(Atlantic Monthly is a fairly toxic source of neoliberal propaganda, but
occasionally has a useful article like Charles Mann's 1492 that made
the case that indigenous peoples had a higher standard of living than
the European invader.)
NY Times, January 21, 2008
A Venerable Magazine Energizes
U.S. Briefly On Canadian Torture List
Late last week, Canada placed the United States on an official list of
countries that practice torture before removing it on Saturday. What
do you think?
Tony Bramah, Systems Analyst:
We need to find out whoever did this, strap them to a board and dump
The Partisan
from Economic Principals
by David Warsh
Paul Krugman, a trade theorist of sufficient accomplishments that he
is on many persons' short list for a share of a Nobel Prize some day,
surprised nearly everyone in 2000 when he quit his professorship at
the Massachusetts Institute of
Louis Proyect wrote:
(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
I really can't speak
by Austan Goolsbee, New York TIMES, January 20, 2008.
... many critics have missed important research by some very prominent
economists that has revived some supply-side ideas, giving them an aura of
academic respectability. The leading Republican candidates do not advertise
their academic
me:
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 -- though I
Jim Devine writes:
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
me:
hey, let's reduce the mandatory time to 6 hours per day (4 days a
week, with mandatory 4 weeks of paid vacation)!
David B. Shemano wrote:
Why so reactionary? I raise you to 3 hours per day, 2 days a week, and 8
weeks of vacation. Wait, why am I so reactionary? I raise me to no work,
http://www.counterpunch.com/martens01212008.html
Jim Devine writes:
Why so reactionary? I raise you to 3 hours per day, 2 days a week, and 8
weeks of
vacation. Wait, why am I so reactionary? I raise me to no work, period,
plus 52 weeks
paid vacation. Let the robots do all the work.
There's an example of the small-business
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/housing-question/ch03.htm
When one observes how here in London alone a greater quantity of manure
than is produced by the whole kingdom of Saxony is poured away every day
into the sea with an expenditure of enormous sums, and when one observes
what
David B. Shemano wrote:
... Play along. I find it ironic somebody just posted another article about
the stupidity of the Laffer Curve (lower rates, more revenues), while the
topic under discussion seems to be a Laffer Curve analog: less hours, more
productivity. If you find my post
On Jan 21, 2008 11:57 AM, David B. Shemano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why so reactionary? I raise you to 3 hours per day, 2 days a week, and 8
weeks of vacation. Wait, why am I so reactionary? I raise me to no work,
period, plus 52 weeks paid vacation. Let the robots do all the work.
Oh
Thanks for this. Could you please send me the article. I am preparing a paper
to
deliver at Yale at the end of Feb., but I need to send them a copy right away.
I
would like to incorporate this article. Our library does not subscribe. I
don't
either.
Thanks.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics
David's comment about supply side economics made me rummage through my notes.
Here
is John Edwards' employer on taxes. The last line, as they say, is
priceless.
Griffin is an exception, since he is not interested in money, but in creating
wealth
for the community and the sheer joy of working.
Sea Shepherd has a 'Posse':
Flight spies on Japan whaling
Andrew Darby, Hobart
January 22, 2008
THE Australian Government has flown its first surveillance mission as
forces step up around the Japanese whaling fleet in the Antarctic.
The flight, by an extended range Airbus, together with the
These posts by Shemano and Devine seem even more ignoraznt and
superficial than many of my own.
1. Devine calls cutting hours utopian which I read as a synonym for
unattainable. Yet hours have repeatedly been cut in the USA, from 60
or more to fifty, to forty. From the six day week to
Eugene Coyle wrote:
1. Devine [i.e., yours truly] calls cutting hours utopian which I read as
a synonym for
unattainable.
NO! I'm sorry if my prose isn't crystal-clear, but I said that the
democratic determination of how many hours of work people do every
year (or month or week) was utopian.
Jim, Just addressing your remark re Korea, it doesn't look as if you
are current with practice there.
On Jan 21, 2008, at 5:17 PM, Jim Devine wrote:
Lowering hours by having the Korean workforce organize a large number
of strikes is not the same as government policy doing it. The
On 1/21/08, Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I study policy proposals as a way of understanding (1) what
currently-influential politicians are advocating and (2) what options
are open to the capitalist class.
That is funny. My research on the question of shorter working time
arose initially
As I write this, the Nikkei index is down 4.4 percent after dropping
3.9 percent Monday. The Hang Seng index is down a total of 10.7
percent for the two days. Dow Jones futures are down 436 points or 3.6
percent, the SP 500 futures are down 4.3 percent. It seems, pardon
the expression, somewhat
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