Re: [PEN-L] Stiglitz on Benjamin M. Friedman (The ethical implications of economic growth)

Joseph E. Stiglitz: Economists have long been a natural constituency in favor of growth. don't economists believe in defining key concepts? what is growth? is it growth of real GDP? or something like the Genuine Progress Indicator? -- Jim Devine Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go

Re: [PEN-L] structure agency [was: TRUE COST ECONOMICS MANIFESTO]

or practice. -- Jim Devine Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.

Re: [PEN-L] Lexus coopts Philip Glass and Lucinda Childs

which aimed neither to make shock waves, nor set trends. Her trademark has always been a sort of choreo-mathematics, repetitive movement sequences that are arranged in intricate geometrical patterns, that if observed overhead would give a kaleidoscopic effect. -- www.marxmail.org -- Jim

[PEN-L] bubble symptoms

. -- Jim Devine Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.

[PEN-L] recession obsession

will revolve around the question of whether the slowdown of 2006 will become the recession of 2007. You can guess what their answer will be. -- Jim Devine Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.

[PEN-L] from EmailNation

and occupation of Iraq. http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?bid=1pid=41233 Check out Tasini's website for info on his candidacy. http://www.tasinifornewyork.org/ anybody know anything about this guy? -- Jim Devine Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people talk

Re: [PEN-L] structure agency [was: TRUE COST ECONOMICS MANIFESTO]

of the individual, etc. - should be made good for all of us. of course, the guy in question would likely suffer from some major transition costs, just like the poor and working classes do now every time capitalism goes through a transition (capital mobility, changing exchange rates, etc., etc.) -- Jim Devine

Re: [PEN-L] labor productivity in the US

to say anything about the majority's living standards. Rising productivity has mostly been helping profits of late... The big jump in worker efficiency help to push labor costs down ... Efficiency must be the most misused word in economics, specifically here. -- Jim Devine Segui il tuo corso, e

Re: [PEN-L] labor productivity in the US

increases in the rate of exploitation, compounded by real conceptual and measurement problems. It's possible that the often-criticized re-jiggering of the CPI in the 1990s (that lowered the measured inflation rate) also raised real output measures and thus measured labor productivity. -- Jim Devine

[PEN-L] my life-style vindicated!

with liquor, then rinse out your liquor with coffee. -- Jim Devine Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.

[PEN-L] Minuteman candidate loses

: I don't even own a winter coat. I'm going to have to get one there. -- Jim Devine Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.

[PEN-L] annals of neoliberal thinking

. -- Jim Devine Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.

Re: [PEN-L] intelligent design

think Jim D. said all that at the end. Apologies if I misrepresent Jim D.'s train of thought on this thread.) ^ I didn't say all that. But I agree. -- Jim Devine Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.

Re: [PEN-L] intelligent design

--advertextbook spectacle complex. then how do you explain the case of a bunch of religious folks in Pennsylvania who got elected to the school board and then introduced ID into the school science curriculum? -- Jim Devine Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people talk

[PEN-L] battling headlines

from SLATE: One final glimpse—The [Washington POST]: RICE ACTS TO CLARIFY U.S. POLICY ON PRISONERS. The LA [TIMES]'s slightly different take: RICE FAILS TO CLARIFY U.S. VIEW ON TORTURE. -- Jim Devine Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl

Re: [PEN-L] what the hell!

going to announce that he's not running for re-election as governor. Thus, he'll be free to raise taxes, which is what CA needs. dream on! -- Jim Devine Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.

[PEN-L] lefty textbooks

has it been since Hunt Sherman? -- Jim Devine Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.

Re: [PEN-L] Wolcott's latest on Pajama Media

None would condemn him for seeking other inklings of steady income, but not if it meant working the piano bar in a house of ill-repute. so what's wrong with playing the piano there? -- Jim Devine Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl

[PEN-L] perhaps of interest (from the Global Development And Environment institute).

For more on GDAE's Globalization and Sustainable Development Program: http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/policy_research/globalization.html -- Jim Devine Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.

[PEN-L] Fwd: The New Fed man is scary...

Research in Motion and long Fannie Mae puts. -- Jim Devine Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.

