[PEN-L:10260] Re: Business as usual II

1997-05-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[D Shniad:] Nope. It's those who strike a neutral stance at a time of fundamental crisis among conflicting value systems. Am still awash in existential nausea brought on by the State Dept's appalled discovery, after 32 years of wedded bliss, that Mobutu is one evil dude who should

[PEN-L:10263] Re: planning and democracy

1997-05-21 Thread Max B. Sawicky
From: "William S. Lear" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:10254] Re: planning and democracy On Tue, May 20, 1997 at 14:52:05 (PST) Max B. Sawicky writes: Democratically-elected planners can connive to concoct a plan. . . . This is logic of a most curious sort. If Jim, Max,

[PEN-L:10265] Re: planning and democracy

1997-05-21 Thread William S. Lear
On Wed, May 21, 1997 at 09:34:23 (PST) Max B. Sawicky writes: From: "William S. Lear" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:10254] Re: planning and democracy On Tue, May 20, 1997 at 14:52:05 (PST) Max B. Sawicky writes: Democratically-elected planners can connive to concoct a

[PEN-L:10266] Re: budgetary matters

1997-05-21 Thread Max B. Sawicky
From: James Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:10264] budgetary matters Max S. writes Post-1986, US borrowing is financing tax revenue erosion and increases in health care (Medicare and Medicaid). . . . I would amend the above: 1) It's not "health care" that is

[PEN-L:10269] Re: Re EU

1997-05-21 Thread D Shniad
Trevor (and others): what does it mean to say that "NAFTA is just a trade group"? NAFTA, the CAnada-US FTA, the WTO and other such arrangements impose a set of restrictions on countries' ability to regulate the behaviour of capital. I'm very uncomfortable with the (oft-repeated) proposition

[PEN-L:10276] Boston conference on the MAI -- please forward

1997-05-21 Thread D Shniad
Boston Cambridge Alliance for Democracy c/o Jean Dunbar Maryborn, Co-chair 427 River St. Norwell MA 02061 617-826-2482, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5/21/97 For Immediate Release Contact: Jean Maryborn 617-826-2482 NATIONAL SPEAKERS COME TO BOSTON FOR CITIZENS' CONFERENCE ON MAI

[PEN-L:10275] Univ of Calif @ Santa Cruz Strike (fwd)

1997-05-21 Thread D Shniad
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed May 21 15:23 PDT 1997 X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 18:18:23 -0400 Sender: Forum on Labor in the Global Economy [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Sam Lanfranco [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Univ of Calif @ Santa

[PEN-L:10273] democracy planning

1997-05-21 Thread James Devine
Maurice Foisy writes: In our state (and evrywhere in the U.S.) when groups such as labor or the Democratic party attempt to rationalize the use of scarce resources - through targeting on winnable districts, etc.- the only perspective from which this makes sense is a centralized one, i.e. at the

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[PEN-L:10272] Re: Inefficiencies of planning? ;)

1997-05-21 Thread Max B. Sawicky
From: Tavis Barr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:10267] Inefficiencies of planning? ;) During the heat of the space race in the 1960's, NASA decided it needed a ball point pen to write in the zero gravity confines of its space capsules. After considerable research and

[PEN-L:10271] Re: planning and democracy

1997-05-21 Thread Maurice Foisy
I've been bothered by a conundrum of planning and democracy in the past decade or so. In our state (and evrywhere in the U.S.) when groups such as labor or the Democratic party attempt to rationalize the use of scarce resources - through targeting on winnable districts, etc.- the only

[PEN-L:10270] Kuttner on markets (long)

1997-05-21 Thread D Shniad
Copyright 1997 by The American Prospect, Inc. Preferred Citation: Robert Kuttner, "The Limits of Markets," The American Prospect no. 31 (March- April 1997): 28-41 (http://epn.org/prospect/31/31kutt.html). THE LIMITS OF MARKETS By Robert Kuttner Adapted by the author from Everything for

[PEN-L:10268] re: inefficientcies of planning

1997-05-21 Thread James Devine
But you've got to admit that the high-tech astronaut pen did produce some good jokes on Seinfeld. During the heat of the space race in the 1960's, NASA decided it needed a ball point pen to write in the zero gravity confines of its space capsules. After considerable research and development, the

[PEN-L:10267] Inefficiencies of planning? ;)

1997-05-21 Thread Tavis Barr
-- Forwarded message -- During the heat of the space race in the 1960's, NASA decided it needed a ball point pen to write in the zero gravity confines of its space capsules. After considerable research and development, the Astronaut Pen was developed at a cost of $1 million

[PEN-L:10264] budgetary matters

1997-05-21 Thread James Devine
Max S. writes Post-1986, US borrowing is financing tax revenue erosion and increases in health care (Medicare and Medicaid). ... Presently, public borrowing in the U.S. ... is making possible an intergenerational redistribution (e.g., borrowing finances health and nursing home care for the

[PEN-L:10262] Re: Business as usual

1997-05-21 Thread Tom Walker
Sid and Valis, You're both right. Dante casts Pope Celestino V's self-avowed 'neutrality' as hypocritical. Pope Celestino V, who resigned in 1294 - "the great refusal." Inferno, Canto III, line 58 When I had recognized a few of them, I saw and knew the shadow of that man Who out of

[PEN-L:10261] Re: Time Out for Cyber Art

1997-05-21 Thread Elaine Bernard
Greg has decided he would like to stay at your place, so I'll email Jill. Elaine

[PEN-L:10259] Re War and Primitive Accumulation

1997-05-21 Thread PHILLPS
Max, in his response to my request for references in Marx to war --- public debt --- exploitation of workers --- primitive accumulation implies disagreement with Marx and the relationship of war to public debt and defends public debt contracted to finance social services. I should point out my

[PEN-L:10258] Re EU

1997-05-21 Thread Trevor Evans
In reply to Maggie, I'm not saying that international trade groups like the EU and NAFTA can be turned to progressive purposes. I think that the EU and NAFTA are quite different types of initiative. NAFTA is just a trade group, and I do not see any progressive possibilities in it. As far as

[PEN-L:10256] Re: planning and democracy

1997-05-21 Thread William S. Lear
On Tue, May 20, 1997 at 20:40:01 (PST) peter donohue writes: Instead of debating whether a "national parliament" or "democratically-elected planners" might reach "the socially efficient resolution," wouldn't it be more useful to discuss building organizations of popular power that might cultivate