[PEN-L] Re: [PEN-L] [PEN-L] ¿Golpe de estado preventivo en México?

? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

[PEN-L] labor unions

At my web-site, you can find my lecture notes on the economics of labor unions. -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

Re: [PEN-L] Mexico

The US NPR reported spoke of Lopez Obrador handing out lots of money to poor people and she didn't know where the money was coming from. Maybe this is the problem the plutocracy has? JD On Apr 11, 2005 2:46 PM, Julio Huato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quick questions for David Barkin or Alejandro

Re: [PEN-L] globalization

countries; in other words, as an integral part of a/the *global* exploitation system. GK Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

[PEN-L] Lebanon

-hop that you youth like so much. -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

Re: [PEN-L] data question

rate of the dollar and world interest rates in the early 1980s that resulted from Volcker's tight money/anti-inflation policies. On 4/13/05, Charles Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CB: What is the Volcker shock ? -- Jim Devine recall that volcker was appointed by prez carter in 79

Re: [PEN-L] Househunters

US Army's transformation into an amazingly lifelike replica of the Wehrmacht besides invading Iraq, how is the US Army like the Wehrmacht? doesn't it differ from the Wehrmacht in some ways, too? I don't find Nazi analogies to be very useful. JD

[PEN-L] floating exchange rates the neoliberal policy revolution

low inflation rates (and high unemployment rates). Of course, the government's hardly saintly. The full employment of the late 1960s in the US was largely due to the Vietnam War and LBJ's inability to cut civilian programs sufficiently. -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

Re: [PEN-L] Househunters

heck. I don't care about toxicity. It's accuracy that I care about. Also, communication. Do you think most people in the country would agree that the US government is fascist? JD On 4/14/05, Carl Remick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Carrol Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jim Devine wrote

Re: [PEN-L] Blood for oil?

, Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (This article was co-authored by Iain Boal, Joseph Matthews, Michael Watts and T.J. Clark. Clark is better-known as a Marxist art historian. The article dismisses Malthusian oil scarcity explanations for the war in Iraq.) -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [PEN-L] Househunters

Yes. About the only real political result of crying fascist is to bolster the Democratic Party -- and probably increase the probability of non-fascist forms of tyranny - including forms that haven't been invented yet.. Carrol excellent point. Jumping into a popular front with Kerry and

Re: [PEN-L] Terming U.S. war machine fascist

in its invasion of Iraq. The U.S. is in violation of the world's law against fascist war. Okay, how do you say that so that working-class people in Peoria can get it? -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

[PEN-L] don't think about it.

]. -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

Re: [PEN-L] Another Surreal Article on Fallujah in Mainstream Press

a Deputy Secretary to tell them reconstruction is up to them! You gotta love that American can-do spirit, don't you? Is this a great country or what? (Where is Yakov Smirnoff when we need him?) -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

Re: [PEN-L] Terming U.S. war machine fascist

agree with Mussolini's analysis on this (only). Instead of using the word fascist, we should be using corporatist. Dan Scanlan -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

[PEN-L] from the ONION

withdrawal. -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

Re: [PEN-L] Unitarian JIhad Communique

Greetings to the Imprisoned Citizens of the United States. We are Unitarian Jihad. There is only God [sic], unless there is more than one God [sic]. The vote of our God [sic] subcommittee is 10-8 in favor of one God [sic], with two abstentions. Brother Flaming Sword of Moderation noted the

Re: [PEN-L] John Brown, abolitionist

should be treated as a saint, I say amen. -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

Re: [PEN-L] Left Forum 2005

are there _any_ sexy leftists? On 4/18/05, Doug Henwood wrote: Voters want libidinal impulse, not fiscal impulse. -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

[PEN-L] Papal confab

Is it possible that the Cardinals will choose Putney Swope as the next Pope? -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

Re: [PEN-L] Riotous Real Estate

University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [PEN-L] God's Rotweiler (from Jim Craven)

my wife explained it to me: Benny 16 is a rebound pope. Having lost J2P2, the Church throws itself in the arms of Benny (a.k.a. Ratzo), but doesn't expect that it'll last. After all, he's 78. And there's nothing special about him, love-wise: he's J2P2 without the charisma. But there are plenty of

