afternoon or evening trains going north, such that
one could travel between any two of the cities in a
relatively easy and timely manner to conduct whatever
business needed to be done.
Tom Walker
Bowen Island, BC
604 947 2213
NOT a stupid question at all. Perhaps naive to assume that the desk clerk
would have the answer.
Michael Yates wrote,
the questions are sometime so stupid that you want to scream
one person from the US asked if it was safe to drink the water!
Tom Walker
Bowen Island, BC
604 947 2213
Even? Even? Tony Blair has ALWAYS vaselined his gums.
Even Tony Blair has to vaseline
his gums to keep smiling.
Tom Walker
Bowen Island, BC
604 947 2213
Well, according to Tim Horton's the hole is the Timbit.
Jim Devine writes:
As Baran Sweezy quote Hegel to say, the truth is the whole.
=
According to Paul Diesing, this should actually read the true is the
whole.
Michael K.
Tom Walker
Bowen Island, BC
604 947 2213
one may well expect the metered shit to hit the fan.
Something about all that is solid melts into air; gas again -- greenhouse or
beanhouse.
The METER is running but the cab is parked at the curb with the engine
idling. The meter is RUNNING but does it really count?
Tom Walker wrote:
A meter
Competition is like sex. Whether it is a Good Thing or a Bad Thing very much
depends on who, what, when, where and how.
Doug Henwood asked:
I keep forgetting - is competition a Good Thing or a Bad Thing?
Tom Walker
Bowen Island, BC
604 947 2213
, those ideals are benign compared with the crapulent
social forces that march under that banner.
Doug Henwood wrote,
Yeah, I'm with you on this. But it's a bit odd to see competition
implicitly praised on a Progressive Economists list.
Tom Walker
Bowen Island, BC
604 947 2213
Thing or a Bad Thing very much
depends on who, what, when, where and how.
Tom Walker
Bowen Island, BC
604 947 2213
in a movie by Jessica Tandy was,
When sex is right it can be wonderful;
but when it's wrong it can be wonderful too.
mbs
Competition is like sex. Whether it is a Good Thing or a Bad Thing very much
depends on who, what, when, where and how.
Tom Walker
Bowen Island, BC
604 947 2213
before someone
would ask isn't this where we came in? and they would leave. If it was a
tedious movie, someone would ask isn't this where we came in? after about
10 minutes.
Tom Walker
Bowen Island, BC
604 947 2213
A meter is an instrument for measuring and recording the quantity of
something, as of gas, water, miles, or time. Take your pick.
Doug Henwood asked,
Does this have something to do with the length of the workday, or the
lump of entertainment fallacy?
Tom Walker
Bowen Island, BC
604 947 2213
to previous accumulation of surplus value.
[P]roductivity is not what it was cracked up to be. And therein lies one
of the great fallacies of the recent boom and bubble.
Tom Walker
Bowen Island, BC
604 947 2213
of the restructuring but has it left the industry with a
fundamentally different role, primarily that of leveraged buyer of aircraft
and servicer of debt?
Tom Walker
Bowen Island, BC
604 947 2213
-- if they work at a steady pace and make no
mistakes. Given a map that doesn't show the territory, that would be
impossible. In other words, to be blunt, viewed from the bottom of the
division of labour, the 2001 Canada census appears to be a pantomime.
Tom Walker
Bowen Island, BC
604 947 2213
pointed at Jeremy Bentham's body, updating images onto the
Internet every five minutes.
http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/web/Nina/JBentham.html
Tom Walker
Bowen Island, BC
604 947 2213
his social skills: he'd go to his office fridge to get a soda for
himself, not even thinking of offering one to his guest.
Tom Walker
Bowen Island, BC
604 947 2213
part of it went to feather the beds of
so-called economists and columnists who churn out hoary tales about what a
cracking good deal it all is.
Tom Walker
Bowen Island, BC
604 947 2213
but immature and ill-informed.
Daniel L. Jacobs, a Native of Los Angeles, Is a Sophomore at Williams
College in Williamstown, Mass
Tom Walker
Bowen Island, BC
604 947 2213
Jim Devine wrote,
what is economics, anyway? orthodox economics seems to be a matter of
preaching either free-market philosophy or technocratic superiority, along
with a lot of purely academic stuff.
Or as the Krugman/Jacobs consensus illustrates, purely sophomoric stuff.
Tom Walker
Bowen
e not
free, if they are not equal before the law or if
they cannot make use of the opportunities open
to them."
Three hours after Mr. Singh's arrest, there was
still no word of where he was being held.
Tom Walker
Bowen Island, BC
604 947 2213
m
behind Grandma's nightgown that should alert Red Riding Hood to the
possibility that the canine-toothed creature in Grandma's bed is not Grandma.
