).
By the end of the film, Zapruder realizes that the shadowy figure is
Zapruder's own literary agent, Luc Goldberg, and that the film in his
position is the highest expression of self-valorizing capital.
Any literary agents out there? I'll be home most of the afternoon.
Regards,
Tom Walker
upon which the panting, grunting, slurping content is draped.
And why has no one mentioned the eerily hilarious coincidence that "Deep
Throat" was the Woodward and Bernstein code name for their Watergate informant?
Regards,
Tom Walker
^
Jim Devine wrote,
as usual, time will tell.
Time never tells. People just move on to something else. Whoops, that's two
thoughts for the day. We're over our quota.
Regards,
Tom Walker
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pay Rogers to do
so? Or at the very least, that they should be paid less for working more
hours since it costs Rogers more to provide less service? I wonder if they
might be thought of as "deconstruction workers"?
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Tom Walker
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ging a dog. There is no dog.
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n't be got somehow,
only that it might cost three or four times it's price in pork. I hear a lot
of people don't even read the Wall Street Journal or the Washington Post.
Heck, a lot of people don't even read.
The fire next time might come in Bellevue, Wash.
Regards,
as
everyone knows, loose financial markets guarantee optimum investment
levels, and the best assurance of a healthy labor market is the freedom to
fire. Don't you read the papers?
What makes you think the restructuring will work so smoothly, Doug?
Regards,
Tom Walker
"He noted that year after year we [in the US] invent a new pattern"
of ethics.
The pattern of ethics in US public life is remarkably stable -- little or
none. It's the pattern of moral posturing that is ephemeral.
Regards,
11:18 W. HOUSE OFFICIAL DENIES MARKET RUMOR OF TREASURY'S RUBIN TO RESIGN.
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Tom Walker
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you
meet Buddha on the road, kill him."
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the rationale for holding back
from the market. Is the fed up to the challenge of a long, slow Oct.
1987?
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Tom Walker
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to draw one to one -- or even approximate --
correspondences between "nominal" and "real" values.
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Tom Walker
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se to the current crisis (that
is to say the current current crisis) that moves swiftly in the direction of
greater 'harmonization'?
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Tom Walker
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12:02 NASA CONFIRMS SEN. JOHN GLENN TO GO INTO SPACE AS PAYLOAD SPECIALIST.
Couldn't have anything to do with nostalgia, could it? What does it say
about the public relations of the space program -- until now the epitome of
futurism -- when it begins to recycle its relics?
Regards,
Tom
and agreement of all social actors was the most effective way
to enhance international confidence and attract foreign investment.
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Tom Walker
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ed on the
purchase price minus previously claimed allowable depreciation. The 30% is
way off; it still does the job.
To say that there's an element of arbitrariness in the calculation is not to
say that the calculation is arbitrary.
Regards,
Tom Walker
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expect that historical factors would
have more of an influence on design than the definition of social costs. The
definition of social costs would be more important for justifying the tax.
Or is that what you mean by design?
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Tom Walker
for the country, said a
statement by Kim's political 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
t could best respond to the terms of
the bailouts by pointing out that not only are they morally repulsive, but
they are BAD BOOKKEEPING. Essentially, this goes to the heart of the IMF's
rationale and challenges its claims of (transcendent) professional competence.
R
Metropolitan Area since World War II." He is the author of
KMU: BUILDING GENUINE TRADE UNIONISM IN THE PHILIPPINES, 1980-1994 (Quezon
City, Metro Manila: New Day Publishers, 1996), which is available through
Sulu Arts and Books in San Francisco.
Permission to repost is granted as long as su
fits on the one hand and low wages, low unemployment and low social
benefits on the other, I'd choose the later.
^
"Only in mediocre art does life unfold as fate." -- Michael Ignatieff
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hat people in mainland China cannot do as well, and on one twentieth
of our wages?
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Everywhere.
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cause, in reality, the demand for labour depends upon labour
costs and productivity, which are affected by the hours each employee works.
Tom Walker
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that an industrial millennium can be reached
by deliberately thrusting them aside.
Tom Walker
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Judith Butler is the Martha Stewart of critical cultural studies.
Tom Walker
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urity
and Stewart's postmodern urban aesthetic?
What can we make of the connection between Stewart's actual life and the
virtual life that is apparently the subject of _Martha Stewart Living_?
