e "classical Marxist" school since you
lambaste it as "fundamentalist"? I doubt it. Thus, I think the term should
be dropped.
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l unionist's
critique of craft unionism (a logical implication that hasn't been followed
in practice in most cases).
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(he was up for tenure). But it fits with
the themes of the whole book.
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've missed something since I've been staying out of the
discussion of this topic (since Mat said it had already been discussed a
lot on pen-l).
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ild autism
(Asperger's Syndrome). He finds his attention to be totally taken over by TV.)
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" over
free-speech on the radio involving unlicensed Haitian "pirate" stations in
Brooklyn that are being forced to shut down by the Federal Communications
Commission.
Louis Proyect
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to define the general interests and to keep the
special interests from rocking the boat too much.
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ss
politicians concerned in the matter, especially Ted Kennedy whose committee
his testimony had held spellbound only two years earlier.
Kahn is no Hayekian ideologue, though he thinks dereg was wonderful.
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od, since consumption is a good thing, too, while investment
and consumption are often mixed. The problem is not "investment" vs.
"consumption" but rather resources going to support the rich and powerful
(as with Dubya's tax cut scheme) vs. resources going to the people wh
e should not be against power as such, including on a
global level. I would say world power is urgently needed to control the
blind workings of the financial market and the destruction of the
biosphere. ...
but the current nascent world government (basically, the US and its tools,
like the IMF) i
canned by
Occidental College in 1984, because my teaching "wasn't good enough." Of
course, there were other things going on there (like ideological conflict).
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t teaching
evaluations to the students in the first hour. I discovered, to my
astonishment, that the students were colluding to do their evaluations, led
by a student who clearly didn't like me.] In retrospect, I'm glad to be
away from there.
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something to undermine your case, and sometimes they
succeed, especially with the type of ideological deviants who people pen-l.
It doesn't have to be course evals. that are used.
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d, as part of the Permanent Campaign
which characterizes US politics). I'm sure that as the Cheney gang comes up
with new initiatives, Dubya will be the Public Relations flack who pushes them.
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advertising
image, and/or (3) monopoly position (like Microsoft's).
Of course, I'm not an advocate of central planning of the sort where a
small minority makes decisions (the way that Rupert Murdoch does).
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his research into his political activism.
I don't know about Bowles, though his textbook (with Edwards) is quite
useful. The less said about Gintis, the better. See his last correspondence
with pen-l, in the archives somewhere.
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) that an increase in the number of college-educated would cause
that premium to fall? (All else constant, of course.)
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that the U.S. recently named an aircraft carrier after
Ronnie, honoring his long and hard experience in combat in the Navy?
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the Reagan
era. The right-wingers who support the system because it will protect
America don't understand foreign policy. The real reason to back missile
defense: It can be an offensive weapon that allows U.S. forces to
intervene all over the world without fear of missile attacks.
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one of the forces that helped push
"deregulation" as part of the then-nascent neoliberal revolution.
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interest rates are usually higher than
short-term ones. (The exception -- a yield-curve inversion -- often occurs
before recessions.) Capitalism doesn't follow ethical standards.
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e
Samuelson who somehow seems to intuit the universal and cross-cultural
nature of human psychology. Has he ever studied psychology, anthropology,
or sociology? It's a little bit like the stereotyped Aristotelian who can
count the number of teeth a horse has without actually examining a horse.
(or was i
supposedly without causing any actual burns.
the future response to Seattle?
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improve the welfare of the proletariat.
In short, I repeat my argument that racism makes white workers -- as well
as workers of color -- "losers." Therefore, racism is not in the interest
of white workers.
Yoshie
P.S. The above discussion originated in LBO-talk; I'm posting it here
because I'm interested in what Progressive Economists have to say about
the subject.
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ial-democratic ideas in NEWSWEEK?
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(at least those with money to speculate with) rather than
according to what's risky for the world, including the natural environment.
[was: Re: [PEN-L:8604] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [Fwd: Re: query:
Frank Ramsey] ]
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for Hollywood (non-sports entertainment).
