bought the argument that high
unemployment is the acceptable price to pay for achieving "global
competitiveness" and reducing the federal deficit.
It was an instance of the wolf himself crying wolf.
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this impeded the free flow of needed investment
capital. To remedy that problem, they adopted a
system of floating exchange rates. In the new
environment, "market demand" determined how
valuable your currency was, in relation to the
currencies of other countries.
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The Mexican peso crisis seems to confirm this interpretation.
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liberal plague:
"We defeated fascism, we can defeat the new fascism using (more or less) the
same strategies."
Whoops, I noticed a typo in the last paragraph, first sentence. That should
read "new ideology"...
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Ridgeway Blood in the Face
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a sense
of umbrage divides. I repeat, my purpose was to call for peace. May I ask
what *rhetorical* purpose is served by orations about the "crimes of Rabin?"
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little engine that could." Hayek recognizes it's really a crapshoot, but in
his view those who end up at the bottom are not the victims of injustice or
deceit, only of bad luck.
I am very much looking forward to the comments of *progressive economists*
on this matter.
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Does what you say mean what you think it means or what it seems to say?
Laura Bell wrote:
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re a lost paradise. Any progressive
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er, he
provides detailed historical evidence to support this argument, and his
research draws attention to the pre-Bretton Woods antecedents for global
financial openness."
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e individualism becomes what could be described as a kind
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c strengths and specific weaknesses and rely instead on
our foggy notion of the generic strengths and weaknesses of things we're
against. What was that quote about generals always preparing to fight the
last war?
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the above is my opinion and not an official opinion
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entiments and change their system.
of-course, what is going on now is not even remotely reflecting that
sentiment
and is rather about narrow special pleading.
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all others are the result of the endless play of
differences.
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if you skip to the punchline, it's not as funny without
the build-up).
Please note: "Durruti" is not the name of an "Amerindian tongue" but was the
name of a Spanish anarchist from the 1930s.
I realize that I am taking an enormous risk of mistaken attribution in
posting th
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ective "class position" and subjective
"class consciousness".
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figuratively speaking -- "medieval".
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deology) and the Mafia (with
regard to credentialling) back into the discussion. :-)
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for the effects of their advice. If economists were doctors,
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and benefits per hour of overtime to his regular hourly net pay and benefits?
a.) $37.50
b.) 150%
c.) 75%
d.) 100%
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sphere equal in diameter to the diameter of Saturn's orbi
Jason H. asks: Is there anyone out there who isn't insecure
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Not me. I don't have a job.
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ke premature cheap shots at my argument is
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The overtime prem
inferences. Data on
part-timers, contingent workers, job tenure, etc., from the BLS, the ILO,
and the OECD don't offer much support for the kinds of stuff you hear
asserted as fact. I've yet to see anyone on this list reconcile this
apparent contradiction.
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of unemployment", would decline.
Doug, try this exercise: put one foot in a bucket of ice and the other foot
in a pot of boiling water. Describe your comfort level.
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, etc., from the BLS, the ILO,
and the OECD don't offer much support for the kinds of stuff you hear
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apparent contradiction.
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y proclaim it an act of nature. This is as true for Stalinists
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ue for them was jobs and unemployment. Might we even
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justifying whatever happens in history from the perspective of the victor?
Or does the word mean precisely what _we_ variously intend it to mean -- the
cunning of reason, the consummation of the class struggle or a consolation
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markets to prop up the buck? Next week?
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Scratch one hegemon. Even Fukuyama must be blushing by now.
On the other hand, there's always the barrel of a gun.
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the enthusiastic spin crowd just couldn't wait to
call their brokers.
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firm. The first to come to mind is Long-Term Parasite, Unlimited. By
embracing this long-term parasite, the big banks and the New York Fed
clearly reveal their preference for and dependence on an activity that feeds
on, rather than contributes to the "wealth
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n labeled as
"cycles" (not just long ones) in terms of fractals. Mandel meets Mandelbrot.
Do you know the way to Santa Fe?
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version holds up about as well as defending
empire or upholding the rectitude of past miscalculations. All of them help
us understand some facet. None of them gives us the whole story.
