, which will give me more free time to do some more interesting
things. Please! Please! let me know at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers,
ajit sinha
apitalists that creates the
dynamics of technical change? What does the rhetoric of "magic" supposed to do
here? Cheers, ajit sinha
No, I've never met him. I assume that he's a nice guy and I know that he is
solidly progressive on contemporary issues, at least issues within the
developed capi
of sensibility in handling the
minority voices. Pen-l is a virtual community, and if the majority of its
inhabitants are supposedly the champions of the minorities and the poor 'third
world', then they should show by their action how they treat a minority voice
amongst them. Cheers, ajit sinha
But they are not as big as the African ones! Cheers, ajit sinha
p.s. I think one needs to be clear whether we are talking about capitalism or
industrialization. Conceptually they may not be the same thing.
-Original Message-
From: Ricardo Duchesne [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL
Ricardo would be on much
stronger footing.
I haven't been able to follow this discussion for few days given the amount of
traffic and my own work here, so don't know what threads are developing. Cheers,
ajit sinha
Ricardo Duchesne wrote:
No, it looks like you are the one with a problem. Read
ost and so was predictable. Cheers, ajit
sinha
J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote:
Jim,
Blaut argues that it was the fact that the
Atlantic is narrower than the Pacific that accounted
for the crucial ability of the Western Europeans to
get to the Americas to do the exploiting before the
Chinese (s
as hard a run as you are
trying to give to the so-called progressive thesis. Only then a serious product
would come out of this. Cheers, ajit sinha
ps. I think counterfactuals are mostly waste of time, and only designed to make
ideological points. You cannot go back in history or do some sort of hi
surplus was siphoned primarily in the name of "Home Charges"
that played the critical role in bridging Britain's deficit with the rest of the
world including the USA. Cheers, ajit sinha
al policies were to acquire "cheap" raw materials from the colonies,
so obviously their contribution in monetary terms would appear to be small.
Cheers, ajit sinha
looking at one number. Cheers, ajit sinha
Capitalism depended and continues to
depend for the most part upon the exploitation of workers within the core
countries. Even with higher wages, the amount of surplus extracted is many,
many times higher. This should not be surprizing given
Carrol Cox wrote:
My own best
guess as to what an American "Hitler" would look like is Jerry
Brown of California.
Hay, I tried to get a few votes for Jerry Brown in the primaries. I, of
course, didn't have a vote. Was I so wrong? Cheers, ajit sinha
sues I think are most
serious ones that needs to be thought through and debated. But Michael
discourages it. Cheers, ajit sinha
Jim Craven
James Craven
Clark College, 1800 E. McLoughlin Blvd.
Vancouver, WA. 98663
(360) 992-2283; Fax: (360) 992-2863
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~blkf
by the workers of the 1st world.
Cheers, ajit sinha
Rod Hay
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The History of Economic Thought Archives
http://socserv2.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/index.html
Batoche Books
http://members.tripod.com/rodhay/batochebooks.html
http://www.abebooks.com/home/BATOCHEBOOKS
from getting independence now. The
Indonesian state does not seem to have much option than to control the violence
within a few days. Cheers, ajit sinha
Michael Perelman wrote:
Ajit Sinha wrote:
Michael, your firm must have a market value today. How do you arrive at the market
value of your firm?
Why? Is it reflected in the stock market value? The value of a firm cannot be
known. The market is too thin
to know the price
for the rise in the real wages of the
workers in this part of the world. Cheers, ajit sinha
of profits has nothing to do with inflation or deflation. And i fail
to see what inflation
or deflation have to do with your particular example, where the good seem to have no
market price to begin
with. Cheers, ajit sinha
What is its price? The cost of a new machine? Its price on the second hand
to believe. If a capital good has no value in the market today, then of
course it
should be valued at zero dollars. However, all firms do have some market value, which
must be arrived
at by some estimation of the value of old capital goods today. Cheers, ajit sinha
Ajit Sinha wrote:
We take
to the
total capital stock.
___
Of course not. We take the price of the computer today to value the capital stock.
What is the
problem with that? Cheers, ajit sinha
Ajit Sinha wrote:
What inflation or deflation has got to do with calculating the generalized rate of
profits
. And if the calculation of the
generalized rate of profits is "abstract", then what economic calculation could be
characterized as "concrete"? By the way, that "someone" you are referring to must have
a
name. Guess who that could be? Cheers, ajit sinha
--
Michael
William S. Lear wrote:
On Friday, August 27, 1999 at 18:02:28 (-0700) Ajit Sinha writes:
Rod Hay wrote:
"The will has no meaning in isolation. Therefore it does not exist"
The heart has no meaning in isolation from a body. Therefore it does not
exist.
