Re: [Pen-l] quote du jour

. -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l

Re: [Pen-l] Definitions

the required result for your work. J. ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away

[Pen-l] United Stasi of America (Airstrip One province)

of Snowden's materials, including the Guardian, that the British government was serious about trying to shut down the leaks. -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l

Re: [Pen-l] Functionalism

it doesn't serve their self-interest (after all, it provides an extra source of food and besides is tasty). Etc.) = Do you have a poll... On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Jim Devine jdevin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 4:04 AM, Jurriaan

Re: [Pen-l] Functionalism

or Althusserian structuralists. That is, they're well educated, but not so smart. === Do you have a poll.. On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Jim Devine jdevin...@gmail.com wrote: I wrote: Some Marxists, for example, see all actions by the state under capitalism

Re: [Pen-l] Question

Me: Exactly. The Marxists who think this way tend to be Hegelians or Althusserian structuralists. That is, they're well educated, but not so smart. IMHO, Marx and Marxists have had a lot of important insights into the workings of the real world of capitalism and other modes of production. I

Re: [Pen-l] Question

Is the Cratylus one of the dialogues which (more of less) represents Socrates' opinion or one of those in which Plato asserts his perspective? On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Shane Mage shm...@pipeline.com wrote: On Aug 18, 2013, at 11:02 PM, Jim Devine wrote: (I’m no philosopher

[Pen-l] quote du jour

of our ire. -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l

Re: [Pen-l] Functionalism

functionalist to me, but I can imagine how the tradition could evolve over time. -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu

Re: [Pen-l] Functionalism and structuralism

. This combines the subjective and objective (structural) parts of the story and is thus confusing to me. -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu

Re: [Pen-l] Functionalism

thanks. On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Shane Mage shm...@pipeline.com wrote: On Aug 18, 2013, at 3:09 PM, Jim Devine wrote: list des vernunfts [reasons?] Usually translated as The Ruse or Cunning of Reason. By that phrase Hegel indicated that participants in the historical process

Re: [Pen-l] Functionalism and structuralism

I hope can be agreed upon by people with different viewpoints to facilitate communication. communc I On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Jim Devine jdevin...@gmail.com wrote: Gar Lipow wrote: I can see how whether functionalism is useful or not depends. Institutions and roles may come

Re: [Pen-l] Question

be very grateful. I have to be sure that I’ve got it correct. ** ** J. ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing

Re: [Pen-l] Rising interest rates?

” provision does not exist. If you have taken out a loan, you remain legally liable for the loan. ** ** J. ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l -- Jim Devine / Reality

Re: [Pen-l] Question

Marxists agree with? -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l

Re: [Pen-l] Question

-Weberian. Of course, the whole argument about who is and who is not a Marxist is a useless game.) -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu

[Pen-l] Top Ten Reasons why the U.S. won't cut off Egypt's aid

and in the Mubarak era ran black sites where they tortured suspected al-Qaeda for Washington. The US deep state would like to ramp that relationship back up. -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick

Re: [Pen-l] Question

in the United States, as far as I know. ** ** J. ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away

[Pen-l] functionalism [was: Question]

in the long run) might be solved in other ways besides restoring capitalism and the capitalist state. -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https

[Pen-l] query

what's the best Marxist/Feminist (or Feminist/Marxist) book on issues of labor-power market? -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https

[Pen-l] PK on MK [was Marx’s Lesson for the Muslim Brothers? Groucho’s, I assume.

In his blog, Louis says: It is not every day that you find an op-ed piece in the NY Times proffering what appears to be Marxist advice. In this instance I am not speaking of Paul Krugman’s endorsement of Michael Kalecki that amounted to dipping his big toe into the Marxist pool. After all, there

Re: [Pen-l] Escaping from the Friedman Paradigm (Krugman fails to escape.)

from the Friedman Paradigm http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2013/08/escaping-from-the-friedman-paradigm.html ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l -- Jim Devine / Reality

Re: [Pen-l] Escaping from the Friedman Paradigm (Krugman fails to escape.)

. ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick

[Pen-l] get paid to study Marx!

as a bunch of abstract formulas rather than as a way to oppose the ruling class?] -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https

Re: [Pen-l] Escaping from the Friedman Paradigm (Krugman fails to escape.)

. ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu

Re: [Pen-l] Rising interest rates?

stagnation. It's not just a matter of interest rates. http://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/credit-card-data/average-credit-card-debt-household/ -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick ___ pen-l

Re: [Pen-l] Rising interest rates?

of their home in a booming housing market exactly. -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen

[Pen-l] Workers World Party rally?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcE5aDTszrYfeature=youtu.be -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman

Re: [Pen-l] Rising interest rates?

