While we're on the subject of textbooks, what is the current situation
for intermediate micro? Is there any book out there that tries to do it
a little differently? I need to make a recommendation to a student who
will be working on an individual study basis. (She has one course in
calculus --
At 11:19 12/09/99 -0700, Max wrote:
Most any time that communists have participated in important,
progressive historical events they have reflected the essential
soupcon of pragmatism typified by CB.
I would hope it is more than a soupcon. Some Marxists consider an analysis
of the balance
At 20:15 12/09/99 -0700, you wrote:
Whatever their internal rhetoric, departments and whole institutions are
judged by external rankings. For research schools, publications are
just about everything. For selective liberal arts colleges,
publications matter somewhat, as do the ranking of the
Howdy Rob
The only Stretton volume that appears to be in print here at the moment is
his 1994 "Public Goods, Public Enterprise" (Macmillan). Your
characterisation of Stretton's essays is exactly how I felt about his
"Economics" MS. Geoff Harcourt is a big fan also.
Cheers,
Michael
Hello. I recommend you contact the author of the attached article, Bill Rosenberg of
GATT Watchdog in New Zealand.
-Robert Naiman, Preamble Center
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But doesn't the central committee of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie sit above
both the IMF and its member governments, really , anyway ?
"Who" is the IMF ?
Charles Brown
Robert Naiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/13/99 10:56AM
I can assure you that any proposal for the IMF to become more
I would like to comment on the recent exchange between Brad De Long, Mat
Forstater and others concerning the usefulness of the "dog bone" story
that
I, along with others, have used as a metaphor for the way labor markets
function. Brad De Long is right to note that the story, in its usual
form,
Last night's TV
Cruelty begins at home
Desmond Christy
The Guardian, Wednesday September 1, 1999
Does anyone like John Pilger? Dictators certainly don't. There they are,
happily torturing opponents, oppressing their own people when Pilger turns
up to expose their crimes. Democracies fare no
The man who played God
With its famous autumn leaves and picture-postcard towns Vermont, seems to
epitomise a wholesome, bygone America. But a new book reveals a dark secret
of the Green Mountain State - a ruthless ethnic cleansing experiment in
which hundreds of 'genetically inferior
The Nation Magazine (www.thenation.com)
September 27, 1999
US Complicity in Timor
While the Indonesian military's thugs continue their rampage in East Timor,
most foreign reporters have fled the country. As of September 7, frequent
Nation contributor and award-winning journalist Allan Nairn
Can anyone help Marvin Gettleman with the following inquiry? (We just had
threads on the Graying Professoriate on pen-l and lbo, and this is a
related but broader question.)
Yoshie
* From H-Labor:
Marvin Gettleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
LABOR GERONTOLOGY
Marv Gettleman is looking for
Messages from the Salmon: 3 Lessons for Human Survival
By Patrick Mazza
In the 1960s and 1970s, the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest
began to assert their rights, guaranteed under treaties, to fish at their
"usual and accustomed places". Both in the Puget Sound and on the Columbia
At the general level, yes, the pressure is to have people work longer -- no
Social Security until 85!
But at the specific level, no, each employer wants to get cheaper and younger
workers.
Gene Coyle
J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote:
Yoshie,
But isn't the current general pressure in US
The following is a report entitled "You Have to be Carefully Taught: Special
Needs and First Nations Education" written by Dr. Roland Chrisjohn (Oneida
Nation of the Iroquois Confederacy)author of "The Circle Game: Shadows and
Substance in the Indian Residential School Experience in Canada",
Gene Coyle is correct. Capital would like to be able to fire you as you age, then
have a crippled retirement system [as Doug Orr has recently written about] and
then find a job as a burger flipper or a greeter at Walmart. Such is the
dialectic of capital.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics
Gene Coyle is correct. Capital would like to be able to fire you as you
age, then
have a crippled retirement system [as Doug Orr has recently written about] and
then find a job as a burger flipper or a greeter at Walmart. Such is the
dialectic of capital.
