[PEN-L:6300] Re: Labor Party Paul Z.

1996-09-22 Thread Gerald Levy
Adolph Reed wrote: He [Paul Z] was at the Cleveland convention, was an active and vocal participant -- even to the point of attempting to form a dissident caucus in the back of the convention center immediately upon our final adjournment. This sounds like the *real* reason. Jerry

[PEN-L:5817] The Flaming Path

1996-08-23 Thread Gerald Levy
The current (8/27) edition of the _Village Voice_ has an article by Richard Gehh called "The Flaming Path" which PEN-Lers may want to check out. The article, subtitled "What happens when rhetoric becomes evidence?", concerns a flame war on the marxism1 list that may have led to the arrest of Juan

[PEN-L:5823] Re: The Flaming Path

1996-08-23 Thread Gerald Levy
Rosser Jr, John Barkley wrote: Yeah, well that's barely the half of it. Barkley: does that mean that you *stayed* [!] on that ...[undead] list? Do you also enjoy sleeping on a bed of nails and walking barefoot on hot coals? Did A.O. also make death threats in your direction? Jerry

[PEN-L:5828] Re: The Flaming Path

1996-08-23 Thread Gerald Levy
Hans Ehrbar wrote: The fact that the list turned out to be an instrument of murder certainly has been a matter of great concern to the spoon collective. Yes, I can imagine that the list becoming an "instrument of murder" might now be of some concern to the Spoon Administration. However, to

[PEN-L:5830] Re: The Flaming Path

1996-08-24 Thread Gerald Levy
I want to reply again to Hans Ehrbar since, although peripheral to PEN-L, the issues (in particular the 2nd issue below) have some importance. (1) the death threats on M1 before the split of the lists. They mainly emanated from Adolfo Oleachea. Oleachea was underlining his arguments with a

[PEN-L:5932] Re: quote of the day

1996-09-02 Thread Gerald Levy
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 He spoke, but he wasn't a primetime speaker (in the sense that his primetime speech, like Mario Cuomo's) wasn't broadcast live by any of the three major networks.

[PEN-L:5956] Re: A new project for pen-l

1996-09-03 Thread Gerald Levy
Michael Perelman wrote: Several people have recently approached us for information to help them in their political activities. Do you think that we could/should advertise pen-l as a place to draw upon our collective expertise. On the basis of the above, I am unclear what sort of information

[PEN-L:5963] Re: New project for pen-l some good news

1996-09-04 Thread Gerald Levy
Steven Zahniser P.S. This summer I successfully defended my dissertation, turned it in, and received my Ph.D. in economics. I am now beginning a one-year postdoctoral fellowship funded by the Social Science Research Council, in which I will look at various issues regarding Mexico-U.S.

[PEN-L:5981] Re: universities and $$$

1996-09-06 Thread Gerald Levy
47: According to the University of Miami's vice president for research, "As money becomes less and less available. more people are going to be compromising their principles, compromising their time We can get to the point at some stage in this process where we're not research

[PEN-L:5990] Re: universities and $$$

1996-09-06 Thread Gerald Levy
Jerry is wrong. The university heads are not hired prize fighters. Prize fighters can be entertaining. The university boys are ghoulish types that prefer to work in the shadows. Michael Perelman As it relates to Marx, I think that he used the expression "prizefighter" to mean the same as

[PEN-L:6021] Re: Higher Ed, $$$ and class

1996-09-07 Thread Gerald Levy
From the _Science Society_ editorial sent to us by David Laibman: First, the elevated "cost" of higher education must be examined with care. While tuition _charges_ per student have indeed been rising, actual _costs_ per student, credit or degree are falling significantly, owing to

[PEN-L:6025] RE: Higher Ed. $$$ Class

1996-09-08 Thread Gerald Levy
John Ernst wrote: Are the following "facts" true? 1. Faculty salaries are not keeping up with inflation. (1) Over what time period? (2) In the US alone? This is important since inflation rates vary significantly internationally as do -- I suspect -- changes in faculty salaries. (3)

[PEN-L:6027] RE: Higher Ed. $$$ Class

1996-09-08 Thread Gerald Levy
Paul Zarembka wrote: If they are true, where is the money going? As the UAW said in the early post WW2 period: Open the Books! Opened books at public universities would show, in many cases, decreased state support to pay for tax cuts to the wealthy and adminstrative bloat. Yes, but closely