Re: [PEN-L] Terming U.S. war machine fascist

) until WW II. The Germans were able to break the balance-the-budget orthodoxy more. -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

Re: [PEN-L] God's Rotweiler (from Jim Craven)

he learned. Supposedly, he decided that the only way to respond to Nazi authoritarianism was via religious authoritarianism. That kind of extreme either/or logic suggests a deranged mind. -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine Reuters April 19, 2005/L.A. TIMES The following

[PEN-L] query: class consumption function

what's the best source (both theoretically and empirically) on the classical/left-Keynesian/Marxian notion that workers have a higher marginal propensity to consume than do property-owners? -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

Re: [PEN-L] God's Rotweiler (from Jim Craven)

chains, the authoritarian wants to do it for them NOW. But I don't know, especially since that leaves the impatience unexplained. What's your explanation? -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

Re: [PEN-L] Galbraith in Berkeley

Gene wrote:DeLong took that and ran with it. He said that the Berkeley econ department is making a major bet on behavioral economics and we'll see the results over the next ten years. Or in ten years, not sure which it is. FWIW, our department just hired three economists who do experimental

Re: [PEN-L] contractor deaths

to think of it as a remake.) -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

[PEN-L] contractor deaths

, it would have been counted as a casualty. Now it isn't. That's one way to keep official casualties down. Has there been any comparison of US deaths in the War against Iraq vis-a-vis previous wars that corrects for this institutional change? -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

Re: [PEN-L] Rotweiler: Prison Guards

soula avramidis wrote:Increasing global inequalities are not as bad to the less fortunate folk as they are put to be. The American model of fenced rich neighbourhood in the midst of a sea of have-nots that is being promulgated at an increasing rate around the globe is creating many jobs in the

Re: [PEN-L] contractor deaths

with privatizing of this type at the municipal level is that it is union busting ( It's not like a colonialized country selling its state enterprises in the interest of imperialists). Since the military is not unionized, does it make much difference ? Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [PEN-L] query: class consumption function

')? Marglin seems to have had a trajectory very similar to Sam Bowles.] Paul Gene C. writes: Paul, Thanks for this -- very useful to me. If you are familiar with Margolin's What Do Bosses Do?, where would you slot that in? Gene Coyle -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [PEN-L] Upcoming Talks and Course at The New SPACE

) that pluralism is a valid description of US politics, and thus a model for the world. -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

Re: [PEN-L] New School U. Harasses New SPACE

Let's not reignite old controversies. Happy to oblige if The New Space people stop promoting themselves here. Doug I don't know anything about internal left politics in NYC, but I see nothing wrong with a little advertising by the New Space people; after all, several groups advertise here.

[PEN-L] Kellerman's Therapy

as he claimed. The fact is that COMMENTARY's exposé of Said was itself exposed as incorrect, libel. But a naive or ignorant reader might make the link between Kellerman's character and Said and not know that the exposé was false. And Said can't defend himself. enough of Kellerman! -- Jim Devine [EMAIL

[PEN-L] Pluralism (was: Upcoming Talks and Course at The New SPACE)

Marxism of recent years (Resnick, Wolff, etc.), though I doubt that a lot have gone as far as SM Lipset. -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

Re: [PEN-L] query: class consumption function

paul wrote:In its ultimate form, Kaldor-Pasinetti speaks to income distribution (driven by the difference in capitalist/worker savings rates) but is silent on the causes of the difference in those saving rates. This theorem was an evolution - before the Pasinetti Theorem, Kaldor had workers

[PEN-L] news of the world!

