P. Krugman from yesterday's NY TIMES: Real experts [such as Krugman
himself], you see, tend to have views that are not entirely one-sided. For
example, Columbia's Jagdish Bhagwati, a staunch free-trader, is also very
critical of unrestricted flows of short-term capital. Right or not, this
I tell people the numbers show the payroll tax
is progressive thru the 9th income decile and
they call me nuts. Well they will find some
other reason to call me nuts, lord knows there
are a couple, but CTJ has just put out a "Tax
Day 2000" paper with that very same result.
Their tables show the
Jim Devine wrote:
P. Krugman from yesterday's NY TIMES: Real experts [such as Krugman
himself], you see, tend to have views that are not entirely
one-sided. For example, Columbia's Jagdish Bhagwati, a staunch
free-trader, is also very critical of unrestricted flows of
short-term capital.
Turns out that for the middle quintile of
taxpayers, "Tax Freedom Day" (the day their
income accumulates sufficiently to offset
their imputed annual income tax liability)
is January 21.
Inauguration day?
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://liberalarts.lmu.edu/~jdevine
I don't see any originality in Krugman's argument. The same story written
in pseudo economic terms. What a news! As a free marketeer, he suddenly
discovers that the "Economic Policy Institute find some trade
liberalizaton it favors. But it almost never happens". Bingo! capitalism
has never
Quick. Where's my heart medicine?!!
Looks like a blatant, predatory exercise of
market power in the intellectual marketplace.
Where's the DoJ when you need them?
You left out the best part, really the only
element offered in support of his argument
that academics are compelled to be objective,
From the New York TIMES op-ed, April 23, 2000, by Paul Krugman: ... this
is a good occasion to talk about political bias in economic analysis. It is
a real issue. But the corruption is more subtle -- and also more evenly
spread across the political spectrum -- than my hate mailers seem to
At 01:06 PM 4/24/00 -0400, you wrote:
I don't see any originality in Krugman's argument.
there's no originality in his argument. He proved himself to be original
and clever a few years ago, so he doesn't have to be so any more. Instead,
he can be a pundit.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Advertising is such a pain. An example: if I minimize my e-mail program
(Eudora) under Windows, I can see not only the name of the program but the
beginning of who is the recipient or sender of any message at the bottom of
the screen (on the "task bar"). Well, at home I have a different
BLS DAILY REPORT, FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 2000
RELEASED TODAY: Regional and state unemployment rates remained generally
stable in March. All four regions posted little or no change over the
month, and 40 states and the District of Columbia recorded shifts of 0.3
percentage point or less. The
i did *not* mean by "originality" "creativity" or "cleverness". I meant
that Krugman "repeats" his free market dogma... the "unoriginality" he
rediscovered before he became a pundit!
Mine
Miner wrote: At 01:06 PM 4/24/00 -0400, you wrote:
I don't see any originality in Krugman's argument.
At 02:30 PM 4/24/00 -0400, you wrote:
i did *not* mean by "originality" "creativity" or "cleverness". I meant
that Krugman "repeats" his free market dogma... the "unoriginality" he
rediscovered before he became a pundit!
I think that it's unfair to dub PK a practitioner of "free market
At 02:30 PM 4/24/00 -0400, you wrote:
i did *not* mean by "originality" "creativity" or "cleverness". I
meant
that Krugman "repeats" his free market dogma... the "unoriginality" he
rediscovered before he became a pundit!
I think that it's unfair to dub PK a practitioner of "free market
The sentence that stands out is: First of all, academic research in economics is by
and large carried out without strong
political bias.
How many Marxists have been hired by major universities in the last decade to teach
economics? Now maybe all Marxists are hacks by definition and incapable of
I wrote:
I think that it's unfair to dub PK a practitioner of "free market dogma,"
since he's a technocratic type.
Mine writes:
Unfairness? I am not quite sure. Almost all the technocrats I am aware
of are "closet" free marketeers, either preaching "state regulated
capitalism" to make sure
Technocrats in power in a post-capitalist country can
also set themselves up as a new ruling class, as in the old USSR.
True, but now. In the past, USSR was a socialist economy, neither a "state
commanded capitalism" nor a "free market capitalism it was "state
socialist"..
Mine,Aysen
Jim
At 05:00 PM 4/24/00 -0400, you wrote:
Technocrats in power in a post-capitalist country can
also set themselves up as a new ruling class, as in the old USSR.
True, but now. In the past, USSR was a socialist economy, neither a "state
commanded capitalism" nor a "free market capitalism it
I am somewhat confused by the term technocrat. Is it used to mean one who
uses power, or representative of a adherent of Technocracy's technological
social design.
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 15:53:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To:
At 05:00 PM 4/24/00 -0400, you wrote:
Technocrats in power in a post-capitalist country can
also set themselves up as a new ruling class, as in the old USSR.
True, but now. In the past, USSR was a socialist economy, neither a
"state
commanded capitalism" nor a "free market capitalism it
At 06:11 PM 4/24/00 -0400, you wrote:
I am somewhat confused by the term technocrat. Is it used to mean one who
uses power, or representative of a adherent of Technocracy's technological
social design.
yeah, but nowadays, as I understand it, a "technocrat" is simply an
"expert" who makes
I just picked this up from Sam Lanfranco's labor list.
The New York Times April 24, 2000
UPS Sues Canada Over Postal System
ATLANTA (AP) -- United Parcel Service is suing Canada, alleging that the
country's postal service has been allowed to use its mail monopoly to
here's another comment on Diamond's GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL, by Barkley
Rosser, a pen-l alumnus.
From: "J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Jim Devine" [EMAIL PROTECTED],
"Brad De Long" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: more on Diamond
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 18:20:12 -0400
X-Mailer:
Jim:
Quite apart from all these political questions, I'm wondering how you think
Krugman's arrogance plays? Do you think it comes off as authoritative or
off-putting to non-lefties? It is interesting to me that the Times should feel
compelled to muscle up with two dismissive columnists--Krugman
Joel asks:
Quite apart from all these political questions, I'm wondering how you
think Krugman's arrogance plays? Do you think it comes off as
authoritative or off-putting to non-lefties? It is interesting to me that
the Times should feel compelled to muscle up with two dismissive
Jordan wrote:
I am somewhat confused by the term technocrat. Is it used to mean one who
uses power, or representative of a adherent of Technocracy's
technological
social design.
Jordan, I think this is a legitimate question. Under capitalism,
technocrats are part of the ruling class in two
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