On 25th April I commented on an extensive article by George Monbiot
(spotted by Ian) with the following words:
Arguably these proposals by George Monbiot are nothing but a reformist and
palely green cover for the continued development of capitalism. Under the
guise of provocatively
Today is a holiday, but my country doesn't recognize it. Today is a day
of daring feats, but my country isn't told of them. This day, May Day,
is not only for the heroes of the past, however, it is a day for each
one of us, in every country. A cyber-toast, then, if you will, to all
the activists,
HARVARD TO WORKERS: LET THEM EAT CULTURE
A Mother Reports on Her Daughter's Sitting-In for Living Wages
Andree Pages is a writer and artist in New York City. She graduated from
Harvard College in 1977.
In 1976, as a financial aid student at Harvard University, I worked as a
campus security
Scott,
I'm tired of the discussion too, so I'll just say that the debate about Mach
and whether he was a doctrinaire nut is the sort of inclusive dispute
about whether scholars can differ. Einstein, however, with his rejection of
quantum indeterminism on philosophical grounds, was in no
Published on May 1, 2001 in the Independent / UK
The May Day Protesters are Right to Challenge the March of Globalisation
Editorial
Whatever the outcome of today's May Day demonstrations, the questions they raise are
already challenging some of our assumptions about capitalism, globalisation
Andrew Hagen wrote:
Today is a holiday, but my country doesn't recognize it. Today is a day
of daring feats, but my country isn't told of them.
In the U.S., May 1 is both Loyalty Day and Law Day. Here's how
Bill Clinton proclaimed Loyalty Day last year.
Doug
I finally got around to reading the Lingua Franca piece on Antonio Negri,
which--in my opinion--helps to shed light on problems facing the
anti-globalization movement today. I learned that Negri was a guru of the
autonomist movement in Italy in the mid-1970s that seemed to have as much
of a
Big farm water transfer deal OK'd
Sacramento Bee - 5/1/01
By Paul Schnitt, staff writer
Farmers in drought-stricken western Fresno and Kings
counties can
count on a sizable infusion of water this year from
Sacramento Valley
irrigation districts thanks to an agreement signed
Monday.
In what is
Semiotext(e) published a collection of original pieces by the autonomia
crowd.
These URL's from a google search should find some of that issue.
http://www.google.com/search?q=Autonomia++Semiotext%28e%29
(That issue as well as a subsequent issue on Germany are great. Someone
should ask
If anyone wants to see a rough draft of a short paper I wrote in
reference to Brad deLong's finding that as productivity growth surges,
the so-called Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment (NAIRU)
falls, please write to me off-list. I argue that inflation falls as
profitability surges,
Brad, when is this puppy coming out?
max
October...
- Original Message -
From: Brad DeLong [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 10:11 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:11032] Re: RE: Re: brad de long textbook
Brad, when is this puppy coming out?
max
October...
=
Will it be competitively priced vis a vis
Mankiw got a $1 million advance to write his text. Brad probably got more
since inflation has continued.
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 10:28:06AM -0700, Ian Murray wrote:
Will it be competitively priced vis a vis other econ texts, which are among the
highest priced college texts that exist [and
[Give generously!!!]
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 17:38:47 +0800
From: The Baffler Magazine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear Friend of The Baffler:
On the morning of April 25th, our office and the unique building in
which it was housed were destroyed in a fire. In addition to the
Baffler office, the
And I'm sure he is donating all his advance and royalties back to UC to
underwrite scholarships for low income and minority students, matching in
action, his rhetoric to others about thier moral obligations to California
society.
-Original Message-
From: Michael Perelman
From United Nations Development Programme Human Development Indicators
(HDI) Report, 2000:
Country 1975 HDI1998 HDINet gain
Romania 0.750 0.770 +0.020
===
The Economist July 15, 2000 , U.S. Edition
Can Moldova get worse?
WHAT
At 02:52 PM 5/1/01 -0400, you wrote:
From United Nations Development Programme Human Development Indicators
(HDI) Report, 2000:
Country 1975 HDI1998 HDINet gain
Romania 0.750 0.770 +0.020
===
The Economist July 15, 2000 , U.S.
