Hi Ian,
But didn't they offload these costs [create a beneficial set of
externalities-for them] precisely because using their own security became
a drain on their cash? Armies/Navies as the vanguard of socialism due to
economies of scale? This was Frederic Lane's thesis in Profits from
Thanks for the comment, Shane...
You seem to have forgotten that the Keynesian and [neo]classical
views are totally incompatible
I think you are correct, in the 1930s depression Keynes was faced precisely
with the problem of mobilising capital for employment-generating investment,
but, I would
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Jurriaan Bendien wrote:
What would Lenin say if he was alive today ? He would say, the real problem
is different, it is, how can you mobilise a very large mass of people for
the purpose of instating a governmental power that can begin the transition
to socialism ? If you
Jim,
At this point, I don't think military Keynesianism is a big thing. It's
hardly enough to cancel out all the cut-backs by the states. But Iraq War II
may become a full-scale quagmire...
I saw figures suggesting military expenditure in the vicinity of 500 billion
(?) but that would be over a
Doug argues capitalism is inconceivable
without state
regulation, I am saying it is conceivable, it is
happening, and it happened
already in history. If you think that the Dutch East
India Company was
simply a mercantile outfit you are wrong, because
they established factories
and
Pension age to rise in Italy and Germany
Sophie Arie in Rome and Ben Aris in Berlin
Wednesday August 27, 2003
The Guardian
The Italian and German governments risked a public outcry yesterday by
proposing that people should work, and make pension contributions, for up
to five years longer to help
Jurriaan Bendien wrote:
Doug argues capitalism is inconceivable without state
regulation, I am saying it is conceivable, it is happening, and it happened
already in history. If you think that the Dutch East India Company was
simply a mercantile outfit you are wrong, because they established
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Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Regulation, state, economy
Doug argues capitalism is inconceivable
without state
regulation, I am saying it is conceivable, it is
[ins't piracy enjoying a Renaissance too? :-)]
Freight shipping rides the crest of a wave
Improved rates and higher volumes have swelled container profits
Terry Macalister
Thursday August 28, 2003
The Guardian
A slowdown in large world economies such as the US, Japan and Germany
normally means
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George?)
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Jurriaan Bendien wrote:
What
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=437505
The Independent (UK)
27 August 2003
Spy chief undermines key plank of case for war
By Kim Sengupta and Paul Waugh
One of the crucial claims in the Government's case for the Iraq war that
Saddam Hussein could threaten the West
Justin wrote:
You confuse primitive accumulation -- the
naked taking by force of labor and raw materials --
with its product in the world system, capital.
You must think I am thick or something ! I am not confusing this at all, it
is 95 percent of Marxists who confuse it, by identifying
American from its genesis was a Southern country. Slavery and the slave economy of this Southern country - fundamental to our development, distorted everything America proclaimed it stood for. The Northern states, manufacturing the necessities for the slave system, grew as an appendage to the
Halliburton's Deals Greater Than Thought
By Michael Dobbs
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, August 28, 2003; Page A01
Halliburton, the company formerly headed by Vice President Cheney, has won
contracts worth more than $1.7 billion under Operation Iraqi Freedom and
stands to make hundreds
Published August 28, 2003
http://www.freep.com/money/autonews/org28_20030828.htm
MIGRATION FROM THE MOTOR CITY: UAW a hard sell in Southern comfort
BY JENNIFER DIXON
FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- For eight years, Pat Saltkill has struggled to do what has never been done
Jurriaan Bendien wrote:
Doug argues capitalism is inconceivable without state
regulation, I am saying it is conceivable, it is happening,
and it happened
already in history. If you think that the Dutch East India
Company was
simply a mercantile outfit you are wrong, because they
[Finally, I know why my course evaluations are so low! of course, good
looks are only skin deep...]
ECONOMIC SCENE
The Hunk Differential
By HAL R. VARIAN
BEING beautiful pays off. Economists have found that men with
above-average looks are paid about 5 percent more than those with
average
The Road to Nowhere
Is the U.S. auto industry doomed?
By Daniel Gross
Updated Tuesday, August 26, 2003, at 2:53 PM PT
[from Microsoft SLATE]
The U.S. auto industry is driving straight off a cliff. Or so we're
being told.
The problem is an industrywide strategic failure, argues New York Times
In a message dated 8/28/03 4:35:13 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Justin wrote:
You confuse primitive accumulation -- the
naked taking by force of labor and raw materials --
with its product in the world system, capital.
You must think I am thick or something ! I am not
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From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Finally, I know why my course evaluations are so low! of course, good
looks are only skin deep...]
==
:-)
http://www.botox.com/site/
:-)
Ian
Botox isn't enough. A full-scale slash and burn approach seems needed. Luckily,
Beverly Hills is just down the road from here, what with all its plastic surgeons. I
wonder if my HMO will pay...
I don't know about other cities, but the front section of the alternative
entertainement weekly
Take a look at how the United Nations is helping the
IMF/WB/Donors/Multinationals, as well as the US government,
privatize Iraq.
US activists should be working with Belgian, Spanish, and other
European activists to protest the UN/IMF/WB preparatory conference in
Brussels on September 3 and the
Okay then, I will post my original letter to Paul (22 August
2003):
Hi Paul,How's
things ? I was reading some more discussion about primitiveaccumulation on
OPE list, and I have a question. When I read Marx's Capitalin German, I
never found any place in which he uses the term
Hi Jim,
The LORD is my shepherd, isn't that what they say ? Check out Estelle Reyna.
also, the Dutch East India Company and similar organizations _merged_ the
functions of a privately-owned enterprise with those of a state (a monopoly
of force within the geographical area). So the DEIC didn't
. . . Although Iraq does not have any outstanding loans from the IMF,
it does have arrears of close to $72 million.
I don't believe that figure. How are those arrears accounted for ? Are these
arrears owing to the IMF ? One thing I have noticed is that there are some
mighty peculiar forms of
Title: Re: Regulation, state, economy
Jurriaan wrote:
...When I
read Marx's Capital
in German, I
never found any place in which he uses the term primitive
accumulation, rather, he uses the term ursprungliche
Akkumulation, that
is to say,
the initial or original accumulation.
Do you have any
I don't see how this has anything to do with whether
stateless capitalism is possible. jks
--- Shane Mage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jurriaan wrote:
...When I read Marx's Capital
in German, I never found any place in which he uses
the term primitive
accumulation, rather, he uses the term
In a message dated 8/28/03 10:08:58 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi Paul,
How's things ? I was reading some more discussion about primitive
accumulation on OPE list, and I have a question. When I read Marx's Capital
in German, I never found any place in which he uses the
In a message dated 8/28/03 12:25:29 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I don't see how this has anything to do with whether
stateless capitalism is possible. jks
A stateless property relations is not possible and this includes public property. There is a real question as to
Dear All,
Below is an article by Emrah Goker, a sociology PhD student at Columbia
University and a member of the Peace Initiative/Turkey, based in New
York. Since we recommend on the A-List that post should be made in
plain-text format, I converted his document to that, and in due course,
his
this discussion of terms is missing the key distinction between two types of
primitive accumulation or whatever you want to call it:
1) the sort emphasized by the bourgeois economists, in which today's inequality of
wealth is a result of some people being more thrifty than others at some point
In a message dated 8/28/03 1:26:55 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The suggestion of Marxists is that first you have primitive accumulation and then you have capitalism and after that the primitive accumulation is finished; and this is just nonsense, no serious analyst
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