Anthony D'Costa wrote:
But what he said was
that Chandra Babu Naidu
the laptop toting chief minister of Andhra Pradesh,
who was recently
ousted in the elections, transferred massive water
to the urban, high tech
driven city, at the expense of the rural folks.
This story hasn't been
It's very simple, provide uninterrupted water to businesses and the rich
enclaves in the high tech cities. Some gallon figure was mentioned per
resident. This is not an overnight development, although it appears that way.
Newspapers may not have necessarily made the connection between IT
Yesterday my school buddy returned after having spent 2 months in
Hyderabad, the capital of Andhra Pradesh. He is an IT guy so he
attributed the suicides partly to water shortage, consistent with limited
monsoon rain in the region. But what he said was that Chandra Babu Naidu
the laptop toting
Seth Sandronsky wrote:
Peasant Suicides in India is a chapter in Contours
of Descent: U.S.
Economic Fractures and the Landscape of Global
Austerity by Robert Pollin
that details the ruinous outcomes of IMF policies on
Indian farmers.
India doesn't owe any money to the IMF. How IMF
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Seth Sandronsky wrote:
Peasant Suicides in India is a chapter in Contours
of Descent: U.S.
Economic Fractures and the Landscape of Global
Austerity by Robert Pollin
that details the ruinous outcomes
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Subject: Re: Suicides, Military and Economic
Seth Sandronsky wrote:
Peasant Suicides in India is a chapter in Contours
of Descent: U.S.
Economic Fractures and the Landscape of Global
Austerity by Robert Pollin
that details the ruinous outcomes of IMF
From: http://www.epw.org.in
EPW Commentary July 10, 2004
Is Rural Economy Breaking Down?
Farmers' Suicides in Andhra Pradesh
Farmers' suicides represent only the tip of the iceberg. To attribute
the rural crisis entirely to poverty and drought would be an
Perelman, Michael wrote:
Farmers' suicides:
Why are they localized?
Failure of monsoons, farmers' indebtness, shift to the
cash crops etc. are among the principal factors.
See interview of CPIM Secretary, B.V. Raghavalu for
Andhra Pradesh (Pop. about 80 million)for details in
Fronline, 19
Yes, but why are they localized in only 1 state? Aren't these problems more
widespread?
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 08:20:40PM +0100, Ulhas Joglekar wrote:
Perelman, Michael wrote:
Farmers' suicides:
Why are they localized?
Failure of monsoons, farmers' indebtness, shift to the
cash crops
Michael Perelman wrote:
Yes, but why are they localized in only 1 state?
Aren't these problems more widespread?
I have not studied the pattern of rainfall region by
region. Distribution of monsoon varies from region to
region and within each region its timing during
June-September monsoon
Ulhas and Jim,
My bad. I should have written neoliberal, not IMF, policies in India.
Seth
Re: Subject: Re: Suicides, Military and Economic
by Ulhas Joglekar
24 July 2004
Seth Sandronsky wrote:
Peasant Suicides in India is a chapter in Contours
of Descent: U.S.
Economic Fractures
Melvin:
What of the question of Appalachia!
The right of nations to self determination can be tricky if the dominate political group that advocates such right makes an assessment that ones group is not a nation.
Exactly what is a national minority? What is a minority? What is an autonomous
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The situation is particularly complicated in a state like
the USSR and Russian Federation, neither of which were/are nation-states.
(None of the ex-Soviet republics are nation-states, which maybe
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From what I have been able to find, the Bolsheviks did not
consider Chechnyans as a national minority with a right of
succession.
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it's unclear that the economy can sustain positive real short-term interest rates.
I was thinking of Jim's assertion that there are speculative bubbles in some real estate markets, and my suggestion that the same might be true in some commodity markets. A speculative bubble exists whenever
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My nephew asks: Do you know of any good articles or web sites that
comprehensively discuss the Romanian transition and expelling of
Ceaucescu?
I answer, No, but I know lots of smarties on PEN-L who surely will.
If I remember, Ceaucescu was shot, not expelled, for starters...
Bill
Gassler Robert wrote:
The problem is that concepts like heteroskedasticity refer to samples and
how well they reflect the total population. Here we have the total
population of US presidential elections, so we do not need statistical
inference.
