Joanna wrote a revealing phrase below, which chimed with a discussion
I had on Tuesday night with my wise old marxist friend who also
maintains his cooperative movement loyalties.
We were discussing how working people under the surface are becoming
increasingly restive while the state is being
A week or so ago, Doug asked for an example where Marxian categories
would be superior to neoclassical categories. What about the role of
software introduction? The actual production costs of software bear no
relationship whatsoever to the commercial costs of the software. Yet
software as part
Now playing at the Film Forum in NYC and scheduled for national
distribution over the next two months, Paul Devlin's Power Trip is an
outstanding contribution to a growing body of films dealing with the
globalization and neoliberalism onslaught. In contrast to Life and
Debt, a documentary on
Power Trip website: http://www.powertripthemovie.com
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From the current issue
Vol. 25 No. 24 :: 18 December 2003
The New Piracy
Charles Glass: Terror on the High Seas
Ninety-five per cent of the world's cargo travels by sea. Without the
merchant marine, the free market would collapse and take Wall Street's
dream of a global
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/153004_boeingfunds18.html
$24 million more sweetened Boeing offer
Thursday, December 18, 2003
By PAUL NYHAN AND PHUONG CAT LE
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTERS
As the battle for the 7E7 assembly plant heated up this year,
Governor Couldn't Say Humbug to Handicapped [commentary, from the L.A. TIMES]
George Skelton
December 18, 2003
Sacramento
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was headed out his door to light the Capitol Christmas tree
last week when Assembly Speaker Herb Wesson stopped him cold.
Was it
extrapolation is almost always wrong (except in the short term).
Jim
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Devine, James wrote:
extrapolation is almost always wrong (except in the short term).
Jim
Someone did it for the military budget back some years, and estimated
that by some date (not too far in the future) the total budget would buy
one fighter plane, or something like that. I must not be
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extrapolation is almost always wrong (except in the short term).
Jim
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Duh.
A friend passed along this query from a European correspondent:
Do you know anybody criticalof the US system of tuition fees
who argues from an
economic point of view: i.e. who refers to higher education as public
good? We need to be backed up by critics from abroad. Otherwise
benchmark with
I have made the point. I think lots of people have. Now you have
students working 20+ hours and trying to get an education. I see high
numbers dropping out due to stress -- They try to rush through to get it
over with and cannot maintain the pace. The quality of education suffers
as our
I'd try Barbara Miner in Milwaukee. If she doesn't know herself, she will
surely know someone who does.
Joel Blau
Eugene Coyle wrote:
A friend passed along this query from a European correspondent:
Do you know
anybody criticalof the US system
of tuition fees who argues from
Also, didn't someone in Freeman and Card, "Small Differences that Matter"
make the point that the higher tuition in the US relative to in Canada was
one of the factors explaining the greater increase in income differentials
in the US and also a reason for the lower percentage of the young
I think that what balancing the budget illustrates very nicely is that
economics is not just a technical problem of economics, but a moral and
political problem, which must inescapably refer to an ethics which isn't
objective but partisan. When you have to cut costs and expenditures, and
increase
Amsterdam has an image of tolerance, built up over the centuries, as
refugees from religious strife and ethnic persecution found a haven here,
and sailors brought the latest trends to the city from their travels across
the seven seas. We don't have a statue of liberty to prove it, but there's a
Stephen Jay Gould: I am somehow less interested in the weight and
convolutions of Einstein's brain, than in the near certainty that men and
women of equal talent have live and died in cottonfields and sweatshops.
I just read this off the history of economics list. I wonder where he
said it.
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Michael Perelman wrote:
Stephen Jay Gould: I am somehow less interested in the weight and
convolutions of Einstein's brain, than in the near certainty that men and
women of equal talent have live and died in cottonfields and sweatshops.
I just read this off the history of economics list. I
Because by tolerantly absorbing all discontent and adjusting the
system to take it into account, the system becomes more, not less,
stable.
Does it really? Or does it just give you another form to fill out?
It is also the contradictory paradox that capitalism
produces an ever more complex social
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