I posted commentary within the last couple of weeks suggesting that at
least one of the insurgent groups in Iraq has been effectively
targeting UK security personnel.
Strikingly islamic looking photograph of latest US hostage with the
unAmerican name of Wassef Ali Hassoun according to the
[A sharp jab from the right. Would the economists among us like to comment?]
Low Taxes Do What? by Thomas Sowell
The high cost of economic illiteracy.
Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.Some years ago,
the distinguished international-trade economist Jagdish Bhagwati was
Melvin P.
Your reply to this question was no . . .Lenin did not differtiatie between the economic states and class formation of peoples. The reply is that Lenin grouped all "Causauses nations together in social terms ". . . what ever that means.
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Yeah -- there's a big big difference
I wrote:
by which I assume he means Ingushetia and Dagestan
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By Dagestan, I meant Chechnya. Gotta start editing my posts!
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Melvin, good as always, writes:
Thus the various Indian people are "old nations" or advance national groups or historically evolved people who have not entered the economic development that characterizes modern nations - bourgeois property relations. Lenin is very . . . very clear about this
Russia collapses, IMF gives it thumbs up. Russia booms, IMF says "bad job." Go figure.
Jun 28 2004 11:35AM
IMF critical of Russian economic policy
MOSCOW. June 28 (Interfax) - The final report issued by the International Monetary Fund's expert mission, which worked in Moscow on June 15-25, has
Chris Doss wrote:
I add:
I think the comparison with Native Americans is very imstructive. Groups
such as the Chechens, Avars, Chuvash, Dargins, etc. etc. etc. are in
effect the Native Russians of those parts of Russia that were swallowed
up by the expansion of the Russian Empire. There is one big
I don't think that there's anything wrong with this observation as longas you understand genocide in the narrow technical sense of gaschambers, etc. But the UN defines genocide in terms of destroying theculture of a people as well. For example, the beating and other forms ofpunishment of Indian
Chris Doss wrote:
Yeah, and there you would have to talk about Russification, which I
don't know a lot about, but which varied a lot according to time and
place depending on who was tsar and other factors, and some of which was
deliberate and some of which was just small cultures swallowed up
I wrote:
Yeah, and there you would have to talk about Russification, which I don't know a lot about, but which varied a lot according to time and place depending on who was tsar and other factors, and some of which was deliberate and some of which was just small cultures swallowed up by larger
Man, get more data before you start drawing the analogies! To what extent were the Chuvash force-Russified? That would have to be established.
I don't believe Tatarification and Avarification were/are forced processes.
---This reminds me of a recent Onion article:BAGHDAD—As the Coalition
In a message dated 6/28/2004 4:30:52 AM Central Standard Time,
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think
the comparison with Native Americans is very instructive. Groups such as the
Chechens, Avars, Chuvash, Dargins, etc. etc. etc. are in effect the Native
Russians of those parts of Russia
In a message dated 6/28/2004 7:56:19 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Just one
note of clarification. Melvin says that American Indians didnot have a
bourgeoisie, etc. (as if that's any excuse for genocide), butthe
Cherokees--one of the most populous groups--were
Russianization under the Soviet Regime during all periods, primarily meant language instructions in Russian and the learning of the Russian language as a practical matter of economic and infrastructure development. Various regions implemented different policy with some making the study of
Marx made a killing on the stock market one time according to Tussie's
biographer, slavers,pirates and all behind that historic market.
CB
by Carrol Cox
Sabri Oncu wrote:
This is not diversification at all. It is a single bet, a bet on the US
dollar hegemony, whose future is more uncertain
Thomas Frank was the editor of the Baffler, an elegantly written
magazine that appeared in the early 1990s and which still comes out
fitfully. It had a peculiar editorial perspective that honed in on
corporate cooptation of the counter-culture. There were memorable
articles on how, for example,
by Doug Henwood
Devine, James wrote:
I said that the superficial stuff of volume III
I missed this. What's superficial in v 3?
Doug
^^^
CB: Perhaps superficial in the sense of not having to do with what a
_revolutionary_ working class movement could or would directly impact or
The comparison of the class structure amongst the various Indian nations, band and peoples would make more sense as economic logic and impulse in the context of not simply Georgia but the American Union. At that time - name your period, and lets try to conform to the Chronology offered - 1850,
Im not an economist but I think you have the description wrong. This is a
dull jerk from the right. Almost pure ideology, put down and genuflecting
before the idols.
.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
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Sent: Monday, June 28,
Squeezing workers
The latest economic numbers are hard to be optimistic about, especially
since the Bush administration's solutions are likely to further increase
corporate profits, not jobs and wages.
- - - - - - - - - - - -
By James K. Galbraith, salon.com
June 28, 2004 | Let me start by
comments on Sowell:
1. Yes, he's very dull-minded and ideological. BTW, early in his career, he was a
Marxist of some sort.
2. he's right that it's not wages (and benefits) that count in international trade.