[PEN-L:6036] Re: Rethinking Overdetemination

1996-09-09 Thread Gerald Levy
Its argument was that the folk audience was actually quite elite (I think the word Harvard even came up), and folkies were scandalized when the *real* popular music, rock roll, got started. Doug This attitude, in part, strikes me as generational since rockers were also in general

[PEN-L:6038] in defense of the classics

1996-09-09 Thread Gerald Levy
bill mitchell wrote: well i think this depends on what cultural-economic enviroment you have grown up in. classical music in the capitalist western world (say, australia) tends very firmly to be what i would term "ruling class" entertainment. there is no popular classical culture in OZ. the

[PEN-L:6076] Re: A Labor Party in Buffalo?

1996-09-09 Thread Gerald Levy
Paul: I am appalled by the treatment you and the Buffalo Chapter received from the Labor Party national leadership. To put it mildly, such undemocratic and bureaucratic fiats do not help the LP realize the potential that it has to challenge the bourgeois political parties. I am also dismayed that

[PEN-L:6189] Re: query: superexploitation

1996-09-15 Thread Gerald Levy
rakesh bhandari wrote: Does anyone recall the original (or any) use of the term "superexploitation" in Marxist literature? Walter Daum Well, Walter, as I understand superexploitation, it obtains when the wage falls below the value of labor power. That's not an answer to the question that

[PEN-L:6219] Re: query: superexploitation

1996-09-17 Thread Gerald Levy
Walter Daum wrote: In Capital I and III, where Marx suggests that S/V is higher in "Europe" than "Asia," he appears to refer to labor productivity and intensity together. There are three separate questions here: (1) What did Marx say? I believe Walter is correct in interpreting Marx as

[PEN-L:6238] The Death of Lisa Rogers

1996-09-17 Thread Gerald Levy
I'll have to wait a while before I can comment on the following news concerning the death of Lisa Rogers, a graduate anthropology student, a sharp, critical Marxist, and a friend. -- Jerry -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 18:53:50 -0400 (EDT) From: malgosia askanas

[PEN-L:6251] Re: death of lisa rogers

1996-09-18 Thread Gerald Levy
Lisa was also a former school teacher. She was a political activist. In particular, she was involved in supporting gay and lesbian high school students in Salt Lake City. She was a committed feminist and I believe one of her last projects was to establish a Marxism-Feminism list. She was very

[PEN-L:6325] Re: labor party

1996-09-24 Thread Gerald Levy
Robert R Naiman wrote: the question i would ask of the leadership is: was such a harsh punishment really necessary? was it wise? what would have been lost with a lesser punishment? what would have been gained? Those are all legitimate questions, but they are *secondary* ones. More important

[PEN-L:6557] Re: Why raise the minimum wage

1996-10-09 Thread Gerald Levy
Did anyone yet mention the degree of concentration in markets where firms typically pay workers the minimum wage? As has been remarked previously, most minimum wage workers are in their service sector but many of these markets are highly concentrated and dominated by oligopolies. Consider the

[PEN-L:6564] Re: Why raise the minimum wage

1996-10-10 Thread Gerald Levy
Doug Henwood wrote: After reading this paragraph, I sat down for a late-night reading of the Wall Street Journal. snip Now I suspect Jerry will greet this as rank empiricism, when so much theorizing about Okishio remains to be done. But Jerry's quoted posting is pretty standard left-wing

[PEN-L:6569] Zimbabwe Labour Party tour (fwd)

1996-10-10 Thread Gerald Levy
From: andrew kliman [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've been asked to forward the following letter from the president of the Zimbabwe Labour Party. Others interested in helping call attention to the issues and promote the tour are asked to post it on additional lists and boards. Andrew Kliman

[PEN-L:6576] Re: big mac attack?

