Massive jump in US population

2000-12-28 Thread Chris Burford
The astonishing jump in the population of the USA in just a decade perhaps is the real answer behind the astonishing 8 years of unbroken growth of the US economy. Only the labour theory of value explains why more labour power in a society means more exchange value. But only the marxian law of

Labor Unrest in South Africa

2000-12-28 Thread Ken Hanly
December 22, 2000 Cosatu threatens general strike over labour law changes Johannesburg (Reuters) - The Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) warned on Thursday that it will call a general three-day strike in March if the government does not back down from proposed changes to labour laws which thr

Re: China at Gate of Profound Shift (fwd)

2000-12-28 Thread Michael Perelman
Please try to reformat articles like this before you send them to the list if you can. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

China at Gate of Profound Shift (fwd)

2000-12-28 Thread Stephen E Philion
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/28/business/28PRIV.html Title: China at Gate of Profound Shift

RE: Re: Energy deregulation

2000-12-28 Thread David Shemano
onservative analyses of the California > energy crisis: > > http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=75000389 > > and > > http://www.latimes.com/news/comment/20001228/t000123514.html > > I would be interested in your critique. > > David Shemano

Re: Energy deregulation

2000-12-28 Thread Eugene Coyle
Gene Coyle David Shemano wrote: > For those interested, enclosed are conservative analyses of the California > energy crisis: > > http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=75000389 > > and > > http://www.latimes.com/news/comment/20001228/t000123514.html > >

Energy deregulation

2000-12-28 Thread David Shemano
For those interested, enclosed are conservative analyses of the California energy crisis: http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=75000389 and http://www.latimes.com/news/comment/20001228/t000123514.html I would be interested in your critique. David Shemano

RE: nature & deregulation

2000-12-28 Thread alaramie

Re: Re: Re: Re: Lawyer Jokes

2000-12-28 Thread Nathan Newman
- Original Message - From: "Jim Devine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >BTW, awhile back I posted a message to pen-l about the fact that every >society needs lawyers. Though the ratio of lawyer salaries to GDP might be >a useful index. When it rises, it's a sign of decadence -- a country is >sliding

nature & deregulation

2000-12-28 Thread Jim Devine
Justin wrote: >The point is that markets provide one may, certainly the best first >approximation we have for many things (not electricity, as it happens), of >the costs of using resources one way rather than another. We talk of >externalities, but that is only because the market gives us a ref

Re: More on privatized education

2000-12-28 Thread Jim Devine
At 10:20 AM 12/28/00 -0800, you wrote: >Notice how all the good guys come together. > >WILLIAM BENNETT FOUNDS ONLINE K12 SCHOOL >Former Education Secretary William Bennett is founding an online private > >K-12 school that will offer the kind of traditional schooling long >espoused by Bennett, inc

Re: Natural v. Artificial

2000-12-28 Thread Ken Hanly
So if a rich person cranks up the heat to 80 degrees as they will in a market economy are you going to criticise this on efficiency grounds? How? So it is irrational and artificial to pay for the hospitalisation costs of a homeless person with no means of support or friends to donate funds? Certa

Re: Natural v. Artificial

2000-12-28 Thread Tom Walker
David Shemano wrote: >My point is, even if you are correct that no price is "natural," you still >need to explain why the "artificial" price generated by a market is not >presumptively preferable to the "artificial" price generated by a non-market >method. This line of argument seems circular to

"VALUE, CAPITALIST DYNAMICS AND MONEY", Vol.18, R.P.E., now published

2000-12-28 Thread Paul Zarembka
R E S E A R C H I N P O L I T I C A L E C O N O M Y Volume 18 (2000): VALUE, CAPITALIST DYNAMICS AND MONEY "This volume begins with an introduction to Marx's theory of capitalism in his own words, with his examples modernized from use of shillings and pence as su

Payback time

2000-12-28 Thread michael perelman
HAMBURGER, TOM. 2000. "Big GOP Contributors Look For Return on Their Money." Wall Street Journal (28 December). "Industry groups that raised record sums of money for George W. Bush and the Republican Party have great expectations for the president-elect -- and a few favors to ask. Securities and

More on privatized education

2000-12-28 Thread michael perelman
Notice how all the good guys come together. WILLIAM BENNETT FOUNDS ONLINE K12 SCHOOL Former Education Secretary William Bennett is founding an online private K-12 school that will offer the kind of traditional schooling long espoused by Bennett, including phonics, back-to-basics math and civics

Joys of management

2000-12-28 Thread michael perelman
Harris, Bonnie. 2000. "Companies Turning Cool to Telecommuting Trend." Los Angeles Times (28 December). "AT&T typified the telecommuting boomlet in the mid-1990s. The corporation launched a host of ambitious work-from-home programs. Telecommuting so enthused then-Chairman Robert E. Allen that he

Lawyer Jokes

2000-12-28 Thread Charles Brown
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/27/00 10:12PM >>> Hey, we lawyers are a thick-skinned lot. (( CB: Speak for yourself. I'm a very sensitive person.

Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Bankruptcy and deregulation

2000-12-28 Thread Ken Hanly
Well I expect you are wrong about heat being essentially free in the USSR. If Zoschenko, Stalin's court jester is correct, then members of collective apartments paid for heat and light, no doubt at subsidized prices. He has a story in which apartment dwellers complain about large wattage bulbs. It

Re: Natural v. Artificial

2000-12-28 Thread Ken Hanly
This should be called the Fetishism of Market Conceptualizations... Cheers, Ken Hanly - Original Message - From: David Shemano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 9:42 PM Subject: [PEN-L:6560] Natural v. Artificial > <> > > My point is, eve