Re: quiz family values/family wage

, and the bullied come most of the= =20 progress in the world and in Silicon Valley. endquote Tubular, eh? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Fri, 16 Dec 1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And the winner isGeorge Gilder! Our expert

Rogers/Freeman study

workforce. Not that it invalidates the results, but that should be kept in mind when consuming it. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Middle class

t; as 150%. By these definitions, the US has the smallest middle class and highest share of poor and near-poor of any of the dozen or so countries covered by the LIS. Needless to say, $120k is a lot more than 150% of the median. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voic

Re: Middle Class

Upwardly mobile? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Mon, 19 Dec 1994, Cotter_Cindy wrote: My husband and I have a combined income of $120,000. I feel like a fool calling myself working class. But my husband's a marine

Re: Middle Class

class represent a social judgment on the kind of lifestyle appropriate to the reproduction of that subclass of laborer? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

[PEN-L:3550] Prop 187 support

the argument that it's those facing labor market competition from immigrants who are most supportive of curbs. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) --- "Woul

[PEN-L:3551] Michigan budget help

Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

[PEN-L:3557] Re: New Paty's...

and believe in competition among smallish units? Have we all become Herb Gintis, with a born-again faith in the magic of the marketplace? Or is there another, more planned/socialist position? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

[PEN-L:3558] Re: New Paty's...

rive on the identification of outsiders, the Not Us, who are outside the circle? Aren't many communities full of superstition, xenophobia. Isn't the outside world a zone of liberation, and antidote of a suffocating insularity? Doesn't trade, properly conceived, enrich? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECT

[PEN-L:3566] Re: Merry Xmas, Orange County USA

sts? Control of oil has been one of the sacredest of cows even throughout the period of Salianstroika - but Big Oil wants a piece of Mexico, and by god, they're gonna get it. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

[PEN-L:3567] Re: query: humor

An economist is someone who talks in other people's sleep. Oh, and also a person with a flair for numbers who lacked the personality to be an accountant. But you probably knew that one. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax

[PEN-L:2275] Re: Vandana Shiva

by which we attempt to decipher her clues, then truly we can speak of a man-made ignorance, criminal or pitiful, depending on your point of view, in our relations with Gaia." Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-8

[PEN-L:2289] Re: NZ Experiment

are phony. The bigger your debts, the more power your creditors have over you. Keynesians social democrats who are blase about running up debts get all bent out of shape when the creditors remind them of their power. Tax the rich, don't borrow from them. Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer

[PEN-L:2321] EuroSlack

closures, consolidations, etc.? Has anyone quantified this - or contribution of the suicidal tight money, tight budget policies imposed by Maastricht and Buba, also a byproduct of unification? Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice

[PEN-L:2328] Re: HELP! (need publisher address)

to know the PUBLISHER so I can call them and place an order using a credit card IMMEDIATELY. Anyone who can help me RIGHT NOW (THursday afternoon) please bleeb me a message privately. Thanks so much. The New Press, 212-629-8802 voice, or 212-268-3647 fax. Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer

[PEN-L:2336] Compuserve's morality

al content in an effort to bolster CompuServe's reputation as a morally responsible online service provider. (STERN Infomat 03/96) If you think this reeks, as I do, tell Compuserve: [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-

[PEN-L:2341] Re: Euroslack

%149.3% 12.5%122.5%121.4% US 6.9%100.0% 10.2% 100.0%147.8% Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html

[PEN-L:2343] Re: Australian trade unions

ed without the socialization of ownership. But for the green agenda to have more than volatile political support, it has to explain better how less can be more. Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: [EMAIL

[PEN-L:2369] Shiva, again

ned by the post-Marxist left? Are the only choices between giant dams, which flood and displace, and the embrace of tradition and magic? Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html

[PEN-L:2380] India, again

prevails now? Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html

[PEN-L:2382] Big Brother

Union receives more complaints about abuses by employers than about abuses by the government." Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html

[PEN-L:2392] Re: Vandana Shiva

influence. Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html

[PEN-L:2402] Re: Vandana Shiva

At 5:53 PM 1/17/96, John William Hull wrote: On Wed, 17 Jan 1996, Doug Henwood wrote: I find them to be influential, in pure or diluted form, in anti-development NGO circles and among funders. Though deep ecology and ecofeminism are reported to be at odds - DE being seen as macho (living

