Maggie Coleman mentions the founding fathers' blaming the poor. In
my search for the killer quote I found the following passage. Sort
of nails everything at once -- genocide, racism, the very hard work of
the compassionate, etc.
Gene Coyle
When it was "over," the British officials directly in
Discounters show they must change fast or die
Mainstay department stores struggle to survive
Ricardo Thomas / The Detroit News
Nationwide, Montgomery Ward stores are going out of business, like this store in
Dearborn, following changes in the buying habits of its clientele.
Retail
JANUARY 16, 10:50 EST
Inventories Up, Sales Down in Nov.
By JEANNINE AVERSA
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) Inventories at U.S. companies grew briskly in November while sales
fell for the second month in a row, further evidence of a weakening economy.
Stockpiles of goods on
My position, FWIW, is that it is not "globalization" that's the problem,
but the particular sort of globalization we've been having its
political and structural links to neoliberalism.
Peter
didn't Malthus argue that swamps shouldn't be drained, so that the poor
wouldn't over-populate?
At 07:49 AM 1/16/01 -0800, you wrote:
Maggie Coleman mentions the founding fathers' blaming the poor. In my
search for the killer quote I found the following passage. Sort of nails
everything at
Slogging through L.A. traffic this morning, I found myself behind a bus
with a big sign advertising "First Federal Bank of California." It said:
"personal banking. genuine smiles." Advertising genuine smiles?? I can
imagine the memo coming from on high: "if you smile at one of FFB's
customers
Peter Dorman wrote:
My position, FWIW, is that it is not "globalization" that's the problem,
but the particular sort of globalization we've been having its
political and structural links to neoliberalism.
Yup. Another serious problem with the word.
Similarly, the problem isn't necesarily
Ken Hanly wrote:
COMMENT:
Isn't the ability to keep "extra" money an invitation to cut back welfare
and use the block grants as
a means to fund programs quite unrelated to helping those needing welfare?
This is perverse.
Yes, this is the way block grants (as opposed to federal
Pen-l,
I'm writing a commentary on the overproduction crisis and need a current
factoid on the gap between the richest and poorest U.S. households. Any
suggestions?
With advance thanks,
Seth Sandronsky
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full article at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/16/world/16PREX.html?pagewanted=all
The Mexican peso crisis crept up unnoticed here, and in 1997 and 1998, the
C.I.A. and the State Department's economics officers also failed to detect
early signs of the currency crisis in Asia that ultimately
Eugene Coyle wrote:
Here's my quest: I'm looking for a concise quote or two which make
"market prices" look absurd. I've looked at the period of the Irish
famine/starvation of the 1840s and some very cruel remarks were made.
But what I've found are from politicians or clergymen, not
January 13, 2001
Don't Put the Utilities Back in Charge
By David Bacon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BERKELEY, CA -- California's experiment with
deregulating electricity is on its last legs. "Deregulation
is dead," declares Public Utilities Commissioner Carl Wood.
And from the governor to the PUC
At 06:14 PM 1/16/01 +, you wrote:
Pen-l,
I'm writing a commentary on the overproduction crisis and need a current
factoid on the gap between the richest and poorest U.S. households. Any
suggestions?
With advance thanks,
Seth Sandronsky
http://www.inequality.org/
The ratio of top
Jim Devine wrote:
I wrote:
BTW, it's not the decline of real wages that matters, as much as
the decline of real wages _relative to labor productivity_.
quoth Doug:
That's an old story.
So what? old stories can be valid. Just because something is old
doesn't mean it's wrong. the key point is
CALIFORNIA's ENERGY CRISIS
(1) San Francisco Labor Council
(2) Peace Freedom Party
(1) 9% - No Way - Tell PGE WE WON'T PAY!!!
Whereas, energy is an essential need of all the people;
Whereas, with deregulation, the private utility industry won a $17 Billion
windfall to pay for bad
Seth Sandronsky wrote:
I'm writing a commentary on the overproduction crisis and need a
current factoid on the gap between the richest and poorest U.S.
households. Any suggestions?
http://www.census.gov/hhes/income/histinc/histinctb.html
Doug
I wrote:
why is "human agency" so important to an analysis of what the ruling
class does?
Doug writes:
Because it's important to show that what humans can do, humans can also
undo - that the "laws" of capitalism are the result of a social system and
not more-or-less immutable physical forces.
Because it's important to show that what humans can do, humans can
also undo - that the "laws" of capitalism are the result of a social
system and not more-or-less immutable physical forces. The ruling
class likes to talk about the inevitability of globalization - like
Bill Clinton, who
from SLATE:
The Wall Street Journal looks at dollarization, a trend gaining ground in
Latin America. Ecuador, El Salvador, and Panama have made the dollar
official currency; several other countries have shown interest. Pros: more
trade, investment, and stability. Cons: The dollar is the
A while back I queried folks about the last time a major department
hired a seriously left-of-center economist. The most recent anyone
could remember was David Levine at Yale something like 20 years ago.
Well, the Lingua Franca factchecker came up with a more recent hire:
Yale again, this
Doug Henwood wrote:
A while back I queried folks about the last time a major department
hired a seriously left-of-center economist. The most recent anyone
could remember was David Levine at Yale something like 20 years ago.