Michael Perelman
That basically
Michael Pollak writes:
I'm curious -- what's wrong with the introductory textbooks you had posted
on your site this Spring, Mishkin's _The Economics of Money, Banking and
Financial Institutions_ and Robert Gordon's _Macroeconomics_?
both of those official "intermediate," though of course it
_NYT_ September 13, 1999
Debate on Aid for the Elderly Focuses on Women
By ROBIN TONER
...Women not only tend to live longer; they also are more economically
insecure, have more chronic health conditions and as a result, eventually,
become more dependent on those basic safety-net programs,
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Ajit Sinha wrote:
Rod Hay wrote:
Globalisation is a fact that lefties have to deal with. It is futile to
oppose it. Chris is pointing in the right direction but he is point at the
wrong path. Capitalism may have some room for progressive action.
It is the
Brad, this is the first time that you have acknowledged context in this
sort of discussion. We are making headway. I would suggest another
dimension to your equation. The U.S. is able to treat many of its people
relatively well (materially) because of the pressure it exerts on other
countries.
Brad De Long wrote:
Attempts to bypass the stages feudalism--capitalism--utopia have not
turned out well
And what about those places that have had capitalism imposed upon
them, like Brazil and Nigeria? Would you rather be a Soviet worker
under Brezhnev or one in Cardoso's Brazil?
Doug
Am I
At 10:31 PM 9/13/99 +, you wrote:
For the implications of more power to the IMF, e.g. through the
gold-sale additions to reserves, check PEN-Ler Bob Naiman's powerful
attack on IMF ESAF devastation of Africa, worth getting off the
Preamble website (Bob is it http:\\www.preamble.org )?
Not just published, but published in the "right" journals. I write like mad, but
little of it has a whisper of a chance of appearing in a mainstream econ journal.
The topic is not the problem; the methodology and intellectual vantage point are.
(And again, this has nothing to do with my stance
Not to dispute the imporance of the J2000UK comrades' work and
success in mobilising so far, but there's an interesting debate about
anti-debt strategies, tactics and analysis, including whether to call
G-8 Koln reforms "a great step forward." Many in Jubilee South argue
precisely the
Copper in Chile
Chile is the world's largest copper producer. In 1996, Chile produced
28% of the world's copper. The copper belt in Chile is the largest and
highest grade deposit in the world. This copper belt shared with both
Argentina and Peru contains 30% of the
From: Chris Burford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
... Some Marxists consider an analysis
of the balance of forces essential.
Ok, so where is it?
What, in all of the chatter about the up-and-coming global state, are
you saying about Our Team's capacity to survive it, Chris?
... Brown, a
BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1999
RELEASED TODAY: The U.S. Import Price Index increased 1.0 percent in
August. The rise was attributable to a continued increase in prices for
imported petroleum. U.S. export prices were up 0.4 percent in August, the
largest monthly increase in the
Yoshie,
But isn't the current general pressure in US society
to have people work longer, for example with the move
to raise the ages of eligibility for social security?
Barkley Rosser
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From: Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From "Spirit and Reason: The Vine Deloria, Jr. Reader", Fulcrum Publishing,
Golden CO, 1999
"...In 1920 George Sibley, the Indian agent for the Osages, a tribe in the
Missouri region of the country, tried to convince Big Soldier, one of the
more influencial chiefs, of the benefits of the white
Yoshie wrote:
One can easily say that both Elvin and Weber put the cart before the horse,
though. A materialist would say that an impulse toward formalization,
standardization, and rationalization came from capitalism, not vice versa.
From this point of view, culture doesn't explain the
"Only one thing could have broken our movement: if the adversary had
understood its principle and from the first day had smashed with extreme
brutality the nucleus of our new movement."