Jurriaan Bendien wrote: So why are rates rising? I don't know. It's possible that lenders are switching strategies, from credit rationing to using interest rates. -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick

Re: [Pen-l] Rising interest rates?

and foreign investors. So they're selling on the rumour, forcing rates up in anticipation. ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing

Re: [Pen-l] Rising interest rates?

that Fed liquidity juicing the stock market. Then again, our politics have a contrary propensity to prematurely forecast bubbles bursting and economies going over a cliff… :) On 2013-08-15, at 5:10 PM, Jim Devine wrote: that makes sense, Marv. But if the recovery continues to be so

Re: [Pen-l] Slate: In College Admissions, Affirmative Action and Its Critics Both Have The Same Problem

meanings flow from capitalist ideology. Carrol ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K

Re: [Pen-l] Peering Into The Rotting Entrails Of The Intellectual Right

. A movement's leaders can be bought off. -- Ron ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away

Re: [Pen-l] Rajan versus Summers from Reuters

abstract (imaginary) concepts in an effort to understand what actually happens. I prefer Marx's use of the word vulgar, referring instead to ideas which suffer from commodity fetishism. -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick

Re: [Pen-l] Rajan versus Summers from Reuter

should (pure) rationalism. -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l

Re: [Pen-l] Rajan versus Summers from Reuters

https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Pen-l] Slate: In College Admissions, Affirmative Action and Its Critics Both Have The Same Problem

private resources and endowments. -raghu. ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away

Re: [Pen-l] Rajan versus Summers from Reuter

. Herakleitos of Ephesos ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick

Re: [Pen-l] Rajan versus Summers from Reuter

said anything about economic rationality. I don't see why it's important here. -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https

Re: [Pen-l] Rajan versus Summers from Reuters

be used to raise both consumption spending and private saving. BTW, the response of saving to changes in (real) interest rates is minimal, as far as I can see from the empirical literature. -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick

Re: [Pen-l] Rajan versus Summers from Reuters

raghu mragh...@gmail.com wrote: you are over analyzing that's my job! -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu

[Pen-l] Obama's assurances (from Juan Cole)

refuses to acknowledge those abuses. Until he does, he cannot fix them. -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu

[Pen-l] Advanced SystemCare

that does pretty much the same thing without being so annoying? (I use Windows 7.) -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https

[Pen-l] PK on Kalecki!

and start talking about job-creating spending increases instead. Yes, I know that the politics of doing the right thing will be very hard. But, as far as the economics goes, the only thing we have to fear is fear-mongering itself. -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing

Re: [Pen-l] New Marxist Exploiting Class

and would thus push for the CP to be top-down and hold onto its political monopoly. anyway, what's your alternative to Marxism, Jurriaan? anarchism? liberalism? what? -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick

Re: [Pen-l] Muscular Christianity, Eugenics, War, Football, and Imperialism

part of the impetus that started the ball rolling. -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l

[Pen-l] political science in a nutshell

http://www.juancole.com/2013/08/becomes-george-carlin.html -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman

Re: [Pen-l] Quote of the Day?

What would a deception free world be like? didn't Mark Twain have a short story about this? it turns out to be hell. -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick ___ pen-l mailing list pen

Re: [Pen-l] Economic Recovery by Statistical Manipulation » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https

Re: [Pen-l] Cities are turning into vast gated citadels where the elite reproduces itself

isn't the upcoming Matt Damon flick, Elysium about something like this? Financial Times June 14, 2013 6:49 pm Priced out of Paris By Simon Kuper Our great, global cities are turning into vast gated citadels where the elite reproduces itself -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you

Re: [Pen-l] Economic Recovery by Statistical Manipulation » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

at 6:47 AM, Jim Devine jdevin...@gmail.com wrote: the key question is whether or not the new measure of GDP is more accurate than the old. I don't think so. note that they haven't (yet) played with the unemployment numbers to make them look good. That's rather more important to Main Street

Re: [Pen-l] Economic Recovery by Statistical Manipulation » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

presents only production that's sold through the market, ignoring non-market costs and benefits. -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu

Re: [Pen-l] Economic Recovery by Statistical Manipulation » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

I wasn't disagreeing with raghu on this. Besides, the last issue of LBO used a version of Okun's Law (which is admittedly noisy and changes over time). On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Doug Henwood dhenw...@panix.com wrote: On Jul 31, 2013, at 12:46 PM, Jim Devine jdevin...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Pen-l] Economic Recovery by Statistical Manipulation » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

Doug Henwood wrote: Well, to be pedantic... not that there's anything wrong with it. -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https