[PEN-L] a major element in the compound cronium

as Governmentium since it has half as many peons but twice as many morons. [forwarded by my (self-avowedly) social-democratic cousin.] -- Jim Devine Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.

[PEN-L] econophysics

the rising fortunes of the top 3 percent; there has been little change in the rest of the distribution. -- Jim Devine Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.

[PEN-L] counterfeiting

counterfeiting as a weapon against the USSR during the Cold War? or against other governments it didn't like? -- Jim Devine Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.

Re: [PEN-L] counterfeiting

confidence in the dollar? Seems to undercut their profits. Gene Coyle Jim Devine wrote: from today's SLATE news summary: The day's best read is a long takeout in the LA [TIMES] on a massive counterfeiting ring run out of North Korea. Though its existence has long been rumored, recent

Re: [PEN-L] econophysics

kitchen. -- Jim Devine Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.

Re: [PEN-L] Vietnam and Mexico

Hamilton (for a sustained period) until 1861 or so, when the South pulled out of Congress and couldn't vote against protection. -- Jim Devine Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.

Re: [PEN-L] Vietnam and Mexico

characteristics of the liberal vs. conservative civil wars over tariffs that hit some Latin American countries. -- Jim Devine Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.

Re: [PEN-L] No Clemency from Arnold

if the US is the most formallty democratic or not. The electoral college is anti-democratic, along with some other democratic institutions here. -- Jim Devine Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.

[PEN-L] scientific objectivity redux

. Authors have to sign off on everything, he pointed out, adding, This is properly viewed as a way to more efficiently make the transition from raw data to finished manuscript. http://www.slate.com/id/2132151/ -- Jim Devine Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people talk

[PEN-L] news from tinsel town

for what it's worth, the announcer on the local US National Public Radio station (KCRW) twice referred to a recently-released movie as Bareback Mountain. -- Jim Devine Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.

Re: [PEN-L] Tomas Palley on China

in 2006? -- Jim Devine Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.

[PEN-L] a poll of Iraqis by Iraqis

SLATE: none of the papers seem to flag a fascinating poll about Iraq taken by Iraqis. Respondents were overall pretty darn optimistic about Iraq's future, and they want the U.S. gone pretty darn badly. See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/12_12_05_iraq_data.pdf -- Jim Devine Segui il

[PEN-L] the war against Christmas

the decision. So far, however, their efforts have been fruitless. Our hearts go out to the Americans this ruling affects, Sen. Chip Pickering (R-MS) said. If it's any condolence, I wish you all a Happy Holidays, which, I'm afraid, is all I'm legally allowed to say at this time. -- Jim Devine Segui il

Re: [PEN-L] the war against Christmas

I think that the rock-bottom requirement is that Santa be forced (by the threat of a fine) to clean up after his reindeer. On 12/14/05, Leigh Meyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Activist Judge Cancels Christmas Absolutely... The two reindeer rule is insufficient. -- Jim Devine Segui il tuo corso

Re: [PEN-L] a poll of Iraqis by Iraqis

reasons that American polls underestimate support for the Republicans. call me naive, but why is that? -- Jim Devine Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.

Re: [PEN-L] a poll of Iraqis by Iraqis

(which is taboo in the US, even as many are indeed racist). -- Jim Devine Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.

Re: [PEN-L] a poll of Iraqis by Iraqis

beyond restricting our attention to individual attitudes. What distinguishes the broadly Marxian theory from liberal theory is its emphasis on structural factors, as in institutional racism. -- Jim Devine Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl

[PEN-L] Bolivia

Referendum About More Than Gas By Ronald Bruce St John (August 30, 2004) http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/1090 -- Jim Devine Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.

Re: [PEN-L] CATO scholarship not for sale!

. On 12/16/05, Eugene Coyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our scholarship is not for sale, Mr. Dettmer said. Already sold. -- Jim Devine Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.

Re: [PEN-L] Dialectical Economists

Did Lyndon Larouche once write Dialectical Marxism (under the pen-name Lyn Marcus)? On 12/17/05, Charles Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Who will write the book to complement _The Dialectical Biologist_ ? -- Jim Devine Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people

Re: [PEN-L] leftist neoliberalism

, empowering big companies and banks and the rich in general). -- Jim Devine Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.