Adolf Hitler (Speech to Nuremberg Congress, September 3, 1933)
"I am afraid of those who proclaim that it
From the time of the "Riga Axioms", issued three years after the Bolshevik
Revolution, up to the present, U.S. Social Systems Engineering plans such as
that which is attached here again (previously issued), the planners of U.S.
imperialism have made it clear that conflicts between
--
The Progressive Response 10 September 1999 Vol. 3, No. 33
Editor: Tom Barry
--
The Progressive Response (PR) is
In addition to Philip Harvey's parable: when for some reason bonelessness
decreases so that the competition amongst the dogs for bones decreases and
they are more able to unite to argue that even more bones be dropped into
the dog pound, the Federal Bone System (led by Alan Greenspaniel) ensures
The technical expertise seems to be in place. Ann has written me off-list
outlining her skills. I am working as a typesetter, publisher, editor. I
have my own small publishing company. Between the two of us I think we can
produce an attractive textbook. We need content. Let's agree on a topic
Jakarta's godfathers
It is grotesque hypocrisy for Tony Blair to weep for the children of
Dunblane
I don't see how the IMF could be made independent of the USA. The technical
constitution may be rewritten, but the practical matter is that the USA
would not agree unless it a strong say in who these technical experts were.
Without approval no appointment.
The issue of world government is
Shall we begin with an archive of contributions of lecture notes on the
earlier URPE model of collecting syllabi and outlines as well as a
background bibliography and then we could organize them in their various
areas. Others can offer textbook outlines and we can even critique the
existing
Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/10/99 12:22PM
Why couldn't we follow Ann Li's suggestion and try to put a text
together. We could start small, say with a discussion of unemployment.
Let someone edit what comes out of our discussion, then move on to
another subject.
Writing a text should
I can assure you that any proposal for the IMF to become more independent of member
governments will be DOA in Washington. That's a personal guarantee. I doubt that IMF
officials would dare to embrace such a proposal, but I would be delighted if they did
so: we'll squash them.
-bob
Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/12/99 12:49PM
While I think neither the following review nor the book reviewed is of
particular interest to those who are subbed to lbo and/or pen-l, it is
important for us to remind ourselves that (1) "interventions in
humanitarian crises" have always
Peter Dorman wrote:
The real point is that it doesn't matter whether one practices this or that
style of political economy. The forces at work are structural, as I tried to
make clear, and broadly exclusionary.
Perhaps it is different in the UK
Howdy, Peter
I can assure you that while
Apologies if there are any cross-posts. I thought this worth forwarding - AF
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To: List Member
Subject: Support Jubilee 2000's final push to drop the debt by the
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Bill Lear wrote:
Folks here might be interested in Yanis Varoufakis, *Foundations of
Economics: A Beginner's Companion* (Routledge, 1998), which I think
might make a very useful supplement to a standard textbook.
I would second that recommendation wholeheartedly. Varoufakis is very
readable,
I will resist the temptation to flame.
My comments were based in part on my own experience. As pennelers know, I am
one of the last people on this list who would be described as a "ghetto
leftist/marxist". And I have long been involved in many projects of a
reformist nature, where I have
On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Jim Devine wrote:
does anyone have any insights on good introductory and intermediate
macroeconomics textbooks?
I'm curious -- what's wrong with the introductory textbooks you had posted
on your site this Spring, Mishkin's _The Economics of Money, Banking and
Financial
At 17:27 11/09/99 -0400, you wrote:
East Timor on the Brink
Noam Chomsky interviewed by David Barsamian KGNU, Boulder, September 8, 1999
Very interesting point about the skirmishing with China for potential
leadership in South East Asia:-
One of the reasons why
the U.S. is maybe hanging
G'day all,
'Turns out that someone in Djakarta had arranged for huge holding camps to
be set up in West Timor at least four days before the referendum (camps that
are apparently 'processing' 2 people a day - some dying mysteriously and
many being sent to other islands). Making news also is
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