.
Realistically, one can expect such demands -- and responses to them -- to
lap over onto agendas that are not unambigously connected.
Meanwhile, I presume the rest of the world -- Turkey, Argentina, Brazil --
are taking the day off while the U.S.A. sorts this one out.
From: Tom Walker
to the
events of September 11 will require a level of concrete and frankly
collectivist thinking that is totally at odds with the abstract laissez
faire solipsism of the past two decades. Video game surgical strikes won't
cut it. Trying to have all the guns and all the butter too won't cut it.
Tom
with that old
'sticks and stones' routine, that they're only fooling themselves.
Fighting back against zombies is hard. Calling them names leaves no impression.
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in the financial
markets have been killed and won't be easily replaced,'' said McWilliams.
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.
This is unquestionably true. Kiss your civil liberties goodbye, folks. The
other side of the coin is that the repression can't be carried out on the
basis of business as usual. Hello, Mars; Goodbye, Pluto.
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airline -- dovetails r us. I
could use an antipode holiday about now. G'day, mates.
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Non-disposable time would be the amount of labour time socially necessary to
produce goods sufficient for subsistence, reproduction of the working
population and a reserve fund to replace worn out means of production.
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before offering his own. The book has extensive notes and a
useful, though not exhaustive, bibliography.
—Eugene Coyle Eco-Economics
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held up an otherwise fragile
economy.
``It builds the story toward a recession,'' said Mike Niemira, economist at
Bank of Tokyo/Mitsubishi in New York. ``I think we are in a recession.''
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Jim Devine quoted Slate,
A USAT insider reports that a Georgia state legislator said in
a speech during a House session that she has achieved psychic
contact with Chandra Levy.
I say it's hearsay.
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no
role. The real headline should be Overtime permits administrators to sweep
staffing crisis under the rug.
35-hour week puts French hospitals at risk
Jon Henley in Paris
Thursday September 6, 2001
The Guardian
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from principles; I shall proceed therefore immediately to lay down
such as are of immediate consequence to the argument.
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to their contribution!)
What's left -- the residual -- is mostly profits. So when total factor
productivity goes up, so does the profit rate.]
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I thought it was because U.S. popularculture has an affinity for the image
of the misfit or rebel. Maybe that same affinity helps explain the
traditional inefficacy of oppositional politics in the U.S.
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that
Americans added nearly a full week to their work year during the 1990's,
climbing to 1,979 hours on average last year, up 36 hours from 1990. That
means Americans who are employed are putting in nearly 49 1/2 weeks a year
on the job.
. . .
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much.
There is a fixed amount of hubris.
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the booms of the 1950s and 1960s -- it more than made up for
this gain in the slumps of the late 1950s and early 1970s. See Marc Linder,
From Surplus Value to Labor Costs in _Labor Statistics and Class
Struggle_, International Publishers.
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I wrote,
There is a fixed amount of hubris.
Jim Devine asked,
is this the lump of hubris fallacy?
Almost, except it is not a fallacy. Maybe it's a phallusy.
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Ottawa, Ontario
K1P 5H3
Canada
Telephone: (613) 238-2422
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the Ministry's
officials said they are saddened by the tragedy; however they say they have
to determine the facts before they comment.
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the Microsoft Surveilance System:
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Doesn't the XP stand for Windows eXPires?
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of
scandal, the great financial conglomerates, and everyday economic
transactions. Through corruption, imperial power extends a smoke screen
across the world, and command over the multitude is exercised in this putrid
cloud, in the absence of light and truth. -- Hardt and Negri, Empire.
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place to find such a scoop.
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superficial.
The revision was for the 1996-2000 period. Your comment on superficiality
still holds, though.
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and what do you get?
BONEY FINGERS!
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curtailment of the working day.
1. The International Congress of Working Men
2. The classical (marginalist) statement of the theory of hours of labor
3. Anonymous 1821 pamphleteer
4. Report of a U.S. congressional commission on labor
(Answer at http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/worksite.htm)
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is disposable time.
24/7 is the negation of disposable time and thus *value* at this late and
lamentable stage is the negation of *wealth*.
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of eye strain.
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-- which measures the contribution of investment to
productivity growth -- has deteriorated further. This suggests that our
below-consensus estimate of 2.25 percent for the long-term productivity
trend might still be too optimistic.''
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and we'll starve, go naked
and be homeless. Amen.