Carrol Cox wrote,
I don't understand the point. Is this an attack on or defense of the
exam questions? It needs more explanation for the non-economists on the
list.
Tom Walker
Bowen Island, BC
604 947 2213
overwork and underemployment is "good
for the economy"? Isn't it about time we buried the bogus lump-of-labor
fallacy alongside the remains of that other scientific hoax, the Piltdown Man?
--
Tom Walker is a social policy analyst and advocate of shorter working
time. Hi
Here's a question (and answer) from the final exam for Professor Lutz
Hendricks' Economics 503 course at Arizona State University:
Essay Questions (30 points each). Answer 4 questions.
Question 1. Unemployment and the Work Week
A recent French law intends to shorten the working week from 39
And by the way, it was Gretchen Morgenson who did the piece in Forbes a few
years back on employee stock options. Louis Proyect just posted a piece by
her on consumer debt. I guess she's another one of those gloom and doom
loving lefties.
s involved in the plot.
Unless, that is, he plagiarized his work,
in which case the ghost of some dead Frenchman
could be held as a con-spiriting henchman.
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
PERSPECTIVES ON ECONOMIC THEORY AND POLICY (M.E. Sharpe, 2000). The
CHALLENGE article (to come) is a revised version of that article, with more
up-to-date data.
Thanks, Jim, that's all I need.
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
of Christ,
the Redeemer, or just plain old "Jesus Saves" . . .
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
nteresting. Could you expand a bit?
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
Scientists Bring Light to Full Stop, Hold It, Then Send It on Its Way
But can they stop the time?
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
the idea of some self-important robber baron philanthropist
preaching thrift and handing out dimes to the widows and orphans of miners
who've died in his mines. Nobody wants that kind of charity, but then nobody
wants welfare, either.
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
m. "The amount of
espionage and arbitrary interferences, involving possibilities of blackmail
which must accompany the operation of such a law, if it is not to remain a
dead letter, " he said, would benefit tin Oriental despotism but it is
utterly foreign to an enlightened Republic."
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
t Columbia,
Berkeley or MIT. This advice was from a faculty member who specialized in
Habermasian communicative ethics and had written a book titled "Speaking
Truth to Power". (No bitterness, he did me a favour).
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
requirements. But then there would be no way of systematically screening and
short-listing the applicants. You would get better quality applicants, but
you wouldn't know which ones they were they were!
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
as if they were a great victory for the working class and another
report on travels in China that was as every bit as vile as the stuff I just
posted.
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
easy that is for church leaders and workers who might
be managing these funds. obviously, there is no predictable pattern. but,
i'd say that there is, especially among black churches, enough of a
tradition of criticism to build on, so it's worth a shot.
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
"The 'r' word."
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
changes that have
taken place over the last 30-40 years in the labour process itself and the
inadequacy of institutional arrangements to contend with those changes.
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
on holidays. Idle hours breed mischief. The days are
too short for the worthwhile men of the world to accomplish the tasks which
they set themselves. No man has ever attained success in industry, in
science, or in any other worthwhile activity of life by limiting his hours
of labor.
Tom Walker
Sandwichman
aggressive anti-union strategy
in 1902. Swathes of the narrative were lifted almost intact from a
anti-trade union propaganda tirade, The Crisis in British Industry, that
appeared in the London Times in November 1901.
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
al economy?
4. Do interest rate cuts and/or increases always have direct linear effects
on economic activity or might they, under some circumstances lead to
perverse consequences?
5. Why did the US dollar strengthen in response to the rate cut?
6. What does "hair of the dog that bit you&qu
erbal abuse.
This leaves me with a great deal of time between contracts during which to
de-consult, which is basically to pursue my own projects and tell people,
not clients, about my findings.
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
hat expended
on the care and grooming of Ted Kaczynski. It's not that production has been
completely disconnected from the expenditure of human labour, but that it
becomes increasingly difficult to attribute any particular output to any
particular direct expenditure of labour time.
I am not sure if what I have said above really clarifies anything or simply
dwells on the gaping uncertainty.
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
ary labour time). And isn't this
disjuncture -- a widening gulf, really -- exactly what many of us are
experiencing or anticipating as "crisis"?
"The material conditions to blow this foundation sky-high." Kinda scary,
isn't it? Maybe if we just put in a few more hours of overtime a
rates and
high price-to-earnings ratios, tech stocks are the most vulnerable."
For some reason, the firm Legg Mason Wood Walker reminds me of Long John Silver.
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
that are God's.
(Matt. 22:15-22)
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
was editor of the
quarterly journal of the American Federation of Teachers, American Educator,
from 1977-1983. So she does have union credentials. . .
