[the last sentence says it all about vacating responsibility via a
signifier..]
[New York Times]
November 2, 2003
China's Factories Aim to Fill the World's Garages
By KEITH BRADSHER
SHANGHAI - China, long a nation of pedestrians, cyclists and buses, is
undergoing an automobile revolution.
Jurriaan Bendien wrote:
The theorem is that we all
have something to sell, just like prostitutes, and the whole way to expand
the market is to focus on those things you've got that you can sell.
Something tells me it's a bit worse for the consolidated account than for the prostitute. The
Ken:
I don't smoke... But I think yer a bit harsh on our dyslexic
lawyer friend.
I have nothing against Justin, Ken. The problem is not him but
the contract theory, which is a direct consequence of western
rationality. And contracts require lawyers. If it is not Justin,
there will be someone
One of the titles of a chapter in Michael Moore's new book is "Death to Horatio Alger." His premise is that just the dream of someday becoming rich undermines class solidarity. It really is the all-American dream, the "rags-to-riches" story.
Troy"Devine, James" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ravi:
Hi Sabri,
I think I know where you are coming from.
As I told Jurriaan once in private, in my view, western
rationality is about horse trading, since it reduces human
interactions to deals and bargaining. When you adhere to western
rationality, you design mechanisms to induce others to do
Something tells me it's a bit worse for the consolidated account than
for the prostitute. The prostitute still represents a kind of natural
economy: presumably her customer looks to her for the satisfaction of a
natural sexual need. In the context of the market, we must ready ourselves
to satisfy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/02/03 8:34 AM
One of the titles of a chapter in Michael Moore's new book is Death to
Horatio Alger. His premise is that just the dream of someday becoming
rich undermines class solidarity. It really is the all-American dream,
the rags-to-riches story.
Troy
Devine, James
NY Times, November 2, 2003
Saving Seeds Subjects Farmers to Suits Over Patent
By ADAM LIPTAK
TUPELO, Miss., Oct. 30 Homan McFarling has been farming here all his
life, growing mostly soybeans along with a little corn. After each harvest,
he puts some seed aside.
Every farmer that ever farmed
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/02/03 8:37 AM
1) The West does not exist culturally, it is an ideological fiction or
geographic reference, an ideological concept which hides the reality of
imperialist accumulation. In order to understand this, you should study
the history of geographical mapping, the
Palestinian student debuts film
By Shaista Aziz
Thursday 30 October 2003, 13:24 Makka Time, 10:24 GMT
A final year medical student from Dundee University is making her film debut
at the prestigious Raindance film festival in London. Saliyha Ahsan spent
two months in the Palestinian cities of
On Saturday, four civilians and a policeman were killed in clashes at Abu
Ghraib's marketplace [on the western edge of Baghdad]. The clashes began
when US troops tried to clear market stalls from a main road, according to
witnesses.
Source:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/31/03 11:14 AM
B. Ollman says somewhere that Engels as well as Marx didn't use any firm
labels, mostly saying something like our historical method, etc.
Carrol
engels used term 'materialist conception of history' in review he wrote
of marx's 1859 _contribution to a critique
I treat Marx's stuff early in volume I about gold = money as a simplifying
assumption. It's partly because he was following in the tradition of the
political economy of his time (and is trying to talk to his contemporaries).
But there is a basis for a theory of fiat money in his work.
Early
In volume III, Marx discusses fiat money and it turns out (horrors!) that
something
amazingly similar to the quantity theory of money applies.
Yes - Laurence Harris implies the same point in his book Monetary Theory
(and let us not forget Marx's Contribution to the Critique of Political
The NYT reports today that while the nation struggles with obesity, more and
more American families are hungry or unsure whether they can afford to buy
food. According to results extrapolated from a sample survey of 50,000
households, about 12 million American families in 2002 worried that they
joanna bujes wrote:
One piece of info about American casualties that's not often reported is
that after the war ended as many former soldiers committed suicide as
were killed in battle.
An odd paragraph at the end of Elizabeth Becker's piece in today's
NYT comparing Vietnam Iraq:
One anomaly in
--- Michael Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the working class can kiss my ass, i've got the
foreman's job at last...
michael hoover
And now for a song about Mr. Block.
First published in the 6 Mar 1913 edition (fifth
edition) of the Industrial Worker Little Red
Songbook.
U.S. Administrator Imposes Flat Tax System on Iraq
By Dana Milbank and Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, November 2, 2003; Page A09
The flat tax, long a dream of economic conservatives, is finally getting
its day -- not in the United States, but in Iraq.
It took L. Paul
How can they be so ungrateful
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
While conservative and liberal communities formulate their separate
identities, [Americans] search for leaders to champion their way of life.
