lling prescriptions. Duties include preparing prescription vials,
loading those vials onto the robot, and stocking the robot with
appropriate drugs. Very fast-paced, team-oriented position that
requires a lot of standing. No experience necessary."
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Tom Walker
Doug Henwood wrote,
Whether times are good or bad, capitalists are useless and destructive.
Not very dialectical of you, Doug.
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slaughters in the age of
easy global credit, Sony Vaios and a social democratic Europe?
First comes the war. Once that's been established, it won't be that hard to
find an enemy.
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ry. In terms of "this depression", we're not out of
the woods yet. And, like the last episode, the direction that capital is
marching toward is war.
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s musicals in the WPA days.
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Tom Walker
Max wrote,
Then: Worrying about no one coming to your party
Now: Worrying about no one coming to your funeral
You're all invited.
Time and place
remains to be decided.
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ology" as "mechanical appliances" (e.g. steam engines
or computers), when in fact the adoption of such appliances -- even their
invention -- also requires changes in social institutions, etc. etc.
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tlemen, since my arguments belong to philosophy,
however strong they may be, I do not suppose that
they will have any effect unless you take them under
your protection."
Respectfully,
WesBurt
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predestination and the assurance of election resulting
from a lifetime of good works.
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a chat with him and he
eased up. My sources told me the "chat" was very direct.
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of near unanimous opposition to his
views. I may disagree with what Max says, but if anyone tries to take away
his right to say it, I'll bomb them back to the stone age. ;-)
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Tom Walker
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ontact me offlist. You say you want a revolution?
Michael Perelman asked:
The discussion begun by Tom Walker and Brad De Long seems to be pointing
to an analysis of the quality of labor. Marx pointed out that we should
look not just that the extent of the working day but the intensity. New
form
Rob wrote:
I certainly preferred the bloke when he was occupied with his stiffy and his
cigars. That grinning Pommy git should try it, too.
Up his. Lit.
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Tom:
They don't grow broccoli in Economics Departments.
Doug
What do they do with all that fertilizer then?
Tom:
They Publi sh it.
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who grow your pesticide infested
broccoli...
By "here and now" Brad was probably referring to being tenured faculty in
the Economics Dept. at UCBerkeley. They don't grow broccoli in Economics
Departments.
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Doug wrote:
before his
Monica-induced spurt in popularity in 1998.
Shame on you, Doug! Pen-l is not a bathroom wall. ;-)
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the price.
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Walesa replied:
But as you know,
the rank I acquired in the army is corporal, so this is the strategy of a
corporal. However, some corporals prove to be very good commanders
Any informatin on which _particular_ corporal Walesa was referring to?
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Anybody else see what I see when looking at the lines that make up the NATO
logo/compass rosette/gunsight graphic on the cover of the Economist? Or do I
just have a hyperactive gestalt?
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the potential for small
hydroelectric plant development in norther Nicaragua.
Tom W. adds:
I remember.
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e unsavory.
|The places civil reason is accounted most iniquitous
|Are places where you'll find me inescapably ubiquitous.
|In short, all logic I reject, all taste and manners
jettison
|Because I am the model of a modern cyber-netizen!
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the Internationale. I can't
help you with the wedding ring. I just use the damn things once and then
throw them away.
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ave second thoughts and intellectually mature to the right. It's been
done.
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Brussels, the alliance's spokesman Jamie Shea noted that the
Has anybody got the bio on this spook? All I'm going on is elocution. But
I'd say off-hand, he's a classically trained thespian. At least with Ronald
Reagan, we KNEW he was an actor all along.
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Tom Walker
http
aul Samuelson
'And was Jerusalem builded here
Among these dark Satanic Mills?'
-- William Blake
And how's that for a post-mod assertion, ". . . as broad and empty as
language itself . . ."?
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gan his campaign
back home a month earlier near Speyer.
The reason for Emich's armies treatment of
the Jews was their belief that:
'Since they were the race responsible for the death and crucifixion of
Jesus, they deserved nothing better than conversion or death.'"
