I am presently researching Trade issues. I recall Bill
Tabb in a monthly review article mentioning that the
increase in global trade is due to inter-company
trade. Maybe my memory is not all that clear on that
but are there data and measurement sources for this.
Evidently all trade has been
Jim Devine wrote:
Colin writes:
1. Marx had a great many ideas about Capitalism and social science in
general, and much can be used even if you don't buy the notion that
capitalism blows up of its own accord (I don't).
nor did Marx.
I agree with this substantially, but there are a
Ali Kadri,
I deal with the questions you raise in The Amoral Elephant: Globalization and
Capitalist Development in the Early 21st Century which despite the fact that
there has been little to no publicity will be available from Monthly Review
Press in February.
I also think, while I am plugging
Yoshie wrote:
... Tanaka was Japanese prime minister between 1972 and 74. He was forced
to resign in 1974 because of financial malfeasance. He was later tried
for accepting over $2 million in bribes from Lockheed and was convicted in
1983. However, he remained powerful as a "king-maker"
Carrol wrote:
I think Marx's analysis of capitalism *does* imply that capitalism
periodically self-destructs -- and I think the history of the last 150
years bears that out empirically.
Much as I think that events like the Great Depression of the 1930s and the
Great Stagflation of the 1970s
thanks for the link, Michael. However, I don't have a password to access
the NY TIMES lock-box. Could you summarize it?
(Won't you come home, Bill Tabb? We love your stuff!)
At 06:34 PM 12/18/2000 -0800, you wrote:
I mentioned several times during our
earlier discussions about energy
shortages
Ali wrote:
I am presently researching Trade issues. I recall Bill
Tabb in a monthly review article mentioning that the
increase in global trade is due to inter-company
trade. Maybe my memory is not all that clear on that
but are there data and measurement sources for this.
Hi Jim D.
Yoshie wrote:
... Tanaka was Japanese prime minister between 1972 and 74. He was
forced to resign in 1974 because of financial malfeasance. He was
later tried for accepting over $2 million in bribes from Lockheed
and was convicted in 1983. However, he remained powerful as a
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 22:27:42 -0500
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Subject: [PEN-L:6385] Re: Japanese infrastructure question again
Anthony said:
As for whether corruption has
Reagarding intra-firm trade there is some data put out by UN's World
Investment Report. This comes out every year, I haven't had a chance to
look at the most recent report (I will soon though, it's used for my
class). Over-specialization (depending on products and process used) can
lead to the
WASHINGTON PRESSES LENDERS TO DENY FOREIGN PRODUCERS. The US
administration is
pressing international lending agencies, including its won Export-Import
Bank,
to halt any loan that might increase global steel output, reports the
Financial
Times (p.6), noting that US Commerce Secretary Norman
Unfortunately I really have little time but too suggest two useful
sources for the Japan questions that people have been discussing.
The single best discussion of the infrastructure dynamic in Japan can
be found in Gavan McCormack, 1996, The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence.
M.E.
Sharpe. He
BLS DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2000
__The CPI-U advanced 0.2 percent in November as cigarette prices increased
sharply and energy price gains began to moderate, BLS reports. Tobacco
prices increased 3.4 percent during November, and airfares, influenced by
higher prices for jet fuel,
At 12:39 PM 12/19/00 -0500, you wrote:
Perhaps, but the Zapatistas, too, have been of the "good government"
variety, helping in a small way to topple the PRI, with their appeals to
the Mexican international "civil society." They are part of the trend,
rather than a counter-trend. I say this
Jim Devine wrote:
2) how do you know that Marcos is the world's second-best-looking
revolutionary? he wears a mask. Also, wasn't Leon Trotsky pretty hot?
Third, you've never seen me. ;-)
Jim,
Trotsky might have looked pretty hot in 1939 but might not look as good now.
Gene Coyle
Ché is dead, too.
At 12:31 PM 12/19/00 -0800, you wrote:
Jim Devine wrote:
2) how do you know that Marcos is the world's second-best-looking
revolutionary? he wears a mask. Also, wasn't Leon Trotsky pretty hot?
Third, you've never seen me. ;-)
Jim,
Trotsky might have looked
I can't vouch for the authenticity of this. Are there Nostradamus"
authorities here.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
In 1555, Nostradamus wrote:
"Come the millennium, month 12,
In the home of greatest power,
The village idiot will come forth
To be acclaimed the leader."
Pen-l folks:
Some have argued that certain great depression and
WWII programs that brought US firms together to
help plan industry output contributed to these
firms being able to achieve collusion after the
end of these programs.
Not only did firms in these government organized
industry groups
2) how do you know that Marcos is the world's second-best-looking
revolutionary? he wears a mask. Also, wasn't Leon Trotsky pretty hot?