Re: [PEN-L] economist under death penalty - Ethiopia

he was a medical doctor, not an economist. On 12/17/05, Charles Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allende was an economist who got the death penalty -- Jim Devine Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.

Re: [PEN-L] Dialectical Economists

: Who will write the book to complement _The Dialectical Biologist_ ? http://eserver.org/clogic/2002/saraka.html Robert Albritton, Dialectics and Deconstruction in Political Economy. New York: Palgrave, 2001. Softcover. 203 pages. -- Jim Devine Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti

[PEN-L] FW: From Juan Cole 12/19/2005 06:44:00 AM

in many provinces and was therefore able to erect a Chicago-style party machine. As in the old days in Chicago, the election was so democratic that even some of the dead got to vote http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/dead-men-voted-in-poll-claim-iraq-parties/2005/12/18/1134840742751.html . -- Jim

Re: [PEN-L] Ernest Mandel

, therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities.8 http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/oweissi/ibn.htm -- Jim Devine Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.

Re: [PEN-L] navigating the medical system

://www.leighm.net http://leighmdotnet.blogspot.com -- Jim Devine Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.

Re: [PEN-L] The key to our success lies with a realistic, less ideological, more humble economics - Paul Ormerod

are not deflationary. I worked this out in a book that Jim Devine did not like. Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University michael at ecst.csuchico.edu Chico, CA 95929 530-898-5321 fax 530-898-5901 -- Jim Devine Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti

[PEN-L] life in Middle America

attending church and serving on various community boards. -- Jim Devine Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.

Re: [PEN-L] capitalism and christianity; the revised version

Sunday. -- Jim Devine Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.

[PEN-L] happy new year!

news summary] -- Jim Devine The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. -- James Baldwin

Re: [PEN-L] happy new year!

maybe that word will hit the big time in 2006. On 12/31/05, Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: where is impeachment? On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 09:43:25AM -0800, Jim Devine wrote: for a quick summary of the year now ending, look at Merriam-Webster Online's list of the top 10 most

Re: [PEN-L] Lowering opportunity costs through destroying opportunities...

-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu -- Jim Devine The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. -- James Baldwin

[PEN-L] what's in store in 2006?

of the ordinary about the future.] -- Posted by Juan to Informed Comment at 1/01/2006 06:37:00 AM -- Jim Devine The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. -- James Baldwin

Re: [PEN-L] Match Point

into a British aristocratic family. Barry Lyndon was as much of a cipher and nearly as repellent as Chris Wilton, but one was drawn into his saga despite this. -- www.marxmail.org -- Jim Devine The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side

Re: [PEN-L] Match Point

. However, your review is spot-on. But I distinctly said at the beginning: On 1/2/06, Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Warning: This film review will reveal the surprise ending of Woody Allen's latest film. -- www.marxmail.org -- Jim Devine The price one pays for pursuing any

[PEN-L] King Kong

theatre). -- Jim Devine The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. -- James Baldwin

Re: [PEN-L] King Kong

the horrible scenes with the natives was just one fragment of the whole movie. The natives seem part of the same image put forth by the dinosaurs and insects on Skull Island. I don't know if Denhan a brilliant idea as much as he flits from one idea to another in an opportunistic way. -- Jim Devine The price

Re: [PEN-L] Match Point

. Strangelove is pretty strong, too. I guess Kubrick lost his moral commitment after awhile. -- Jim Devine The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. -- James Baldwin

[PEN-L] torture in the news

? -- Jim Devine The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. -- James Baldwin

Re: [PEN-L] Match Point

of the plot development. -- Jim Devine The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. -- James Baldwin

Re: [PEN-L] Match Point

, but extremely fun.) Part of enjoying a film is what you do, i.e., to figure out the surprise ahead of time. -- Jim Devine The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. -- James Baldwin

Re: [PEN-L] Match Point

... -- Jim Devine The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. -- James Baldwin

[PEN-L] symbolic colors?

RJ Gordon's new macro textbook is in full color (raising costs, natch). Is there any meaning to the following? US = red UK and EU = blue Canada = grey [his spelling] Japan = orange Germany = black Italy = green. -- Jim Devine The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling

[PEN-L] Government debt erased

dinner with Jack Abramoff. Elsewhere, a marine who was arrested for not going to Vietnam forty years ago is expected to plead insanity, claiming that he was under the delusion that he was Vice President of the United States. -- Jim Devine The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling

Re: [PEN-L] Chavez as anti-Semite?

