BLS DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2001
__Widespread layoffs in the manufacturing sector pushed the unemployment
rate up to 4.2 percent in January, even as employer payrolls grew by
268,000, the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. BLS
Commissioner Katharine Abraham said in
Looking at "Against Mechanism" by Philip Mirowski, I
find about what I said already, that the marginalist
revolution starts at about the time of the
'energetics' advances in physics, and the mathematical
economists appropriate the 'energy' metaphor in an
artificial transposition by 'analogy' to
Maggie,
But George had influence because he was
already famous as the author of the best selling
book on economics in the US in the nineteenth
century. Noboby would have paid any attention
to his anti-Chinese rantings if he had not already
been famous. And he is famous for what he was
At 09:31 PM 2/5/01 -0800, you wrote:
Piece of sectariana on Robert Fogel. He was an editor of a publication
that the CPUSA put out briefly in the early 50's, "New Foundations." In the
Greenwood Press reprint of Radical publications in the U.S. 1900-1960 series
they put out in the early 70's.
Andrew Hagen wrote:
The Republican line is that the taxes belong to the people who paid them.
On that he is technically wrong. Taxes, once paid, belong to ALL the
people. It is their power and their right, as filtered through their
democratically elected representatives, to decide what to do
[was: Re: [PEN-L:7790] Re: chinese exclusion acts]
At 05:00 AM 2/6/01 +, you wrote:
Thomas Kuhn taught a class on philosophy of science at Tigertown
[Princeton?]. He was ill, and had to hand over the teaching to Carl
Hempel. The two were different as could be: Kuhn was ... of course
For some intense anti-Chinese rhetoric, check out union 'hero' Sam Gompers. I
heard the movie "Eat a Bowl of Tea" includes some of the Chinese American
history Maggie refers to. Mat
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From: Margaret Coleman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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Check out Bruno Ingrao and Giorgio Israel, The invisible hand: economic
equilibrium in the history of science, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990.
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From: Charles Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 9:48 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:
Mirowski's More Light than Heat is terrific -- except for his anti-Marx part;
His new book, Machine Dreams, is magnificent, based on the single chapter I
have read. It will appear in july.
"Forstater, Mathew" wrote:
Check out Bruno Ingrao and Giorgio Israel, The invisible hand: economic
Mat mentioned Gompers:
Frank, Dana. 1999. Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism
49: "Samuel Gompers of the cigarmakers union, who emerged in the
1880s as president of the new American Federation of Labor, liked
protectionism, too. But he didn't think it went far enough. "If
it
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After Jacqueline Chase snagged a job at LTV
Peter,
Well, now John Taylor has been appointed
Undersecretary of Treasury for International Economic
Affairs. He is reportedly a compromise candidate
between the moderate and right wings. He is also
no fool. We shall see.
Barkley Rosser
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John Taylor seems to be a very good person. He is not at all dogmatic
when you talk to him. Book representatives used to tell me that he was
not least arrogant person at Stanford. (I don't think that John Gurley
was around very much.) I have not spent more than a few hours with him,
but I can
Well, heck, guess I'll defend the use
of math in economics.
I happen to enjoy Mirowski's' books and
think he makes a lot of valid and useful points.
But, I also think that he overdoes it.
Mathematics is strictly abstract. It is not
valid to look at what it is used for in one
Yes, but not "so." --jks
At 05:00 AM 2/6/01 +, you wrote:
Thomas Kuhn taught a class on philosophy of science at Tigertown
[Princeton?]. He was ill, and had to hand over the teaching to Carl
Hempel. The two were different as could be: Kuhn was ... of course very
anti-empiricist. Hempel
Michael,
I too have a fairly positive impression of Taylor
as a person. He seems to be fairly open-minded
although definitely very pro-free market, etc.
I would note that he has had quite a bit of
experience in government. He was some kind of
adviser/official (I think at CEA)
"I have always opposed Chinese immigration not only because of the effect of
Chinese standards of life and work but because of the racial problem created
when Chinese and white workers were brought into the close contact of living and
working side by side..." (Gompers)
Herbert Hill writes that
Chris Burford wrote:
We are right on the faultline that we debate in different forms: how
much should the democratic deficit be overlooked in a country struggling
against the dominant imperialism, or when is the dominant imperialism
more progressive in that
a) it is accelerating the tortuous
At 01:38 PM 2/6/01 -0500, you wrote:
I happen to enjoy Mirowski's' books and
think he makes a lot of valid and useful points.
But, I also think that he overdoes it.
Mathematics is strictly abstract.
while reality involves both abstraction and concreteness.
Jim Devine [EMAIL
and Engerman was some sort of New Left firebrand, right?
