Hi again, Jim,
Sed I:
I'd've thought you could make a case for a logical, empirically tenable
methodology that allows for what a symbol/institution/action might mean in
the context of its day, or of any particular time and place?!
Sed you:
I'm not sure what that has to do with literary
NY Times, June 7, 2000
Fiji's Bigotry of Domain
By SALMAN RUSHDIE
"They are trying to steal our land." Such is the accusation made by
a gang of usurpers against Fiji's Indian community in general and
the deposed Indian-led government, whose ministers it now holds
hostage, in particular. By one
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Subject: [pasifik_nius] 2765 FIJI: Fiji unions hit back at Aussie businessman
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 19:13:08 +1300
From: Journ12 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Organization: Journalism, University of the South Pacific
To: Pasifik Nius [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Title -- 2765
Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/06/00 12:54PM
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In a message dated 6/5/00 6:25:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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Oh yes, the propertied minority needs vigorous protection against the
masses. Just ask Madison, Federalist #10.
I was thinking
BLS DAILY REPORT, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 2000
RELEASED TODAY: Male veterans of the Vietnam era who served in Southeast
Asia had an unemployment rate of 3.0 percent in September 1999. Their
jobless rate was similar to the rates for veterans of that era who served
outside the Vietnam war theater and
Rorty, an old teacher of mine, views himself as a left liberal. His Achieving Our
Country is advertised as a way of rethinking reformist (we might say) politics. He
writes for Dissent. He is an anti-Marxist, but that is not enough to make you not on
the left. Dewey was an advocate of worker
(Stick a fork in it (or in me). I think this thread is done.)
I wrote:
I didn't say that "a single abstraction" could do so.
Tom Walker writes:
Why do I get the feeling that your favorite tropes are "I didn't say" and
"what you said implies . . ."
On the first, communication is very
Today, I went to the local branch of the US post-office to expedite the
mailing of a letter. I hadn't been there in a long time, so I was impressed
by two things: (1) the clerk asked if I wanted to buy stamps while I was
there and (2) they had set up think plexiglass barriers between the
wasn't the ratification of the original Bill of Rights a response to
grass-roots rumblings (e.g., Shay's rebellion) rather than leaping
full-grown from the crania of the founding fathers? (BTW, why is it so
common to refer to the latter as the "founders"? They were all males,
weren't
Today, I went to the local branch of the US post-office to expedite
the mailing of a letter. I hadn't been there in a long time, so I
was impressed by two things: (1) the clerk asked if I wanted to buy
stamps while I was there and (2) they had set up think plexiglass
barriers between the
At 11:33 AM 6/8/00 -0700, you wrote:
Today, I went to the local branch of the US post-office to expedite the
mailing of a letter. I hadn't been there in a long time, so I was
impressed by two things: (1) the clerk asked if I wanted to buy stamps
while I was there and (2) they had set up think
I'll leave the last -- hermeneutical -- word in the Walker/Devine exchange
on the Phillips Curve to Robert Leeson's commentary:
"In the macroeconomic creation myth, wage cutting (Pigou)
was defeated by aggregate demand management
(Keynes); in the monetarist counter-revolutionary creation myth,
At 02:25 PM 6/8/00 -0700, you wrote:
"The usual propositions of the standard story about Phillips are that:
1. Phillips had no adequate theory;
2. Phillips was ignorant of inflationary expectations;
3. Phillips confused real and nominal wages;
4. Phillips implicitly advocated
Well to be fear, given the record of disgruntled postal workers shooting
up their former employers, the fear may be less of robbery than of the
effects of subcontracting and privatization itself.
-- nathan Newman
On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Jim Devine wrote:
Today, I went to the local branch of
In practice, this means that legislation can be obstructed by the
senators in the 25 smallest states, who represent something like 12% of
the population.
Joel Blau
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The most particularly undemocratic feature of the Constitution I
dislike most is the Senate,
From the right wing Independent Institute:
For decades, the U.S. government has waged a relentless "war" on the
use of marijuana, opiates, and other substances. Yet, illicit drugs
are today more plentiful than ever! More and more people are now
asking, "How could this be?" and "What are the
"It is a fairly well-established generalization in economic theory that
during a period of a long rise in prices, money wages lag behind the
prices of commodities, both retail and wholesale, so that real wages
during such periods show a tendency to decline."
-- Simon Kuznets (1930).
Tom, what's the Leeson text you're citing?
The most recent BIS annual report uses the Phillips curve to speculate about
the effectiveness of a single ECB monetary policy. The authors judge that,
although each country might have its own specific output gap/inflation
relations, "imposing a common
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