Plug
I too have a textbook coming out in September or
October. (Or maybe later depending on what I do
this summer: so may obligations; so little time).
I had previously thought I'd have it done by now
but
Oh, and I did not get $1 million advance ...
Title: Microeconomics: The Quest for
How did we go from Romania to Moldava? they're distinct countries, though
next to each other. More importantly, the statistics don't contradict the
story (assuming, for argument's sake, that Romania = Moldava). Imagine that
Romania did really well in terms of rising HDI from 1975 to, say,
Louis Proyect quoted statistics about Romania and, mysteriously, an
article about Moldova:
From United Nations Development Programme Human Development Indicators
(HDI) Report, 2000:
Country1975 HDI1998 HDINet gain
Romania0.750
At 12:14 PM 5/1/01 -0700, you wrote:
Plug
I too have a textbook coming out in September or
October. (Or maybe later depending on what I do
this summer: so may obligations; so little time).
I had previously thought I'd have it done by now
but
Oh, and I did not get $1 million advance ...
Jim, Mankiw, like Brad, is also quite smart. His book sucks, but it was
successful,the publishers tell me.
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 12:37:40PM -0700, Jim Devine wrote:
At 12:14 PM 5/1/01 -0700, you wrote:
Plug
I too have a textbook coming out in September or
October. (Or maybe later
Louis Proyect didn't quote:
1975 HDI 1998 HDI gain
Argentina 0.781 0.837 +0.056
Sorry I didn't dwell on this factoid. It would have made the point much
more strongly than any that could have been made about Romania. Use of 1975
as a starting point is
[Mankiw's] book sucks, but it was successful,the publishers tell me.
that means that according to the objective market test that we're all
supposed to be forced to take (in this Brave NeoLiberal World of ours), it
_doesn't_ suck. After all, it's the sovereign consumers who decide what
sucks
Although I certainly don't have the time myself to deconstruct the HDI
stats for Argentina, even a cursory glance through Lexis-Nexis points in
the direction of how flawed the figures are. They don't take emigration
into account. If emigration was against the law, as it was in the USSR, the
HDI
Louis Proyect wrote:
Use of 1975
as a starting point is even more misleading from the standpoint of social
science. Argentina has been going downhill since the overthrow of Peron.
HDI, Argentina
1975 0.781
1980 0.795
1985 0.801
1990 0.804
1998 0.837
social stats, Argentina (source: World
Jim Devine wrote:
BTW, I don't know about publishing advances (never having received
one). I've heard that it doesn't come in a lump sum, that there are
all sorts of restrictions, and (maybe) that a lot of the publishing
costs are paid for out of the advance.
Typically you get an advance in
[Mankiw's] book sucks, but it was successful,the publishers tell me.
that means that according to the objective market test that we're all
supposed to be forced to take (in this Brave NeoLiberal World of ours), it
_doesn't_ suck. After all, it's the sovereign consumers who decide what
The consumer is the instructor. Mankiw's text is like cotton candy. It
gives the student the feeling that the teacher is teaching something. It
makes the illusion of teaching simpler.
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 12:49:58PM -0700, Jim Devine wrote:
[Mankiw's] book sucks, but it was
Jim wrote,
After all, it's the
sovereign consumers who decide what
sucks and what doesn't suck.
But remember one of the key characteristics of the
textbook market--the ultimate user (the student)
does not pick the book. The professor does (and
most often the professor does not have
I cite this stuff not to say that neoliberalism is wonderful or that
Argentina is paradise. Neoliberalism is a crime against humanity, and
Argentina could do a lot better under a more humane regime. But it's
just wrong to say that it's all a story of going uninterrupedly
downhill.
Doug
As I
And I'm sure he is donating all his advance and royalties back to UC to
underwrite scholarships for low income and minority students, matching in
action, his rhetoric to others about thier moral obligations to California
society.
Learn to spell their.
