are optimal.
I would politely explain to the person who handed me the exam that I am not
enrolled in any economics course and therefore am not constrained to use
neo-classical categories even if I do choose to explain the dilemma.
Otherwise known as the gordian knot solution.
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Tom Walker
s tendency (including lengthening the working day and introducing new
technology) and how that ultimately reinforces the tendency.
There's a world of difference between a tendency and a trend.
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f job seekers.
Me and Barbara Amiel
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to loose
nothing ain't worth nothing but it's free
Feeling good was easy, Lord, when Barbara sang the blues
Feeling good was good enough for me
Good enough for me and Barbara Amiel...
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d and would have the contributor's name on
them. People might even stop regarding these taxes as taxes, since
they would clearly increase people's net worth.
If you agree to all this, maybe you'll get me to endorse your
plan. Cheers, Bill Watson
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ching and arrival, new
sorting systems now in use will still be indispensible."
From Life Magazine, November 11, 1957: "Tomorrow's Life Today: Man's
everyday world"
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equally ignorant or without
credentials, however, who advance positions of which he approves
don't get the same treatment.
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of the state.
This is not to say that there are no 'proper limits' to a politics of free
time, either. On the contrary, proper limits are what may make free time a
*politics* rather than an beguiling, empty slogan.
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I am forwarding Jon Kesselman's response to my column on payroll taxes and
work hours that I sent to Pen-l a few days ago.
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 10:44:31 -0800
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Walker)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Kesselman)
Subject: Payroll Tax Ceilings, Employment, and Work Hours
the
organization of the labour process (flexible manufacture, contingent
workforces, etc.) strive toward a unique combination of absolute and
relative surplus value. So the length of the working day is not simply an
important issue, it is the central issue for a progressive politics.
Regards,
Tom W
many
cases, are the enshrinement of some pretty silly imaginings and mental
errors. It can also be intoxicating. The tower of post-modern babble
probably owes as much to this intoxication as it does to tenure envy and
post-tenure anxiety.
"All that is solid melts into air..."
Regards,
anything I could get a handle on. "Seemless prose." And I've read and
understood a good chunk of Derrida's other writing.
So, Steve, tell us: what's the story? What's it about?
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I don't know, Jerry. I think 'intellectuals' has too many many syllables.
Maybe we should try flowers.
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Doug Henwood summarized Capital for a 30 second soundbite:
Took me 24 seconds in my radio mode.
Bravo!
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crack, by itself, doesn't
carry any water at all.
I have a surprise. I think postmodernism makes a worthwhile contribution to
analysis of political and economic issues and it makes this contribution
best when it doesn't bother to flamboyantly announce and tediously insist
upon its supposed postmode
, I would do
just that. Failing that, what is wrong with the simple request that an
author (or the publisher) provide some clue as to what a book is 'about'?
Otherwise, I'm buying a pig in a poke.
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Well, I guess that settles it. Marx was infallible. ;-)
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a complex body of ideas into a short soundbite",
others with less understanding (and perhaps less sympathetic motives) will.
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_both_ the material conditions of cultural production and the internal
tendencies of the "work of art" itself.
And this brings us back to Walter Benjamin, who in my estimation continues
to have something to say to contemporary political conditions in spite of --
or perhaps because of -- his philoso
t;don't know Derrida from dogfood" is a play on "don't know
dollars from doughnuts" in which case the derivation probably has more to do
with assonance (similarity of sounds) than it does to derogatory intent.
That's how I deconstruct it, anyway.
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well be tragic. In this sense, there is no doubt a greater
affinity between Marx's analysis and Doug's parody of the new language than
there is with the "old language".
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looking for a more
nuanced understanding of class struggle, a respectful analysis of identity
politics is indispensible. And for activists who are looking to engage a
constituency other than themselves, the tortuous path to universality begins
on the hard-pan ground of identity.
It's all very dialec
funeral, God
rest his soul!
As bill says, "So fuckin what!" But then, I'm no angel, either.
I have a suggestion for a new list: UMA-DL (dirty laundry).
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s into the sky. Its electronic brain has
full instructions. But it needs reminding, too! Borg-Warner makes an
ingenious device to do this... to tell instantly if and when any corrections
are needed to keep it precisely on course. (1957)
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be interesting to look at some other pidgin terms, to consider
what they name, and speculate what will have the case if they had been
taken up in the same way.
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the debt trap and give a billion people a chance
for a better future.
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principal.
But there comes a point when the chain letter reaches the bottom of the
feeding chain (to mix metaphors, while retaining a link), right? And then we
have nothing to lose but our... umm, what's the word I'm looking for... bonds?
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forwarded
by maggie coleman. So I'm wondering whether maggie's p.s. was an aside or a
non sequitur.
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an
amateur expert. That's probably what drives scientists into obscure
specialties and drives sociologists and economists to strive for opacity.
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grope about for a common language. Y'know, the sequel to Kiss of the
Spider Woman kind of thing. Whatever.
Comedy: They fail.
Tragedy: They succeed.
