I have a graduate student doing research on Cuba-US relations after the
end
of the Cold War. Can anyone suggest some good material in journals,
books
or the web? I teach in North Cyprus, and our library has very limited
resources, so I would appreciate any information on resources available
Somebody was asking info about auto-industry a few days ago.
As I was surfing over the net, I accidently found these articles in
_Journal of World System Research_. I don't know if this is
still useful for your purposes:
"International Division of Labor and Global Economic Process: An Analysis
I had written:
But the positive/normative mix could be very different: it seems to
me that the NAIRU theory could easily be interpreted as an argument for
overthrowing capital. "Capitalism requires a reserve army THAT BIG to
keep it from punishing us with accelerating inflation??"
Mine posts a very interesting piece by Wallerstein on historical truth. Using concepts
derived from the work of the South Africa Truth and Reconciliation Commission, he
argues that historians should strive for "dialogic truth":
And finally, [Justice Sachs] talks of dialogical truth, the
I wonder if anyone has any comments. Maybe the commies just pretended
to shut down the Soviet Union in order to lull us into overconfidence.
Expansion goes before a fall William Keegan
reviewing "Road to Riches or The Wealth of Man" by Peter Jay.
OBSERVER (London) Sunday June 4, 2000
It
I wrote:
In a passage which seems to summarize his message, Tom Walker
wrote: The NAIRU story and the Phillips curve story make sense if one
assumes that capital's brief is efficiency and labour's is waste.
Tom, that sure seems like you're mixing normative concepts (efficiency)
and
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G'day Justin,
Sez you:
"Someone might say--I'd be inclined to say this--that truth is truth;
various truths have different uses, but these uses don't bear on whether
they are true, correspond to reality, etc. Nor does the fact that our
ability to grasp the total truth affect whether it is true,
At 04:37 PM 06/06/2000 -0700, you wrote:
I can't help mentioning an article that I view as the classic statement
of the moral sentiment underlying NAIRU, J. Laurence Laughlin's "The
Unions Versus Higher Wages," _Journal of Political Economy_, Vol. 14,
Issue 3 (March 1906) pages 129-142.
How
The only way to beat the PC is by developing a better theory.
BTW, this is not something I dreamed up by myself. There is a rich
literature on it ranging from critical theory to hermeneutics to
deconstruction.
References to hermeneutics and deconstruction don't convince me. I've never
been
At 11:15 AM 6/7/00 -0400, you wrote:
Even apart from awful perspectives, there are crazy ones--the ones of
people who think that aliens from outer space are among us, or who trace
all the world's problems to the abandonment of the gold standard.
hey, who's to say that these perspectives
I wrote:
References to hermeneutics and deconstruction don't convince me. I've
never been into that kind of lit crit sh*t. I prefer logic, empirical
research, and the philosophy of science (methodology).
Rob writes:
Strong words, Jim!
that's what pen-l is for.
I'd've thought you could
Jim Devine wrote,
To beat an empirical generalization, you have to show that the data can
be explained better by another generalization or a different deductive
theory, i.e., show that the correlation isn't based on any reasonable
causation that it is instead is an accident which can be
Jim Devine wrote,
I'm not sure what that has to do with literary criticism (which is
basically supposed to help us understand the fiction we read).
I wish I could remember who it was who referred to Marx as an heir to the
intellectual tradition of Swabian Pietism. Critical theory refers not
References to hermeneutics and deconstruction don't convince me. I've
never
been into that kind of lit crit sh*t. I prefer logic, empirical
research,
and the philosophy of science (methodology).
If there would be a philosophy or literature person here, s(he) would
*really* be pissed, not
I'm not sure what that has to do with literary criticism (which is
basically supposed to help us understand the fiction we read). It is true
that the meaning of a theory varies with context, but that says we have
to
be very clear by what _we_ mean by the theory. The sociology or
psychology
[Tom Walker's] theory: bottlenecks not tides
Inflation happens because industries have discrete requirements for
specific kinds of labour and other inputs, not continuous requirements for
generalized inputs.
