sounds like a good film. Where did the stuff about Hawaiian shirts come from?
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Rick Wolff <[email protected]> wrote: > > With some deft repartee, the film was criticized on this list for > the alternative it offers. Something having to do with Hawaiian shirts. The > film actually critiques the now mainstream solutions of more or less > Keynesian vintage, the reregulation nostrums now also fast becoming > mainstream, etc. It makes the following simple two points: (1) that these > mainstream solutions (like those of their predecessors in the New Deal) all > leave in tact corporate structures with their decision-making boards of > directors responsible to the tiny numbers of major shareholders, and (2) > that such boards have the incentives to evade, weaken, or undo those > solutions when and where they constrain profits and also the resources > (corporate profits) to realize those incentives. Perhaps, the film aims to > suggest, the failure to control let alone prevent capitalism's instability > as expressed in crises large and small (and the immense social costs > thereof) has something to do with exempting that structure of enterprise > from question, let alone radical transformation. The film offers a brief > sketch of an alternative structure of enterprise and reasons why it would > not have made key decisions leading to this latest capitalist crash. > Granted, there is not much about Hawaiian > Shirts, but then again, the film has something to say. -------------- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
