[PEN-L:415] Re: period of distress

1998-10-06 Thread Tom Walker
ver at Henwood's, I won't go into detail. The "harmonious reproduction" line is tempting but I'll keep my accordian in my pocket for the time being. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancou

[PEN-L:408] Re: Cyber-Sawicky (correction)

1998-10-06 Thread Tom Walker
inflows from 1992 to 1994 were nil or negligible, only that the source gave figures only for 1995 to 1997. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4G7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 669-3286

[PEN-L:400] Re: Cyber-Sawicky

1998-10-06 Thread Tom Walker
ine 2 as a % of line 5 17% 16%15% Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4G7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 669-3286 ^^^ The TimeWork Web: http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/

[PEN-L:406] Re: Crash of '99?

1998-10-06 Thread Tom Walker
ocating crisis. Also, it's worth noting that this crisis is thoroughly and unquestionably made in the USA. The so-called enduring "strength" of the U.S. economy reflects the unexceptional fact that the periphery is always the first to feel the

[PEN-L:394] Re: Re: period of distress

1998-10-05 Thread Tom Walker
every 50 years, or 600-1 odds in any particular month). Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4G7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 669-3286 ^^^ The TimeWork Web: http

[PEN-L:381] Re: period of distress

1998-10-04 Thread Tom Walker
king about is not _really_ capitalism but a kind of a state centralized _simulation_ of capitalism. Like Disneyland's Main Street, it's been designed to look more 'authentic' than the real thing (until you go back stage where they do the security and accounting). Regards,

[PEN-L:385] Re: period of distress

1998-10-04 Thread Tom Walker
and stagnation periods.) Jim: can/do you elaborate on this in terms of the non-synchronous development of the forces of production and the relations of production? Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4G7 [EMAIL

[PEN-L:366] Gee-seven

1998-10-03 Thread Tom Walker
t;socdem" hoard that THEY HAVE NO MANDATE TO CONTINUE THEM? Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4G7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 669-3286 ^^^ The TimeWork Web:

[PEN-L:341] Atlas Alan Shrugged

1998-10-02 Thread Tom Walker
was an Ayn Rand fan? Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4G7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 669-3286 ^^^ The TimeWork Web: http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/

[PEN-L:343] Re: Re: Re: Cyber-Sawicky

1998-10-02 Thread Tom Walker
And last, if the savings rate is the "only problem" with that thesis, is it still a problem? Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4G7 [EMAIL PROTE

[PEN-L:353] Re: Cyber-Sawicky

1998-10-02 Thread Tom Walker
suggestions for saving capitalism from its own worst instincts. But, uhm . . . there's still one thing I can't quite figure out. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4G7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 669-3286

[PEN-L:346] Re: Cyber-Sawicky

1998-10-02 Thread Tom Walker
ld poverty and the fall in poverty amongst the elderly? Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4G7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 669-3286 ^^^ The TimeWork

[PEN-L:358] Re: Cyber-Sawicky

1998-10-02 Thread Tom Walker
. Let's get one thing straight: EVERYTHING depends. I just think my scenarios are more plausible than yours 'cause they don't depend quite so much on things happening 'like clockwork'. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver, B.C

[PEN-L:318] I am not a crook

1998-10-01 Thread Tom Walker
DAMAGE' IF LTCM HAD FAILED. 10:00 GREENSPAN: FAILURE OF LTCM WOULD HAVE RISKED US ECONOMY. 10:00 GREENSPAN: PAINTS DIRE PICTURE IF LTCM HAD FAILED. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4G7 [EMAIL PROTECTED

[PEN-L:314] Re: World financial calamity

1998-10-01 Thread Tom Walker
s can have a chance to grow up in a world of peace and freedom and justice. Thank you and good night. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4G7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 669-3286

[PEN-L:312] Re: One quarter of one point

1998-10-01 Thread Tom Walker
impotent precisely because share prices have become hypersensitive to Fed interventions. Rational expectations redux? Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4G7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 669-3286

[PEN-L:326] Re: Brazil stock market crash

1998-10-01 Thread Tom Walker
economy if Brazil goes down. Stay tuned. Meanwhile, back in Long-Term Capital Land, I'm sure nothing like _that_ could happen again. I mean they've all learned their lesson, right? Holy Shit, the whole fuckin' boat is comin' apart at the seams! October is some month, eh? Regards, Tom Walker

[PEN-L:307] Re: One quarter of one point

1998-09-30 Thread Tom Walker
the enthusiastic spin crowd just couldn't wait to call their brokers. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4G7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 669-3286 ^^^ The TimeWork Web: http

[PEN-L:301] What's in a name?