1996-10-10 Thread Gerald Levy
Susan Fleck wrote: On a lighter note, in response to Doug Henwood's comment on McDonalds... They are suffering sales because they microwave their burgers these days! blech! (I won't tell you how I know.) On a more serious note, let me answer Doug's recent comments. *Why* are sales

[PEN-L:6578] Steering the World Bank towards God

1996-10-10 Thread Gerald Levy
Peter: Thanks for forwarding this stuff to PEN-L. The following are my favorite parts./Jerry Andrew Steer, director of the World Bank's environment department, told ENI: "Quite frankly, I think most of the religious groups should educate themselves. The issues are too serious to allow

[PEN-L:6606] Re: Competitiveness

1996-10-11 Thread Gerald Levy
Doug Henwood wrote: How do we know there's been a sharper concentration? Thirty years ago, there were three major players in the U.S. auto market; now there are what, 5 or 10? Firstly: remember that the large auto corporations are TNCs which produce and sell autos in many different national

[PEN-L:6639] Re: comments on URPE history welcome

1996-10-11 Thread Gerald Levy
I was struck by the fact that the "history" doesn't include the _names_ of *any* URPE founders or leaders!!! Don't you think that David Gordon and others deserve a mention? Without any names, URPE's history sounds rather faceless and impersonal. Jerry

[PEN-L:6666] Re: info

1996-10-13 Thread Gerald Levy
I am trying to figure out how to block this person from spamming us with commercials. If anybody has any ideas, please let me know. Michael: Yes. Unsubscribe that person and Shawgi -- who spams us everyday with essays from some other list which have nothing to do with PEN-L discussions.

[PEN-L:6725] Re: academic journals

1996-10-16 Thread Gerald Levy
Michael Perelman wrote: The financial times reported today that High-quality scientific journals which are "must-reads" for their subscribers are a highly profitable business with margins as high as 40 per cent. That's very interesting, Michael (and fits-in rather well into a recent thread

[PEN-L:6777] spam +

1996-10-19 Thread Gerald Levy
Doug Henwood wrote: At 10:14 AM 10/19/96, SHAWGI TELL wrote: ..yet another diatribe. Shawgi Tell, if you made some effort to converse with the people on the lists you post these screeds to I might feel a little different about them. But as it is, it just reads like spams. One tedious

[PEN-L:6787] stalinism?

1996-10-19 Thread Gerald Levy
Re Susan Fleck's comments: To accuse Michael Perelman of Stalinism re the Shawgi Affair is to abuse the term Stalinism and devoid it of its historical and political meaning. Jerry

[PEN-L:6807] Shawgi and Censorship

1996-10-20 Thread Gerald Levy
ed message -- Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 16:51:09 -0500 (EST) From: SHAWGI TELL [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gerald Levy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Official Complaint Hi: This is to officially register a complaint with the postmaster at pratt regarding the harassment coming from Gerald Levy (user id is [EMAIL

[PEN-L:6825] Re: New Zealand living standards

1996-10-21 Thread Gerald Levy
What about spending per household on yachts? Yeah, that's a serious question. NZ has, by far, the highest per capita rate of recreational boat ownership. Boat ownership in NZ is certainly not limited to the wealthy, moreover, and extends to a large percentage of working class families. Yet, the

[PEN-L:6827] Re: New Zealand living standards

1996-10-21 Thread Gerald Levy
bill mitchell wrote: Both australia and NZ are outdoor places and aquatic. but jerry, there is a significant difference b/tw a 60 metre america's cup boat that hangs around the wealthy moorings in wellington or auckland, and the working class "mirror" which dad and mum tow behind there

[PEN-L:6852] Re: What is Stalinism?

1996-10-22 Thread Gerald Levy
Robert Cherry wrote: Whatever the outcome of the Swangi Tell saga, I am struck by the looseness of the use of the term "Stalinism." This is not a matter for dispute. The person in question has written in great length in defense of Stalin. It upsets me just as much as when the left used

[PEN-L:6877] Re: rising rate of profit?

1996-10-24 Thread Gerald Levy
Tom Walker wrote: Blair wrote And you a Marxist! Doug, theory tells us that the rate of profit falls over time. These data must be incorrect! ;-) To Doug: when are you going to define and measure the empirical statistics that you use in a Marxist way? To Blair: (a) as you know, there is

[PEN-L:6884] Re: rising rate of profit?