The part has
ge, and therefore forms a part of
the cost. Cheers, ajit sinha
It has to do with a tendency to a uniform
rate of profits between and within industries, or in Marx's case--as has
been argued by some, e.g., Shaikh, Semmler, and others--a simultaneous
tendency toward profit rate equalization an
.
These are the arguments about how a subjectivity is constructed, and not a proof
of the existence of free will. Cheers, ajit sinha
Its existence or non-existence has no meaning.
Would it be useful, d'ya think, to characterise this determinism (by said
relations) as 'soft', rather than 'hard
Jim Devine wrote:
At 11:40 AM 8/26/99 -0700, Ajit Sinha wrote:
my problem with
your Marxism is that you make Marx too pedestrian for my taste.
I find that pedestrianism is a good thing (especially in L.A.) Indeed, I
decided today that this semester I'd save money by parking in the free
wife, and vise versa. Neither the husband nor the
wife has any existence outside of the relationship of marriage. Sons have no
existence outside of the relationship of father or/and mother, and vise versa.
We can go on and on. Do you get the point. I'm not as weak in logic as you
think
and that's why could
not attend to e-mails yesterday, and would be responding only briefly today.
Cheers, ajit sinha
different. Cheers, ajit sinha
Rod:
It is hard to argue against a philosophy that no one believes in enough to
act upon it. Everyone believes in the theory of the human will. The burden
of proof is on those who would deny it. Explain consciousness as the result
of relations, or as
William S. Lear wrote:
On Tuesday, August 24, 1999 at 14:20:52 (-0500) Carrol Cox writes:
"William S. Lear" wrote:
On Tuesday, August 24, 1999 at 13:29:42 (-0700) Ajit Sinha writes:
...
There are no "individuals" Rod, only subjects. ...
Ajit, you are usuall
nt existence apart from the web of relations
that explain your actions. It neither *determins* nor *limits* you, it is all
there is to you as a human-social subject. Cheers, ajit sinha
it by the way? The burden of proof must be on
those who claim that something exists. If I claim that ghosts don't exist, then
the other party has the burden to come up with some evidence to show that they
do exist. You are the other party in this game, Rod. Cheers, ajit sinha
Rod Hay
[EMAIL PRO
anical nature, where one seeks knowledge of the cause for
control
purposes. My kind of thinking is not control oriented and so is not conducive to
power,
whether left or right. But I think it has a politics of its own, and that is
opposition to
power per se. Cheers, ajit sinha
Original Message Foll
r than the causal and vertical
epistemology where things are arranged one on top of the other with the bottom
one being always mysterious and unexplainable. I think an epistemology based on
causation must in the end take shelter in some kind of spiritualism. Cheers,
ajit sinha
Rod Hay
[EMAIL PROTE
Sam Pawlett wrote:
Ajit Sinha wrote:
Do you think animals have rights or not?
No. I don't like rights-based theories at all--they have intractable
problems-- but in some cases ,like
abortion, talk about "rights" makes the conversation a lot easier. Most
political philosop
must think in terms of "causation" to make sense of anything? Why
can't we think in terms of things hanging together in certain relationships, and
have no existence indipendent of such relationships? Cheers, ajit sinha
Sam Pawlett wrote:
Ajit Sinha wrote:
__What kind of a rotten arguments you are producing Sam? Do you
think a newly born child has an understanding of what x is? Has a consciousness
of his/her rights and obligations? There are many even adults who do not have
identity. And you seem to miss the point too, which is even sader. Cheers, ajit sinha
Michael Perelman wrote:
Ricardo seemed to be making a clumsy attempt at humor. In the past, he has shown
himself to be
insensitive, but not vicious. Let's see if he continues. Is that ok? Otherwise, I
? There are many even adults who do not have
such consciousness due to many reasons. Are you proposing that all these people
should be treated as vegetables? ajit sinha
Okay Steve! I thought Richard is not a misspelling of Ricardo, but rather
Anglicization of a Latin
name. Cheers, ajit sinha
Stephen E Philion wrote:
Ajit,
Gosh, all this because I misspelled a name? Why the subtlety? Why couldn't
Ricardo just have gotten to the point and said something
Stephen E Philion wrote:
Richard, Is it possible that you might demonstrate to us how the segment
that you quote below is 'rhetorical'? You might not agree with what is
asserted below, but how is it 'heavily rhetorical'? Steve
Who is Richard, by the way? Cheers, ajit sinha
as no role in this, except to see to it that the
right of individuals are upheld. Cheers, ajit sinha
m economic entities or whether value is implicated in a social context and
has no meaning outside of it. At the epistemological level, the first position is
organized vertically in the tradition of cause and effect sequence, and the later
position is organized horizontally where there is no causation, o
Since I have got your attention, could anyone please tell me who is
organizing the urpe panels for the esterns early next year? I need
her/his e-mail address, please! For those who care, below is my new
address. Cheers, ajit sinha
Dr. Ajit Sinha
Professor of Economics
LBS National Academy
include other important countries
including South Afria. Cheers, ajit sinha
Ajit:
The Russian foreign minister floated the idea last year while in
India.