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're born, you grow up, you get old, you die. Not necessarily in that order.
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to the Bill Gates story is that I somehow
don't deserve any more than I got.
It seems to me that's the context for "relative wealth". It's also the
context for subjective experience of injustice (as contrasted with an
abstract, theoretical notion of social justice).
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in shit and be told
that it was our free choice.
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that the Milton Friedman NAIRU position? What's the point of talking
about a "shift" in the "Phillips Curve", if that curve is not itself
adequately grounded in theory (as James Galbraith argues)?
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not need financial aid in 1992, and its failure to intervene in
1995-1996 while Moscow embarked on a "highly corrupt privatisation
programme".
A world-wide recession could now be avoided through a
"coordinated reduction in interest rates" in the United States,
Europe an
This headline from the CBS marketwatch wire:
IMF'S FISCHER: LATIN AMERICAN FUNDAMENTALS BETTER THAN RUSSIA
"Prosperity is just around the corner."
"We're beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel."
"I am not a crook."
"I never had sexual relations
Rob Schaap asks,
-snip-
Does this make sense?
It makes perfect sense to me. Since nobody asked, my "second shoe" alluded
(perhaps too obliquely) to the dropping of the first shoe in 1989.
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ehow (perhaps after a short
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is necessary to guard against a
counterfeit strategy: calls for a limitation of work time that are
predicated on "no loss in income" (the venerable slogan '30 hours work for
40 hours pay') deflect the issue back into the insubstantial, quantitative
realm of
ge balance of payments deficits decade after decade. After all,
isn't that what "American-style capitalism" is all about?
Or am I just un-absurdeming his UGLY reductio?
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ne neat package. Question one and you
question the other. And who wants to get branded as an anti-democratic
pinko commie?
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ilities of the economy.
Which brings us to the question:
"How much spawn could a Greenspan spin if a Greenspan spun green spawn?"
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Paradoxically, what "the left" has to learn is to stop being a "left" (along
a parliamentary spectrum) and instead join in building a universalist
movement for the radical reduction of working time.
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points. Trading will resume
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GMT and operations will run for another half hour before the market closes.
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stagflation. I think that's correct. Keynesianism fell out of favour with
ruling circles in the U.S. because it was too redistributive -- it
contributed to what the tri-lateralist think tankers referred to as "an
excess of democracy".
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or on porno that year. And by denouncing
it I'm citing it but what can you do?
Doug
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But answer came there none --
And that was scarcely odd, because
They'd eaten every one.'
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image of
enslaved ancestors rather than that of liberated grandchildren."
-- Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History.
Tommorrow, September 11, 1998 is the 25th anniversary of the coup in Chile.
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, is there any basis (other than dashed hopes) for discounting
the possibility of a terminal or permanent crisis?
The expression "socialism or barbarism" implies just such a permanent
crisis, otherwise it would have been "socialism, barbarism or a new regime
of accumulation".
R
t breakers".
Gary,
My impression from just looking at the newswire numbers was that the focus
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always dependent on motivationally effective
supplementation by traditional world views."
There is no economic fix to the current crisis simply because it is NOT an
economic crisis. THIS is the second shoe.
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What they need is a lamppost and a rope.
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DAMAGE' IF LTCM HAD FAILED.
10:00 GREENSPAN: FAILURE OF LTCM WOULD HAVE RISKED US ECONOMY.
10:00 GREENSPAN: PAINTS DIRE PICTURE IF LTCM HAD FAILED.
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impotent precisely because share prices
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economy if Brazil
goes down. Stay tuned.
Meanwhile, back in Long-Term Capital Land, I'm sure nothing like _that_
could happen again. I mean they've all learned their lesson, right? Holy
Shit, the whole fuckin' boat is comin' apart at the seams! October is some
month, eh?
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was an
Ayn Rand fan?
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suggestions for saving
capitalism from its own worst instincts. But, uhm . . . there's still one
thing I can't quite figure out.
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Let's get one thing straight: EVERYTHING depends. I just think my scenarios
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things happening 'like clockwork'.
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