(from the May '98 issue of Harper's)
Tom Walker
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it is no less desirable that during those
eight hours every working-man in the country shall, using the best available
tools and machinery, and performing as much labour as he can perform without
exerting himself to an extent prejudicial to his health or inconsistent with
his reasonable comfort, produce as large an output as possible. . ."
Tom Walker
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gh changes in the real wage and through migrations of labor and
capital. Moreover, in the short run, when wages and prices are sticky, the
adjustment process can be lubricated by appropriate macroeconomic policies."
Tom Walker
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y the capitalists.
I couldn't agree more. Except to say that this is the real reason for
objecting to redistribution of work and also the explanation why the reasons
that are given are so incoherent and shallow. Why don't Samuelson and
Nordhaus come right out and say that the real problem with redistributing
work is that capitalism needs unemployment as a policy tool to keep the
workers in line? I'm sure everybody knows that anyway.
Tom Walker
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ed appointments
(or, to give a personal example, by references for fellowship applications).
Tom Walker
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3. the politically hysterical fusion of the question of the hours of work to
the old restriction of output calumny. In this final version, the alleged
"philanthopy" of version number two is reworked into a perfidious pose of
the trade unionists.
4. the selective omission of the more strident, clas
it and ostracizing anyone who raised it.
This is the question that Keynes saw as absolutely fundamental. If Mankiw is
a Keynesian, I'm a purple cow.
Tom Walker
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idence", that the adverse employment effects must not
persist in the long run.
Tom Walker
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Bradford De Long wrote,
that I do not know. Let me hunt around and see if I can find anything...
I'd be much obliged.
Tom Walker
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lower relative wages and migration of labor and capital will eventually
provide new jobs for the displaced workers."
Tom Walker
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ine from socialists, trade unionists etc. Not the least from
a certain K. Marx.
Tom Walker
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re getting somewhere. Wouldn't that Classical doctrine be what is
known as the wages-fund doctrine, Brad?
Tom Walker
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Years and years and years ago, Paul Ricoeur did a much clearer job of
analyzing "meaningful action considered as text" and provided a fuller
philosophical rationale in Time and Narrative. Ricoeur is not easy reading,
admittedly. But then again he never became a trendy pop-academic phenom,
either.
abstractions which are stable and permanent over time. She's on
to something, for sure.
Those are also the main points of modern novels.
Tom Walker
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ot;
which--thank God--means both "pope" and "potato."
Tom Walker
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t and the
growing force. But indiscriminate abuse of trade unionism as such does not
encourage the party of progress within the trade-union movement.
We are, c.,
SIDNEY AND BEATRICE WEBB.
41, Grosvenor-road, Westminster.
Tom Walker
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ive level of the weakest and most inefficient; and in its worst
aspect it amounts to deliberate cheating -- that is to say, a man accepts
wages as the price of his whole capacity and energy and gives only a half or
two-thirds of them in return.
[The article goes on, at length, to rehearse accusations about restrictive
practices in the building trades. These accusations were a common place of
Victorian anti-trade union rhetoric and were hauled out every decade or so
during the nineteenth century.]
Tom Walker
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on the Crisis in British Industry p.9 col.e
01 Apr 1902 Crisis in British Industry, Letter on p.5 col.e
01 Apr 1902 Lawrence (J.) on the Crisis in British Industry p.5 col.e
15 Apr 1902 Crisis in British Industry, Letter on p.3 col.a
06 May 1902 Crisis in British Industry p.14 col.e
e wall in the dining room in a sponged terra cotta?"
Tom Walker
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is that three to five billion (dollars) will leave Brazil today,''
said Jerome Booth, head of research at ANZ Investment Bank. ``The main
problem is a fiscal problem and a massive devaluation by itself doesn't
really help anybody.''
Tom Walker
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Two of Doug Henwood's reservations to his November 'crisis is over' (for
now) thesis were: if the Brazialian fix came unstuck and if speculative
excess returned to the financial markets. Arguably both of those have
happened -- with gusto. Are we now back full force in the crisis, Doug?
Tom
Bad "writing" might even be overstating Butler's accomplishment. It looks to
me more like a mere agglomeration of trendy nominalizations.