Re: [Pen-l] Economic Recovery by Statistical Manipulation » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

down completely, then that's a sign that the measure is poor. -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman

Re: [Pen-l] Returning to Heinrich

the response by the producers (the proletariat under capitalism) and other social forces, which can create a new social system of production (but of course don't always do so). Crises create possibilities for change rather than ending the system. -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop

Re: [Pen-l] Economic Recovery by Statistical Manipulation » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

not. -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick [*] To the Wordnik web-site, a tautology is an empty or vacuous statement composed of simpler statements in a fashion that makes it logically true whether the simpler statements

Re: [Pen-l] Economic Recovery by Statistical Manipulation » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

be welcomed by some. On Jul 31, 2013, at 10:01 AM, Doug Henwood wrote: On Jul 31, 2013, at 12:53 PM, Jim Devine jdevin...@gmail.com wrote: I wasn't disagreeing with raghu on this. Besides, the last issue of LBO used a version of Okun's Law (which is admittedly noisy and changes

Re: [Pen-l] Quote of the Day?

that they will fight for their servitude as if for salvation, and count it no shame, but the highest honour, to spend their blood and their lives for the glorification of one man.'' Guess who? . Azonips! -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go

Re: [Pen-l] From the WSJ: Federal Reserve 'Doves' Beat 'Hawks' in Economic Prognosticating

, I agree that liberality is a good thing (all else constant). As I understand it, Marx's idea was to _complete_ liberalism, not to end it. -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick ___ pen-l

Re: [Pen-l] Stiglitz, Minsky, and Obama - NYTimes.com

economic growth depends is low, even although profitability is high. Unused industrial capacity and pessimistic profit expectations seem a sufficient explanation of why the abundant profits seen these days are not being put into investment in industrial capital. -- Jim Devine / Reality

Re: [Pen-l] The FROP and the real world

are mired in crude empiricism. -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l

Re: [Pen-l] The FROP and the real world

with this topic), you ignored my alternative perspective. Giving my views zero respect tells me that it's not worth wasting time on you. -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick ___ pen-l mailing

Re: [Pen-l] Collapsing Investment and the Great Recession | Dollars Sense

as in the now-defunct USSR) to increase its ability to produce real GDP. (I'm willing to be convinced otherwise: after all, it's the Defense Department which produced the Internet. But at what cost?) -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick

Re: [Pen-l] the MOOC racket

of self-interest bolsters efforts at solidarity. -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l

[Pen-l] academics government policies [was: From the WSJ: Federal Reserve 'Doves' Beat 'Hawks' in Economic Prognosticating

about him. -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l

Re: [Pen-l] From the WSJ: Federal Reserve 'Doves' Beat 'Hawks' in Economic Prognosticating

constitutes a full court press? -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l

Re: [Pen-l] From the WSJ: Federal Reserve 'Doves' Beat 'Hawks' in Economic Prognosticating

serious comments on pen-l for awhile so I'm just having fun in the interstices. I'll be back. -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https

Re: [Pen-l] the MOOC racket

at 3:24 PM, Jim Devine jdevin...@gmail.com wrote: Talking about access to higher education allows MOOC providers like Coursera to avoid discussing the effect their services will have on people who work in higher education now. Professors, believe it or not, are people, too. They have families

Re: [Pen-l] Reuters: MoveOn circulating petition against Summers

oppose Summers' original appointment as Obama's economic main man back in 2009? -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https

Re: [Pen-l] NYT: U.S. Prison Populations Decline, Reflecting New Approach to Crime

It has a lot to do with California's court-ordered move of a lot of people from state prisons to local jails. James Devine On Jul 26, 2013 3:05 PM, Joseph Catron jncat...@gmail.com wrote: The prison population in the United States dropped in 2012 for the third consecutive year, according to

Re: [Pen-l] putting the Prisoner's Dilemma to the test

of resistance -- was that the prisoners can cooperate _even if_ they are totally separated. -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https

[Pen-l] the MOOC racket

. Going to the library and reading a bunch of books would be equally effective, and probably a whole lot cheaper. Also in Slate, Gabriel Kahn writes about Georgia Tech's plan to offer an online master's in computer science. -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing

[Pen-l] The Next Mayor of NYC has done worse

in 2002, before later turning against the war. -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l

Re: [Pen-l] Financialization

I understand. This global warming is a bitch. Jurriaan Bendien wrote: Thank you for your comment, Jim, but it’s way too hot to debate about this right now. -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick

Re: [Pen-l] Financialization

the Marxist orthodoxy. Then you attribute their dogmatism to people outside of that group. I didn't read Julio as describing his opinions as orthodox. -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick

