yes. it's an excellent book. It's even good if you're not
interested in the autism spectrum.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
[was: RE: [PEN-L] The rise of an emotion based left was Bush using drugs]
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From: PEN-L list on behalf
From the Law and Politics Book Review
WELFARE AND THE CONSTITUTION, by Sotirios A. Barber. Princeton, New
Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2004. 184pp. Cloth $27.95 / £17.95.
ISBN: 0-691-11448-X
Reviewed By Ronald Kahn, Department of Politics, Oberlin College.
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May I recommend that Pen-l folks take a serious look
at a new book by a friend and colleague. Paul Kivel's
book is not only an excellent description of the
ruling elite and how it rules but is also focused on
empowering people by looking at organizing
possibilities. I've already put
and as a teacher of autoworkers and prisoners.
Crucially, Yates clarifies the official view of work. For instance, his
book is a resource for working people to understand better the false
claims about Americas new economy during the 1990s. A leading voice
of that false view is Chairman Alan
Devine, James wrote:
such as whom?
me, perhaps? ;-O
--ravi
Eugene Coyle wrote:
What's Wrong With Kansas, the new book by Thomas Frank is interesting.
His acknowledgements include a roster of Pen-L ers.
Including, if I'm remembering correctly, Eugene Coyle.
Doug
From: Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Eugene Coyle wrote:
What's Wrong With Kansas, the new book by Thomas Frank is interesting.
His acknowledgements include a roster of Pen-L ers.
Including, if I'm remembering correctly, Eugene Coyle.
Doug
Hmm, modesty abounds. From WWWK's Acknowledgments: Gene
Carl Remick wrote:
Hmm, modesty abounds. From WWWK's Acknowledgments: Gene Coyle, Doug
Henwood, Jim McNeill, Nomi Prins, and Daryll Ray each helped me understand
the particulars of the industrial fields discussed in the book.
jimD: bummer! looks we didn't make the list ;-).
--ravi
]
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Thomas Frank's new book
Carl Remick wrote:
Hmm, modesty abounds. From WWWK's Acknowledgments:
Gene Coyle, Doug
Henwood, Jim McNeill, Nomi Prins, and Daryll Ray each
helped me understand
the particulars of the industrial fields discussed in the book
What's Wrong With Kansas, the new book by Thomas Frank is interesting.
His acknowledgements include a roster of Pen-L ers.
Gene Coyle
such as whom?
jd
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From: Eugene Coyle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sat 6/19/2004 8:40 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc:
Subject: [PEN-L] Thomas Frank's new book
What's Wrong With Kansas
To URPE Members
and Friends,
This is a reminder about our book party for "Reclaiming Development."
For those of you who missed the Conference -- here's another chan
Why is it that every time your ignorance on a particular point is exposed, you try to
change the subject?
I have better things to do with my time. Poka.
Exactly! :)
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From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 07:39:00 -0700
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] FW: Racist book The Arab Mind used to train military , but best
use is as a doorstop.
the West = the Bushist power elite plus a small
OMG! The Guardian! We must all believe the crap Guardian, whose man in Moscow doesn't
even speak Russian.
Putin is referring to Wahabbi jihadis, not the 20 million Russian Muslims represented
by the guy below.
All-Russian Social Political Movement EURASIA
ISLAMIC THREAT OR THREAT TO ISLAM?
Rosbalt, 15/08/2003, 14:08
Putin: Russia Prepared to Take Financial Responsibilities to Join Organization of
Islamic Conference
MOSCOW, August 15. Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Ambassador for Ties with
International Islamic Organizations Veniamin Popov yesterday. In part, they
See how different things look when you bother to examine primary sources and don't
rely on on crappy British newspapers?
BBC Monitoring
Putin answers questions from the public in live broadcast
Source: RTR Russia TV, Moscow, in Russian 0900 gmt 18 Dec 03
[Andreyeva] And here is the Kremlin live
Chris Doss wrote:
Putin is referring to Wahabbi jihadis
But that's what people like Stephen Schwartz, Paul Berman and Ian Buruma
are speaking of, as well. We need to organize a crusade against the
dirty Wahabbists so that civilization can prevail.
