Apologies to all you non-USers - and maybe a few USers too -
who don't share the present obsession with Tailgate.
I'm heartily sick of even the New Zealand's press's obsession with
what local cartoonist, Garrick Tremaine, has labelled Fornigate.
Bill
In a message dated 98-02-01 16:31:13 EST, you write:
their overall contribution would still be minimal,
given their small share of the overall capital stock
I think the latest BEA figures show that a large protion of net capital
formation (the flow of I) is coming from computers. The
By coincidence, I'm in the process of re-reading MD, which I didn't
appreciate in high school. In addition to Louis P's valid points, it's
pretty obvious that Ishmael and Queequeg have a homosexual relationship
(though it's literature, so we can't really be sure, as Louis notes). And
this is in a
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Ricardo writes: Just a handy, if incomplete, stats: At most 2% of Europe's
GNP at the
"Spoons!"
I took some visitors out to dinner last week, and I
noticed a spoon in the shirt pocket of our waiter as
he handed us the menus. It seemed a little odd, but I
dismissed it as a random thing until our busboy came
with water and tableware. He, too, sported a spoon
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Colin:
As Jim notes, comparing a profit flow to total European
output sheds little
largely the result of the exploitation of the periphery. My
notes on O'Brien are somewhat disorganized, but here's another
discomforting stats: He estimates that commodity
trade with the periphery in 1800 amounted to only 4 percent of the
aggregate gross national product of W.Europe.
I see no point in adding anything to the thread concerning the returns on
colonialism. Everything has been said by others.
In another thread, Ricardo D writes: First, [Talcott] Parsons is one of
the few great American thinkers, so be careful with your compatriots. But
the days of his dominance
This is going to try to reunite to recently bifurcated
threads on pen-l and pkt that started out together, having
been asked specifically on pen-l in particular to comment.
Here goes:
1) I have not read the specific debate between
Krugman and Arthur, but if Krugman is poking at
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RD:
Colin has yet to tell us what is
Blackburn's argument.
I summarized the bits I remembered in my first post, including
a couple of substantive economic arguments which RD ignores.
Moreover, the book is easily available. Blackburn discusses
Williams and the critiques of Williams with
HEY HEY!
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THIS TIRED CHANT HAS GOT TO GO!
Ethan Young, Monthly Review Press
Of course, none of these press-a-rios are lined up outside the abortion clinic
which was just bombed to find out who is waging active, all-out war on women's
right to choose.
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THE EXPLOSIVE TRADE DEAL YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF
By Paul Magnusson in Washington, with Stephen Baker in Paris
When Congress gets back to business in early February, it will confront a
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In a message dated 98-01-31 12:46:00 EST, you write:
Meanwhile Dick Morris blames Hillary's lesbianism.
Doug
donchaloveit He goes out and gets blow jobs because Hillary is
(ostensibly) eating pussy. Hmmm, I wonder if he actually thought the entire
scene through. Whatever else is
Jeff Thompson
Jerry Mander's "In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and
the Survival of the Indian Nations" represents a very important but
misguided tendency in the world-wide movement for indigenous peoples'
rights. Along with Kirkpatrick Sale and Vandana Shiva, Mander argues that
the only
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Colin,
So much cyber this and virtual that, trillions of hot money moved with the
push of key (etc.) that sometimes I forget that good old fashioned making
and selling stuff still is pretty important. Such stuff still needs, it
seems, factories, ships, boxes, docks. And that, in turn, requires a
Ricardo,
1% of GNP directed towards capital investment is
non-trivial, especially over time, and especially if it is
concentrated in crucial sectors, as the returns to
Liverpool-based slave traders in England certainly were.
Barkley Rosser
On Mon, 2 Feb 1998 14:17:13 -0400 Ricardo
On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, valis wrote, about my worry that Buchannan-type
forces benefit most from the pornoization of politics, noting the Nazis'
promises of purpose and morality in government:
True enough at a glance, Bill, but weren't conditions in late Weimar
far worse in every way? We
At 12:42 PM 1/30/98 -0500, Louis Proyect wrote, inter alia:
My problem is that it does not seem to address the underlying issue of
*economic dynamics*. For example, Wallerstein speaks of the "capitalist
ethos and practice" as being in conflict with non-capitalist strata who had
hegemony. This
Doug,
Paul Simon lives down the block from me, but, last time I looked, no reporters
were out there looking for all the lost money from Capeman!
jason
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