At 01:28 PM 5/1/01 -0700, you wrote:
Jim wrote,
After all, it's the
sovereign consumers who decide what
sucks and what doesn't suck.
Eric writes (as does Michael Perelman):
But remember one of the key characteristics of the
textbook market--the ultimate user (the student)
does not pick the
At 01:37 PM 5/1/01 -0700, you wrote:
And I'm sure he is donating all his advance and royalties back to UC to
underwrite scholarships for low income and minority students, matching in
action, his rhetoric to others about thier moral obligations to California
society.
Learn to spell their.
May 1, 2001
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/01/business/01MEXI.html
Goodyear Cuts Jobs in Mexico
By GRAHAM GORI
TULTITLÁN, Mexico - Gonzalo Ugalde Gámez, a 68-year-old union leader whose right eye
hunkers down into a mean slit during moments of brutal honesty, took the lectern
before a
Learn to spell their.
somewhere I saw an instruction manual about how to start flame wars on the
Internet. One of the points was to correct everyone's spelling. Since many
people don't have spell-checkers on their e-mail programs and because
spelling standards are especially low in
Oh, that's a high level of debate! How about answering the question? YOU are
the one who brought up the moral obligation stuff, not me. [This message
grammar and spell-checked.]
-Original Message-
From: Brad DeLong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 4:37 PM
To:
Actually, I want to apologize to pen-l for these two posts. Offline Brad
explained to me his philosophy of being obnoxious to people in email
discussion groups because it is a good technique for stimulating
intellectual discusssion. But, not agreeing with him on this, I should not
have taken the
En relación a Query for Nestor,
el 1 May 01, a las 15:53, Louis Proyect dijo:
1975 HDI 1998 HDI gain
Argentina 0.781 0.837 +0.056
This strikes me as odd. Is Argentina so much better off today than it was
in 1975? Or are there better years to use as
Louis Proyect wrote:
En relación a Query for Nestor,
el 1 May 01, a las 15:53, Louis Proyect dijo:
1975 HDI 1998 HDI gain
Argentina 0.781 0.837 +0.056
This strikes me as odd. Is Argentina so much better off today than it was
in 1975? Or are there
Re: Low productivity in the Global South
Brad DeLong referred to the United Nations Development Program.
He said, You can take a look at trends in the HDI since the
1970s at http://www.undp.org/hdro/BackMatter1.pdf. The claim
that people in developing countries today are worse off than
their
I think that these exchanges are very enlightening, showing how difficult
it is to analyze economic development in absolutist terms.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You might want to pass this info along to him: 1) it's not privately
generated, it comes from the UN Development Program,
Doug
Actually, if you look at the report itself, you will discover that the main
sources for the statistics are the World Bank and IMF:
International Monetary Fund (IMF):
Louis Proyect wrote:
Actually, if you look at the report itself, you will discover that the main
sources for the statistics are the World Bank and IMF:
If you look at the report itself you will discover that the sources are:
life expectancy: UN Population Division
literacy: UNESCO
school
Congratulations to Eric for doing this and I hope more people follow.
This material should be free.
Look at, say, one of Kindleberger's textbooks from 30 years back. You
get excellent, clearly-written, _text_: sentences, paragraphs, sections,
and chapters meant to be read like a real book, not
G'day Brad,
I think all this ribbing about your textbook is a bit off colour (I'd buy it
if I weren't stuck with Australian kopeks), but I reserve the right to
disagree with you.
Everyone--at least everyone who was honest--agreed that improvements
in working-class standards of living during
The UNDP is not perfect but it's quite distinct from the IMF and World
Bank -- The Human in the _Human Development Report_ was chosen as an
implied criticism of the World Bank's _World Development Report._ The
HDI is of course more a rhetorical tool than a measure of anything, but
if you don't
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 10:28:21AM +, Rob Schaap wrote:
I think all this ribbing about your textbook is a bit off colour (I'd
buy it
if I weren't stuck with Australian kopeks), but I reserve the right to
disagree with you.