Glossary
Amen: a primeval Egyptian deity, worshiped, esp. at Thebes, as the
personification of air or breath and represented as either a ram or a goose
wolf: to devour voraciously
wrought: archaic past participle of work
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Ian Murray asked,
So is the lump-of-labor the Absolute?
Absolute-ly.
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personal, David, but we have designed a system that routinely puts farmers
out of work, so why can't we do the same for lawyers?
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and commentators who are the spectators and the shrugging, shopping masses
who are the spectacle. Is this any way to run a Salt March?
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? Globalization? The cops?
The Black Bloc? The Almighty Dollar? The Apocalypse?
nope
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above are clear again,
Let us sing a song of cheer again,
Happy days are here again!
(recorded 11/20/29)
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of who
actually said it and substitutes a better-known authority. If the quote
lasts long enough it will be attributed to Mark Twain someday.
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is available on-line at http://www.fourhourday.org as
either an electronic file or in hard copy. Get the hard copy.
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Does anyone know: are Nick Dyer-Witheford and Nick Witheford one person or two?
Tom Walker
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, but Carlo lives on through us).
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the
characteristically grim-faced Nick I recall but close enough that it could
possibly be him given an extra 20 years and tenure. Just curious.
Does anyone know: are Nick Dyer-Witheford and Nick Witheford one
person or two?
I'm sure he's just him, Tom.
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next is bound to be improbable.
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of which its own living citizens are
capable, because they do not 'pay.'
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Plus five bonus points for posting the answer within five minutes.
Michael Perelman wrote,
Keynes, 1933. National Self-Sufficiency. The New Statesman and Nation
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The Social Problem)
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with the dilemma
of tolerating higher inflation (possibly further undermining the dollar) and
keeping interest rates down or raising rates and aborting the recovery.
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coverage during the 2000 U.S. presidential
campaign and found that it got less attention then the case of Elian
Gonzalez, the Cuban boy who lived briefly in Florida.
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suggestions the
United States' economy was in for a lengthy downturn.
``We are doing well and our economy is going to come back. We are going to
restore ourselves to the growth path that we have experienced and things are
going to be good,'' said O'Neill.
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for economic planning
But who this man could be I just don't know
Who this man could be I just don't know
Who this man could be I just don't know
It sure ain't Alan Greenspan
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wing political victory in the US. A Nader victory would
have tumbled the dollar.
All three of these seem pretty unlikely to me, at least in the next
few years.
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on the political horizon to replace US hegemony --
therefore Ellen's dissertation on dollarization holds up, I think,
despite the alarms sounded by Wynne Godley who writes as if the USA
had already entered into the same twilight of the empire that the UK
had earlier.
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is more valuable than toys, and that our relentless
quest for the latest stuff is breeding sick individuals and sick societies.
Affluenza is, in fact, a clarion call for those interested in being part of
the solution. --S. Ketchum
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for
democracy, equality and social justice.
FUCK GROWTH.
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wealthy
continue to hold dollars and the dollar share
of international lending and reserves is increasing.
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that the world couldn't go on with
those in the North living as we do. Yet the nettle remains virginally
ungrasped. Unless, that is, one chooses to read the surrender to sheer
fantasy as the sign of an underlying but perhaps incapacitating realism.
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no more scientific standing with regard to the issue than
do the words to the song I cited.
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of
historical inertia quite closely and it doesn't
hold up.
Tom Walker
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Michael Perelman wrote,
If the US tried to use protectionism as a form for maintaining aggregate
demand, wouldn't that throw fuel on the Argentinian/Turkish crisis?
Doesn't the rest of the world economy depend on the US as the consumer of
last resort?
Would it be a bull in China shop?
Tom
Max Sawicky wrote,
If the discussion is not fruitful,
I'm sure it will be nutful.
Beans are a fruit, aren't they?
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And Ner begat Kish, and Kish begat Saul, and Saul begat Jonathan, and
Malchishua, and Abinadab, and Eshbaal.
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, it goes without saying is apt. If you'll pardon
the expression, it is also easier said than done. It is a discipline to
train ourselves to say that which goes without saying. Only then will we
discover why it has gone without saying.
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creates economic barriers to
ameliorating the perverse policy.
The economic barriers, I should point out, are short term. A comprehensive
clean up of the toxic policy loopholes would have a salutory effect on
labour productivity in the medium and long run.
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prefer the drama of struggling
against insurmountable odds, which basically is where I share Doug's view. No answer.