Chicken today sued Wendy's, claiming that if Wendy's is placing human fingers in their chili they are infringing on KFC's finger licking good trademark. -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

Re: [PEN-L] query: class consumption function

be shaking the wrong end of the stick. Paul -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

Re: [PEN-L] query: class consumption function

a common source: the recent rise in power of the capitalist owners vis a vis their workers. is this view yours or Marglin's? why is it true (if it is)? -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

Re: [PEN-L] query: class consumption function

Paul writes:Marglin points out ... that Corporate Management has a higher propensity to invest profits than Corporate Ownership (shareholders) who more favor distributing profits as dividends (hence Capitalist Consumption as a simplification). I don't know if Managers have a greater propensity to

Re: [PEN-L] Lau Stiglitz on China

of Oprah Winfrey. -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

[PEN-L] how to lower unemployment

equal, of course). Ebeneezer Scrooge for President! -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

[PEN-L] new frontiers in economic decision-making...

the match, Christie's Japan rep consulted experts, including her friend's 11-year-old daughter. Everybody knows you always start with scissors, the girl said. Rock is way too obvious, and scissors beats paper. Scissors won. -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

Re: [PEN-L] query: class consumption function

Jim only chose the word undertow because of his S. Cal. beach influences. Lucky he didn't draw on youthful [i.e., Chicago (non-U) ] influences or we would be hearing about wind :-) I dunno. What's wrong with a mighty wind? JD

Re: [PEN-L] Buffett's lament redux

Dan wrote: Too bad. The ukulele is on the rise. it's too bad that the ukulele is on the rise? -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

Re: [PEN-L] Shopping cart Darwinism

than they do ugly ones. Carl -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

Re: [PEN-L] Newspaper readership among young is declining

Newspaper circulation continues to tumble. The industry reported yesterday a 1.9 percent drop in daily circulation, and a 2.5 percent decline on Sundays, over the last six months, compared with the period a year ago. The weak numbers for 814 daily newspapers, reported by the Audit Bureau of

[PEN-L] visions of ugliness (was: Re: Shopping cart Darwinism)

they are familiar with). (BTW, that type of study suggests that racial differences arise (partly?) from sexual selection rather than the usual Darwinian adaptationism.) JD On 5/3/05, Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Devine wrote: who decides who's ugly and who's not? Ugliness is in the eye

Re: [PEN-L] query: class consumption function

for awhile, Winchell's Donuts used Homer Simpson as their poster boy, saying Donuts made me what I am today. JD On 5/3/05, Carl Remick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Let's not neglect those who share Homer Simpson's pursuit of happiness:] May 3, 2005 Kick the Doughnut Habit, and Make Your

Re: [PEN-L] query: class consumption function

and fall in order to make people dissatisfied with last year's wardrobe. ... -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

Re: [PEN-L] May Day 2005 in Caracas: the revolution advances

great report! Are people conscious of the problem of co-management being instituted only for the more elite workers, leaving the rest in the dust? (something like that happened in revolution-era Algeria.) -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

Re: [PEN-L] Shopping cart Darwinism

-- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

Re: [PEN-L] May Day 2005 in Caracas: the revolution advances

on the micro level (workers' control) turned out to divide the Algerian working class. -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

Re: [PEN-L] May Day 2005 in Caracas: the revolution advances

, but hardly enough.) JD On 5/4/05, Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it's been a long time since I read this material, so I can't add anything beyond that what initially seemed like a good thing on the micro level (workers' control) turned out to divide the Algerian working class. -- Jim

Re: [PEN-L] May Day 2005 in Caracas: the revolution advances

? On the socialism list we are collecting this kind of literature. We are trying to put it on the www so that it is available for activists who go this route. Hans Ehrbar http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/socialism -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

[PEN-L] happy birthday!