I suspect that most of us who teach economics would find brats
Colin writes: We need an evolving collection of freeware books, chapters, exercises,
problem sets, handouts, examples, interactive tutorials, and whatnot -- enough so that
you
could put on a decent intro course without making students buy anything. Then let
publishers turn their efforts to
The colors in the books are very important. A student who aims for a C
just has to read the red stuff; for a B, the student has to read the blue
stuff also; but for an A black print is also important.
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 05:41:32PM -0700, Colin Danby wrote:
Congratulations to Eric for
It shouldn't surprise anyone that the IMF and the WB are major sources of
UN data. But that doesn't mean we should throw out all those data as bogus.
If so, Louis should stop sending pen-l articles from the New York TIMES and
similar ruling-class sources. But the emerging global ruling class
Provided you understand what they're measuring, there's also no shame in
using IMF or World Bank data. These two organizations have a lot of
power, and as a result they can get prompt figures out of a lot of
countries on a lot of things. The UN, lacking such power, tends to be
about five years
Jim Devine:
It shouldn't surprise anyone that the IMF and the WB are major sources of
UN data. But that doesn't mean we should throw out all those data as bogus.
Why not. The IMF and World Bank data is highly politicized. It is used all
the time to support reactionary ultimatums against
May 1, 2001, Palo Alto
Dear Activists,
You are invited to join the North American Mobilization Committee for
the next World Social Forum/s 2002 and to attend our first meeting-
At Presentation Center, Santa Cruz Mountains, near San Jose, California
Friday, June 8th 3:30 pm- Sunday, June 10th
I have little quarrel with the substance of Lou's latest argument -- my
weasel words were provided you understand what they're measuring. As
far as I understand it, in general the data that UN and Bretton Woods
agencies report are gathered by national governments, not directly by
these agencies.
SCMP
Wednesday, May 2, 2001
LABOUR DAY
Re-employment figures fall to record low for quarter
__
The percentage of jobless people who returned to the workforce fell to
a record low in the first quarter of this
[was: Re: Nestor on HDI ]
I wrote: It shouldn't surprise anyone that the IMF and the WB are major
sources of UN data. But that doesn't mean we should throw out all those
data as bogus.
Louis answers: Why not. The IMF and World Bank data is highly politicized.
It is used all the time to
One thing to note about the HDI: as far as I know HDI values are not
comparable from year to year. Each year's index is standardized within
the range of countries. In other words it is not based solely on a
country's performance but rather relativized.
Moreover, many of the international
Actually, I want to apologize to pen-l for these two posts. Offline Brad
explained to me his philosophy of being obnoxious to people in email
discussion groups because it is a good technique for stimulating
intellectual discusssion. But, not agreeing with him on this, I should not
have taken the
I have little quarrel with the substance of Lou's latest argument -- my
weasel words were provided you understand what they're measuring. As
far as I understand it, in general the data that UN and Bretton Woods
agencies report are gathered by national governments, not directly by
these agencies.
WTO Rejects US Lamb Dispute Appeal
A World Trade Organization Appeals Panel Rejects a U.S. Appeal in Lamb Dispute
GENEVA (AP) _ A World Trade Organization appeals panel on Tuesday upheld a ruling
that the United States acted illegally when it increased import tariffs on lamb from
Australia and
This sort of exchange does not belong here.
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 08:40:39PM -0700, Brad DeLong wrote:
Actually, I want to apologize to pen-l for these two posts. Offline Brad
explained to me his philosophy of being obnoxious to people in email
discussion groups because it is a good
Reported Ian,
A World Trade Organization appeals panel on Tuesday
upheld a ruling that the United States acted illegally when itincreased
import tariffs on lamb from Australia and New Zealand.
Yeah, ya bastards.
The panel rejected a U.S. appeal against last year's decision and
I have not studied Negri in any detail, but much of the early work that I read
was quite interesting.
The conspiracy regarding Negri was very interesting that the time. I suspect it
is not worth going into detail about it now.
The Communists at the time, in Italy as in France, felt threatened
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