Re: construction slowdown

2000-08-24 Thread Doug Henwood
Michael Perelman wrote: Note the date on my note that follows. Baily, Martin Neil. 1982. "The Productivity Growth Slowdown by Industry." Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, No. 2: pp. 423-59. 434: Construction industry is a mystery. If construction output and the labor input in that

soft landing?

2000-08-24 Thread Michael Perelman
This morning's news reports that the economy is slowing. Does anybody here think that a moderate slowdown is in the cards? Is the fabled soft landing really a possibility? Or will the economy come apart at the seams? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico,

Re: soft landing?

2000-08-24 Thread Doug Henwood
Michael Perelman wrote: This morning's news reports that the economy is slowing. Does anybody here think that a moderate slowdown is in the cards? Is the fabled soft landing really a possibility? Or will the economy come apart at the seams? Do I detect a wish in that last question? Doug

Re: soft landing?

2000-08-24 Thread Jim Devine
At 08:08 AM 08/24/2000 -0700, you wrote: This morning's news reports that the economy is slowing. Does anybody here think that a moderate slowdown is in the cards? Is the fabled soft landing really a possibility? Or will the economy come apart at the seams? Of course, a soft landing is

Announcement of heterodox text workshops (fwd)

2000-08-24 Thread Timework Web
-- Forwarded message -- FUNDING OPPORTUNITY FOR PRINCIPLES TEXT WORKSHOPS If you are interested in pedagogical materials for economics principles courses that stress issues of concern for the contemporary world -- and if there are graduate students in your department who wish to

1970s business philosophy and books

2000-08-24 Thread Eric Nilsson
Does anyone know what management theories/philosophies and, in particular, business books were popular during the 1970s? I imagine that the pre-1973 oil shock theories/books would differ from the post-1973 theories/books. Eric Eric Nilsson Economics California State University, San Bernardino

Re: soft landing?

2000-08-24 Thread Timework Web
Michael Perelman wrote, This morning's news reports that the economy is slowing. Does anybody here think that a moderate slowdown is in the cards? Is the fabled soft landing really a possibility? Or will the economy come apart at the seams? That's

Re: construction

2000-08-24 Thread Peter Dorman
Obviously the timing of these trends -- deunionization, deskilling, changing racial mix, wages, and injuries -- is very important. I will yield the floor to those who have a more detailed chronology than I have. Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter wrote, Not so mysterious, I think. This

Re: Re: soft landing?

2000-08-24 Thread Peter Dorman
My sense is that the US asset markets, dollar exchange rate, and capital account inflow are mutually reinforcing bubbles. They could unravel simultaneously with serious consequences. (Indeed, all *must* burst at some point; can they burst slowly and separately?) Peter

Re: query

2000-08-24 Thread Peter Dorman
Anthony (via Lou), I wrote a paper on this topic in grad school. Marx is using an analysis of rent originally developed by David Ricardo. The account in DR's PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY AND TAXATION is decipherable but not easy. Look at one of the secondary sources on "neoricardian

Re: query

2000-08-24 Thread Jim Devine
Anthony writes: Looking for help with Vol. 3 of Capital and research I'm looking for some help. I am working on a little piece about the primitive accumulation of capital, which I will post here when it is ready. However, I keep running into various problems related to the theory of value

Re: Re: query

2000-08-24 Thread Jim Devine
When I received my message on this subject back from pen-l, I couldn't open the attachment. But if you're interested, I've put a copy of the paper at http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine/notes/Law-of-Value.html. The paper will be changed over time, in response to criticisms and comments. Jim

From Greg Elich

2000-08-24 Thread Louis Proyect
(Greg Elich is a free-lance journalist who has written about Yugoslavia in CAQ and other publications.) Hello Lou, Your conclusion is the same as mine. Based on what information I could find, it was clear to me that all or nearly all large and medium scale factories and plants are either

a legend in his own time

2000-08-24 Thread Peter Dorman
As I mentioned before, I was off the list for almost six months. In perusing the threads that wove themselves in my absence, I noticed that I shared a well-worn subject heading with Robin Hahnel, repleat with a long string of re's. It seems that it all started with some questioning of my and

intro macro text

2000-08-24 Thread Peter Dorman
It's time for me to start looking for another introductory macroeconomics text. My criteria are: (1) clear exposition, preferably stripped down to the essentials, and (2) as little use of AS/AD as possible. (2) is really the most important. I'm one of those who think AS/AD is intellectually