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
Michael Perelman wrote,
On her way to the right
Well, as Linda Chavez herself said, she went from Al Shanker to Ronald
Reagan and there wasn't really that much of a difference.
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
plosives. Their manufacture was
interdicted centuries ago as a matter of self-preservation on the part of
the State."
"But you have a laboratory," I suggested.
The doctor gazed at me and a wild look came into his eyes.
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
ciation: "We declare that the
limitation of the working day is a preliminary condition without which all
further attempts at improvement and emancipation must prove abortive.").
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
gress of International Working Men's Association: "We declare that the
limitation of the working day is a preliminary condition without which all
further attempts at improvement and emancipation must prove abortive.").
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
appear from the theory;
and if they would bear the interpretation in fact they would disappear in fact."
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
systematically misaccounted for labour costs by shifting social costs off
the private books.
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
mind mind, Max, but I think
you're on to something primal. My own view is that the National Review is,
evolutionarily speaking, trotskyist.
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
a fool could
fail to see were woven of the finest judicial gold and twenty pieces of
silver. How fitting that Chief Just Our Bill will administer the Oaf of Orifice.
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
lition with anti-militarist overtones. How much
efficacy we want to grant these overtones is a question.
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
as similar warnings are being ignored by
enthusiasts for market solutions for everything from prescription drug
coverage to education.
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
leave
your irony out in the rain -- rust never sleeps.
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
he Machine.
Haraway is indeed a cyborg. The assembled Penpals are not, however, and
eagerly await the Sandwichman's Manifesto - the full expression of which I
dare hope is in the offing ... ?
These beans are good,
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
want _the
moon_ [not baloney]"). But inflation develops because giving people green
cheese just makes them want more. . .
Seconds, anyone?
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
shevization that presents itself
as ersatz liberal capitalist restoration.
What am I trying to say? It has something to do with how ripe the fruit is.
We are not at the End of History as Francis Fukuyama supposed a decade ago
but tantalizingly close to its beginning.
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
in the economy, particularly in
the tech sector? Are they sensitive to relatively small changes in demand?
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
itlements to a share of social production in the name of promoting
incentives to work and to invest. That is to say, the direction has been to
expropriate one kind of private property in the name of narrowly promoting
the accumulation of another kind (the ownership of things).
Tom Walker
Sandwichman an
accused by Texas back on voter rolls before
the election. Nevertheless, the large number
of errors uncovered in individual counties
suggests that thousands of eligible voters
may have been turned away at the polls.
http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/12/04/voter_file/index.html?CP=YA
ation* of the social relations that recognize ownership of objects.
Just between me, the mountain and the sea I can proclaim myself possessor of
all I behold. It's strictly a social/historical question though whether or
not my ownership claim gives me any right of disposal over the mountain or
t
thing as an organic bond with merciless destruction of
opportunism." (Lenin, Collected Works, Vol 18, p 315)
Wouldn't you know it! It is precisely that page of my copy of Vol 18 of the
collected works that has been ruthlessly and deceitfully torn out,
presumably by some police spy or revisio
y
and hence hard to articulate. The best I can do is pile up metaphors in the
hope that they come crashing down in the right direction. What I'm getting
at is a sense in which "labour" in the late 20th century has come to display
characteristics more or less specific to "capital"
ay
functioning of capitalism or has it simply become -- like American elections
-- an icon of capitalism as divinely-guided and spontaneously self-correcting?
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
is always thoroughly sound and the campaign in full swing,
until
suddenly the debacle takes place.
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
o "capital" and "vaccination" have in common?
(hint: Kola-_ _ _-ski)
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
nspan with your rate so high
won't you light my index tonight."
Then all the exuberant brokers
shouted out with irrational glee
"Greenspan, the central banker
you'll go down in his-tor-y"
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
he sandwichman, who was always already
objectified, animated, redundant and in disguise.
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
"new economy" --
just as a stalemate was the worst thing that could happen to the two-party
political monopoly. My inclination is to expect a lull that after a while
will begin to feel uncomfortably entrenched.
"Business is always thoroughly sound and the campaign
in full swing, until suddenly the debacle takes place."
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
I think what Barkley meant to say was,
In England, what is not forbidden is permitted.
In Germany, what is _not_ permitted is forbidden.
In France, what is forbidden is permitted.
In Russia, what is permitted is forbidden.
Also:
In Canada, what is not forbidden is not permitted, eh?
Tom
someone explained that
she/he did
not have the book yet because [an "of course!" implicit here] s(he) would not
buy
from any of the corporate stores and the friendly corner bookstore didn't have
it in stock. Repellant!
