Re: [PEN-L] Immigration = fetishism of labor + globalization

2007-05-26 Thread Michael Perelman
Also, wasn't Mandel a lefty long time ago? Robert Cringley shows how the IBM strategy is a crock: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070511_002058.html http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070504_002027.html -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State

[PEN-L] Consumer Behavior and Tipping

2007-05-25 Thread Michael Perelman
One of my students wrote a very interesting paper about his experience working in a music venue. When the owners raised the price, demand remained constant, but tips fell, leaving customers out of pocket costs relatively constant. I'm putting his paper on my blog. -- Michael Perelman

[PEN-L] Tribune: Strip and Flip Slips?

2007-05-25 Thread Michael Perelman
, and the loans quickly traded higher. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] query: home ownership

2007-05-23 Thread Michael Perelman
over time? -- Jim Devine / Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu

Re: [PEN-L] research help, please

2007-05-23 Thread Michael Perelman
://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0143-2095(199712)18%3A11%3C879% 3AACAOLA%3E2 .0.CO%3B2-N -Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael Perelman Sent: 21 May 2007 23:10 To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Subject: research help, please I recently

[PEN-L] Kucinich's wife and the American Monetary Institute

2007-05-21 Thread Michael Perelman
Charles Brown will enjoy this -- even though I don't think that the AMI is adding much to our understanding of the economy. Doug posted this to the LBO list. His wife worked for the AMI. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/ article1813550.ece -- Michael Perelman

[PEN-L] research help, please

2007-05-21 Thread Michael Perelman
I recently saw a study relating stock price increases and layoff announcements. I lost the reference. Any help would be appreciated. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu

Re: [PEN-L] Solow on Schumpeter

2007-05-21 Thread Michael Perelman
taught have been learned by central banks and finance ministries. ergo, expect a recession soon. -- Jim Devine / Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State

Re: [PEN-L] Solow on Schumpeter

2007-05-19 Thread Michael Perelman
economics. His close colleague, Samuelson, while typically defending conventional economics is more open to intellectual challenges, as shown by his recent work on immiserating growth. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University michael at ecst.csuchico.edu Chico, CA 95929

[PEN-L] Khmer Rought -- Environmentalists

2007-05-19 Thread Michael Perelman
when the guerrillas disbanded at the end of the 1990s. Mydans, Seth. 2007. How to Survive in Cambodia: For a Turtle, Beneath Sand. New York Time (18 May). -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu

Re: [PEN-L] Solow on Schumpeter

2007-05-19 Thread Michael Perelman
. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] I say po-tay-to, you say po-tah-to

2007-05-17 Thread Michael Perelman
Smith, like Keynes, realizes that passions do not disappear with the rise of capitalism, but rather markets sublimate the passions into positive purposes. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu

Re: [PEN-L] Deepening class struggle in Venezuela

2007-05-17 Thread Michael Perelman
, and an intensive use of chemicals. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] [PEN-L] Re: [PEN-L] Bolivarian Bourgeoisie: Creada ConfederaciĆ³n de Empresarios Socialistas de Venezuela

2007-05-17 Thread Michael Perelman
I am unsubbing Yoshie for one week. I think we need a break from Iran. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] in his own words

2007-05-16 Thread Michael Perelman
Why did God punish us by taking Falwell away. Was it because we tolerate homosexuality or because of abortion? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

[PEN-L] Cerberus puzzles

2007-05-16 Thread Michael Perelman
billion for the financial arm. I do not understand this $1.05 billion since its lending arm is already quite profitable. Finally, pension funds are investing in Cerberus, as a company that will no doubt damage the existing pensions of Chrysler workers. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department

Re: [PEN-L] I say po-tay-to, you say po-tah-to

2007-05-16 Thread Michael Perelman
; and the economic, property, social change precedes that. -Original Message- From: Ted Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: May 16, 2007 11:48 AM To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Subject: Re: [PEN-L] I say po-tay-to, you say po-tah-to -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State

Re: [PEN-L] I say po-tay-to, you say po-tah-to

2007-05-14 Thread Michael Perelman
? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

