Hi All
All the best for the year ahead (minus 11 days).
Snow in Baghdad made me wonder if someone had already come up with something
from Nostradamus proving it is prophecy! Looks like it hasn't reached the
charlatan-mill yet.
But I came across this book.
Come health or high prices
Critics say Núñez-Schwarzenegger health-care proposal does nothing to control
costs
By Seth Sandronsky
Theres no question whats ailing our festering health-care system. Soaring
costs for insurance premiums have pushed health care beyond the reach of 47
http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/page2/20080110_doug_henwood_on_robert_kuttners_the_squandering_of_america/
Nice job!
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
michaelperelman.wordpress.com
Also, listservs are not well served by provocative remarks, especially when
they have
already been made.
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 08:53:48AM -0800, Leigh Meyers wrote:
It's EXACTLY what listservs are for...
FWIW, I consider movie reviews on listservs bad form unless it is a
movies-l,
Greetings Economists,
The costs of empires is high. One asks why Britain came down?
Projecting military power around the world is costly. Community based
resistance which arms itself with current weapons can't be militarily
defeated unless the empire adopts scorched earth techniques. Which
are
For you teachers out there, how do you pedagogically deal with this in
the classroom? Any thoughts?
Best,
Brian McKenna
Please, this is pen-l. It is considered bad form for teachers to give
their thoughts on anything, unless it is Michael Perelman or Jim Devine.
Teachers much prefer to deep
In my classes these days I'm increasingly presented with an argument in
support of all US aggression that seems compelling for many . It goes like this.
All nations want protection and all are inherently for power. If they can
become an empire they will. IF THE US DOES NOT STEP INTO THE VOID
Lou, most of the people on the list -- probably most lists -- prefer to lurk.
From
time to time, I used to set aside a period when the regulars were asked not to
post
anything to make way for lurkers, but that tactic never worked.
Lurkers, let's hear from you.
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at
Greetings Economists,
On Jan 11, 2008, at 8:35 AM, Louis Proyect wrote:
Please, this is pen-l. It is considered bad form for teachers to give
their thoughts on anything, unless it is Michael Perelman or Jim
Devine.
Teachers much prefer to deep lurk unless there is some non-teacher
interloper
Greetings Economists,
Scientific American online has this article here:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=a-solar-grand-plan
That suggests a plan for 480 billion (in increments from now to 2050)
to completely go over to solar energy in the U.S. economy. Any
thoughts from renewable economics
On Jan 11, 2008, at 1:37 PM, Gar Lipow wrote:
On Jan 11, 2008 10:01 AM, Shane Mage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jan 11, 2008, at 12:19 PM, Doyle Saylor wrote:
Greetings Economists,
Scientific American online has this article here:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=a-solar-grand-plan
Well, for one thing, the US is the current empire. So, there is no void
of empire. They would have to be saying, if the US ends its empire,
somebody might step into the void.
It might be good to get them to realize that the US is an empire. 100
plus military bases around the world . No nation
He was supposed to be the most leftist of the right wing bunch. This book was
a big
disappointment.
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 12:15:36AM -0600, Matthijs Krul wrote:
I am reviewing his Supercapitalism. It reads like something from the DLC.
When did
he move so far to the right?
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On Jan 11, 2008 10:01 AM, Shane Mage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jan 11, 2008, at 12:19 PM, Doyle Saylor wrote:
Greetings Economists,
Scientific American online has this article here:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=a-solar-grand-plan
That suggests a plan for 480 billion (in
Greetings Economists,
On Jan 11, 2008, at 8:53 AM, Leigh Meyers wrote:
It's EXACTLY what listservs are for...
Doyle,
I'm not sure what you mean by exactly here, but what a listserv
doesn't do is provide an environment for working on a topic in the
sense that wikis offer organized means of
In a meeting on foreclosures, someone reported that 60% of the homes in
Benton Harbor , Michigan are in tax foreclosure.
Charles
Greetings Economists,
On Jan 11, 2008, at 11:32 AM, Shane Mage wrote:
A hydrogen-powered vehicle (car, bus, truck, dirigible, bike, ship or
boat) is totally infrared-blocking-emission free when the hydrogen
is produced
by electrolysis driven by electricity from a wind farm. Both fuel
cells
Greetings Economists,
On Jan 11, 2008, at 10:01 AM, Shane Mage wrote:
This, of course, requires a huge dose of government enterprise and
economic planning.