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Tom Walker
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Doug Henwood wrote,
Since the Trenchcoat Mafia acted on Hitler's birthday, and since they
reportedly subscribed to some sort of Naziism, perhaps NATO should bomb
Littleton before it's too late.
Just to be safe, better throw in Denver and Colorado Springs.
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Tom Walker
http
ease, Doug, next time you accidentally delete something, try to make it
the Clinton and not just the quote.
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Can anyone explain HOW the spell checker relentlessly tells the truth about
peoples' names? I just checked the piece I'm writing on the lump-of-labour
and the neo-classical "social welfare function" and the spell checker
advised me that Samuelson was SHAMELESS.
regards,
Tom W
Yeltsin, the Russian president.
In a clear attempt to steel members of the Nato alliance for a long
military campaign - and a possible offensive by ground troops - Mr Blair
said: "Success is the only exit strategy I am prepared to consider."
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nformation in english, read only)
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he patient gets sicker and sicker.
continued at http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/satanic.htm
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in which the oysters' role was to
"come along for the ride" (but never to return) -- The Walras and the
Carpenter. Here's your essay assignment, worth 60 points, topic: compare and
contrast "marginal irritation" and the "oyster theory of value".
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Tom Walker
Barone/Bergson/Samuelson type social welfare function, so its complex
nature needs to be forgotten about. This mathematically convenient amnesia
is, on the other hand, literally a matter of life and death, which is why I
talk about "KILLING the standard of LIVING".
So, I suppose I could plea "se
opposite result -- as did JMC. Shorter hours
reduces the "quasi-fixed" costs! There only "fixed" ceteris paribus! And
ceteris doesn't paribus.
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of labour. But the most
curious is that economists aren't particularly curious about those curious
things. Curiouser and curiouser.
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ome substantially in
excess of the rise in population."
My entire argument can be summarized as being about the radical,
fundamental, irreconcilable incompatibility between Marx's "preliminary
condition for improvement and emancipation" and Lange's (and, by extension,
Samuelson's) "essential of planning economic development".
(see: http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/satanic.htm for more on "my entire
argument")
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work etc. etc. etc.
My point was not that "all work is pleasant". It was that "most work *may*
be pleasant for a *limited* time". Alls and nones lead to a cul-de-sac of
abstraction.
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lly, for the
same reasons why the opposite problem of motivating couch potatoes to do
something useful with their lives will be unsolved. It is just too hard
to change people's preferences - though, on the other front, Madison
Avenue seems pretty good at that.
Sincerely,
[Name withheld]
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chemicals to treat the cancers that their pesticide
chemicals cause. That's C[ancer]pitalism!
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back in
the U.S.A. and I didn't even have to leave Vancouver.
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Max Sawicky wrote,
Now now. How can I be a totalitarian? I can't even compel my
colleagues at EPI to buy my line on Social Security.
Max,
Get a grip. No matter how much you may personally identify with the
oppressor, you're not the political system.
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d it ain't even noon yet (on the westcoast, at least).
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t;waste of time"?
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pologetics. It doesn't require conspiracy theory
or a paranoid fantasy of causality to realize that there is a political
economy that binds the two event horizons.
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rthy of
reading the rest.
I hope people will obtain and read the initial document for themselves, and
pass this message on as widely as possible. In addition to informational
and mobilizing efforts, I would write a personal note above this and send
it to your political officials and newsmedia.
In solidarity--
Kim Scipes
US Marine Corps, 1969-1973
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the secret nevertheless prevented x + n deaths because of
the strategic advantage of breaking the intelligence code.
Maybe the allied honchos were right, I don't know. But does such a
convoluted strategic calculus constitute a "simple rejoinder"?
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since Bergson ain't worth the trees they murdered to
print the lousy journals on.
Dumb fuck.
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Louis Proyect wrote:
Tom Walker
Louis, who opposes the bombing and Nathan, who supports the bombing, have an
equal right to their impotence, their mounting sense of their impotence,
their impatience with each other's points of view resulting from their
impotence and so on. So what?
