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illogical position. But they don't do this. They only say that the "real world"
profits don't equalize. But this is no criticism. Theory is far from "real
world" and will always remain far from it.
Cheers, Ajit Sinha
No matter how much I would like to keep out of this debate, I have to ask you a
simple Mike. How do you make the quantitative relation between abstract labor
and money? Other questions will follow, depending upon the answer!
Cheers, Ajit
interested in consuming. But this is the medium for
producers folks. I have enjoyed Barkely's contributions, both on AD debate as
well as LTV, and it would be a shame if he stops writing on pen.
Cheers, Ajit Sinha
at is best for "them".
Cheers, Ajit Sinha
Let me know what do you think.
Cheers, Ajit Sinha
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there. Criticisms and comments from all quarters are welcome.
Cheers, Ajit Sinha
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nd await your response.
Cheers, Ajit Sinha
Another testing folks! I'm very very sorry for this annoyance.
Ajit
On the question of Soviet Union and state capitalism, check out an interesting
paper by Paul Zarembka in RESEARCH IN POLITICAL ECONOMY vol.13, 1992. Also take
a look at Paresh Chattopadhyay's paper in the same issue.
Cheers, Ajit Sinha
nd the nature of the problem. I think Doug
Henwood is making a similar sort of argument.
Way to go Kerala!Cheers, Ajit Sinha
you
the high moral ground. But in anycase, the moral issue will always remain a
lot personal and you would find it very difficult to establish it on some
general principle on a public forum.
Always ready to dance, Ajit Sinha
ps. I tryed to send it yesterday or may be day before but again it seems my
forwarding
to get capital
from? The situation of the third world in a post cold-war world, which is
capitalist world-wide, is much different than during the cold-war era. Most of
the people on pen don't think to recognize this.
Cheers, Ajit Sinha
much (in
relation to the size of the national economy) of capital flight is going on by
the residents of SA. If it is significant, then it shouldn't be too much of a
problem for the govt. of SA to put restrictions on domestic capital flight.
Cheers, Ajit Sinha
Great Idea Mike! You help Cuba both ways. In the end the money stays there. I
hope "friends of Cuba" will not run over Cuba, the way average western tourist
do.
Cheers, Ajit Sinha
istory. My question is, whether the idea of "small government" is rejected
outright by saying 'govt. is good' or one should discuss the merit of such an
idea. The ideological question is about centralization and decentralization of
power. Shouldn't progressive economists argue about this issue?
Cheers, ajit sinha
is spent.
To my earlier posting, Jim Devine responded that the Old Karlos also favoured
small govt. I would agree with Jim on that. But of course Marx did not know
"welfare state". My memory is not very sharp on this, but I think he supported
"poor laws".
Cheers, Ajit Sinha
I don't understand why environmetalists would be nationalists Doug? Most of the
environmental problems are global in nature and poses the most serious
challenge to the nationalist politics.
Cheers, ajit sinha
t the URPE summer conference intitled "YOU TELL ME WHY
LABOR-POWER IS A COMMODITY". I invite you all to come to our summer conference
and tell me that.
More than nuff said. Cheers, Ajit Sinha
Moreover,
Sraffa believed that his model described some aspects of the same reality that
had been described by marx, a reality characterized by class antagonism
between workers and capitalists, and the exploitation of workers by capitalists
."
I'm feeling tired now, and I guess you are too. So I will stop here and await
your response.
Cheers, Ajit Sinha
At 12:38 PM 9/20/96 -0700, you wrote:
At 12:39 PM 9/18/96, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know of empirical examples of Giffin goods, either in
case of a price increase or of a price decrease?
Stocks?
Doug
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Is Stock a commodity? ajit sinha
is teaching in the department of Sociology at the
University of British Columbia.
Please send your help to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks a lot! ajit sinha
s
quite important in maintaining the concept of overdetermination as a useful
concept for "scientific analysis". I have to run now. So talk to you later.
