In a message dated 7/23/2004 6:35:11 PM Central Standard Time,
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A per unit drop of labor input of 40% in 30 years is running
at an annual improvement factor of more than 10% and what is built into the
union contract is an annual improvement factor of 3%
I think that this is very important. For me it signifies that the
center of gravity of the economy is shifting in the direction of finance
capital, except that I would include intellectual property as part of
the nonmaterial properties that represent the core of finance capital.
Michael Perelman
accounting for the profits of lending is the second blackest of the black
arts (accounting for the profits of life assurers is the blackest). There
are often very substantial gaps indeed between even the best accruals
accounts and cash. If the debt ends up not being repaid, this earnings
stream
Wall Street analysts said they'd like to see GM -- as well as Ford -- make
more money from selling cars and trucks. Ford is even more dependent than GM on
its credit business, getting about 77 percent of its profits from there.
"I think at both GM and Ford the reliance is a general concern.
Charles Brown wrote:
what is progressive economist take on ford and general motors releasng
info the other day indicating that each only made profits from
credit/lending operations...
michael hoover
^
You must be reading Detroit newspapers in Ann Arbor, Michael.
It made the Chicago
I don't recall the exact details, but a few years ago when Rupert Murdoch was looking
to expand his satellite business the Wall Street Journal said that he was mulling
over the possibility of buying General Motors, because its satellite division was
worth more on the market than the company as a
In a message dated 7/23/2004 4:04:00 PM Central Standard Time,
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CB: Well GM is only about the third largest company in the
world now. I wonder if what's good for General Motors is still good for America.
Way back in the thirties it was Alfred P. Sloan ( I think)
General Motors put on the back burner for a moment its new
production facility design of modular produced vehicles . .. where the modules
are shipped to a central point for assembly. By the early 1970 General Motors
already had the blueprints for a 90 - 95% automated engine assembly plant .
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/12/04 5:42 PM
For some inexplicable reason I am cyber-debating some American social
democrat. He insists that the 1974-75 oil shock caused the US recession
and (implicitly) US decline from hegemony and the good days. We three
all disagree with each other on many questions
The Federal Reserve began raising interest rates in 1972 - gently at
first, but more aggressively in 1973. The fed funds rate broke 10% in
July 1973 for the first time ever. Inflation had been rising - from
under 3% in mid-1972 to 6% a year later - and the monthly inflation
rate was hitting an
The book is by Goodwin, Nelson, Ackerman, and Weisskopf and its title is
MICROECONOMICS IN CONTEXT. Its focus is to not just give the standard neoclassical
stuff but also alternative theories. It's not radical like Hahnel. Rather, it's more
sophisticated than the standard textbook. Thus it
Reverse-Robinhood?
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James
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 11:39 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L] query: trickle-down economics
does anyone know of a good synonym for trickle-down economics besides
Krugman used dooh nibor or robin hood spelled backwards.
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 09:03:32AM -0400, nomi prins wrote:
Reverse-Robinhood?
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James
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 11:39 PM
To: [EMAIL
here's something on current law:
http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/datazone_uicalc_index
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Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 7:03 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: query: unemployment insurance.
where
Jim:
In the Green Book, i.e. the compedium of data produced by the House of
Representatives Committee on Ways and Means. They were doing them annually,
then biennially, and now I think they haven't done one since 2001 (pending
a longer-term consensus on welfare reform). But I think the data is
A new green book came out a month or two ago.
http://waysandmeans.house.gov/Documents.asp?section=813
max
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thanks. By the way, labor arbitrage is part of the race to the bottom or what I
called competitive austerity in my 1983 REVIEW OF RADICAL POLITICAL ECONOMICS
article. My concept was more political-economic, in that it also involved cutting of
the social wage.
Jim
Stephen Roach?
http://www.morganstanley.com/GEFdata/digests/20040209-mon.html
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 04:55:42PM -0700, Devine, James wrote:
what's the name of the economist (left-Keynesian, pessimistic, works for some big
bokerage) who recently wrote about labor arbitrage? where can I find
right. thanks.