[PEN-L] a cup of tea

2007-05-14 Thread Michael Perelman
with slave-grown sugar from the West Indies, the afternoon cup of tea perfectly expressed Britain's emerging empire of consumption. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] Fwd: [A-List] The Flight from Iraq

2007-05-14 Thread Michael Perelman
. It created a lot of economic problems for the country. -- -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

[PEN-L] Adam Smith on the recent financial boom

2007-05-14 Thread Michael Perelman
. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] legal query

2007-05-13 Thread Michael Perelman
What about Taiwan? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] crop rotation [was: More on Transition, Brenner, Allen, Productivity]

2007-05-13 Thread Michael Perelman
nitrogen. The production fowl in the system helped to create the threat of bird flu. An old book, Farmers of 40 Centuries, describes how sustainable the system was. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael

Re: [PEN-L] Nationalism and State Ownership Seen as Main Threats to Oil Supply

2007-05-12 Thread Michael Perelman
. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] Free Trade Agreements (was non-Iran question)

2007-05-12 Thread Michael Perelman
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2007/05/14/070514ta_talk_surowiecki?printable=true -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] news from Iran.

2007-05-12 Thread Michael Perelman
chosen a good cause. -- Jim Devine / Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu

Re: [PEN-L] SCIRI Drops Khamenei, Al-Hakim Calls for US-Iraq Security Agreement

2007-05-12 Thread Michael Perelman
Unless this Iran refrain ceases, I will have to uns*b people for a while. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] query: Smith's fellow-feeling.

2007-05-10 Thread Michael Perelman
, this encouraged the willingness to respect others' rights and to live up to promises. -- Jim Devine / Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel

Re: [PEN-L] Poverty and Inequality in Iran (was Iran on the Brink)

2007-05-10 Thread Michael Perelman
Why do we keep going on about Iran Islam? I would like it to stop. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

[PEN-L] non-Iran question

2007-05-10 Thread Michael Perelman
Does anybody have any idea about how bad the Dems were snookered in brokering their new trade agreement with Bush? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] Behind Turkey's Presidential Battle

2007-05-09 Thread Michael Perelman
. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] The responsibilities of [Western] intellectuals: The End!

2007-05-09 Thread Michael Perelman
This is absurd, going on and on about Iran. Please stop -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

[PEN-L] The headline says it all

2007-05-08 Thread michael perelman
PRIVATE EQUITY SEEKS FARMLAND FOR PROFIT By Associated Press May 7, 2007 Michael Perelman

Re: [PEN-L] Private Equity, Intellectual Property, Tax Manipulation

2007-05-08 Thread Michael Perelman
. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

[PEN-L] Great Carbon Offset Project

2007-05-08 Thread Michael Perelman
All you need to do is to click in your car, how many miles your drive, a credit card, and voila you are carbon neutral. http://terrapass.com/ -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu

[PEN-L] Redwoods Suck Up Pollution

2007-05-08 Thread Michael Perelman
, and have been linked in many studies to deaths of people with heart and breathing problems. The UCD study found redwood trees to be most effective of three species at removing particle pollutants, followed by the longer needled deodar cedar and the broad-leaf live oak. -- Michael Perelman Economics

Re: [PEN-L] More on Transition, Brenner, Allen, Productivity

2007-05-07 Thread Michael Perelman
output from not particularly productive soils. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] More on Transition, Brenner, Allen, Productivity

2007-05-07 Thread Michael Perelman
-- www.marxmail.org -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] Private Equity, Intellectual Property, Tax Manipulation

2007-05-07 Thread Michael Perelman
interest in securitizations, because PE groups usually want control of the company, which means primarily an equity investment, while securitizations are essentially a form of secured lending designed to distance the lender from the company. David Shemano -- Michael Perelman Economics

Re: [PEN-L] Private Equity, Intellectual Property, Tax Manipulation

2007-05-07 Thread Michael Perelman
of how the capital markets work. David Shemano -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] Private Equity, Intellectual Property, Tax Manipulation

