(Not one month after Robert Brenner wrote that he was analyzing
stagnation, not cataclysmic crashes, he has this article in Against the
Current.)
http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/1297
Devastating Crisis Unfolds
— Bob Brenner, for the ATC editors
THE CURRENT CRISIS could well turn out to be
(Posted to LBO-Talk by Andy F.)
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jarJONkRDuGUYQm3JHM-b2Yz22KAD8U8L2400
Mortgage Company Exec Jumps to Death
14 hours ago
MARLTON, N.J. (AP) — An executive of a collapsed subprime mortgage
lender jumped to his death from a bridge Friday, shortly after his
The UK's biggest energy provider, British Gas, today announced an
immediate price rise of 15% for its gas and electricity customers.
The company, which has around 16 million customers in the UK, blamed
rising wholesale prices for the increase.
It said higher gas prices had reduced its operating
What do Keynes, Luigi Pasinetti, John R. Commons, Sydney Chapman and
Samuel Gompers have in common with Karl Marx (and, incidentally,
Charles Wentworth Dilke)?
They all presented rationales for the use of work time reduction as a
vital economic policy tool. Their arguments are virtually forgotten
hey, let's reduce the mandatory time to 6 hours per day (4 days a
week, with mandatory 4 weeks of paid vacation)!
there, I've said it. Why aren't all the people in the media and the
business world listening, and then obeying me? perhaps it's because it
goes against their profit motives? Even if I
The beauty(beast) of work_ing_ing_ing_ _ _ :
http://tinyurl.com/34575r
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hey, let's reduce the mandatory time to 6 hours per day (4 days a
week, with mandatory 4 weeks of paid vacation)!
there, I've said it. Why aren't all the people in the media and the
According to a recent report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics -
released on June 30, 2006 and revised in July 2007 - there are over 2
million people behind bars in the United States.
(the population of incarcerated Americans was 740,000 prisoners in
1985, and is now more than 2.2 million
Leigh Meyers wrote:
According to a recent report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics -
released on June 30, 2006 and revised in July 2007 - there are over 2
million people behind bars in the United States.
I may be reading an intention not in the post, but . . .
If Leigh thinks this is
it's only when...
Well, you know Jim, a well-articulated strategy could be a useful tool
for focusing the energies of a labor movement so that it may become
well organized. The ten-hour movement in England in the early 19th
century and the campaign for the eight-hour day in the late 19th and
I had, again, too much free time, yesterday, and, again, spent it on spending
too much on (used) books, among them:
fascism as we have known it in the past was characterized by certain
traits, namely the existence of leaders, both military and civilian, w
dictatorial powers, who were supported
On Jan 19, 2008 11:17 AM, Carrol Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Leigh Meyers wrote:
If Leigh thinks this is evidence of u.s. fascism he is again showing his
naivete in respect to the repressive powers and practice of good
bourgeois democracies.
There's nothing that necessarily keeps a
Tom,
Some months ago you mentioned Luigi Pasinetti's book STRUCTURAL
CHANGE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH.
I thank you for that. I've been studying the book ever since.
The introduction (Chapter 1) is the best work I've ever read on the
history of economic thought. And Pasinetti does it in a few
GAS wrote:
ps: can we try democratic instead of the communist
in the party-part?
Getting beyond the notion that Sartre (who once belonged to the CP)
thought the French CP was fascist, is should be noted that the
Democratic Party (for all of its many manifest faults and its patently
capitalist
Awhile back, Charles Brown wrote:
Doesn't it seem likely that [the lack of] depressions (in the US)
since the 30's is due to government application of economic science ?
I said:
A little. But mostly it was a passive matter: it was the balance
wheel on the economy that the large government
me:
If the share of profit in total income and thus the rate of
profit fall, that almost always depresses fixed investment spending
and leads to a general decline in the economy.
raghu wrote:
This may have been the case with previous business cycles, but in the
present upturn,
Sandwichman wrote:
Well, you know Jim, a well-articulated strategy could be a useful tool
for focusing the energies of a labor movement so that it may become
well organized. The ten-hour movement in England in the early 19th
century and the campaign for the eight-hour day in the late 19th and
Jim Devine wrote:
Sure, I'm in favor of fewer hours per week, but I don't think slogans
or programs organize people well. (Some of my old friends were
Trotskyists who believed that a well-crafted slogan or a new
(improved!) version of the transitional program could spark a
prairie fire --
A little more than a year ago, in response to a Wall Street Journal article on
airline travelers' lost luggage, an insightful reader offered a more in depth
analysis:
Airlines lose luggage because there is no incentive to correct the problem. It
would cost money to fix the broken systems, and
By the construction of your sentence, you imply that I am offering
slogans. Nothing of the sort. I offer an analysis in which I point to
major contributions to that analysis, including Pasinetti as mentioned
above by Gene Coyle. Now if you refuse to engage that analysis because
you judge
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