Ha. Ha. Only it doesn't look I will be getting any pomo anytime soon except
what I can get out of Harvey and Baudrillard laying around the house.
Out.
-Nico
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Financial Times ; 30-Aug-2000
Downfall of an economic experiment: New Zealand's textbook programme of
liberalisation has left it poorer than before, argues John Kay:
By JOHN KAY
If ever a country has been run by economists, it is New Zealand. In 1984,
the colourful Roger Douglas became finance
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Subject:Re: Pomotismo
From Justin to Nicole:
I find your objection to essentialsim and foundationalsim
En relación a [PEN-L:1109] Random thoughts on Big Brother, adve,
el 1 Sep 00, a las 10:56, Louis Proyect dijo:
This is what our life has become in these best of times. Big brother
in the workplace, commercials everywhere you look and war in the
hinterlands.
The ad smallpox has been
Original Message
Subject: post-autistic economics newsletter, No.1 (fwd)
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 22:45:03 +0100 (BST)
From: "I. Robeyns" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I just received this e-mail -- perhaps at last some optimistic signs for
How is the truth that 2 plus 2 is 4 individual, or that Yoshie sent the
reply below, or that Ottawa is the capital of Canada, or millions of other
commonplace truths? That "the truth" is individual seems to imply that there
is something called "the truth" which is individual. Is this oxymoronic
Howdie,
This was a very interesting posting on two levels. One level I reject,
that is the metaphorical use of the disability terms to characterize the
arguments against the mathematical orientation of contemporary economics in
the U.S. and Western Europe. The second part I agree with is
Apparently some people on the femecon-l and IAFFE lists have also, like
Doyle, resented the slurs in the economics newsletter on those suffering
from disability. It is of some interest that such a large proportion of
our vocabulary of abuse depends (or has depended) upon the oppression of
racial
Not this is a mission I can support enthusiastically.
Progressive malediction.
I guess we could liken things we don't like to animal,
vegetable, and mineral, though who knows what
controversies those would raise.
One recalls the ancient controversy about the classist
use of the term "pig" to
Max Sawicky wrote:
One recalls the ancient controversy about the classist
use of the term "pig" to describe police officers.
Yes. An Iowa hog farmer wrote to New Left Notes defending his animals against
comparison to the police. But until hogs, spiders, vipers, toads, etc. learn
to read
I
En relación a [PEN-L:1156] Re: Re: [Fwd: Re: post-autistic econ,
el 2 Sep 00, a las 11:32, Carrol Cox dijo:
Max Sawicky wrote:
One recalls the ancient controversy about the classist
use of the term "pig" to describe police officers.
Yes. An Iowa hog farmer wrote to New Left
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Brad wrote,
You look at countries over time, and the principal changes in real
wages and standards of living are differences in aggregate productivity
levels--not differences in the distribution of the product between
land, labor, and capital.
Sticking to the US
Brad DeLong wrote:
I think people who comment on "pomos" should show some evidence of
having read some, and should cite actual texts to make their points
instead of impressions. But maybe I'm just being a stick-in-the-mud.
Doug
No, but you are being pre-post-modernist. Imposing the grid of
FRANCE
The French economics mainstream is in a state of shock and apprehension
following dramatic and unexpected events late in June.
On the 21st the influential Paris daily, Le Monde, featured a long
article under the headline "Economics Students Denounce the Lack of
Pluralism in the
Doug Henwood wrote:
Carrol Cox wrote:
I agree. Butler's almost habitual failure to observe this elementary
decency is the reason that I finally decided that she was a fraud. I
have made this complaint about her frequently (in specific reference to
her article in NLR) on several different
Carrol Cox wrote:
Butler merely shows here that she is consistently a fraud
Why can't you just say you disagree with her? Why must you repeat
this nasty characterization? You're doing exactly what she was
rightly complaining about, collapsing a complex body of scholarship
into a symptom - or
Apropos Carrol's assertions, I'm curious how many PEN-Lers think
matters of sex/gender, sexuality, and cultural representation are
topics of analysis and struggle equal in importance to those of class
and political economy.
If they are equal in importance, why do so few PEN-Lers write about
Doug Henwood wrote:
Carrol Cox wrote:
Butler merely shows here that she is consistently a fraud
Why can't you just say you disagree with her? Why must you repeat
this nasty characterization?
Because I'm more sure she is a fraud than that I disagree with her. I am using as
my criterion
Doug Henwood wrote:
If they are equal in importance, why do so few PEN-Lers write about them?
That is not a correct way to word the question. It resembles the following
nonsense question:
Are the denominator and numerator of a fraction of equal importance or is one
more important
than the
Carrol Cox wrote:
Doug Henwood wrote:
If they are equal in importance, why do so few PEN-Lers write about them?
That is not a correct way to word the question. It resembles the following
nonsense question:
Are the denominator and numerator of a fraction of equal importance or is one
more
Doug writes:
Apropos Carrol's assertions, I'm curious how many PEN-Lers think matters
of sex/gender, sexuality, and cultural representation are topics of
analysis and struggle equal in importance to those of class and political
economy.
I don't think that this question is nonsense. I'd say
The ad smallpox has been particularly notorious (and nefarious) in
Buenos Aires since the late 1980s and (I suspect) in most large Third
World capitals. Starved to death, for example, the local city
administration (Intendencia de Buenos Aires, now pompously and
reactionarily known as Gobierno de
Brad, the Cliff Notes statement was wrong, but I thought that you jumped
it up a couple of notches.
True. Apologies...
On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Doug Henwood wrote:
Carrol Cox wrote:
Doug Henwood wrote:
Let me add to the polling question. Monthly Review is probably the
leading English-language popular Marxist journal in the world. New
Left Review, despite its recent ideological peregrinations, is one of
the
I wonder if the question should not be posed differently. I think that there
is a tendency among people to treat matters of oppression with respect to sex
and gender in a way that divides people. At times, some people who write in
this area tend to minimize other forms of oppression -- sort of
Doug Henwood wrote:
Carrol Cox wrote:
Doug Henwood wrote:
If they are equal in importance, why do so few PEN-Lers write about them?
That is not a correct way to word the question. It resembles the following
nonsense question:
Are the denominator and numerator of a fraction of
Jim Devine wrote:
I believe that most pen-lers are men.
And men don't have gender?
Doug
At 07:09 PM 09/02/2000 -0400, you wrote:
Jim Devine wrote:
I believe that most pen-lers are men.
And men don't have gender?
of course we do, but since we're usually in the advantaged position in the
gender game, it's less of a concern. Further, the gender issues seem to get
into personal
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/01/00 10:25PM
My response is 1) the truth is individual, 2) objectivity is impossible
(including in the argument I just created) and 3) accepting our "man-made"
god means accepting ourselves and trusting in our own magic. Why do
academic work at all: 1) because it is
The Guardian (London)
August 31, 2000
Getting into bed with big business;
The Un Is No Longer Just A Joke. It Is Becoming The Villain Of The
Piece
Pity the UN, for it is not powerful enough even to be
hated. While other
global bodies are widely reviled, the
In recent years, many regional theaters in the United States have staged
Maxim Gorky's "The Lower Depths", a play that revolves around the lives of
the dregs of society in a flophouse in Czarist Russia, with homeless people
in the leading roles. Such productions were meant as a commentary on the
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