[In this interesting article, we learn that folks like James Tobin and
Jeremy Rifkin are welcomed at various universities and think-tanks in
Europe, where nervousness about "hypercapitalism" abounds. However, there
are no openings for Marxists, since the "Third Way" parameters of the
European
In Theories of Surplus Value somewhere, Marx has a discussion, very witty,of
how the criminal is productive of crime, gives a stimulus to industry in the
form of encouraging innovation in locks, offers employment for cops and
jailers, and the like. --jks
Yoshie wroteAt the
same time, the
No. William F. Buckley offered it to her, but she said she has had enough
embarassment with the Royal Family in the tabloids lately. she doesn't need
any more. Thenk yew veddy much. --jks
Speaking of which, is there any truth to the rumor that because the US
can't govern itself, the Queen of
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Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature by John Bellamy Foster
that will run from November 11-18, 2000
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At 08:59 AM 11/11/2000 +, you wrote:
In Theories of Surplus Value somewhere, Marx has a discussion, very
witty,of how the criminal is productive of crime, gives a stimulus to
industry in the form of encouraging innovation in locks, offers employment
for cops and jailers, and the like.
Please forward everthing below the header. Thanks.
For all the mocking of this election by US and foreign critics, the danger
is that what is being mocked is the right of individual voters to challenge
local election officials in the courts - a direct ideological assault on the
Voting Rights Act
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Brad DeLong wrote,
I've never understood the whole "things are bad, so let's make them
worse!" meme...
Several Democratic Senators and newspapers which had endorsed Gore are now
urging Gore to not pursue a legal challenge to the Florida results to
avoid a "constitutional crisis", which in their
Found the following article on pg 6 of the Oct 30, 2000 Nikkei Weekly:
"The Japanese economy was in better condition than had been believed in
the late 1990s, according to a new method for calculating gross domestic
product introduced by the Economic Planning Agency last week. By including
Nathan Newman wrote,
. . . the deeper problem
beyond Gore v. Bush in these elite media and politician calls to bypass
recounts or the courts through a concession. There were and are serious
violations of law in the election and the right to go to court
Greetings Economists,
The subject line refers to jargon in computing. Affect comes from
psychology, meaning emotions. Conversation implies interactivity as opposed
to speeches uttered by a politician to a large crowd. In any case both
terms refer to automation of computing that is
Timework Web wrote:
Brad DeLong wrote,
I've never understood the whole "things are bad, so let's make them
worse!" meme...
Probably because almost no one in fact holds (or ever held) this position. My
position on the election, for example, is that neither of the parties will
make things
At 07:42 AM 11/11/2000 -0800, you wrote:
"The Japanese economy was in better condition than had been believed in
the late 1990s, according to a new method for calculating gross domestic
product introduced by the Economic Planning Agency last week. By including
computer software investment in
No duh, as my 11-year old daughter would say. --jks
At 08:59 AM 11/11/2000 +, you wrote:
In Theories of Surplus Value somewhere, Marx has a discussion, very
witty,of how the criminal is productive of crime, gives a stimulus to
industry in the form of encouraging innovation in locks, offers
At 09:57 AM 11/11/00 -0600, you wrote:
Timework Web wrote:
Brad DeLong wrote,
I've never understood the whole "things are bad, so let's make them
worse!" meme...
i would like to understand the meme meme!
seriously! what is the powerful hold this concept has over everyone. i've
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From: "kelley" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've never understood the whole "things are bad, so let's make them
worse!" meme...
i would like to understand the meme meme!
seriously! what is the powerful hold this concept has over everyone. i've
read a bit about it and it
At 12:42 PM 11/11/2000 -0500, you wrote:
i would like to understand the meme meme!
As I understand it, meme is to society culture as a gene is to an
animal's body. The society and its culture (including technology, I
presume) is seen as simply the sum of a bunch of memes, which spread sort
This is a good article, but I want to quibble with the
characterization
of the Ackerman proposal, of which I am a fan. First of all, there
are
two authors of the book and proposal, Ackerman and Anne Alstott,
also a Yale law prof. Ackerman describes himself as a 'kantian
liberal.' I'll leave
Greetings Economists,
Nathan Newman asserts,
Nathan Newman,
It is largely a takeoff on Dworkin's SELFISH GENE argument that darwinian
selection occurs not at the species level - the genotype strate of
biological structure - but rather at the gene level. The idea has some
useful
At 08:59 AM 11/11/2000 +, you wrote:
In Theories of Surplus Value somewhere, Marx has a discussion, very
witty,of how the criminal is productive of crime, gives a stimulus
to industry in the form of encouraging innovation in locks, offers
employment for cops and jailers, and the like.
"The Law and Economics of Survivor"
BY: KIMBERLY A. MOORE
George Mason Law School
MAXWELL L. STEARNS
George Mason University School of Law
Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection:
John Halle wrote:
Still, an increase of something on the
order of 3/4 million in the last decade should leave some fairly
significant statistical trace, both on employment rates, as Yoshie says,
and income, as I argued before.
No doubt imprisonment has taken a lot of low-income black men off
In addition to Ackerman, Michael Sherraden at Washington University in
St.Louis has proposed Individual Development Accounts (IDAs), which Clinton
actually included in his 2000 State of the Union address. Forty-four states
already have small experimental versions of these IDAs, including 27
Has anybody done any serious analysis about the effect of Nader on races
below the level of the presidency? I know that in a few cases the Nader
vote hurt, where the Greens ran their own candidates, but I suspect
those losses were more than overbalanced by the people that the Greens
brought to
Does anyone have information at hand re taxation in the USSR. Was there
income tax? What were the rates? What other forms of tax were there?
Cheers, Ken Hanly
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CDWhy are Nader backers so
unwilling to take *any* responsibility for this?
Ian wrote:
Of what does taking responsibility consist? Should Bush apologize for
defeating Gore or vice versa? Should whoever is the winner apologize to the
other two losers for defeating them?
The Gore supporters want
response to Joel B:
The Ackerman/Alstott scheme is different from IDA's in some
key respects. Typically with IDA's the account holder
contributes in some measure, so it would be hard to have
an IDA at age 21 based on contributions from earnings
prior to that age. Ackerman/Alstott propose a
We've all probably heard the charge that the Democrats
stole the 1960 election. There is a add-on, that Nixon,
in his statesman-like love of his country, honorably
declined to challenge the election. This is being
resurrected now, to pressure Gore into not challenging
this election.
It's a
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