Well, the Lingua Franca factchecker came up with a more recent hire:
I (maggie) wrote, then Carroll wrote: It is this same reasoning which answers my
question of why welfare reform now -- We were running out of women to put into
low wage work, and we needed to 'free' them from the bonds of welfare
cheers, (end maggie) (start Carroll) This makes sense, but
excellent points! maggie coleman
Joel Blau wrote:
Well, I don't know anyone who has the conversation on tape, but historically, I
think it is pretty clear that social welfare policy has been used to channel
women's labor into the home or into the labor market depending upon labor market's
full article at:
http://www.independent.co.uk/argument/Leading_articles/2001-01/leaderb16010
1.shtml
Why should taxpayers subsidise shareholders?
16 January 2001
Who will pay for Railtrack's failures? Now that the cost of the
post-Hatfield compensation and repairs to the railway
Ken Hanly wrote:
Isn't the ability to keep "extra" money an invitation to cut back welfare and
use the block grants as a means to fund programs quite unrelated to helping
those needing welfare? This is perverse.
very perverse. In fact, this is already happening in some states. However,
some
http://www.iht.com/articles/7768.html
The Unpredictable Economy: Experts Missed Last 9 Recessions
Steven Pearlstein Washington Post Service Wednesday, January 17, 2001
WASHINGTON In presenting his annual economic outlook last Thursday, the
chairman of President Bill Clinton's Council of
go to either www.census.gov or www.bls.gov, both of their mottos should be,
"factoids r us." maggie coleman
Seth Sandronsky wrote:
Pen-l,
I'm writing a commentary on the overproduction crisis and need a current
factoid on the gap between the richest and poorest U.S. households. Any
For me, the important issue is not what I think about JR's economics or
politics, but whether his being at Yale will make it possible and likely
that a few radical economists will trickle out of their graduate program
in the years ahead. How will academic left political economy reproduce
itself?
is Levine still there?
At 07:44 PM 01/16/2001 -0500, you wrote:
A while back I queried folks about the last time a major department hired
a seriously left-of-center economist. The most recent anyone could
remember was David Levine at Yale something like 20 years ago. Well, the
Lingua Franca
This is rather ironic in that Alberta is a gung-ho free-enterprise province
often ruled by very right-wing governments.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
The Edmonton Journal 13 January 2001
Medicine Hat leads way in beating gas prices
City owns its natural gas. Some believe
DON'T PUT THE UTILITIES BACK IN CHARGE
By David Bacon
BERKELEY, CA (1/13/01) - California's experiment with deregulating
electricity is on its last legs. "Deregulation is dead," declares Public
Utilities Commissioner Carl Wood. And from the governor to the PUC to the
legislature, almost
Sorry to duplicate Brown's post of Bacon...I guess gmta...:) I sent it
before receiving Brown's post.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
I personally like John Roemer, but I do not know of any leftist work coming
out of Davis, where he was. David Levine left Yale for Denver. Rich
Weiskoff, who is on this list, was let go by Yale to make way for Levine.
At this time, Mat's department in Kansas City may offer the most freedom for
Mr. Brown:
As I previously stated, my primary reason for participating on this list is
to understand how lefties think. Therefore, if you don't mind, please
explain why you posted these articles to this list. Why are they
interesting to you? What is their relevance? Thanks.
David Shemano
One of the problems with relying solely on UMass, the New School etc. for our
new PhD's is that these folks are very unlikely to get jobs at non-heterodox
PhD-granting institutions. So that leaves us in a defensive position, and with
a shrinking future pool to draw on for staffing heredox lines.
Kelley wrote,
i say, take
their money. and if they have the..ahem..bush to go after people for
distributing political literature, then we have grounds to fight the
distribution of anti-abortion literature, etc. :)
Fight? Grounds to fight? Do you mean legal grounds? Fight all the way to
A query from Doug Orr
--
Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not to the list.
Thanks,
Doug Orr
In Heilbroner's old principles book he had a great chapter on "the real
world," which came before any discussion of theory. I still structure
my courses that
You are absolutely correct. During the Depression, many academics moved
to the left. Since the Cold War, the tendency is to become more
conservative with age. We have mentioned before cases of very
conservative ex-URPErs.
On several occasions, Doug has made reference to our inability to make
Interesting, I find in my notes several
other instances of this subject, but all
more than 2 decades old. I think Means
was the first to make this calculation.
Gardiner Means. 1931. "The Growth in the
Relative Importance of the Large
Corporation in American Life." American
Economic Review, 21,
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At 08:20 PM 1/16/01 -0800, you wrote:
Kelley wrote,
i say, take
their money. and if they have the..ahem..bush to go after people for
distributing political literature, then we have grounds to fight the
distribution of anti-abortion literature, etc. :)
Fight? Grounds to fight? Do you mean
Bankruptcy seems to be the tactic du
jour to get what you want out of the
political system. The New York Times
reports that Chiquita banana is
threatening bankruptcy because Clinton
has been unable to open up the European
market for it. Coming on the heels of
the California energy companies, we
At 17:15 16/01/01 -0800, you wrote:
full article at:
http://www.independent.co.uk/argument/Leading_articles/2001-01/leaderb16010
1.shtml
Why should taxpayers subsidise shareholders?
16 January 2001
Who will pay for Railtrack's failures?
According to Mr Marshall, the pain will be borne by
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