Keynes said Lenin said it, but he did not. See Fetter, Frank Whitson (1977)
'Lenin, Keynes and Inflation', Economica, 44, 173 (February), pp. 77-80.
Paul Burkett's wonderful book suggests that there might have been some truth
to Keynes's words nonetheless.
Burdekin, Richard C. K. and Paul
William S. Lear wrote:
Well, it would have to be before Keynes wrote in the *Economic
Consequences fo the Peace*:
Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of
overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the
currency. The process engages all
My personal favorite, quite appropriately captured on the insciption
on Marx's grave at Highgate Cemetary and summing up Marx's life
work--from his Theses on Feuerbach:
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world in
various ways; the point, however, is to change
William S. Lear wrote:
I feel that there are (at least) two major flaws to capitalist
production: 1) Alienation, aka wage slavery; 2) Bias against public
goods and for private goods which generate negative externalities.
We need more on 1), I'd say. I put Verso's Manifesto poster up over my
I feel that there are (at least) two major flaws to capitalist
production: 1) Alienation, aka wage slavery; 2) Bias against public
goods and for private goods which generate negative externalities.
The two are closely related. If the government were to more supply public
goods, it would make us
At 10:44 PM 5/2/98 -0400, Mike Yates wrote:
Sayles seems to put the soldiers and the guerillas on the same footing.
I didn't find Sayles nearly as critical of the guerillas as of the
military... There was at least some discussion of the motivation of the
guerillas (starvation in the villages,
So much for hyping "real time" communications ... I might see the Sayles
movie, if it EVER makes it here, but only long after this thread is
extinguished ... same for the Harvey debate in MR, which only comes when my
mother, bless her, remembers to forward my subs south ... at least I can
follow
. . .
Perhaps the recent awakening in Jewish culture and the left-wing politics
of previous generations will reach a whole new generation of Jews. The
Israeli state has long ceased to act as a pole of attraction. It is high
time that Jews understood that their interests are with people
Dear PEN-Lers:
Since there has been recurring interest in prison populations in the US, I
am attaching the results of a DOJ study just released on local jails. Doug:
the summarized findings might be useful for your "Index".
The study can be found at the at the What's New section of the ONDCP
Maggie Coleman's comment that her student's come from upper-middle class,
if not wealthy, families, is telling. When people talk about student
apathy today, they're generally comparing the Harvard's and Yale's of the
sixties to the Harvards and Yales of the nineties. Students at
community
At 11:02 AM 5/4/98 -0400, Lou Proyect wrote, inter alia:
A similar drive no doubt explains the Zionist enterprise. It is tragic that
such a campaign for economic and cultural survival took place at the
expense of another oppressed nationality. The Jews would have been much
better off after WWII
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Magic realism or fantasy in one form or another has been a factor in most
John Sayles films. The most obvious example was "Brother From Another
Planet." It would be possible to bypass its role in "Men with Guns", but I
think that would be a mistake. The device of the mother telling the story
to
Jason; I'm glad to hear an updated version of Economics Today is coming out.
Is it going to be both macro and micro or just macro? The reason I ask is
that I am teaching macro in the fall.
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In a message dated 98-05-02 18:01:06 EDT, you write:
I get questions like this all the time, and never know what to answer. Any
advice?
I purchased your "Wall Street" and I find myself lacking substantially
enough economics background. I was wondering if you could recommend to me,
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Where, and in what year did Lenin say:
"Debauching a currency is the surest way to ruin an economy."
Also, did Marx or Lenin have any specific comment about inflation and its
causes?
Thanks so much,
jason
What are the ramifications for left politics of affirming that alienation --
capital's domination of labor such that labor produces exchange-values
furthering its own subjection -- as one of the (if not _the_) major
"problems" (to use the term lightly) of capitalist society ?
(Even though I'm
Jason asks: did Marx or Lenin have any specific comment about inflation
and its causes?