It did not go very far.
The idea is not without merit, but it has a lot of historical
baggage to
overcome.
USSR-India alliance against
in favor of forces within
China
that pressure for a change in policy.
_
Henery,
What do you think of the talk about Russia-China-India triangular
counterweight to US led hegemony that is going on around here?
Cheers, ajit sinha
Envoy Says China Dispute Won't Last
the police.
_
What's her problem? Doesn't she understand Foucault?
Cheers, ajit sinha
eater than the Gulf War. This whole
operation must have been in making for a long time. We need a
comprehensive geo-political as well as cost-benifit analysis from
US/NATO point of view to understand this phenomenon.
Cheers, ajit sinha
?
valis
2 days and
counting
__
Oh! not at all. He is just being a Delhi monkey! Cheers, ajit sinha
crowd To
show up the next day at Liquor vend in Gole Market.
Soni Sangwan, Hindustan Times, New Delhi, April 24
p.s. The title is mine and not the news paper's. The monkey seems
to be negotiating Delhi better than I am. Cheers, ajit sinha
Mathew,
Will it be possible for you to send me the papers at the below
given address? Thanks! Cheers, ajit sinha
Dr. Ajit Sinha
Visiting Fellow
Centre for Development Economics
Delhi School of Economics
University of Delhi, Delhi 110007
India
THE NATURE OF MONEY: HISTORY, THEORY, AND POLICY
I whole heartedly endorse Barkley's message below.
Cheers, ajit sinha
I don't have Nathan's email address, but I
would urge Michael P. to express to Nathan that
at least some of us regret his departure, despite
our disagreements. Heck, if all the pro-bombing
people leave the list, I'll
Is Pen-l down since Friday? ajit sinha
Well Jim, we have to keep the pressure on. I think the most
important element is to get the internal tribal politics cleaned
up. Let us know what we can do in our limited capacity when time
comes. Cheers, ajit sinha
Dear Ajit,
Thanks for caring enough to write that letter. the dates/delays
strong and apparent. I would be
interested in knowing if such uniformization of politics for all
major capitalist countries have been a norm for much longer.
Cheers, ajit sinha
Dr. Ajit Sinha
Visiting Fellow
Centre for Development Economics
Delhi School of Economics
University of Delhi, Delhi 110007
magazine etc. Cheers, ajit sinha
On Thu, 17 Dec 1998 16:17:26 +1100 Ajit Sinha
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't think these letters to Hasart is going to have any impact, that's
why I'm not writing a second letter. I think the case should be taken up by
civil liberties union or some
, in
some sense more serious than Jim's. Someday I intend to write an article
intitled, "My experience of an Australian University". Cheers, ajit sinha
At 14:35 16/12/98 -0500, you wrote:
Dear President Hasart, Dec. 16, 1998
Having written to you before regarding the
value" in particular, but rather your statements about the dialectics of
labor and labor-power. Do we get somewhere thinking in this manner? And if
so, where do we get?
Cheers, ajit sinha
that capitalism is based on exploitation of labor. Cheers, ajit sinha
l fighting a war, and that's why he will not be
removed by either the people or the elites. Remove the sanction, and i
tell you Sadam will fall soon. People will say, now we have to build our
country, we need new politics, new leaders
ith me Hienz Kurtz suggested that Sraffa had moved away from the snap shot
idea, but I'm at the moment holding on to it. By the way, do you know if
Wittgenstein had ever read Saussure's *Lectures on Linguistics*? or what do
you think his general attitude toward this book would be? Cheers, ajit
sinha
, as Einstein did, and should be criticised most ruthlessly.
Cheers, ajit sinha
i much prefer derrida's writings on levi-strauss and freud. and, as for
deconstruction generally, i much prefer nancy to recent derrida.
best,
angela
is
hidden" and Sraffa's insistence on "objectivity" must be further explored.
