[PEN-L:5818] Re: Magdoff on Market Socialism

1995-07-07 Thread Rhon Baiman
On Thu, 8 Jun 1995, in response to Louis Proyect's citations from Harry Magdoffs letter on market socialism in the May 1995 Monthly Review, I wrote: > > "In all fairness to Belkin and Roosevelt (who are good comrads and > friends of mine from the DSA economics study group which I > had t

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1995-07-07 Thread Louis N Proyect
BLUSH! This was supposed to be private correspondence to Dave Laibman. Now the secret's out. I'm a fan of Lenin. Oh god! On Fri, 7 Jul 1995, Louis N Proyect wrote: > Hi, Dave, I just took out a sub to Science and Society and can't wait to > get the issue on Lenin! I am one of the few admirers

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1995-07-07 Thread Louis N Proyect
Hi, Dave, I just took out a sub to Science and Society and can't wait to get the issue on Lenin! I am one of the few admirers of Lenin who does not belong to a "Marxist-Leninist" party. By the way, I'm the guy who was in the discussion group with you after Joan Greenbaum's talk at the Brecht F

[PEN-L:5815] Re: Intro macro text recommendations

1995-07-07 Thread A. S. Fatemi
Hi, I cann't think of a good book right away, but would like to know if you are from Akron Ohio and we know each other? Regards, A. S. Fatemi Professor and Chairman Department of Economics The American University of Paris 31 ave Bosquet 75007 Paris Tel:(33) 1 40 62 06 40 Fax:(33) 1

[PEN-L:5814] Re: Chandler's Visible Hand

1995-07-07 Thread jtreacy
Treacy: See Wall Street Journal piece on leaning and meaning not paying off in yesterdays Wall Street Journal p. A1. [EMAIL PROTECTED] COPYRIGHTED On Thu, 6 Jul 1995, James Devine wrote: > > For a more up-to-date sketch of business history that is based > partly on Chandler, see Benne

[PEN-L:5813] Re: Chandler's Visible Hand

1995-07-07 Thread jtreacy
Treacy: Chandler is well worth reading. More recent is Goddard's popular "Getting There." It is an account of formation of govt. and business cooperation of highway network. It has serious flaws but shows how the progressive movement came out of the rural oppo

[PEN-L:5812] IMF power & money

1995-07-07 Thread Doug Henwood
A private question from a cybercomrade made me realize this may be of more general interest. The question was what came out of the G-7 Halifax summit around the proposed IMF bankruptcy/crisis/workout window. The answer, which I got mainly from Marike Torfs of Friends of the Earth (in an interview

[PEN-L:5811] Re: really old data

1995-07-07 Thread Rudy Fichtenbaum
Doug, NBER has a historcal macroeconomic database. I don't know if they will have the specific items you requested but it might be worth a look. Try gopher Nber.harvard.edu. Good luck, Rudy = + Rudy Fichtenbaum+

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1995-07-07 Thread David Laibman
Dear PEN-L, I would like to call to everyone's attention (as editors are wont to do) the imminent appearance of a special project -- in this case, the special issue of Science & Society entitled Lenin: Evalu- ation, Critique, Renewal. This is the Fall 1995 issue (59:3), which should be avai