Re: Why the US Wins

2000-05-07 Thread Joel Blau
The Atkinson book is hardly radical, but it is a good firm rebuttal of the rush to judgment about welfare state outcomes. Joel Blau Michael Perelman wrote: I thought that you might find this interesting. I assume that football would make an even greater contribution to development.

Re: Re: On Marx's economic doctrine (fwd)

2000-05-07 Thread Chris Burford
At 13:06 06/05/00 -0400, Mine Doyran wrote: Chris Burford wrote: It is a fine gesture by Charles to commemorate the anniversary of Marx's birth, to reprint the second and third part of "The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism". I agree. We come at this from different

Re: Re: Why the US Wins

2000-05-07 Thread Michael Perelman
Yes, it is firm but very limited. It mostly makes a few neo-keynsian points. Joel Blau wrote: The Atkinson book is hardly radical, but it is a good firm rebuttal of the rush to judgment about welfare state outcomes. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico,

Mayday in Troy, New York

2000-05-07 Thread Michael Yates
The spirit of Mayday is beginning to take hold in the United States. Several towns and cities have begun to hold regular events to celebrate the day. This year I was invited to participate in the celebration in Troy, New York, a famous early industrial city along the Hudson river north

Environmentalism and the American Socialist

2000-05-07 Thread Louis Proyect
[To a very large extent, the work of John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett has been dedicated to re-establishing the ties between Marxism and ecology, which had existed during Marx's own career as demonstrated by his concern with the problem of soil fertility. So when Marxists of earlier

China's recession adds pressure for workers' rights

2000-05-07 Thread Stephen E Philion
The Telegraph (UK) Sunday May 7, 2000 China's recession adds pressure for workers' rights By Damien Mcelroy in Beijing CHINA returns to work today after an unprecedented week-long national holiday ordered by a Communist leadership alarmed at escalating violent protests and strikes among a

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

2000-05-07 Thread Doyle Saylor
Title: Re: [PEN-L:18559] Re: Re: Re: Re: Capital dreams Greetings Economists, Carrol Cox wrote out a simple query in response to observing Michael Perelman's typing program, Carrol, Michael, I'd be interested in your experiences with voice recognition software. How well it works might

Re: Query

2000-05-07 Thread Jim Devine
At 06:27 PM 05/05/2000 -0500, you wrote: 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

Re: Re: Query

2000-05-07 Thread Jim Devine
At 07:45 PM 05/07/2000 -0700, Jim Devine wrote: At 06:27 PM 05/05/2000 -0500, you wrote: 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

Re: Re: Query

2000-05-07 Thread Michael Perelman
Milton Friedman saw the balance of payments deficit early on as an opportunity to eliminate fixed exchange rates, which he saw as a form of government control. Friedman, Milton. 1968. "A Proposal for Resolving thee U.S. Balance of Payments Problem: Confidential Memorandum to President-elect

A VERY SMALL WORLD-SYSTEM

2000-05-07 Thread Mine Aysen Doyran
http://www.jhu.edu/~soc/pcid/papers/7 Program In Comparative International Development Department of Sociology Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD. 21218 USA Working Paper #7 A

Frank:PREFACE to REORIENT

2000-05-07 Thread Mine Aysen Doyran
The controversy emerges in the second part with Marx and Wallerstein, which seems pretty unfair. Wallerstein replies in the _Review_ "Frank proves the European miracle".. Mine PREFACE to REORIENT : GLOBAL ECON0MY IN THE ASIAN AGE

The United States as Nuclear Champion

2000-05-07 Thread Mine Aysen Doyran
http://fbc.binghamton.edu/commentr.htm Immanuel Wallerstein Comment No. 39, May 1, 2000 "The United States as Nuclear Champion" Somewhere back in ancient time, in the 1970's, the United States and the Soviet Union agreed