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From: raypg@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (glenn
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As an aside on Mike's post, I'd like to comment on two code phrases
in Bob Dole's "Republican response" to Clinton's proposal. They're
interesting because one hears them a lot from right-wingers these
days, and in taken in tandem they contradict each other in
DOLE SAID:
1) "Politics of class war" As in, Clinton's intention to avoid
[further] tax cuts for the rich to go with tax cuts for the middle
class promotes the politics of class warfare, which we
statespersonlike Republicans wish to avoid...
GIL TRANSLATED:
Translation: yeah, we
The problem with federal budget policy in the U.S. is that the policy
has very little to do with the economics of government budgets.
A simple example illustrates this: In the Carter years federal
deficits were a hot political topic. We needed to reduce "the deficit"
(laughably small by
About 30 years ago as today, financial power was much more concentrated in
the few dominant financial institutions than in the top corporations,
especially taking interlocking directorates into account. I've been amazed
at the relative fall of US banks in international financial circles since
Bill, you are completely right. The rusty cold warriors in the Pentagon
have been lobbying hard for loopholes in any test ban treaty
negotiated to exclude "low-yield" tests which are difficult to verify and
laboratory testing with computer simulations. Even as the
Comprehensive Test Ban
At 3:17 PM 6/14/95, James Devine wrote:
Is it correct to date the transition to banker power the fall of
the Bretton Woods fixed-exchange rate system? I would guess that
the rise of the US budget deficit (which also gives the central
banks and money-lenders more power) was a later
Of course both the scarcity and surplus approach appear. The surplus
approach doesn't make any sense in the absence of scarcity. If there was
no scarcity who would give a damn about surplus.
-- Rod
On Wed, 14 Jun 1995 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jim Devine writes:
Both the surplus
OOPS, I sent the following only to the Rayp, though I think it's
probably of more general interest.
Glenn Rayp of the University of Antwerp writes:
... a good reason for reducing the US federal budget deficit
would be the balance of payments deficit ... This is
comprehensible though. As
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can anyone send me a reference for the percentage of prisoners which are
female in the 20th century? I would prefer something for Massachusetts or
Boston, but US wide or any north eastern city will do. I am finding that
circa 1830-40, the prison population in Boston was 37-45% female in any
Doug writes:
I'm still
wondering, though - what is gained by Stiglitz's use of mathematical
reasoning. Does it express something that can't be expressed in words? Does
it deepen the mystery surrounding the priesthood? Does it aim to persuade
an audience that would find mere word
ONE addition to Doug's restatement of Penny's comment:
By the way, as Penny Ciancanelli put it, rather nicely I think, the Third
World got a Fisher-style deflation, while the First World gets Minsky
management.
Doug
And, the first world also gets a Steindl/Baran/Sweezy stagnation trend
G. Skillman's little 'article' on mathematics in economics was
about the clearest bit of writing I've seen here, or in the Marxism List
yet (being a newcomer could have something to so with that). That others
could be so focused...
I especially enjoyed the example of Jazz used
In the midst of his very interesting and useful thoughts on math,
Gil writes that "even if one doesn't agree with the premises of
Okishio's theorem, who would have known that Marx's claim was
inconsistent with those premises before Okishio's proof?"
I think this example shows up some of the
Jim writes:
In the midst of his very interesting and useful thoughts on math,
Gil writes that "even if one doesn't agree with the premises of
Okishio's theorem, who would have known that Marx's claim was
inconsistent with those premises before Okishio's proof?"
I think this example
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Addendum to my earlier post on this topic, a thought experiment.
1) Think of a non-definitional and radically critical claim about
capitalism you believe to be necessarily true.
2) How would you establish this claim *is* in fact a necessary
consequence of capitalism, rather than (say), an
Gil,
Other than as an exercise in gaining clarification concerning Marx's
terminology and thus in extending his efforts, how is the Okishio Theorem
relevant or "useful." Note that for Okishio not only is the real wage
constant but all prices used in determining whether or not the rate of
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long, I confess, but suitable, I hope, for circulation. Please feel free
to
On Thu, 15 Jun 1995 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One could imagine, then, undertaking an essentially mathematical
argument in which none of the words have been replaced by symbols.
. . .
would become a living nightmare. To put it the other way around, you
could think of mathematical
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Marsh Feldman writes
(3) Because the homeowner has some equity to lose, the
Bank is more willing to believe a homeowner will eventually
catch up in payments.
I see your point. Maybe a renter can get away without paying rent
for 2 months while a homeowner might get by not making
mortgage
The Bureau of Justice Statistics puts out an annual called
"Correctional Populations in the United States. I don't have a recent
one handy, but it has tables on prisons -- State and Federal -- and
jails, plus those on probation.
A glance at a back issue suggests that women are
I have been a member of the CWA (Communications Workers of America) for
roughly 17 years, and sadly, our very own Morton Bahr is one of the only
major union leaders supporting Lane Kirkland. Since I know Bahr personally,
it ain't any big surprise.
While, like many union types who
On Thu, 15 Jun 1995, Pamela Sue Fendt wrote:
The jazz fascists of today thump the virtues of the once shunned bebop and
jazz has probably had its most regressive 15 years in all its history
(that is, if you allow the word "jazz" to stand in your way). There are
innovations along free jazz
Gil has "one minor comment" on what I said about the Okishio theorem
vs. Marx: Marx phrased his argument under the assumption that the
rate of surplus value is held constant, but I don't read him positing
this as the economically relevant condition--rather it's a
simplifying assumption
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