Dennis R Redmond wrote:
Mark, I hate to break the news to you, but in 1990 a little thing called the
Berlin Wall was bulldozed by, well, some revolutionaries. Germany's
11% unemployment is due to the collapse of the GDR economy; unemployment
is 18% and higher in the ex-GDR, and many of those
At 10:13 PM 3/17/98 +0800, Anthony D'Costa wrote:
What gibberish--the world-system with a hyphen is an obsession of those
Wallersteininian folks. Since when has nation states vanished and therefore
national competitiveness? It is premature to write off the state.
Regardless of whether you're a
But the subtext, Dennis, is that there is ONE capitalist
world-system and analysis has to BEGIN WITH the totality, and that
MARXIST problematic immediately factors out the relevance of your
obsession with nation-states, national competitiveness and other
sub-spenglerian themes.
What
On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Mark Jones wrote:
I have been looking at the way the stats were massaged by the Tories,
and yes, you can add maybe three points to the UK rate.
Nevertheless today the UK unemployment rate is 5-8 percentage points
below the German and 6-9 points below the French.