Cheers, ajit sinha
event. To say that your causal theory only gives a qualitative
results in terms of its directionality rather than quantitative results will
not be a critique of causal theory in any case. Many may consider it a weak
case of causal theory. Cheers, ajit sinha
natory
*starting-point* will necessarily be philosophical idealist in characater, no?
_
I don't know about the last sentence, but broadly speaking we have some
agreement here. Cheers, ajit sinha
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Shawgi Tell
University at Buffalo
Subject: Richard M. Goodwin
Dear friend,
I regret to report that Richard M. Goodwin passed away on August 6th
at 1:00 AM in the University Clinic in Siena.
As an economist, Dick will be remembered for his path breaking
contributions to the theory of economic fluctuations and for
. He
has ignited my interest in dialectics again. So next move is to move to
Whitehead and then back to Hegel. I can see a smile on Ted Winslow's face
(are you there Ted?) Cheers, ajit sinha
one thing.
Did Jesse Jackson speak at the convention? If not, why not? and if yes, how
was he treated and how did he do? Cheers, ajit sinha
in pen-l solidarity,
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
74267,[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Econ. Dept., Loyola Marymount Univ.
7900 Loyola Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90045-8
udal lords, your wife
or daughter gets raped. ajit sinha
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I think the discussion of sex abuse and rape by strangers fills three needs:
1. It is an excuse to get angry at someone and aim all social blame at them,
regardless of whether that blame is deserved or not.
2.
ory of population, subsistence is no longer an easy thing to
define. The point number two simply did not make any sense to me. What could
you mean by a sentence like that? Cheers, ajit sinha
At 03:30 AM 9/16/96 -0700, you wrote:
As for what it means, let me just clarify the second point Ajit Sinha
asked about. Charles Bettelheim, in Appendix I to the Monthly Review
edition of Emmanuel's Unequal Exchange, interprets Marx to imply that
"the more the productive forces are deve
(except me) is using the term "value of
labor-power" as the most crucial concept without even defining it. It seems
everybody seems to know what it means except myself. Could someone explain
how the "value of labor-power" is determined? Then we can take it from there
step by step. Cheers, ajit sinha
uot; Terry? It seems
everybody is buying into the idea of the neo-classical notion of "demand
curve", which basically is a myth. Cheers, ajit sinha
, no matter where you find them. I say, Long Live
Zarembkas! Cheers, ajit sinha
At 09:52 AM 9/24/96 -0700, you wrote:
Ok, so there's one more installment.
Doug
The basic question here seems to be the question of democracy and
opposition
to autocratic rule, no matter where you find them. I say, Long Live
Zarembkas! Cheers, ajit sinha
you seem to take it as obvious
, but also asked me to send it for
publication, which i thought was a silly idea at that time. But now I think,
may be I should give it a thought. So could you give me the reference of
Card and Krueger. Their evidence may support my model. Cheers, ajit sinha
Thanks to Tavis Barr and Rich Parkin! ajit sinha
.
Martin
Ajit Sinha wrote:
However, the best empirical
study of the minimum wage, by Card and Krueger, shows that minimum wages
seem to have a positive employment effect.
Tavis
Some years ago I wrote a paper (6 pp. long) for a graduate level labor
uot;overtake" so deeply rooted in their blood that it
sends a chill through my spine. Cheers, ajit sinha
, ajit sinha
. What advice does PEN-L have on the
subject?
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Try York University, Social and Political Thought Department. Cheers, ajit sinha
ommodity can boast - because it's
"NEW!"
