Rights Issue rebounds on US

2001-04-01 Thread Chris Burford
The weekend edition of the International Herald Tribune available in London this weekend, carries a report on the sharpening conflict between the Bush administration and European imperialism. GENEVA In a pointed criticism of U.S. environmental policy, President Jacques Chirac of France on

Panic on Arrest of Milosevic?

2001-04-01 Thread Chris Burford
CNN's take this morning was highly nuanced, but no less significant for that. With repeated showings of a map of "Yugoslavia" which interestingly appeared to include Kosovo, their apparently most authoritative report (which is on their web-site this morning) came from Milan Panic, introduced

World War III did not start this morning

2001-04-01 Thread Chris Burford
I know I should be clearing up the garden, and others have warned me against watching too much CNN, but the astonishing news has just broken that there is a damaged US navy plane with 24 uninjured crew, under Chinese custody on Hainan island! Perhaps this is just a product of the new realism

Re: George Bush sets an example for workers

2001-04-01 Thread Timework Web
Michael Perelman wrote, the paper of record has an article entitled A Trickle-Down Theory for a Shorter Workday [5]http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/01/business/01BUSH.html Will the working class follow our fearless leader's example? The real question is will organized labour and left scholars

Peppermint Candy

2001-04-01 Thread Louis Proyect
Even if it was not a great film, "Peppermint Candy" would be worth seeing just as a guide to the dramatic changes in post-dictatorship South Korea. While ostensibly a Citizen Kane type morality tale about an evil man, it is really a mirror held up to a country whose two main pillars were

Re: Re: Transformation problem [was US Consumer Confidence...]

2001-04-01 Thread Ken Hanly
Where does Marx claim that everything of value in the world has "that much labor tied up into it"? Marx distinguishes at the very least as I recall , use values and exchange values. Things such as air have use value without any labor being involved in making it. At most it is exchange values that

Re: Re: Re: Transformation problem [was US ConsumerConfidence...]

2001-04-01 Thread Michael Perelman
Oh, no. To solve the Transformation Problem, we need to abandon it and return to classical Marxism, which offers a more sophisticated way of looking at the world, which does not try to shove everthing into a framework of simple algebra while abandoning all pretext of dialectics. Andrew wrote:

Re: Re: Transformation problem [was US Consumer Confidence...]

2001-04-01 Thread Ken Hanly
Where do you get the idea that Hume uses deduction extensively? Deduction can only clarify relationships between ideas or concepts. Sense impressions are the source of all substantive knowledge. Of course Hume claims that induction from present to past is not justifiable by reason but that does

RE: Re: Transformation problem [was US Consume r Confidence...]

2001-04-01 Thread Forstater, Mathew
of particular importance i think were papers by Ochoa and Bienenfield, both in the Cambridge Jl. of Economics. -Original Message- From: Andrew Hagen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 10:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:9859] Re: "Transformation problem"

A gleam of light for the global economy

2001-04-01 Thread Chris Burford
At a time when probably something up to 10 trillion dollars has been taken out of the world economy already by the stock market falls and the accumulation of bad debts in places like Japan, as I predicted, there is a gleam of light if capitalism only turns a philanthropic. Of course by

Socialism American Workers (was Re: ergonomics, etc.)

2001-04-01 Thread Robert Manning
Since I have been actively involved in this issue (testimony before Senate Judiciary Committe, House Dems' opposition press conference, dozens of radio call-in programs [esp. urban minority stations], aggressive oped which received a response from the White House's National Economic Council

Useful NY Times article on bankruptcy

2001-04-01 Thread Louis Proyect
NY Times, April 1, 2001 Many Americans Are Mired in Debt and Seeking a Path Out By PETER T. KILBORN MEMPHIS — In promoting a tougher bankruptcy law that President Bush could soon sign, credit card and automobile companies depict a culture of spendthrift deadbeats who are excused from their

Re: World War III did not start this morning

2001-04-01 Thread Andrew Hagen
I agree that this is more of a blunder than anything else. The US and China thankfully have close trade ties that should prevent overt hostilities. China's foreign minister has apparently said that the US plane crashed into a Chinese fighter, forcing the Chinese fighter to crash. This rhetoric

Re: David Noble denied a chair

2001-04-01 Thread Brad DeLong
... permission for the university to call four people of their choice to act as references for him. Mr. Noble says the list of names included people who had publicly criticized his views and who had never worked directly with him. Mr. Noble denied the firm permission, arguing that he had already

Re: Re: David Noble denied a chair

2001-04-01 Thread Michael Perelman
I just read about another case that I think may have been at Simon Fraser, where the University wanted to consult with people with whom the applicant had clashed in the past rather than supporters. On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 05:10:52PM -0700, Brad DeLong wrote: ... permission for the university