[PEN-L:6908] RE: Old foggies/fogeys

1999-05-17 Thread Tom Walker
e same way that the Christian church became an apologetics for the [Holy] Roman Empire. Yes, substitutionism. I hear there's also been an ocean of bloodletting against the name of Marx. I suspect that there would have been as much had there never been a Marx. regards, Tom Walker http://www

[PEN-L:6890] RE: Old foggies/fogeys

1999-05-16 Thread Tom Walker
lish) bourgeois. This gives the accurate meaning and sense of this term without the ridiculously invidious use of "petty," which I agree with Peter Dorman has been horribly misused by many people. regards, Tom Walker http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/covenant.htm

[PEN-L:6859] RE: Old foggies/fogeys

1999-05-15 Thread Tom Walker
ajors, departments had to hire a few lefties to make their programs more interesting. I was hired for this purpose. regards, Tom Walker http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/covenant.htm

[PEN-L:6810] Re: Old foggies/fogeys

1999-05-14 Thread Tom Walker
carping on this theme is boring to those who would distinguish between "the informed critique" and my inchoate rage at the deep structures of oppression. Long live econometrics! Long live NAIRU! Long live tenure for a handful of well-behaved radicals! regards, Tom Walker http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/covenant.htm

[PEN-L:6768] Re: HOW NATO THE MEDIA MISREPRESENTED THE CHINESE EMBASSY BOMBING

1999-05-13 Thread Tom Walker
, and that this nonsense, multiplied a thousand-fold, forms a kind of smog, preventing us from seeing the surrounding mountains of evidence: that the US government has murdered people and lied about the deed. regards, Tom Walker http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/covenant.htm

[PEN-L:6743] Re: una preguntita

1999-05-12 Thread Tom Walker
n't looked at comparative labour force participation in the U.S. lately, but my impression was it hasn't fallen to the same extent as in Canada. Is that right, Doug? regards, Tom Walker http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/covenant.htm

[PEN-L:6294] Re: Compounding folly: the Kelvinator fetish

1999-05-01 Thread Tom Walker
rd Kelvin, circa 1891-94 "Scientific wealth tends to accumulate according to the law of compound interest." -- Lord Kelvin, 1871 "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." -- Lord Kelvin, 1895 regards, Tom Walker http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/covenant.htm

[PEN-L:6296] TimeWork 10K

1999-05-01 Thread Tom Walker
May 1st, International Workers' Day established to honour the struggle for the eight-hours day, is an appropriate occasion for the TimeWork Web to pass the 10,000 hit mark since July 29, 1997 when it moved to it's new location at: http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/worksite.htm regards, Tom

[PEN-L:6330] Re: Kosovo, was Compounding folly: the Kelvinator fetish

1999-05-02 Thread Tom Walker
e Job Network is performing better than the CES which it replaced. 13The Government welcomes input from the public on important policy issues and appreciates the time and effort you have taken to write. Yours sincerely * regards, Tom Walker http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/covenant.htm

[PEN-L:6356] Re: Another Note---severed heads in the garden

1999-05-03 Thread Tom Walker
compliant and had to be used up before the end of the year. regards, Tom Walker http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/covenant.htm

[PEN-L:6391] Re: questions on modest proposals

1999-05-04 Thread Tom Walker
ief that things like "intrinsic rights to certain goods, moral reasons, social concerns, lack of adequate markets, etc. could be turned around and used more or less effectively against every Bank proposal for liberalization." Exactly; as they should be. regards, Tom Walker http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/covenant.htm

[PEN-L:6430] Re: Death of 'Progress' (was Re: modernism)

1999-05-05 Thread Tom Walker
to employ the network of lawyers, courts, police and prisons whose raison d'etre is combating the crime. That principle can be taken as universal. It is not easy to reconcile the contradictions, but it is so much harder to stop doing it that it makes it look easy by comparison. regards, Tom

[PEN-L:6432] Re: NATO general: Milosevic may succeed

1999-05-05 Thread Tom Walker
ld this do to the air transportation industry? What if Campbell bragged that only six out of every 15,000 cans of its mushroom soup contained the botulin toxin? regards, Tom Walker http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/covenant.htm