Doug
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Sure, every lively mind would like to explore the "new". Only dead minds
don't care. Cheers, ajit sinha
a first world
country. Is that specific enough for you? Cheers, ajit sinha
ps. Habermas by the way is no post-modernist. He is considered to be the
leading defender of Enlightenment and modernity. So i don't understand what
Habermas is doing in your rage against post-modernism? ajit sinha
r a moment that "ideology" itself might be the most problematical idea to
begin with. Things are not as simple as they seem! Cheers, ajit sinha
I liked Charu's posting on "pomo" debate a lot. I hope you post more (though
not as long all the time). Hope to see you at Rethinking Conference. Cheers,
ajit sinha
At 09:58 AM 11/4/96 -0800, you wrote:
On Sun, 3 Nov 1996, Ajit Sinha wrote:
Exploitation and accumulation is not a result of man's
inherent greed or desire to better his condition, but because of the forces
of competition that reduces the capitalists to a cog in the system
Ajit
rly Foucault I might add) at a
distance from Derrida and his followers. Cheers, ajit sinha
ealists, Lukacs,
Merleau-Ponty, the precursors of Western Marxism in general, and not least,
Foucault himself--all of them contribute to the sharpening of the modern
time consciousness that made its entrance into philosophy with the question
"What is Enlightenment?".
I will leave it at that. I hope you enjoyed it. Cheers, ajit sinha
edistribution of
surplus value and formation of equal rate of profit etc. is a problem he is
not dealing at the volume one level. So, in the end, I have no problem with
your concluding sentence. Cheers, ajit sinha
I read competition as a SUPPORT for capitalist exploitation and th
At 08:06 AM 11/5/96 -0800, you wrote:
Recently Ajit Sinha writes:
Competition is an aspect of the capitalist mode of production. Without the
notion of competition, the "law" of value would not make much sense. My
point is that exploitation is given in the very discription of th
missed that. I agree with Stanley. He is being a good Althusserian
there. Cheers, ajit sinha
ch of) anything real, the borderline liberal-radical
would be forced to move left.
Thad
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Weren't the Democrates in majority in both houses when Clinton's health bill
was defeted? If so, then what are you talking about? Cheers, ajit sinha
displacing alchemy,
phlogistic theory, etc. So I think Aronowitz's attempt to pose the question
of the "object of knowledge" to the "human" or "social" sciences is quite
legitimate. By the way, do you think that the Quantum theorists look at
matter in the same way you do? Then how come electrons be both particles and
waves? I share your concern about Stanley's coronary arteries. Cheers, ajit
sinha
about
"commodity production" in societies were occupations are more rigid--like
traditional Hindu caste society? Here we will have some problem. My first
impulse is to not think of production in such division of labor situation as
"commodity production". Cheers, ajit sinha
ich forces
people like Tom Sikine to claim that we are no longer living in capitalism.
Cheers, ajit sinha
Paul, I checked out the Research web site. Looks quite good. But here are
some suggestion about the preamble/introduction.
The first line does not sound right. There is some composition problem here.
How about something like: The research is a Marxist journal that encourages
social analysis on
Well, I thought I was responding to a personal mail. Sorry about putting all
that stuff about Research web site on the net. ajit
ital accumulation is difficult to maintain!
Since this response is turning much longer than I thought, I'm going to send
this much first and the rest in the second batch. Cheers, ajit sinha
ist system--
every individual capitalist is just a cog in the system. And it is the
competitive nature of capitalism that gives rise to the tendency of the rate
of profits to equalize. This is the Marxist as well as the Sraffian
interpretation. And there is nothing wrong with it. Cheers,
ns also presume without justification a
steady state such that input and output prices are necessarily the same.]
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Since I have already proven on ope-l that the so-called TSS approach is
meaningless, and you are on ope-l, why bring this up here?
Cheers, ajit sinha
nts' of future societies are ideological questions par excellence. They
are the ways of intervening in the class struggle fought in the realm of
ideology.
Cheers, ajit sinha
ontroling the people of
poor countries. Population, in my opinion, is more of an effect rather than
the cause of poverty and environmental degradation. One needs to separate
population from environmental problems as a first step to be able to deal
with the real issues seriously.
Cheers, ajit sinha
ductivity provides and ignore the inslavement of the workers that is the
basis of such a production? I haven't read David Laibman's relevant chapters
on this issue, but whatever I have read is of high quality. Cheers, ajit sinha
This is something we (who prioritize democratic plannin
important result, because it proves the Sraffian point that if
you could determine distribution from outside of the price system, the
relevance of utility based price theory is over. And since the neoclassical
theory of distribution based on substitutability of 'factors' of production
is incorrect as shown by the reswitching proof, you are left with nothing to
hang on to.
