Yeah, competition among the biggest oil companies, all of merged, inter-connected, back-room dealing, I'll scratch-your-back-you-scratch-mine oil companies. I'm sure that will create a competitive atmosphere where the highest price is attained for the Iraqis.
As well, how is the Iraqi government
Greetings Pen 'Ellers,
Thanks Joanna for forwarding Lakoff's interview.
I've enjoyed reading Lakoff, especially on philosophy and mathematics.
Lakoff argues for 'embodiment' which I think helps to clarify the many muddy
arguments about cognition and dissipate the mind duality that permeates the
Title: please circulate
Check out the
40th anniversary issue of Canadian Dimension magazine:
Cy Gonick...The CD Story So Far
Dorothy Smith...Whatever Happened to the Women's Movement?
Leo Panitch...Whatever Happened to Socialism?
Molly Alexander/Pierre Dostie...Is Quebec Nationalism Still A
The Division of Social Studies, Simon s Rock College of Bard, an
early-admission four-year liberal arts college committed to superior
teaching, seeks a broadly trained economist to contribute to our
interdisciplinary curriculum and invites applications for a one-year
replacement position in
just a heads up. Though it hasn't been announced yet, the Loyola Marymount University
economics department will be hiring one person for a one-year position (teaching 4
classes (2 preps) per semester) and two or more teaching part-time. These jobs really
make sense only to those living in Los
It's interesting that in some ways, Marx's analysis of production in volume I of
CAPITAL is similar to the neoclassical notion of an _aggregate_ production function,
which is even worse than a micro-level production function. He largely ignores the
qualitative differences amongst different
Rakesh recommends this article by a friend. The part I found most
interesting is the potential effect on commercial real estate -- although
I only skimmed it for a couple of moments.
http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/news/Research_Report_Fall_2003.pdf
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
Corporate Voices for Working Families
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http://www.cvworkingfamilies.org/current.html
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 02:55:37PM -0800, Eubulides wrote:
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California
What production function do we reject? And on what grounds?
IMO, Anwar Shaikh's claim is that fitting an homothetic production function
on aggregate data is arbitrary. As they'd say in econometrics, there's an
identification problem because such data don't allow to single out the
parameters.
From Adam Smith to the present day, economic theory has shortchanged the
workers most crucial to the functioning of human life and offered skewed
views of scarcity and extraction. Perelman shows how this approach has
produced a discipline in which its followers' models and representations of
the
Caspian Sea Oil Pipeline Wins World Bank Loan
By Peter Behr
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, November 4, 2003; 4:00 PM
A planned 1,100-mile pipeline to carry oil from the Caspian Sea toward
world markets won a $125 million loan commitment from a World Bank funding
unit today. The
An item is 'born' when it begins to conform to the definition
which defines the population, and 'dies' when it ceases to conform to this
definition. The change which carries any physical aggregation of matter
over the boundary line may, of course, be quite small. The birth of a baby
does not
[truly hilarious]
washingtonpost.com
Loot Turned Legitimate
By David Ignatius
Tuesday, November 4, 2003; Page A25
Capital is time, observed one of my economics professors nearly 30 years
ago, and I have been trying ever since to understand what he meant by that
cryptic remark. Now, watching
Dear James:
On Marx's use of abstraction in Capital I you wrote:
In order to understand
capitalist production in volume I, he deliberately
and clearly abstracts from the differences among
heterogeneous use-values, types of labor-power, and
means of production. He uses the acid of
Dear Julio:
The line of my argument is very similar to the comment
I sent to James Devine.
You wrote:
As Jim Devine wrote, Marx's description of the
process of production in
Capital (vol. I, part III) is akin to this idea.
After all, the material
substratum of the capitalist value equation,
http://www.iea.org/
Investors fight shy of energy's $16 trillion need
Terry Macalister
Wednesday November 5, 2003
The Guardian
The world needs $16 trillion (£10 trillion) worth of investment in energy
over the next 30 years if it is to meet growing demand for supplies, a
leading agency warned
Privatizing Highways in Latin America: Is it Possible to Fix
What Went Wrong?
BY: EDUARDO M. ENGEL
Yale University - Department of Economics
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
RONALD D. FISCHER
Universidad de Chile
[This is hilarious. I missed it when it first came out, and someone just
told me about it at a Halloween party.]
[The highlights are as follows. Long Term Capital didn't just bankrupt
itself by overplaying its arbitrage position. It was also very big on not
paying taxes. So here is the great
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