[PEN-L:2405] women technology

nforced rather than challenged by ecofeminism. Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html

[PEN-L:2450] VS

a conceded that this was probably true. Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html

[PEN-L:2462] Sid

At 7:15 PM 1/19/96, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sid - Get a life. Stop posting this crap. Here we go again. Lay off Sid; I like what he posts. I swear I won't say anything about America Online. Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020

[PEN-L:2465] Re: Sid

listed below: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't forget a simple recapitalization would yield: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood

[PEN-L:2479] Tom Michl

Anyone here know how to get in touch with Tom Michl? I don't think he's on PEN-L. Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html

[PEN-L:2481] re: The high tech jobs of the future

;general managers and top execs," slated to grow from 3,046,000 to 3,512,000. RNs are, of course, skilled workers, but the rest of the list features some of the cliches of postindustrial shitwork. Bob Reich seems not to read the projections of an agency he supervises. Doug -- Doug Henwood L

[PEN-L:2484] Re: The high tech jobs

processing services; auto parking, repair, and services; and health services, with a skew towards the low-end (aides, orderlies, etc.). Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web:

[PEN-L:2485] practical Marxism

15 11 8 * Asked of one-half the respondents. Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html

[PEN-L:2523] Re: Valuing nature

in English as far as I've seen. (Disclosure: I'm in the Santa Cruz editorial group.) For subscription info email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have nothing to do with CNS, but I agree. Some of the most original thinking on on politics etc. around. Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New

[PEN-L:2544] Re: Reich questions (fwd)

polarization, which he actually seems to care about? Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html

[PEN-L:2568] Re: Help on defense budget

cost of past wars." Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html

[PEN-L:2570] Re: Help on defense budget

n the embassy budget, e.g.). Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html

[PEN-L:2592] Re: High Tech J

fects of deindustrialization on men. I'm certainly not trying to conclude from this that women aren't discriminated against in thousands of ways, but it's hard to argue that women are suffering more from the evolution of the labor market than are men. Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 2

[PEN-L:2600] Re: Women's wages

, women's entry into previously all-male professions isn't an insignificant social development. And I brought up the point only to dissent from the view that the restructuring of the labor force has been/will be particularly hard on women. Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St

[PEN-L:2608] Re: womens wages

ill fare much worse than managerial/professional/technical women, as clerical work is automated and health care restructured. So it's quite possible there'll be more women lawyers, doctors, bond traders, and systems analysts, while secretaries get downsized along with older male middle managers. D

[PEN-L:2622] Larry Summers on globalization

endquote I think Summers may have an important point here; both capital's publicists and its enemies (such as they are) seem to fall prey to the breathlessness tone he describes. Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html

[PEN-L:2652] Re: Freedom and Rig

How ever do they define "economic freedom," anyway? Freedom from hunger, or freedom to fire 5,000 workers? Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.panix.com

[PEN-L:2660] Re: Freedom and Rig

ow do liberals (American sense) respond to this? By extending the notion of property to God- and/or Constitution-given "rights"? That leads you to the elitist dead-end of litigation and Supreme Court worship. Any liberals out there who can help me out? Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Obser

[PEN-L:2669] liberal elitists

At 7:49 PM 1/29/96, Justin Schwartz wrote: On Mon, 29 Jan 1996, Doug Henwood wrote: "rights"? That leads you to the elitist dead-end of litigation and Supreme Court worship. Any liberals out there who can help me out? Hey, Doug, go easy on us (future) radical lawyers. Litigation is

[PEN-L:2684] Re: Rohatyn for the Fed

of the modern buy-and-liquidate school of financial predation; Felix himself put together ITT with Howard Geneen; and Felix's fees were what inspired 80s hotshots like Joe Perella to get into the business. Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020

[PEN-L:2688] NYC kicks 10% off welfare

that "[T]his decline may not be sufficient to allow the City to achieve its overall cost containment goal of $203 million." And Gov. Pataki's proposed 25% in the AFDC grant hasn't even hit yet. Truly the 1990s are making the Reagan years look kind and gentle by comparison. Doug -- Doug He

[PEN-L:2691] Re: 1990s compared to 1980s

ks is very vulnerable to well-planned pressure. If the workers in these networks talk to each other, they can put major kinks in the network. Even a work-to-rule action at a crucial components plant could screw up production. The key, of course, is solidarity, but that's nothing new. Doug -- Do

