do a book on this subject?
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Michael,
Thanks for the tip on Williamson and Lindert. For those on Pen
interested in the topic the name of the book is:
American inequality : a macroeconomic history / Jeffrey G. Williamson,
Peter H. Lindert New York : Academic Press, c1980
Rudy
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Dear PEN-Lers:
Before any more time passes, I would like to respond to Bill Burgess's
thoughtful rebuttal of my earlier comments and those of Paul Phillips
about Cuba.
Bill places the Helms-Burton Law in "the context of growing trade tensions
between the US and its competitors." Bill, would
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I don't think there is a contradiction between envisioning full-blooded
alternatives (utopianism) and engagement in existing struggles. On the
contrary, each of these work better when enlightened by the other.
There are many ways to push immediate issues; some go in a socialist
direction, and
At 9:50 AM -0800 3/21/97, Bove, Roger E. wrote:
On 17 March the NY Times wrote up a lefty list on Russia run by David
Johnson from Washington. Does anyone have any information on how to
subscribe to it.
Roger ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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I think that the Left succeeded at the beginning of the 20th century not
because it offered an alternative vision of the economy (Marx wrote little
about how socialism should look like), but because they offered a reasonable
and-well understood explantion of people's plight and the
Hinrich Kuhls wrote:
Louis Proyect's brief report on the Rethinking Marxism Conference "Politics
and Languages of Contemporary Marxism" has been welcome as one of the
little bricks that are needed to end the ignorance regarding the issues
being discussed by the Left in different countries.
There are several other features of the new SSA that seem to be developing:
REGULATION: Although there is deregulation there is also increasing
regulation in the interests of large capitals. For example, there is increasing
lengths of patent protection and strict enforcement of such
Suggest you get in touch with Tim Costello at Northeast Action. They've
been doing this kind of thing in Massachusetts, CT, ME., etc. Contact him
at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 08:38 AM 3/20/97 -0800, Anders Schneiderman wrote:
I'm working with a Bay Area coalition of unions, welfare rights
when I heard David Schweickart speak last year, he acknowledged that
competition, inequality, advertising, and likely unemployment would
still exist in market socialism...he proceeded to invoke Marx (he
referred to himself as an anti-Stalinist Marxist) - socialism is not to
be identified
Jerry, please. I do not know Hinrich's politics or why he chose Louis to
review the conference. I seems to be without any interest to anybody
else.
Even at its worst, it does not seem surprising at all that a journalist
report would come from an unsympathetic source. I say this knowing
I have already outlined the nature of the "Sozialismus affair" briefly.
Here I consider its implications for the Left by comparing it to the
"Social Text affair":
(a) The _Social Text_ affair concerns a hoax played by Alan Sokal on
the anonymous reviewers and editors of that
Louis: This question of a "transition phase" is something that gets lost
in all market socialism literature I have read. Marx was for communism.
Socialism is supposed to be a transition from capitalism to communism.
when I heard David Schweickart speak last year, he acknowledged that
BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1997:
BLS News Release: "MASS LAYOFFS IN DECEMBER 1996" reports that in
December 1996, there were 1,801 mass layoff actions by employers as
measured by new filings for unemployment insurance benefits during the
month. Each action involved at least
Please let me just add a footnote to this thread - as brief as possible.
Sozialismus is a politically independent theoretical and discussion
journal, published monthly. It is "a forum for the political debate for
the Left. The editors expressly welcome both articles and letters." [From
the
On Fri, 21 Mar 1997 09:51:01 -0800 (PST) Bove, Roger E. said:
On 17 March the NY Times wrote up a lefty list on Russia run by David
Johnson from Washington. Does anyone have any information on how to
subscribe to it.
Roger ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
I think you can
At 04:25 PM 3/21/97 -0500, Peter Dorman wrote:
At the present time, in my opinion, left political practice is in crisis
primarily because the majority of leftists no longer have confidence in
a reasonably well-understood alternative vision of the economy. I think
this crisis is unnecessary:
Just as I thought. The academe is returning to its tradition-sanctioned
function: the country club for the rich and, at the same time, the
sweat-shop for the poor.
As to letting the fat cats in the university administration know what I
think of them and their policies -- I am sick and tired
In the latest New Left Review, there's an interesting article by Pat Devine
and Fikret Adaman titled "The Economic Theory of Socialism". It is a survey
of various models of socialism from the centrally planned variety conceived
by Maurice Dobb, to various stripes of the market-oriented.
There is
A correction to my post: the word NOT did not appear in the original. It is
of course essential.
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a socialist South Africa. Decisions will be
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On 17 March the NY Times wrote up a lefty list on Russia run by David
Johnson from Washington. Does anyone have any information on how to
subscribe to it.
Roger ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
At 6:25 AM -0800 3/21/97, Rudy Fichtenbaum wrote:
Does anyone know of a historical account of changes in U.S. income
distribution beginning in the late 19th or early 20th century?
Please answer this question publicly if anyone knows.
Doug
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Jerry,
I have two remarks on this and no more.
1) My statement to you went well beyond this
immediate contretemps, and you know it.
2) What the editors of _Sozialismus_ (did I spell
that right?) did is done all the time by editors of scads
of journals. If editors have a
On March 11, members of the Canadian Union of Brewery and General
Workers (CUBGW) Local 325 ended a 5-week lockout at Molson
Breweries in Etobicoke with the ratification of a 3-year contract
expiring on December 31, 1999. 416 workers voted 75% in favor
of the new contract which provides for wage
At 07:36 PM 3/20/97 -0800, you wrote:
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
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