--
Marxism list: www.marxmail.org
Chris Doss wrote:
See how different things look when you bother to examine primary sources and don't rely on on crappy British newspapers?
Actually, I find the British press quite useful.
The Observer
June 1, 2003
Blair lauds Putin's handling of Chechen rebellion
BYLINE: Nick Paton Walsh, St
Chris Doss wrote:
Putin is referring to Wahabbi jihadis
But that's what people like Stephen Schwartz, Paul Berman and Ian Buruma
are speaking of, as well. We need to organize a crusade against the
dirty Wahabbists so that civilization can prevail.
---
I am but vaguely familiar with their
What does this have to do with Russia's attitude to Islamic culture?
Walsh doesn't speak Russian, BTW, judging from all the interpreters who appear in his
reports.
How is it a rebellion?
---
Actually, I find the British press quite useful.
The Observer
June 1, 2003
Blair lauds Putin's
Chris Doss wrote:
Russia's concern is jihadi activity along its southern rim, mostly financed from abroad. Islamic fundamentalism is completely alien to post-Soviet Muslims, which is the main reason why the wahabbi dream of a pan-Caucasian caliphate is fantasy, and why, instead of meeting Khattab
The West is psycho. The population of Russia is about 20% Muslim,
and there's no war of civilizations crap rhetoric going on here.
---
Message
Can I raise on PEN-L an article which I was uneasy to find forwarded to me by a
liberal professional colleague in the USA
THE AGENDA OF ISLAM - A WAR
Chris Doss wrote:
The West is psycho. The population of Russia is about 20% Muslim,
and there's no war of civilizations crap rhetoric going on here.
The Guardian (London)
November 13, 2002
Threat of war: Get circumcised, angry Putin tells reporter
BYLINE: Ian Traynor
President Vladimir Putin has
: Chris Doss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Mon 5/31/2004 5:09 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc:
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] FW: Racist book The Arab Mind used to train military ,
but best use is as a doorstop.
The West is psycho. The population
Title: Message
Can I raise onPEN-L an article which I was uneasy to find forwarded
to me by a liberal professional colleague in the USA
THE AGENDA OF ISLAM - A WAR BETWEEN CIVILIZATIONSby Professor
Moshe Sharon
Itappears to be circulating extensively in some quarters on the
internetand to
Why is this not true for all monotheistic religions?
On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 08:31:49AM +0100, Chris Burford wrote:
The element of truth is that this monotheistic religion was an aggressive and
militarist political programme at a time of divided polytheistic tribal society. To
apply that
Title: Message
'Its best use is as a doorstop' Brian Whitaker explains why a book packed with sweeping generalisations
about Arabs carries so much weight with both neocons and military in the
US Monday May 24, 2004 Consider these statements:
"Why are most Africans, unless forced by
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http://patrifriedman.com/prose-others/fi/commented/Future_Imperfect.html
David Friedman has written a libertarian book on future. I just glanced at it. He
is not bad on intellectual property. What is more interesting is the way it is set
up to accept comments. I suspect a relative worked up
Call for book proposals.
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Has anyone looked at Capital Resurgent: Roots of the Neoliberal
Revolution by Girard Duminil and Dominique Levy
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Their names are Grard DUMNIL and Dominique LVY.
I didnt see the book yet. Though, I was with Gerard in several
conferences during last 4 months, including in Istanbul where I
commented on one of their papers, the second in the following list. I
suspect, talking to Gerard and seeing the content
Gérard Duménil and Duminique Lévy -
http://pythie.cepremap.ens.fr/~levy/exindex.htm
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From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 3:05 PM
Subject: book question
Has anyone looked at Capital Resurgent: Roots
of finance. Curiously an otherwise fine presentation he gave last
December, had some of: 'excess savings driving investment' that was
criticized (but I did not get a chance to check whether this made it to the
book).