1998-09-30 Thread Tom Walker
ations on the name of the firm. The first to come to mind is Long-Term Parasite, Unlimited. By embracing this long-term parasite, the big banks and the New York Fed clearly reveal their preference for and dependence on an activity that feeds on, rather than contributes to the "wealth

[PEN-L:293] .25

1998-09-29 Thread Tom Walker
ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Al, you're such a card! Regards, Tom Walker

[PEN-L:254] Re: No Way Out

1998-09-26 Thread Tom Walker
n labeled as "cycles" (not just long ones) in terms of fractals. Mandel meets Mandelbrot. Do you know the way to Santa Fe? Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4G7 [E

[PEN-L:246] Re: chicken hawk mutual funds

1998-09-25 Thread Tom Walker
version holds up about as well as defending empire or upholding the rectitude of past miscalculations. All of them help us understand some facet. None of them gives us the whole story. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St

[PEN-L:236] chicken hawk mutual funds

1998-09-25 Thread Tom Walker
're born, you grow up, you get old, you die. Not necessarily in that order. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4G7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 669-3286 ^^^ The TimeWork Web: http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/

[PEN-L:226] Re: more on work and family values

1998-09-25 Thread Tom Walker
e time off to help a friend or family member in need. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4G7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 669-3286 ^^^ The TimeWork

[PEN-L:222] Re: new mellower review

1998-09-24 Thread Tom Walker
or . . . Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4G7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 669-3286 ^^^ The TimeWork Web: http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/

[PEN-L:219] RE: the growth of global (superfluous re:s deleted)

1998-09-24 Thread Tom Walker
to the Bill Gates story is that I somehow don't deserve any more than I got. It seems to me that's the context for "relative wealth". It's also the context for subjective experience of injustice (as contrasted with an abstract, theoretical notion of social justice). Regards,

[PEN-L:202] Re: Mothers of River City...

1998-09-23 Thread Tom Walker
or on porno that year. And by denouncing it I'm citing it but what can you do? Doug Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4G7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 669-3286

[PEN-L:191] Re: Mothers of River City...

1998-09-23 Thread Tom Walker
know.'" -- Kenneth Starr, 1987, "Sixty Minutes" interview with Diane Sawyer. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4G7 [EMAIL PROTE

[PEN-L:161] Table manners

1998-09-19 Thread Tom Walker
But answer came there none -- And that was scarcely odd, because They'd eaten every one.' Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4G7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 669-3286 ^^

[PEN-L:156] long hours - Japan medical study

1998-09-19 Thread Tom Walker
PROTECTED] Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4G7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 669-3286 ^^^ The TimeWork Web: http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/

[PEN-L:155] Life expectancy falls in Europe

1998-09-19 Thread Tom Walker
1997 can be found on the World Health Organisation's website (www.who.int/). Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4G7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 669-3286 ^^^ The TimeWork Web: http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/

[PEN-L:126] Re: Fwd:Winning Socialism

1998-09-11 Thread Tom Walker
in shit and be told that it was our free choice. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4G7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 669-3286 ^^^ The TimeWork Web: http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/

[PEN-L:122] Re: Fwd:Winning Socialism

1998-09-11 Thread Tom Walker
that the Milton Friedman NAIRU position? What's the point of talking about a "shift" in the "Phillips Curve", if that curve is not itself adequately grounded in theory (as James Galbraith argues)? Regards, Tom Walker ^^^

[PEN-L:116] Re: Fwd:Winning Socialism

1998-09-11 Thread Tom Walker
stagflation. I think that's correct. Keynesianism fell out of favour with ruling circles in the U.S. because it was too redistributive -- it contributed to what the tri-lateralist think tankers referred to as "an excess of democracy". Regards,

