Personally, IMHO I have found many--not all--of URPE stuff to be very
esoteric, very divorced from concrete struggle, full of fallacy of
appeal to authority and quotation worshipping and riddled with
attempts to copy and make a fetish out of higher-level mathematical
techniques- - applied to "radi
From: Ajit Sinha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: On Renaming URPE
I must say I appreciated James Craven's last posting on URPE/RRPE issue a lot.
No nonsense--straight talk. I think JC's comment could be divided into two
parts. One simply says that
During the early 1960s when I was in the military, the doctrine of
social systems engineering--practiced long before the 1960s--was more
formally articulated. All sorts of CV-building academic whores were
enlisted in the quest to identify, analyze and help to manipulate key
personalities, inst
Subject:Re: The Cold War
Gil, you SOB, you're absolutely right on this. Despite your usual
petty-bourgeois revisionist snivellings, _ad hominem_ attacks
should play no role on pen-l.
Joking aside, when criticizing someone's views, please let's
restrict ourselves to (1) the logic of the
"...models and theories of 'traditional' economic geography seem to
fall short. Studying 'economic regions' invites the danger of
confusing appearance with explanation and, at best, tends to abstract
regions from their context. The traditional approach to economic
regions has been undermined b
After posting a message about the near-tautology and non-
falsifiable character of the "rationality" assumption in
economics, I stumbled on a prima facie case of economic
IRrationality that indicates that maybe the "rationality"
assumption is falsifiable:
at the campus stamp machine last year, i
Doug Henwood Wrote:
> >I'm not sure how people are defining contingent work, but MANPOWER, INC., the
> >daily hiring agency used for restaurants and blue collar laboring work is now
> >the largest employer in the united states.
>
> Well, yes, but there's not much rigorous evidence that this
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> Subject:[PEN-L:8009] Re: contingent work
> At 2:17 PM
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> Subject:[PEN-L:8009] Re: contingent work
> At 2:17 PM
I just thought I would forward this from Darwin-L for food for
thought.
"The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the
reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But
the bee takes the middle course: it gathers its material from the flo
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> Subject:[PEN-L:7721] useless Ph.D.s
> Maggie Coleman asks>>do you think this quote [about business
> reluctance to hire economics Ph.D.s] is referring to Chica
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Subject:National Security Archives on contra/cocaine
Commentary: Documents show U.S. condo
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> Subject:[PEN-L:7823] Stiglitz to WB
> one possible point in J. Stiglitz's favor: hasn't he wr
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> Subject:[PEN-L:8000] contingent work
> Doug writes >>I'm amazed at how contingent work in gen
12:40 PM 12/31/96, James Michael Craven wrote:
>
> >Where do these numbers come from?; e.g. < 5% employment is contingent
> >and "something like half of those are happy with their contingency?"
> >"Something like half" are happy with being disposable--more
&
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> To: Multiple recipients of list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject:[PEN-L:8012] Re: contingent work
> At 2:17 PM
Doug Henwood wrote:
> Well, yes, but what are we to make of this? >
> LFPR EPR U
> 195033.932.05.7
> 11/96 59.656.35.5
> change +25.7 +24.3 -0.2
>
> The discouragement/U effect may apply over the business cycle, but th
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> Subject:[PEN-L:8030] Re: contingent work
> Perception in this area is fairly important. There have been lately a
> number
Perhaps add to this list a new book out called "The Great Wave: Price
Revolutions and the Thythm of History" by David Hackett Fischer,
Oxford, 1996.
Jim Craven
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> From:
Let a hundred flowers bloom; let all ideas contend. The delete key is
on the right side of the keyboard below insert and to the left of end-
--for those so inclined.
Jim Craven
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Perhaps add to this list a new book out called "The Great Wave: Price
Revolutions and the Thythm of History" by David Hackett Fischer,
Oxford, 1996.
Jim Craven
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Heard on Roach Limpbone:
It seems that in order to promote the concept of ebonics recognized as
a separate language from which to proceed to build foundations in
"formal" english, the proponents have proposed a "Miss Ebonics"
beauty contest. When the idea was pitched, 49 out of 50 States signe
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> Subject:[PEN-L:8453] Re: Is this a consensus?
