[PEN-L] new post-Keynesian papers

There are interesting post-Keynesian papers in English at the web site of a recent heterodox conference in Berlin, Germany, including names like Arestis, Bellofiore, Dow, Huffschmid, Jespersen, Moore, Palley, Rochon, Wray, Sawyer, Winslow, and many others. The papers are at

Re: [PEN-L] Labor in the Era of Capitalist Globalization

Scott Marshall's article (Labor in the Era of Capitalist Globalization) observes that: “Increasingly, US unions are signing specific solidarity agreements and alliances directly with unions in other countries that bargain with the same transnational corporations.” Similar efforts are underway

[PEN-L] for Hispanic eyes

A contribution to the study of global (cosmopolitan) exploitation, my new article - Köhler, Gernot. Una Crítica al Sistema Mundial de Salarios TENDENCIAS. Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Administrativas U. de Nariño. ISSN 0124-8693. Vol. V, No.1-2. 2004. Pasto, Colombia. (pages

Re: [PEN-L] globalization

In reply to Jim Devine (12apr05) what is the context in which Marx was writing? On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 01:10:31PM -0400, g kohler wrote: The accumulation, flows, and distribution of these MNC profits can be interpreted as a facet of cosmopolitan exploitation (KM 1848), as opposed

Re: [PEN-L] globalization

The accumulation, flows, and distribution of these MNC profits can be interpreted as a facet of “cosmopolitan exploitation” (KM 1848), as opposed to exploitation within the U.S. or other countries; in other words, as an integral part of a/the *global* exploitation system. GK

Re: [PEN-L] Worker rights versus growth

The German employment situation is complicated by the fact of political reunification after 1989, which, in economic terms, was a hostile takeover of one economy (GDR) by another (FRG). Within about three years of the opening of the Berlin wall, about 40% of the workers in East Germany were laid

Re: [PEN-L] PPP: a new article

Paul wrote Sat, 12 Feb 2005 I pointed out various reasons to believe that the PPP method has 'biases' that may automatically show progress in many parts of the 3rd world (reducing poverty, closing the gap with the developed world) even if nothing in the 3rd world had actually changed. Granting

[PEN-L] Canadian firms fend off global competition with lower wages (correction)

Here is the correct version of the Canadian article I tried to email recently. GK From: The Globe and Mail (Canada) 26jan05 Firms fend off global competition with lower wages: Statscan By OLIVER MOORE New employees are earning less than their counterparts two

[PEN-L] An article from globeandmail.com

g kohler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) thought you would be interested in this article from http://www.globeandmail.com, Canada's leading source for online news. - an interesting report about wage trends in Canada

[PEN-L] the demands of the new leftist party in Germany

The demands of the new leftist party in Germany, named “Party for Work and Social Justice – Election Alternative”, which just decided to run as a party, rather than remaining a movement, include: (a) a comprehensive public investment program for job creation, supporting sustainable,

[PEN-L] query

Dear all, I would appreciate some help with a literature search - references to the post-Keynesian and Marxist literatures concerning the theory of job creation. I understand that capitalist entrepreneurs and enterprises create and destroy jobs. They employ labour (variable capital) in order to

Re: [PEN-L] Heterodox Economics

Q: “Does anyone know any of the organisations in this Association? and have a recommendation? http://hetecon.com/” A: The European Memorandum Group is fighting for leftist economic policies (post-Keynesian style) in Europe, includes leftist economists from France, Germany, others. Critical of the

[PEN-L] the interesting transition of Slovenia

Slovenia, formerly part of Yugoslavia, has a remarkably successful economy and is doing better than most other so-called transition countries in Central and Eastern Europe. Question: Why? Answer (from a recent book “Osterweiterung” by Hofbauer, which provides a critical analysis of transition

Re: [PEN-L] Korea leading the way in human capital

South Korea as a society appears to have taken human capital seriously for some time. It paid top wages for its eductors in 1995, see Table below, which is from my book on Global Wage System (NY: Nova Science, 2004) (ILO's LABORSTA database did not show US wages for educators). GK

[PEN-L] the learning of global solidarity

Having been an educator, I cannot but think that learning is important, including collective learning. Hence this note on collective learning in connection with the recent tsunami. The philosophical relationship between collective learning and the laws of motion of history – I leave that to others

Re: [PEN-L] WSJ finds caring role

Chris Burford wrote: --snip The meeting of the World Bank in Jakarta this week, will be the perfect opportunity for caring capitalism to move forward in its global coordination, with the Germans singing from the same hymn sheet as the US administration. ---snip comment: same hymn sheet, possibly –

[PEN-L] Richter 9

A quantitative comparison of the destruction resulting from the tsunami of 26dec2004 and the recent U.S. conquest of Iraq indicates a similar magnitude of fatalities (in excess of 100,000). The earthquake was 9 on the Richter scale. The conquest was 5 on the Richardson scale of deadly quarrels

[PEN-L] Susan Sontag

There is a good compassionate article about Susan Sontag in today’s Neues Deutschland (daily, Berlin). It also mentions that she received the “Peace Prize of the German Book Publishers” last year (2003) GK xxx if you read German, here is the article ND - Eine Bürgerin

Re: [PEN-L] economics and class struggle behind legal victory

some further comments on *economic* human rights – (a) the recent fight led by Chavez/Venezuela can be understood as a fight for economic human rights (the right to a decent standard of living) (b) Canadians protesting against the killing of labour leaders by global corporations are fighting for

Re: [PEN-L] economics and class struggle behind legal victory

As I had it handy, I am attaching an excerpt from the 1948 UN Declaration of Human Rights, namely the articles dealing with economic rights. As an example, it could be argued that anything and everything the Zapatistas have been doing to date has been within the scope of the economic human rights

Re: [PEN-L] economics and class struggle behind legal victory.

From: Chris Burford Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 . . . snip As for working people - working class and self-employed workers on the land - a more radical agenda of human rights is to their advantage, but there is a downside in that it ultimately tends to emphasise atomised individualised rights, . . .

[PEN-L] leftist party(ies) in Germany

a bit of news about leftist parties in Germany – There are 1.25 leftist parties in Germany. The Green Party is hardly leftist anymore. That leaves the PDS (Party of Democratic Socialism), which is strong in the East, but weak nation-wide. Its goal for the next federal election in 2006 is to obtain

[PEN-L] online source on German left affairs

for those who read German - the online edition of Neues Deutschland reports on labour and leftist issues in Germany. The reporting is pretty good and the editorials are worth reading at times. http://www.nd-online.de/

Re: [PEN-L] question - differential exploitation

From: michael a. lebowitz Mon, 15 Nov 2004 --snip Well, there's a question that has me baffled! My google-search has yielded lots of differential exploitation of moths, fruit resources, blue crabs, even the commons--- ie., it must be a familiar concept in biology; but, I don't see any use of it

[PEN-L] question - differential exploitation

my source for the concept of differential exploitation is a paper by Michael Lebowitz. Has this concept been around for a while or is Michael the inventor? Gernot