Regards,
Tom Walker
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On second thought, here's a better idea: a whole *family* of m-l sectarians
-- Jed, Jethro, Ellie-may and granma Hoxha -- is accidently granted
tenure-track positions at an ivy league comparative lit department. After
all, this is America, folks. Land of opportunity.
Regards,
Tom Walker
Blair Sandler asked,
Do you mean "poor" as in "impoverished?" Or "poor" as in "low quality?"
Ah, the uses of ambiguity. ;-)
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Tom Walker
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Rev. Devine wrote:
BTW, such confusions ("overreactions") can be avoided by reading
someone's e-message all the way through before (over)reacting to
it paragraph by paragraph.
I tried that once, but my lips got numb.
Regards,
abstractions at bay!
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Tom Walker
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this case, "nothing new here" is not a disparaging expression. Levin and
Rumberger were right and you're right. So was Ecclesiates, so what.
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. Which, at the risk of repeating
myself, brings me back to the struggle for the generalized reduction of
working time.
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Tom Walker
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many poor scholars pretending to be
poor scholars that perhaps we've no more use for the genuine vagabonds.
Perhaps this is what is really meant by post-modernism?
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;-)?) Please explain because this strategic
little piece of cracker barrel wisdom provides the _frame_ within which the
bls statistics tell the story you want them to (speaking of social
constructionism).
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Tom Walker
^^
knoW
everything that Rifkin says, and I don't endorse Rifkin's apocalypticism.
And, besides, what's so new about your April 1996 critique of Rifkin? For an
earlier -- albeit post-modern -- view see
http://mindlink.net/knowware/strega.htm
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Tom Walker
uality, and honest economists admit that they
don't have an adequate explanation for either."
Any honest economists care to comment?
Walter Daum
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chiff's spark of common sense had fallen on the dry
tinder of citizenship rather than on the damp soil of econometocracy?
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even look at
the calculation that clearly shows that "one and one half" is less than
"one". But I think this approach solves the dilemma of why the momentum for
the reduction of the working time has been stalled since the end of
ed layoffs to as many as 600 full-time
positions.
"I want to be clear: these aren't easy problems to solve.
"If there's one thing I've learned, it's that there are no quick fixes.
there are no simple answers. There's no magic wand to wave.
few simple aggregate reports that accurately and
enduringly reflect the diversity of a boisterously changing labour market.
Doug concluded his comment by saying, "For all too many people, overwork is
the story of the labor market." I agree whole heartly. I think I'll give
this thread a r
or decades.
What, pray tell, is so 'new' [or even interesting] about this 'nothing new
here' argument?
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Tom Walker
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[
uraged workers" who are not engaged in an
active job search are not counted as participating in the labour force. Do
part-timers have to be engaged in an active search for full-time employment
to count as "economic part-timers?"
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Tom Walker
^^
ectionary occupation
- the general strike
- the reduction of work time
A labour movement that systematically abstains from any one of the possible
forms for the withdrawal of labour ceases to be effective as a labour
movement. There is nothing new here.
Regards,
Tom Walker
^
isn't postmodern is to say that there may well be a
metanarrative in which both of our claims are plausible -- that is to say a
metanarrative in which my conclusion both is and isn't "postmodern".
Regards,
Tom Walker
^^
l Change" at the Southern
California Conference on Technology, Employment and Community, go directly to:
http://mindlink.net/knowware/dustbin.htm
The session will take place at the conference in Los Angeles on Saturday,
November 23, 1996 at 10:
e correct analysis -- was elsewhere. This has
been extremely effective, yes, in attracting a smattering of intellectual
masochists.
Is it really more important to be aloof than to be effective? Or is it
possible to combine political integrity with rhetorical appeal?
Regards,
Tom Walker
^^
:
political efficacy = factual accuracy + analytical rigour, NOT.
Ah, maybe I've watched _Music Man_ too many times and am starting to believe
that line about "You got trouble, right here in River City..."
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will be appreciated.
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at risk my appointment to the CEA;-): "I think
the economic logic of paying even lower wages to low wage earners is
impeccable and we should face up to that... Poor people are vastly over
compensated." (do I really have to put
stalled since the end of world
war two and, for many people, *reversed* in recent decades.
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potential of a serious policy to enable
the voluntary reduction of work time (or, the job killing record of current
policy).
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of interest are welcome.
In my next message, I will discuss estimates of the job creation potential
of voluntarily reducing work time.
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) pay
and benefits per hour of overtime to his regular hourly net pay and benefits?
a.) $37.50
b.) 150%
c.) 75%
d.) 100%
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ehind the growth in weekly earnings
inequality in Canada."
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he new tune is going to be. All I know is the old one's come to it's
last refrain.
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in the 'natural rate of unemployment'. Print
this prediction and paste it on your monitor, if it doesn't come true, send
me the paper and I'll eat it.
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l
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e with theories about the Bre-X imbroglio .. conspiratorial
or not .. .
plse email or call me ASAP .. 416 205-2220 ... leave a message with
voice mail if i don't answer .. thanks ... steve k.
