There are plenty of errors in this and it is grossly
misleading. Islamic history cannot be characterised
with a single brush stroke as homogenous. The status
of slavery changed with the various stages of Islamic
history. In the early stages, many of the slaves were
Arabs. Under this regime as
Ali wrote:
There are plenty of errors in this and it is grossly
misleading. Islamic history cannot be characterised
with a single brush stroke as homogenous. The status
of slavery changed with the various stages of Islamic
history. In the early stages, many of the slaves were
Arabs. Under this
Lou replies to Ellen Wood:
Instead, capitalism is conceived as a more or less natural outcome of
age-old and virtually universal human practices, the activities of
exchange, which have taken place not only in towns since time immemorial
but also in agricultural societies. In some versions of
At 05:43 PM 5/17/01 -0400, you wrote:
You can
find out her views on the MR website in the article The Agrarian Origins
of Capitalism. She states that capitalism existed without workers.
I really don't care about her position _per se_ (or Bob Brenner's
position _per se_) as much as what helps us
Yoshie:
Well, capitalism must have begun sometime somewhere, or else it would
have to be thought of as having existed everywhere throughout human
history -- a conception of history to which you would no doubt object
(the point you made in your objection to Jim Devine's use of the term
Brenner has a specific theory of capitalism that Anderson doesn't
address in the quote above. As I understand Brenner, he's would
agree with Marx that capitalism arose when different elements
systematically combined in England at the end of the 17th century.
But not being a postmodernist, he
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Subject: Value Theory Symposium
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 08:18:56
INTERNATIONAL WORKING GROUP ON VALUE THEORY
2d SUMMER SYMPOSIUM AT GREENWICH
9-10 JULY, 2001
Not to be missed will be the session on litigation
as productive labor.
mbs
Indeed, thanks for bringing this back. That is what I
meant. Slaves were not involved in a commodity
producing labour process like that of the plantation
style, especially one leading to or involving surplus
extraction. This, of course, changed as a result of
Portuguese, Spanish and English
One major difference between wheat and rice is that the later tends to
grow in a system of polyculture. Along with the rice, fish or ducks
and sometimes even pigs are grown. Comparing grain yields can be
misleading.
That is a major difference as I take that term to mean
multicropping.
INTERNATIONAL WORKING GROUP ON VALUE THEORY
2d SUMMER SYMPOSIUM AT GREENWICH
9-10 JULY, 2001
Not to be missed will be the session on litigation
as productive labor.
mbs
Hey, the quip's more appropriate for LBO-talk with its many
opinionated lawyers
Yoshie
Hey, the quip's more appropriate for LBO-talk with its many
opinionated lawyers
Yeah, and won't I be taking refuge here until that load of much ado about
nothing is over ...
Reminds of something I think I saw in a movie once. Some bloke in a pub
loudly proclaims all lawyers are assholes,
Brad replies to Michael P.:
Re:
As if he were a school marm correcting wayward children
Michael. Look what I'm dealing with here:
... repeated smart-ass intrusions... deigns... self-delusion
...confirmation of prejudice... disciplinary
culture of condescension... brilliant economist...
It might be interesting to sketch briefly the 'eonic effect' solution to this
intractable problem of defining the beginning of capitalism. The problem
disappears.
If we perceive discontinuity and the need for a model to mirror this, then a
new property is available, relative onset, or relative
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RELEASED TODAY: In the first quarter of 2001, there were 1,664 mass
layoff actions by employers that resulted in the separation of 305,227
workers from their jobs for more than 30 days, according to preliminary
figures released by the Bureau of
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Not to be
I'm always trolling for good lawyer jokes.
My sister, a TV producer, made some snipe at lawyers the other day. I told
her that she was in what is perhaps the only technically lawful profession
that the public holds in lower regard than mine.
--jks
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Justin Schwartz wrote:
I'm always trolling for good lawyer jokes.
My sister, a TV producer, made some snipe at lawyers the other day.
I told her that she was in what is perhaps the only technically
lawful profession that the public holds in lower regard than mine.
'fraid not, Justin. You're
Micael wrote:
The Journal of Economic Perspectives once had a number of widely differing
estimates of the amount of dollars abroad. If the dollar were to suddenly
threaten to loose value, say to the Euro, and people wanted to dump them,
wouldn't that create serious problems in the US?
Brad
Brad replies to Michael P.:
Re:
As if he were a school marm correcting wayward children
Michael. Look what I'm dealing with here:
... repeated smart-ass intrusions... deigns... self-delusion
...confirmation of prejudice... disciplinary
culture of condescension... brilliant economist...
I have to leave in a moment, so I don't have time to respond in detail. You are
absolutely wrong, Brad. Maybe saying that Michael K. has no social skills may
seem to be a tit-for-tat strategy, but it only leads to escalating flame wars.
Why do you need to do that?
It is absolutely
Indeed, thanks for bringing this back. That is what I
meant. Slaves were not involved in a commodity
producing labour process like that of the plantation
style, especially one leading to or involving surplus
extraction.
