When I posed the question, "are we utopian or realist?" I meant that
soultions to child labor (or slavery) are limited under capitalism. The
problems of child labor and others are emanating from the contradictory
nature of the system. Unless you eliminate those contradictions you
cannot
All,
The following equations generate business cycles purely from the falling
profit rate. The end result is satisfyingly catastrophic. You can plug
them into a spreadsheet (details below) or I could send mine, currently
Excel 5, as a UUencoded file which most mail programmes will extract
I forgot; when you have entered rows 3 and 4 of
the spreadsheet, copy row 4 down to the next
1000 columns, or so. Each column is then the
time-trajectory of one variable. For graphs, select
a column or two and call the wizard, whatever
you have in your spreadsheet that makes graphs.
Alan
What we have today is another variation of monopoly capital as discussed
by Lenin, Hilferding, and others--oligopolistic competition. Entry
barriers continue to remain high even if MNCs compete with each other.
Anthony D'Costa
On Thu, 29 Jun 1995, Doug Henwood wrote:
At 5:26 PM 6/28/95,
Fikret Ceyhun writes 6/29:
The problems of child labor and others are emanating from the
contradictory nature of the [capitalist] system.
Accepting, for the purposes of discussion, that everything that you call
"child labor" is evil, is it your (or the _official_ g pen-l) position
On the pol. econ. list, someone from the Industrial Bank of Japan just
asked if U.S. banks have a way of evaluating risk. You might have fun
playing with that post, although I erased it before I thought of telling
you.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico,
Was the following message a joke?
On Mon, 19 Jun 1995, Evan Jones - 448 - 3063 wrote:
I am curious as to how Mike Meeropol can teach in an economics
department within a program labelled 'cultures past and present'.
My understanding is that economists have no concept of 'culture', or
at
