Marx: Institutionalist and Pure Theorist

2002-08-08 Thread Gil Skillman
[Was: Time for Economics] Re this exchange: Rob writes:it's Marx who is the institutionalist par excellence. absolutely! I wish the folks who try to reduce Marx to neoclassical economics would see this. Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]

The leisure life of a lump of labor lie

2002-08-08 Thread Tom Walker
Editor, the Wall Street Journal, In a bold effort to vaccinate Americans against the insidious lump-of-labor virus, the Wall Street Journal today carries an article by one Christopher Rhoads headlined, Europe's Prized Leisure Life Becomes Economic Obstacle. The analytical nub appears in a

catty info on public officials

2002-08-08 Thread Michael Perelman
http://www.parida.com/people.html#anchor87242 Pierre Rinfret was an old Nixon-Eisenhower econ. policy hack, but at least he dislikes people like Milton Friedman and others. Nothing great or deep but an interesting view from the right. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State

Re: The leisure life of a lump of labor lie

2002-08-08 Thread Gar Lipow
Please be a little less Zen. What is the lump of labor fallacy? Ok no one actually believed it; but what is it that no one actually believed. Tom Walker wrote: Editor, the Wall Street Journal, In a bold effort to vaccinate Americans against the insidious lump-of-labor virus, the Wall

Re: Marx: Institutionalist and Pure Theorist

2002-08-08 Thread Ben Day
At 03:43 PM 8/8/2002 -0400, Gil Skillman wrote: Obviously Marx closely studied the historical development of capitalist and pre-capitalist institutions. But in his theoretical treatment of surplus value and its surface appearances as profit and interest, he intended his analysis to be as

Re: Re: A Time for abolishing economics?

2002-08-08 Thread miychi
On 8/9/02 00:50 AM, Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben asked about comparisons of Marx/Keynes. I don't know of anybody who actually intended to make such a comparison, with the exception of Joan Robinson, who favored Keynes. Many Marxists wrote about Keynes, offering implicit

RE: Marx: Institutionalist and Pure Theorist

2002-08-08 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:29280] Marx: Institutionalist and Pure Theorist Rob wrote:it's Marx who is the institutionalist par excellence. I wrote:absolutely! I wish the folks who try to reduce Marx to neoclassical economics would see this. says Gil: Obviously Marx closely studied the historical

The JULY_AUGUST OF CANADIAN DIMENSION: Please Post

2002-08-08 Thread Cy Gonick
Title: The JULY_AUGUST OF CANADIAN DIMENSION: Please Post Dear friends, Feature articles in the July-August issue include: Responses to the Anti-Semitism and the Pro-Israel Lobby Dispute by Mordecai Briemberg, James Petras and Ed Herman CD focus on Popular Sovereinty Challenging Globalization

Russia holds massive military exercises in Caspian

2002-08-08 Thread Ulhas Joglekar
HindustanTimes.com Thursday, August 01, 2002 Russia holds biggest post-Soviet military exercises in Caspian Agence France-Presse Moscow, August 01 Russia on Thursday launched large-scale military exercises in the Caspian Sea which will involve more than 60 warships and 10,000 men, the biggest

Re: The leisure life of a lump of labor lie

2002-08-08 Thread Ben Day
At 02:16 PM 8/8/2002 -0700, Gar Lipow wrote: Please be a little less Zen. What is the lump of labor fallacy? Ok no one actually believed it; but what is it that no one actually believed. From P.A. Samuelson W.D. Nordhaus, ECONOMICS, 16th edition, Irwin McGraw-Hill, 1998, p. 239. The

Re: Re: models and theory

2002-08-08 Thread Ulhas Joglekar
Anthony D'Costa wrote: Both import substitution industrialization and export oriented industrialization can be seen as national strategies, which are not quite the same thing as models. On hindsight strategies may become models, when theorised and abstracted. Yes, the word strategy would

Re: RE: Re: models and theory

2002-08-08 Thread Ulhas Joglekar
Jim D. wrote: I didn't say that India was pursuing the export-led growth model. My understanding -- based on incomplete info, BTW -- is that after independence the model was import-substitution and that in the last 10 years or so, India was in the process of switching over to export-led growth

Re: The leisure life of the lousy lump of labor lie

2002-08-08 Thread Tom Walker
Thanks, Ben, for further information see my The Lump-of-Labor Case Against Work-Sharing: Populist Fallacy or Marginalist Throwback? in _Working Time: International trends, theory and policy perspectives_, edited by Lonnie Golden and Deb Figart, Routledge, 2001. Or I will send copies of the MS

PBS show on Argentina

2002-08-08 Thread Carl Remick
I just saw that PBS show on Argentina that Lou recommended earlier, The Empty ATM. Quite interesting, especially the Stiglitz interview at the end. One memorable quote from an Argentine: In a land where everyone protests, nothing gets done. Of course, looking at the US, it seems clear

Why be zen?

2002-08-08 Thread Tom Walker
Gar Lipow requested: Please be a little less Zen. Although the characterization of my style as 'zen' is not 100% technically accurate, there is an affinity between how I write and zen. I CAN write in a linear style. Sometimes I have to because I make my living as a writer. But when I was out

War Question

2002-08-08 Thread Michael Perelman
I read that Dick Army, Sen. Lugar Hagel are questioning the war. What Dems. have spoken up? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PBS show on Argentina

2002-08-08 Thread Anthony D'Costa
Now what does productive mean, to poke a hornet's nest? Cheers, Anthony xxx Anthony P. D'Costa, Associate Professor Comparative International Development University of WashingtonCampus Box 358436