Anyone remember the Reproductive Rights National Network or
R2N2 as us vets from NAM called it then in the 80's?
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Reproductive+Rights+National+Network%22btnG=Google+Searchhl=enie=utf-8oe=utf-8
Michael Pugliese
--- Original Message ---
From: Diane Monaco
I too am a Unitarian Universalist, and my answer is that we believe in God,
but we refuse to speculate in detail on what She's like. This invariably
draws an interesting reaction whenever I say it.
Scott Gassler
At 23:45 22/02/02, you wrote:
From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I was raised
On Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 20:40:53 (-0800) Eugene Coyle writes:
Why wouldn't the cheaper natural resource, as an input to the productive
process, lower the cost of manufactured goods and make them MORE
competitive with other nations?
Exactly my question. As I understand it, the US has
Greetings Economists,
For a Marxist, the first issue is the materialism of Marx. Where Scott
Gassler writes,
Scott,
I too am a Unitarian Universalist, and my answer is that we believe in God,
but we refuse to speculate in detail on what She's like. This invariably
draws an interesting
Dutch disease was an absolutely massively fashionable topic when I was at
university, mainly because Nickell and Muellbauer had declared it to be
interesting. The idea is that, if you've struck natural gas or some such,
then you're very likely to be running a massive current account surplus for
On Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 20:40:53 (-0800) Eugene Coyle writes:
Why wouldn't the cheaper natural resource, as an input to the
productive
process, lower the cost of manufactured goods and make them MORE
competitive with other nations?
Bill Lear writes:
Exactly my question. As I understand
They found nat. gas in the North Sea.
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 06:38:59AM -0800, Devine, James wrote:
(BTW, I've never heard of Holland finding oil. Am I simply an ignorant
schmuck (don't all say yes until you hear the alternative), or is it some
other natuaral resource?)
Jim Devine
--
What did I tell you?
Scott Gassler
At 05:39 25/02/02 -0800, you wrote:
Greetings Economists,
For a Marxist, the first issue is the materialism of Marx. Where Scott
Gassler writes,
Scott,
I too am a Unitarian Universalist, and my answer is that we believe in God,
but we refuse to
Rob Schaap forwards the following web-page on the dutch disease. And, I
was right, it wasn't oil but natural gas.
http://www.aims.ca/Publications/gift/remittance.html
here's the text, without graphs:
Looking the Gift Horse in the Mouth:
The Impact of Federal Transfers on Atlantic Canada
by
Robert Scott Gassler wrote:
I too am a Unitarian Universalist, and my answer is that we believe in
God,
but we refuse to speculate in detail on what She's like. This
invariably
draws an interesting reaction whenever I say it.
Like if She's a sexually reproduced being (else, whence Her
Who is they? You know the famous American question: what is our oil
doing under their sand.
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 11:17:01PM -0800, ALI KADRI wrote:
One person said if oil is so bad why don't they leave
it in the ground
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Tom Walker wrote:
This kind of hijacking selected words out of context and insinuating that
they mean something else is pointless. I would say juvenile, but would be
insulting to children. The context was the role of advertising in the media
and culture. The point is about advertisers promising
http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthtribune/news/opinion/2741000.htm
One can attack consumerism without calling for the donning of hairshirts.
The consumption described by Mandel -- who was following Marx closely in
this regard -- was not consumerism, but using material means to elevate
oneself. Virtually nothing that you can see advertised on television
would
I am way behind in e-mail messages, but would recommend Smythe's book,
called Dependency Road: Communications, Capitalism, Consciousness, and
Canada to everyone. Smythe had been a visiting prof at Temple the two
years before I started there, and it seemed like everyone was reading
him when I
MARCH 4, 2002/BUSINESSWEEK
ECONOMIC TRENDS [by Michael J. Mandel]
A Lesson from Japan...
Post-boom blues can be delayed
With consumer spending strong and productivity soaring, the U.S. seems to
have escaped the worst effects of the popping of the stock market bubble.
But history
The consumption described by Mandel -- who was following Marx closely in
this regard -- was not consumerism, but using material means to elevate
oneself. Virtually nothing that you can see advertised on television would
meet that standard.
not even Prozac or Viagra?
Jim Devine [EMAIL
the concept of dutch disease is routine in development economics. while
the Dutch case is spepcific, the idea that sudden expansion of exports and
for that matter mono-exports can have an immiserization effect on the
local economy is plausible. More export revenue will lead to relative
rise in
I wrote: As far as I can tell, there's no logical argument either for or
against the existence of god.