Mark Jones wrote,
Good stuff, however I fear a return right back to the womb may be necessary in the
case of some lapsed and possibly born-again Republicans.
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there are many possibilities, but
in the expert's there are few.
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Ken Hanly wrote:
In the US and Canada it would seem that temporary workers are used to
keep full time workers from working overtime at a higher wage.
Au contraire. Temp workers and part-timers are part of the mix with
overtime. More temp and part-time = more overtime.
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industry groups like tobacco, health care, drugs and gold...
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and the unemployment claims figures - which do give an
accurate and almost-real time picture of what's going on.
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Paging Dr. Schaap, paging Dr. Schaap . . .
What's your take on the MerValous paroxysm at NASDAQ? The scent of death
sure gets the vultures aflutter, eh?
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you know
We all want to change the rate
You tell me it's a big recession
Well you know
We all want to change the rate
But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Greenspan . . .
[Pen-l contest: complete the last line here, what rhymes with Greenspan,
anyway?]
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maybe that
explains it.
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Doyle Saylor asked:
? I win if I am the only entry!
Too late, Doyle. Rob put in a contender. And we still haven't heard from Jim
three bears Devine and Max the tax Sawicky.
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Rob Schaap wrote,
It'll wear off by lunchtime, and it'll hurt all the more then.
Was that lunch Tokyo time?
Tokyo stocks open mixed after Nasdaq surge
Tokyo stocks falter by midday, buck U.S. surge
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See page 198, Working Time: International trends, theory and policy
perspectives, edited by Lonnie Golden and Deborah M. Figart, Routledge, 2000.
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of tricks. What is
really missing, though, is evidence for the charge, a logic for the
implied assumption and an authoritative source for the legendary fallacy.
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.htm)
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or on steep hills.
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Have a peek (but you might have to do some delving):
http://www.uniondues.com/
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to one I developed in 1979.
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message.
-- Globe and Mail, July 4, 2001
In 25 words or less, what are Pen-l subscribers doing to respond politically
to the recession and its eventual effects on employment, wages and working
conditions?
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G7 Ministers Blame Each Other for World Slowdown
Finance ministers of the Group of Seven nations gathered for a one-day
meeting in Rome on Saturday amid divisions between the United States
and Europe over who is most to blame for the ailing global economy.
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604
to play a locomotive
role as well.''
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to the recession and its eventual effects on employment, wages and working
conditions?
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that weakness
seen for months in the manufacturing sector seemed to have spread to the
service segment of the economy, which has countered softness elsewhere in
recent months.
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Easy. Generational cohort replacement cycle. You know the old saying rags
to riches to rags in three generations? I figure that as one and a half
K-waves. Come in on the downswing. Go out on the upswing. Or vice versa.
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Like wow, Max, I can almost hear the beat of the bongos in the background as
you intone your cool poem, man. Truly digmatic.
The truly digmatic would discern the
macro foundations of micro.
mbs
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: Bluestone, Barry. The
Inequality Express. (Cited in Annual Editions Sociology 98/99.
Dushkin/Mcgraw-Hill 1998) .
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and escalation
needed to be exposed because it was being repeated under a new president. . .
http://partners.nytimes.com/2001/06/29/opinion/29ELLS.html?todaysheadlines
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as the president faced
when we had ambiguous radar and sonar data about an attack on our warships,
and he wanted to react very quickly. In form, the problem was very similar
and it was the kind of thing that I was particularly interested in.
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Louis Proyect wrote,
but once you have your catch, you can eat, drink, fuck and tell stories
around the campfire.
Shucks, and all we ever did was roast marshmallows.
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/business_economy_recession_dc.html?
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/execsum.htm
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relation of production; just as to those caught up in this mode of
production the _product_ counts as in and for itself a _commodity_. This
is the basis . . .fetishism (CW 34, pg.392)
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ownership as a relationship between a person and a thing.
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encourages fetishized conceptions to be embraced by
the participants in the system and orthodox economists.
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I would tend to believe the opposite of anything Claire Sterling wrote.
Max Sawicky wrote,
In general, convincing, but is Claire Sterling
a reliable source?
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:
Productivity = (nTask_KU /nWorker_KU) + Hours
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it.
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] and
social production controlled by social foresight, which forms the political
economy of the working class.
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No you didn't.
Jim Devine wrote,
I paid for an argument. All I'm getting is a contradiction! -- Monty Python.
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for
poor people and outsiders.
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