1996-10-24 Thread Gerald Levy
Blair Sandler wrote: Marx spent twice as many pages (K, vol. III, chs. 14 and 15) elaborating the "countertendencies" as he did the tendency itself (ch. 13). In my reading of CAPITAL, Marx was arguing not *for* but *against* the Ricardian notion that the rate of capital falls. Certainly,

[PEN-L:6928] Post-Mortem

1996-10-26 Thread Gerald Levy
Michael P wrote on Thursday: Tomorrow, I hope that I can remember myself, I am going to ask all posters from the U.S. to hold off posting to pen-l to encourage those from other countries to introduce themselves or to tell us how pen-l could serve them better. We have probably 100 people from

[PEN-L:6977] Re: Web site for RESEARCH IN POLITICAL ECONOMY

1996-10-28 Thread Gerald Levy
Paul: you might consider sending a similar message to OPE-L./Jerry On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Paul Zarembka wrote: The Web site for RESEARCH IN POLITICAL ECONOMY has been opened up at http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PZarembka At the present time the contents of the last two issues are

[PEN-L:6991] a sign of value?

1996-10-29 Thread Gerald Levy
Doug Henwood wrote: For some reason, I've just been reading Baudrillard's absurd book, The Transparency of Evil. To B., the political economy of the "sign" has replaced the p.e. of value. But, Doug: I thought you rejected value theory. Is that a sign that you have something in common with

[PEN-L:6993] Re: a sign of value?

1996-10-29 Thread Gerald Levy
Doug Henwood wrote: Value is a concept, a way of thinking about a social relation. What I object to is the attempt to put numbers on it, to do Marxian econometrics with it. How can value *only* have a qualitative dimension? By ignoring the quantitative dimension and the value-form, value

[PEN-L:7004] Re: Politics of free time

1996-10-29 Thread Gerald Levy
Tom Walker wrote: Roediger and Foner argue "The length of the workdays... has historically been the central issue raised by the American labor movement during its most dynamic periods of organization". That may be true, but there is some controversy among labor historians regarding how

[PEN-L:7009] Re: rising profit rate?

1996-10-29 Thread Gerald Levy
Jim: You wouldn't call the period since 1952 [44 years] the "long run"? Given what Dumenil Levy [no relation, I think, JL] write below, isn't Alejandro's quote accurate? Jerry On Tue, 29 Oct 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alejandro Valle Baeza writes that: I think that Dumenil et al showed

[PEN-L:7018] Re: exploitation in progressive organizations

1996-10-29 Thread Gerald Levy
Ellen Dannin wrote: Actually, I think the opposite is the case. The organization needs to admit it IS an employer vis a vis these employees and to decide that it wants to be a progressive model of an employer. Instead, what I have observed happens most often is that the organization

[PEN-L:7056] Re: anti-intellectualism against and in the left

1996-10-30 Thread Gerald Levy
bill mitchell wrote: Doug said: But really, we popular types should stay out of theory, right? The hell with that. I had my first confrontation with theory at Yale in 1971, a very early beachead for the French invasion. In continued with it at the University of Virginia English department.

[PEN-L:7061] Re: anti-intellectualism against and ...

1996-10-31 Thread Gerald Levy
Alex Izurieta wrote: well... 'Understanding' denotes there is a certain 'logic' underneath. What if there is any ? What if the so-called theory is a non-theory, as pomos themselves pretend by aiming at being the quintessence of 'deconstructionism' (of every theory, and consequently

[PEN-L:7075] Re: White collar/unproductive worker?

1996-10-31 Thread Gerald Levy
Fikret Ceyhun wrote: The other day I was at my dentist's office for checkup and cleaning. As the dental assistant was scraping my teeth I was thinking: is she blue collar or white collar worker? I know she is "unproductive" worker. Can someone care to comment? (1) The color of a

[PEN-L:7082] fetishism and commodity production

1996-10-31 Thread Gerald Levy
If you could explain it using relatively simple, straightforward language, I'd appreciate it; that way we can make sure that everybody can play (those who chimes in on the anti-pomo side have to play by the same rules: anybody who uses terms like "fetishism" or "commodity production" will

[PEN-L:7083] re: A Pomo (re)quest

1996-10-31 Thread Gerald Levy
Tom Walker wrote: I stood in the bookstore for about 20 minutes leafing through _Spectres of Marx_ hoping for some clue of an excuse to buy it, take it home and read it. So, Steve, tell us: what's the story? What's it about? Oh, yeah: why don't you ask him to summarize _Capital_ for a 30