Happy Birthday and Feliz Cinco de Mayo to Karlos Marx! -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

[PEN-L] biz as usual

workforce was unemployed. This economic depression lasted until 1897. -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

Re: [PEN-L] How the mighty have fallen

communities that need them, unless some substitute can be provided. -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

[PEN-L] non-reductionist genetics

to have read more. · Johnjoe McFadden is professor of molecular genetics at the University of Surrey and author of Quantum Evolution [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

[PEN-L] Merck on drugs

for the patient. -- From SLATE's news summary. -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

Re: [PEN-L] Slower Growth and a Disastrous Budget Set the Stage for Recession

-term health of the US economy, except to the extent it might help them to attain their agenda (as when mild prosperity helped Bush's election in 2004)? -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

Re: [PEN-L] non-reductionist genetics

biology is reasserting the primacy of the whole organism - the individual - over the behaviour of isolated genes On 5/6/05, Autoplectic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not much new here, I'm afraid; evo. theorists have been railing against gene-centricity etc. -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [PEN-L] Productivity question

any rough ideas or evidence that can help to apportion productivity growth to intensification of work, longer hours, shutting down of less productive plants, and improved technology? -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

[PEN-L] GPI vs. GDP (was Re: [PEN-L] Productivity question)

On 5/8/05, tom walker wrote: ... What would productivity change look like if we used a Genuine Progress Indicator rather than the GDP as the surrogate? I'm a fan of the GPI, but I don't see it as a substitute for the GDP. Whereas the GDP is a measure of exchange-value, the GPI is an effort to

Re: [PEN-L] GPI vs. GDP (was Re: [PEN-L] Productivity question)

Tom W writes: It is also good for correcting a misconception that GDP measures something it doesn't: social wellbeing. who on pen-l suffers from this misconception? Are you suggesting that capital will go on strike if people so much as think critically in terms other than exchange values? no.

[PEN-L] Bush actually answers unscripted questions from the public...

half-hour -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

Re: [PEN-L] GPI vs. GDP (was Re: [PEN-L] Productivity question)

already in the NIPAs Doug -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

Re: [PEN-L] GPI vs. GDP (was Re: [PEN-L] Productivity question)

). exactly. It should take ten -- or fifty -- or a thousand -- dimensions to measure the production of happiness. -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

Re: [PEN-L] GPI vs. GDP (was Re: [PEN-L] Productivity question)

book. -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

[PEN-L] seems appropriate...

in London. The speaker will be Nobel Laureate Douglass North on A New Theory of Political Economy. All are welcome. Refreshments will be served from 5.30pm. The event is sponsored by T-Mobile. [a trifecta of appropriateness: Malthus/North/T-Mobile] -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu

Re: [PEN-L] GPI vs. GDP (was Re: [PEN-L] Productivity question)

As a matter of fact, I think malaise would be a good name for the moral hazard that the GDP engenders. not nausea? -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

Re: [PEN-L] Happiness

product accounts (e.g., value added, which equals V + S). If the old USSR counted as socialist, they had a version of NIPA, too. -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

Re: [PEN-L] Happiness

gross value-added includes depreciation, while net value-added doesn't. Marx was dealing with net, no? On 5/9/05, Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: V + S = value added? what about depreciation in value added? -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

Re: [PEN-L] GPI vs. GDP (was Re: [PEN-L] Productivity question)

between what people want (utility, preferences, felt needs) and human psychological, physical, and social health (objective needs, societal collective self-realization). -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

Re: [PEN-L] Jim's observation on surplus value

it's not surplus-value that's the same as value-added. It's variable capital plus surplus-value that's equal to value-added (net of depreciation). I don't see the point of the second sentence. JD Michael Perelman wrote: I was thinking about Jim's note suggesting that Marx's surplus value was the

[PEN-L] election vouchers

-hasen10may10,0,5326006.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

[PEN-L] US offensive near Syria

official. ... For what it's worth: The Chicago Tribune [which owns the LAT] also has a reporter on the scene. He had a revealing piece yesterday focused on how the Marines were taken by surprise. Presumably, the Trib will have his latest dispatch posted sometime this morning. -- Jim Devine [EMAIL

Re: [PEN-L] Jim's observation on surplus value

My second sentence was intended to say that Marx's categories were specific to capitalism, that he said that he crafted them that way intentionally. right. The Soviets were wrong to try to apply NIPA-type accounts to their economy (unless they really did have state capitalism there). JD

[PEN-L] Iraq/Afghanistan

allowed? (are are they allowed?) -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

[PEN-L] social security

the paper and download a copy, go to: http://ase.tufts.edu/gdae/highlights/Social_Security.htm -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