Since it is getting too long. I'll send the rest of my response in the third
batch. Cheers, ajit sinha
important result, because it proves the Sraffian point that if
you could determine distribution from outside of the price system, the
relevance of utility based price theory is over. And since the neoclassical
theory of distribution based on substitutability of 'factors' of production
is incorrect as shown by the reswitching proof, you are left with nothing to
hang on to.
Since it is getting too long. I'll send the rest of my response in the third
batch. Cheers, ajit sinha
istory of
Russian Revolution, etc. In my understanding of history, it is all about
contextualizing of an event. Marx's concept of mode of production or social
formation is nothing but a theoretical structure for contextualizing any
social event. That's why a GE-Marxism is an oximoron. My above brief speech
was also aimed at some humanist Marxists on the list.
If I have missed any of your "specific points", let me know. Cheers, ajit sinha
vely among the Marxist scholars of today. It only shows the impact of
neoclassical economics on our thinking. Cheers, ajit sinha
ing in a internal political debate and
influencing it. Cheers, ajit sinha
soley on 'reason', which is the realm of conscious, may not
lead to 'freedom'. Religon and Mythology, from which many traditional moral
codes are drawn, may have something to do with unconscious. What do you
think? Cheers, ajit sinha
of growing European identity. But definitly a very interesting
historical phenomenon by any account. I would like to hear more about this
phenomenon from our British comrades. Cheers, ajit sinha
on you by the
adults.
In the end, I must say I have no idea what "Buddha, can you spare a dime"
is all about. By the way, "Buddha" could also sound like an another word in
Hindi, which means 'old man', but not a polite expression.
Cheers, ajit sinha
in pen-l solidarity,
a
curse for women of India. Cheers, ajit sinha
Anthony P. D'Costa
Associate ProfessorSenior Fellow
Comparative International Development Department of Economics
University of Washington National University of Singapore
1900 Commerce Street 10
hat matter developed to begin with. Don't forget that mathematics
and abstract thinking is not outside of language.
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Clearly, thinking and language (as defined) affect each other profoundly.
But they aren't totally inseparable.
_
How would you separate them, jim? That's the big qu
At 12:15 16/09/97 -0700, Jim D. wrote:
In response to my sermonette, Ajit Sinha writes: I'm sorry I
don't understand what this is all about. Sounds more like Jorge Bush
and Denesh DeSuza led attack on "pc" even though "pc" was their own
creation and not Duke University'
hat he dared to make a criticism from
without?
Bill
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May I ask why *can't* you join "black culture in any meaningful sense"?
Cheers, ajit sinha
o be similar to Kant's
project of deriving a moral imparative from reason alone. Do you think Kant
succeeded in his project? My sense is that you want to put a critique of
kant on the agenda, which would be quite interesting. But then how about
Dostoyevsky? I think Dostoyevsky's primar
unsympathetic cticism is what bugs people of other cultures--whether it is
in the name of "universal human values" or whatever. Cheers, ajit sinha
interpretation indeed. Cheers, ajit sinha
? It
seems to me that one must appeal to certain universal principles,
like those advocated by the Enlightenment...feminism and Marxism are
a continuation of the project of the Enlightenment
Yes, Mr. Habermas, you got a point. Cheers, ajit sinha
.
The second point boggles my mind. Do you think the kind of insults Nazi's
inflicted on jews resulted out of "confusion"? Cheers, ajit sinha
ike this: "I'm all for multiculturalism as long as 'they' behave
like us". I think people who are too sensitive about others being sensitive
should remind themselves of this joke. Cheers, ajit sinha
in pen-l solidarity,
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://clawww.lmu.edu/fall%201997/EC
Well Jim, we have to keep the pressure on. I think the most
important element is to get the internal tribal politics cleaned
up. Let us know what we can do in our limited capacity when time
comes. Cheers, ajit sinha
Dear Ajit,
Thanks for caring enough to write that letter. the dates/delays
strong and apparent. I would be
interested in knowing if such uniformization of politics for all
major capitalist countries have been a norm for much longer.