[PEN-L:7106] re: A Pomo (re)quest

1996-11-01 Thread Gerald Levy
So, how about it: _Spectres of Marx_ in thirty seconds? Or fifteen or ninety if you like. Tavis If you think I'm going to summarize Derrida or _Capital_ in 15, 30, or 90 seconds, you've got another thing coming. My point is that one can *not* legitimately summarize a complex body of ideas

[PEN-L:7109] To citizens La Chatre, Henwood, and Walker --

1996-11-01 Thread Gerald Levy
Tom Walker wrote: I'm happy to go back to my original complaint about not being able to determine, in a 20 minute perusal, whether Derrida's Spectre of Marx would be worth buying and reading. I assure you that I accord much less than 20 minutes to most new books that come into the bookstore.

[PEN-L:7131] Re: post-modern wars

1996-11-01 Thread Gerald Levy
Two (relatively) brief comments: (1) One doesn't have to be a fan of post-modernism to appreciate that the old forms of "discourse" among leftists leave much to be desired. One only has to read recent exchanges on PEN-L to appreciate this point. I don't know: maybe I'm just getting old and

[PEN-L:7138] Re: Henwood - Swimming or drawning?

1996-11-02 Thread Gerald Levy
Doug Henwood wrote: Old language: "The boss is screwing you. Organize and fight back." New language: "The metanarratives are all broken. Liberate yourself through freeplay in the deliciously slippery world of discourse!" This is progress? No, it's not progress. It's not progress when

[PEN-L:7147] Re: Henwood - Swimming or drawning?

1996-11-02 Thread Gerald Levy
it is hard to see how this discussion of postmodernism could remind anyone of the moscow show trials. try as they might the psotmodernists [...] but it seems silly to respond to doug and others who criticize the pomos by accusing them of stalinism. michael yates Just to set the record

[PEN-L:7166] Re: Pomo and U. Mass. Economics department

1996-11-03 Thread Gerald Levy
There are frequently major differences in ideology, perspective, and personalities among faculty and students in different economics departments. This is also - and sometimes even more - the case at radical econ. departments. It is by no means limited to UMass/Amherst. I was also burned by a

[PEN-L:7171] Re: Pomo and U. Mass. Economics department

1996-11-03 Thread Gerald Levy
Antonio C wrote: Perhaps what you say has validity as an issue in general. You, however, were careful not to levy personal charges out of context, as Baimoan and bohmer have with respect to Resnick and Wolff. If we want to discuss this general issue at some point, it might be a good thing.

[PEN-L:7178] Re: pol econ PhD programs

1996-11-03 Thread Gerald Levy
Michael Yates wrote: i do sign my remarks, "in solidarity" but i don't believe that i've ever made a scurrilous attack on anyone. See [PEN-L:7175]. Sanctimonious preaching, Jerry

[PEN-L:7306] Re: election post-mortem

1996-11-06 Thread Gerald Levy
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 Also: the Democrats controlled Congress when NAFTA was passed. Of course, labor overwhelmingly supported the Dems anyway -- it's all part of the

[PEN-L:7333] ASSA meetings and proposition 209

1996-11-08 Thread Gerald Levy
The following was posted on another list and Patrick Mason asked that it be passed along to other lists for consideration and action. You can contact Patrick directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Given California's approval of prop 209, should we begin lobbying for west coast ASSA conventions to be

[PEN-L:7344] Re: Affirmative Action in public employment and education is dead

1996-11-09 Thread Gerald Levy
rakesh bhandari wrote: Instead of simply blaming "whites" for this reaction or treating whites as an inherently oppressive people, I was trying to suggest that such paranoia, though real (is this a racist accusation?), may be the result in part of racial kind making by the state. Is it

[PEN-L:7575] Re: The Decline of Economics

1996-11-26 Thread Gerald Levy
There's an article with this title in the current New Yorker, by John Cassidy. One quote: "A number of important economic phenomena remain beyond our comprehension. The two most significant developments in the American economy over the past twenty years are the slowdown in productivity

