Anthony, I found your insights about Japan very interesting. When I was in Tokyo a couple of years ago, several of the professors that I met found it curious that my wife was accompanying me. They told us that wives do not travel with their husbands. I found that curious. Blanche had less neutral terms for that practice.
Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Mperelman at csuchico.edu Chico, CA 95929 530-898-5321 fax 530-898-5901 www.michaelperelman.wordpress.com From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Anthony D'Costa Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2015 1:42 PM To: Progressive Economics Subject: Re: [Pen-l] “The blood-soaked conspiracy of Valentine’s Day, driven by the oppressive chocolate capitalists" There are some economic factors. I have been reading and researching about Japan's demographic crisis for about a decade and have done considerable field work there on the topic of IT professionals; most recently a few days ago. Costs, apartment space, salaried men not returning home until very late, are some of the reasons for remaining single, deferring marriage, or divorces. Anecdotally there is little interest among professional women to marry Japanese men because probably of the work schedule. Also women once they get married lose their permanent job if they had one or they generally do not find one to begin with because having children does not mesh with the long hours demanded by employers. Lastly there is something to be said about social modernity, which has accompanied capitalism pretty much in all the oecd and among the upwardly mobile classes in the non oecd, which gives men and women options that are not circumscribed by conventional, conservative social norms. That is fertility rates in the oecd and among the upwardly mobile classes in the developing world are on the decline, in fact many below or close to replacement rate. Cheers, Anthony xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Anthony P. D'Costa, Chair & Professor of Contemporary Indian Studies Australia India Institute and School of Social & Political Sciences University of Melbourne 147-149 Barry Street, Carlton VIC 3053, AUSTRALIA<x-apple-data-detectors://0/0> Ph: +61 3 9035 6161<tel:+61%203%209035%206161> Visit the Australia India Institute Website http://www.aii.unimelb.edu.au/<https://owa.unimelb.edu.au/owa/redir.aspx?C=KGdpeyp6YEyjUaiENKoAtx8nOn9uStAIlCVtCNE3uLxqkGIwkWdEYjJXILfPlddrM0Q1713syQQ.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.aii.unimelb.edu.au%2f> Recent Conference (The Land Question) http://idsk.edu.in/program.php New Book Series (Dynamics of Asian Development) http://www.springer.com/series/13342 Recent books: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198082286.do#.UI5Wzmc2dI0<https://owa.unimelb.edu.au/owa/redir.aspx?C=KGdpeyp6YEyjUaiENKoAtx8nOn9uStAIlCVtCNE3uLxqkGIwkWdEYjJXILfPlddrM0Q1713syQQ.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fukcatalogue.oup.com%2fproduct%2f9780198082286.do%23.UI5Wzmc2dI0> http://www.oup.com/localecatalogue/cls_academic/?i=9780199646210<https://owa.unimelb.edu.au/owa/redir.aspx?C=KGdpeyp6YEyjUaiENKoAtx8nOn9uStAIlCVtCNE3uLxqkGIwkWdEYjJXILfPlddrM0Q1713syQQ.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.oup.com%2flocalecatalogue%2fcls_academic%2f%3fi%3d9780199646210> http://www.anthempress.com/pdf/9780857285041.pdf<https://owa.unimelb.edu.au/owa/redir.aspx?C=KGdpeyp6YEyjUaiENKoAtx8nOn9uStAIlCVtCNE3uLxqkGIwkWdEYjJXILfPlddrM0Q1713syQQ.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.anthempress.com%2fpdf%2f9780857285041.pdf> http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=295354<https://owa.unimelb.edu.au/owa/redir.aspx?C=KGdpeyp6YEyjUaiENKoAtx8nOn9uStAIlCVtCNE3uLxqkGIwkWdEYjJXILfPlddrM0Q1713syQQ.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.palgrave.com%2fproducts%2ftitle.aspx%3fpid%3d295354> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent from my iPad On Feb 16, 2015, at 04:26, raghu <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: What's a good Marxist take on Valentine's Day? .======== What's a good chemical explanation of skipping rope? MARSISM IS NOT A TOE. I wasn't being flippant. In case you didn't know, Japan appears to be in the middle of a sexual/demographic crisis: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/young-people-japan-stopped-having-sex Doesn't some of this have to do with economic factors, alienation and/or the commodification of human relationships etc? I don't know, but it was a serious question. -raghu. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
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