[PEN-L:2736] LBO web update

, and central banks in general. Coming soon, a links page. Links suggestions are highly welcome. Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html

[PEN-L:2794] The Bell Curve Author in Conference

TION. To access the Book Preview Forum, GO PREVIEW. Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html

[PEN-L:2846] Re: Cost of Past Wars

ion a year on institutions and machines designed for killing people is bad enough; why come up with inflated numbers? Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.panix.com

[PEN-L:2851] Re: CBO and OMB predict no recession for seven more years!

length on how this was wrong because she was present and active at all the budget-making sessions. Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood

[PEN-L:2876] Re: ATT buys a Bill (fwd)

corporate state, an embodiment if not explicitly ATT. Yeah, the new telecoms bill sucks bigtime, but do progressive economists really stand for more "competition," as opposed to "monopoly"? Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-2

[PEN-L:2877] Re: Current NIPA info on-line?

to [EMAIL PROTECTED], or write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with GET ECON.FAQ in the subject line. Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html

[PEN-L:2920] John Eatwell

Does anyone know if John Eatwell still advises the UK Labour Party leader, now that it's Tony Blur rather than Neil Kinnock? Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http

[PEN-L:2952] Re: Falling wages?

This is statistical fetishism of a particularly diseased sort. This came out of Reich's department? They're desperate. Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html

[PEN-L:2977] Re: The Labor Market Is Unlike Any Other

bly better to have a crappy pizza delivery job than it was to stay home collecting the dole and watching TV. Has social democracy come to this, apologizing for Domino's? Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax ema

[PEN-L:2978] Re: fantasy

At 8:20 AM 2/14/96, Michael Perelman wrote: He then comes to pen-l and asks for advise for ways to turn the country around without creating a capital strike. Can't be done, can it? Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1

[PEN-L:2979] Re: Falling wages?

apologies. You gotta check those automatic attributions, don't you? Sorry. Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html

[PEN-L:2987] Re: fantasy

for his words; his deeds and class position didn't even matter. Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html

[PEN-L:3026] Re: Intnl Budget Deficits Data Request

Economic Outlook, Dec 1995): US -1.6 Japan -3.9 Germany -3.1 France -5.0 Italy -7.4 UK -5.0 Canada -4.4 ex-soc sec US -2.5 Japan -7.4 averages G7 -3.3 non-G7 -4.6 OECD-3.4 Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212

[PEN-L:3036] privatizing Soc Sec

just some sort of dinosaur, out of touch with the new era? Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html

[PEN-L:3040] Re: Intnl Budget Deficits Data Request

-3.3-3.3+0.0 non-G7 -4.6-4.1-0.5 OECD-3.4 EU -4.9 sources OECD Economic Outlook, Dec 1995, annex table 30 IMF, World Economic Outlook, Oct 1995, annex table A15 Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212

[PEN-L:3047] Re: privatizing ...

concede the historical return point in return for a theoretical/logical explanation. Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html

[PEN-L:3048] Re: privatizing Soc Sec

it happen without a fight. In America, putting Soc Sec funds into the stocks will drive the Dow to 15,000 and fatten Wall Street pay checks enormously - a form of corporate welfare that will dwarf all previous forms of subsidy to those that have. Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85

[PEN-L:3058] was Nietzsche right?

from Harper's index, March 1996 (citing Ad Week): percentage of Americans earning less than $30,000 a year who believe "the meek shall inherit the earth": 61 percentage earning more than $60,000 who believe this: 36 Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New Yor

[PEN-L:3069] Re: privatizing Soc Sec

at the poverty level, to be supplemented by some forced savings plan that diverts current public pension contributions into the financial markets, and finally a "third leg" of the stool, private savings. In other words, a system that reinforces existing disparities rather than mildly undoing them. Doug

[PEN-L:3070] Re: privatizing SS in CHILE

adical perspective has studied that system. There's quite a bit on this in Chile's Free-Market Miracle: A Second Look, by Joe Collins and John Lear (Food First Books), though it doesn't really have much to say about the post-Pinochet era. Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New

[PEN-L:3163] shameless self-promotion

of the Drug Policy Foundation, talking about racial aspects of the drug war. Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html

[PEN-L:3167] Canadian strikes etc.

rth and we Yankees have heard nothing about it in our mainstream press. Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html

[PEN-L:3187] shameless self-promotion (cont.)

nd Barnard strikers (Kate Ohno for Yale and Maida Rosenstein for Barnard) Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html