> At 12:10 PM 2/4/97, D Shniad wrote:
>
> >"Karl Marx argued that capitalism needs a 'reserve army
You all know about the Darwin Awards - It's an annual honor given to the
person who did the gene pool the biggest service by killing
themselves in the most extraordinarily stupid way.
The 1995 winner was the fellow who was killed by a Coke machine which
toppled over on top of him as
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> From: Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject:[PEN-L:9129] customers
> Our administration is led by lefties. Our provost is a marxist, but he
> makes public announcements that w
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> Subject:[PEN-L:9274] Re: Why not be a utopian: real version
> Rosser Jr, J
It's simple: outsource up to but not beyond the point where the
marginal cost of outsourcing one's children equals the marginal
benefit and... Market "Efficiency" Uber Alles.
SUBJ:
Bill Adler To Outsource Children >>>
>>>GRANADA HILLS, CA - Bill Adler, UNIX System Administrator and father
>
In response to private correspondence, I should have added some other
categories:
progressive adacemics (tenured and non-tenured) who are isolated from
colleagues and access to big grants and publications in "prestigious
journals" as a result of the stands they have taken and who, for
their e
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> Subject:[PEN-L:9094] Re: The "Sozialismus" and "Social Text" Af
> James Michael Craven wrote:
>
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> Subject:[PEN-L:9075] Re: The "Sozialismus" and "Social Text" Affairs Compared
> Jerry, please. I do not know Hinrich's politics or why he c
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Letter from Chief Sealth to President Franklin Pierce--1855
" The Great Chief in Washington sends word that he wishes to buy our
land. How can you buy or sell the sky--the warmth of the land. The
idea is strange to us. Yet we do not own the freshness of the air or
the sparkle of the water. How
For those teaching Intro or Intermediate Macro or Micro, you might
want to take a look at "Economics and Changing Economies" by
Mackintosh, Brown, Costello, Dawson, Thompson and Trigg, 1996,
Thomson Business Press, The Open University (Milton, Keynes, UK).
It is based on an Open University Cou
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> Subject:[PEN-L:5477] Re: progress in economics
> Gil Skillman seems offended that Jim Devine warns us that
> his rejection of the classical surplus approach to
Doug Henwood wrote:
The modeling of social life as a set of simulataneous [sic]
equations is part of the problem, not part of the solution.
> Doug
>
> --
>
> Doug Henwood
> Left Business Observer
> 250 W 85 St
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> +1-212-874-4020 voice
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Subject:FW-L Welfare Information re: U.S. (fwd)
Originally
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> From: "Breen, Nancy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject:[PEN-L:5800] RE: Crack Intelligence Agency
>
> I haven't seen them in the Washington Post. Isn't that shocking?
>
> Nancy Breen
> N
Just thought I would send this along for pen-l folks who might not
read this list. Much of this information or information that
parallels it can be found in Michael Levine's "The Big White Lie"
(memoirs of a 25 year undercover DEA agent).
It is a bit removed from the etherial level of economic
Dear Trond,
Thanks for your work in this area. I have been interested in the area of "Political
Economiy of the Media" for many years. Here is a model that I developed and use when
discussing the question of why journalists all over a given country invariably cover
the same stories, ask th
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Lynch)
> Subject:[PEN-L:5968] voter turnout
>
> > The key to the whole issue is that only 40-50 percent of the
> > electorate in the U.S. bothers to v
I picked up a book the other day "Centuries of Economic
Endeavor:Parallel Paths in Japan and Europe and Their Contrast With
the Third World" by John P. Powelson, Univ of Michigan, 1997 ed. On
the cover the endorsements read: "Extremely exciting...Leverage...is
a very important conept which I h
With all this talk by Clinton and others about how "America" and "We"
are "number One", I just thought we might talk about some of the
areas in which "America" is "Number One" among 19 industrialized
countries. The following was taken from "We're Number One: Where
America Stands--and Falls--in
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> Subject:[PEN-L:6096] Future Nobel laureate
>
> >From the Wall Street Journal
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> From: Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject:[PEN-L:6207] Dick Morris and my confession
> At the gym today, I p
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> Subject:[PEN-L:6408] Re: freedon from versus freedom to
> Eban, I don't know t
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> From: Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject:[PEN-L:6619] a nobel puzzle
> Suppose you won the Nobel prize and wanted to put it to use to make the
> society you live in improve
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> From: Walter Daum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject:[PEN-L:6791] Re: pen-l
> I for one would object to Shawgi Tell's postings being barred from PEN-L.
