Bello and Callinicos

I would very much like to see the full critique of Bello by Callinicos. If someone finds the complete article, please post it. In the meantime, I think it is clear what Bello is up to. If you ask yourself what the world would look like if everything he asks for in this piece were to come true,

Can We Unite with the Right? by Alex Callinicos/The Global Conjunctureby Walden Bello

Free, gratis copies available of Left Turn. I was impressed with Vol. 1, Number 1. http://www.left-turn.org/feature/callinicos.html http://www.left-turn.org/feature/bello.html Think their webmaster chopped something off of Alex though. Saw his new book from Polity Press the other day, "Against

Re: Re: Re: Re: neomercantilism, trade

> At 07:51 PM 08/27/2001 -0700, you wrote: > >If a tariff is a tax then what were really seeing is a global shifting > >of the tax burden away from capitalists, but states have yet to seek > >compensatory increases in taxes on wages or other income. > > since when are tariffs taxes on capital's

Re: Re: Re: neomercantilism, trade

At 07:51 PM 08/27/2001 -0700, you wrote: >If a tariff is a tax then what were really seeing is a global shifting >of the tax burden away from capitalists, but states have yet to seek >compensatory increases in taxes on wages or other income. since when are tariffs taxes on capital's income? they

Re: Re: Distinguished Order of Miserabilists Update

Eugene wrote: >Today I was on a flight from Memphis to San Francisco. An Airbus 320, >must hold 180 >people or more. -- only 24 people in coach. Everybody in coach could have >had a >sleep with a three seat row each!! I've taken this same flight -- a year >or so ago >--when every seat was f

Re: Re: Re: Distinguished Order of Miserabilists Update

DOT statistics on load factor are available only through Q1 of 2001. Didn't look too bad through then. But the year to year comparison by months shows, for the six months through July, that each month's load factor was lower than the corresponding year earlier month. But the data doesn't lo

Re: Re: Re: Re: neomercantilism, trade

> We don't need more money for social programs. When people fall through > the cracks, it will be because the Democrats didn't follow Lieberman and > support faith-based initiative. If the churches do social policy, they > don't need money. They can perform miracles. === The Dems

Re: Re: Re: neomercantilism, trade

We don't need more money for social programs. When people fall through the cracks, it will be because the Democrats didn't follow Lieberman and support faith-based initiative. If the churches do social policy, they don't need money. They can perform miracles. On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 07:51:26PM

Re: Re: neomercantilism, trade

- Original Message - From: "Michael Perelman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 7:37 PM Subject: [PEN-L:16423] Re: neomercantilism, trade > Keynes realized, certainly by the early 1940s, that propping an economy up > would be far more difficult to

Re: neomercantilism, trade

Keynes realized, certainly by the early 1940s, that propping an economy up would be far more difficult to the extent that the economy is open. Certainly by the mid-1920s, because of his involvement with the Manchester textile industry, Keynes was more than familiar with the declining industry. I

Nice IMF/WB article

e Observer (London) August 21, 2001 IMF'S FOUR STEPS TO DAMNATION How crises, failures, and suffering finally drove a Presidential adviser to the wrong side of the barricades By Gregory Palast It was like a scene out of Le Carré: the brilliant agent comes i

Energy futures

[Perhaps when Gene Coyle's unpacked his bags he could give us a rant on this?] [Washington Post] Power Surge How we're adding energy from below. By David Morris Monday, August 27, 2001; Page A15 >From Washington's perspective, the electricity crisis is, not surprisingly, a national problem de

Disillusioned capitalist

[There's a lot to pick on Roddick for, but does she have a point?] Published on Sunday, August 26, 2001 in the Sunday Herald (Scotland) We Should All Feel Roddick's Disillusionment Editorial SO was Anita Roddick right? Twenty years ago, she was the bright-eyed entrepreneur who was as famous as

Re: Re: Distinguished Order of Miserabilists Update

Eugene Coyle wrote: >Today I was on a flight from Memphis to San Francisco. An Airbus >320, must hold 180 >people or more. -- only 24 people in coach. Everybody in coach >could have had a >sleep with a three seat row each!! I've taken this same flight -- >a year or so ago >--when every sea

Re: Distinguished Order of Miserabilists Update

Today I was on a flight from Memphis to San Francisco. An Airbus 320, must hold 180 people or more. -- only 24 people in coach. Everybody in coach could have had a sleep with a three seat row each!! I've taken this same flight -- a year or so ago --when every seat was filled and people were tu

Re: British war crime against Wuerzburg

Thank you for posting this. I was in Wuerzburg for a couple of days earlier this month for the wedding of a friend of a friend, and was troubled by the note that that the Rough Guide to Germany had the moral courage to print on the destruction of this quiet town. It it the centre of the white