But when real GDP grows quickly (and unemployment falls), that represents a
I wrote:
I'm not sure what that has to do with literary criticism (which is
basically supposed to help us understand the fiction we read).
Tom Walker writes:
I wish I could remember who it was who referred to Marx as an heir to the
intellectual tradition of Swabian Pietism.
wasn't it
Mine wrote,
Regarding *critical* hermeneutics, one should have a look at Paul Ricour's
works, not Gadamer's. Paul R. tries to abridge the gap between Marxism and
understanding, and the role of marxist methodology in interpretation.
I second the endorsement for Ricoeur but wouldn't disdain
Mine,
I am actually a "philosophy person"--used to be a philosophy professor before I was a
lawyer. Although I do not necessary share the vehemence of the rejection of (the very
different, as you remark) approaches of deconstruction or hermeneutics, I am fairly
suspicious of their value
Jim Devine wrote,
But when real GDP grows quickly (and unemployment falls), that represents a
_general_ increase in aggregate demand.
Aggregate demand is a reification. An increase in the aggregate of demand
would, except by a fluke, also change the relative weights of demand for
different
Robert Leeson has shown that Phillips' work lay dormant until Samuelson and
Solow popularized it is a way to give a the Democratic presidential campaign
cover to show that Keynesian-inspired Democratic policies would not create
runaway inflation. I think the reference can be found in Leeson.
At 01:25 PM 6/7/00 -0700, you wrote:
Robert Leeson has shown that Phillips' work lay dormant until Samuelson
and Solow popularized it is a way to give a the Democratic presidential
campaign cover to show that Keynesian-inspired Democratic policies would
not create runaway inflation.
That
I wrote:
But when real GDP grows quickly (and unemployment falls), that represents a
_general_ increase in aggregate demand.
Tom Walker writes:
Aggregate demand is a reification. An increase in the aggregate of demand
would, except by a fluke, also change the relative weights of demand for
If there would be a philosophy or literature person here, s(he) would
*really* be pissed, not only by the unprofessional use of language but
also by ignorance. I am not a big fun of hermeneutics and deconstruction
either, but I never make the mistake of considering those theorists
writing
Christian wrote:
As for PC [the Phillips Curve], Jim said its empirical data waiting for a
theory. Certainly. But it's not treated as such, generally--least of all
by people like Greenspan and Co., who treat it as a full blown theory that
needs to be disproved...
Frankly, I think that once
Jim Devine wrote,
Some sort of abstraction is needed if you believe that the macroeconomy
is more than the sum of its parts. The measure of aggregate demand is an
abstraction, but without it one is stuck with a pre-Keynesian vision of
the world (which basically saw the macroeconomy as the
i wrote:
Some sort of abstraction is needed if you believe that the macroeconomy
is more than the sum of its parts. The measure of aggregate demand is an
abstraction, but without it one is stuck with a pre-Keynesian vision of
the world (which basically saw the macroeconomy as the
June 7, 2000 / New York TIMES
RECKONINGS / By PAUL KRUGMAN
A Rent Affair
Economists who have ventured into the alleged real world often quote
Princeton's Alan Blinder, who has formulated what he calls "Murphy's Law of
economic policy": "Economists have the least influence on policy where
Justin,
Please see my reply to Tom Walker where I both criticize hermeneutics and
empiricism.
btw, to my knowledge, Richard Rorty has nothing do with left. He is a new
pragmatic following the footsteps of Dewey...
thanks,
Mine
Mine,
I am actually a "philosophy person"--used to be a
Tom Walker wrote:
I second the endorsement for Ricoeur but wouldn't disdain Gadamer.
In general, my point was that both of them were not perfect either.One
does not need to be *empricist* to criticize hermeneutics.Empricism alone
does not guarentee radical science, as such it is an
Jim Devine wrote,
I didn't say that "a single abstraction" could do so.
Why do I get the feeling that your favorite tropes are "I didn't say" and
"what you said implies . . ."
I agree with Levins Lewontin, in their DIALECTICAL BIOLOGIST, that
neither the whole not the parts have
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