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From: Michael Perelman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wed 5/26/2004 5:20 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc:
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] query: labor arbitrage
Stephen Roach?
Larry K is an interestingly perverse case.
He's done a lot of high-powered neo-classical micro re:
public finance, but over the past decade got obsessed with
generational accounts. (Other devotees include Alan Auerbach
and David Bradford, neither of whom are crazy.)
He thinks of himself as a
to be honest the only way to get an answer to this sort
of thing is to track down the bloke at the statistics
agency who maintains the series and get him to take you
through it line by line. Most of them are quite
pleased that somebody took an interest.
dd
On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 10:07:12 -0500,
In the US Bureau of Labor Statistics current population survey, who counts
as being part of the Institutionalized population and thus is excluded
from the labor force? Are prisoners who are paid to answer phones (etc.)
part of the paid labor force and employment?
The US non-institutional
could you mean the Repub. Harold Stassen?
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:05:59AM -0800, Devine, James wrote:
I am struggling to remember a name and it's bugging me, so I thought
maybe bugging pen-l could help. (I tried googling...) What is the name
of the Democratic Party candidate for President
he was a Republican.
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Perelman
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 12:11 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: query
could you mean the Repub. Harold Stassen?
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:05:59AM -0800, Devine
Jerry Brown? Oh, no, that was later.
Devine, James wrote:
I am struggling to remember a name and it's bugging me, so I thought
maybe bugging pen-l could help. (I tried googling...) What is the name
of the Democratic Party candidate for President who ran in the early
1950s presidential primaries
that's him! by today's standards, he was a liberal Democrat!
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 9:11 AM
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could you mean the Repub. Harold Stassen?
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:05:59AM -0800, Devine, James wrote:
I am struggling to remember a name and it's bugging me, so I thought
maybe bugging pen-l could help. (I tried googling...) What is the
name
of the
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 of
The numbers seem bizarre. Two managers for every 3 workers?
Quite. But many workers with a supervisory role are called managers, and
they make senior staff with long years of service a manager as well even
if they aren't in charge of much, more a question of pay really. In which
case the title
Carroll's figures seemed off to me also. ATT is disappearing quickly.
Here is some unformatted data. The figures represent data for the years:
1993
1994
1995
1996
(approx.)
Management/Professional
149,515
145,884
151,224
N/A
Occupational
162,677
153,195
Not that bizarre. I'm a moron at research, but the very large company I
work for (Sun is shining...Weather is sweet...Makes me want to
move...) has about seven layers of management on top of the grunts
(me). Lots of managers.
Joanna
Carrol Cox wrote:
There was an odd little news bit in the
Das Kapital Vol. 1 came out on 14 September 1867 in an edition of 1,000
copies, priced at 3 Taler and 10 groschen per copy.
J.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/18/03 4:36 PM
A friend passed along this query from a European correspondent:
Do you know anybody critical of the US system of tuition fees who
argues from an
economic point of view: i.e. who refers to higher education as public
good? We need to be backed up by critics from
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/18/03 5:32 PM
Now you have
students working 20+ hours and trying to get an education. I see high
numbers dropping out due to stress -- They try to rush through to get it
over with and cannot maintain the pace. The quality of education
suffers
as our neoclassical friends
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/19/03 8:42 AM
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/18/03 5:32 PM
ago...florida has never been hotbed of either higher ed or public goods
but this makes good private/exclusive - public/inclusive
and shows how situation has become more 'liberal' and less
'democratic'... michael hoover
I have made the point. I think lots of people have. Now you have
students working 20+ hours and trying to get an education. I see high
numbers dropping out due to stress -- They try to rush through to get it
over with and cannot maintain the pace. The quality of education suffers
as our
I'd try Barbara Miner in Milwaukee. If she doesn't know herself, she will
surely know someone who does.