Tom Walker
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Is anyone familiar with Layard, Nickell, and Jackman, _Unemployment:
Macroeconomic Performance and the Labour Market_?
I would welcome your comments.
regards,
Tom Walker
t
the seemy history of the "fallacy" he circulates with such condescension. In
other words, his only alibi is that he doesn't know what he's talking about.
regards,
Tom Walker
1998 SAVINGS RATE 0.5%, LOWEST SINCE -2.1% IN 1933.
regards,
Tom Walker
m the current volume of exuberant
hyperbole, a hard rain is going to fall.
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Tom Walker
the
Indep. Counsel law: run it into the ground so everybody hates it. The
Republican goal is to strengthen the office of the Presidency in the long run.
regards,
Tom Walker
hases or higher taxes reduce
aggregate demand," the report said. Instead, it concluded, "there may be a
virtuous circle between economic growth and debt-ratio reduction."
/quote
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Tom Walker
.
Belief in the "power of reason in politics" is most akin to the fixation in
the mind of a stalker that the object of his affliction is running away from
true love. Sorry to be so bleak.
regards,
Tom Walker
to me often that my hypothesis could be wrong, even
puzzling, but I can't quite figure out why it seems to slip past without
comment.
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Tom Walker
that
openness, especially of capital markets, may mitigate the ill
effects of concentrated inherited control. If so, capital market
openness matters for reasons not captured by standard
international trade and finance models.
regards,
Tom Walker
blue dress, if not semantic clarity?
regards,
Tom Walker
What does this mean for the expression "unimpeachable source"?
regards,
Tom Walker
the smoke and mirrors are made out of smoke and
mirrors. "Corporations" are creatures of the government, legally fictional
"persons" who only exist by dint of government charter.
Who's on first?
No, he's on second, What's on first.
It's enough to make a subject yearn for an obje
972, originally 1954]
New York: Dover.
Searle, John R., "The Construction of Social Reality" [1995] New York: The
Free Press.
Searle, John R., "The Rediscovery of the Mind" [1992] Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Searle, John R., "Collective intentions and actions," ch. 19, pp. 401-415
in Philip R. Cohen, Jerry Morgan, and Martha E. Pollack (eds) "Intentions
in Communication" [1990] Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
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Tom Walker
examine the question, in every way conceivable, "Is
there a Ford in YOUR future?"
Tom Walker wrote:
michael,
Maybe that prescription robot attendent job isn't as bad as it seemed, after
all?
regards,
Tom Walker
of Technology
Summers, Anita, University of Pennsylvania
Summers, Robert, University of Pennsylvania
*Tobin, James, Yale University
Tyson, Laura D., University of California at Berkeley
Wolfe, Barbara, University of Wisconsin
_
*Nobel Prize Winner
regards,
Tom Walker
ons' outrageous comment is itself rather
intriguing: that workers choose their own hours of work based on the shape
of their preferences for consumption and leisure.
I guess that answers that.
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Tom Walker
Doug Henwood,
Even proponents have to concede that the sample size is pretty small. How
many wave cycles have there been?
Doug,
Haven't you ever heard the expression "It ain't the meat, it's the motion."
regards,
Tom Walker
ert recuperation of that subjectivity -- a
labyrinth of renunciation, projection and accusation that ultimately leaves
the plaintiff at once seemingly "innocent" and yet firmly in possession of
the goods.
The value of such a procedure lies entirely in its marginal utility.
regards,
Tom Walker
I've built a model
of a long wave up cycle generator.
Since nothing out there matches my model,
we're not in an up cycle.
Period.
(For a blueprint of the model send $1 trillion and S.A.S.E)
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Tom Walker
America maybe not.
Barkley,
Aren't you thinking of the Farina wave: "been down so long it looks like up
to me"?
regards,
Tom Walker
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, as do Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,
against them."
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Tom Walker
e stream!
I wouldn't suggest for a moment that a different strategy would be easier.
But to continue your metaphor, if the left wants to spawn, it's going to
have to _learn_ to swim against the stream.
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Tom Walker
ocial dems to admit to this, given
this country's love of small business and populist, anti-centralizing
political traditions.
Doug's idea is right on the (Bis)mark.
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Tom Walker
Banyacya warned that an endless quest for
material wealth would destroy the balance of the world;
The message of the film Koyaanisqatsi.