Actually we do need statistical inference. We do
The relationship between nutrition and health is not a middle class or
bourgeois prejudice. It is a fact.
Joanna
I don't know if that is good or bad, but anyway it is not true and more a
middleclass or bourgeois prejudice.
Seth Sandronsky
The relationship between nutrition and health is not a middle class or
bourgeois prejudice. It is a fact.
Agreed, but we were talking about cheap food. Not all cheap food is
healthy, to be sure, but a lot of cheap food is healthier or has the same
nutritive content as more expensive food. The
Louis Proyect wrote:
Well, who else is supposed to criticize the Democrats? Salon.com? The
Nation Magazine? Bill Moyers?
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I think that the point of Counterpunch (and PEN-L) is to address the
necessity of transforming the system. We are facing a downward spiral in
bourgeois politics that
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Subject: California Dreaming
It's too early to tell if the recall will turn out badly. For example,
Proposition 54 -- the racial ignorance proposition -- failed because it
Bustamante got millions of dollars for his campaign, which the courts
ruled to be illegal. He turned the money over to the anti
Chronicle took on each.
Seth Sandronsky
Date:Wed, 8 Oct 2003 08:04:42 -0700
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Subject: California Dreaming
It's too early to tell if the recall will turn out badly. For example,
Proposition 54 -- the racial ignorance proposition -- failed
, James [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Bush failing?
Has anyone linked the outing of the Ambassador's wife as a CIA =
operative with the outing of Dr. Kelly by 10 Downing Street? Similarly =
disgusting tactics in one campaign?
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http
With a $38 billion state deficit, California is labeled the nation's basket case. The election to recall the governor will be held October 7, with over 240 candidates running for governor. This election will determine if Bush and his gang will gain control of the state. The people of California
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1) US plays aid card to fix war crimes exemption
2) War crime vote fuels US anger at Europe
3) State Department Reeker: ICC Article 98 Agreements
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US plays aid card to fix war crimes exemption
Ian
We hold these truths to be self evident. That all men are created unequal, and that
the capitalist class is endowed with ceratin natural rights; that among these rights
are the right to hoard, exploit, and market life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, air,
water, food, clothing, shelter, and
Hey Tom
I'm teaching Mike Lebowitz's old Marxist economics course at SFU this
semester. Any chance you would enjoy coming to talk to 40 economics
students about the world-historic issue of shorter work time on a Tuesday
or Thursday between 1.30 and 3.30? I can't really offer any benefit other
from single payer quote of the day...
Health Affairs
November/December 2002
How And Why The Health Insurance System Will Collapse
By Humphrey Taylor, Chairman of the Harris Poll
Abstract
The advocates of defined-contribution health plans extol the virtues of
consumer-driven health care,
We presented to the public the new market segment included by SA Supply.
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This is about Roberto Rodrigues, future Minister for Agriculture. The Minister
for Development is Luiz Fernando Furlan, currently president of Brazilian
agribusiness titan Sadia; foreign minister is Celso Amorim.
All of them are conservative economic nationalists, most of them arent even
PT;
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Where I wrote
There's no reason
to think that Marx understands a bourgeois system of ethics
to embrace the notion that every commodity sells at its [labor]
value, and some significant reasons to believe to the contrary.
First, Marx associates the former primarily with *formal* (as opposed to
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BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, MAY 13, 2002:
A sharp decline in food prices out-weighed the increase in gasoline and
tobacco prices, causing the producer price index to drop 0.2 percent in
April, compared with a 1.0 percent increase in March, according to the
Bureau of Labor
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Men make their own history and this most certainly includes men as
willful beings subject to accidental phenomenon, laws of chance and
Synchronicity, the cultural heritage that shapes the ideas and assertion of
will. Chance and the accidental can be studied as occurring under definite
This is too much, but for a suggestion from a reader in Honolulu's
Honolulu Advertiser: Then again, it beats 'retaliate with the military'
ideas that have been floated thus far...
Fighting terrorism with our checkbooks
The nation sat riveted to the television on Sept. 11 as news of terrorist
from the Boston Globe
Train stopped in Providence
Man arrested not connected to attacks, authorities say
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A man allegedly carrying a knife aboard an Amtrak train
was arrested Wednesday, but authorities said he had no apparent connection
to this week's terrorist attacks.