>
> I don't read them all; very few,
> Date sent: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 14:08:37 -0700 (PDT)
> Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject:[PEN-L:6793] The continuing saga
> So far two people have spoken up for the usefulness of Shawgi's postings,
> several for freedom o
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> From: Blair Sandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject:[PEN-L:6972] re: Krugman
> The first economics class I took as an undergraduate at Yale, where I
> eventually got a B.A. in economics,
Just about everyone I know has horror stories from graduate school
about perceived scholar despots, inner cliques, "old boy networks
etc". But that level gets us no where beyond anecdotes.
A few years ago Dave Colander and Bob Coats edited a book "The
Dissemination of Economic Ideas" based on
> From: "James Michael Craven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Organization: Clark College, Vancouver WA, USA
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date sent: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 11:57:35 PST8PDT
> Subject:Economics in the News
> Priority: no
Two economists (one a Chicago School devotee of Uncle Miltie and one
A Rational Expectationist) were walking down the road and came across
a pile of shit. The Chicago School devotee of Miltie offered the
Rational Expectationist $20,000 to eat the shit. After a quick
optimization calculation, t
Doug Henwood writes on pomo:
> A theoretical problem: if there is no truth, only provisional constructions
> of truth, and if there is no master narrative, but only a polyphony of
> local narratives and situated knowledges, than how can you criticize the
> official (celebratory) version of histo
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug Henwood)
> Subject:[PEN-L:7436] Re: more science!
> At 2:57 PM 11/17/96, James Michael Craven wrote:
>
> >Gradually
> >
Just came back from Browning to interview candidates for a postion
here and will be going back. I thought I would share this with the
pen-lers. This is from one of the BLackfeet Elders given to
graduating high-school students.
"25 Things you'll Need to Know Now That You've Graduated From High-
Every now and then I watch Politically Incorrect to see the evolution
of Disney's market niche. They frequently will have some person
designated as a "conservative activist" from some organization with a
title like "National Council for Family Values" or something like
that. When you research
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> > From: "James Michael Craven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: [PEN-L:11917] Blackfeet National Bank--Another Struggle
&
Dear Pen-lers
This is my last post. I tried to send this directly to Ms Quan and
Harry Cleaver but my mail was returned. I'll use this medium for the
last time on this issue. Notice, I sent a response and got something
immediately back. Why? What do my views matter? This cover I could be
work
Someone wrote:
(Why is it that non-neoclassical economists avoid the issue of
power?)
> They don't.
Response: It is just the opposite. It is the neoclassicals, usually
under the influence of some form of philosophical positivism, that
consider "power" to squishy and "non-operationalizabl
> At 08:47 AM 7/9/97 -0700, James Michael Craven wrote: > [SNIP]
> >purported CEO "marginal productivity" or MRP. Often, behind the slick
> >suits, executive penthouses and the trappings of executive power, one
> >finds individuals who might best be describ
On the first day of all of my classes, when introducing various
concepts of "efficiency" (technological, economic, productive,
consumer, exchange and allocative), I hand out the following:
Rentabilitatsberechnung der SS uber Ausnutzung
der Haftlinge in den Konzentrationslage
Yes, addenDUMB: I got so hung up with the idea of execs being paid a
scarcity rent that I lost sight of what they get paid when they don't
receive a scarcity rent, i.e., when they're paid their "Marginal physical
product."
Since corporate execs are, strictly speaking, unproductive workers -- i.e
Wojtek writes: >
> >Is executive salary, or a part of it, rent from an economic point of view?
> >And if so, how can the rent component in that salary be determined?
> >
> >I'm asking this question because a mainstream economist I'm working with
> >argued that exec's salary can actually reflec
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Louis P:
> >> What does this mean other than there is a large Maoist contingent in India?