[PEN-L:111] IMF boss should resign over failed Russia intervention: economist (AFP)

1998-09-10 Thread Tom Walker
not need financial aid in 1992, and its failure to intervene in 1995-1996 while Moscow embarked on a "highly corrupt privatisation programme". A world-wide recession could now be avoided through a "coordinated reduction in interest rates" in the United States, Europe an

[PEN-L:60] Fischer in troubled waters

1998-09-10 Thread Tom Walker
This headline from the CBS marketwatch wire: IMF'S FISCHER: LATIN AMERICAN FUNDAMENTALS BETTER THAN RUSSIA "Prosperity is just around the corner." "We're beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel." "I am not a crook." "I never had sexual relations

[PEN-L:93] Bovespa down 15%, trading halted

1998-09-10 Thread Tom Walker
points. Trading will resume at 1726 local/2026 GMT and operations will run for another half hour before the market closes. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4G7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 669-3286

[PEN-L:95] Re: Winning Socialism

1998-09-10 Thread Tom Walker
image of enslaved ancestors rather than that of liberated grandchildren." -- Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History. Tommorrow, September 11, 1998 is the 25th anniversary of the coup in Chile. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035

[PEN-L:70] Re: Winning Socialism

1998-09-10 Thread Tom Walker
, is there any basis (other than dashed hopes) for discounting the possibility of a terminal or permanent crisis? The expression "socialism or barbarism" implies just such a permanent crisis, otherwise it would have been "socialism, barbarism or a new regime of accumulation". R

[PEN-L:59] Re: Re: free-market ideology

1998-09-10 Thread Tom Walker
t breakers". Gary, My impression from just looking at the newswire numbers was that the focus of the storm was shifting to Brazil. What does it look like on the ground there? Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver, B.C.

[PEN-L:31] Re: Fw: Russia's long awaited change of course

1998-09-09 Thread Tom Walker
Rob Schaap asks, -snip- Does this make sense? It makes perfect sense to me. Since nobody asked, my "second shoe" alluded (perhaps too obliquely) to the dropping of the first shoe in 1989. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035

[PEN-L:2] taboo?

1998-09-08 Thread Tom Walker
ne neat package. Question one and you question the other. And who wants to get branded as an anti-democratic pinko commie? SALON | Aug. 28, 1998 -- Gregory Schwartz Dept. of Political Science York University 4700 Keele St. Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3 Canada Tel: (416) 736-5265 Fax: (416) 736-5686 Web

[PEN-L:4] taboo3: as the Greenspan spins . . .

1998-09-08 Thread Tom Walker
ilities of the economy. Which brings us to the question: "How much spawn could a Greenspan spin if a Greenspan spun green spawn?" Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver, B.C.

[PEN-L:15] Re: taboo2: of wolves and waves and sour grapes

1998-09-08 Thread Tom Walker
Paradoxically, what "the left" has to learn is to stop being a "left" (along a parliamentary spectrum) and instead join in building a universalist movement for the radical reduction of working time. Regards, Tom Walker

[PEN-L:11] The Second Shoe

1998-09-05 Thread Tom Walker
always dependent on motivationally effective supplementation by traditional world views." There is no economic fix to the current crisis simply because it is NOT an economic crisis. THIS is the second shoe. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408

[PEN-L:1523] Re: Re: Re: The Long Boom?

1998-09-04 Thread Tom Walker
ehow (perhaps after a short recessionary interlude) lay the foundation for Ponzi III? Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4G7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 669-3286 ^^

[PEN-L:1513] Re: free-market ideology

1998-09-04 Thread Tom Walker
is necessary to guard against a counterfeit strategy: calls for a limitation of work time that are predicated on "no loss in income" (the venerable slogan '30 hours work for 40 hours pay') deflect the issue back into the insubstantial, quantitative realm of

[PEN-L:1524] Re: Russia: In Need of Free Competition?

1998-09-04 Thread Tom Walker
ge balance of payments deficits decade after decade. After all, isn't that what "American-style capitalism" is all about? Or am I just un-absurdeming his UGLY reductio? Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver, B.C. V6E

[PEN-L:1514] Re: Socialist policies will be revived

1998-09-04 Thread Tom Walker
gar. What they need is a lamppost and a rope. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4G7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 669-3286 ^^^ The TimeWork Web: http://www

[PEN-L:1464] Re: Wealth Effect?