RE: budget surplus & private saving

We can split the private sector into households and businesses fairly easily, though this doesn't address inequality within those sectors. But we do know that businesses, in the aggregate, remain in the black, so far, even if profits are declining. So for the private sector as a whole to be in def

budget surplus & private saving

Charles puts the finger on the critical issue of wealth distribution amongst private agents / factors of production. So far the dialogue was about the private sector as a whole vis-à-vis the public sector. In this case, profits, rents and wages are both but one single aggregate. Further disagreg

Re: neomercantilism, trade

Mat wrote: >Promoting exports and/or limiting >imports (by whatever means, e.g., import tariffs or quotas, export >subsidies, exchange rate or currency depreciation, etc.) as a way of >promoting domestic output, income, and employment was referred to as a >"beggar-thy-neighbor" approach that these

Re: Income Inequality and Health

Martin Brown wrote that ecological regressions (like average health against average income plus income inequality) are not worth the effort. Could you expand a bit on why? I think regession assumptions like linearity, independendence of variables and unidirection of causality are big problems

Re: Cloning conference

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/24/01 10:19AM >>> [from where did 'mankind' get right to claim phenotypic immortality for itself] CB: Genetic engineering is a human practice. Humans have always regulated their own practices in the form of custom ( culture). * IMPORTANT CONFERENCE * BEYOND

Re: Fw: NEW DEM DAILY: Help for Argentina: Right Decision; Valuable Lessons

>During the Asian financial crisis of 1997-99, President Clinton's >international economic team -- Treasury Secretaries Rubin and >Summers, Commerce Secretary Daley, and U.S. Trade >Representatives Kantor and Barshefsky -- provided sound policy >guidance and calm assurance to markets. >Comp

We Are All Keynesians Again

Today's WSJ has two pro-Keynesian diatribes. The one on the front page is pretty substantive-- its burden is that now everybody except politicians of both parties agree that surplus orthodoxy is stupid. There was also an op-ed in the Post by one of their idiot savants to similar effect a couple o

Re: British political realignment?

Subject: [UK_Left_Network] UK: BNP - A Party On The Fringe - BBC Online > http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1505000/audio/_1509333_tory17_griffin.ram > (RealAudio clip: Edgar (Nicks Dad) Griffin) > http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1505000/video/_1509204_griffin_sat_25aug_wt_vi .ram > (RealVideo clip: E

neomercantilism, trade

Rakesh and others raise a number of important concerns and criticisms with regard to Keynesian type analyses and policies. In this post I want to address the trade issue. I agree that there are problems with 'Keynesian protectionism.' But it should be noted that many Keynesians, like Joan Robins

Re: Re: Re: the cost of economics

Riccardo says that they have had very few sales. I assume that the price is not a factor On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 10:22:43AM -0700, Ian Murray wrote: > > > > > They have a small market. They used to be able to export many of > their > > books to Japan, but that market has narrowed. So t

Fw: NEW DEM DAILY: Help for Argentina: Right Decision; Valuable Lessons

FWIW, fyi. Michael Pugliese -Original Message- From: New Democrats Online <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, August 27, 2001 11:07 AM Subject: NEW DEM DAILY: Help for Argentina: Right Decision; Valuable Lessons > >=

Re: the cost of economics

At 10:01 AM 8/27/01 -0700, you wrote: >Anybody know why Elgar charges so bloody much for their books? isn't it obvious? they set the price equal to the marginal cost. Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine

Re: Re: Re: Democratic Party Fiscal Conservatism

At 26/08/01 23:13, Michael wrote: >Rakesh Bhandari wrote: > > > ah what's a reasonable position for a left keynesian on trade? let's > say the > > tax cut suffers leakage and bush and greenspan and the fucking bond > traders (as > > clinton described them) are not willing to allow deficits the

Re: Re: the cost of economics

> They have a small market. They used to be able to export many of their > books to Japan, but that market has narrowed. So the specialize in small > runs, hoping to catch as many libraries as possible. === You mean "Financial Keynesianism and Market Instability : The Economic Legacy

Re: the cost of economics

They have a small market. They used to be able to export many of their books to Japan, but that market has narrowed. So the specialize in small runs, hoping to catch as many libraries as possible. On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 10:01:34AM -0700, Ian Murray wrote: > Anybody know why Elgar charges so bl

Re: Query, was Re: Income....

Carrol Cox wrote: >What is an SMSA? Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area. See for more than you ever wanted to konw. Doug

the cost of economics

Anybody know why Elgar charges so bloody much for their books? Ian

FW: "JUGGLING WORK AND FAMILY" EXAMINES CLASH BETWEEN JOB DEMANDS AND NEEDS OF PERSONAL LIFE

My fearless leader Eileen Appelbaum (EPI Research Director) appears in this. mbs > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE > July 31, 2001 > > Contact: Lisa Meredith or Edie Emery, Goodman Media International > (703) 837-9500 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

RE: Up From Debt Reduction

There is a minor wonk-controversy over how much of the public debt is easily liquidated. The Repugs say the last $800 billion or so would cost too much to buy back, since the holders of this debt want very much to have safe assets and would demand a premium to let them go. Then our hero A. Green

Query, was Re: Income....