2007-05-07 Thread michael perelman
can legitimately be securitized? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University michael at ecst.csuchico.edu Chico, CA 95929 530-898-5321 fax 530-898-5901 www.michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] TURKEY: Secularism, Secularism. They Don't Know How to Say Anything Else,

2007-05-06 Thread Michael Perelman
. I'm glad I'm not a Turk where I have to choose between religious fundamentalists and the military, but then I'm an American and I have a government which has the worst of both. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael

Re: [PEN-L] Iran on the Brink

2007-05-06 Thread Michael Perelman
about the economy. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] Iran on the Brink

2007-05-06 Thread Michael Perelman
of stopping US interventions like coups and proxy wars that destroy one that exists or prevent people from establishing a new one. We need to do what we can to help other peoples to become free to fight their own struggles, free from what the USG does. -- -- Michael Perelman Economics Department

Re: [PEN-L] Iran on the Brink

2007-05-06 Thread Michael Perelman
, and UN policies and aggression against Iran. She is raising a false issue. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

[PEN-L] Enough!

2007-05-06 Thread Michael Perelman
Enough on this thread! -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

[PEN-L] Private Equity, Intellectual Property, Tax Manipulation

2007-05-06 Thread Michael Perelman
on the Kenmore, Craftsman, and DieHard trademarks, the company's crown jewels. They would go instead to the insurer. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

[PEN-L] carbon question

2007-05-06 Thread michael perelman
How difficult would it be to create a mechanism to dissolve carbon dioxide in water with calcium to make calcium carbonate? That would seem more stable than injecting it into the ground. I don't know how long it will stay underground. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State

Re: [PEN-L] GM

2007-05-04 Thread Michael Perelman
at all. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

[PEN-L] Another Bush coverup?

2007-05-04 Thread Michael Perelman
on office renovations. In memo to IG workers, Frazier says, I have every confidence in the eventual outcome of these inquiries and look forward to their speedy resolution. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael

Re: [PEN-L] Differential games

2007-05-03 Thread Michael Perelman
on individualism. 30: ... the individual who rose from the ashes of Civic Humanism ... in the eyes of Machiavelli and Hobbes ... was ... villainous, uncivil, fearful, and cunning -- the modern adjectives for the new human being.. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State

Re: [PEN-L] query

2007-05-02 Thread Michael Perelman
implications. (This could be derived as a necessity from the axiom of the priority of practice: that is, there is no way to judge a theory's full implications prior to a long period in which it informs practice.) Carrol -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico

Re: [PEN-L] Happy International Workers' Day!

2007-05-01 Thread Michael Perelman
and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] Fwd: again, differential games

2007-04-30 Thread Michael Perelman
to a minimum, without reducing your model to triviality. But maybe I don't need to be so freaking preachy about this... I hope this explains my take a bit better. Relax and take it easy in Havana. Julio -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel

[PEN-L] The Wall Street Journal Worries About Excessive Leverage

2007-04-30 Thread Michael Perelman
the 1929 crash look like a Sunday-school picnic. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

[PEN-L] Larry Summers Slams Carbon Trading then Supports Imperial Powers

2007-04-30 Thread Michael Perelman
climate change policy is that developing countries are where most of the future action has to be. They will account for 75 per cent of the increase in emissions over the next quarter century and are now making the infrastructure investments that will shape their future economies. -- Michael

Re: [PEN-L] Persian Prince Prophesizes

2007-04-27 Thread Michael Perelman
The subject of this thread is a tweak. Please keep in mind that Yoshie has been very good about limiting this subject on the list. I am grateful. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu

[PEN-L] test, sorry

2007-04-26 Thread Michael Perelman
test -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] Engels on transition

2007-04-26 Thread Michael Perelman
in the 16th and 17th century was a foundation for future capitalist development. You can't develop industry without banking and banking relied relied on silver and gold. I will get into this in more depth later on. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929

Re: [PEN-L] Engels on transition

2007-04-26 Thread Michael Perelman
, this is a very interesting thread so far. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] Engels on transition