> >> Rakesh raised the question of Soviet "exploitation" of India over on the
> >> Spoons list in
Addendum (had to leave office)
The real nature of Indian-USSR relations became the subject of
widespread discussions in India--among more than Maoists-- especially
in the 1970s when the pro-Soviet CPI endorsed "Emergency Measures" by
Indira Gandhi's Government. How any so-called "Communists" o
> Jim Craven writes:>>the notion that the governments of India have been in
> any position to leverage U.S. vs USSR rivalries for the benefit of India is
> simply not in accordance with the known historical facts. <<
>
> I was reporting what is commonly said about India's status in the context
> Cumings, Bruce, The origins of the Korean War : liberation and the
> emergence of separate regimes, 1945-1947. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton
> University Press, c1981.
>
> At this point, it really doesn't matter who started the Korean war. It's
> like the Hatfields & McCoys feud; both sides
Gordon Taylor wrote:
>
> Do those who of you who think the South is a military threat to the North also
> think that the South started the war back in 1951? (perhaps anyone who would
> beleive that also doesn't beleive the Holocaust happened.)
>
Response: Perhaps take a look at I.F. Ston
>><< >NOMINEE #1 [San Jose Mercury News]
>> >
>> >An unidentified man, using a shotgun like a club to break a former
>> >girlfriend's windshield, accidentally shot himself to death when the gun
>> >discharged, blowing a hole in his gut.
>> >
>> >
>
Addendum: The other night NBC ran a movie "In the Line of Fire" about
the FBI and New Jersey detectives hunting down a group of terrorists
robbing banks to finance blowing up government facilities. At first,
it appeared that this group of "terrorists" were "Freemen" types.
Later, it turns out
Jim Craven: > > Interestingly, since the late
> >1960s, the notion of the USSR as a "Social Imperialist" formation has
> >been very widespread in India and many Indians denounced the
> >relations with the USSR as being equivalent in nature and impact as
> >those with the British in the past
For those who do not receive CovertAction Quarterly, they may be
interested in an article in the new Summer CAQ: "Policing
Activists: Think Global, Spy Local" by Mitzi Waltz. As a matter of
fact, they may be interested in the other articles as well.
Jim Craven
Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
That discussion was indeed very informative and leads me to
> conclude, on the pain of oversimplification that, assuming the exec's
> rationality and decision making power -- all his salary is economic rent
> (since under "ideal conditions" he is in the position to d
Some time ago Dave Colander and Bob Coats put out a book of readings
entitled "The Dissemination of Economic Ideas". They suggested that
some of the concepts of "mainstream" and not-so-mainstream economics
be systematically applied to the economic profession in particular
and academia in gener
I was cut off previously
Some time ago Dave Colander and Bob Coats put out a book of readings
entitled "The Dissemination of Economic Ideas". They suggested that
some of the concepts of "mainstream" and not-so-mainstream economics
be systematically applied to the economic profession in partic
> By the way, I find some good stuff in Greider's book, but he seems to be
> so long winded and disorganized [this book to a lesser extent] that I
> find it hard to maintain my attention. Do others have a similar opinion
> of his work?
>
> --
> Michael Perelman
> Economics Department
> Califo
I have repeatedly tried to return my comments directly to MS Quan and
to Harry Cleaver directly but the messages keep getting bounced back.
They can send stuff to me but I can't send back to them directly.
This was sent to me privately by someone and I wanted to share the
concepts without subj
>> Subject: "signs of the times"
>>
>> The following are actual signs seen across the good ol' U.S.A.
>>
>> At gas eateries through the nation: Eat here and get gas.
>>
>> At a Santa Fe gas station: We will sell gasoline to anyone in a
>> glass container.
>>
>> In a New Yo
In a message dated 97-07-23 09:26:05 EDT, Anders writes:
> >Corporate hierarchies don't look the way they do simply because of the
> >inherent needs of capitalism or because they are "reproducing the power
> >elite": they are gendered in a way that fits how Western society
> >constructs malenes
I apologize for this addendum but I was interrupted before all of my
thoughts on "mathematics and formalism" were finished. To the
previous list of some factors leading to bankrupt as opposed to
progressive mathematics and "formalism", we might add "congnitive
dissonance." When there is a co
In a message dated 97-07-23 20:31:06 EDT, you write: > Maggie > >>
> >> p.s. Using statistics descriptively for a moment: Caucasian women with
> >> college diplomas earn less, on average, than African American men with
> high
> >> school diplomas.
> >
> >Response (Jim C)
>
> These statisti
Someone asked for further elaboration--intention and meaning--on my
comments on my experiences in Kerala and asked if these comments were
based on privileged conversations.