Joel Blau
Eugene Coyle wrote:
A friend passed along this query from a European correspondent:
Do you know
anybody criticalof the US system
of tuition fees who argues from
Also, didn't someone in Freeman and Card, "Small Differences that Matter"
make the point that the higher tuition in the US relative to in Canada was
one of the factors explaining the greater increase in income differentials
in the US and also a reason for the lower percentage of the young
Good Will, which is treated as a balance sheet asset, is technically the
excess of the purchase price over the acquired company's book value of
its equity balances ((primarily retained earnings and capital stock
(from an accounting standpoint), and sometimes including treasury stock
if the company
Macleod, H. D. 1855. Theory and Practice of Banking, 2d ed.
(London: Longmans and Green, 1866) was the first to treat goodwill
as capital. The Right to receive the future profits of the
business, is a property quite separate and distinct and distinct
from the house or shop, and the actual goods
It's interesting that in some ways, Marx's analysis of production in volume I of
CAPITAL is similar to the neoclassical notion of an _aggregate_ production function,
which is even worse than a micro-level production function. He largely ignores the
qualitative differences amongst different
What production function do we reject? And on what grounds?
IMO, Anwar Shaikh's claim is that fitting an homothetic production function
on aggregate data is arbitrary. As they'd say in econometrics, there's an
identification problem because such data don't allow to single out the
parameters.
See Prof. Anwar Shaikh's articles on the humbug production function (not
to be confused with the Cobb-Douglas production function).
J.
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From: Matías Scaglione [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 12:39 AM
Subject: [PEN-L] Query:
Here is the article Michael and Jurriaan suggested, in downloadable form:
http://homepage.newschool.edu/~AShaikh/humbug2.pdf
ahmet tonak
Michael Perelman wrote:
Shaikh, AM, (1974). "Laws of Algebra and Laws of Production: The
Humbug Production Function", Review of Economics and
He actually wrote two articles on it. Maybe in the New Palgrave dictionary
of economics, or another dictionary ?
J.
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From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 12:52 AM
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Query: critique of
http://growthconf.ec.unipi.it/papers/Felipe.pdf
AGGREGATION IN PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS:
WHAT APPLIED ECONOMISTS SHOULD KNOW
Abstract: This paper surveys the theoretical literature on aggregation of
production functions (e.g.,
Klein, Leontief, Nataf, Gorman, Fisher, Sato, etc.) from the point of view
OK, Jurriaan; you want the whole package! Here it is:
Palgrave entry:
http://homepage.newschool.edu/~AShaikh/pal7.pdf
Original 1974 article:
http://homepage.newschool.edu/~AShaikh/humbug.pdf
Solow's rejoinder (Anwar's postcript to his own 1980 article --a chapter
in Ed Nell's book--
The conceptual problem in economic theory is that Marx's concept of
productive powers of labour contains an irreducibly extra-economic aspect,
namely the social co-operation of labour based on a specific division of
labour, which cannot be valued precisely in advance of sale of output, and
whose
I find Harrison's MARXIAN ECONOMICS FOR SOCIALISTS (Pluto) to be very good in terms of
a clear presentation. By not hiding political implications, Harrison is in many ways
less ideological than those who don't deal with those issues.
Charlie Andrews' FROM CAPITALISM TO EQUALITY is also very
It's Houghton-Mifflin (sp?), not prentice-hall. -- Jim
i wrote:
as for mainstream economics, the Goodwin, Nelson, Ackerman, and Weisskopf book
MICROECONOMICS IN CONTEXT (prentice-hall, preliminary edition).
Jim
My favorite books on Marxist economics:
1. Paul Sweezy, The Theory of Capitalist Development
-- a wonderfully lucid exposition of Marx's views.
2. Harry Braverman, Labor and Monopoly Capitalism.
Still the best account of the exploitation of labor in
capitalism.