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Tom Walker
Jim Devine wrote,
why is it that so many people in New York are Freudians and so few in Los
Angeles? is it a simply an unexplainable matter of culture?
I suspect it's the earthquakes.
regards,
Tom Walker
Was Lacan responsible for the semantic reversal of "overdetermination"?
Actually, it was Lacan's orthodontist who first suggested the reversal.
regards,
Tom Walker
-l technical elves are giving a strong sell signal.
When people on PEN-L get interested in economic crisis, that's the time to buy.
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Tom Walker
sonry"
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Tom Walker
The prosperity covenant: how reducing work time really works to create jobs
by Tom Walker
A brief presented to the
Operation JOBS Roundtable
Vancouver, B.C.
February 19th , 1999
(This brief is posted at www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/covenant.htm with updates
and links to come.)
"The harder we
all Street to ensure Moody's and
Salomon Bros. that everything is eh-o.k. As already noted on the list,
the gov't has increased CPP premiums and has been covering the budget
deficit using the surplus resulting from the massive cuts in
unemployment insurance eligibility.
SP
regards,
Tom Walker
Sam Pawlett asked,
BTW, Tom, has Jock Finlayson changed his toupee recently?
I honestly can't say, Sam. Jock and I have an understanding when we debate
on the radio -- he doesn't wear his toupee and I leave my cod piece at home.
regards,
Tom Walker
n 'e'. Has the bread in the thread
been eclipsed by a 'bred'? Oh, Poet Piet, where are you when we need you?
regards,
Tom Walker
who said a "blonde" has any specific gender?
Blonde is female. Blond is male.
Ellen
I plead ignorance. Is the e a phallus, then?
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Tom Walker
problem makes any sense
to me. My assignment has been completed on time, and way under budget.
regards,
Tom Walker
Rob Schaap wrote,
Tom Walker wrote this to us exactly
two years ago (4 February, '97):
'Stay tuned for 'The End Of NAIRU,' coming to a listserv near you. 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
nd and
twentk anyway.
*****
regards,
Tom Walker
he
formula, talk - action = 0
Meanwhile, there always seems to be enough cash in the kitty to hold yet
another of their sparsely-attended stale donut bake sales.
Is that an executive summary of your game plan I hope..
Yup.
regards,
Tom Walker
Michael Perelman wrote,
Still, it is probably as inequitable.
Michael,
Don't you mean inaquitable?
regards,
Tom Walker
on Friday. I'll
let you know what kind of reception it gets.
regards,
Tom Walker
in
opposing the social program cuts confirms what the bourgies are telling us.
So what's the game plan?
regards,
Tom Walker
or Mount
Currie or Alkali Lake.
regards,
Tom Walker
I-III, 370-71; S.E., V, 366. c) G.W., II-III,
399; S.E., V. 394.
(3) Cf. LACAN, J. 'Les formations de l'inconscient', comptes-rendus of
seminars, 1957-58, by PONTALIS, J.-B., in Bulletin de Psychologie, 1958,
XI, 4/5; XII, 2/3; XII, 4.
regards,
Tom Walker
stic and indiscriminate a term
for what the left should be doing. The left should be "cultivating" the
bourgeoisie. By this term, I mean the left should figuring out how to weed
out the parasitic varieties; and how best to select, tend, prune, train and
harvest the fruitful ones.
regards,
Tom Walker
years old. Old enough to have been alive
and still sane enough to attach enduring significance what happened. But
that was some 27 years ago, long before most of today's students were
hatched, and the cover-up began just days after the shooting. Have they ever
heard of Kent State?
regards,
Tom
In a message dated 99-02-13 02:02:10 EST, Tom Walker queries:
Then what was that DNA stuff on the blue dress, if not semantic clarity?
Well, it turns out that the dna was not usable (as opposed to admissable)
because almost everyone in Arkansaw has the same dna.
maggie coleman [EMAIL
michael,
Maybe that prescription robot attendent job isn't as bad as it seemed, after
all?
regards,
Tom Walker
ere?
Does any of this hold up?
Cheers,
Rob.
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Tom Walker
here?!
valis
Amazing! Did you also figure out the part about wrapping the roll of toilet
paper in silver mylar and projecting 35mm slides on it?
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Tom Walker
the revolution . . . ;-)
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Tom Walker
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