[PEN-L:6507] Ropes Lampposts; was Satire Polemic

1999-05-07 Thread Tom Walker
n because mentioning specifics could make one subject to criminal prosecution. regards, Tom Walker http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/covenant.htm

[PEN-L:6515] Re: from SLATE

1999-05-07 Thread Tom Walker
. But neither of these is the paper's lead editorial. That honor goes to the prose addressing another, apparently more serious, question: what can be done to make the NBA [National Basketball Association] exciting again? Howzabout exhibition games against teams from the American Legion? regards, Tom

[PEN-L:6586] Re: on econometrics

1999-05-10 Thread Tom Walker
like astrology and phrenology. regards, Tom Walker http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/covenant.htm

[PEN-L:6598] Re: on econometrics

1999-05-10 Thread Tom Walker
rics in _this_ world is to obfuscate the politics and to present non-mainstream analyses with formidable barriers to entry into the economic discourse. regards, Tom Walker http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/covenant.htm

[PEN-L:6636] Re: on econometrics

1999-05-11 Thread Tom Walker
ine thesis): 'no experimental result can kill a theory: any theory can be saved from counter-instances either by some auxiliary hypothesis or by a suitable reinterpretation of its terms'. And, because econometrics is non-experimental, the scope for such theory-rescue is widened considerably. regards,

[PEN-L:6646] On alienation (was On econometrics)

1999-05-11 Thread Tom Walker
herapeutic rather than politically efficacious, it may well deepen alienation. regards, Tom Walker http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/covenant.htm

[PEN-L:6652] Deadbeat America: the end of deficit hegemony?

1999-05-11 Thread Tom Walker
the smirking reflex of a deadbeat. China/U.S. trade probably won't come to a screeching halt. But that image of the smirking deadbeat won't fade. regards, Tom Walker http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/covenant.htm

[PEN-L:6659] Re: on econometrics

1999-05-11 Thread Tom Walker
rticular econometric techniques if they can be rescued from the overarching context of misuse. Even phrenology contained some useful observations about the localization of functions in the brain. regards, Tom Walker http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/covenant.htm

[PEN-L:6670] Re: on econometrics

1999-05-11 Thread Tom Walker
nd to discriminate between who said what to whom? regards, Tom Walker http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/covenant.htm

[PEN-L:6690] Re: Econometrics

1999-05-11 Thread Tom Walker
, there is the lump-of-labour fallacy hoax and the economic growth hoax, both still very much alive and going strong. regards, Tom Walker http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/covenant.htm

[PEN-L:6647] Re: Embassy Attack Fallout

1999-05-11 Thread Tom Walker
r of China and say, `Stop it and stop it right now,''' he said. ``We have apologized, it's tragic, now it's over.'' Encapsulated in the two quotations above, the entire spectrum of American political hubris -- pragmatism and belligerence. Smart bombs and stupid intelligence. regards, Tom W

[PEN-L:6702] Economists' Call to Stop the Bombing (fwd)

1999-05-11 Thread Tom Walker
, Tom Walker http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/covenant.htm

[PEN-L:6501] Rehabilitation of S.J. Chapman's Hours

1999-05-07 Thread Tom Walker
ther lists, scholars and individuals concerned about employment, equity, working conditions, economic growth, productivity, social justice and intellectual freedom. regards, Tom Walker http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/covenant.htm

[PEN-L:6364] Re: questions on modest proposals

1999-05-03 Thread Tom Walker
wrote an essay entitled "A modest proposal", which in similar fashion, I'm told, took classicial economics to some (horrifically) logical conculsions. Anyone know about that piece? is it "out there" in cyber spaces somehwere? regards, Tom Walker http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/covenant.htm

[PEN-L:6311] Re: venting in frustration.

