Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 07:20:12 -0800 (PST)
From: ALI KADRI [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Indeed it was harmful because it was ahistorical; it
generalised an immediate manifestation of history into
a rule of historical development. There is a certain
rigidity that belongs more to
"but the main left scholars retreated into either
atheoretical social history during the 1980s or policy-wonking
consultancies during the 1990s. Most dropped their faddish radical
proclivities in due course. 'From the grassroots to the classroots'
is how we mock our older ex-neomarxist
London GreenPeace has an article entitled "WHAT'S
WRONG WITH THE BODY SHOP?-- a criticism of 'green'
consumerism" on their web site at
http://www.perc.flora.org/buy-nothing/articles/bodyshop1.html
Tim Bousquet
--- Stephen E Philion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I recall that Alex Cockburn wrote a
"Here is a professor in a college, who gets $2,500 a year and has to spend
$3,000 to keep from starving to death, who walks up to his classroom in an
old pair of shoes and some idiot of a boy drives up and parks a $5,000
automobile outside and comes in and gets plucked. Then because that
When we first saw "Lonely are the Brave" in 1962, my fellow Bard College
students and I found it possible to appreciate the film on two levels. It
was similar to Sam Peckinpah's "Ride the High Country" and other films
meditating on cowboy as beloved anachronism. This cowboy is a symbol
Forwarded Message:
Bushonics speakers - strike back! We're mad as hell and we won't be misunderestimated
anymore!
- - - - - - - - - - - -
By Tom McNichol March 19, 2001 Salon.com
The day Lisa Shaw's son Tyler came home from school with tears streaming down his
cheeks, the
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Well, it seems to me that it's a good thing that there had been
little competition innovation is Japan's financial service
industry. Japan's economy tanked as soon as it got a little
innovative in zaiteku
But that's what happens as an economy matures - all these
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Outspoken-ONeill.html?pagewanted=al
l
March 24, 2001
Treasury Secretary Ruffles Feathers
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 11:46 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Asked if he had any words of assurance as millions of
investors watched their stock portfolios
Barkley Rosser says:
Japan never had a very high rate of profit.
The keiretsu were known for following a maximizing
sales and market share strategy rather than a
maximizing profit strategy.
Doug posted the following last year, however:
* Re: Re: Keynesians and Post Keynesians and growth
[You knew this was coming...]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,462322,00.html
US told to make China its No 1 enemy
US told to target China
Special report: George Bush's America
Martin Kettle in Washington
Saturday March 24, 2001
The Guardian
A historic shift of emphasis in United
Yoshie writes:
So, the profit rate [in Japan] did get from low to lower, I think the change is
significant.
Right. Even if Barkley is right that Japanese companies don't maximize profits, a
falling
profit rate does lead to a decline in one major source of investment funds.
I wrote:
The way
Yoshie,
If Japan is a "labor scarce" economy, then why
has the unemployment rate been rising in the past
decade?
I stand corrected on the profit rate, although the
decline reported by Doug does not seem sufficient
to explain the very sharp decline in growth rate in
Japan, not to mention
This may be. But it certainly has not kept Bush
from acting a very "neo-Cold War" way with regard
to Russia. The refusal to even set a time to meet
with Putin (maybe at the G-8 meeting) has been
rightly taken as very insulting, not to mention all the
nasty remarks coming out of Rumsfeld,
Barkley asks Yoshie:
If Japan is a "labor scarce" economy, then why has the unemployment rate been rising
in
the past decade?
the test for a labor scarce economy in my book (and it's my "book" that counts, since
I'm
the one who uses the labor scarce/labor abundant dichotomy) is whether or not
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Right. Even if Barkley is right that Japanese companies don't
maximize profits, a falling
profit rate does lead to a decline in one major source of investment funds.
I don't think a shortage of investment funds is the problem - esp
given the vast pool of savings.
Brad DeLong wrote:
Yet another blessing we have received from Ralph Nader...
No, from Al Gore. If as many self-identified Democrats had voted for
Gore as self-identified Republicans voted for Bush, W would still be
governor of Texas.
Doug
And Nader was in their pitching, telling
And Nader was in their pitching, telling self-identified Democrats
not to vote for Gore...
Brad DeLong
As was 'Dubya; welcome to the world of free speech.
Ian
Except that Dubya is opposed to ergonomic rules. Nader is supposed to
like them--but he likes being a publicity
Except that Dubya is opposed to ergonomic rules. Nader is supposed to
like them--but he likes being a publicity hound more...
Brad DeLong
*
Apologies, Michael.
Brad, grow up. Your Ivy League edumakation is showing.
Ian
New York Times 25 March 2001
Japan's Resurgent Far Right Tinkers With History
By HOWARD W. FRENCH
TOKYO, March 24 - Hironobu Kaneko, a 21-year-old college student,
remembers the powerful emotions stirred in him three years ago when
he read a best-selling book of cartoons that extolled,
In the Myth of Sisyphus the suffering begins not with
rolling the rock up the hill, but in his thoughts
about the fatality of his condition as he freely walks
down the hill to pick up his rock. This is the danger
of mixing working class conditions with free leisure
time.
--- Louis Proyect [EMAIL
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