3. Ernest Mandel, Marxian
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Can anybody suggest a non-ideological, as well as an
ideoligcally Marxist primary economics text for me?
Benjamin
**
Hi Benjamin,
Go to the source. Marx's speech now titled, Value,
Price and Profit is my favourite introductory piece.
From there, go to
Some useful introductions to Marx's economic ideas are:
Ben Fine (1989) Marx's Capital, Macmillan, 3rd Edition (the briefest)
Duncan Foley (1986) Understanding Capital: Marx's Economic Theory, Harvard
University Press.
Geoffrey Kay (1979), The Economic Theory of the Working Class,
You could try here:
http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade/coffee/
--- Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
twice, I've seen Chiapas coffee for sale. Does
buying it help those in
Chiapas who support the Zapatistas (the EZLN) in any
way?
Jim Devine
Thanks, Michael. I'd heard about Caro's account of the personal
destruction of Leland Olds over his renomination to head the Federal
Power Commission, FPC, now FERC. And I remembered, vaguely, the bribery
incident. So I thought to put together a pamphlet about FERC, including
the gossip about
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/15/03 04:21AM
Eisenhower vetoed a bill to deregulate natural gas (or
deregulate a
portion of the industry). Eisenhower supported the bill but
my
recollection is that after congress passed the bill it was
learned
that one or more representatives had been given a bribe to
I'm trying to locate text about a veto by President Eisenhower. A
Google search didn't do it for me.
Eisenhower vetoed a bill to deregulate natural gas (or deregulate a
portion of the industry). Eisenhower supported the bill but my
recollection is that after congress passed the bill it was
Wow! Thanks, Yoshie. This is way beyond what I had hoped for.
Gene Coyle
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
I'm trying to locate text about a veto by President Eisenhower. A
Google search didn't do it for me.
Eisenhower vetoed a bill to deregulate natural gas (or deregulate a
portion of the industry).
Yoshie has a track record for this sort of service.
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 10:23:23AM -0700, Eugene Coyle wrote:
Wow! Thanks, Yoshie. This is way beyond what I had hoped for.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail
does anyone know how to get a complete list of the registered and
announced candidates to replace Gray Davis as CA's guv?
Look on the comics page.
I looked at the Cal. Sec. of State's site, which only lists the 2002 candidates.
It's useful to know that Gary Coleman (of the TV sit-com Diffrent Strokes) and
Gallagher (of watermelons) are running, along with Angelyne (who's famous for being
famous).
Jim Devine
How much space do you have on your hard drive? Check the Cal. Sec. of
State site.
Also, you forget to mention that Issa, the car alarm candidate, began
stealing cars.
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 09:56:15AM -0700, Devine, James wrote:
does anyone know how to get a complete list of the registered
...the issue is not more versus less government [or big government versus
small government], but rather to whose interests the government gives
effect. Thus, a movement from more to less stringent requirements for the
emissions of polluting firms is not a move from more to less government
Louis,
I think the unfortunate truth is that if the PCC had
wanted to achieve anything like full economic development -- on such a
small, resource-poor and politically isolated island -- it would have to
have resorted to a far greater degree of coercion. That has been the case
in
the
Louis,
Oh, I see. We are dealing with gulags, aren't we. I should have realized
that this is what you were getting at. For another version of reality, I
recommend Edward Boorstein's The Economic Transformation of Cuba
Both Boorstein's anecdote _and_ the existence of some forced labour in
Grant Lee:
Both Boorstein's anecdote _and_ the existence of some forced labour in Cuba
are beside the point. In spite of its admirable record of achievements in
social services, Cuba still has huge economic problems, which threaten the
government of the PCC.
Well, okay. Just as long as we
Louis,
But I said that the right to work in a capitalist country, including
Chavez's Venezuela or Peron's Argentina, is not the same thing as job
entitlements in Cuba or the USSR, for that matter. This is a fundamental
distinction.
