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Charles Brown wrote:
So what do you think of Lenin ?
Sometimes interesting writer. Important historical figure, long dead.
Not of much relevance to politics in an OECD country in the year 2000.
(((
CB: Sounds like you won't have much to say
This short book review also touches on our discussion of the Pareto
distribution. It is readable, nontheless, for non-economists.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/books/2000/0009.galbraith.html
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel.
If you were to estimate what caused the increasing rate of profit during
the last decade, how much credit would you give to
weakening unions
globalization
lower environmental/regulatory standards
financial shenanigans (i.e., manipulating pensions)
new technology
better management
--
Michael
If, in the US, then
If you were to estimate what caused the increasing rate of profit during
the last decade, how much credit would you give to
weakening unions [8%]
globalization[6%]
lower environmental/regulatory standards [4%]
financial shenanigans (i.e., manipulating pensions)
Ian, you win the prize.
If, in the US, then
If you were to estimate what caused the increasing rate of profit during
the last decade, how much credit would you give to
weakening unions [8%]
globalization[6%]
lower environmental/regulatory standards [4%]
financial
weakening unions [8%]
globalization[6%]
lower environmental/regulatory standards [4%]
financial shenanigans (i.e., manipulating pensions) [30%]
new technology [15%]
better management [37%]
please tell me I'm wrong, Ian
o.k. You're wrong. Lower standards implies that
there
The rest,
including technology, is guesswork, IMO.
mbs
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What would need to happen to get adequate metrics for the other factors?
Ian
lower environmental/regulatory standards [4%]
Max,
I guessed at this being above zero on the odds that firms litigate their way
to exemptions which have a cumulative effect of hollowing out enviro. regs.
despite their being formally on the books.
Ian
At 08:05 AM 8/23/00 -0700, you wrote:
If you were to estimate what caused the increasing rate of profit during
the last decade, how much credit would you give to
weakening unions
globalization
lower environmental/regulatory standards
financial shenanigans (i.e., manipulating pensions)
new
Charles Brown wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/22/00 04:53PM
Charles Brown wrote:
So what do you think of Lenin ?
Sometimes interesting writer. Important historical figure, long dead.
Not of much relevance to politics in an OECD country in the year 2000.
(((
CB: Sounds like you
Well I think the point is talking about not Lenin as Lenin in 1906 or
1920, but what a "Lenin" might be like today - someone who could take
Marxism and make a practical transformative politics out of it. I
suspect that were Lenin alive today, he'd look at your average
Leninist formation and
Michael Perelman wrote:
If you were to estimate what caused the increasing rate of profit during
the last decade, how much credit would you give to
weakening unions
globalization
lower environmental/regulatory standards
financial shenanigans (i.e., manipulating pensions)
new technology
better
From Douglas Dowd's newly published "Capitalism and its Economics: a
critical history" (Pluto Press):
"One need not be enamored of corporate profits to believe that within the
framework of a capitalist economy profits going to those involved in
production are more likely to be positive for the
Lisa Ian Murray wrote:
The rest,
including technology, is guesswork, IMO.
mbs
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What would need to happen to get adequate metrics for the other factors?
I've just been reading some papers estimating the contribution of
trade to widening wage inequality. The estimates range from 2%
Behind high profits are low real wages for most categories of production
workers (during a period of good economic growth).
These low real wages are the product of in part a changed cultural
landscape. This, in turn, was consciously created by firms and their friends
in the 1970s and 1980s.
Louis Proyect wrote:
Well I think the point is talking about not Lenin as Lenin in 1906 or
1920, but what a "Lenin" might be like today - someone who could take
Marxism and make a practical transformative politics out of it. I
suspect that were Lenin alive today, he'd look at your average
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/23/00 01:13PM
Sometimes interesting writer. Important historical figure, long dead.
Not of much relevance to politics in an OECD country in the year 2000.
Well I think the point is talking about not Lenin as Lenin in 1906 or
1920, but what a "Lenin" might be like
Lou,
That sounds about like what I would have expected.
Thanks.
Barkley Rosser
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From: Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 7:06 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:735] Re: Re: Re: Asset ownership by type in
Lou,
Too bad about the second, because it is probably
more useful. The asset number is in fact pretty useless.
The valuation of state-owned assets is pretty arbitrary.
This has little to do with Hayek.
BTW, of course I hope you appreciate the irony that
a good chunk of that state
BTW, of course I hope you appreciate the irony that
a good chunk of that state sector is probably worker
managed co-ops of some sort, although their current
nature is indeed an open and important issue. As you
well know, although more recent arrivals to this list may
not, the archives of
Let me add to this regarding the size of the underground
economy in some of the former Yugoslav republics (I don't have data for this
on FRY). Actually Slovenia probably has one of the lowest
relative sizes of such an economy among any of the former
socialist bloc in Europe. There are two
Louis Proyect wrote:
Yes, but the most bedraggled, deranged, jargon-spouting sect has more in
common with Lenin than this conference.
Oh, come now Lou. You probably know Draper's essay on Lenin rather better
than I do -- and the kind of distortions he identifies as being made by
Lenin's
Oh, come now Lou. You probably know Draper's essay on Lenin rather better
than I do -- and the kind of distortions he identifies as being made by
Lenin's anti-communist critics are *also* the kind of distortions that many
a "bedraggled, deranged, jargon-spouting sect" makes.