Carrol:
The presumption is always that X doesn't exist; hence the absence of
convincing arguments against the existence of X is in no way evidence
that X exists.
that's why my working
Doug,
From reading your position on consumption over some
time, and Mandel below, I believe Mandel is not with you, nor you with
him. Mandel opens with
>6. The genuine extension of the needs (living standards) of the
>wage-earner, which represents a raising of his level of culture and
Not being a mind reader, I haven't the slightest idea what Doug's a lot of
this critique refers to. Sut Jhally? The Media Education Foundation? Dallas
Smythe? The critique of consumerism in general? (and here we could branch
off into other specifics, Marcuse's repressive sublimation? the
Doug Henwood wrote:
a lot of this critique is a rather
undigested rehash of a lot of Puritan hair-shirt crap.
A lot of X is Y. This is the sort of thing that gets an English 101
theme marked down for pure sloppiness.
Carrol
Re: Tran Vanh Dinh. Listed here in Edwin Moise biblio. Moise
is a big source in Gabriel Kolko book from mid 90's on Vietnam
War, specifically on North Vietnamese land reform that has been
for decades subject to alot of debate esp. from Trotskyists and
others I'm familiar with.
Michael
Actually, neoclassical general equilibrium economists have proved
that God exists. The tatonnement auctioneer! All knowing,
capable of millions of decisions instantaniously, does not need to
be paid to exist, and able to determine the future in perpetuity.
Sounds like God to me.
Paul
In a message dated Mon, 25 Feb 2002 12:34:37 PM Eastern Standard Time, Devine, James
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I wrote: As far as I can tell, there's no logical argument either for or
against the existence of god.
Carrol:
The presumption is always that X doesn't exist; hence the
On 25 Feb 02, at 7:46, Devine, James wrote:
Rob Schaap forwards the following web-page on the dutch disease. And, I
was right, it wasn't oil but natural gas.
http://www.aims.ca/Publications/gift/remittance.html
here's the text, without graphs:
Looking the Gift Horse in the Mouth:
Krugman Komes Around
by Doug Henwood
22 February 2002 20:38 UTC
Devine, James wrote:
Of course, we also have to remember Sabri's L scenario.
Hey, if we're talking intellectual property, this is what I wrote last May:
LUV song. But we're back to the question from 1,700 words ago: if no
But let us not forget that Japan has faced some serious constraints in
digging itself out of its deflationary spiral, constraints that the US
doesn't necessarily face. Among them:
1) The link from loose monetary policy to expansion-creating loans has
been disrupted by the high percentage of
On the necessity of socialism
by miyachi
23 February 2002 14:17
There is not necessity of socialism Rather, there is only possibility of
socialism. Marx firstly expected revolution when economic panic happened,
but later In Capital, Marx depended upon growing social movements
themselves. BELOW
Mommy, what's a corporation?
by Rakesh Bhandari
23 February 2002 20:26 UTC
thanks, Ian, this seems to be a very interesting analysis indeed.
ARTICLE 102 Colum. L. Rev. 1 (2002)
The Thirteenth Amendment Versus the Commerce Clause: Labor and the Shaping of American
Constitutional Law,
Reply To Melvin P
by Hari Kumar
24 February 2002 16:42 UTC
... that it is in fact mandatory for Marxists of all stripes to ask questions.
This is necessary in the question of the Labour Aristocracy.
^^
Hello Comrade Kumar,
Here's a question . What is the explanation of no revolution
Suppression of Marx
by Drewk
24 February 2002 20:51 UTC
This is a reply to Charles Brown's pen-l 22901. (I hope to
respond to Tom Walker's question in pen-l 22893 soon.)
Andrew,
Thanks for taking the time to give that summary of your thinking.
I want to note that I got the take on the
Devine, James wrote:
As far as I can tell, there's no logical argument either for or against
the
existence of god.
^^^
CB: First , what is God ? Next, I would call for a combined logical and
evidentiary argument on the issue ( maybe Jim D. implicitly means to
include
Forstater, Mathew wrote:
Tom writes:
The anxiety isn't over pleasure and sensuality per se, but over the
commodification of pleasure and sensuality
this is Smythe's view, in my understanding.
Mine too. But in all the analyses of this genre I've seen - and along
with Jhally, I'm thinking of
...necessity of god, goddess,...
by Robert Scott Gassler
25 February 2002 15:54 UTC
Charles: I don't know if this is an interesting response, but what popped into my head
when I read your comment was that the logical arguments for the non-existence of God
are similar to the logical
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, DAILY REPORT, FEBRUARY 25, 2002:
Starting in August, the Bureau of Labor Statistics plans to release a new
measure called the superlative consumer price index, which is designed to
come closer to a cost-of-living measure than the current index, BLS
officials say. We
Hey, I got my hair streaked gold last week! It doesn 't show up much on
white though. And the stylist assured me it would wash out, which it
did. But I still don't understand why ANY criticism of consumption
makes the critic a hair-shirter.