[PEN-L:3190] Bill of Rights as Peaceful protest (fwd)

--- Forwarded Message Follows --- This is not a typical chain letter, in that by passing it on to as many people as you can, you are taking part in what may yet become the world's biggest practical joke. The U.S. Government has recently passed an act which enforces censorship on the

Re: Imperialist interference in Austria

Louis Proyect quoted: Tyrannical toward himself, he must be tyrannical toward others. etc. And then this cold, tyrannical, unidimensional creature, if successful, takes on state power. Nothing less than horrifying. A rightwing anti-communist couldn't make a better argument against

Re: Zizek, Stalin and Bukharin

Louis Proyect wrote: Part of every student's cold war indoctrination at my high school in upstate New York in the 1950s was Arthur Koestler's "Darkness at Noon." We were told that the novel, in which an "old Bolshevik" confesses to crimes he did not commit for the sake of the revolution, was

Re: Re: Zizek, Stalin and Bukharin

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: The Oxford English Dictionary says that the word "tendentious" means "having a purposed tendency; composed or written with such a tendency or aim." Given this meaning, why should the word "tendentious" be used as if it meant something (vaguely) bad? Because the

Re: Zizek, Stalin and Bukharin

Louis Proyect wrote: No surprise here, Justin. We've been through this in previous go-rounds. You are a supporter of Sam Farber's approach, who argues that there's a dotted line between Lenin and Stalin. Zizek's arguments would appeal to somebody whose understanding of the Russian Revolution is

Re: Re: Zizek, Stalin and Bukharin

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: I'm looking forward to the PEN-L econ textbook, but no doubt some of my students will find it "biased." The ruling ideas are in the interest of the ruling class, and those who go against common sense have to be prepared for a charge of "bias" and "tendentiousness."

Re: commies in New Hampshire

Jim Devine wrote: from SLATE magazine: Inevitably, reporters run out real questions and start asking [US Senator GOP presidential candidate John] McCain why he likes talking to them so much. "It's fun. It's intellectually stimulating, " he says. "Some of the last of the Trotskyites have been on

Re: Re: Re: commies in New Hampshire

Jim Devine wrote: Doug answers: I am not now, nor I have I ever been, a Trotskyite. Or a Trotskyist, either. Just ask a real (ex-)Trot. Doug, you make it sound like a bad thing! Trotsky himself seems like not an entirely bad sort, but Trots are another story entirely, except maybe for the

Re: commies in New Hampshire

Louis Proyect wrote: Try to find some room in your busy reading schedule for some history, Doug. It will improve your mind. Thanks for the advice. My mind needs all the help it can get. Doug

Re: Re: on how economists publish

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Coase's paper on the theory of the firm, perhaps THE most important work in 20th century economics. Eh? Why? Because for a moment, a big name future Nobelist took note of nonmarket institutions? More an indictment of the profession than something worthy of note in

Re: Zizek, Stalin and Bukharin

Louis Proyect wrote: No surprise here, Justin. We've been through this in previous go-rounds. You are a supporter of Sam Farber's approach, who argues that there's a dotted line between Lenin and Stalin. Zizek's arguments would appeal to somebody whose understanding of the Russian Revolution is

Coase

Ellen Frank wrote: I never get it when people talk about how important this work on transaction costs is, how brilliant and insightful. And as Coase himself noted, his paper was "much cited and little used," at least in 1970 when he said that. It also begins from premises so ridiculous that

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: commies in New Hampshire

Michael Hoover wrote: Trotsky himself seems like not an entirely bad sort, but Trots are another story entirely, except maybe for the Mpls general strike. I can't imagine their net contribution to human betterment to have been positive, but I'm willing to hear arguments to the

Re: Airplanes falling out of the sky

Louis Proyect wrote: One of the most forceful advocates is Ted Kennedy, who believed that Joe Six-Pack was getting cheated out of affordable air travel. I guess neglect and stupidity about air travel runs in the Kennedy family. Greg Tarpinian of the Labor Research Association, in a rare act of

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Airplanes falling out of the sky

Michael Perelman wrote: Don't fly to Chico from San Francisco. Going to New York is cheaper. It wasn't before dereg. So it was not beneficial to all consumers. The airfare index of the CPI has risen at roughly twice the rate of the overall CPI since dereg - almost 11% in the last year, vs.