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ravi wrote:
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terribly sorry about that (and for this email also). that was supposed
to go to the list processor, not the list. to not entirely waste this
message, here's an interesting piece of news regarding EU investigation
of microsoft.
--ravi
Anti-racism Conference Expected to Reach Agreement on
Slavery Compensation: Official
Xinhua News Agency
2001-08-14
Sipho Pityana, director-general of the South African
Foreign Affairs Department, said on Tuesday he was
certain the World Conference Against Racism would find
an agreement on the
I am still cut off from my normal access to e-mail.
I was thinking this morning about what would happen in the power of the US
relative to the IMF and World Bank were reduced by 99%. What would a
structural adjustment plan for the US look like?
Also, I thought that one good thing about the US
Mark:
Did you read them?
I don't imagine any of us have read them yet. Just going by your publicists'
synopsis.
Leo Casey
United Federation of Teachers
260 Park Avenue South
New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869)
Power concedes nothing without a demand.
It never has, and it never will.
so if Zhirinovsky says it's bad, it must be good?
I can think of worse rules of thumb.
But what I find so interesting here is how the Mark of fiction and the Mark
of social analysis so closely follow each there. Why it is almost down right
lit-crit pomo, to invoke a much overused stereotype.
Leo, what on earth are you trying to say?
I has thought that the parallels between the oil/energy crises of your novels
and the imminent energy crisis you have been predicting here were pretty
obvious. Seems like fiction and social analysis seem to seamlessly fade into
each other...
Leo
John Landon wrote:
[...] I have made no inductive
leap, because I have read old Popper and don't use historical law theory, or
predictions of the future. Therefore the status of these intervals is
analogous to, say, the economic cycle. We look backward, measure economic
facts, and see a
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Bush should pull troops
Is this Aristotle or Proyect? Worms and spiders are insects?
Computer science - A
Biology - F
Within insects, you have worms, spiders, moths, etc.
y of life for the employed, balancing work
and
family, and equity between North and Southbut adds a
compelling
environmental basis for cutting working time. It is among the very
best
books on the subject of working time.
Many recent books have offered work-time reduction as a singl
With your growing CV, you should apply for the City College job!
David
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I wrote:
One of the reason why economics is bombarded by so much worthless
research is because people do it simply to climb up the academic ladder
rather than because they're genuinely interested in it.
Saith Ian:
Isn't it more accurate to say that economists "bombard" one another with
One of the
reason why economics is bombarded by so much worthless research is because
people do it simply to climb up the academic ladder rather than because
they're genuinely interested in it.
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thx, charles, for the lenin comments on Marx.
i've printed and collected a bunch of poster comments like yours, printed a
bunch of essays from louis's marxmail last night and ordered about 20 books
on the subject via the internet. also, i started to read about marxism in
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thx, charles, for the lenin comments on Marx.
i've printed and collected a bunch of poster comments like yours, printed a
bunch of essays from louis's marxmail last night and ordered about 20 books
on the subject via the internet. also, i started to read
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A quick rant, Reverend Tom ... by way of testimony from the congregation.
As Charlie Andrews so pungently summarises the whole sad business, "By
living his life the worker produces his capacity to work."
The raison d'etre of the dispossessed is to produce commodities - 'his'
being is not an
Being tone deaf, I'd like to stand with the choir and lip-synch.
Gene Coyle
Rob Schaap wrote:
A quick rant, Reverend Tom ... by way of testimony from the congregation.
As Charlie Andrews so pungently summarises the whole sad business, "By
living his life the worker produces his capacity to
At 06:21 06-11-00, you wrote:
I've been floundering around for
twenty years or so trying to work out a
program -- not a vision, not a theoretical critique but a program.
Of
course a program needs to be grounded theoretically (here) and it needs
to
project a vision of where its going (there). One
? That there is an historical subject, and that it's the mediating
structure by which 'abstract labour' (the category that makes capitalism
capitalism, and has us regulated and driven from 'behind our backs') messes
with every bit of real stuff we do?