I resent
m have still NEVER been "respectfully engaged" by the
government that threatened to imprison me for as much as five years.
I heard someone say the stated purpose of the bombing was to establish
NATO's "credibility". Where have I heard that word before? And what's the
difference
. There is very little that needs
to be added to the conclusions of these authorities."
-- John R. Hicks, 1932, _The Theory of Wages_. Chapter 5, Individual supply
of labour, p. 104n.
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mist of some note in wartime Washington, to
become dean of the School of Business and Economics to accomplish the
purpose. Bowen offered me a professorship, and I moved to Urbana in
1948. In the 1949-50 school year he asked me to become chairman of the
Economics Department."
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conomic theory.
Today, the conventional wisdom scoffs at any suggestion that increased
output doesn't necessarily lead to increased welfare. Say hello to the new
war, same as the old war. It's the economy, stupid.
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Ho hum.
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Max Sawicky wrote,
shagging debutantes. The bottom line is they
can't stand to think about their own lives and
the real problems of the mundane world, so
they are drawn to fantasy.
I couldn't agree more.
And I'd gladly pay to see a jacquerie.
Or a purple cow?
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Tom Walker
can say yes.
What seems to be happening is that "the people" are choosing their next
king, King William, that is. The current designated successor to the throne
is being discretely "chucked out", if you'll pardon the expression.
T
Max Sawicky wrote,
It's true that policy tools and policy goals go together "to some
non-trivial extent". . . .
True but too general.
That was precisely my point. I'm glad we agree. Or were your arguing with
the elipsis?
Regards,
Mao's
dictum, "the worse, the better" doesn't follow.
Wasn't Mao referring to the Andy Warhol print?
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incidently, community mental health also appealled to
neo-conservatives as a way to offload the provision of government services
to people. The recent "comp-time" proposals from the Republicans is another
example of a policy tool that can be used to
r head when you read my messages. Gold
standard, my foot.
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Michael Perelman wrote,
Check out the new article in Slate on taxes.
Why? and How?
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mably about "concrete empowerment") could have
more to do with its irrelevancy than its urgency.
In closing you ask, "How can workers limit the working day if there aren't
even any mechanisms in society which put them in a position to begin making
meaningful decisions?"
Forgive me
of Chapter 17: "Simultaneous
variations in the duration, productiveness and intensity of labour."
Thanks to Colin Danby for discretely bringing this mistake to my attensshhunn.
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iting the working day, I encourage him to develop
those arguments. As Colin said, "There are a lot of possible stories." I've
already decided what kinds of stories I believe are going to be fruitful.
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$50 prize for the first right answer. ;-)
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is produced for one class by the conversion of the whole
lifetime of the masses into labour-time."
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t; me in explicating it. But nowhere have you risked your own opinions
other than stating your assumptions about what is and isn't "economic" and
what are or aren't the predictable outcomes of this or that change in the
length of the worki
work time, they could
conceivably be "economically worse off" in the very narrow sense of
receiving a lower annual income.
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Of course I meant to say *hoarding* labour in my previous post, not hording
labour.
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Well, put aside the gloom and fasten your seat belts. . .
Every time it rains, it rains pennies from heaven (or is that just a pr hack
pissing out the 2nd floor window?).
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le between
corporations rather than the beginning of a new, more just and free,
all-encompassing and self-organised social dynamic.
- Citizenship income
- Social economy, activities useful to the collectivity, communitarian
cooperation
- generalised reduction of social labour time:
these are
day after the workday has been
reduced to seven hours. If that is the case, there is no need to hire any
additional employees.
tom wood
Not exactly, the example _deduces_ that the employees still work nine hours
a day after the reduction of the legal limit, but it doesn't assume it.
Regards,
worked) is thus "good" because it
stubbornly refuses to see things as the employer sees them. This is like
saying the best way to win a debate is to feign incomprehension of the
opponent's argument.
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k
) -- and didn't want to be passing on false rumors.
I presume you were carrying your poetic driver's license, Blair.