1998-09-03 Thread Tom Walker
ONEY man, his portfolio is his penis. Under that spell, a decline in the stock market is not a rational game of relative percentages, it is a do or die question of erection or dysfunction. I understand that rumours of an impending merger between the U.S. Federal Reserve and Pfizer, Inc. have been dismissed

[PEN-L:1418] Re: Re: Passing the buck

1998-09-02 Thread Tom Walker
Americana may just have shot its hegemonic bolt. Scratch one hegemon. Even Fukuyama must be blushing by now. On the other hand, there's always the barrel of a gun. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4G7 [EMAIL

[PEN-L:1377] Re: The Doctrine of Inevitability

1998-09-01 Thread Tom Walker
ng we need to fear is the lack of fear itself. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4G7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 669-3286 ^^^ The TimeWork Web: http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/

[PEN-L:1397] Re: Re: All Blacks

1998-09-01 Thread Tom Walker
, I'm not implying that Doug is in the same league as Shakespeare . . . Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4G7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 669-3286

[PEN-L:1403] Re: DOI {Doctrine of Inevitability}

1998-09-01 Thread Tom Walker
pan has to intervene in currency markets to prop up the buck? Next week? Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4G7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 669-3286 ^^^ Th

[PEN-L:1334] Passing the buck

1998-08-30 Thread Tom Walker
e a sharp inflationary shock and a jump in unemployment. A more likely scenario is that U.S. officials and the IMF will continue their sanctimonious preaching to the Russians and Japanese (soon to be joined by Latin Americans) about the virtues of m

[PEN-L:1332] Czar Camdessus: who elected him?

1998-08-30 Thread Tom Walker
from the country and those responsible for the destiny of the country," Camdessus said. Chernomyrdin must make a "clear choice", he said, adding that the IMF would not support a "mix" of economic policies. -- Regards, Tom Walke

[PEN-L:451] Stand up for new Politics (fwd)

1998-06-07 Thread Tom Walker
r-Democracy! * Come to the Federal Wide Demonstration on June 20th in Berlin! The web site for the demonstration (in German): DGB Erfurt, http://www.dgb-bwt.com/erfurt Report by Dave Hollis for LabourNet Germany, URL: http://www.labournet.org.uk/germany/ - end forwarded message ---

[PEN-L:439] CNTU on the reduction of working time (fwd)

1998-06-05 Thread Tom Walker
syndicats nationaux 1601 De Lorimier Montréal (Québec) 514-529-4995 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- end forwarded message --- Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4G7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604

[PEN-L:424] Bargaining for Better Times - (please forward) -

1998-06-04 Thread Tom Walker
Simon Fraser Universtiy Centre for Labour Studies Presents: BARGAINING FOR BETTER TIMES A seminar by Tom Walker Shorter Work Time Network (Vancouver chapter) Tuesday, June 23, 1998 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre Campus Room #1410 515 West Hastings Street Vancouver

[PEN-L:316] Pen-l EEG

1998-05-29 Thread Tom Walker
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[PEN-L:266] Intro: Working Time debate on uk-policy list

1998-05-27 Thread Tom Walker
. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4G7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 669-3286 ^^^ The TimeWork Web: http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/

[PEN-L:269] uk-policy Working Time 4 (fwd)

1998-05-27 Thread Tom Walker
- forwarded message - From: Tom Walker I'd like to raise three point with regard to Dr. David Chapman's proposal for a work-spreading tax and then elaborate on a proposal of my own. First, I agree with Dr. Chapman that the progressive income tax contains

[PEN-L:271] uk-policy Working Time 6 (fwd)

1998-05-27 Thread Tom Walker
, a service of Nexus. http://www.netnexus.org/ Hosting and email provided by new media consultants On-Line Publishing Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4G7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 669-3286

[PEN-L:272] uk-policy Working Time 7 (fwd)