/wnuhome.html http://home.earthlink.net/~nicadlw/wnuhome.html) Michael A. Lebowitz my comment: I don't think that the Romans -- who were the ones who crucified Christ -- were capitalists, but the Roman slave-owners were the ruling class of the day. -- Jim Devine The price one pays for pursuing

[PEN-L] we're doomed, doomed!

these two crucial issues. Later we'll summarize the results and offer strategies. -- Jim Devine The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. -- James Baldwin

Re: [PEN-L] Black democractic althlete-politicians

Mizell. Steve Largent was pretty right wing. Oh yes, Gerald Ford was an all american football player. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu -- Jim Devine The price one pays

Re: [PEN-L] Black democractic althlete-politicians

Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu -- Jim Devine The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. -- James Baldwin

Re: [PEN-L] question michael a. lebowitz

invaded by the US. -- Jim Devine The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. -- James Baldwin

Re: [PEN-L] People who think that rational economic man is sociopathic might find this a bit humorous

conflicts. They should know better, since most of them come after Freud.) -- Jim Devine The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. -- James Baldwin

[PEN-L] Cooper on UFW

unions for California farm workers, you will show him the money. -- Jim Devine The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. -- James Baldwin

Re: [PEN-L] People who think that rational economic man is sociopathic might find this a bit humorous

On 1/13/06, Julio Huato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... What is definitely *not* trivial is the bunch of results that follow from it, when -- as it is always the case in economic theory -- you combine it with other premises, e.g., a certain rule descriptive of economic possibilities or

Re: [PEN-L] People who think that rational economic man is sociopathic might find this a bit humorous

except by using Patinkin-type unrealistic assumptions. there's another concept lacking in GE theory that should be mentioned: uncertainty. -- Jim Devine The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. -- James Baldwin

Re: [PEN-L] People who think that rational economic man is sociopathic might find this a bit humorous

. But in the end, it's empirical reality -- the facts, practice -- that matter, not the theory. -- Jim Devine The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. -- James Baldwin

[PEN-L] Medicrap

that the former Marine may not have earned his Purple Hearts during the Vietnam War, the Post reports. -- Jim Devine The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. -- James Baldwin

Re: [PEN-L] People who think that rational economic man is sociopathic might find this a bit humorous

, 2006 at 06:59:20AM -0800, Jim Devine wrote: Speaking of metaphors, it would be good for neoclassical economics if its users were to admit that their theory is nothing but a system of metaphors. JD -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929

Re: [PEN-L] People who think that rational economic man is sociopathic might find this a bit humorous

. On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 06:59:20AM -0800, Jim Devine wrote: Speaking of metaphors, it would be good for neoclassical economics if its users were to admit that their theory is nothing but a system of metaphors. JD -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University

Re: [PEN-L] People who think that rational economic man is sociopathic might find this a bit humorous

) never heard of external costs? -- Jim Devine The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. -- James Baldwin

[PEN-L] query

for luxuries, and what an immense amount of the necessaries themselves must be wasted upon flunkeys, horses, cats, and so forth, a waste we know from experience to become always much limited with the rising prices of necessaries. what did Karl have against cats? -- Jim Devine The price one pays

Re: [PEN-L] People who think that rational economic man is sociopathic might find this a bit humorous

snob and bandwagon effects). The list is pretty abstract, so I could go either way with it (depending on what it means in practice). -- Jim Devine The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. -- James Baldwin

Re: [PEN-L] query

wasn't it Marx who said that there were two types of people in the world, those that like cats and those that like dogs? ;-) On 1/15/06, Carrol Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Engels defends cats against Duhring's attack on them. :-) Carrol -- Jim Devine The price one pays for pursuing any

[PEN-L] the homogenization of Paul Krugman

by his column. Good thing. His competition includes two of Bush's former chief economic advisers: R. Glenn Hubbard of Columbia University, who has a new textbook, and best-selling N. Gregory Mankiw of Harvard University, whose fourth edition arrives in March. By Peter Coy -- Jim Devine The price