I join Tonak in encouraging a discussion of their work if there is interest
I've looked for more info on this book. What an interesting title. I am
reading th e material posted yesterday that links some of their articles. Is
there a table of contents available? A review?
Joel W.
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/DUMCAP.html
This gives a few pages + the TOC.
On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 10:36:27PM -0500, Joel Wendland wrote:
I've looked for more info on this book. What an interesting title. I am
reading th e material posted yesterday that links some of their articles
is not for sale in the UK (ref: Global
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and labor relations at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown and as a
teacher of autoworkers and prisoners.
Crucially, Yates clarifies the official view of work. For instance, his book
is a resource for working people to understand better the false claims about
Americas new economy during
adolescents self-perception of HRQL was not the biology (How high was
the spinal cord cut?) but their mothers Hopefulness.
We all know what society life often does to hope.
Anyway - the book review: In spite of Louis' cautionary note re Prozac
(Actually - was it a cautionary note - it dwelt on getting
No apologies. I wrote about Healy in Steal this idea.
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 08:26:47PM -0500, Hari Kumar wrote:
Anyway - the book review: In spite of Louis' cautionary note re Prozac
(Actually - was it a cautionary note - it dwelt on getting high?) - I
strongly recommend a book I just
Title: Message
"War Against the
Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race." by Edwin Black,
Four Walls-Eight Windows Press, N.Y., 2003
The scholarship in
this book is breathtaking and it is important for understanding present-day
forces and their origins and
Title: Message
the supporters of eugenics included such progressive [sic]
thinkers as Woodrow Wilson, Margaret Sanger, and Oliver Wendell
Holmes.
back in the early
part of the 20th century, "progressive" referred to middle-class and especially
upper-middle-class advocates of a government
The word, progressive, was supposed to be more related to science than
politics. Progresses wanted a merit system based on tests to determine
political appointments. They believed in scientific management.
Frederick Taylor, in fact, fit right in with the Progressives. For them,
the highest
for improvement at home and abroad was at the heart of what
it meant to be a progressive.
The dual effort of American progressives to change the world is the
subject of this book. Starting in the years before the Great War, I have
followed the progressives through the turbulent years of war
I don't exactly agree with the Dawley characterization of the progressives
as Fabian socialists. They were mostly concerned with what they
considered to be efficient management. The Fabians wanted efficiency
too but they were less explicit in seeing lower class people as raw
material to be
--- Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the word progressive is profoundly ambiguous. is
it Bull Moose and Teddy Roosevelt? or Lafollette? or
Henry Wallace?
*
To me progress is a directional verb with the
direction being towards greater freedom. If the
movement leads
but what is freedom? to Dubya, it's greater freedom for capital, especially for his
cronies.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
the word progressive is profoundly ambiguous. is
it Bull Moose and Teddy Roosevelt? or Lafollette? or
Right you are, James. The freedom of Bush and the
bourgeoisie is for me and my class,
un-freedom--continued wage-slavery. On the other
hand, freedom for me and my class from wage-slavery
should translate into a generalized freedom for all.
Progressively yours,
Mike B)
P.S.
Jurrien, thanks for
Devine, James wrote:
but what is freedom? to Dubya, it's greater freedom for capital, especially for
his cronies.
That Wallace's party was called the Progressive Party points to one of
the usages of the term: it means non-communists who will work with
communists. This of course has no
Dear Jim:
The book is about how us economic theory to study noneconomic phenomena. Mostly micro.
Here is all the information from the publisher's web site:
Beyond Profit And Self-interest
Economics with a Broader Scope
Robert Scott Gassler, Professor of Economics, Vesalius College, Vrije
with a Broader Scope__ by
Robert Scott Gassler.
Thanks, Scott, for all of your work in this area.
All best,
Diane
Gassler Robert wrote:
Dear Jim:
The book is about how us economic theory to study noneconomic
phenomena. Mostly micro.
Here is all the information from the publisher's web site
Dear PEN-L:
You might be interested in my new book from Elgar:
Robert Scott Gassler. Beyond Profit and Self-Interest: Economics with
a Broader Scope.