I have no idea what
At 02:53 PM 8/23/00 -0500, you wrote:
It reminds me of
Avakian back at the 1969 SDS National Convention proudly proclaiming "I'm a
Stalinist," meaning nothing more than "Look at me! I'm a big deal! I'm a
real revolutionary!"
hey, his father was a US circuit-court judge! that's a hard act to
Actually, I recently read something by Scholes where
he admitted the importance of the normal distribution
assumption and admitted that it does not hold.
After initially following Mandelbrot to advocate the
asymptotically infinite variance Pareto-Levy distribution,
Fama later did some
Was he elevated? Last I heard he was a judge in juvenile court in Alemeda
County, but that was back in the 70s.
At 02:53 PM 8/23/00 -0500, you wrote:
It reminds me of
Avakian back at the 1969 SDS National Convention proudly proclaiming "I'm a
Stalinist," meaning nothing more than "Look
I'd like to reintroduce myself, having left pen-l for the six months
I've been on the road. Some of that time was spent in Geneva, where I
developed a program in the economics of occupational safety and health
for the ILO. Out of that came a paper on the topic, which has some
material that
maybe I made a mistake. After all, with his son Bob single-handedly leading
the World's Workers to Revolutionary Victory, I just assumed that Judge
Avakian was hot stuff, if not on the Supreme Court.
At 01:20 PM 8/23/00 -0700, you wrote:
Was he elevated? Last I heard he was a judge in
On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Louis Proyect wrote:
What I am opposed to is a form of utopian socialism that gained wide
acceptance among the left academy in the late 80s called 'market
socialism'. This ideology suggested that by the universal extension of
Mondragons, plywood cooperatives, employee
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Actually this was a small part of the market socialists agenda, kind of
the wrapping of a package whose cantents (and substance) was (much) more
concerned with the agenda of rationlizing the subjection of public owned
enterprises (or cooperatives) in socialist countries to market competition
in a
Airlines, etc. there could be a transition to socialism.
Actually this was a small part of the market socialists agenda, kind of
the wrapping of a package whose cantents (and substance) was (much) more
concerned with the agenda of rationlizing the subjection of public owned
enterprises
Jim,
After. Quite recent, actually, but I don't remember
where I saw it, actually. Some very recent journal
article, I think. Yeah, so, duuh..
Barkley
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From: Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wednesday,
I hope that this "humor" can remain congenial.
Louis Proyect wrote:
Oh, come now Lou. You probably know Draper's essay on Lenin rather better
than I do -- and the kind of distortions he identifies as being made by
Lenin's anti-communist critics are *also* the kind of distortions that many
a
while we're on the subject, I hope that people can read the attachment.
Ig.doc
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
Michael Perelman wrote:
I hope that this "humor" can remain congenial.
Just laughing to keep from crying.
Louis Proyect
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trace their lineage to the historic split between the Bolsheviks and the
Mensheviks in the Russian Social Democracy, give them a little quiz. Ask
them to identify the authors of the following 2 opposing motions around
which
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Peter, I found this on the web, but the people in Washington said that they knew of
no international comparisons. Is this information correct?:
According to the latest available figures from the National Census
of Fatal Occupational injuries, 6,218 workers were killed in 1997,
up from 6,112 the
Michael wrote,
According to the latest available figures from the National Census
of Fatal Occupational injuries, 6,218 workers were killed in 1997,
up from 6,112 the year before.
More recent data (for 1999) now at
http://stats.bls.gov/news.release/cfoi.toc.htm
LA Times recently (within last 2
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Yes and no. The CFOI (Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries) is a more credible source
of data than we had previously, but it still undercounts by at least 10%. The real
problem, however, is that approximately 9 in 10 occupationally-caused deaths in the US
are caused by disease, not injury --
A radical change is taking place in construction. You may remember (or think
you remember) it as an exclusive, aristocracy-of-labor operation, staffed by
unionized ethnics out to beat up blacks and hippies. Today it is largely
nonunion, poorly trained (the breakdown of the apprenticeship
Peter Dorman wrote:
fatal injuries are procyclical
So is productivity - because, among other reasons, workers are worked
harder as growth accelerates. This is what "working harder" means, I
guess.
Doug
Peter Dorman wrote:
A radical change is taking place in construction. You may remember (or think
you remember) it as an exclusive, aristocracy-of-labor operation, staffed by
unionized ethnics out to beat up blacks and hippies. Today it is largely
nonunion, poorly trained (the breakdown of the
I recall that Robert Gordon wrote about this mystery back in the 1970s.
He made the case that the decline did not seem to be grounded in the
realities of the industry.
Peter Dorman wrote:
A radical change is taking place in construction. You may remember (or think
you remember) it as an
Not so mysterious, I think. This is not a cyclical question, but a product of the
transformation of the industry. Deunionization and deskilling should lead to both
lower productivity and more human misery.
Peter
Doug Henwood wrote:
Peter Dorman wrote:
A radical change is taking place in
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Peter wrote,
Not so mysterious, I think. This is not a
cyclical question, but a product of the
transformation of the industry. Deunionization and
deskilling should lead to both lower productivity
and more human misery.
But hasn't deunionization/deskilling been happening in construction
Note the date on my note that follows.
Baily, Martin Neil. 1982. "The Productivity Growth Slowdown by Industry." Brookings
Papers on Economic Activity, No. 2: pp. 423-59.
434: Construction industry is a mystery. If construction output and the labor
input in that industry were removed from
At 03:56 PM 8/23/00 -0400, you wrote:
Actually, I recently read something by Scholes where
he admitted the importance of the normal distribution
assumption and admitted that it does not hold.
was this before or after the Long-Term Capital Managment debacle?
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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