Re: [PEN-L] query

, Jim Devine wrote: wasn't it Marx who said that there were two types of people in the world, those that like cats and those that like dogs? ;-) On 1/15/06, Carrol Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Engels defends cats against Duhring's attack on them. :-) Carrol -- Jim

[PEN-L] let them eat dust

money is running low and foreign governments are not giving as much as they promised. Now it appears that the Iraqi people, along with private investment, will have to burden the costs of reconstruction. No pain, no gain, said a U.S. Embassy employee in Iraq. -- Jim Devine The price one pays

[PEN-L] he just wanted to direct?

score. The next thing anyone knew of him, he was a lobbyist passing out millions in cash and perks to members of Congress. The rest is history. You can reach Michael Hiltzik at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and view his weblog at latimes.com/goldenstateblog. -- Jim Devine The price one pays for pursuing any

Re: [PEN-L] People who think that rational economic man is sociopathic might find this a bit humorous

that Bush isn't into free markets as much as rewarding his friends and punishing his enemies. -- Jim Devine The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. -- James Baldwin

Re: [PEN-L] People who think that rational economic man is sociopathic might find this a bit humorous

dualism) about the eternal conflict between Good (market freedom) and Evil (state command). -- Jim Devine The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. -- James Baldwin

Re: [PEN-L] People who think that rational economic man is sociopathic might find this a bit humorous

the interpretation and construction of the historical record, so most of the time history demonstrates what people want it to demonstrate. -- Jim Devine The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. -- James Baldwin

[PEN-L] Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf

does anyone know what the policy orientation of Liberia's new Prez, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, is? She's a Harvard economist, but is she a neoliberal? if so, such bad choices! Johnson-Sirleaf vs. a soccer star. In Iran, a fundamentalist nut vs. a neoliberal. Etc. -- Jim Devine The price one pays

Re: [PEN-L] Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf

. -- Jim Devine When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it. -- Clarence Darrow

Re: [PEN-L] overwork in Japan

overwork helps the process. A few years ago, thanks partly to the hit movie, The Last Samurai, bushido became a buzzword, the left-of-centre Asahi Shimbun newspaper said in a recent editorial. that was a hit in Japan? it flopped in the US, if I remember correctly. -- Jim Devine When I was a boy I

Re: [PEN-L] James Lovelock on global warming

does any expert actually take the Gaia theory seriously? does it add anything of substance to Lovelock's argument that would convince a skeptic? -- Jim Devine The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. -- James Baldwin

Re: [PEN-L] recent literature review of investment theory?

Cyclical Over-Investment in a Labor Scarce Economy Jim Devine Eastern Eco J. 1987 a great paper! but unreadable! -- Jim Devine The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. -- James Baldwin

[PEN-L] query: Marx quote

where did Marx say that Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form, assuming that is, that he did say it? -- Jim Devine

Re: [PEN-L] Apologies

thanks. apology accepted. On 1/17/06, Julio Huato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to apologize to Jim Devine and to the list for my overreaction. The tone of my previous posting was overly aggressive. Sorry. Julio -- Jim Devine The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling

Re: [PEN-L] Witch hunt at UCLA

and offered bribes to students to join the Loyola chapter of the YRs in order to oust the president of the chapter, who was a supporter of Joe Shell for Republican candidate for governor, running against Richard Nixon. -- Jim Devine The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling

Re: [PEN-L] Witch hunt at UCLA

methinks that an important commonality between witch hunt and fascism is that they involve rhetoric overused by leftists. (i.e., I agree with Louis.) -- Jim Devine The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. -- James Baldwin

[PEN-L] perhaps of interest

-author, with Ben S. Bernanke, of Principles of Economics. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Copyright 2006The New York Times Company -- Jim Devine The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. -- James Baldwin

Re: [PEN-L] Financialization (was Marxological Question) II

be the equivalent of 5% 25 years ago. Jim Devine The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. -- James Baldwin

Re: [PEN-L] Financialization (was Marxological Question) II

, but it wasn't in the good old days when nominal wages moved roughly with labor productivity in the trend.) JD On 1/20/06, paul phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim, Can you explain Greenspan's reasoning for suggesting this? Paul P Jim Devine wrote: Alan Greenspan agrees that, as currently

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