1998-05-27 Thread Tom Walker
~~~ - Posted to uk-policy, a service of Nexus. http://www.netnexus.org/ Hosting and email provided by new media consultants On-Line Publishing Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver

[PEN-L:273] uk-policy Working Time 8 (fwd)

1998-05-27 Thread Tom Walker
new media consultants On-Line Publishing Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4G7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 669-3286 ^^^ The TimeWork Web: http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/

[PEN-L:275] uk-policy Working Time 1 (fwd)

1998-05-27 Thread Tom Walker
mon.co.uk/index.html - Posted to uk-policy, a service of Nexus. http://www.netnexus.org/ Hosting and email provided by new media consultants On-Line Publishing Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4G7 [EMAIL

[PEN-L:274] uk-policy Working Time 9 (fwd)

1998-05-27 Thread Tom Walker
forwarded message --- From: Tom Walker I agree with Gavin Cameron's point that the nominal incidence of a tax is not the same as its economic incidence. That is the argument underlying my proposal to arbitrage free time. http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework

[PEN-L:268] uk-policy Working Time 3 (fwd)

1998-05-27 Thread Tom Walker
Publishing Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4G7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 669-3286 ^^^ The TimeWork Web: http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/

[PEN-L:267] uk-policy Working Time 2 (fwd)

1998-05-27 Thread Tom Walker
On-Line Publishing Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4G7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 669-3286 ^^^ The TimeWork Web: http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/

A Proposal for Arbitraging Free Time

1998-05-11 Thread Tom Walker
panies and negotiate a new, free time deal with employees. Labour unions should demand the right for their members to choose whether they want more income or more free time. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver, B.C. V6E

Re: Peter Drucker II

1998-02-17 Thread Tom Walker
his best to astonish him with some new kind of invention, for all wanted to get him on their side. . ." Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C.,

Re: Peter Drucker I

1998-02-17 Thread Tom Walker
much time and energy to building a shared vision of cash flow. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296 ^^^ Th

Re: subsumption

1998-02-17 Thread Tom Walker
process. The capitalist *mode of production* can't occur without formal or real subsumption and the *specifically capitalist mode of production* can't occur without real subsumption. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver

Re: Peter Drucker

1998-02-16 Thread Tom Walker
ship of the large industrial enterprise. Of course, now that we've reverted to pristine 19th century competitive capitalism, all that's behind us. We wouldn't want to ask about management-as-a- labour-process and its real subsumption under capital, would we? Regards, Tom Walker ^^^

Re: productive/unproductive labour

1998-02-16 Thread Tom Walker
s very much a question whether the mode of production we've now got can be said to still follow the "logic of capital." Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C.,

Re: productive/unproductive labour

1998-02-16 Thread Tom Walker
e response, that's why it fascinates me. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296 ^^^ The TimeWork Web: http://www

subsumed

1998-02-16 Thread Tom Walker
ak." Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296 ^^^ The TimeWork Web: http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/

Re: productive/unproductive labour

1998-02-15 Thread Tom Walker
t the function of the capitalist becoming fully rationalized as a social labour process. The image that occurs to me is of Oroboros, the mythological snake devouring its own tail. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communicati

Re: productive/unproductive labour

1998-02-15 Thread Tom Walker
need yours to point out that that's what you've done. BTW, I was also having a little fun with "erasure", which as Doug Henwood probably knows, is a motif popular with the post modernists. But enough scraping. After all, to erase is human . . . Regards, Tom Walker ^^^

Re: productive/unproductive labour

1998-02-14 Thread Tom Walker
stion!): Is the market a commodity? Sixty points for the correct answer. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296 ^^^ The TimeWork Web: http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/

productive/unproductive labour

1998-02-14 Thread Tom Walker
Those brief, parenthetical -- almost off hand -- remarks appeared to be a Rosetta Stone for deciphering the hieroglyphic of capital. Almost. This particular Rosetta Stone comes with a curse: he who deciphers the hieroglyphic of capital is condemned thereafter to &quo

Not clear on the concept dept.

1998-02-13 Thread Tom Walker