It is out in Europe and will be out in the US in February (I guess that's
next week). Without a trace of modesty I'll reproduce the publisher's
what's the
book about, exactly? macro? micro? what is one of its major theses?
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
-Original Message-From: Robert Scott Gassler
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 8:30
AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED
Rise of a ruling-class family
How generations of high finance and Ivy League breeding led to a
presidency handed from father to son. An excerpt from American Dynasty.
- - - - - - - - - - - -
By Kevin Phillips
Jan. 27, 2004 | Concern about a U.S. dynastic presidency first emerged
in 2000,
august
publication.
On January 4th, Stephanie Powers ripped Noam Chomsky's Hegemony or
Survival as a raging and meandering book with faulty footnotes. One
wonders if Ms. Powers was the best choice for this assignment, since she is
a long-standing ideological opponent of his point-of-view
Back around September or so I read about a forthcoming book that would
assert that LBJ was behind the assassination of JFK.
What made it most interesting was that the author was the father of
Bush's press spokesperson. Can't recall if it is the current one or the
previous one.
But I haven't heard
It is the dad of the current spokeman.
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 02:16:10PM -0800, Eugene Coyle wrote:
Back around September or so I read about a forthcoming book that would
assert that LBJ was behind the assassination of JFK.
What made it most interesting was that the author was the father
I am just now reading Beder, Sharon. 2003. Power Play (NY: New Press),
which I learned about from an interview she gave on Doug's radio program.
It is very slow going -- not because it is difficult or boring, but
because I'm finding so much that I want to copy down for my note --
Michael Perelman
Has anyone reviewed *The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While
People Feel Worse* by Gregg Easterbrook?
Bill
minimizes the harm done to Wal-Mart employees who were
forced to work off the clock hours without pay because, after all,
they're still living better than their ancestors, since stores like
Wal-Mart sell necessities at such affordable prices. The book does
confront some serious problems, like the health
Oh damn. I will have to look at that crap, since I am taking on that
literature in my new book project.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Michael Perelman wrote:
Oh damn. I will have to look at that crap, since I am taking on that
literature in my new book project.
btw, it came up in David Brooks's op-ed piece in the Times today. Brooks
is being groomed to replace Safire. My own rude comments are interspersed.
OP-ED COLUMNIST
, he now and again makes useful - if
not entirely/necessarily accurate - point such as when he suggests in
his book 'bobos in paradise' that clintonoids represent merger of 60s
(i'd suggest whatever remained of the worst of that decade's dead,
stinking carcass) and 80s while bushites represent
Why not rebut point by point ? E.g.,
If he says,
The American work ethic shifted, so that the average American
now works 350 hours a year 9 or 10 weeks longer than the average
European.
Then,
This is meaningless, because (1) is working longer without holidays a virtue
(2) what do you get
I attended a lecture this evening at Portland State University by Michael
Dawson who spoke about his book "The Consumer Trap: Big Business Marketing in
American Life" (Univ. of Illinois Press). Michael has developed a very
powerful analysis of the political economy of mass market
NY Review of BOoks, Volume 50, Number 18 November 20, 2003
Strictly Business
By Paul Krugman
George W. Bush
Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America
by Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose
Random House, 347 pp., $24.95
Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth
by Joe
From Adam Smith to the present day, economic theory has shortchanged the
workers most crucial to the functioning of human life and offered skewed
views of scarcity and extraction. Perelman shows how this approach has
produced a discipline in which its followers' models and representations of
the
The Perverse Economy: The Impact of Markets on People and
Nature (NY: Palgrave, 2003).
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Rakesh suggested that we might be interested in this book.
Power Play
The Twentieth-Century Struggle Over
Electricity
Sharon Beder
Hardcover, $25.95, 1-56584-808-X
6 1/8 x 9 1/4, 336 pages
Current Affairs
Territorial Sales Rights: Y
Synopsis
As electrification spread across America in the early
The SF Bay Guardian strike was a nasty one, the union effort was defeated
and staff dispersed. I don't recall that it was about anything more than
wage levels. Some of the ex-journalists are still around, doing other things.