Re: [Pen-l] Malthus

raghu mragh...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a baby in Malthus' thinking that is worth retaining while flushing the dirty bathwater? His proto-Keynesian critique of Ricardo? -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick

Re: [Pen-l] Financialization

mean by them before dismissing them. In any event, all human thought involves abstraction, so we can't avoid it. -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l

[Pen-l] putting the Prisoner's Dilemma to the test

-2013-7 -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l

Re: [Pen-l] Financialization

providing income in the form of capital gains (profit upon alienation). J. ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing

Re: [Pen-l] Judge Challenges White House Claims on Authority in Drone Killings

Carrol Cox cb...@ilstu.edu wrote: The _only_ point of the War on Terror is the destruction of bourgeois liberty in the U.S. and it doesn't involve the US power elite projecting power over areas in the Middle East at all? -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing

[Pen-l] Napoleon Chagnon

to jump to attention to support him because he claims to be scientific and reject his opponents because he claims that they are not scientific. But his work, as far as I can tell, isn't scientific at all. -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip

Re: [Pen-l] Financialization

/listinfo/pen-l ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick

Re: [Pen-l] Napoleon Chagnon

raghu mragh...@gmail.com wrote: Can't we just evaluate each argument on its specific merits instead of relying on labels or certificates like scientific? exactly. -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick

[Pen-l] Dean Baker on Obama Trade Deals

this fact to readers. -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l

[Pen-l] Wolff on Immiseration

centers that its first 200 years found in the old centers? Even if it can, the working classes in the old centers may soon withdraw their traditional acceptance. If they do, monumental social struggles pitting supporters against opponents of capitalism are our future. -- Jim Devine / Reality

[Pen-l] Steve Keen on Ben Bernanke

it aggressively, and he did it to good effect.” If Mr. Bernanke’s successor, whoever he or she is, will take to heart the lesson that Mr. Bernanke missed during the good times — that stability itself eventually becomes destabilizing — the chances of a Great Recession II will be greatly reduced. -- Jim

Re: [Pen-l] Full Employment Versus Jobless Growth by Herman Daly

raghu wrote: Really? Excessive immigration is an evil, right alongside automation and off-shoring of jobs? Is progressivism that comes packaged with a nasty dose of nativism still progressive? we've been having trouble with these immigrants ever since we came to this country! -- Jim Devine

Re: [Pen-l] The Rise of the Evolutionary Psychology Douchebag

-kinesthetic, Spatial Interpersonal, and Intrapersonal. In the US, it's only the first two that get respect from academic types and are measured by IQ tests. -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick

Re: [Pen-l] [lbo-talk] Cole on Alijazzeera

. -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l

Re: [Pen-l] [lbo-talk] Cole on Alijazzeera

these days don't want to govern directly, since they don't want the blame.) -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https

[Pen-l] Say it ain't so, Steve

customer. It was shameful. It was also a failure, and now, despite the iPad and the iBookstore, Amazon is still the undisputed leader of the worldwide market for e-books. Thank goodness. [As usual, I do not endorse all of the above.] -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing

Re: [Pen-l] Say it ain't so, Steve

as usual, all I do is cut and paste. (I edit out extraneous stuff, however.) On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Dan Scanlan coolhanduke1...@sbcglobal.net wrote: How did you post this article? -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K

[Pen-l] an analysis of German short-time (Kurzarbeit) program

29, 2013; http://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/es/13/ES_10_2013-03-29.pdf. -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https

Re: [Pen-l] Steve Jobs and the Reality Distortion Field

Dan Scanlan wrote: The medium is still the massage. Freudian slip? -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu

[Pen-l] monopoly capitalism? conspiracy?

they are being treated fairly. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/11/technology/judge-rules-against-apple-in-e-books-trial.html -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l

[Pen-l] why Snowden acted

/jul/08/edward-snowden-video-interview -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l

Re: [Pen-l] Tim Wise loses it

why is Tim Wise important? On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Joseph Catron jncat...@gmail.com wrote: If you have the least concern what this character's saying, check out his Twitter feed quickly, before he sobers up and it's all deleted: http://twitter.com/timjacobwise -- Jim Devine

[Pen-l] California prisons' forced sterilizations

report shows how access can turn into coercion very quickly when the women in question are marginalized or imprisoned. The frustrating part is that California already has fail-safes to make sure that line is not crossed, but the rules only work if you actually bother to follow them. -- Jim Devine

Re: [Pen-l] ESOPs redux

How to Turn Eighty Million Workers into Capitalists on Borrowed Money. isn't that what happened during the US housing bubble during the 2000s? (assuming of course that living in your own house makes you a capitalist.) -- Jim Devine / Reality is that which, when you stop believing

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