Of course, it fits with Frank Cook's WINNER-TAKE-ALL SOCIETY thesis.
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that Hubbard at the CEA
says. That is, they'll ignore it unless it fits with the pre-determined
agenda of cutting taxes for the rich. As the sainted Max has said, it [tax
cuts for the rich] is what the Republicans do.
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e with lots of grant money research assistants can follow its lead.
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oing
business in Burma. A visit to Kenneth Cole's flagship store on Fifth
Avenue at Rockefeller Center in New York City, on Wednesday, February
28th, however, turned up numerous sweater styles made in Burma.
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devil take the hindmost (i.e., screw the future). This behavior seems
to be related to the power of the financiers (some of which, ironically,
are workers' pension funds, like CALPERS).
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violent objection to.
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data sets aren't the same, since they cover different time periods and the
like.
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the stuff about how corporate investment is determined not by
interest rates but by corporate cash flow?
that's interesting (though likely not to Louis). So the CEA might be led by
someone who thinks that monetary policy isn't very effective?
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At 05:41 PM 2/28/01 -0500, you wrote:
Jim Devine wrote:
Brad writes:
Even the stuff about how corporate investment is determined not by
interest rates but by corporate cash flow?
that's interesting (though likely not to Louis). So the CEA might be led
by someone who thinks that monetary
! If these studies are true, now I can't point to any good thing that
former Governor Pete "Pedro" Wilson did while in office (he being an
innovator in reducing public-school class size). I'll have to go back to
the "stopped clock being right twice a day" metaphor!
Jim Devine [EMA
published anything yet,
and I haven't had the chance to talk to him about it, but I'm going to get
on the case very soon.
I've heard that the rich die of _different_ causes (such as Lipitor
deprivation) than the poor (e.g., poisoning by toxic waste dumps).
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of
uncertainty in making decisions about the future, but I don't know anything
about him.
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decline in the
poverty rate in the US.
to quote Chairperson Doug on this issue, from the most recent issue of
LBO: Not to be too cynical or anything, but it's almost enough to make you
expect an imminent recession, to re-store the natural order of things.
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of a gyno, and she
pulled me through a couple of problems the gynos couldn't identify. Also, PAs
are frequently trained in abortion and can provide services in a doctors
office in many places where there are absolutely no other service providers
available. maggie coleman
Jim Devine wrote:
Some
s and consumers (presumably like the woman in the
fur coat) still believe Mr Greenspan can avert recession; that helps to
underpin confidence. Undeniable. Yet, if a recession were to occur, the
shock to confidence could be severe-like discovering that the emperor had
no clothes after all.
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uot;,
Gore won by 29,756 votes. And by the narrower standard of where the vote
was "perfectly clear", Gore still won by 1017 votes.
Good graphs too :)
-- Nathan Newman
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tion study conducted by the Orlando Sentinel of Florida's Lake
County ballots that included overvotes found net gains for Gore, because
the overvotes included ballots where cleanly punched regular votes for
Gore were accompanied by cleanly punched write-in votes for him.
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take over.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
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Chico, CA 95929
530-898-5321
fax 530-898-5901
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Zapatistas in Chiapas consider themselves to be
"Marxist-Leninist." Nor does anyone else, as far as I know.
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hat
"pro-capitalist" means.
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s that
belief unravels, so will the dollar's value. The Good Housekeeping seal is
in jeopardy.
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)?
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goods (not luxuries). Doesn't this mean that a payroll tax cut is the
progressive tax cut? Max?
strangely enough, Senator Joseph Lieberman (the recently-elected Vice
President of the U.S.) agrees. (Cf. BUSINESS WEEK, February 12, 2001, p. 28.)
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th College
professors were murdered (allegedly by two teenagers). Is profocide a form
of hate crime?
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litary source saying the bombs were "tens of
yards off," and another saying the average miss was by "more than 100
yards." A WSJ story on the raid says that only about half the bombs
dropped hit their targets.
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interested in helping the rich as a whole -- and their
friends and political allies -- than the stock market _per se_.
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Please tell us your conclusions rather than tantalizing us with hints.