Fwd: 2000-02-01 Statement by the Vice President on AlaskaAirlines Flight 261

[Gore has the answer to airplane safety - prayer!] THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Vice President For Immediate Release February 1, 2000

Re: Re: Re: Airplanes falling out of the sky

Jim Devine wrote: I read some stats in LBO awhile back that indicated that price-deregulation didn't really lead to lower airline ticket prices. Doug? Yup, this is a long-standing LBO obsession. See other post. The dereg partisans like to quote real fares per seat-mile, which are down since

Re: Re: Re: Re: Journal of Economic Perspectives

Jim Devine wrote: However, "Post Keynesian" (which lacks a hyphen, for unknown reason) That's the way Paul Davidson spells it. I asked him about that once, and here's his answer: In the 1970s when Sidney Weintraub and I were organizing a new journal we asked our editorial board for possible

Re: Re: closet Keynesians

Timework Web wrote: I would say that most people -who consider themselves Marxists- are closet Keynesians. What's a Marxist? What's a Keynesian? Doug

Re: Re: Re: closet Keynesians

Jim Devine wrote: To me this suggests the possibility of Marx-Keynes syntheses: the holistic analysis of the capitalist mode of production of vol. I left out a lot of the important details of finance and the like, which can be filled in using content from the Keynesian tradition (Minsky,

Re: frontiers of capitalism

Michael Perelman wrote: Amazon announced that it lost $185 million on sales of $676 million last year. The stock went up. Isn't America great? To be fair, it also announced that its book business was profitable for the first time, and that it expected future losses to narrow, also for the

Re: Query on Fed Flow of Funds data; is theredocumentation?

Barnet Wagman wrote: Is there any document or book that fully defines the items in the Fed's "Flow of Funds" data? The data itself is available on the Fed's web page but I haven't found anything that specifies how they define things. The Fed sells a guide to the flow of funds, with complete

Re: Re: smartness

Brad De Long wrote: Why is there this extraordinary--eager--desire to take Keynes's quote out of context? Remarkable, isn't it? Didn't Hayek offer the charming interpretation that Keynes's queerness made him not care about the future? Doug

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Jim Devine wrote: Brad asks: Why is there this extraordinary--eager--desire to take Keynes's quote out of context? Unfortunately, Brad, quoting out of context is a major indoor sport. Marx is quoted out of context more than most. Keynes is hardly the only target. Worse are made-up quotes, as

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Brad De Long wrote: Brad De Long wrote: Why is there this extraordinary--eager--desire to take Keynes's quote out of context? Remarkable, isn't it? Didn't Hayek offer the charming interpretation that Keynes's queerness made him not care about the future? Doug I missed this. Where? Dunno,

Re: reparations

Charles Brown wrote: CB: How about if we make a special stipulation that every Black person except Vernon Jordan gets money ? Or just every Black person with a net worth below x How do you define a black person? Where would the reparations come from? General tax revenues? If so, then

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Jim Devine wrote: The lower infant mortality rate seems mostly a result of government investment in public health (rather than relying on the market). But greater wealth and scientific progress - both of which are products of capitalism - are what made government investment and the science

Re: reparations

Louis Proyect wrote: Capitalism does have something to do with lower infant mortality and longer lifespans. It improved them in Belgium while degrading them in the Belgian Congo. People in almost all regions of the world are living longer now than they did 20, 50, or 100 years ago. To say that

Re: reparations

Louis Proyect wrote: If Doug has figures for the Yoruba or Asante dynasties, I'd love to see them. You're the Africa expert. Do tell. Doug

shirtless helots neo-asceticism

Louis Proyect wrote: I wonder which Marxist thinkers of the 20th century Doug has in mind when he refers to this "ambivalent" attitude. G.A. Cohen? Frank Furedi? John Roemer? Ernest Mandel, for one, who wrote the passage appended below. I'm also curious what you make of these comments by your

Re: Re: reparations

Sam Pawlett wrote: A certain tradition within Marxism. Its not capitalism that brought the benefits but people struggling for public health, social security etc. But capitalism made possible the wealth and scientific knowledge that people struggled over, and the partial socialization of

Re: non-capitalist development

Louis Proyect wrote: Essentially, this is the same kind of argument being made by defenders of capitalism in this discussion. They say that things are getting better in the third world. Look at life expectancy figures. They are better than they were 100 years ago. Isn't that progress? Why

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