Quite a time before, unless I am mistaken. He is still an associate member. (I am
assume you mean Berezovsky? Gusinsky quit directing I think in the 80s to go into
various forms of sordid business, if my fuzzy memory serves). Khodorskocky was head of
the Moscow Komsomol.
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On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 16:00:23 +0300, Chris Doss wrote:
Does anybody know how per capita income figures are
usually calculated for countries like Russia, which
have a large shadow economy in which workers are paid
under the table and off the books? Thanks.
Not actually as uncommon as you'd
From: Sabri Oncu
Hi Charles!
Good to hear from you. I have not seen you around for
quite a while. How have you been?
I don't think there is much point in furthering this
debate, as it appears to me to be more about what
certain words mean and they don't but let me object
one last time and
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The world will be plunged into crisis long before it runs out of oil
in as little as 10-15 years when production will likely peak, according
to energy analyst Paul Roberts in the Los Angeles Times.
Oil optimists think the world wont run out of reserves until at least
mid-century, by which time
I don't see why this conference is needed. The US tells the UK what to do. They do it.
Period.
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Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 7:20
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From: Marvin Gandall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 10:32:31 -0500
Subject: [PEN-L] Crisis at the peak
The world will be plunged into crisis long before it runs out of oil
in as little as 10-15 years when production will likely peak,
If this were true Blair would have torpedoed Kyoto.
--pb
I don't see why this conference is needed. The
US tells the UK what to do. They do it. Period.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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From: k hanly
Here we are again, with a script out of Hollywood, for the end of the world
as we know it-- actually being short of of original material (as if original
material and Hollywood aren't an oxymoron), the script is a redo of our
Australian friend's Road Warrior series where the precious juice has
maybe the US elite didn't want him to? or they never thought of it?
in any event, I was simply making a hyperbolic cynical remark spawned by a
Monday-morning caffeine shortage.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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I think that we have heard enough about whether or not we face the
prospect of scarcity of petrochemicals. The important part of the
article is a popular recognition of the threat.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail
Michael Perelman wrote:
I think that we have heard enough about whether or not we face the
prospect of scarcity of petrochemicals.
Translation: this is a topic that annoys certain volatile
participants, so best steer clear of it.
Devine, James wrote:
The conservative US News and World Report is worried by data showing the
worsening condition of US workers, and the growing prospect of class
polarization threatening corporate America and the Republican party.
did USNWR mention that much of that polarization took place
sorry forgot the links!
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_economy/ESA95_Exhaustiveness.pdf
more statistical fun:
Prostitution itself is not illegal within the UK.
However, most of the activities associated with
prostitution (e.g. soliciting) are illegal. Value added
from prostitution
Another bullshit provocation from the Living Marxist.
Doug Henwood wrote:
Michael Perelman wrote:
I think that we have heard enough about whether or not we face the
prospect of scarcity of petrochemicals.
Translation: this is a topic that annoys certain volatile
participants, so best steer
Come on. Doug should not have started this and you should just let it
pass.
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:19:00PM -0500, Louis Proyect wrote:
Another bullshit provocation from the Living Marxist.
Doug Henwood wrote:
Michael Perelman wrote:
I think that we have heard enough about whether or
After reading Princeton professor's Sean Wilentz ideological fatwa
(http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/07/magazine/07ESSAY.html) against Ralph
Nader in yesterday's NY Times Magazine section (appropriately enough,
facing a full-page ad for Grand Marnier), it dawned on me that Dissent
Magazine has
I have been on this mailing list now for 3 years at least. In that
entire time, I have not once directed a comment at Henwood. I am even
careful to refrain from attacking those that he identifies with like
Michael Hardt. If I criticize the Nation Magazine, I don't do so with
the attention of
I have been on this mailing list, on and off, for about 15 years, long
before I knew Louis and Doug. I respect both of them. They offer us
a lot of good commentary and analysis. And they point us to interesting
things to read and think about. I have had drinks with both of them.