I know I'm gonna want to talk about this, Tom
the realization of the Subject; in
traditional Marxism, this becomes the realization of the proletariat as
the concrete Subject. In Marx's critique, totality is grounded as
historically specific, and unfolds in a manner that points to the
possibility of its abolition."
Tom Walker
Sandwich
Timework Web wrote:
Two great quotes from Time, Labor and Social Domination (p. 80). I would
be more than happy to discuss, if anyone else is interested:
Plunge ahead see what happens.
Carrol
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I am not sure when Michael Hoover and I discovered that we shared a passion
for Hong Kong cinema but it probably dates back to the time of the wild and
woolly days on the original Marxism list when I announced in the middle of
a fight with some sectarians that I had perfected the drunken Tai-Chi
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From a Marxist piont of view, Steven Rosenthal comrade responds to
defenders of over-population thesis, one them being, I may include,
_Bartlett._..
Mine
- I agree with most of what Andy and Mine have said during the debate
about population. The problems of the world today are due to
Apologies for cross posting.
Fu'ad, this article provides a partial response to your question about
the social status of Arab women and the recent economic restructuring in
the Middle East..
Mine
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Women's
Interested listers might check out below website for documentary
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Administration." Film explores great piece of musical, political,
economic history.
My friends Denise Mathews and Bill Black were involved in the project.
Denise
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Michael Perelman wrote,
Didn't Churchill and Roosevelt refer to him as Uncle Joe? As I recall
the inventor of the condom left his estate to the Bolsheviks. His family
appealed and his estate went to his three daughters. In order to reclaim
their rightful wealth, the Bolsheviks dispatch their
I think that none of the three bachelors succeeded in their quest.
Timework Web wrote:
Michael Perelman wrote,
Didn't Churchill and Roosevelt refer to him as Uncle Joe? As I recall
the inventor of the condom left his estate to the Bolsheviks. His family
appealed and his estate went to
More poop on the tax cuts the Repugs have folded
into the minimum wage bill.
http://www.cbpp.org/10-19-99tax.htm
mbs
Michael Perelman has asked me to introduce my web site and post new
additions.
About five years ago I while teaching the history of economic thought at
McMaster, posted a number of readings for my students. With the
encouragement of Michael and Tony Brewer, I made the text available to
everyone.
its very foundations.
This prohibition is *absolute*. And even if the power of the state or its
agent, the head of state, has violated the original contract by authorizing
the government to act tyrannically, and has thereby, in the eyes of the
subject, forfeited the right to legislate, the subject is
James Farmelant wrote:
I am not sure that it is accurate to describe Kant as having been
anti-revolutionary. He was a discreet supporter of the French
Revolution, and even wrote an essay *Eternal Peace* in which he
argued that the establishment of republican regimes was to
be welcomed as a means
into rebellion, is the greatest and most
punishable crime in a commonwealth, for it destroys its very foundations.
This prohibition is *absolute*. And even if the power of the state or its
agent, the head of state, has violated the original contract by authorizing
the government to act tyrannically, and
rev pen-l
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U.S. Marines Face Anti-NATO Protest In Greece
By Karolos Grohmann EVZONI, Greece (Reuters) - A huge
banner saying ``U.S. killers go home'' greeted
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The Journal of Economic Perspectives (from the American Economic
Association) is considering a symposium on topic in econometrics. Part of
my job is to get input from a subset of *non--econometricians* on topics
that they might actively choose to read about if published in the JEP.
China Protesters Attack US Embassy
..c The Associated Press
By JOHN LEICESTER
BEIJING (AP) -- More than a thousand demonstrators attacked the U.S.
Embassy in Beijing with rocks, smashed up embassy cars and scuffled with
hundreds of police officers today in a protest over the accidental
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Barkley Rosser wrote
There was a vote about this in the US Senate, approving
it by 58-41. Somehow in the midst of all its stories the W. Post
failed to say who voted how, although obviously this was not
party line. I gather most (i
Summers, whose credibility has been irrevocably tarnished internationally by his inept
handling of the global financial crisis in the past two years, gave another admonishing
speech in Japan last Friday, February 26, 1999, warning Japan not to depend on a weak
yen
to boost its economy, using
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