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ork hours/work load, and poor leadership. Unethical actions
employees admitted to included "cutting corners on quality control"
(cited by 16 percent of respondents, covering up incidents, abusing or
lying about sick days, lying to or deceiving customers, etc.
...(Da
Elaine Bernard wrote,
But we need to ROAR in the streets too!
"Let's boogie!" (a private joke for BCers)
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rse_ (1990,
University of California Press)
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Bill,
Congratulations on completing your comprehensives!
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t may come as a breath of fresh air (if you'll pardon my
crudity).
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This alone should serve as sufficient warning
against the tenuousness of using ancestoral *ad hominem* as a criteria for
dismissing or embracing ideas.
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Tom Walker
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*thrilled* by the good news...?
Personally, I plan to put my life savings into mutual funds so I can take
advantage of the coming good times. As far as I can tell, there's only one
fly in the WSJ golden age ointment: like Heartfield's Hitler, the new, super
capitalism "schluckt Gold und redet Blech&q
s for school; more likely, it means keeping up car
payments or just covering the costs of food and housing."
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[EM
between right and
left should not be about WHETHER to change institutions but about HOW to
change institutions.
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ot; -- old news can get recycled for ever.
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as anthropology. Perhaps
"renounce" is too strong a word for a refusal to even acknowledge that other
ways of knowing may bear on the issues that economics seeks to treat.
What would it matter if we weren't [descended from Robinson
ed socialism" dichotomy is
a little demon I'll call by the code name of the teleology of reason. Isn't
Hegel standing on his head _still_ Hegel?
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functional machine. The task for socialists is to show
that autonomy is more fun than wage slavery.
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a large file
documenting, say, 'the history of polemical struggles on the marxism list.'
I suggest we should have a standing rule of "no attachments" for posts to pen-l.
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es both ways.
How many of us could deny that we or our colleagues routinely dismiss our
own best ideas as 'unworkable'? The greatest fear? That we'll be dismissed
as cranks.
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drives them out of the showroom.
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possibly be lost on the mutual
fund mob?
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ntify
these beings, also frequently referred to as "greys"). Some left their
bodies behind in "cold storage," or the Next Level's wardrobe, for the
duration of this task. Others were in "spirit," having not yet earned Next
Level bodies since having left the human kingdom
to be funny here. Because there ARE beans
simmering on the stove!
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is very important
to our survival. Let me reiterate that while [name of institution deleted]
credit programs do receive public monies, Continuing Studies non-credit
operations do not. This department is not mandated by the province and we
exist only to the extent that we are able to fully recover ou
* Hayek to unmask the
transparently self-serving inconsistencies of 'neo-liberalism'. Oh well.
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will also have been wiped out!
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pastime, the task of political economy is to penetrate beyond the veil
of both the "odd" and the "normal."
I agree entirely with Jerry's first paragraph and can only laugh at his
second. What ever could have "
Maybe the
truncation of utopia was apt.)
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IF YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO WOULD BE INTERESTED IN THIS ANNOUNCEMENT, PLEASE
FORWARD!
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"literary" evaluation that simply counts
the number of words in a book. As H.L. Menckin said, "Which words? In what
order?"
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to hire the welfare recipients so they
could turn around and fire them at the first opportunity, thus using them as
an example to keep their existing work force on their toes -- sort of an
employee morale boosting program. Call it "Operation Phoenix".
Regards,
life is lived OR NOT LIVED. In other words, the "class struggle" can
only ever be about control over the disposal of the workers' TIME.
I beg to differ with Tom Walker but not with the basic point he
makes -- that there is a need to modify, change, update etc. our
institutions
quot;, measuring I.Q. is about as
straight-forward as weighing a pound of butter.
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uch an outcome of the characteristics of language (including
information) as they are an input to the system. This is an idea so trite
that even that famous pomo-tista, Sir Winston Churchill, used it: "We make
our buildings, then our buildings make us."
We
or not our sciences could ever discover such a
starting point for a unified science is completely a matter for speculation.
See Heisenberg, "uncertainty" and Archimedes, "point".
Regards,
Tom Walker
^^
kn
t;How do
I know what to guess?" You just have to guess and so on.
I'll grant that if what I said made any sense, no organization could
function "all by itself" that is *without people to mediate the ambiguity*.
So, yes, "artifi
It's one thing to recognize the radical separation of word and world and
another to try to "overcome" it. The latter leads to magic, alchemy,
allegory, literalism, solipsism, scientism and fundamentalism -- exactly
what the Faust tale is all about. To paraphrase Goethe's
,
Tom Walker
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the "farmer's wife."
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eive validation from)
and it can be safer in these perilous times to maintain a certain veneer of
institutional imperviousness. The litmus test of this outsider anxiety is
the question "who are you with?" On a political scale the equivalent
question
ument accepts the proposition and is only
haggling about the price.
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_ theology. Perhaps it would be more useful to counter bad theology
with better theology than to try to answer it with more refined empirical
analysis.
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Bill Burgess wrote,
. . . I don't see the *significant*
difference implied by a position that replaces a traditional
committment to internationalism with a position where nationalist measures
are now seen as central to protecting working class interests (which I
understand to be your opinion).
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