First of all, all of those conversations took place publicly; I would
never share the private ones. Secondly, the point w
From: "William S. Lear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: [PEN-L:11509] Re: Home Mortgage Deduction
>
> > On Tue, July 29, 1997 at 13:50:38 (-0700) Max B. Sawicky writes:
> > >> this be held socially, how do you square that view with the historical
> > >> fact that productive prop
From: "William S. Lear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: [PEN-L:11514] Re: Home Mortgage Deduction
>
> > On Tue, July 29, 1997 at 16:28:27 (-0700) Max B. Sawicky writes:
> > >All you are doing is asserting that private ownership
> > >of any substantial body of capital inexorably
Continued from before (due to interruption; these damn students think
I'm actually here to help them and they just don't get it: that I'm
here to publish, sit on bullshit committees, go to conferences,
discuss "ultimate truths" and my latest "research" with colleagues
over beer at the faculty
> Fitzgerald follows in a right-wing tradition of bowdlerizing the work of
> Ronald G. Ehrenberg in order to prove the economic unsoundness of reducing
> work time. What Ehrenberg demonstrated in the early 1970s, however, was more
> limited and precise. He demonstrated the potential adverse
> >
> All through the first Simpson trial saga I chose to protect my sanity
> by resolutely refusing to give a shit; I managed this cordon sanitaire
> to the point where, when the verdict unavoidably reached me, I honestly
> had no idea how to react.
>
> However, the mere advent of the civil s
At the risk of alienating even more people and in response to the
euologies on Burroughs and previously on Ginsburg, my personal
opinion is that the so-called "Beats", revealed themselves through
their writings and lifestyles to be largely: self-indulgent,
pretentious, arrogant, narcissistic,
> Jim Craven writes that his >personal opinion is that the so-called "Beats",
> revealed themselves through their writings and lifestyles to be largely:
> self-indulgent, pretentious, arrogant, narcissistic, petit-bourgeois,
> phillistine, ultra- individualistic, superifcial, elitist...<
>
> a
> The goal is to make the review more than just a venue for scholarly
> articles, to make it more useful to those who are not professors of
> economics.
>
> > michael yates
>
Response: I'm combining my responses on two issues: 1) on the above
statement, it's about time. Often when I read ar
I will be leaving on August 19th, at the request of the Tribal
Council, to work on the Piegan Blackfeet Reservation at Browning
Montana; the work involves analysis of conditons and options for
developing some Tribal lands and enterprises as alternatives to the
usual highly volatile and corrupti
In John Le Carre's "The Russia House" there is a scene where the main
character, Barley Scott Blair, a somewhat nihilistic, hedonistic,
drunken publisher, who is at a Dacha with some Russian intellectuals
says:
" If there is to be hope, we must all betray our
country.
On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, James Michael Craven wrote: >
> > These women were slaves, pure and simple--which is not
> > to say that "prostitutes" are doing what they are doing out of
> > some "choice" or without coercion.
>
> Jim: Thanks for your com
To continue my discussion, I lived in Puerto Rico for three years and
worked as an Analista de Planificacion for the Planning Board of the
government of Puerto Rico. One of my assignments was to develop
methodological approaches (adductive rather than a priori) for
qualitatively and quantitati
Harry,
Since you assert that my assertions about the nature and effects of
prostitution are mere a priori assertions, please answer the
following: 1) How many prostitutes have you personally spoken with at
length about these issues? 2) How many prostitutes has your graduate
student spoken wit
Response (Jim C) I have a suggestion for all those males online--and
any females--who think that prostitution is just like any other job:
Try it for yourself. Try having a stranger's penis in you wherever he
wants it. Try going out with some freak in a car not knowing whether
or not you're c
Greetings, > > On Sun, 17 Aug 1997, Harry M. Cleaver wrote: >
> > Is Capitalism Sustainable? Let's hope not, or rather let's do our best to
> > make sure that it continues to be able to sustain itself for as short a
> > time as possible. "Sustainable Capitalism" is a nightmare.(That includes
>
The following is a press release from the Piegan Blackfeet of
Browning, Montana:
Blackfeet National Bank
"About the time the Retirement CD(TM) was to be introduced, the
representatives of the tiny Blackfeet National Bank of Browning,
Montana
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