1999-05-02 Thread Tom Walker
it's self-deconstructed. As an intellect-celeb, Sontag strikes me as the kind of exhibitionist cigarette smoker who takes fastidious pride in the length of her ash. regards, Tom Walker http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/covenant.htm

Re: the crash and politics

1997-10-31 Thread Tom Walker
that forty years of productive overcapacity need not *necessarily* result in sustained financial doldrums nor a fall in prices. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ knoW Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [E

Re: [PEN-L] Re: everything's groovy

1997-10-29 Thread Tom Walker
borrow *more* money to put it *into* the market. There is considerable choice on that one. A Ponzi scheme that doesn't attract new investors is a sad thing to behold. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ knoW Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [E

Re: everything's groovy

1997-10-28 Thread Tom Walker
Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ knoW Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296 ^^^ The TimeWork Web: http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/

Re: Any UFFO's? (Unidentified Flying-Financier Objects)

1997-10-28 Thread Tom Walker
essors of the program will be encouraged to copy it, pass it along and to agitate for their union to adopt REAL TIME contract costing. Am I kidding? Ask Sid. (well maybe just a little with the capitalizations ;-)) Regards, Tom Walker ^^^

Re: Any UFFO's? (Unidentified Flying-Financier Objects)

1997-10-27 Thread Tom Walker
A c-c-c-correction . . . p-p-p-profit t-t-t-taking . . . n-n-n-nervousness . .. . n-n-n-nothing more. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ knoW Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296

Shorter Workweek: European Trade Union Confederation

1997-10-26 Thread Tom Walker
the development and organization of the negotiations on the reduction of working time. Brussels, 6 October 1997 PR 23-97 Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ knoW Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296

Re: Info on the Economics of the Family, Present and Future?

1997-10-20 Thread Tom Walker
the sort of thing I am looking for. Thanks. Larry Shute Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ knoW Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296 ^^^ The TimeWork Web: http

[PEN-L:13001] Hey Kids!

1997-10-17 Thread Tom Walker
ge decoder ring? There's an unlimited potential here. How about "derivatives trading for the unborn" from the Wall Street Christian Ministry? (BTW: the PEN-L header on this message is a forgery ;-)) Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ knoW Ware

Re: re Tom on Zizek and speech

1997-10-10 Thread Tom Walker
l you to consider your MESSAGE, AUDIENCE and PURPOSE. "Ten thousand proletarians" is not an audience, it's bombast. "Pen-l subscribers", "Valis" or "the editor of the San Francisco Examiner" is an audience. When you write to be understood by ever

Ride free or die!

1998-01-02 Thread Tom Walker
ut for substantially more than a ratio of 2:1. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296 ^^^ The TimeWork Web: http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/

Re: utopias

1998-01-02 Thread Tom Walker
n aside, I'd reckon that, given a choice in the structure of rewards (but not in their actual distribution), people would opt for much less inequality than now exists but for substantially more than a ratio of 2:1. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Commu

Re: Peter Drucker II

1998-02-17 Thread Tom Walker
his best to astonish him with some new kind of invention, for all wanted to get him on their side. . ." Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C.,

Re: Peter Drucker I

1998-02-17 Thread Tom Walker
much time and energy to building a shared vision of cash flow. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296 ^^^ Th

Re: Peter Drucker

1998-02-16 Thread Tom Walker
ship of the large industrial enterprise. Of course, now that we've reverted to pristine 19th century competitive capitalism, all that's behind us. We wouldn't want to ask about management-as-a- labour-process and its real subsumption under capital, would we? Regards, Tom Walker ^^^

Re: productive/unproductive labour

1998-02-16 Thread Tom Walker
s very much a question whether the mode of production we've now got can be said to still follow the "logic of capital." Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C.,

Re: productive/unproductive labour

1998-02-14 Thread Tom Walker
stion!): Is the market a commodity? Sixty points for the correct answer. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296 ^^^ The TimeWork Web: http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/

Not clear on the concept dept.

1998-02-13 Thread Tom Walker
12:44 US REPUBLICANS DISCUSSING NEW ABORTION LANGUAGE IN IMF DEBATE. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296

A saw off?

1998-01-16 Thread Tom Walker
07:55 INDONESIA RUPIAH FALLS 7% TO 8400. 07:22 INDONESIA STOCKS UP 6.9%. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296

Re: Anarchist Cookbook for 21st Century (formerly: Our National Emergency:...Leading to What?)