Heh, do I detect irony?
Seriously, I dunno. I doubt it. Saw no references to him in Peter Novick's
book on historiography and objectivity. Novick was a Schactmanite, btw, in
the 50's. The footnotes of the the "That Noble Dream, " book are
At 11:30 AM 2/6/01 -0800, you wrote:
and Engerman was some sort of New Left firebrand, right?
Heh, do I detect irony?
no, you don't. I believe Engerman _was_ a New Left firebrand but then "grew
up" (as ex-leftists are wont to say). I just don't know the details.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2001
The Labor Department estimates that up to 19 million Americans now work on
line from home or some other location outside the office. The typical
"teleworker" is a 34 to 55-year-old male, usually in a high-tech,
engineering, marketing or professional
Workers hit with one-two punch
By Tim Wheeler
Daimler-Chrysler Corporation's announcement this week that it will eliminate 26,000
jobs is one of many signs that the U.S. economy is sliding toward a recession.
The cutbacks will include the closing of six Chrysler plants, five in Mexico and
Yes, in the mid-60s, Kuhn and Hempel were
both at Princeton.
Barkley Rosser
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Yes, but not "so." --jks
At
What economists are saying
By Heather Witham
Besides reading The Economist, one way to determine thoughts of mainstream capitalist
economists is to attend the annual American Economics Association (AEA) convention.
This year, approximately 8,000 economists descended upon the streets of New
BTW, Robert Fogel's wife is black, which
when he was pushed on _Time on the Cross_
was one of his defenses.
He and Engerman always defended the book
as being a response to the kind of dreamy revisionism
of the Old South romantics who argued that the Civil
War was not necessary because
Jim Devine wrote:
Henry George? he was a leftist (of sorts), whereas de Soto isn't
(given what I know about his views from the reviews).
De Soto told me that he's considered a right winger only by
right-wingers in the U.S.; in Peru, he's considered something of a
leftist. Don't know if this
But I don't believe that labor force growth will slow to zero. And I
don't believe that productivity growth will slow much either...
Brad DeLong
mbs: So are you saying there is no long-term
problem with the Trust Fund? That the whole
raison d'etre for deficit reduction/surplus
maximization is
What does the mid-60s have to do with it? They were there, and so was I, in
the mid-late 70s, when the class I described was given. The "not 'so'"
meant that they were both wrong, but not because of their ultra- and
anti-empiricist attitudes.
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Jim Devine wrote:
Henry George? he was a leftist (of sorts), whereas de Soto isn't
(given what I know about his views from the reviews).
-De Soto told me that he's considered a right winger only by
-right-wingers in the U.S.;
deja vu all over again...Fogel came to Gettysburg when I was there, he got the
Lincoln Prize or whatever they give for civil war related work, his wife was
there, he had just received the Nobel... he basically apologized for his earlier
work ... really wanted to distance himself from that
I have seen two or three chapt. of Mirowski's new one, and it will create an
even bigger stir than his previous work, and that created quite a stir.
re: 'mathematical economics' - (Barkley's 'defense', etc.) - there is a tendency
among some to conflate mathematical economicvs with neoclassical
[Re: [PEN-L:7826] Re: RE: RE: The Economic Policy World Turned Topsy-Turvy ]
Brad writes:
And I think lower short rates are worthwhile--I do believe in crowding in,
after all...
what is "crowding in"? the above seems to be that a larger government
surplus (or a smaller deficit) encourages
Matt F.
I have seen two or three chapt. of Mirowski's new one, and it will create an
even bigger stir than his previous work, and that created quite a stir.
***
Will it rattle Greenspan's neuron's or help Congress consider restructuring the
Fed and the Treasury dept.??
Ian
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I don't believe this society should still be operating with a robber-baron
premise as the basis for how we discuss public policy," O'Neill said yesterday.
"I think it is really corrosive to have this argument about the rich and the
My Peruvian friend places him on the right. Anthony
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In a message dated 2/6/2001 12:28:31 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Check out Bruno Ingrao and Giorgio Israel, The invisible hand: economic
equilibrium in the history of science, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990.
Ingrao and Israel's book is a fine introduction to the
David Shemano wrote:
--
Let me rephrase it this way. De Soto wants to the poor to become
"capitalists."
The poor aren't capitalists because they have no employees. Schemes for
popular entrepeneurship, microcredit, worker-ownership etc. have been
used by states
What would be the
difference if the poor were given deeds to their home and business licenses
for their black market businesses?
I forgot to add that black markets have evolved to _evade_ business
licences, deeds and so on (see Patriots and Profiteers by R.T. Naylor).
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