What are job entitlements really, when the alternative is a
Grant Lee:
What are job entitlements really, when the alternative is a labour camp or
prison? One difference between communism in an underdeveloped country and
communism in a developed country is that unless there is forced labour in
the former case, development will not be possible.
Oh, I see. We
Louis,
So, fine. Malaysia is not the best example. Let's compare Peron's
Argentina with Menem's Argentina.
Yes, Juan Peron's program was leftist, revolving around state ownership,
tariffs, subsidies and so on. Nevertheless it did not go anywhere near the
vital step of annihilating capital
Grant Lee:
I believe the Italian constitution includes a right to work, for what such
things are worth. There may not have been an institutional guarantee of a
job for life in most developed countries during the era of the long post-WW2
boom and Keynesianism, but (with the probable exception of
Louis,
Everything is relative. Malaysia is
relatively protectionist, as opposed to Argentina, for example.
Until recently, both had very open markets in most sectors of their
economies. I have to say that the Malaysian economy and its politics seem to
be poorly understood by people outside the
Grant Lee wrote:
Until recently, both had very open markets in most sectors of their
economies. I have to say that the Malaysian economy and its politics seem to
be poorly understood by people outside the region. The Malaysian car
industry _is_ a notable exception, as it is heavily protected. But
Jim,
I think Michael is right, discussions about Stalin have been done to
deathso to speak.
What is important is that most people in the USSR did support the regime
most of the time. It may not have lived up to the stated intention to
abolish the state, but it is that stated which is crucial
Title: RE: [PEN-L] Query from a Venezuelan
okay. I wonder, though, about Soviet workers' support for their government (that Andie points to). What are we to conclude? what are we to say about the support by US workers for US imperialism in the current era?
you can use any definition you
Devine, James wrote:
okay. I wonder, though, about Soviet workers' support for their
government (that Andie points to). What are we to conclude? what are
we to say about the support by US workers for US imperialism in the
current era?
you can use any definition you want, but how useful is
Jim Devine writes:
Grant writes:
In reality I don't really think there is much difference between
state socialism and state capitalism, although the former is
distinguished
by the support of the working class and the stated intention to abolish
the
state, at some point in the future.
did
Title: RE: [PEN-L] Query from a Venezuelan
Grant writes:
In reality I don't really think there is much difference between
state socialism and state capitalism, although the former is
distinguished by the support of the working class
I asked:
did the Russian working class support
I have found that discussions on Stalin on this list have never led to
much communication or information.
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 04:40:52PM +0800, Grant Lee wrote:
Jim Devine writes:
Grant writes:
In reality I don't really think there is much difference between
state socialism and state
Louis:
From the viewpoint of US capital it makes no difference whether it is
excluded from a capitalist protectionist state or a socialist one.
Of course it does. A socialist state like Cuba is the threat of a positive
example. Malaysia is just a place that you can't make a fast buck.
Tell
Grant Lee:
Tell that to Intel, whose Malaysian plant made the chip I'm using to write
this email http://www.intel.com/jobs/malaysia/sites/ In fact, Malaysian
industrialisation has more to do with direct and indirect export subsidies
paid to foreign and locally owned firms alike. Not a good
did the Russian working class support the Soviet
state in 1936?
Overwhelmingly. Every report from the period indicates
incredible optimism, a heroic sense of pride in the
revolution, love for Stalin, the works. The
intelligentsia and the Old Bolsheviks had more complex
attitudes, but the
Title: RE: [PEN-L] Query from a Venezuelan
Grant writes:
In reality I don't really think there is much difference between
state socialism and state capitalism, although the former is distinguished
by the support of the working class and the stated intention to abolish the
state, at some point
Grant Lee:
From the viewpoint of US capital it makes no difference whether it is
excluded from a capitalist protectionist state or a socialist one.
Of course it does. A socialist state like Cuba is the threat of a positive
example. Malaysia is just a place that you can't make a fast buck.