1998-01-14 Thread Tom Walker
advice on what agency to apply to for a project grant to write Das Kapital. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296

Canadian Foundation for Economic Education

1998-01-14 Thread Tom Walker
n, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and the Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association. The Foundation's mandate is to increase awareness and understanding of economic matters, both nationally and on a personal level." Regards, Tom Walker ^

Cutting the Gordian naught (was lean and mean)

1998-01-14 Thread Tom Walker
ical party. ``Union leaders will understand better the need to accept layoffs if you explain,'' the statement by the National Congress for New Politics quoted Kim as saying during a lunchtime meeting with Camdessus. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know

Re: Lean and mean

1998-01-13 Thread Tom Walker
the lot, depending on methods employed. 1. agreed, but not necessary. 2. perhaps, but again, not necessary. 3. yes, but precise calculation not necessary. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [E

Re: Lean and mean

1998-01-11 Thread Tom Walker
hat follow? Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296 ^^^ The TimeWork Web: http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/

Lean and mean

1998-01-11 Thread Tom Walker
y shift them [Clark 1923, 402]. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296 ^^^ The TimeWork Web: http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/

Re: The ghost in the mirror

1998-01-11 Thread Tom Walker
safety net and 3. dismantling the safety net reminds me of the cartoon image of crawling out on a limb of a tree and sawing off the limb. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [E

Re: The ghost in the mirror

1998-01-10 Thread Tom Walker
Doug Henwood wrote, Tom Walker wrote: The lesson of the Asian crisis is that the limit of fictional accounting has been reached. Humpty-dumpty has fallen off the wall. How do you know? Why can't the big boys restructure Asia into a nicely subordinate region just like they did Latin America

Greenspan on Deflation

1998-01-10 Thread Tom Walker
8 Dow Jones Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296 ^^^ The TimeWork Web:

The ghost in the mirror

1998-01-10 Thread Tom Walker
ing to such a distorted view is to further depreciate labour. The lesson of the Asian crisis is that the limit of fictional accounting has been reached. Humpty-dumpty has fallen off the wall. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communicati

Re: Drawing a Line

1998-01-08 Thread Tom Walker
in E. Lippincott. New York: Augustus M. Kelly, 1970 "No Escaping the Financial: The Economic Referent in South Africa" http://les.mcc.ac.uk/IPA/papers/cooper57.html "The Rhetoric of Accounting in Poland: Will the Expert be On Tap or

Unalawyer?

1998-01-08 Thread Tom Walker
Headline: UNABOMBER SUSPECT TO UNDERGO PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING TO BE OWN LAWYER. Would that be the Psy-Bar Exam? Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296

Asian economic crisis the US

1998-01-08 Thread Tom Walker
aysian ringgit--4.3657 to the dollar (the lowest since it was floated in 1973); Thai baht--54.35 to the dollar; and the Philippine peso--44 to the dollar (the lowest ever). Bloomberg News, "4 Asian Currencies Plunge to Record Lows," NYT, Jan 6, 1998: C-2. I hope this has helped

BANKS RESPOND TO CANADIANS' NEED FOR BETTER ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL INFORMATION

1998-01-13 Thread Tom Walker
majority of people (83 per cent) has only limited or extremely limited economic knowledge, according to the survey's overall index. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 68

South Korea Labor Update

1998-01-14 Thread Tom Walker
/ Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296 ^^^ The TimeWork Web: http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/

Re: Anarchist Cookbook for 21st Century (formerly: Our National Emergency:...Leading to What?)

1998-01-14 Thread Tom Walker
gets rather tiresome on a global scale. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296 ^^^ The TimeWork Web: http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/

Re: Anarchist Cookbook for 21st Century (formerly: Our National

1998-01-14 Thread Tom Walker
oblem." And that only if a feasibility study could showed a solid prospect for cost recovery through ad sales. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604

Re: JQ Wilson on the Unabomber

1998-01-15 Thread Tom Walker
him from Vienna, and finally to a lonely death in an insane asylum. But his brilliant work lived on and changed the face of medicine for all the ages." This version makes it sound like poor Ignaz hitched a ride to the edge of town with an old soldier. R

The Hong Kong peg?