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for displaced forest workers hired.
4.The target for jobs under alternative work
arrangements is 3,000 and the Government s funding
commitment to its involvement in these arrangements is
up to $20 million.
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al structure leads me
directly from the executive summary to the corresponding analysis in the
conclusion and from there to the relevent sections in the reviews of
Dahlby's and Hamermesh's work.
In other words, it saves time. Ben Franklin said, "Time is money". Wallace
Stevens said, &quo
poetry predates prose. Perhaps the joke on Moliere's bourgeois
gentilhomme is that he was speaking prose all along when he should have been
speaking *dialogue*.
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g fact. Or to remember what Brecht said
about the "happy end".
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(with the exception, of course, of 'child labour')?
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s with respect to certain choices;
(3) their behavior is deliberate and not readily reversed upon reflection;
(4) certain patterns of 'violating' behavior can be distinguished and
described in terms of a specified decision rule."
Can you
ove the economic unsoundness of reducing
work time. What Ehrenberg demonstrated in the early 1970s, however, was more
limited and precise. He demonstrated the potential adverse effects of simply
modifying the overtime provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.
5. I could
f the next century, the private-sector alternative is likely
to be inequitable and inefficient by comparison. However, people do need
some sense of security in their lives, and the social insurance role of
government requires a strong public de
er of something
other than the sheer all-consuming boredom of tv re-runs, commercials and
back-to-school sales.
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on has gone entirely
unheralded. To my knowledge, NO ONE except myself has ever even drawn
attention to the connection between Ellsberg's dissertation topic and his
action in outing the Pentagon Papers.
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ed report by Carolyn Robinson, a
member of the eamsters national bargaining commitee has also been
posted.
Boston has passed a Living Wage Ordinance. See the details in
the article on the Living Wage page.
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Tom Walker
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nd precisely those dimensions --
what used to be known as "democracy".
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i might also say that burroughs was a pretty poor father.
Not to mention a notoriously bad shot as a husband.
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Max Sawicky blanked,
way. So do The Sheltering Sky and Barfly (by
and about Paul Bowles and another beat whose
name I'm blanking on).
That would be Charles Bukowski (y?).
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tautological gem -- I mean that sincerely.
Fitzgerald takes pains to point out each of the many constraining
assumptions he makes. The careful reader will learn from Fitzgerald's
painstaking demonstration that, all other things being equal, 12.5 = 12.5
(see Table 7, column 1). I beli
ever heard of induct
tape, deduct tape or abduct tape, anyway?
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My apologies for sending out an address with an error in it. The correct
address for the Payroll Taxation and Employment paper by Joni Baran is:
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/SSG/ra01275e.html
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committing a similar reduction, poetry is "about how language
works" and thus can be as much about testing hypotheses -- including
econometric models -- as any other model building or empirical work. Have a
look at Max Black's _Models and Meta
The only question that matters is "will it sell books?" After reading
Isaac's vitriol, I'd rush out to buy a copy of Wall Street (if I didn't
already have one on order).
PAUL J. ISAAC considers himself a Wall Streeter.
Regards,
rejoin the dialogue as
it continues in heaven.
kid: why not?
God: You wanna bet?
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gh-paying, high-skilled knowledge sector jobs.
Mr. Jospin was elected on a platform of promising to create 700,000 jobs,
Only 699,992 to go!
Mr. Jospin will never get a job as a professional wrestler. He dives to the
mat before the opening bell
alism. I'm particularly
fond of his image of the chess playing automaton, historical materialism,
who wins every match because hidden within is a hunchback dwarf, theology,
who is now wizened and must stay out of sight.
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of the employer to act unilaterally in implementing
a newly legislated seven-hour day. It is inconguous, however, that such
legislation could ever be adopted where labour's power was so weak.
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Tom Walker
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eople feel that they are working even longer hours than they are; and
3. people feel that the "right answer" is to report even longer hours than
they feel they are working.
My guess? Something like:
1. 46
2. 48
3. 50
Anyway, so much for the 40 hour week.
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