So what explains this mysterious collapse of character which is
responsible, according to Etchison, for the plight of the urban poor? We
dismiss the possibility that it has anything to do with
de-industrialization, the collapse of unionism, capital export, engineered
unemployment, or institutiona
Doug and I are suggesting that we reduce the deficit, insofar as that's
desirable and necessary, by taxing the rich and (and cutting corporate
wealthfare and the Pentagon budget); then finance govt operations insofar
as possible by taxing particularly the wealthiest and the corporations
instead o
On Mon, 5 Jun 1995, Louis N Proyect wrote:
> Louis Proyect:
>
> A letter from Harry Magdoff to Frank Roosevelt and David Belkin, the
> editors of "Why Market Socialism", appears in the May 1995 Monthly
> Review. In explaining why Monthly Review chose not to review the
> new book, the MR ed
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by Hernando Calvo Ospina
Monthly Review Press will host a salsa dance party
on Saturday, June 24 from 7 pm until whenever
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Preliminary election results are in from Ontario, Canada's most populous
province. It appears that the Tories, led by a US-inspired right winger
named Harris, will form a majority government with 75 seats.
This marks the end of the NDP government, led by Bob Rae, whose reign was
marked by the
I'm looking for the actual numbers
that all the nifty percentage statistical games are played with.
I have found this
1993 [in billions] for USA.
outlay 1142
receipts842
question 1.
where would I find similar numbers for the major developed nations?
question 2.
what would th
Hi, Ajit! I hope every thing's going well in OZ.
1. Ajit tears my missive apart, because I spend a lot of time
talking about what (I think) Marx's Law of Value (LoV) is NOT rather
than what it was.
But I did say what (I thought) it was: if anything, it's a metatheory.
Jerry Levy has a good rep
Tom Walker wrote,
> . . .the point is not to discover
> which plot most closely resembles the "true story". The point is to
> arrive at an analysis . . . that shows how the various competing stories
> could somehow all be true. That, then, would give us the degree of
> certainty . . . we ne
On Thu, 8 Jun 1995, Eric Nilsson wrote:
> But what if the plot is wrong! We might end up with a story with
> the wrong protagonists and with the wrong "message."
Ah ha! Now we're getting somewhere. As my friend Emery Roe might say, the
point is not to discover which plot most closely resembles
On Thu, 8 Jun 1995, Doug Henwood wrote:
> At 4:30 PM 6/7/95, Nathan Newman wrote:
>
> >If the US government deficit spends, doesn't a large proportion of the
> >spending get sent overseas through imports, thus short-circuiting any
> >multiplier effect?
>
> Certainly some of that happens. But
I'm in the early phase of planning an LBO web site. Any advice on style,
content, and links to other sites would be highly welcome.
Doug
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Institutions provide stability to the economic environment. It is not
a matter of individuals desire of stability but of the way
institutions are created and evolve. If individuals do not desire
stability, institutions provide it anyway.
Institutions stabilize since they are created in the s
Dear Ajit Sinha,
Your points concerning Devine's post are well-taken and, it seems
to me, best understood as coming from frustration with defenses of
of Marx that are, at best, premature. Some points worth noting.
1. Much of the criticism of Marx is directed at Book III of his
C
Evan Jones wrote,
> In Australia, in particular, a major development which kept the long
> boom bubbling along in the 1960s was an extraordinary expansion in
> the mining sector, a phenomenon mostly unforeseen in the 1950.
What caused this expansion of the mining sector? Was it exogenous
to Au
Tom Walker wrote
> long waves are a wonderful heuristic -- a sort of grand plot outline
> that helps us guess what the characters are up to before we have
> all the evidence.
But what if the plot is wrong! We might end up with a story with
the wrong protagonists and with the wrong "message."
I wrote,
> I don't think that capitalists always desire stability/certainty.
Michael Etchinson clarified his points in response to my post.
Question: is an observed desire to avoid risk/uncertainty/instability
1) an exogenous component of preferences or
2) endogenously created
Marshall Feldman wrote
> In the case of US suburbanization, once the pieces were in place around
> 1950 (adding the highway act in 1956), the geographic transformation DID
> work fairly automatically for about 2 decades.
What role do you think that the run-up of U.S. housing prices (particula
For some reason you guys are just NOT listening. Justin writes "whose
taxes"? Well, as a clarification, it is federal government tax
revenues. Sure the middle class taxpayers pays the bulk, but then
this group is much larger than the wealthy tax payers. Look, I have
nothing against increasing
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>On 7 June Eric N
Yeah, it sure looks as if a recession is hitting. The Fed tried
having a "soft landing" before, in 1990, and it didn't work. A slowdown
in the economy causes investment to _fall_ according to the generally-
forgotten accelerator theory of investment. (Just as we in California
are finally recoverin
The previous post stressed the methodological context of the debate.
In short, Marx's Law of Value (LoV) is part of his materialist-
dialectical method and materialist conception of history. It cannot
really be understood without this context, while it's hard to
accurately criticize something one
It's feels strange to jump into the middle of an extended debate
between Gil Skillman, John Erst, Alan Freeman, Paul Cockshott, and
glevy. But I'm used to feeling strange and I want to make some
points, which I hope are major.
I do not know the Kliman-McGlone-Freeman interpretation of Marx's
law
At 4:30 PM 6/7/95, Nathan Newman wrote:
>If the US government deficit spends, doesn't a large proportion of the
>spending get sent overseas through imports, thus short-circuiting any
>multiplier effect?
Certainly some of that happens. But since US imports are about 12-13% of
GDP, it's hard to se
Eric Nilsson replies, 6/7, to my remark that
>>People . . . seem to prefer a substantial measure of certainty in their
lives.
by writing:
> I don't think that capitalists always desire stability/certainty. There
is no reason that capitalists might not want high uncertainty IF such a
thin
Justin Schwartz on 6/7 replied to my remarks about character by writing:
>Perhaps Etchison has an idea about how to build character in the slums
where the only going industries are drugs and prostitution, where the
schools are zoos and the cops are thugs and there are no jobs--without
spending
On Tue, 6 Jun 1995 10:15:50 -0700 Tavis wrote:
>
>
>On Tue, 6 Jun 1995, Robert Naiman wrote:
>
>> (You can't get out of it
>> by saying that Arabs aren't People of Color; how then to classify Egyptians
>> or Sudanese or even Palestinians from Jericho?)
>
>The strange thing is that Arabs are in fa
On Wed, 7 Jun 1995 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I must be crazy to venture into the never ending "Jim and Gil debate". But I
> don't think that I can go on suffering this kind of vacuous arguments in the
> name of the Marxist defence against Roemerianism. Jim says:
>
> 7. Turning to the LoV specif
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