I'm using Greider's ONE WORLD, READY OR NOT in an interdisciplinary
freshman seminar. This is my first reading of the book--so far I
generally like it, with reservations. One question I have concerns
Greider's take on the existing international trade regime. In chapter 7
he argues that the
Michael Perelman's new book, Class Warfare in the Information Age has
come to hand. It fills an important need as a corrective
to the now almost universal Net-hype.
Net-hype ranges a broad spectrum from the pompous (and often vacuous)
theorising of Manuel Castells (Tony Blair's favourite
In a message dated 98-03-19 11:52:19 EST, you write:
Eh? Where'd this happen? Which Fed economist, where?
Latest issue of the "Journal of Economic Perspectives."
jason
"A Microeconomic Analysis of Slavery in Comparison to Free
Labor Economies"
BY: HALUK I. ERGIN
Bilkent University
SERDAR SAYAN
Bilkent University
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Paul asked why the state should be frightened. he said
(we're talking 1932 and early 1993, I guess)
Capitalism was discredited at the time. The whole class configuration had
shifted. The state certainly could not blame the economic disorder on the
unions at the time.
--
Michael Perelman
Sid Shniad wrote:
H. Bruce Franklin review in the Guardian Weekly:
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN AMERICA By Elliott Currie
Holt/Metropolitan. 230pp. US$23
THIS IS a very unfashionable book. Elliott Currie does not believe that
we need to build more and more prisons, impose longer
There are a few sources for information on these events that have not
so far been mentioned.
James Gross (Cornell labor historian) has written a multi-volume history
of the NLRA and NLRB.
Jim Pope (Rutgers Law school) is currently doing an analysis of s.7(a).
And related but slightly off
To whom...,
Mr. Sokolowski's post illustrates the misconception that socialism
and a command economy are anything like the same animal. If socialism was a
command economy, then it would be true that the difference between socialism
and capitalism was a matter of
Thank you for the reference Michael. I am organizing a long-term project
roughly called "the economic causes and consequences of violence: a
public health approach." The book will examine the public health issues
of family and intimate partner violence, youth violence, and suicide,
from a
Tim Stroshane:
How about the number of estimated homeless population per 1,000
resident population? Another indicator could perhaps include the
percent of households in America paying 50 percent of their
income in rent, then the percent of households at or below 50
percent of their regional
At 11:40 AM 3/20/98 -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
"A Microeconomic Analysis of Slavery in Comparison to Free
Labor Economies"
---snip
Aside the econo-babble mumbo-jumbo, the argument is hardly original. Cf:
Witold Kula, _An Economic Theory of the Feudal System_, London: NLB, 1976
who
The letter went to John J. Siegfried, Secretary of the
AEA. He is at Vanderbilt University in the Economics
Department. His email (that's how I sent mine) is
[EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm sure he'll be
overjoyed that I've handed it out, :-).
This strikes me as being the time to make
Sperm counts.
Doug Henwood wrote:
Speaking of indicators, The Nation has asked me to put together a set of
economic/social indicators, to be published quarterly, that would be
revealing, interesting, and against the grain of conventional thinking.
Any suggestions?
Doug
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 20:24:33 -0600
...
Newsgroups: alt.revolution.counter
Subject: Capitalism under Vaclav Havel
Here's a description of conditions under 'free market'
capitalism in the Czech Republic, as created under the
counter-revolutionary leadership of the celebrated
At 02:44 PM 3/20/98 -0500, Rakesh Bhandari wrote:
Yes,it is one thing to study motion in a vacuum and then to determine the
modification of motion by air pressure or viscosity. So Marx may have
initially assumed a closed capitalist society, without foreign trade or
vestigal or intermediate
At 05:00 PM 3/20/98 -0500, Doug wrote:
Between Feb 97 and Feb 98, U.S. real hourly earnings for all private sector
workers were up 2.7%, led by 3.0% gain in services; manufacturing lagged at
up 1.6%. ...
Is this a blip, shortly to be squashed by Alan Greenspan, or a real
reversal of the downtrend
A weensy complement to:
When Currie, who has taught sociology and criminology at Yale and
Berkeley, advanced similar arguments in his 1985 volume Confronting
Crime, the New York Times reviewer noted that the "biggest incarceration
binge in merican history" had increased the nation's
What is the source on Thomas Kruse's drug offenders prison
population data?