Louis had
Re Michael's comment: How can you reach your conclusion about what is
important if you terminate the actual analysis of the issue. It is exactly not
about perception or what people feel, it is about the basis for this
scarcity theorizing and its real political impact-- like get ready for
Just exactly how old are you guys? Quit whining. You'll wake the baby.
dms
Well, I think the future of oil is a pretty important topic for a
bunch of political economists to discuss, but Michael shut it off
because it gets LNP and DMS into a pissing match. That's too bad,
like some Gresham's law of discourse.
Doug
Excuse me, I never get into pissing matches. It's all about the quality of
the analysis provided. All other issues are handled offlist. I do absolutely
think that t humor, criticism, sarcastic remarks are not out of place here,
and that we shouldn't be so ridiculously thin-skinned about those
FWIW, I have a very simple Marxian-flavored theory of energy crises that alas I
haven't filled out or illustrated with lotza data. (I'm not an energy expert. The
theory is part of my Marxian-style crisis theory.) But it helps get us beyond
natural scarcity/overproduction dichotomies.
Here,
Guess what? I miscounted. Only used 4, so I have one more, you lucky stiffs..
From JD:
Accumulation pulls up demand for energy and thus oil prices, as in the 1970s. This
is not due to OPEC, etc., except to the extent that OPEC and the like take advantage
of high demand conditions to try to
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From me:
Accumulation pulls up demand for energy and thus oil prices,
as in the 1970s. This
is not due to OPEC, etc., except to the extent that OPEC and
the like take advantage
of high demand conditions to try to grab a bigger chunk of
the scarcity rents. This
is
Devine:
How do you define the price of oil? Cyrus Bina is the only one so far to have
attempted to explain the 1970's oil crisis using the standard interpretation of Marx's
theory of rent. Do you agree with Bina that cost conditions in the US, the highest
cost region in the international oil,
Rebelión, March 1, 2004
Capitalism versus socialism: The great debate revisited
James Petras
http://www.rebelion.org/petras/english/040304capitalism.htm
The debate between socialism and capitalism is far from over. In fact the
battle of ideas is intensifying. International agencies, including
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From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] oil crises.
(a civil conversation)
DMS: But Iraq is not a high cost producer of oil, having a
cost of production approximately
equal to Saudi
I'm sorry, but I don't understand the argument that higher prices are
the result of overaccumulation. What happens to supply/demand idea? This
is not a rhetorical I don't understand. Please explain,
Thanks,
Joanna
dmschanoes wrote:
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From: Devine, James [EMAIL
Aldo Balardini asks me several questions:
How do you define the price of oil?
the same way most people do.
Cyrus Bina is the only one so far to have attempted to explain the 1970's oil crisis
using the standard interpretation of Marx's theory of rent.
I was thinking of his analysis
Argentina and IMF in duel over $3.1bn loan
Larry Elliott and Charlotte Denny
Tuesday March 9, 2004
The Guardian
Argentina was last night on a collision course with the International
Monetary Fund after the heavily indebted Latin American country signalled
it was preparing to default on a $3.1bn
[From the New York Post's Page Six gossip column...hmmm, how reliable is
this, you NYers? *lol*]
SOPRANOS sweetie Jamie-Lynn DiScala says it took a brave man to ask her
out before she married her manager, A.J. DiScala, last July. I dated one
celebrity during the third season and he didn't treat
For the first time Sunday I heard a British government minister
refer to economic terrorism in connection with Al Qaeda.
This was David Blunkett Home Secretary saying, as I caught it, the
more they can destabilise our economy and the world economy the better
it will be for their intent A somewhat
Under communism the economic decisions and property were national and
publicly owned. Over the past 15 years of the transition to capitalism
almost all basic industries, energy, mining, communications, infrastructure
and wholesale trade industries have been taken over by European and US
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