Doyle;
I assume the pressure to move would come from people seeing global
warming encroaches. I don't think this is especially useful as
While I agree the whole one laptop for every child concept is a bit
wacky, Negroponte runs a non-profit not a business and there is no
reason to doubt that it is a well-intentioned project. Also $13B may
be a lot of money when it comes to Brazilian school children but I
believe it is less than the
On Jan 10, 2008 8:32 AM, Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
did Marx ever say anything like Societal deviations in terms of the
distribution of wealth for example, must be minimized? (supposedly he
said this in CAPITAL, according to Nassim Nicholas Taleb, THE BLACK
SWAN, p. 242.) It seems
Brian McKenna wrote:
In my classes these days I'm increasingly presented with an argument in
support of all US aggression that seems compelling for many . It goes like
this.
All nations want protection and all are inherently for power. If they can
become an empire they will. IF THE US DOES
On Jan 11, 2008, at 11:35 AM, Louis Proyect wrote:
Teachers much prefer to deep lurk unless there is some non-teacher
interloper that disturbs their peace in which case Michael Perelman is
forced to act on their behalf.
I am not sure the above holds. I am one of the more prolific posters
on
Our enemies do better: Japan, Germany, Vietnam.
Not the powerful Grenada, however.
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 05:39:24PM -0500, ravi wrote:
Charles already pointed out that we are the empire -- there is no
void. The other option is to take Chomsky's argument: look at the data
on the places we
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/11/2008 5:32 PM
raghu wrote:
In particular, the emergence of Statistics led Adolph Quetelet and
others to formulate a generalized notion of the normal as an
imperative(Davis 11). Through his construct of l'homme moyen
physique and l'homme moyen morale, a
raghu wrote:
In particular, the emergence of Statistics led Adolph Quetelet and
others to formulate a generalized notion of the normal as an
imperative(Davis 11). Through his construct of l'homme moyen
physique and l'homme moyen morale, a physical and moral average man,
Quetelet creates a
Michael Perelman wrote:
Our enemies do better: Japan, Germany, Vietnam.
I don't think that Vietnam is doing that well, except in terms of
market criteria. Even then, it's part of the race (or crawl) to the
bottom. It will be out-competed by another country with even lower
wages, laxer
But the US hasn't really tried to coerce it into any policies. It mostly bullies
friends.
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 02:50:43PM -0800, Jim Devine wrote:
Michael Perelman wrote:
Our enemies do better: Japan, Germany, Vietnam.
I don't think that Vietnam is doing that well, except in terms of
What if the British Empire ran the whole world? What alternatives then
would the American colonists seeking religious freedom, better
opportunities, economic emancipation, etc., have had?
I might take this further and argue that cultural diversity is valuable
and we should value it just as we do
On Jan 11, 2008, at 6:20 PM, Peter Hollings wrote:
Globalization
and empire are forces that favor monoculture
Do they really? What music does MTV China play? I see a lot of
hybridization going on, which makes cultural purists of left and
right nervous.
Doug
On Jan 11, 2008 2:25 PM, Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
that's a new one! one possible response: power corrupts. Look at what
happened to the Roman Republic when it became an Empire. It may have
started out pretty good, but it became totally corrupt and disgusting.
That may not be totally
On Jan 11, 2008, at 6:32 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
On Jan 11, 2008, at 6:20 PM, Peter Hollings wrote:
Globalization
and empire are forces that favor monoculture
Do they really? What music does MTV China play? I see a lot of
hybridization going on, which makes cultural purists of left and
right
On Jan 11, 2008 3:16 PM, Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But the US hasn't really tried to coerce it into any policies. It mostly
bullies
friends.
Destruction of Vietnam's social infrastructure, their economy, and
massive numbers of people in a war for their natural resources in
On Jan 11, 2008 11:32 AM, Shane Mage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A hydrogen-powered vehicle (car, bus, truck, dirigible, bike, ship or
boat) is totally infrared-blocking-emission free when the hydrogen is
produced
by electrolysis driven by electricity from a wind farm. Both fuel
cells and
On Jan 11, 2008 3:32 PM, Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jan 11, 2008, at 6:20 PM, Peter Hollings wrote:
Globalization
and empire are forces that favor monoculture
Do they really? What music does MTV China play? I see a lot of
hybridization going on, which makes cultural purists
A little too much reality:
http://images.teamsugar.com/files/users/1/13254/46_2007/joy.jpg
I meant former enemies. Sorry if I was not clear.
