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The Brecht Forum/New York Marxist School
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Revolutionary Art, Music, and Culture
a talk by Fred Ho
Thursday, January
Some anonymous fascist posted:
> Sid -
> Get a life. Stop posting this crap.
Sid,
Keep posting this stuff! Human lives are in the balance, so ignore the
right wingers who would just as soon see leftists die.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Sid -
> Get a life. Stop posting this crap.
Was this really necessary, LAMA? If you don't like the Sid-forwarded
Amnesty International posts, just delete them.
I would have thought that _progressive_ economists would be interested in
political activism and human ri
Sid -
Get a life. Stop posting this crap.
Blair writes:
> I thought the whole point was that "downward-sloping demand [or any other]
> curves" require the ceteris paribus assumption, so that things hold still
> long enough for us to draw a curve. In the real world time passes and
> nothing is constant/stays the same, and therefore it's i
>>> Mike Meeropol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1/19/96, 06:36am
Just ONE THOUGHT on Terry's post responding to Blair:
[snip]
I know this uses the neoclassical approach but one way I have tried
to bring home to me students the importance of what Terry has stated
in this paragraph is to ask them to conside
Thanks to Tery and Bllair
Let me put the thing in its simplest possible form.
The more nature, the less capital
The less nature, the more capital
The more capital, the less nature.
The less capital, the more nature
capital is dead humans
humans are live nature
Rage against the coming of the ni
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HIGH TECH: THE JOBS OF THE FUTURE?
It has become a contemporary article of faith that the jobs
of the future will be in the high tech sector. Of late,
however, there has been a great deal of evidence that
presents a prima facie challenge to this article of faith.
First, the string of lay-offs in
Not Victoria's Secret either, Vandana Shiva, perhaps my last word on her
for now.
At an anti-World Bank conference in DC several years ago, the Southern
representatives, tired of what the Northerners were saying, walked out and
set up their own impromptu anti-anti conference. When they were final
For those who are interested more in this topic, I recommend the following:
-- Martin O'Connor ed. _Is Capitalism Sustainable?_, NY, The Guilford
Press, 1994 (a reader with a representative selection of authors
from a number of theoretical perspectives. Most of the articles were
At 3:35 PM 1/18/96, Gilbert Skillman wrote:
>Jim writes:
>
>> BTW, on another topic: Barro rejects minimum wages because demand
>> curves are always downward-sloping? this not only ignores
>> Giffen-type effects, as seems reasonable to do, but it ignores the
>> distinction between product and inpu
Just ONE THOUGHT on Terry's post responding to Blair:
Terrence Mc Donough wrote:
Recently Terry and Mike wrote:
>
> Questions of the value of nature must be posed as considering the
> preservation of the system as a whole rather than comparing the
> marginal value of bits of it. Whateve
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Absentee Landowning and Exploitation in West Virginia 1760-1920;
Barbara Rasmussen; Hardcover; $29.95
The Atlantic Salmon : Natural History, Exploitation and Future
Management; W.M. Shearer; Hardcover; $76.95
Broken Code : The Exp
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After Colonialism : Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements
(Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History; Gyan Prakash; Paperback;
$15.26
Askut in Nubia : The Economics and Ideology of Egyptian Imperialism in
the Second Milleni
At 09:03 AM 1/19/96 -0800, Peter Dorman wrote:
>
>By the way, it seems that Blair and I have had very different experiences in
>environmental groups. Most of the environmentalists I've worked with think
>economists are either lackeys or out to lunch. This seems to be the case the
>closer one get
For the questions about economies of scale, here are
the answers :
1. the first economists mentioned of economies of scale
(perhaps he didnot call it so) is Adam Smith with its
description of pin factory example where he introduced
economies of specialization (one of the important sources of
econ
The idea of contestable markets goes back to J.B. Clark and the other
promoters of monopolies, cartels, and trusts at the turn of the century.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 916-898-5321
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Re Baumol, contestable markets, and ATT: I read an article in the NEW YORK
TIMES several years ago that listed prominent economists who were on retainer
at ATT and received large amounts of money. The quid pro quo included both
testimony in the antitrust case and friendly research. Baumol was on
A quick reply to Blair, who says that environmentalism encourages people to
create more markets rather than search for alternatives to capitalism.
I agree that most *economists* who become exercised over environmental issues
look for market-like solutions. In some cases they are even right to do
Just ONE THOUGHT on Terry's post responding to Blair:
Terrence Mc Donough wrote:
most omitted
>
> Questions of the value of nature must be posed as considering the
> preservation of the system as a whole rather than comparing the
> marginal value of bits of it. Whatever criteria are used
Peter.Dorman wrote:
>
> I don't know about the first use of "economies of scale" in economic theory
> (it plays a very important role in Marshall), but I have a related request: I
> read once upon a time (in a book very far away) that the concept of "natural
> monopoly" was developed by a group
Blairs last post was an accomplished and eloquent rant if rant it
was. It raises three substantive issues: is the human economy
properly understood as a subsystem of the natural ecology; does the
human economy "compete" with the natural ecology and can the
precautionary principle I proposed b
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