Re: The Rosenbergs

2004-06-16 Thread knowknot
On 6/16/04, Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] in part: [If you haven't already, try to see the rebroadcast or tape of DVD of the HBO program, Heir To An Execution which] captures the personal story of the Rosenbergs, deftly setting up the political backdrop of the prevalent anti-communist mood

Re: 'human capital

2004-03-19 Thread knowknot
On 3/19/04, James Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ . . . human beings are live capital . . . (?) ] . . . Marx had a critique of human capital theory in vol. III of CAPITAL (pp. 465-6 of the Intl. Publ. ed.) two disagreeably frustrating facts mar this thoughtless conception [of wages being

Oakeshott ??

2003-12-27 Thread knowknot
We would be greatful if some of you more knowledgeable savants on this List would be good enough to explain what the agenda of David Brooks might be, and why, in his description (in his 12/27/03 N.Y. Times column) of Michael Oakeshott as a big thinker who is one of the most most important

Background of David Kay

2003-08-14 Thread knowknot
On 8/5/03, k hanly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting that when it was announced that David Kay . . . was hired . . . to look for weapons in Iraq there is zilch about questionable parts of his background . . . . [that] he has . . . no training as a scientist . . . [and] admitted in

Re: Background of David Kay

2003-08-08 Thread knowknot
On 8 /5/03 1:50:14 PM, Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kay made some published statements of optimism concerning the imminent finding of evidence concerning the WMDs, . . . . . . so what? . . . . . . along with statements that his group had already found evidence . . . . . .

Re: Re: Irradiated Beef in School Lunches

2003-02-08 Thread knowknot
On 2/1/03, Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Schlosser in his FAST FOOD NATION . . . quotes someone saying that irradiation simply allows the meat-packers to avoid dealing with the root causes of E. Coli and the like, i.e., the crowded and totally unsanitary conditions of

Re: Re: law and economics redux

2003-02-01 Thread knowknot
On 1/30/03, andie nachgeborenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I was clerking on the federal district court in Chicago, there was an insurance dispute . . . whether the insurer would pay under a director's and officer's liability policy for the defense of a firm that had pleaded guilty to