What beaut threads we have going! All the better to tempt me from my
rightful endeavours, eh? I'm awake to your game!
Frances writes:
Or, look at the example of Cyrus McCormick's plant modernization in the
1880's. At great expense, he installed pneumatic molding machines, a new
and
untested
Doug, you may be opening a can of worms. Whatizname, the Hayek fanatic, may
intervene and answer your question. Then, tedium If I remember
correctly, he (Greg Ransom?) argues that Hayek favored a kind of welfare state.
At 06:14 PM 8/1/99 -0400, you wrote:
I just pulled my ancient copy of
I'm mystified by what Keynes read in the book. Keynes doesn't seem
like a very reliable reader.
supposedly the saying at Cambridge was that if you had 8 economists
together, you'd get 9 opinions, two of them held by Keynes.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lisa Ian Murray wrote:
Would planning the design of "private" decentralized markets be
verboten?
Planning is ok if it promotes competition. Planning is bad if it
stifles it. Hayek makes a great deal out of how statist systems
smother diversity, and lead to rulers imposing their preferences
Sam Pawlett wrote:
The blurb from Keynes on *The Road to Serfdom* is from his June 28th,
1944 letter to Hayek. He goes on to say in the same letter;
"...I should therefore conclude your theme rather differently. I should
say that what we want is not no planning, or even less planning, indeed
I
Jim Devine wrote:
Doug, you may be opening a can of worms. Whatizname, the Hayek fanatic, may
intervene and answer your question. Then, tedium If I remember
correctly, he (Greg Ransom?) argues that Hayek favored a kind of
welfare state.
Minimal protections against starvation, not a very
A number of organizations are mulling the launch of a campaign to get public
institutions (universities, labor unions, churches, etc.) to pledge not to purchase
World Bank bonds in protest of the Bank's structural adjustment policies c.
In order to help launch this campaign it would be useful
The vote on the Kucinich amendment is expected tomorrow (Tuesday)
Burma groups, Citizens Trade Campaign, and enviros have done alerts -- this is the
Burma one:
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Subject: Call or write your US Congressmen and -women: FBC Kiosk
7/28/1999
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 13:51:31
So would Hayek be real strong on anti-trust laws? Would he be foaming at
the mouth over the 80% increase in the price of oil over the last nine
months? Wouldn't the state have to have a plan to prevent all the
monopsonistic strategies hurled at Joe and Suzie (as well as Mr. Main Street
At 12:08 PM 8/2/99 -0500, you wrote:
On Monday, August 2, 1999 at 09:37:10 (-0700) Jim Devine writes:
...
There's a certain truth about what Hayek says, concerning the government
having to standardize its programs, which smothers diversity. ..
I don't buy this. Standardization need not smother
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The low inflation climate that has prevailed in the United States for the
last few years has so radically changed the environment for compensation
that businesses should expect wage demands to remain close to their current
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On Monday, August 2, 1999 at 13:31:44 (-0700) Jim Devine writes:
At 12:08 PM 8/2/99 -0500, you wrote:
On Monday, August 2, 1999 at 09:37:10 (-0700) Jim Devine writes:
...
There's a certain truth about what Hayek says, concerning the government
having to standardize its programs, which smothers
From Universities and Empire: Money and Politics in the Social Sciences
During the Cold War", Edited by Christopher Simpson, The New Press, N.Y.
1998 (Highly Recommended primer on Social Systems Engineering and
Whoring/Toadying/Sycophancy in Research and Policy in "Mainstream" Academia)
Doug Henwood wrote:
Hayek has a lovely chapter on how socialism would lead to rule by the
worst, since good taste and respect for diversity are features of the
educated, while cretinous homogeneity characterizes the masses. To
win votes, politicians would have to pander to the lowest common
Sam Pawlett wrote:
The relation between economic planning and political freedom has
struck me as an empirical question yet what impressed me the most about
Hayek and his progeny like Israel Kirzner is the utter lack of
empirical evidence and argumentation in their work.
I haven't read
Doug Henwood wrote:
I haven't read Hayek's more technical stuff, aside from Prices
Production, but the RtS is argued at such a high level of abstraction
it's hard to take seriously. And from such an idealistic POV - Fichte
and Sombart are more responsible for Naziism than German capital!
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Economic Reporting Review
August 2, 1999
By Dean Baker
Tax Cuts
"Business Gets Big Breaks in Tax Bill"
Dan Morgan
Washington Post, July 24, 1999, page A1
"Seeking Common Ground on Federal Tax Cut"
Richard W. Stevenson
New York Times, July 25, 1999, Section 1 page 18
"Clinton Attacks
August 2, 1999
German Laborers Challenge Social Democrats' Right Turn
By ROGER COHEN
BERLIN -- "Miners or male models?" asked the headline over photographs of
an elegant, smiling Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and a weary, coal-smeared
worker. "The party must decide."
The summary of the battle
Doug Henwood wrote:
Planning is ok if it promotes competition. Planning is bad if it
stifles it. Hayek makes a great deal out of how statist systems
smother diversity, and lead to rulers imposing their preferences on
the populace.
A good description of what has been happening in
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