They turn to pundits who are skilled in challenging opposing agenda's in the
public realm. Conservatively, the Mainstream Personal Identifier (MPI) and
I doubt that she would read Commons. I am guessing that the capital
controversy is the CC controversy.
She traces the controversy to Wicksell, and even more directly to Sraffa,
who I doubt read Commons.
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 08:15:26PM -0800, Eubulides wrote:
Does anyone on the list know if
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/31/03 11:14 AM
B. Ollman says somewhere that Engels as well as Marx didn't use any firm
labels, mostly saying something like our historical method, etc.
Carrol
I think Marx and Engels did use firm labels (cf. the Communist Manifesto)
but these labels changed and evolved
That's swell. Now all they need is some income to tax.
Business income is not easy to measure, flat rate or no.
A sales tax would make more sense. In neither case is there any
government to administer the tax. It's obviously a gesture.
If I was pro-consul, I'd have just two taxes: severance
11:24 am PST, 2 November 2003
Israeli motorists are waiting in long lines at petrol stations as trade
unions halted fuel supplies ahead of a general strike aimed at paralysing
the whole economy. Israel's cabinet approved the issuing of emergency
back-to-work orders to keep essential services
Front page, lead story NYT.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/02/international/middleeast/02ARMY.html
U.S. Considering Recalling Units of Old Iraq Army
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 Some American military officers in Iraq are pressing
to reconstitute entire units of the former Iraqi Army, which the top
Corruption is defined as the abuse of public power for private gain.
Alexander Sack, the author and legal scholar of the doctrine of odious
debts, included in his definition of odious debts, loans incurred by
members of the government or by persons or groups associated with the
government to serve
Good.
Joanna
Jurriaan Bendien wrote:
11:24 am PST, 2 November 2003
Israeli motorists are waiting in long lines at petrol stations as trade
unions halted fuel supplies ahead of a general strike aimed at paralysing
the whole economy. Israel's cabinet approved the issuing of emergency
I don't know the answer to the question. But Keynes and Commons
carried on a correspondence, so there would have been a possible
connection to Joan Robinson.
Gene Coyle
Michael Perelman wrote:
I doubt that she would read Commons. I am guessing that the capital
controversy is the CC
- Original Message -
From: Jurriaan Bendien [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 7:19 PM
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] New rules for the primitive accumulation of capital -
reply to Ian
Ian,
I think of it in the same way as intellectual property rights,
- Original Message -
From: Jurriaan Bendien [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Corruption is defined as the abuse of public power for private gain.
===
This is way too thin a definition of corruption. It concedes too much to
methodological individualism.
Ian
Alexander Sack,
Corruption is defined as the abuse of public power for private gain.
===
This is way too thin a definition of corruption. It concedes too much to
methodological individualism.
Ian
The definition seems pretty good to me. What's methodological
individualism?
Joanna
- Original Message -
From: joanna bujes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] The concept of corruption
Corruption is defined as the abuse of public power for private gain.
snip
The definition seems pretty good to
Unions issue writ over lost pension rights and broken promises
Rupert Jones
Monday November 3, 2003
The Guardian
Two trade unions are today launching legal action against the government
over a row involving hundreds of steelworkers who face having their
promised pension entitlement snatched
maybe we should have a rule: no-one is allowed to reject a definition unless they can
propose a better one. (Or they must defend the idea that definitions never facilitate
thought.)
to my mind, if corruption is defined within the context of capitalism (i.e., taking
capitalist property norms
There are at least two distinct senses of the term
methodological individualism:
(1) All social phenomena can be explained in terms of
individual persons and their states without reference
to social facts or states (the nonreductive sense),
and
(2) All social phenomena can be explained _only_ in
well, ok. but I still don't get how the definition earns this critique.
Joanna
andie nachgeborenen wrote:
There are at least two distinct senses of the term
methodological individualism:
(1) All social phenomena can be explained in terms of
individual persons and their states without reference
- Original Message -
From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If we don't take capitalist norms for granted, then the _whole system_
is corrupt in that it involves the state enforcement of capitalist
exploitation (which benefits private interests). In that case,
conventionally-defined
It's been a while since I looked at world stats, so thought I would take a
look. Here's a few estimates in US dollars:
1. World GDP
According to the World Bank, World GDP for 2002 (expected to rise by 2.5
percent in 2003; the IMF thinks 3.1 percent) was $32.3 trillion (GNI $31.5
trillion),
The British Statistical Office estimated that fraud accounted for maybe 11
billion British pounds of foreign trade and up to 0.2 percent of GDP. See:
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/articles/economic_trends/ETAug03Ruffles.pdf
In the industrialised countries, annual crime victim rates are from one in
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