??? I see the lack of plantation-style labor to produce staples for a
Brad wrote:
For the record: Bullshit. Total bullshit.
language! Don Roper might kick us off the archive at csf.
and: People like Michael Keaney--people with no social skills whatsoever,
who never learned how to behave in any company, polite or not--ruined
USENET as a forum. In my view,
from SLATE's on-line news summary:
Several papers report that while visiting Poland, Bill Clinton was hit on
the sleeve with an egg tossed by an anti-globalization protestor, and that
he more or less laughed off the incident. But the WP's T.R. Reid reports
that during a campaign appearance in
When did the term, intellectual property, first appear?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
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Doing a quick Lexis search of Federal cases:
These principles, however, are not inconsistent with another one, equally
well settled, which is, that a liberal construction is to be given to a
patent, and inventors sustained, if practicable, without a departure from
sound principles. Only thus
Michael Perelman wrote:
When did the term, intellectual property, first appear?
as soon as the first conservative figured out that it was
necessary not just to steal the people's land and water but
also their thoughts? ;-)
would the invention of the term coincide with the invention
of the
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When did the term, intellectual property, first appear?
Doing a quick scan through Supreme Court decisions, a pretty isolated
example is a mention in the 1873 case, Mitchell v. Tilghman, 86 U.S. 287,
where the opinion quotes
I got a pdf file of the Who Owns the Media paper. If anyone wants a copy,
let me know.
Apropos Brad's suggestion that legislative decorum might be a model
for PEN-L, this is from the Paul Keating Insults Page
http://www.webcity.com.au/keating/. Many of these gems were uttered
on the floor of the Australian parliament.
Doug
On former Labor Prime Minister, Bob Hawke:
Now
BLS DAILY REPORT, FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2001:
RELEASED TODAY: Regional and state unemployment rates were generally
stable in April. All four regions reported little change from March, and
41 states recorded shifts of 0.3 percentage point or less, the Bureau of
Labor Statistics reports. The
Jim Devine wrote:
)[re congress] Further, the scope of the debate is
severely limited, so that fundamental issues are hardly ever addressed
(while people are lambasted for using class struggle rhetoric if they make
obvious points about the regressivity of Bush's tax cuts). So the speech
Gene Coyle should have been there instead, but it was I who attended. For
unknown reasons (I'll ask), I was invited to a meeting today with a bunch
of business people and folks who work for municipal-owned power companies
to hear talks on what's happening on the California electricity rip-off
Article Translation: open disclosure cuts deeply into the pockets of
the big Wall Street firms; it really chaps their hides, and they would
like to go back to the old system of managed disclosure.
The only relevant source for the article appears to be the Securities
Industry Association. It
At 18/05/01 08:27 -0700, Jim Devine wrote:
Right. The US is _lucky_, since its currency is used as the world money
(as befits its economic, financial, political, and military might).
However, a rapid fall in the dollar might encourage efforts to replace the
dollar as the world currency (with
John Landon,
I respect your intellectual courage in going public with your extravagantly alternative thesis. These dark times require new light for our lamp. I am not persuaded by your thesis, however.
First, I don't understand why you don't like Darwin. It's true that his science wasn't as
DS wrote:
You say that demand is inelastic and the power companies can charge
whatever
they want. Well, how can you say that, as an empirical matter, when
retail
prices haven't risen? Epistemologically, how can you know? Aren't
you
saying that conservation is impossible?
How about a
A biographical note: William Tucker is the guy who used to argue that rent
control caused homelessness.
Joel Blau
David Shemano wrote:
Jim Devine wrote:
One point the fellow made, BTW, was that the situation was made worse by
the California commitment to avoid
Thank you for your comments. Generally, even answering me is bad form, and
takes courage, due to my "extravagantly alternative thesis'. It is
remarkable, but not extravagant, and not so alternative as it might seem.
Alternative to what? The current scene of historical theory is incoherent. So
Another interesting conservative lie. The article states that They
want to impose economic sanctions on nations with low taxation rates,
implying this would include the US. In response, the United States
Treasury Secretary raises the issue of national sovereignty.
The article sidesteps the fact
One more 'chiller' to make Darwin fans weak kneed. Before looking at the
eonic effect you feel sure there is no going back, burn your bridges behind
you.
The following quotation is from my webpage and is a critique by John Campbell
of population genetics models that are often presented as a
Here's a quick effort to complete the argument, but it is already impossible
to quite make the point in one post.
The term 'eonic' for some is a problem, perhaps, it can be dropped. Just
think of 'intermittent', or 'on-off'. Also, we have a problem. Some
mysteries are of the unknown, new
Checkmate for Darwinism applied to history.
I defy any team of scientists, philosophers, Darwinists or anyone else to sit
down and try and refute this argument taken in its full scope. They won't
because they can't, and prefer, since they control the paradigm to play
ostrich, and simply
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