Gene Coyle
Doug Henwood wrote:
Forstater, Mathew
And my juvenile point was that a lot of this critique is a rather
undigested rehash of a lot of Puritan hair-shirt crap. You may think
the quote is out of context - I think it's a revealing expression of
anxiety over pleasure and sensuality. It is also likely to have
little political appeal
Slanderous lies. PEN-L has a strict fashion code, and my makeup is
impecable.
Doug Henwood wrote:
I'll bet a
lot of PEN-Lers don't approve of makeup or stylish clothes either.
Doug
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
Gil writes:
But let us not forget that Japan has faced some serious constraints in
digging itself out of its deflationary spiral, constraints that the US
doesn't necessarily face. Among them:
1) The link from loose monetary policy to expansion-creating
loans has been disrupted by the
Re: Tran Vanh Dinh. Listed here in Edwin Moise biblio. Moise
is a big source in Gabriel Kolko book from mid 90's on Vietnam
War, specifically on North Vietnamese land reform that has been
for decades subject to alot of debate esp. from Trotskyists and
others I'm familiar with.
Michael
Doug Henwood wrote:
I'll bet a
lot of PEN-Lers don't approve of makeup or stylish clothes either.
Michael Perelman writes:
Slanderous lies. PEN-L has a strict fashion code, and my makeup is
impecable.
me too. I'm sure that most of you want to know that when I sit at the
computer
Socialism is necessary in the sense in which food is
necessary: not as something which will be but as something
that must be if we are to survive.
It is pure religiosity to claim that socialism _will_ come;
it is close to self-evident that unless it comes we will
plunge ever deeper into
Michael wrote:
Slanderous lies. PEN-L has a strict fashion code,
and my makeup is impecable.
Hey,
I know a business professor here at UC Berkeley who recently dyed
his hair purple. Should we invite him to this list? He is quite a
nice and extremely clever fellow from Israel who is opposed
MIYACHI TATSUO wrote:
I explain shortly Japanese new left movement. In pre-war and post-war
to 1962, Japan communist party ruled left movement.But its strategy was
under Komintern order. In 1950', Komintern ordered
armed struggle from rural area modeled after China's revolution.
QUESTION: I am
In our continuing discussion of crisis theory and its application to current
events, Fred Moseley writes: You make a distinction here between the MICRO
effects and the MACRO effects of a wage cut. There is a further distinction
between the SHORT-RUN macro effects and the LONG-RUN macro effects,
Carrol,
Do you see what I mean?
economists receiving Nobel Price since he ...
You have serious spelling problems with this language and you
better do something about it. Moreover, what is this calling what
everybody else calls football soccer, what everybody else calls
wrestling football and
The Economic Times
Monday, February 25, 2002
Asia-Pacific server market continues slide in Q4
REUTERS
HONG KONG: The Asia-Pacific (ex-Japan) market for computer servers fell by
18
per cent in the fourth quarter of 2001 with weak economic conditions
plaguing sales even in the comparatively
What I see that I object to is not so much asceticism as good old fashioned
oppositional smugness. I object to it, though, with some humility. There's a
long tradition of smugness alternating between politically correct
asceticism and bohemian hedonism. For chrissake think of the sixties maoists
On Monday, February 25, 2002 at 11:33:33 (-0500) Doug Henwood writes:
Tom Walker wrote:
This kind of hijacking selected words out of context and insinuating that
they mean something else is pointless. I would say juvenile, but would be
insulting to children. The context was the role of
A policy briefing from the Levy Institute suggesting that the globalization
drive is in trouble.
http://www.levy.org/docs/pn/01-7.html
Stephen F. Diamond
School of Law
Santa Clara University
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
There is a chilling article in the Independent (UK) about people detained
since 9/11 in the US. Strange that there is a lot of discussion of treatment
of Guantanamo detainees but very little about this, nor about the raids by
KFOR authorities in Kosovo or the treatment of detainees in Afghan
Sabri Oncu wrote:
Dear Carrol,
Why are you being so picky? Look, we the non-native speakers are
not as good as you are in this bloody language, O.K.? To some of
us, including myself, there is not much difference between
necessity, certainty and the like.
That's the trouble -- there
Sabri Oncu wrote:
Carrol,
Do you see what I mean?
economists receiving Nobel Price since he ...
You have serious spelling problems with this language and you
better do something about it. Moreover, what is this calling what
everybody else calls football soccer, what everybody
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