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 03:47:29PM -0800, Leigh Meyers wrote:
On Jan 11, 2008 3:16 PM, Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But the US hasn't really tried to coerce it into any policies. It mostly
bullies
friends.
Destruction of
The United States also had regional cultures, which have now degenerated into a
boring sameness. Raghu and Ravi suggest that this is also happening in India.
I
assume that Hollywood will also blend in a little Bollywood into our domestic
culture here.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
Greetings Economists,
On Jan 11, 2008, at 3:48 PM, Gar Lipow wrote:
It is a very hopeful thing, but not
something you can put an ETA on.
Doyle;
They demonstrated it could be fabricated using chip techniques. That
aside, what I see is not so much lab work might happen as that it
could develop
I wrote:
that's a new one! one possible response: power corrupts. Look at what
happened to the Roman Republic when it became an Empire. It may have
started out pretty good, but it became totally corrupt and disgusting.
That may not be totally accurate history-wise, but it may have some
Regarding cultural homogenization, assuming for purposes of discussion that it
is occurring, is it a result of capitalism or modern communications? In other
words, assuming the existence of modern communications, why would there be less
cultural homogenization if there was global socialism?
On Jan 11, 2008 5:03 PM, David B. Shemano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Regarding cultural homogenization, assuming for purposes of discussion that
it is occurring, is it a result of capitalism or modern communications? In
other words, assuming the existence of modern communications, why would
On Jan 11, 2008, at 8:46 PM, Michael Perelman wrote:
When I was young, I could hear the different speech patterns
between New Castle and
Butler, about 20 miles about.
Why is that worth preserving?
Doug
On Jan 11, 2008 4:24 PM, Doyle Saylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings Economists,
On Jan 11, 2008, at 3:48 PM, Gar Lipow wrote:
It is a very hopeful thing, but not
something you can put an ETA on.
Doyle;
They demonstrated it could be fabricated using chip techniques.
Yeah, but what
The differences were not useful in themselves. It was just indicative of the
effect
of the media to reduce local culture, not all of which was worth saving. But
some
regional cultures are of value.
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 09:04:31PM -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
On Jan 11, 2008, at 8:46 PM,
On Jan 11, 2008, at 9:19 PM, Michael Perelman wrote:
But some
regional cultures are of value.
The U.S. is different from India. In the U.S., Vermont is different
from Georgia. Manhattan is different from Queens. The East Village is
different from Harlem; Maspeth is different from Flushing.
On Jan 11, 2008 6:50 PM, Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The U.S. is different from India. In the U.S., Vermont is different
from Georgia. Manhattan is different from Queens. The East Village is
different from Harlem; Maspeth is different from Flushing. Really,
where is this
http://www.iht.com/bin/printfriendly.php?id=8390223
At the meetings Dean Baker remarked nostalgically that URPE grew out of
an opposition to people like Samuelson Solow guiding the American Economic
Association.
Samuelson must be a real optimist, speculating in the article about writing 10
years
from now. He is well into his 90s??
--
Michael
P Samuelson wrote:
Since we live ever in the short run...
Before that he wrote:
When I come to write a newspaper article like this 10 years from now,
I believe America may still be leading the pack in per-capita
affluence.
He was born in 1915.
Is it not correct that fairly frequent recessions are a necessity of the
capitalist system? And certainly, in practice, they have been happening
every five to ten years for a couple of centuries.
But both on this list and in the financial columns of the media everyone
is fussing about whether or
On Jan 11, 2008, at 9:50 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
On Jan 11, 2008, at 9:19 PM, Michael Perelman wrote:
But some
regional cultures are of value.
The U.S. is different from India. ... Really,
where is this homogenization going on?
Answered in upcoming messages (one by me, and the other by
He has a unique interpretation of the short run.
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 10:36:09PM -0500, Julio Huato wrote:
P Samuelson wrote:
Since we live ever in the short run...
Before that he wrote:
When I come to write a newspaper article like this 10 years from now,
I believe America may still
I believe that your first question is correct. According to Marx,
recession/depressions shock the system, generally making it stronger, but when
then
contradictions become too extreme, then even a small shock can be fatal.
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 09:37:34PM -0600, Carrol Cox wrote:
Is it not
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