David Harvey paper on his site (and Michael Roberts) here http://davidharvey.org/
On Friday, 19 December 2014, <[email protected]> wrote: > Send pen-l mailing list submissions to > [email protected] <javascript:;> > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] <javascript:;> > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] <javascript:;> > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of pen-l digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: David Harvey & Michael Roberts (Tom Walker) > 2. Progressive Caucus Statement on Cuba Policy (Robert Naiman) > 3. Re: David Harvey & Michael Roberts ([email protected] > <javascript:;>) > 4. Fwd: The Year in Film ? CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names > the Names (Louis Proyect) > 5. Fwd: A response to Owen Jones and James Bloodworth on Cuba | > Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist (Louis Proyect) > 6. David Harvey & Michael Roberts (Jurriaan Bendien) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 12:18:20 -0800 > From: Tom Walker <[email protected] <javascript:;>> > Subject: Re: [Pen-l] David Harvey & Michael Roberts > To: Progressive Economics <[email protected] <javascript:;>> > Message-ID: > < > canz+bqy0n0aj4fww-r8j0_fmpmkbffwduaxrlqv43q8g_g0...@mail.gmail.com > <javascript:;>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Is there a Santa Claus? > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:39 AM, <[email protected] <javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > > "Carrol Cox" <[email protected] <javascript:;>> Wrote > > > > Ron Peterson: The "simple issues" need to be resolved first. > > > > > Huh? What are some of those "simple" issues? > > > > What is the objective of studying Economics? > > > > What is a good economic model? > > > > What is capitalism? > > > > -- > > Ron > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > pen-l mailing list > > [email protected] <javascript:;> > > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > > > > > -- > Cheers, > > Tom Walker (Sandwichman) > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://lists.csuchico.edu/pipermail/pen-l/attachments/20141218/810c65d8/attachment-0001.html > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 14:27:37 -0600 > From: Robert Naiman <[email protected] <javascript:;>> > Subject: [Pen-l] Progressive Caucus Statement on Cuba Policy > To: Progressive Economics <[email protected] <javascript:;>> > Message-ID: > < > calmnhnsn_ep4ynxgn8ganxso23jcg7nsz7vxf16ecrhulmq...@mail.gmail.com > <javascript:;>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Here's the Progressive Caucus statement. Tweeting & sharing recommended. > Especially this part: > > "now it is up to Congress to act. Congress must lift the trade embargo and > normalize travel" > > > http://ellison.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/progressive-caucus-statement-on-cuba-policy > Progressive Caucus Statement on Cuba Policy > Dec 17, 2014 > Press Release > > WASHINGTON?Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) Co-Chairs Reps. Ra?l M. > Grijalva (D-AZ) and Keith Ellison (D-MN) and CPC Peace and Security Task > Force Chair Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) released the following statement today > after President Obama announced a new policy towards Cuba. > > ?The United States isolated Cuba for 53 years in a failed attempt to > promote democracy and freedom. President Obama?s new course recognizes our > old approach towards Cuba didn?t work. > > ?Isolating Cuba separated the people of Cuba and their Cuban-American > family members, and impaired our ability to build constructive > relationships in Latin America. By restarting diplomatic relations and > establishing a new embassy, the U.S. can start conversations on issues like > commerce and human rights that have been dormant between our nations for > too long. We applaud President Obama for his bold new approach and welcome > news that, for the first time, both the U.S. and Cuba will attend the > Summit of the America?s in 2015. > > ?The president has laid out a promising path forward and now it is up to > Congress to act. Congress must lift the trade embargo and normalize travel > between our two nations, which are only 90 miles apart. The Congressional > Progressive Caucus looks forward to working with President Obama and > members of Congress who want to stabilize relations between the U.S. and > Cuba.? > === > > Robert Naiman > Policy Director > Just Foreign Policy > www.justforeignpolicy.org > [email protected] <javascript:;> > (202) 448-2898 x1 > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://lists.csuchico.edu/pipermail/pen-l/attachments/20141218/5ff2f522/attachment-0001.html > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 02:48:03 +0000 (UTC) > From: [email protected] <javascript:;> > Subject: Re: [Pen-l] David Harvey & Michael Roberts > To: Progressive Economics <[email protected] <javascript:;>> > Message-ID: > <[email protected] > <javascript:;>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > "Tom Walker" <[email protected] <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > Is there a Santa Claus? > > If there were you would be under perpetual watch and > some