[PEN-L:7606] Re: Technology Shock and Teen Pregnancy

1996-11-27 Thread Gerald Levy
On the issue of whether teen pregnancy is a "social problem", one can support the *right* of teenage women to have children and _still_ note that it is (or can be) a social problem. It _can_ be a problem for the living standard and welfare of the young mother and her child. It can (and this

[PEN-L:8014] Re: vile behavior

1996-12-31 Thread Gerald Levy
Rosser Jr, John Barkley wrote: Louis Proyect is a snitch, a ratfink, a stool pigeon, an informer. Not only that, he is proud of it and brags about it. What Louis P. does is that when he is especially annoyed with someone, he posts their internet postings to their professional

[PEN-L:7891] Re: Scandal in Norw. Secret Police - and a question re USA and others

1996-12-18 Thread Gerald Levy
Trond Andresen wrote: So i am now asking you guys out there, especially in the U.S.: Have individuals on the left in your country been allowed access to files on themselves with the (secret) police, at least such files that have been illegally created? It is (or was) possible to obtain

[PEN-L:7539] Re: On Marxism

1996-11-22 Thread Gerald Levy
Michael Hoover wrote: check the forward to Hal Draper's "Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution" Vol 2...forward is entitled "How Not to Quote Marx"...Michael Or check-out Ch. 1 of Joseph O'Malley and Keith Algozin ed. _Rubel on Karl Marx_ (Cambridge, CUP, 1981). to what end?...my

[PEN-L:7717] Re: Fwd: No More Econ Ph.D's

1996-12-03 Thread Gerald Levy
Hm, Jason, do you think this quote is referring to Chicago or the New School? maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think you should ask Stephen Roach, Maggie. A few comments: (1) A lot of those who receive PhDs in economics are less than desired by Wall Street investment firms. Perhaps

[PEN-L:7904] Re: suspending pen-l

1996-12-19 Thread Gerald Levy
I know it's impolite to write to this address for this, but can somebody tell me how to suspend my pen-l list over the holiday so that my mailbox doesn't jam up? Many thanks, Paul Cheney Since others may have the same question, I will respond to all: To suspend your mail send a message to

[PEN-L:7924] Louis N Proyent Speaks

1996-12-20 Thread Gerald Levy
Louis Proyect wrote: What I lacked in knowledge I more than made up for in high-intensity nastiness. I am as much of a skunk as ever. Some people don't know that much about me, but Peter Burns knows enough to realize that "collegial" is not my style. I go straight for the jugular.

[PEN-L:8029] Re: contingent workers in academia

1997-01-01 Thread Gerald Levy
On Wed, 1 Jan 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a son with a Ph D in economics and several years experience in teaching and research. He is teaching on a one year term in a Canadian university and earns less than a daughter who is fresh out of a fourth year degree in geology and has

[PEN-L:8039] Re: contingent work

1997-01-01 Thread Gerald Levy
Doug Henwood wrote: Let's do a bit of class analysis. You're a good bourgeois employer. Don't you want your government to collect accurate information on the state of the labor market? Don't you want to get some sense of its structure? Don't you want to know what prevailing practices are -

[PEN-L:8043] Re: contingent work

1997-01-01 Thread Gerald Levy
Doug Henwood wrote: You, the "good bourgeois employer", may want that information but you also have an interest in labor and the poor *not* having accurate information. Yes. So you publish it in places that workers and the poor can't easily get to, [...] The "good bourgeois employer" knows

[PEN-L:8177] Re: Fwd: Re: long waves -- and a better question

1997-01-11 Thread Gerald Levy
Maggie wrote: I think with the case of computers that most businesses truly did not realize how they could be applied to their particular circumstances for many years. While I agree with your general point that historically one can observe different paces associated with the diffusion of

[PEN-L:8208] RE: Marx on interest rates

1997-01-13 Thread Gerald Levy
DICKENS, EDWIN wrote: I think there is a good reason why Marx did not have a complete theory of the interest rate--namely, Marx's initial results prompted him to postpone further consideration of the issue until he got to his planned book on the state. snip After abandoning his initial

[PEN-L:8240] Euphoria, NO!, Wrecking, YES!

1997-01-15 Thread Gerald Levy
Michael -- I thought you negotiated a deal for Shawgi Tell to post 2-3 times per week. Yet, he has been posting 2-3 (or more) messages/day. -- A non-euphoric, Jerry Shawgi Tell University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:8240] Euphoria, NO!, Wrecking, YES!