At 08:41 AM 2/22/01 -0800, you wrote:
Curious on this I just checked the DLC website. Did a search "payroll tax"
50 hits.
http://www.ndol.org/index.cfm
Michael Pugliese
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From: Jim Dev
of an
article about the Stanford Math student who hammered his own advisor to
death, as a hint about the need to speed up the process.
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% of the payroll
tax. But, again I look to Max and y'all for guidance on the policy details.
just tell us what you think, with qualifications if you want, and we'll
suggest whether it's wrong or right. There's no need to invest any ego in
what you say, so it's okay to make mistakes.
Jim Devine [EMAIL
presume that the DLC is wrong all the time.
It seems to me that the big down-side might be that cutting payroll taxes
might be used later as an excuse to cut Social Security benefits or
Medicare or both. But I'll let the Sainted Max and other illuminati give
their perspectives...
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ation than
any
central planner could. Further, I bet they use the market to assign
grades... After all, who could be a better judge of what grade a student
deserves than the student him or herself?
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--
Michael Perelman
toward the ADA fits well with Ayn Rand's
attitudes, as shown in her THE FOUNTAINHEAD.
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needed to organize the massive slaughter of
Jews (and I presume, other pariah groups) after 1939. He's the author of a
new book, "IBM and the Holocaust" (Crown).
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y agreeing with the US
government.
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in
biological determinism -- or perhaps that proteins play such a role. But
it's good that the crudest form of biological determinism is hurt. I hope
that the "selfish gene" is shot down.
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ia," i.e., part of the media establishment. Still,
it's good when he gets published.
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na, but he of course was one of the political forces
against a US opening to China.
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ey Dahmer.
(Is "anorexic fashion model" redundant?)
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in Iraq with respect to the oil industry?
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of World War I?
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hat's even
idiotic as a sound-bite, even if one accepts the fellow's political premises.
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. Does anyone know anything about this book or the author?
(if you're on PKT please respond directly to me, since currently I don't
receive PKT messages.)
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ly profits. The whole
argument revolves around these two different aspects of the publicness of the
goods--non-rivalry and non-excludability.
The above sounds a lot like a paper that my old undergraduate thesis
advisor (William Nordhaus) published back in the 1970s about
"Schumpeterian"
lining: We're lucky that
Dubya's not attacking Japan to avenge the recent surprise attack on one of
our submarines off the coast of Japan
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ce I've done it, though for me it was more a matter of
resisting the fall out of petty bourgeois status, i.e., resisting downward
mobility). (My father was a bureaucrat at a not-for-profit association.) A
effort to resist the wage-labor/capitalist relationship would be more
collective in nature.
Jim D
-- that
undermine fellow feeling and public spiritedness. One of my conclusions is
that the latter-day "communitarians" who wish to wed Lockean capitalism
with Rousseauean or Smithian community feelings are fooling themselves.
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nd
III, too. It simply refers to the capitalist class as a whole. It has
nothing to do with recent ideas of "social capital" as some sort of public
asset held by "civil society."
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to Bush
pére as _in effect_
pardoning himself.
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Sandinista contra terrorists in Nicaragua).
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in Italian provinces and the economic growth rates
of those provinces in the 1980s. Whoop-de-doo!
so this means that by participating in pen-l, we're contributing to
economic growth (perhaps in a small way)?
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s nothing really new
about "new growth theory." Then I read David Colander's definition of this
field: "New growth theory emphasizes technology as the primary source of
growth." Isn't that what Solow said, decades ago?
Is there anything new to "new growth theory"? why
roceedings of the
Eleventh World Congress of the International Economic
Association, ed. by Murat Sertel, 1999, London: Macmillan
and New York: St. Martin's, pp. 225-261.
Barkley Rosser
so what, in short, is the substance of their critique?
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he strange result that we have societies
with lots of social capital, but no other capital. In fact, if one buys my
story, then the introduction of capital(ism) destroys social capital. Capital
accumulation destroys social capital accumulation, even if social capital
accumulation can suppor
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e-mail address.
