http://www.juancole.com/2007/08/142-dead-in-heat-wave-of-violence-5_02.html
If you know about, or are interested in, Feed-In Tariffs, please
contact Paul Gipe. Paul has been instrumental in getting Ontario to
adopt the Feed-In Tariff model. I mentioned Feed-In Tariffs in
http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/pen-l/2007w30/msg00092.htm
Paul's web site has lots of
Actually I think methodological individualism is
employed as an axiom underpinning free-market
ideology. As such it will be claimed as self-evident
even though
to anyone not already conditioned to accept the axiom
this seems blatantly ridiculous. The claim of trivial
truth is in effect a blocking
ken hanly wrote:
Actually I think methodological individualism is
employed as an axiom underpinning free-market
ideology. As such it will be claimed as self-evident
even though
to anyone not already conditioned to accept the axiom
this seems blatantly ridiculous. The claim of trivial
truth
A CounterPunch Special Report on the Economy
In Richistan: Fantastic Wealth for a Few; Steady Decline for Many
The Return of the Robber Barons
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
The US economy continues its 21st century decline, even as the Bush Regime
outfits B-2 stealth bombers with 30,000 pound monster
We need some evidence for the following:
Meanwhile, US colleges and universities continue to graduate hundreds of
thousands of qualified engineers, IT professionals, and other
professionals who will never have the opportunity to work in the
professions for which they have been trained. America
thinking about Rupert's take-over of the WSJ makes me think of the
late media baron, Robert Maxwell. The question is: how (over)
leveraged is Murdoch? As far as I can tell, no-one is asking this
question, which seems relevant if we're going to be seeing a recession
in the near future.
on Maxwell
Greetings Economists,
On Aug 2, 2007, at 8:40 AM, Jim Devine wrote:
1) the free rider or collective action problem: it's really hard for a
group of people to attain collective goals because some will be in it
for themselves.
Doyle;
The model is language here. If a language is shared like
On 8/2/07, Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
He was certainly highly leveraged some time ago, when the business press
speculated
about his impending implosion. Would he have made the same mistake twice?
the main reasons why capitalists get over-leveraged is because they
anticipate
On 8/2/07, Anthony D'Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We need some evidence for the following:
Meanwhile, US colleges and universities continue to graduate hundreds of
thousands of qualified engineers, IT professionals, and other
professionals who will never have the opportunity to work in the
On 8/2/07, Anthony D'Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We need some evidence for the following:
Meanwhile, US colleges and universities continue to graduate hundreds of
thousands of qualified engineers, IT professionals, and other
professionals who will never have the opportunity to work in the
The Buffalo In Da' Midst wrote:
I don't feel sorry for the professional bourgeoisie at all. For the
most part, their expectations led to their own problems,
psychological, sociological, and financial.
This belief should make the capitalists happy, since it guarantees
disunity in the working
On 8/2/07, Carrol Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Buffalo In Da' Midst wrote:
I don't feel sorry for the professional bourgeoisie at all. For the
most part, their expectations led to their own problems,
psychological, sociological, and financial.
This belief should make the
On 8/2/07, Carrol Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This belief should make the capitalists happy, since it guarantees
disunity in the working class.
Carrol
Are foreigners on work visas part of the working class? Does setting
domestic workers against foreigners not guarantee disunity in the
On 8/2/07, raghu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are foreigners on work visas part of the working class? Does setting
domestic workers against foreigners not guarantee disunity in the
working class?
-raghu.
I consider foreign workers on H1b (and other types of) visa as
'self-exploited'
Lou Dobbs -- I mean Paul Craig Roberts -- writes that:
Another deceit is the measure called core inflation. This measure of
inflation excludes food and energy, two large components of the average
family's budget. Wall Street and corporations and, therefore, the media
emphasize core inflation,
On 8/2/07, The Buffalo In Da' Midst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I consider foreign workers on H1b (and other types of) visa as
'self-exploited' bourgeoisie. They tolerate their own exploitation for
personal gain.
Now, look up the word opportunist.
Perhaps. But you have to remember most of them
raghu wrote:
On 8/2/07, Carrol Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This belief should make the capitalists happy, since it guarantees
disunity in the working class.
Carrol
Are foreigners on work visas part of the working class? Does setting
domestic workers against foreigners not guarantee
Leigh:
Let me know when they think of themselves, and act as, 'working class'.
Whether they think of themselves as working class is another issue. But they
act as working class because they are working class. Working class does not
always act to the liking of the progressives.
Best,
Sabri
On 8/2/07, Sabri Oncu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Leigh:
Let me know when they think of themselves, and act as, 'working class'.
Sabri:
Whether they think of themselves as working class is another issue. But they
act as working class because they are working class. Working class does not
always
On 8/2/07, Carrol Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The criticism of high-paid workers (who ARE working-class, not part of
the bourgeosie) introduces a moralistic element into thinking about
class. That is disastrous. Higher wages for already high-pay workers
DOES NOT effect in any way the wages or
As I recall, the index shifted to rents when housing prices were rising [during
the
Reagan Admin?] much faster than rents. It was intended to lower the CPI
[perhaps
when Roberts was in the Treasury Department]
If homeowners make up a majority of the populations, annual payments might make
Marvin Gandall wrote:
By the way, downward or upward pressures on pay and benefits on one group of
workers do tend to affect other groups. Workers, especially union members,
habitually compare their pay movements to others in their workplace and
industry, and employers are required to pay
I'm reposting this, hoping for an answer.
In economics, what uses does methodological individualism have in the
actual attempt to understand the world (that is, beyond mere
ideology)? I can think of two so far:
1) the free rider or collective action problem: it's really hard for a
group of people
Carrol wrote:
Borderline cases tend to corrupt analysis. Management (as I would
describe it) is simply part of the capitalist class, their share of
surplus value coming to them in the form of salaries. But Management is
also a rubber-bag category that can be stretched weirdly. According to a
Rumors circulating in the Washington beltway have it that Reps.
Conyers and Pelosi are keeping impeachment off the table because they
have semen-stained blue dresses in their closets.
When Clinton ran for president, he promised a $19 billion program to fix the
nation's
infrastructure. Financial markets nailed him he backed off as fast as you
can say
single payer.
Now, the stock market is supposedly licking its collective chops hungering
after an
infrastructure boondoggle.
Here below is additional proof that Patanaik's point that global imbalances
will not be refressed by exchange rate tinkering but the crisis will come when
foreigners seek national assets in the US
Funds that shake capitalist logic
By Lawrence Summers
Financial Times
July 29 2007 17:49
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