2007-04-26 Thread Michael Perelman
to commerce, to navigation, to industry, an impulse never before known, and thereby, to the revolutionary element in the tottering feudal society, a rapid development. --Communist Manifesto I guess that Marx and Engels were disoriented from reading Henri Pirenne or something. -- Michael

Re: [PEN-L] Engels on transition

2007-04-26 Thread Michael Perelman
, but they could not have been used in day-to-day retail trade. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] Engels on transition

2007-04-26 Thread Michael Perelman
forms of bondage would work. This is the crux of the difference between Norwich in the 16th century and Potosi. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] Engels on transition

2007-04-26 Thread Michael Perelman
hazel-wood. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

[PEN-L] how to be sophisticated

2007-04-25 Thread Michael Perelman
refined, said John E. Joseph, a professor of applied linguistics at Edinburgh University. These included words with French origins -- serviette. for napkin, for instance, and .toilet,. which came from .toilette.. The upper class shunned the words as arriviste affectations. -- Michael Perelman

[PEN-L] Doug Henwood's piggy bank

2007-04-25 Thread Michael Perelman
equity extraction (subtracting closing costs) represented 6.92% of disposable income. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] Fictitious profits, fictitious value

2007-04-22 Thread Michael Perelman
Melvyn's story is exactly what I was concerned about in my initial post. What shows up as profit is to a great extent merely the transfer of money/wealth/value from others. Rather than producing surplus value, the system is turning to theft -- a higher level of exploitation? -- Michael

Re: [PEN-L] the brilliance of a mind that's never been used

2007-04-22 Thread Michael Perelman
and talent. The aristocracy of sex is similarly grounded upon the supposed superior capacity of the man for happiness. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] Populism?

2007-04-21 Thread Michael Perelman
. Looking at populism from the standpoint of Goodwyn, Lawrence. 1976. Democratic Promise: The Populist Moment in America (Oxford University Press), you can get an idea of its positive potential. But it is still a relatively dangerous phenomenon. Michael Perelman

[PEN-L] sandbox politics on mailing lists

2007-04-21 Thread Michael Perelman
, by being unwilling to ally. . . Now who in the f* hell is the formal leadership of this (mythical) creature THE left in the US? Who conceivably is in a position to ally with anybody or anything? Michael Perelman

[PEN-L] test

2007-04-20 Thread Michael Perelman
sorry. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

[PEN-L] Fictitious profits, fictitious value

2007-04-19 Thread Michael Perelman
do not appear as a subtraction from profits. Some of the company's value will disappear in bankruptcy, but much of it is already disappeared in the form of debt which it has taken over. What am I missing? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel

[PEN-L] the end of the internet?

2007-04-19 Thread Michael Perelman
, Neoconservative America or the Neofascist EU. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

[PEN-L] Distinguished visitor to Chico

2007-04-19 Thread Michael Perelman
-6313 fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] providing a safe environment for our campus community through proactive, progressive, and professional law enforcement services -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu

Re: [PEN-L] American populism?

2007-04-18 Thread Michael Perelman
-foot home also Orange County's most valuable If I'm remembering right, the proto-populist Andrew Jackson had a bigger house than his nemesis, the well-born financier Nicholas Biddle. Doug -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E

[PEN-L] class and language

2007-04-16 Thread Michael Perelman
by more rigid belief systems, including religious orthodoxy and doctrinaire political ideologies, such as popularism and Marxism. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] class and language (cont)

2007-04-16 Thread Michael Perelman
. Carrol -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] class and language (cont)

2007-04-16 Thread Michael Perelman
points. So lots of poorer kids start college, but they don't finish. Doug -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] class and language (cont)

2007-04-16 Thread Michael Perelman
/socialistregister.com/files/SR_1965_Alavi.pdf. Highly recommended. What's true of peasants may be also true of educated proletarians, and there may be work that can empirically confirm it in resource mobilization theory literature. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA

Re: [PEN-L] Iaccoca - Where Have All the Leaders Gone?