would get large rewards for doing nothing of value. > > I think that Santa Claus economics would have people giving > goods and services to others without expecting anything in > return. > > -- > Ron > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://lists.csuchico.edu/pipermail/pen-l/attachments/20141219/754d8804/attachment-0001.html > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 06:38:09 -0500 > From: Louis Proyect <[email protected] <javascript:;>> > Subject: [Pen-l] Fwd: The Year in Film ? CounterPunch: Tells the > Facts, Names the Names > To: Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition > <[email protected] <javascript:;>>, Progressive > Economics > <[email protected] <javascript:;>> > Message-ID: <[email protected] <javascript:;>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed > > I deliberately refrained from attaching the word ?best? to the films > listed below out of consideration that my personal taste weighed > heavily. While I would have no problem defending the picks based on > artistic merit, there is a subjective factor that is probably no more > arbitrary than that reflected in any other critic?s ?best of? list even > if they are reluctant to admit that personal taste tilted the scale. I > can only say that if you have seen and valued films based on my > recommendations, then you should look for those listed below in local > theaters or on the Internet. > > As a rule of thumb, I probably pay less attention to the visual aspects > of a narrative film than I do to more conventional dramatic elements > such as character development and plot. This meant that I had little use > for a film like ?Mr. Turner?, a work that made it to many ?best of 2014? > lists on the basis of breathtaking images of the British landscape > evoking the work of the boring and repulsive artist whose life it was > celebrating. I could only wonder why Mike Leigh would want to make a > film about such a man when you are better off going to the museum and > looking at his paintings. My benchmark for such films was ?Lust for > Life?, the biopic about Vincent Van Gogh that was co-written by Irving > Stone, from whose novel the script was adapted, and Norman Corwin. As > you may know, Norman Corwin wrote and produced 100 radio plays in the > 1930s and 40s, the medium?s golden age. The only images evoked in those > classic plays were those that Corwin?s words produced in your mind?s eye. > > full: http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/12/19/the-year-in-film/ > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 12:48:07 -0500 > From: Louis Proyect <[email protected] <javascript:;>> > Subject: [Pen-l] Fwd: A response to Owen Jones and James Bloodworth on > Cuba | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist > To: Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition > <[email protected] <javascript:;>>, Progressive > Economics > <[email protected] <javascript:;>> > Message-ID: <[email protected] <javascript:;>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed > > Vexingly but not unexpected, Owen Jones and James Bloodworth used their > Guardian and Independent columns as bully pulpits against the Cuban > government. Despite their impeccable left-liberal credentials, their > commentary left a bad taste in mouth not unlike the one I experienced > when MSNBC?s Chris Matthews weighed in: ?I just don`t think they are > going to change their stripes. I think they`re commies. I think they`re > communists.? Commies. Nice. > > I have more respect for Jones, who was on Marxmail briefly when he was > 16 years old or so, a most precocious lad. Back then he repeated the > talking points heard across the British left: ?If the working class > wield no political power, then who does? A privileged layer of > officials, i.e. bureaucrats. It is they who legislate and enforce law, > not the working class.? Nothing has changed in the 14 years when he > wrote this except maybe a softening on bureaucracy, something > understandable given his loyalty to the British Labour Party?a far cry > from the heaven-storming sensibility of his adolescence. > > full: > > http://louisproyect.org/2014/12/19/a-response-to-owen-jones-and-james-bloodworth-on-cuba/ > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 20:46:07 +0100 > From: "Jurriaan Bendien" <[email protected] <javascript:;>> > Subject: [Pen-l] David Harvey & Michael Roberts > To: "Progressive Economists Network" <[email protected] > <javascript:;>> > Message-ID: <0D0D0BBAD6C94FE28B73FF326FD63DFE@Jurriaan1> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > I have written a fairly long wikipedia article on this topic > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendency_of_the_rate_of_profit_to_fall > > I admit though that I am getting a bit tired of writing ?Marxism for > dummies? articles. > > J. > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://lists.csuchico.edu/pipermail/pen-l/attachments/20141219/0c3ca287/attachment-0001.html > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] <javascript:;> > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > > End of pen-l Digest, Vol 2483, Issue 1 > ************************************** >
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