12:44 US REPUBLICANS DISCUSSING NEW ABORTION LANGUAGE IN IMF DEBATE. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296

565 Groups say No to the Multilateral Agreement On Investment (fwd)

1998-02-13 Thread Tom Walker
: 1 202-783-7400, ext. 209 fax: 1 202-783-0444 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296 ^^^ The TimeWork Web: http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/

17 nanograms of fame

1998-02-12 Thread Tom Walker
Committee and the International Monetary Fund both begin with the SAME WORD! Coincidence? Does the IMF ask bankers to pee into a paper cup? Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604

KCTU resolution for a General Strike

1998-02-11 Thread Tom Walker
wholeheartedly do not hope that their rejection of our proposal will cause unnecessary situation. February 10, 1998 Emergency Executive Committee of KCTU Chairperson DAN, Byung-Ho Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications

Re: Concealed unemployment in US?

1998-02-11 Thread Tom Walker
re ignorant we become; the less possible it is to even decide whether we are better or worse off. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296

The Cause of the Unemployed (fwd)

1998-02-09 Thread Tom Walker
104, rue des Couronnes Tel : +33 1 44 62 63 44 F-75020 Paris France Fax : +33 1 44 62 63 45 e-mail : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mygale.org/02/ras/marches/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (information en français, lecture seule) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (information in en

A propos, Bill Gates

1998-02-09 Thread Tom Walker
eu de quoi rire pour deux jours... Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296 ^^^ The TimeWork Web: http://www.vcn.bc.ca

Re: Latin? With prose like this who needs it?

1998-02-08 Thread Tom Walker
for carnal production and consumption -- is straight out of gnostic antinomianism. It would be funny if it wasn't policy creed. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296

Latin? With prose like this who needs it?

1998-02-07 Thread Tom Walker
what sense are "creating wealth" and "creating jobs" alternative foci for government? 5. How does one model "inevitability" mathematically? 6. How does one define an "aggregate standard of living"? 7. Who wrote the sentence? 8. In what city is the Federal Reserve

Re: In Defense of Latin

1998-02-06 Thread Tom Walker
Paint me a picture, please. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296 ^^^ The TimeWork Web: http://www.vcn.bc.ca

Re: Santa Fe-Krugman-Arthur

1998-02-05 Thread Tom Walker
ic) Prize. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296 ^^^ The TimeWork Web: http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/

Re: Industrial Reserve Army

1998-02-04 Thread Tom Walker
Max Sawicky wrote, I tried that argument about 30 years ago but didn't have much success with it. Hope it works better for you. But Max, did you go back up the mountain a second time? Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications

Re: Industrial Reserve Army

1998-02-04 Thread Tom Walker
are socially productive "unemployed" but would be much less socially productive if they were employed. And I'm not kidding. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604

Re: gathering the news (version 3.1)

1998-02-01 Thread Tom Walker
the tension between the noncognate pair position/possession. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296 ^^^ The TimeWork Web:

Re: gathering the news (version 3.0)

1998-02-01 Thread Tom Walker
). By the end of the film, Zapruder realizes that the shadowy figure is Zapruder's own literary agent, Luc Goldberg, and that the film in his position is the highest expression of self-valorizing capital. Any literary agents out there? I'll be home most of the afternoon. Regards, Tom Walker

Re: gathering the news

1998-02-01 Thread Tom Walker
upon which the panting, grunting, slurping content is draped. And why has no one mentioned the eerily hilarious coincidence that "Deep Throat" was the Woodward and Bernstein code name for their Watergate informant? Regards, Tom Walker ^

Who is this Greenspan guy anyway?

1998-01-29 Thread Tom Walker
10:32 GREENSPAN: SAYS MODEL OF US SL SITUATION APPLICABLE TO ASIA. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296

Re: thought for the day

1998-01-28 Thread Tom Walker
Jim Devine wrote, as usual, time will tell. Time never tells. People just move on to something else. Whoops, that's two thoughts for the day. We're over our quota. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA

Re: Asian economic crisis the US

1998-01-27 Thread Tom Walker
l rules re. disclosure, bankruptcy processes, supervision of banks, accounting standards and securities laws. Westerners train locals accordingly. 9. G8 nations, especially selfish ol' Japan, offer open markets and at least growth maintenance. Well, waddya reckon? Cheers, Rob. Regards,

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