2007-04-16 Thread Michael Perelman
.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

[PEN-L] A way to voluntarily reduce prison overcrowding

2007-04-16 Thread Michael Perelman
to a person in return for an organ donation. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] class and language (cont)

2007-04-16 Thread Michael Perelman
drifted at that time into electoral politics in the USA. Gene Coyle -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] class and language (cont)

2007-04-16 Thread Michael Perelman
Not the Molly Maguires. The coal region was not terribly urbanized. They were still largely agrarian people at the time. On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 08:21:38PM -0700, Eugene Coyle wrote: Well, that's where the Irish immigrants were. On Apr 16, 2007, at 7:45 PM, Michael Perelman wrote: I

Re: [PEN-L] Toor on Roy Indo-chic

2007-04-15 Thread Michael Perelman
This baiting has no place on the list. Is it still the case that Iran cannot be discussed without getting into bickering? I think that Iran is important. I learnt a great deal from Doug's recent interview on the subject. But I don't think we want an overempasis on any one subject. -- Michael

Re: [PEN-L] criticising Arundhati Roy

2007-04-15 Thread Michael Perelman
male intellectual! -- Yoshie -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] criticising Arundhati Roy

2007-04-15 Thread Michael Perelman
similar words directed at people on the list. On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 07:01:02PM -0400, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: On 4/15/07, Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We should try to avoid such personal digs. They serve no purpose. I would like to see this discussion dropped because

Re: [PEN-L] criticising Arundhati Roy

2007-04-15 Thread Michael Perelman
Now its going from bad to worse. Just cut the personal crap! -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] criticising Arundhati Roy

2007-04-15 Thread Michael Perelman
a moratorium on Furuhashi posts instead? Talk about empty signifiers... Bill -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

[PEN-L] China fact???

2007-04-15 Thread Michael Perelman
. Of the key positions in the five industrial sectors -- finance, foreign trade, land development, large-scale engineering and securities -- 85% to 90% are held by children of high-level cadres. Pointer from the Marginal Revolution Web Site -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State

[PEN-L] Sallie Mae, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac

2007-04-15 Thread Michael Perelman
. Would the other two companies have been involved in their financial shenanigans if they were not reengineered to be profit oriented? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu

[PEN-L] deregulation

2007-04-13 Thread Michael Perelman
Why is Europe deregulating energy? Don't the people there know about the US experience? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] deregulation

2007-04-13 Thread Michael Perelman
. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] American Monetary Act

2007-04-11 Thread Michael Perelman
not in the past ? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] India and labor

2007-04-11 Thread Michael Perelman
is a billionaire (and another has a few million in the bank too). --ravi -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] Private equity groups and financial corporations

2007-04-11 Thread Michael Perelman
yes. On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 12:58:43PM -0400, Charles Brown wrote: CB: Are you saying Gesell and these economists in the closet give no understanding of the private equity groups/modern financial corps ? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929

[PEN-L] Elsie McClean Got a Hole in One

2007-04-11 Thread Michael Perelman
This news is not particularly interesting except that Elsie, a Chico resident, is 102. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] American Monetary Act

2007-04-10 Thread Michael Perelman
capital is out of date. What are the new characteristics of finance capital , and what form should the struggle against them take ? Should we be focussing on the industrial proletariat still ? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321

[PEN-L] two interesting pieces from Radical Notes

2007-04-10 Thread Michael Perelman
On Henryk Grossman, A Revolutionary Marxist - An Interview with Rick Kuhn http://radicalnotes.com/content/view/40/39/ On The Darker Nations - An Interview with Vijay Prashad http://radicalnotes.com/content/view/39/39/ -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA

[PEN-L] Jim Craven needs support

2007-04-10 Thread Michael Perelman
on this message to others you know who might be concerned then at the very least we can stop the censorship of yet another critical voice. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu

Re: [PEN-L] Jim Craven needs support

2007-04-10 Thread Michael Perelman
I have requested the info., but have not heard back yet. On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 11:21:20AM -0400, Doug Henwood wrote: On Apr 10, 2007, at 11:07 AM, Michael Perelman wrote: Sorry to bother you but I hope you can help out here. Once again it seems that Jim Craven is under attack from some

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