Cheers, ajit sinha
Dr. Ajit Sinha
Visiting Fellow
Centre for Development Economics
Delhi School of Economics
University of Delhi, Delhi 110007
crowd To
show up the next day at Liquor vend in Gole Market.
Soni Sangwan, Hindustan Times, New Delhi, April 24
p.s. The title is mine and not the news paper's. The monkey seems
to be negotiating Delhi better than I am. Cheers, ajit sinha
include other important countries
including South Afria. Cheers, ajit sinha
Ajit:
The Russian foreign minister floated the idea last year while in
India.
It did not go very far.
The idea is not without merit, but it has a lot of historical
baggage to
overcome.
USSR-India alliance against
the police.
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What's her problem? Doesn't she understand Foucault?
Cheers, ajit sinha
in favor of forces within
China
that pressure for a change in policy.
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Henery,
What do you think of the talk about Russia-China-India triangular
counterweight to US led hegemony that is going on around here?
Cheers, ajit sinha
Envoy Says China Dispute Won't Last
does not mean that father/husband determines every aspect of the family. I
think the idea of dominance plays very interesting role in Foucault's
thought and politics.
Cheers, ajit sinha
So, the question is: how can we put forward a presuppositionless
philosophy? I think (following other interpret
At 13:41 14/10/97 -0700, Jim Devine wrote:
Ajit Sinha writes: As anyone could see in Jim's response, he fumbled almost
every second line.
Ajit tells us that _all_ statements of truth are arbitrary (i.e., "coming
about seemingly at random or by chance or as as a capricious and unreasonabl
behave as James Mill to David Ricardo. Now Tony is told that he
has to accept a supervisor he does not want. Mr. Mitchell has not even
shown the decency of contacting me on this issue, nither his letter to Tony
says anything about why Ajit Sinha is unacceptable supervisor. This is
. Duchesne. Cheers, ajit sinha
adership of world capitalism shifts from one locality to
other from time to time. Cheers, ajit sinha
Best,
Rakesh
the surplus, Marx too ventures into
identifying the laboring activities that would be productive of surplus as
opposed to laboring activities that are not productive of surplus. His basic
distinction is that the laboring activity that is involved in "realizing"
surplus as opposed to "producing" it is unproductive. I would stop here.
Cheers, ajit sinha
re ASSA. But then I thought I
should put down some of these points for the record.
Cheers, ajit sinha
d's terrin. I think he is
quite interesting, but one should note that his thesis attacks the very idea of
PRODUCTION as the fundamental prolematic. May be I should stop here until the
year. Happy new year everybody!
cheere, ajit sinha
exchange relation or whether the exploitative relation is established from
outside of the exchange relation. My final conclusion is for the latter.
Cheers, ajit sinha
At 12:01 PM 2/13/96 -0800, you wrote:
At 11:31 AM 2/13/96, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think this issue is clarified as follows. Labor
Could somebody send me the name and the mailing address of the person who is
organizing the urpe at the assa? Thanks a lot. Cheers, ajit sinha
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
. Particularly her paper, 'The subversion of
Classical Analysis: Alfred Marshall's Early Writings on Value. And of course
Sraffa's 'Introduction' to Ricardo.
Cheers, ajit sinha
A
[The Boston Globe]
Canada warns it will fight US anti-Castro measure
Way to go Canada!!
But tell me how much of this is principled stand and how much of it is
simply money?
Cheers, ajit sinha
What was the race/ethnicity/nationality of this researcher Alan? Just curious.
Cheers, ajit sinha
At 02:35 PM 3/11/96 -0800, you wrote:
I have just been informed that the US embassy in London
has refused a visa to a researcher wishing to attend the
mini-conference on value theory in Boston
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