If my reading of CAPITAL is correct, Marx's view of inflation is almost
monetarist (except, that unlike the monetarists, the supply of money is
endogenous to a large extent). If prices are measured in terms
On Mon, May 4, 1998 at 12:09:36 (EDT) Jay Hecht writes:
Where, and in what year did Lenin say:
"Debauching a currency is the surest way to ruin an economy."
Also, did Marx or Lenin have any specific comment about inflation and its
causes?
Well, it would have to be before Keynes wrote in the
At 03:58 PM 5/4/98 -0700, Tim Stroshane wrote:
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HUD report announcement states that housing assistance need has
grown even as the supply of low rent units has declined and
Congress has not increased housing assistance.
Would you/we not do as Marx himself did and wanted others to do?
-- to understand the world from the standpoint of the working class (and all
oppressed groups)
--to be involved in political acivities aimed at the expansion of democracy
to every nook and cranny of our 'global society' --
A couple of weeks ago radio shock-jock Howard Stern had me in stitches as
he made fun of rituals he saw at the Bas Mitzvah for an old friend's
daughter, especially a bit about the "tfillin" his friend wore. Tfillin are
leather straps that men--and only men--braid around their arms in a
carefully
In a message dated 98-05-04 14:21:01 EDT, you write:
1. Name all women Nobel prize winners in Economics.
Ans: none
2. In 110 years of existence, how many women Presidents have there been
of the A.E.A.?
Ans: One, but I can't remember her name
3. Name at least three female editors
I have received the Winter 1998 Newsletter of the Committee on the Status
of Women in the Economics Profession of the American Economics
Association. Daphne A. Kenyon and Ana Kraviz review ECONOMICS AND
FEMINISM: DISTURBANCES IN THE FIELD, by Randy Albelda, 1997.
Now for a quiz:
1. Name all
C. Coleman,
Pot growing seems to have replaced moonshining in many rural
counties in the south. Friends who do rock-climbing have told me that in
some areas of West Virginia and Kentucky, locals admonish them to stay on
the trails so they don't stray into
Quoth boddhi:
An interesting note: The first person condemned to die in
accordance with the federal "drug kingpins" law is a southern pot
grower/seller.
too bad, pot doesn't make you go blind the way moonshine does. maggie coleman
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Apparently it does if you're a
At 06:55 PM 5/2/98 -0700, you wrote:
Suppose that you were an impoverished refugee who wanted to learn the
weakness of capitalism so that social movements could best understand how
to create socialism. You would want to learn the weak spots of
capitalism, so that the masses could perform
On Mon, May 4, 1998 at 13:51:58 (-0400) Doug Henwood writes:
...
We need more on 1), I'd say. I put Verso's Manifesto poster up over my
desk, with the Komar/Melamid flag on top, and "WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE,
YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT YOUR CHAINS," all in caps below. ...
Oooh, I want one!
On Mon, May 4, 1998 at 12:09:36 (EDT) Jay Hecht writes:
Where, and in what year did Lenin say:
"Debauching a currency is the surest way to ruin an economy."
Lenin never said that, but one of the theorists of "War Communism"--perhaps
Bukharin and/or Preobrazhensky--compared the unlimited issue
I get questions like this all the time, and never know what to answer. Any
advice?
I purchased your "Wall Street" and I find myself lacking substantially
enough economics background. I was wondering if you could recommend to me,
an introductory text on economics, preferably from the left
In a message dated 98-05-04 12:43:00 EDT, you write:
Pot growing seems to have replaced moonshining in many rural
counties in the south. Friends who do rock-climbing have told me that in
some areas of West Virginia and Kentucky, locals admonish them to stay on
the trails so they don't
At 07:00 p.m. 5/4/98 -0500, valis wrote: ... this blindness has lasted
far too long; no one can any longer cop to ignorance about it. The American
people will not remain gutless worms forever; something will wake them up
and they will jump on the asses of these scum all at once. That day - and
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