"Brown, Martin - ARP (NCI)" wrote: > > > > Yes, but Deaton's regression says that the health status of whites (I think > we are talking about males only, BTW) is also worse in SMSA's with high > What is an SMSA? Carrol

Fwd: News: Pentagon Budget Still Flush

from SLATE: >The [Washington POST] online serves up proof that the Pentagon has made an >important change when it comes to $600 toilet seats. A story at the site >reveals that the [US Department of Defence] is developing a Collectively >Protected Expeditionary Latrine, a toilet that's suitable

Up From Debt Reduction

>From "Up From D.R" "A third tidbit in the CBO projections is the fate of public debt after Bush's tax cut. By 2011, public debt with or without the tax cut is still as low as thought possible. How could this be? Because the post-tax cut surplus is still big enough to eliminate all Federal de

BLS Daily Report

> BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, DAILY REPORT, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 2001: > > Initial claims filed with state agencies for unemployment insurance > increased by a modest 8,000 to a total of 393,000 during the week ending > August 18, according to the Employment and Training Administration. The > more

Re: budget surplus & private saving

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/27/01 11:02AM >>> Charles Brown said: Would it be possible to give bit more of the logic of why a budget surplus saps savings from the private sector ? Alex' comment: In a broadly aggregated economy (say, public vs private sector, omitting, for simplicity the external

budget surplus & private saving

Charles Brown said: Would it be possible to give bit more of the logic of why a budget surplus saps savings from the private sector ? Alex' comment: In a broadly aggregated economy (say, public vs private sector, omitting, for simplicity the external sector), one institution running a surplus r

Re: Democratic Party Fiscal Conservatism

- Original Message - From: "Rakesh Bhandari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I don't know about keynesians but the american left has effectively capitulated > to protectionism and neo mercantile trade policy. they are too excited about > seattle, genoa and fair trade to see the other side. They a

Distinguished Order of Miserabilists Update

DOOM is signing 'em up by the gaggle. We have most of the US press on the strength now; on a day when the Financial Times asks why there's so much 'pro forma reporting' on finance. I just can't stop recommending PrudentBear; I've a terrible headache and a bad case of overworkitis, yet a quick pe

RE: Re: Re: Income Inequality and Health

Those are usually studies looking at the relationship between individual health and individual measures of race and income. As I said "everyone" accepts the strong relationship between individual income and health. This is something different - inequality (e.g. Gini or some other summary measure

RE: Re: Income Inequality and Health

I'd say (2). Doesn't racism have effects on health status (through judgments made in health care, and perhaps through other routes - surely I've read of big race-based differences in treatment for acute heart problems in the US)? Racism and race relations in the US do t

Re: Democratic Party Fiscal Conservatism

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/27/01 03:43AM >>> I don't know about keynesians but the american left has effectively capitulated to protectionism and neo mercantile trade policy. they are too excited about seattle, genoa and fair trade to see the other side. They are thus walking in the steps of

RE: Re: Up From Debt Reduction

I presume the latter effect more than offsets any fiscal drag, but the advocates of debt reduction are often not very explicit about their theory. If memory serves, in basic n-c growth theory, a lower interest rate could increase the level of investment but not change the growth *rate* beyond a on

Underground economics

Labour's Tube plan is not value for money, report says By Ben Russell and Saeed Shah The Independent, 25 August 2001 The Government was accused of inflating the estimated cost of publicly running London Underground by £2.5bn to make commercial involvement seem cheaper. The assertion came

The neo-liberal education

Universities hire credit rating agencies to aid hunt for funds By Marie Woolf, Chief Political Correspondent The Independent, 25 August 2001 Universities are turning to private credit rating agencies to help in their search for corporate investors as they try to make up a shortfall in gov

Britain/US split?

Europe's unilateralist leaders: Jeffrey Gedmin finds that while Europeans profess a love for multilateralism they do not practise what they preach Financial Times, Aug 22, 2001 By JEFFREY GEDMIN Assertions about George W. Bush's unilateralist tendencies are turning to caricature - and a dangero

British political realignment?

BNP leader claims more Tories for his party MICHAEL SETTLE The Herald, 27 August 2001 THE far right British National Party last night claimed it was "becoming home" to large numbers of disaffected Conservative party members who shared its "common sense" views. Gi

Democratic Party Fiscal Conservatism

michael perelman wrote: > protection by way of intellectual property is > far more decisive than keeping some clothing and steel out of the economy. is the summers and delong paper circulating yet? > > Whoah. I would think that the Keynesians would be more likely to be linked with > the forc