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At 02:23 PM 2/14/01 -0500, you wrote:
Jim,
So, you prefer "salience" to "social capital"?
Barkley Rosser
yup. But I'm not going to explain it, so people have to read my stuff.
Jim Devine [EMA
At 04:00 PM 2/14/01 -0500, you wrote:
Watch out, folks, Devine is hawking neoclassical
production functions now. I don't know what he is
going to stoop to next:-).
Barkley Rosser
"hawking" as in clearing one's throat?
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part of an incoherent
theory (neoclassical aggregate distribution theory).
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wholesale price falls, we'll suffer -- because we can't pass the
hike onto the consumer -- but we'll be bailed out.
The gamble seems to have worked out. They're being bailed out, while the
"crisis" is encouraging the return to nukes, trashing the North Alaskan
coast, etc.
please co
as a whole.
The Kennedy's were looking after their interests
in pushing their crusade against the Teamsters union
and their subsequent involvement in deregulation of transportation.
in addition Jimmy Hoffa and his boys at the Teamsters sure set themselves
up for those attacks.
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ss of capitalist accumulation. Perhaps we convince those who
use the phrase "human capital" to do likewise...
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t I don't understand is why Gary Becker and Jacob Mincer never read
this. It would have prevented the publication of their research on "human
capital."
;-)
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ect, DeIiulio (check out the four vowels in a row
in that name), is a member of Putnam's network and a card-
carrying Democrat.
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At 03:05 PM 2/13/01 -0500, Doug wrote:
Jim Devine wrote:
isn't this what Clinton called "triangulation," using the other major
party's rhetoric and programs to justify one's own programs? And should
the Dem/GOP overlap be surprising, given how similar the two parties are?
At 01:43
). In the absence of a mass working-class movement,
labor-power becomes part of capital. That is, it's _treated_ as a mere
commodity even though it isn't really one. That's one aspect of the class
contradiction that characterizes capitalism.
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natural monopoly's operations which don't have to be
monopolistic to be profitable. It's an obviously self-serving theory, but
it also makes a valid point. For example, United Parcel Service and Federal
Express have cream skimmed from the U.S. Postal Service, leaving it with
the unprofitable
lues and
trust to be so, too. This fits, BTW, with the so-called "new" growth
theory, which emphasizes the role of external economies in promoting
economic growth.
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ETY (which
appears at my web-site -- at http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine/hlr.html ),
though I am highly critical of it and I don't use the hated phrase "social
capital." It's a formal model, by the way, though a lot of the gnarly parts
appear only in my on-line appendix.
Jim Devine [EM
went to the "Society Politics" page and saw the following message:
Buy and sell " Society Politics" at eBay.
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"Is it peace or is it Prozac?" -- Cheryl Wheeler.
t
Virginia and India, recruits upper management from outside the
company, and intimidates employees attempting to unionize.
this fits with my understanding: there are no automatic "technical fixes"
for societal problems.
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Tom Kruse wrote:
Digression for Jim Devine: regarding the argument that elites would be
aginast making peasants landowners on the grounds that it
de-proletarianizes them, and thus raises labor costs -- I don't buy
it. Here there is such a surplus of people of dubious utility to global
from SLATE:
The [LA TIMES] adds that when asked to provide the economic rationale
for the cuts, Bush's economic advisor Lawrence Lindsey, said, "I might
refer you to your economics textbook from freshman year for the answer."
new frontiers in intellectual excellence!
Jim Dev
in the
California press.
of course, we should remember that the wave of deregulation started under
President Jimmy Carter (a Democrat), hitting trucking, airlines, etc.
BTW, this guy Tim Bousquet is a great journalist!
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of some Marxist
philosophers of language and psychology, like Voloshinov and Vygotsky, in
developing this idea of interpretive-structural economics, and also in
understanding spontaneous conformity. In fact, Vygotsky's theory of the
socialization function of children's free play is very similar to the
At 12:12 AM 02/08/2001 -0500, you wrote:
. Capitalism needs good cops bad cops, I believe.
they're called "Democrats" and "Republicans" here in the US...
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