Instead, it's unit labor costs (w+b per worker/labor productivity). To some extent,
In a message dated 6/28/2004 7:56:19 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Just one
note of clarification. Melvin says that American Indians didnot have a
bourgeoisie, etc. (as if that's any excuse for genocide), butthe
Cherokees--one of the most populous groups--were
In Defense of Marxism website
The paradox of prosperity
By Michael Roberts
The pundits of capitalism are talking up success. In the US, each piece
of economic data is greeted with enthusiasm. All the experts on the
business TV channels and in the newspapers are crowing that the American
economy
Prisoners of the Subprime American Dream? (about astonishingly high
proportions of subprime and nontraditional mortgages):
http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/06/prisoners-of-subprime-american-dream.html
Some of Sowell's early stuff on Say's law was pretty good. Then he became more of a
right wing hack. Reagan tried to get him to be Sec. of Education. Now his most
appears as a syndicated right wing ideologue.
Jim's critique was excellent.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California
In a message dated 6/28/2004 10:06:14 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ironically, I think it could be argued that Russian expansion was so
much more benign than its American counterpart just because the Russian Empire
was much more "backward" than the United States;
This is old but I dont think it has been posted. Perhaps Chris has something
to say about it. Russia is trying hard to catch up with and surpass the west
in elimination of the safety net.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
Russian unions protest cuts to social benefits
Last Updated Thu, 10 Jun 2004 12:02:46
Contrarian ChroniclesThe housing bubble doesn't
add up
Just like stock prices, real estate prices
will not go up forever. We can't all live in million-dollar houses. Thats what
scares me and should scare you.By Bill FleckensteinIt might be hard for folks to
step back and see a
BBC website:
The presidential election in Serbia has been won by the pro-Western
candidate of the Democratic Party, Boris Tadic.
His rival in the run-off poll, Tomislav Nikolic of the nationalist
Serbian Radical Party, has admitted defeat.
Previous three ballots were declared invalid because of
Michael Perelman writes:
Some of Sowell's early stuff on Say's law was pretty good. Then he became more of
a
right wing hack. Reagan tried to get him to be Sec. of Education. Now his most
appears as a syndicated right wing ideologue.
Why is he a hack? The man turns out a book every year
Posted by Suresh to Marxmail:
The Baffler's preoccupation with pop culture and its
role in sustaining bourgeois ideology made for
pleasant enough reading, yet somewhere beneath the
post-modern, vaguely radical-sounding articles lay a
wishy-washy liberalism. I guess it's in this sense
that Thomas
An honest man is being tailgated by a stressed-out woman on a busy
boulevard.
Suddenly, the light turns yellow, just in front of him. He does the
honest thing , and stops at the crosswalk, even though he could have
beaten the red light by accelerating through the intersection.
The tailgating
David, I just finished with a conference on the history of economic thought in
Toronto. Maybe 40% of the scholars here follow Hayek. Another 35% are monetarists
-- rough estimates. I have a great deal of respect for virtually every one of them.
I would not call any of them hacks.
Some of
Michael Perelman writes:
David, I just finished with a conference on the history of economic thought in
Toronto. Maybe 40% of the scholars here follow Hayek. Another 35% are monetarists
-- rough estimates. I have a great deal of respect for virtually every one of them.
I would not call any
Jim Devine could answer your Krugman question better than I could. Krugman still has
some of his work that still uses solid economic anlysis -- but he has been in the
popularizing biz. only a short time. Maybe after a couple decades, his work will be
consistantly superficial also.
On Mon, Jun
Once Bush gets the nuke up in Idaho to make the hydrogen, all will be well.
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 09:41:23PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hydrogen Cars Ready to Roll, For a Price
By Miguel Llanos
MSNBC
Wednesday 23 June 2004
If you can't wait five, 10 or 20 years for the much-touted
Once Bush gets the nuke up in Idaho to make the hydrogen all will be well.
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 09:41:23PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hydrogen Cars Ready to Roll, For a Price
By Miguel Llanos
MSNBC
Wednesday 23 June 2004
If you can't wait five, 10 or 20 years for the much-touted
To think that you can get intellectual property rights on how to avoid taxes. Wow!
The Patented Tax Shelter
Lawyers, Financial Advisers
Are Getting Exclusive Rights
To Estate-Planning Strategies
By RACHEL EMMA SILVERMAN
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
June 24, 2004; Page D1
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you rang, sir?
I don't read Sowell very often, but what I've read is superficial. The fact that he
made several major mistakes in the short piece I critiqued for pen-l suggests he's an
ideologist. I don't know if he's a hack or not.
as for Krugman, I don't know either. I don't know what
Below I include the third and last instalment of my chronology on
Russian-Chechen relations. But first some remarks on the discussion.
Chris Doss demands I deal with the question of the attacks by some Chechens and
other Islamic elements on Dagestan, saying Dammit, answer my
In a message dated 6/28/2004 10:45:11 PM Central Standard
Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Now, of
course, there were also other comments about my chronology. One such comment
was that who cared if the Tsarist government waged decades of warfare to smash
the Caucasus, or if Stalin
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