[PEN-L] Historical Materialism (journal)

AntiquityGold, Labour and Aristocratic Dominance YUMIKO IIDA on Harry Harootunian's Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture, and Community in Interwar Japan Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism WOLFGANG FRITZ HAUG (Introduced and Translated by PETER THOMAS) Dialectics ... Jim Devine [EMAIL

Re: [PEN-L] Statistics (was Happiness)

Paul writes: Since then Neo-classical economists have been pressing hard (and successfully) for far more use of models - typified by trying to shift the very goal from a Consumer Price Index to a Cost of Living adjustor. (One simply tries to track comparable prices; the other pretends to compare

Re: [PEN-L] Coase the state

military is giving way to Halliburton and Blackwater. Lockheed is managing welfare How does this system square with the conception of the state as having a monopoly on force? -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

Re: [PEN-L] More on the CPI

.) -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

[PEN-L] PK on GM WM

funded health care system be preserved and renewed. But according to The Journal Register News Service, which covered Mr. Wagoner's speech, he stressed later to reporters that he was not proposing a national health care plan. Why not? -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

Re: [PEN-L] Coase the state

(or positive) value judgements. (Hey, it's better than the increasingly common word terrorists.) The North Vietnamese were very different from the Iraqi anti-US forces (among other things, showing much more unity and organization) so I don't think what we call them is very relevant. -- Jim Devine [EMAIL

[PEN-L] it's only rock 'n' roll (but it gives me utility)

Celine Dion possesses any talent at all should be nominated for a Nobel Prize. Daniel Gross (www.danielgross.net) writes Slate's Moneybox column. You can e-mail him at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Article URL: http://slate.msn.com/id/2118607/ -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

[PEN-L] news about Bolton

. ... -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

Re: [PEN-L] Coase the state

we should also remember that the states we see currently often started as groups of bandits or feudal lords who were able to beat out similar groups to attain hegemony. JD On 5/13/05, Michael Perelman wrote: In some of the poor African states the mercenaries became more powerful than their

Re: [PEN-L] lump of labor?

Rockefeller. People outside the country -- and many inside it -- will assume we're ruled by plutocrats, he said. Of course, we are, but you don't need a real (Henry-type) Ford as President for it to be so. -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

Re: [PEN-L] Coase the state

in the US is about to contest their lies by extra-discursive means -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

Re: [PEN-L] Coase the state

really useful here? Maybe, but arguments about the meaning and connotations of words are pretty harmless. Besides, pen-l doesn't seem to have debates any more. -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

Re: [PEN-L] Coase the state

if Cheney calls his home a bunker, does that mean that we should eschew that term? -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

Re: [PEN-L] lump of labor?

for the benefit of us all. So what's your explanation for the greater preference (as the bourgeois economists say) for leisure in Europe? Their explanation seems rather tortured and bogus, but I'd like to see a better one. Doug -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu

Re: [PEN-L] Marxist Analysis of modern Music Industry

The rise of the music industry from a grubby mom-and-pop operation, through its hip phase, into a devouring international behemoth is rivetingly chronicled in Fred Goodman's book, The Mansion on the Hill. Taking its title from a Hank Williams song in which a poor country boy gazes enviously at a

[PEN-L] Crash

some parents decide to bring their 6-year-old son to this movie?) -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

Re: [PEN-L] Coase the state

are engaging in Newspeak when they call the violence in Iraq an insurgency. That you seem to be missing this, and the larger point that language is politics baffles me to no end. Actually I'm at the end of my bafflement as I'm done with this. -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

[PEN-L] it's bubblicious!

equity or saving less because they assume their rising property values will fund their retirement for them. Even just a slowdown in appreciation would probably impact spending, said Skinner. -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

Re: [PEN-L] Marxist Analysis of modern Music Industry

me: awhile back there was a good series on the history of rock n roll on the U.S. Public Broadcasting System. One notable part was when they interviewed various punk rock starts -- who turned out to be standing in front of their mansions. Doug: Huh? Which punk rock stars? if I remember

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