Maybe
From:Chris Burford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Coincidentally I was doing a Google search and came across this
contribution to LBO-talk in October 2001 by Greg Schofield, which seems to
put the issue well.
[Unfortunately his email address no longer seems to be working. If anyone
can forward me
Grant Lee:
My point was not to lionise free trade. The Venezuelan situation raises many
questions in my mind. I mean, for example, protectionism, like land reform,
is very far removed from a genuinely socialist/communist society, assuming
that _is_ what Chavez and the Bolivarians want to achieve.
Title: FW: [PEN-L] On free trade Re: Query from a Venezuelan
Chris Burford writes:
The so-called free trade of the present period is no more than
international capital giving itself the freedom to price fix unhindered,
the freedom to exercise its plans without let, the freedom to use one
On Monday, June 23, 2003 at 10:34:16 (-0700) Devine, James writes:
...
that's right. It's important to distinguish free trade in theory (the
general lowering of tariffs and quotas on imports and the end of export
subsidies) and what it usually means in practice (free movement of capital
but
Chris Burford writes:
The so-called free trade of the present period is no more than
international capital giving itself the freedom to price fix unhindered,
the freedom to exercise its plans without let, the freedom to use one
group of workers to compete against another on a world scale.
Title: RE: [PEN-L] FW: [PEN-L] On free trade Re: Query from a Venezuelan
I wanted to add a point: back in the 19th century, Germany and the US were able to successfully use tariffs to promote national economic development. But part of this success was the relatively small technological gap
At 2003-06-23 11:05 -0700, Jim Devine wrote:
I wanted to add a point: back in
the 19th century, Germany and the US were able to successfully use
tariffs to promote national economic development. But part of this
success was the relatively small technological gap between them and the
market
Yes, the tech gap was much smaller between UK and Germany. Today it is
much wider between OECD and the rest. But there are some areas where the
gaps are much narrower, even if the economic base (market size, etc) are
quite disparate. The IT industry would be a good example of this. But
not
Besides tariffs, Germany developed the finest educational system in the
world. For example, most of the most famous American economists studied
in Germany. The chemical industry was probably leading industry in the
late 19th century. German chemical science led the world.
Regarding Jim
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From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Besides tariffs, Germany developed the finest educational system in the
world.
For males.
Ian
You might have said CERTAIN males, since their system was hardly
egalitarian.
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 09:19:28PM -0700, Ian Murray wrote:
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From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Besides tariffs, Germany developed the finest educational system in the
world.
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From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 9:22 PM
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] FW: [PEN-L] On free trade Re: Query from a Venezuelan
You might have said CERTAIN males, since their system was hardly
egalitarian
Karl Marx, 1848, On the Question of Free Trade(Speech to the Democratic
Association of Brussels at its public meeting of January 9, 1848).
Do not imagine, gentlemen, that in criticizing freedom of trade we have the
least intention of defending the system of protection.
One may declare oneself an
Coincidentally I was doing a Google search and came across this
contribution to LBO-talk in October 2001 by Greg Schofield, which seems to
put the issue well.
[Unfortunately his email address no longer seems to be working. If anyone
can forward me his current address, I would be grateful.]
The
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/20/03 9:57 AM
Dear Louis Proyect,
I am an Argentinean friend of Néstor Gorojoski. I am working for the
Government of Venezuela.
Venezuela is in the middle of a process of industrialization, and the
government is taking an active and protectionist economic policy to
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From: Michael Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED]
primary sources:
alexander hamilton, 'report on manufacturing'...
http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/text/civ/1791manufactures.html
henry clay, _papers of henry clay_ (there's a number of volumes, i'm away
from my stuff so
- Original Message -
From: Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 6:57 AM
Subject: [PEN-L] Query from a Venezuelan
Dear Louis Proyect,
I am an Argentinean friend of Néstor Gorojoski. I am working for the
Government of Venezuela.
Venezuela is
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