1998-01-16 Thread Tom Walker
n within the next 30 days. The Hong Kong dollar will then go into free fall, sending yet another shock wave around the world that will hardly help financial markets from Tokyo to New York." Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communic

Re: Lost in nostalgia

1998-01-16 Thread Tom Walker
Max Sawicky wrote, Once again, your grip on the zeitgeist is wanting. My grip on the zeitgeist is vise like. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296

Re: The Hong Kong peg?

1998-01-16 Thread Tom Walker
Doug Henwood wrote, It could happen that way for sure. But Erdman has predicted 3 out of the last 0 depressions. Quantitatively that looks like a .000 average. But qualitatively it may still be better than predicting 0 out of the last 3 depressions. Regards, Tom Walker

Re: The Hong Kong peg?

1998-01-18 Thread Tom Walker
quilibrium around the fundamental values. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296 ^^^ The TimeWork Web: http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/

IRS and Y2K (fwd)

1998-01-21 Thread Tom Walker
". Co-author of "The Best Legal Ways to Avoid Capital Gains Taxes" and "The Best Legal Ways To Avoid Estate Taxes". http://www.rpifs.com * email [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Research Press, POB 8194, Prairie Village, KS 66208 (913) 362 - 9667 Regards, Tom Walker ^^

Re: on the meaning of success

1998-01-22 Thread Tom Walker
als to enforce the law. Maybe the movie Wag the Dog has it all wrong. The imbroglio over Clinton's sexual indiscretions may be serving to cover up the really impeachable offense: high treason. I say, "Nevermind the prez's bollocks, impeach Rubin." With officials like Rubin, who needs bl

Re: 1000 multinationals will soon meet - action (fwd)

1998-01-22 Thread Tom Walker
llas. Straight From the CEO will be in bookstores starting next March. To reserve your copy NOW, simply fill out the online form. You will be notified as soon as the book is available for purchase. "mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]&q

Re: Japan's MoF

1998-01-23 Thread Tom Walker
? (I'm serious, it'd be a great publicity stunt.) Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296 ^^^ The TimeWork Web: http

ForniGate?

1998-01-23 Thread Tom Walker
ayers from getting their fingers burnt. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296 ^^^ The TimeWork Web: http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/

Re: French unemployed movement

1998-01-25 Thread Tom Walker
s the "gold" remains in the ground beneath the Sumatran rain forest. A motif for Davos: 1,000 helicopters circling over the Swiss "rain forest" ferrying 1,000 CEOs to their final bungee jump. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know War

Re: French unemployed movement

1998-01-25 Thread Tom Walker
, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296 ^^^ The TimeWork Web: http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/

Re: Iraq crisis

1998-01-26 Thread Tom Walker
As for ForniGate (as it showed up in the L.A. TIMES this a.m., proving once again pen-l's, or at least Tom's, absolute ability to predict the future) Tomorrow it will rain. Somewhere. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications

Re: Lewis Clark

1998-01-26 Thread Tom Walker
The real question: does Lewis Clark play an allegorical East/West role orthogonal to Mason Dixon's North/South? Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296

Flat earth (was French unemployed movement)

1998-01-26 Thread Tom Walker
consequential niches of production? Talk about the tail wagging the dog. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296 ^^^ Th

Chernobyling (fwd)

1998-01-26 Thread Tom Walker
God help us all. David Woodill Orillia, Ontario [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296 ^^

Re: Asian economic crisis the US

1998-01-27 Thread Tom Walker
l rules re. disclosure, bankruptcy processes, supervision of banks, accounting standards and securities laws. Westerners train locals accordingly. 9. G8 nations, especially selfish ol' Japan, offer open markets and at least growth maintenance. Well, waddya reckon? Cheers, Rob. Regards,

Who is this Greenspan guy anyway?