1997-01-15 Thread Gerald Levy
Michael -- I thought you negotiated a deal for Shawgi Tell to post 2-3 times per week. Yet, he has been posting 2-3 (or more) messages/day. -- A non-euphoric, Jerry Shawgi Tell University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:8208] RE: Marx on interest rates

1997-01-13 Thread Gerald Levy
DICKENS, EDWIN wrote: I think there is a good reason why Marx did not have a complete theory of the interest rate--namely, Marx's initial results prompted him to postpone further consideration of the issue until he got to his planned book on the state. snip After abandoning his initial

[PEN-L:8456] Re: Is this a consensus?

1997-02-04 Thread Gerald Levy
Tom Walker wrote: Two years from now you won't be able to find an economist anywhere who will admit to having believed in the 'natural rate of unemployment'. You underestimate the ideological component in this concept. *Whatever happens* in the next two years there will be economists who

[PEN-L:8466] Re: intern needed

1997-02-05 Thread Gerald Levy
Doug Henwood wrote: Being the petty capitalist exploiter of youthful labor that I am (hi Jerry Levy!) I'm in desperate need of a reporter/researcher/intern. $50 for 5-10 hours a week of work. Must be in NYC and have access to a good library. Hi Doug! How generous of you to offer $5-10/hr.

[PEN-L:9699] Re: Globaloney

1997-04-28 Thread Gerald Levy
"... recent technical innovations in communication and transportation are of an incremental character and are therefore relatively insignificant." I'm not exactly sure how "recent" is defined above, but wasn't the development of the "chip", i.e. the microprocessor, something more than an

[PEN-L:9675] Re: more Peru

1997-04-27 Thread Gerald Levy
Michael Perelman wrote: By the way, I was saddened to see the MRTA written off as pathetic losers on pen-l. Nonetheless, it was most revealing _about some Shining Path supporters_ that they actually _celebrated_ the death of the MRTA rebels ("another obstacle out of the way" or words to that

[PEN-L:9428] Re: text book hell

1997-04-09 Thread Gerald Levy
Michael Perelman wrote: I am trying to find a book to supplement the garbage texts that give students an idea about what is going on. I have used Wallace Peterson's The Silent Depression and before that Barlett and Steele. Any suggestions? You could check-out Michael Perelman's _The

[PEN-L:9614] Job openings at QMW

1997-04-23 Thread Gerald Levy
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 10:24:19 +0100 (BST) From: "S.Mohun" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Job openings at QMW snip Dear Colleague Please find below an advertisement for at least 3 Lectureships which I would be grateful if you would bring to the attention of

[PEN-L:9565] Re: Primer on Neo-Liberalism (fwd)

1997-04-19 Thread Gerald Levy
On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, Chris Johnston wrote: Came through a while back... -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 15:22:04 -0800 From: D Shniad [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip 29 August 1996 WHAT IS "NEO-LIBERALISM"? A brief definition for activists by Elizabeth Martinez

[PEN-L:9562] Graduate Employees Win at U. of Illinois!!!

1997-04-19 Thread Gerald Levy
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 17:55:21 -0500 (CDT) From: Dennis Grammenos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: BREAKING NEWS: Graduate Employees Win at U. of Illinois!!! Greetings, It is my honor to announce to you that the Graduate Employees' Organization (GEO) at the U.

[PEN-L:9536] Re: more linguistic puzzles

1997-04-16 Thread Gerald Levy
Colin Danby wrote: Needless confusion was sown when the Chilean economist Alejandro Foxley published _Latin American Experiments in Neoconservative Economics_ in 1983; its Spanish version, of course, was _Experimentos neoliberales en America Latina_. Foxley must have felt at the time that

[PEN-L:8906] Re: new SSA?