Third, you've never seen me. ;-)
H. Henry Kissinger once said power was a great aphrodisiac. I guess
opposing power can also be one, eh? : )
--
I hope that I haven't misunderstood Ian below. Please delete this missive
now if you're uninterested in a discussion that seems to involve a lot of
misunderstanding, including of my position.
Ian objected strenuously to my use of the term "Enlightenment" to refer to
Kant the Gang...
I
BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2000
Meatpacking plants, at 26.7 per 100 employees, had the highest nonfatal
injury and illness incidence rate among industries last year, says BLS.
Strains and cuts tend to account for many of the injuries ("Work Week" in
Wall Street Journal, page A1).
Yoshie writes:You are right with regard to the Great Depression in the
30s, but today's Japan does not have "extreme unemployment," which has been
one of the reasons why we haven't seen working-class revolts yet. Hardships
have mainly hit new women college graduates, salarymen nearing the
Supply-side is very much alive -- Robert Mundell recently won the Nobel
prize, for goodness sake!George Gilder is the guru of the internet.
Lawrence Lindsey, Bush's top economic advisor, is a supply-sider.
Personally, I am a big-fan of supply-side theory, and if I don't get a big
tax cut from
Tadashi Nakamae has a short essay that's very gloomy over the medium term
in the latest issue of "The International Economy" which, according to my
sources, is the magazine of choice for "globalization" coneheads in
Washington DC. They have a website but the latest stuff isn't on it.
Ian
David, most of us here are familar with supply side economics. The evidence to
support is is very thin. Some people support it because they like the politics,
but I have not seen any economist try to defend it to the general population of
economists.
David Shemano wrote:
Supply-side is very
Jeffrey Beatty wrote:
Apropos of the latter, your comments express surprise at discovering that
professional economists' notions of "natural" property rights are
descendents of Locke's ideas about property rights. If you check out the
early pages of the _Second Treatise of Government_, you
Chuck Grimes wrote:
Nobody probably understood the idea that the stone facades of ancient
societies were obsessions with time, as labor in stone. Building this
imaginary temple to Labor, isn't about the deification of labor, but
about the dialectic between all the elements of its creation, the
Like all economic theories, supply-side is hard to test because there are so
many economic variables. Probably the best test case for supply-side was
the individual tax rate cuts in the early 1980s. Supply-siders were the
only ones I am aware of that accurately predicted: (1) growth would
full article at:
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,413286,00.html
Time to backtrack
If the government can think the unthinkable on the tube, next it should
return Railtrack to public control
Special report: transport in Britain
Ros Coward
Tuesday December 19, 2000
Gordon:
A Pressler writes: I think he did kill the agent.
Gregory Geboski:
No real evidence has been presented to establish this, even at his trial.
...
It would not be surprising to find that Peltier had received
an unfair trial, as Mumia Abu-Jamal certainly did, regardless
of what
Bill said he is leaving because of the
volume -- in reality, I suspect, the
high noise to signal ratio. I cannot
tell you how many times I have invited
people like Bill onto the list, only to
have them leave in a few days because of
this problem.
The core is that we get tied up in
repetitive
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
It is not the case that the Left prefers an association with violence
to non-violence. The Left -- or _any other political force_ for that
matter -- makes a cause out of *martyrs* . . .
A tentative suggestion. I've always sort of acted from the slogan,
We will
Michael Perelman wrote:
In any case, I have believed for some
time that we are going into a
recession. I think that people are
going to be more receptive of left
ideas.
I believe that we are heading into a recession, but the questions are:
1. What kind of recession? Mild or severe? Just
Yoshie, I think that your first question should be discussed in detail.
The answer depend probably on the fragility of the world's financial
system. The trigger in the event of a severe recession is always
something completely unexpected.
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 12:45:12AM -0500, Yoshie
Carrol says:
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
It is not the case that the Left prefers an association with violence
to non-violence. The Left -- or _any other political force_ for that
matter -- makes a cause out of *martyrs* . . .
A tentative suggestion. I've always sort of acted from the
Hi Jim D.:
At 12:39 PM 12/19/00 -0500, you wrote:
Perhaps, but the Zapatistas, too, have been of the "good
government" variety, helping in a small way to topple the PRI, with
their appeals to the Mexican international "civil society." They
are part of the trend, rather than a counter-trend.
From Miyuki Miyabe, All She Was Worth, Houghton Mifflin (Mariner
Books), 1992 (Jp.), 1996, 1999 (Eng. Trans).
It was the Marui Department store that set the ball rolling back in
1960. Of course, their little Red Card is one of the most famous
retailer credit cards now, but things were very
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