Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Capital dreams

2000-05-05 Thread Michael Perelman
It's better than typing. I just got a new computer, which I hope will make it much better, but it requires proofing -- which is hard because the words are all spelled correctly -- they are just the wrong words. Carrol Cox wrote: > Michael, I'd be interested in your experiences with voice > reco

Query

2000-05-05 Thread Carrol Cox
Re balance of payments etc. In the '60s and '70s, there would always be a distinction made between balance of trade (which was positive for U.S.) and balance of payments (which was negative). Is that distinction no longer of any importance? And was it ever? Carrol

Capital reality

2000-05-05 Thread Eugene Coyle
Better than the lottery: In the past week there have been two reports of how the CEO's who make the tough downsizing decisions have a different set of rules for themselves: And finally tonight, a severance package that is leaving every failed executive in America salivating, and may leave shar

Re: RE: Re: Re: Capital dreams

2000-05-05 Thread Mathew Forstater
apparently there are cell phones that are just an ear plug and an invisible or barely visible mic with no need for hands. so there are these people walking around airports and all over who really look like they're talking to themself. so some people who walk down the street talking to themself w

RE: Re: Re: Capital dreams

2000-05-05 Thread Max Sawicky
So people walking past your office hear you talking to yourself . . . ? Or do you dictate your e-mail into one computer while you're typing your next book on another? mbs guilty as charged. sorry. Mathew Forstater wrote: > Michael- Do you use some kind of voice recognition software? I've n

Re: Re: Re: Re: Capital dreams

2000-05-05 Thread Carrol Cox
Michael, I'd be interested in your experiences with voice recognition software. How well it works might eventually make a big change in education by breaking the illusion that "skill in writing" equals "general intelligence." I'm really confident that a huge amount of what intellectuals regard as

Re: Re: Re: Capital dreams

2000-05-05 Thread Mathew Forstater
no need to apologize! it appears to work pretty doggone well! as a two finger typist, I should look into it-- it could save on my fingertips! -Original Message- From: Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, May 05, 2000 3:25 PM Subjec

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2000-05-05 Thread michael

Re: Re: Capital dreams

2000-05-05 Thread Michael Perelman
guilty as charged. sorry. Mathew Forstater wrote: > Michael- Do you use some kind of voice recognition software? I've noticed > that your typos are often homonyms or near-homonyms. Mat > > Michael wrote: > > >The summary of this article suggests that it throws some light on the > >nature of dre

Re: Capital dreams

2000-05-05 Thread Mathew Forstater
Michael- Do you use some kind of voice recognition software? I've noticed that your typos are often homonyms or near-homonyms. Mat Michael wrote: >The summary of this article suggests that it throws some light on the >nature of dreams of well in a capitalist society.

Re: Capital dreams

2000-05-05 Thread Nathan Newman
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rod Hay > > It would seem that lotteries have joined religion and tv as "opiates of > the masses." So by the logic of this paper can the Left write papers upholding the virtues of the Gulag as a promo

Grad Schools for Cultural Economics (fwd)

2000-05-05 Thread md7148
Friend! Personally, I have not heard of a grad school specialized in cultural economics. I think I understand what you mean, but this field is pretty unclear to me now. This is besides the point though. I suspect you mean "cultural studies" rather than "cultural economics". Economic departments

AVIVA: May Press Release (fwd)

2000-05-05 Thread md7148
AVIVA Women’s World-Wide Web FREE Monthly Webzine >http://www.aviva.org< Press Release: May 2000. >http://www.aviva.org/press.htm * ACTION ALERT: INTERNATIONAL: Strengthen Women’s Role in Peace Building! *INTERNATIONAL NEWS: Annan Demands Action on Girl’s Education - In Vain * AFRICA NEWS:

Re: Capital dreams

2000-05-05 Thread Rod Hay
It would seem that lotteries have joined religion and tv as "opiates of the masses." Rod Hay Michael Perelman wrote: > The summary of this article suggests that it throws some light on the > nature of dreams of well in a capitalist society. > > "Lotteries, Liberty, and Legislatures" > >

Little interest among Chinese students one year after NATO bombing(fwd)

2000-05-05 Thread Stephen E Philion
Friday, May 5 10:28 AM SGT Little interest among Chinese students one year after NATO bombing BEIJING, May 5 (AFP) - For many students who took part in the violent anti-US protests after the NATO bombing of China's embassy in Belgrade anger has given way to study, job hunting and the dream of

Grad Schools for Cultural Economics

2000-05-05 Thread Joshua Bragg
Dear all, I am currently finishing my studies in International Economics at Portland State University. I would like to pursue graduate studies in Cultural Economics. Unfortunately, this field is not very well known and I haven't found anyone to share my ideas with, although I'm sure they've be

Capital dreams

2000-05-05 Thread Michael Perelman
The summary of this article suggests that it throws some light on the nature of dreams of well in a capitalist society. "Lotteries, Liberty, and Legislatures" BY: LLOYD R. COHEN George Mason Law School Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection:

Query: textbook update

2000-05-05 Thread Cy Gonick
Is there any news about a new edition of UNDERSTANDING CAPITALISM by Bowless and Edwards?

Re: Re: Darwin's dilemma (fwd)

2000-05-05 Thread md7148
I definetly agree.I think we should get the best out of Darwin to see what is potential for Marxism. Developing a materialist conception of nature is necessary for understanding the "historicity" of human nature. While doing that, however, Marxists should be careful not to assimilate Marx to Darw

BLS Daily Report

2000-05-05 Thread Richardson_D
BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, MAY 4, 2000 RELEASED TODAY: The seasonally adjusted annual rates of productivity change in the first quarter were 1.8 percent in the business sector and 2.4 percent in the nonfarm business sector. These productivity gains were smaller than the gains of the previous q

cheers!

2000-05-05 Thread Jim Devine
Happy birthday, Karl Marx! Happy Cinco de Mayo! Happy Professional Cartoonists' Day! Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://liberalarts.lmu.edu/~JDevine

On Marx's economic doctrine

2000-05-05 Thread Charles Brown
II Having recognised that the economic system is the foundation on which the political superstructure is erected, Marx devoted his greatest attention to the study of this economic system. Marx's principal work, Capital, is devoted to a study of the economic system of modern, i.e., capitali

Re: Re: Darwin's dilemma (fwd)

2000-05-05 Thread Louis Proyect
While John Bellamy Foster acknowledges Darwin's concessions to social Darwinism, the main stress is on the importance of developing a materialist view of nature in defiance of the essentialist and teleological consensus of the mid 1800s. That being said, I agree strongly with Robert Young that soc

BLS Daily Report

2000-05-05 Thread Richardson_D
BLS DAILY REPORT, WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 2000 RELEASED TODAY: In March, 226 metropolitan areas reported unemployment rates below the U.S. average (4.3 percent, not seasonally adjusted), while 99 areas registered higher rates. Nineteen metropolitan areas had rates below 2.0 percent, with seven of the

Re: Darwin's dilemma (fwd)

2000-05-05 Thread md7148
There is some confusion below. Obviously, Darwin's ideas were quite progressive judged against his own circumstances charecterized by religious convictions in Britian at that time. However, Darwin was not a revolutionary or marxist. This is partly because Darwin could not entirely break away with