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
lectual vacuity is more productive than your abundant intellectual
activity, then your intellectual vacuity is a productive force, etc. etc. If
the monotony of an occupation makes you better suited for that occupation,
then monotony is a productive force."
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Decon
dn't smoke
(not to mention if they had just quit smoking).
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
unter-productive"?
Marxists' jobs is to disabuse them of the illusion of green consumerism.
Am I missing a chapter of Capital or an episode or something?
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
-- Do we want simply to enjoy more of the fruits of our labour or do we
want more fundamentally to labour less compulsively and live and work more
interestingly?
-- Can we as associated individuals take responsibility for changing
society or must we identify and identify with a transcendental "vehicle for
change" or "revolutionary subject"?
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island
(604) 947-2213
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
Yoshie wrote,
Moderating one's own consumption would improve one's health, for
sure. However, boycotting products when workers or peasants are not
calling for the boycott of the said products would not improve their
lives at all. Don't be selfish.
Don't be selfish?
Tom Walker
Sandwichman
For the benefit of non-Canadians or non-Vancouverites the following
acronyms were used in my previous message on this subject:
CLC = Canadian Labour Congress
CAW = Canadian Auto Workers Union
TURB = Trade Union Research Bureau
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
own words, "To be a productive worker is . .
. not a piece of luck, but a misfortune."
The Subject is Capital . . .
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
Ken Hanly wrote,
Medical Bulletin: George W. Bush is now under treatment for two
problems--electile dysfunction and premature congratulation.
Wouldn't that be sort of like being both anorexic and obese?
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
NOW,
which is not recriminations against third party challengers or registered
Democrat election officials. What is important now is the struggle to ensure
the legal counting of votes and the protection of voter rights and to oppose
the usurpation of those rights by a brokered "concession
politics requires the flexibility to recognize and respond to a new
situation.
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
Have a look at this one and CIRCULATE WIDELY:
http://www.geocities.com/countercoup
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
even among the elite group of intellectuals on this list). Our job (if I
can put it that way) is neither to affirm or deny simplistic reductions but
to situate them in their historical specificity (only partly kidding).
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
hat they have to say.
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
be
statistically detectable by examining the vote for Buchanan relative to the
votes for Gore and Bush for all of the counties in
Florida. . . http://madison.hss.cmu.edu/
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
"The Democrats ... are politicizing and distorting these events ... at the
expense of our democracy,"
-- Bush campaign chairman Don Evans.
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island
The entire message is in the subject line.
Jim Devine wrote,
Thought this website might be good for a quick relief from the election
http://www.tvdance.com/bush-gore/
Totally awesome surfing, o devine one!
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
Brian Milani wrote,
The occasion was a big lecture
here in Toronto last week by Anthony Giddens of the LSE on "the
globalization debate".
What I wouldn't have given to be there in full sandwich regalia! See my post
a couple of weeks ago to Pen-l on Giddens' "Runaway World Debate" and the
for trying to change the system from within
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island
Bullshit.
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island
"'To-Day' has become a mere 'symposium', i.e. a review in which everyone
can write for and against socialism. Next No. a critique of 'Capital'! I
was supposed to reply to this anonymous writer, but declined with
thanks."
-- Engels to Kautsky, Sept. 20, 1884.
I've read Wicksteed's critique
This "classic (marginal) utilitarian defence of equality" is precisely
the invideous "comparison" that the mathematically obsessed wunderkinder
of the 1930s (e.g. Bergson, Samuelson) banished from the social welfare
function and replaced with Pareto optimality as the "ethical test".
There is a
"'To-Day' has become a mere 'symposium', i.e. a review in which everyone
can write for and against socialism. Next No. a critique of 'Capital'! I
was supposed to reply to this anonymous writer, but declined with
thanks."
-- Engels to Kautsky, Sept. 20, 1884.
The critique in question was titled
Michael Perelman wrote,
As I recall this devastating critique of Marx, Wicksteed concentrated on
Marx's lack of the theory of rent. I suspect that he never saw volume 3.
Volume III was published in 1894, Vol. II in 1885. Therefore, Wicksteed
could only have seen Volume I.
Ken Hanly wrote,
So this shows that Nader supporters are all tuned in to netvoting and have
lots of time to repeat votes. Yeh. I voted for Nader. First US election I
ever voted in.
I voted twice (just to check to see if they had any device to block
repeat voting). I'm not going to tell you
Further to the despicable and revolting travesty of "employment policy
analysis" by T. Boeri, R. Layard and S. Nickell in their Welfare to Work
report to Prime Ministers Blair and D'Alema and the Council of Europe, I
am forwarding three texts. The first is the central argument of the 1901
London
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