Globalization and Its Effects on the U.S. Economy By Edward G. Boehne,
President, Federal Reserve
Bank of Philadelphia at the World Affairs Council Of Greater Valley Forge
01:00 p.m Mar 20, 1998 Eastern
PAOLI, Pa., March 20 /PRNewswire/ -- The following is the text of a speech
given by Edward
[What follows was passed along by Tim Lavery. Both labor and international
solidarity activists may find it worth a read. I assume, though he provides
no indication, that this article has a copyright held by Quality Digest. I
have no further information regarding the periodical, date of
The Chase Manhattan response boggles the mind as Wojtek
has noted. On reflection I have some advice to Doug that,
rather than annex Canada (which has been the US response
for over a century to the upstart pretentions that some
other people on this continent have that they might
prefer some
Wojtek wrote:
It is one thing to say that Marxist theory explains some important aspects
of capitalist relations of production (which I think it does), quite a
differnt thing to determine to what degree those capitalist relations of
production ar implemented in actual societies and to what
Between Feb 97 and Feb 98, U.S. real hourly earnings for all private sector
workers were up 2.7%, led by 3.0% gain in services; manufacturing lagged at
up 1.6%. There's been a steady acceleration in real wage growth since it
turned up in mid-1995, with a spurt over the last year; just a year ago,
At 03:52 PM 3/20/98 -0500, boddhisatva quoted Chase Manhattan:
A little late, but a friend in Chase Manhattan's middle markets
department explained their side of the $45 canadian check story:
"Some people have a hard time grasping the fact that different
countries have
To whom,
A little late, but a friend in Chase Manhattan's middle markets
department explained their side of the $45 canadian check story:
"Some people have a hard time grasping the fact that different
countries have different central banks and the
Doug asks:
Speaking of indicators, The Nation has asked me to put together a set of
economic/social indicators, to be published quarterly, that would be
revealing, interesting, and against the grain of conventional thinking.
Any suggestions?
Harper's notorious Index has items based on all
In yet another bolt of clarity Wojtek reminded us
It is one thing to say that Marxist theory explains some important aspects
of capitalist relations of production (which I think it does), quite a
differnt thing to determine to what degree those capitalist relations of
production ar implemented
I should have noted that the letter was a copy (also
sent to the ICARE list) that was sent to John Siegfried,
Secretary of the AEA. I only learned from John Adams that
he was the official author of the dump letter. I went to
grad school (U-Wisconsin-Madison) with him, so took the
Louis Proyect wrote:
Related to this is the question of the number of people living in
apartments, those who are not homeless but who are miserably crowded. The
NY Times ran articles last year about the horrible problems facing Mexican
and other immigrants who are crammed 10 to a one-bedroom
At 12:46 PM 3/20/98 -0500, you wrote:
Mr. Sokolowski's post illustrates the misconception that socialism
and a command economy are anything like the same animal. If socialism was a
command economy, then it would be true that the difference between socialism
and capitalism was a matter of
Sure, let's use an index of the prescription of Prozac, Ritalin, etc. But
for what? as a measure of how mentally ill our society is?
It's definitely true that it's not just individuals but society that's
mentally ill: egged on by school bureaucrats and drug companies -- and
allowed by scared and
Doug,
Glad to hear the Nation wants you to do such a regular feature.
As a housing planner for Berkeley dealing with homeless policy,
services and programs, I have some indicators kinda close to my
heart for you to consider.
How about the number of estimated homeless population per 1,000
A few years back, the University of Utah library tried to use journal
usage as a method of deciding which journal subscriptions to maintain.
They told patrons to leave the journals on the tables after examination,
instead of reshelving them. After a period of time, the library began
labelling the
Speaking of indicators, The Nation has asked me to put together a set of
economic/social indicators, to be published quarterly, that would be
revealing, interesting, and against the grain of conventional thinking.
Any suggestions?
Doug
Thanks, Doug. In the past I have sometimes used slavery as an example
of the vacuousness of the pareto criterion. It's nice to have a formal
proof.
Peter Dorman
To whom...,
On Wednesday C. Rakesh Bhandari reminded us of the classic idea
about the financier - that he is a leech and a drain on society. Although
every Marxist impulse drives me to agree, I must not. As the question
about Japan becomes not whether it will
I just heard a stock pundit in CNBC who was touting Pfizer, which has the
Street all, um, excited over its new impotence drug. "The stock just hit
90, and stocks that hit 90 almost always go to 100." See why these guys
make so much money?
Doug
Global Workplace"
Richard Sharpe, "Globalization: The Next Tactic in the 50-year Struggle
of Labour and Capital in Software Production"
--
Dear Phil:
I am in India researching the software industry. Is there any way I can
get a copy of the above paper?
My
Jim,
I like your idea! Isn't there a "contrarinan" shool of invesment analysts who
use Time covers and the sort (I think somebody uses this at Barron's). The
key thing, is that economists are so full of crap (most of the time) re:
"turning points" that your indicator is probably an indicator
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