You give a very interesting and insightful spin to Keynes's well known
statement about Sraffa that "from whom nothing is hid". I liked that a lot!
Cheers, ajit sinha
I have been reading Wittgen
I don't have any disagreement with what you say above. On Sraffa, I think I
shouldn't say any more than what I have already done before I get some
results. Cheers, ajit sinha
81. "F.P. Ramsey once emphasized in conversation with me that logic was a
'normative science'. I do n
a critique of *Philosophical
Investigation* lurking here or it was the *Tractatus* model that is beeing
reffered to as being "incorrect"? Thanks for the references below. Cheers,
ajit sinha
__
From 1926 to 1928 just before he went to Cambridge WIttgenstein took part
in the
discussions
Hang in there Jim! It all sounds so familiar! ajit sinha
At 11:42 11/12/98 -0500, you wrote:
Dear Friends,
I just received a memo from our illustrious Interim Vice-President of
Instruction who has reviewed the e-mails I was ordered to turn over at
risk of
dismissal from employment for refusal
At 22:09 10/12/98 -0600, you wrote:
On Fri, December 11, 1998 at 14:52:46 (+1100) Ajit Sinha writes:
...
I have been reading Wittgenstein's PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS as a
preparation for my work on "Sraffa's method". This is probably the most
remarkable book I have ever read. I thin
n friendly intellectual discussions for many years it would
be foolhardy for anyone to think that the influence would be a one way
avenue. I don't know much about Wittgenstein's "antisemiticism", but his
friend Sraffa was a jew. Cheers, ajit sinha
say, now we have to build our
country, we need new politics, new leadership. Cheers, ajit sinha
to Noriega for misspelling his name. Cheers, ajit
sinha
__
Noriega seeks to trim prison sentence
MIAMI (December 8, 1998 10:51 p.m
At 12:59 9/12/98 -0400, Ricardo wrote:
So much hogwash has been said about the enlightenment in pen-l that
perhaps it is time someone set out to answer "what is the
enlightenment?" First, contrary to what everyone in pen-l thinks, the
enlightenment is NOT about science. The enlightenment is a
out of his country since he was the head of the
state? Cheers, ajit sinha
uot;that genius of a
philosopher" (quoting from memory).
Cheers, ajit sinha
At 11:56 8/12/98 -0500, Louis P. wrote:
I think the Enlightment tradition that so many Marxists cling to is a bunch
of hogwash. I reject the notion of a revolutionary bourgeoisie as well.
___
So I guess you no longer champion Ellen Wood's type of Marxism anymore?
Cheers, ajit sinha
ck to Adam Smith.
Could you elaborate on the Smith story please. Cheers, ajit sinha
Craven's right to free speech without
intimidation and harassment. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Dr. Ajit Sinha
FROM: Chuck Ramsey, Interim Vice President of Instruction
TO: Professor Jim Craven
"We have received a complaint/expression of concern about your use of
College e-mail. So that I may g
Isn't Jim teaching somewhere in Canada? Could you please confirm that the
e-mail for the President of the college you have given below is correct.
Cheers, ajit sinha
At 18:30 22/11/98 -0500, you wrote:
In the course of getting to know Jim Craven, I have been made privy to his
various battles
I see no
relevance of that to economists. Hence, I did not see the
relevance of Lou's posting of this article to this list.
Barkley Rosser
__
Thanks Barkley! I agree with verything you say. Though the interest Lou P's
post generated gives it an implicit justification. Cheers, ajit sinha
ociety in human nature of one kind or another. A theory
built on the hypothesis that human beeings are evil is as humanist as a
theory built on the hypothesis that human beeings are good. Althusser
considered Stalinism to be a humanist theory, by the way.
Cheers, ajit sinha
Clinton, who has got rock bottom support of the
black community in America and who have saved his presidency, is not
intervening in this matter in a decisive way. Why aren't the black
community and political leaders taking this case up? Will a letter to
Clinton help? How? Cheers, ajit sinha
At 11:42 9/11/98 -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
Ajit Sinha wrote:
At 17:08 6/11/98 -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
Bad Subjects
http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/bs/, which she was a co-founder, even
takes its name from that good Stalinist, Althusser!
__
What a cheap shot this is! Could you
theoretical issue and not
just a moral question--even though morality, of course, is more important
than any economic question. Moreover, a rise in wages would most likely
reduce the rate of profit and change all the prices. But this does not have
to be necessarily inflationary as krugman suggests. Cheers, ajit sinha
have put so many years of hard work of love and passion in painting.