Re: query

2000-08-24 Thread Louis Proyect
Hi Lou. Thank you and all of the others who contributed answers to my questions re Capital Vol 3., ground rent, and the law of value. However, the answers brought me back to my starting point. Can anyone please refer me to something by Marx on the price of land, and other things which are

Re: intro macro text

2000-08-24 Thread christian a. gregory
Hi Peter, I've been spending some time reading macro textbooks and I'm wondering what your particular reasons for not wanting AS/AD in there. Could you explain? -Christian - Original Message - From: Peter Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000

Re: Re: intro macro text

2000-08-24 Thread Rogério Sobreira Bezerra
What you think about Kevin Hoover's The New Classical Macroeconomics? I also would like to hear you about not wanting AS/AD. Rogerio Candido Mendes University Rio de Janeiro, Brazil At 21:03 24/08/2000 -0700, you wrote: Hi Peter, I've been spending some time reading macro textbooks and I'm

Re: Re: query

2000-08-24 Thread Michael Perelman
Marx's theory of rent is more complicated than Peter or Jim indicate. The simplest version may be in Mandel's 2 vol. book on Marxist thought. Marx uses Ricardo's differential rent, but he also describes absolute rent -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA

Re: intro macro text

2000-08-24 Thread Michael Perelman
Peter, get to work and write one. I don't think anybody else has. Peter Dorman wrote: It's time for me to start looking for another introductory macroeconomics text. My criteria are: (1) clear exposition, preferably stripped down to the essentials, and (2) as little use of AS/AD as

Re: a legend in his own time

2000-08-24 Thread Michael Perelman
I apologize. I thought that someone as smart as you would naturally be a Marxist. Peter Dorman wrote: As I mentioned before, I was off the list for almost six months. In perusing the threads that wove themselves in my absence, I noticed that I shared a well-worn subject heading with Robin

Re: intro macro text

2000-08-24 Thread Max Sawicky
Galbraith and Darity? It's time for me to start looking for another introductory macroeconomics text. My criteria are: (1) clear exposition, preferably

Re: From Greg Elich

2000-08-24 Thread phillp2
Lou, when was Greg last in Yugoslavia? Paul Date sent: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 19:12:33 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[PEN-L:807] From Greg Elich Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Re: soft landing?

2000-08-24 Thread Adam . Stokes
Jim wrote "Of course, a soft landing is _possible_. I don't think it's likely, though, since a slowdown tends to squash investment, via the accelerator effect." Does anyone think that the economies investment characteristics have been structurally changed by the information economy? I haven't

Re: Re: intro macro text

2000-08-24 Thread michael
It is an intermediate text. Galbraith and Darity? It's time for me to start looking for another introductory macroeconomics text. My criteria are: (1) clear exposition, preferably -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel.

Re: Re: intro macro text

2000-08-24 Thread Rob Schaap
G'day all, I remember really liking a big reader-friendly exercise in introductory theoretical explanation and critique - so well written and laid out was it that stuff of which I had never been able to make sense suddenly became apparent to me so readily I felt I must have been mentally

query

2000-08-24 Thread Louis Proyect
Hi Lou! Please post this. Looking for help with Vol. 3 of Capital and research I'm looking for some help. I am working on a little piece about the primitive accumulation of capital, which I will post here when it is ready. However, I keep running into various problems related to the theory

Science and imperialism

2000-08-24 Thread Louis Proyect
From the preface to Richard Drayton's newly published "Nature's Government: Science, Imperial Britain and the 'Improvement' of the World'" (Yale Press) Nature’s Government is an experiment at writing a history which does justice to both the ‘big’ and the ‘small’. It is, on the one hand, a ‘world