Gene Coyle
Dan Scanlan wrote:
Re: book review
this case
Title: Re: book review
this case seems to have
been a part of the growing effort to force intellectual property
rights on the world.
Moreso about parody as protected speech.
BTW, if I remember
correctly from back in the 1970s, O'Neill was also
anti-union.
I asked him about this. He says he
I'm thoroughly immersed in The Pirates and the Mouse: Disney's War
Against the Counterculture by Bob Levin (Fantagraphic Books). It
chronicles the struggle between Disney and Odd Bodkins cartoonist Dan
O'Neill, a fight that went to the Supreme Court. I think it's a great
and right on peek at the
Title: RE: [PEN-L] book review
this case seems to have been a part of the growing effort to force intellectual property rights on the world.
BTW, if I remember correctly from back in the 1970s, O'Neill was also anti-union.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http
Trailer and discussion site:
http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?50@@.4a91441e/0
Our task is not to overthrow globalisation, but to capture it, and
to use it as a vehicle for humanity's first global democratic
revolution.
Guardian columnist George Monbiot's new book - The Age of Consent
book also shopped for Michael
Perelman's Invention of Capitalism, I just learned when testing that
link.
Doug
Title: RE: [PEN-L] Doug's book
Doug, did you get an advance as big as Hillary's? are they planning to initially print a million copies of your book, too?
;-)
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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From
Is that a vanity press?
Ken.
--
Invest in land.
They have stopped making it.
-- Mark Twain
Kenneth Campbell wrote:
Is that a vanity press?
Is that a joke? Or just Canadian provincialism at work? Here's some
info about the press: http://www.thenewpress.com/about.htm.
I followed my Verso editor, Colin Robinson, there when Verso
essentially bounced him, after many years of tension.
Doug
Grin...
Is that a vanity press?
Is that a joke?
You got it the first time. :)
Or just Canadian provincialism at work?
We have provinces! You have states!
A second gold star!
Ken.
--
Negative. We are not in the Eighth Dimension.
We are over New Jersey.
-- Buckaroo Bonzai
Congrats to Doug on his long-awaited book.
I have no doubt that it will be very well done.
I wish to say that I have the utmost sympathy
with him regarding this business of editors. There
is incredible turmoil going on in the book publishing
business these days, and good editors
Title: RE: [PEN-L] Doug's book
don't congratulate him yet, since it's not coming out until 2004.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
-Original Message-
From: Barkley Rosser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, June
Title: RE: [PEN-L] Doug's book
Presumably it is in press, and
publishers like to put
next year on for a copyright starting pretty early in
the
previous year. This is so they can show how up to
date
and ahead of things they are. Although who knows,
maybe
Doug's book won't actually
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I wanted to let people on PEN-L know about a new book I wrote that
may be of use to them: The ABCs of Political Economy: A Modern Approach,
just published by Pluto Press.
I wrote it, first and foremost, to provide young activists in the
anti-globalization movement with the essential intellectual
Hi!
Ihave had good use of the many tips on literature and debates on the list, thanks everyone. Now I thought ofaskingdirectly for advice.
Im writing and researching on my firstbook project, carrying onfrom an article I had published a year ago in First Monday (Copyleft vs. Copyright - A Marxist
on the subject,
Upheavals of Thought. In Neuroscience the book The Feeling of What
Happens, Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness, by Antonio
Damasio reveals how much new and profound knowledge has accumulated about
the brain's workings. Much more in many other areas.
Nothing like
How is the book project advancing?
Maybee it would be a good idé to sort out areas of
responsibility? Some of them in my mind:
Editing - collecting the texts, making them fit
together and write a summary.
Spellchecker - Adjusting the texts (preferable native
english)
Publishing - keeping
Sorry, I send this message to the wrong list.
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It should be clear from this book that most of the world's people will
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First, any new society worthy of the name will have to embrace
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