Cheers, ajit sinha
At 17:08 6/11/98 -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
Bad Subjects
http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/bs/, which she was a co-founder, even
takes its name from that good Stalinist, Althusser!
__
What a cheap shot this is! Could you explain why do you call Althusser a
Stalinist?
Cheers, ajit sinha
e movement. It is
important for US intellectual culture to keep the shutters open for foreign
students. Cheers, ajit sinha
_
And, speaking of incongruities, why is it the UAW that's going to
give the TAs material strike support? Is this not very much like
the corporate practice of entering totally
as a 'union' which could have bargaining power. And we
fought for our right to be an union and did win, but I was out by then. In
anycase, I'm wondering and would appreciate if somebody could throw some
light on it. Cheers, ajit sinha
UC GRADUATE STUDENTS PREPARE TO STRIKE ALL THE CAMPUSES THIS YEAR
At 19:25 30/06/98 +0001, you wrote:
Did anyone else read this paper? It was a very interesting exercize on
the difficulty of moving up the value chain. Shouldn't we take up this
issue?
--
Michael Perelman
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So Anthony, are you saying that capital still has a home? Cheers, ajit sinha
Cambridge University for three months! Cheers, ajit sinha
At 01:26 24/06/98 -0400, you wrote:
This response from Mumia's attorney to a NYT ad surveys the deficiencies
of the state's case for killing Mumia and provides a basis for
understanding a demand for Mumia's immediate release.
Paul Zarembka
__
What can a person like me, who is not a
uot; and "in here". We have critiqued "out there". Now, let's look at "in
here". What is "in here"? Can we call our body, our brain, our tissues "in
here"? No. They are all objectified and part of "out there" in Jim's RP. So
what or who is "in here" who is making this distiction between "in here"
and "out there" and constructing the knowledges of out there? It is
Descartes's *cogito*. And cogito occupies exactly the same place as sole in
religion. Cheers, ajit sinha
scourage others from talking what interests them? Cheers, ajit sinha
alist postulate" as well, and
turn it into a non-realist postulate?
This gets us back to what I said before (in my discussion with Ricardo in
this thread). The "RP" is NOT about the _content_ of the multiverse that
exists "out there." Strictly speaking, given "epistemological skepticism,"
we don't _know_ what exists "out there" (i.e., the content). The "RP"
doesn't say _anything_ about the content. Rather, it simply says that there
is a reality out there which is the basis of our (flawed) perceptions.
_
Why I can't say that it is all *Maya*? I want a good answer to this
question. Cheers, ajit sinha
sser
There seems to be some problem with pen-l. I never received Barkley's post,
and I don't know how many other posts I never received. Is anybody else
having similar problem? Cheers, ajit sinha
If I am not mistaken, the hidden variable stand is contradicted
by experiments showing the val
s the claim that "we
know" is simply crazy? Cheers, ajit sinha
specific about what exists. It is asserting much more.
ajit sinha asks: But then how do you distinguish "out there" from "in
here". Where does this distinction come from? I think the idea of God is
the idea of perfection. And why shouldn't this idea come to us as
'natural
w but also playing soccer in the world cup in some other universe,
and both of these are equally objectively true. But I have a feeling that
the idea of "multiverse" would create much more problem for Jim's "realist
postulate". Cheers, ajit sinha
Karl Kosik's *Dialectics of the Concrete: a Study on problem of Man and
World* is a good Phenomenological Marxist work. Also Merleau-Ponty has been
quite influential--Althusser regarded him very highly. Cheers, ajit sinha
specific about what exists. It is asserting much more.
___
But then how do you distinguish "out there" from "in here". Where does this
distinction come from? I think the idea of God is the idea of perfection.
And why shouldn't this idea come to us as 'naturally' as the idea of "out
there"? Cheers, ajit sinha
ple", even when the "group of prople" may be doing the same thing? Isn't
it important to distinguish between the question of ideology or
subjectivity and the concept or the category of class for an understanding
of Marxism? Cheers, ajit sinha
. Cheers, ajit sinha
shoot Kun Dun in India
then? Cheers, ajit sinha
__
An American friend reported from the US:
The bomb tests of course made big news here. Commentators and government
officials have been trying to each out do the other in formulating
expressions of outrage and condemnation. Such hy
it gives strength to workers all around the
world to push for such a move. I'm wondering what would be it's impact on
general price level and so real wages per worker? Cheers, ajit sinha
Dismissing protests that the law will harm competitiveness and
aggravate the migration of young
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