Representatives of NATO and the Russian Federation ended talks on
Tuesday, May 6 with an agreement "to intensify negotiations in
order to reach agreement at the earliest possible date." NATO
Secretary-General Javier Solana and Russian Foreign Secretary
Yevgeny Primakov did not issue a joint
I think Jim Craven is just wrong on this. I have given specific references
where this matter has been discussed. The one reference in particular is to
an environmentalist who certainly would be happy if the quoted "letter" were
valid. The original translation of the Seattle speech is available in
In his section on primitive accumulation in volume one of Capital,
Marx writes: "The public debt becomes one of the most powerful levers of pof
primitive accumulation The destructive influence that it exercises
on the condition of the wage-labourer concerns us less however, here,
than the
Bill Lear writes: Perhaps Jim Devine, who seems to have a cool head about
this, can intercede and tell me if I am being unreasonable. I feel the
flames rumbling---but that's how I respond when I feel that democracy is
being swept aside as some romantic fantasy, and that engaging in queries
about
Doug Henwood wrote that his reading of employment-GDP numbers confirmed the
ILO's assertion that "the main problem in countries with high unemployment
is slow growth, not a change in the employment intensity of growth."
Doug's brackets -- whether growth in itself is good or sustainable -- could
Thanks to Art Shostak for passing this along. It may be useful for those of
us who have been unable to participate due to being rhetorically challenged
or linguisticly disabled. "Symbolic analysts of the world unite; you have
nothing to lose but your obscurantism."
Michael
As far as I can tell, the term "jobless growth" makes sense in two
different ways.
(1) in a recovery period like circa 1992 in the US, businesses respond to
increased demand for their products by using "overhead workers" (long-term
employees) more intensively and extensively (longer hours)
As I see it, the disagreement between Bill and myself boils down to one
point: what is the actual effect, if any, of formal structures, institutions
and people who hide behing them on the everyday behaviour of the so-called
"ordinary" people? Beside that one point, I do not think that anyone can
Doug Henwood wrote about the synchronization of profit rates. Might
this indicate globalization, in contrast to the Feldstein-Horioka data?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 916-898-5321
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A footnote to my posting on US profitability.
In its Economic Outlook, the OECD publishes data on "rates of return on
capital in the business sector," which they don't define in the volume (but
which may be described in the documentation available on their web site).
Most countries exhibit a
BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1997
RELEASED TODAY:
CPI -- On a seasonally adjusted basis, the CPI-U rose 0.1 percent
in April, the same as in March. The food index, which was unchanged
in March, declined 0.2 percent in April The energy index declined
for the second consecutive
Some thoughts on the last few days' discussion:
1. I see no contradiction between nationalism and internationalism -
though I do between chauvinism and internationalism, and between
nationalism and "transnationalism" in the sense of international
capitalism. I call myself an internationalist
Doug Henwood asked
Can anyone tell me how much influence the End of Work/Jobless Future thesis
has within organized labor - U.S. and the rest of the world?
Note sure about this specifically, but the Council of Trade Unions
(CTU) here, which is the main central TU body, seems to take a lot
of
Doug, from Johannesburg, Rifkin was on the radio here a few months
ago, but ironically notwithstanding SA's present jobless growth situation
(3.1% GDP increase in 1996, and tens of thousands of net jobs lost in
the private sector) there's been no effort to draw the End of Work
arguments in either
Patrick Bond wrote:
SA's present jobless growth situation
(3.1% GDP increase in 1996, and tens of thousands of net jobs lost in
the private sector)
How does this compare with the past, and with population growth? I worked
up the employment-GDP numbers for the U.S., Japan, and Western Europe
Dear Pen-lers,
In case anyone else is interested, I wanted to share the results
of my search for a current edition of Robert Carson's _Economic Issues
Today_.
First, thanks to Michael Hoover for sending me the title and
other useful information about the book.
This
In a message dated 97-05-15 19:22:13 EDT, you write:
Holy Binary Males, Doug. So, there are only
two approaches to network discourse, excessive violence
and excessive length (you boastful fellow) or silence.
Now, how do we know he IS
In a message dated 97-05-15 19:22:13 EDT, you write:
Holy Binary Males, Doug. So, there are only
two approaches to network discourse, excessive violence
and excessive length (you boastful fellow) or silence.
Now, how do we know he IS boastful? maggie
So, Trevor, are you saying that international trade groups like eu and nafta
have the potential to be 'turned' or used to progressive purposes where
nationalistic movements might fail? While I don't dispute the attractiveness
of such an idea, I would think that union or popular movements in
"The point is that we and our friends control the keys to the clubs and the
treasuries that Kabila will need to tap if he is going to rebuild the
country -- the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, our development
funds, and those of the Europeans."
-- Chester Crocker, former
It is so nice to see that Chet Crocker is still "constructively engaged."
Steven Zahniser
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On Mon, 19 May 1997, Mark Weisbrot wrote:
"The point is that we and our friends control the keys to the clubs and the
treasuries that Kabila will need to tap if he is going to
I think this is an interesting idea--unfortunately, the groups in a position
to set up international pressure on nafta, mainly unions, do not seem to be
doing a great job of international communication. This is too bad, because
there are strong union structures in all three countries which could
superb. maggie
In a message dated 97-05-15 17:49:44 EDT, you write:
If I get any more self-conscious, I might end up some sort of Hegelian
pretzel.
Can we get pictures? :-) :-)
But no matter. I've been on several feminist lists where men have
been rebuked for their style of debate. After a brief exchange,
In a message dated 97-05-15 17:42:10 EDT, you write:
Marshall Feldman wrote:
Now there's a
resurgence of local breweries, but their market share is small and
production does not have to be local. The "local" content is the recipe.
For instance, I think Boston's Sam Adams is brewed under
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Here is what i posted:
Ricardo, Principles, Works, vol. 1
395: "Machinery and labour are in constant competition, and the former
can frequently not be employed until labour rises."
395: "In America and many other countries, where the food of man is
easily provided, there is not surely such great
PEN'rs: A long time ago someone on the list, maybe Michael Perelman, cited
a passage in Ricardo's _Principles of Political Economy and Taxation_ which
seemed to anticipate modern "efficiency wage" theory, to the effect that
higher wages can induce higher levels of worker effort or quality. If
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I am grateful to Sid for posting the ecologist article, which I thought was
an unusually well-researched statement of the anti-EU postion.
However, I think that Sid - and the Ecologist - fail to distinguish
sufficiently between the EU and the Maastricht Treaty. I agree with the
criticism that
On Mon, May 19, 1997 at 09:41:20 (-0700) Wojtek Sokolowski writes:
As I see it, the disagreement between Bill and myself boils down to one
point: what is the actual effect, if any, of formal structures, institutions
and people who hide behing them on the everyday behaviour of the so-called
Jim D writes:
(2) if the long-term growth rate of labor productivity accelerates,
then a constant growth rate of real GDP can be associated with a falling
growth rate of employment (labor-power demand). The growth rate of
employment may fall below that of the labor force, causing unemployment
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