1997-03-14 Thread Gerald Levy
Jim Devine wrote: The actual development of working class movements is much less predictable than the development of capital. Yeah, but the prediction of the actual development of capital hasn't been that easy either. Perhaps it would be better for Marxists if they got out of the predictive

[PEN-L:8780] Re: request

1997-02-27 Thread Gerald Levy
I am trying to get hold of a paper or book that Anwar Shaikh published in 1978. It was called 'National Income Accounts and Marxian Categories' - I believe it was published by the New School for Social Research. Gerry Cotterell You would be better advised to obtain a copy of the more

[PEN-L:8548] Re: Let's settle down

1997-02-10 Thread Gerald Levy
Firstly, I have too much respect for this list to answer Proyect, the anti-labor snitch, here. There will be (more) flames, but it will be on the undead list called marxism-international where it belongs. Secondly, I respect and admire Michael P and, for that reason also, will not burden this

[PEN-L:8676] Re: request for help with sources - 1

1997-02-17 Thread Gerald Levy
DOUG ORR wrote: One final question on this topic. I remember someone who has done a lot of work on this topic is a woman named Cheryl P. Anyone would can help me with her last name would be appreciated. Payer Jerry

[PEN-L:8730] asteriod political economy

1997-02-19 Thread Gerald Levy
Max Sawicky wrote, Of course, when an asteroid exceeding about 2 mi. in diameter hits the earth, it will have paid to borrow after all, since much of the consequent interest payments will be avoided. You're taking the plot lines for recent made-for-tv movies a little too much to heart.

[PEN-L:8999] Re: speaking of market socialism

1997-03-18 Thread Gerald Levy
Michael Perelman wrote: Maybe we could redo the old sci-fi classic: invasion of the brain snatchers. Wasn't it invasion of the _body_ snatchers? Besides, there was a re-make of the classic movie in the early '80's (?) with Donald Sutherland. The original was better (although I liked the

[PEN-L:9024] Re: Socialist Scholars Conference

1997-03-20 Thread Gerald Levy
Louis Proyect wrote: There is a political current emerging around journals such as Socialist Register, Monthly Review and the German magazine "Socialismus" that will be more and more visible at these sorts of venues. The first couple of times I saw this misspelling I let it pass, thinking

[PEN-L:9046] Re: Spelling Socialismus

1997-03-20 Thread Gerald Levy
Rosser Jr, John Barkley wrote: Heck, I'll butt in here. Louis P. asked me off list to use my near minimal influence with Jerry to get him to calm down. snip Please calm down, Jerry. Although Michael would prefer that I not continue this thread, I think a reply is in order. To

[PEN-L:9073] Re: Spelling Socialismus

1997-03-21 Thread Gerald Levy
Hinrich Kuhls wrote: Louis Proyect's brief report on the Rethinking Marxism Conference "Politics and Languages of Contemporary Marxism" has been welcome as one of the little bricks that are needed to end the ignorance regarding the issues being discussed by the Left in different countries.

[PEN-L:9094] Re: The Sozialismus and Social Text Af

1997-03-24 Thread Gerald Levy
James Michael Craven wrote: I would not characterize this so-called "scandal" of having a "biased" commentor commenting on this conference as a "scandal of international proportions." In the global scheme of things, this journal, this conference and even this "biased" commentator on this

[PEN-L:9106] Re: The Sozialismus and Social Text Affairs Compared

1997-03-24 Thread Gerald Levy
Rosser Jr, John Barkley wrote: If _Monthly Review_ were to have an article written about a conference of Austrian economists, would you insist that they have Greg Ransom do it, or alternatively somebody utterly bland with no known views on Austrian economics or anything else? I think

[PEN-L:9238] Re: entertainment??

1997-03-30 Thread Gerald Levy
The WSJ, March 20, contained a special section on Entertainment and Technology. One article, "Where the Action is" (p. R19) about San Francisco's SOMA (South of Market) "Multimedia Gulch," discussed the development of interactive stories, and contained the following: "One such story is an

[PEN-L:9145] Re: Final thoughts on utopianism

1997-03-25 Thread Gerald Levy
Louis N Proyect wrote: (I would urge people to shy away from Robin Hahnel's work, however, since he is now revealed as an intellectual snob. Isn't it funny how beneath the tie-dyed grooviness of a Z Magazine figure, there lurks somebody who wants to rub your nose in their curricula vitae.)

[PEN-L:9115] Re: M-I: Meszaros

1997-03-24 Thread Gerald Levy
Doug Henwood wrote: Jerry, I know you're trying to be constructive after your recent personality crisis - focusing on the positive can be very therapeutic - You certainly have a way of raising the quality of discussion, Doug. Jerry

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