1998-01-29 Thread Tom Walker
10:32 GREENSPAN: SAYS MODEL OF US SL SITUATION APPLICABLE TO ASIA. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296

Re: gathering the news (version 3.1)

1998-02-01 Thread Tom Walker
the tension between the noncognate pair position/possession. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296 ^^^ The TimeWork Web:

Re: Santa Fe-Krugman-Arthur

1998-02-05 Thread Tom Walker
ic) Prize. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296 ^^^ The TimeWork Web: http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/

Re: In Defense of Latin

1998-02-06 Thread Tom Walker
Paint me a picture, please. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296 ^^^ The TimeWork Web: http://www.vcn.bc.ca

Latin? With prose like this who needs it?

1998-02-07 Thread Tom Walker
what sense are "creating wealth" and "creating jobs" alternative foci for government? 5. How does one model "inevitability" mathematically? 6. How does one define an "aggregate standard of living"? 7. Who wrote the sentence? 8. In what city is the Federal Reserve

The Cause of the Unemployed (fwd)

1998-02-09 Thread Tom Walker
104, rue des Couronnes Tel : +33 1 44 62 63 44 F-75020 Paris France Fax : +33 1 44 62 63 45 e-mail : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mygale.org/02/ras/marches/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (information en français, lecture seule) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (information in en

KCTU resolution for a General Strike

1998-02-11 Thread Tom Walker
wholeheartedly do not hope that their rejection of our proposal will cause unnecessary situation. February 10, 1998 Emergency Executive Committee of KCTU Chairperson DAN, Byung-Ho Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications

Re: Concealed unemployment in US?

1998-02-11 Thread Tom Walker
re ignorant we become; the less possible it is to even decide whether we are better or worse off. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296

17 nanograms of fame

1998-02-12 Thread Tom Walker
Committee and the International Monetary Fund both begin with the SAME WORD! Coincidence? Does the IMF ask bankers to pee into a paper cup? Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604

565 Groups say No to the Multilateral Agreement On Investment (fwd)

1998-02-13 Thread Tom Walker
: 1 202-783-7400, ext. 209 fax: 1 202-783-0444 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296 ^^^ The TimeWork Web: http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/

Re: productive/unproductive labour

1998-02-15 Thread Tom Walker
t the function of the capitalist becoming fully rationalized as a social labour process. The image that occurs to me is of Oroboros, the mythological snake devouring its own tail. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communicati

Re: productive/unproductive labour

1998-02-16 Thread Tom Walker
e response, that's why it fascinates me. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296 ^^^ The TimeWork Web: http://www

subsumed

1998-02-16 Thread Tom Walker
ak." Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296 ^^^ The TimeWork Web: http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/

Re: subsumption

1998-02-17 Thread Tom Walker
process. The capitalist *mode of production* can't occur without formal or real subsumption and the *specifically capitalist mode of production* can't occur without real subsumption. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver

Re: productive/unproductive labour

1998-02-15 Thread Tom Walker
need yours to point out that that's what you've done. BTW, I was also having a little fun with "erasure", which as Doug Henwood probably knows, is a motif popular with the post modernists. But enough scraping. After all, to erase is human . . . Regards, Tom Walker ^^^

productive/unproductive labour

1998-02-14 Thread Tom Walker
Those brief, parenthetical -- almost off hand -- remarks appeared to be a Rosetta Stone for deciphering the hieroglyphic of capital. Almost. This particular Rosetta Stone comes with a curse: he who deciphers the hieroglyphic of capital is condemned thereafter to &quo

A propos, Bill Gates

1998-02-09 Thread Tom Walker
eu de quoi rire pour deux jours... Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296 ^^^ The TimeWork Web: http://www.vcn.bc.ca

Re: Latin? With prose like this who needs it?

1998-02-08 Thread Tom Walker
for carnal production and consumption -- is straight out of gnostic antinomianism. It would be funny if it wasn't policy creed. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296

Re: Industrial Reserve Army

1998-02-04 Thread Tom Walker
Max Sawicky wrote, I tried that argument about 30 years ago but didn't have much success with it. Hope it works better for you. But Max, did you go back up the mountain a second time? Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications

Re: Industrial Reserve Army

1998-02-04 Thread Tom Walker
are socially productive "unemployed" but would be much less socially productive if they were employed. And I'm not kidding. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604

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