Bill writes:
Note to Jim Devine: see the Cautionary Note at the top of p. xvii
where it says As a result, it may be difficult for readers to
determine their own placement within the reported distributions.
I like Steve Rose's great chart in which one can find one's household in
the context
side is seeing England as prospering because it
was virtuous or genetically superior or culturally gifted in any way.
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on this misreading of Blaut et al.
it this is a misreading, that is, if both schools include both external
and internal forces as important parts of their explanation, then there's
no disagreement at all! So there's no point in further discussion.
That's my last word in this silly discussion.
Jim
), though it really was a solidarity tour. That was before
Mariel, after which tours became much more difficult.
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of capitalism in England?
that would be scrapie-ing the bottom of the barrel.
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can tell you. The iron has entered our soul. Even Tony Blair has to vaseline
his gums to keep smiling.
I'm still worrying about Thomas More's line about sheep eating men and
what Freud would say...
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people, what other speakers said,
etc., etc., were ruled out ahead of time from being newsworthy. Of course,
it there had been violence, it would have been reported.
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At 11:19 AM 05/30/2001 +0300, you wrote:
Jim Devine writes:
As Baran Sweezy quote Hegel to say, the truth is the whole.
=
According to Paul Diesing, this should actually read the true is the
whole.
Michael K.
does it truly matter?
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At 12:46 PM 5/30/01 -0400, you wrote:
Keaney Michael wrote:
Jim Devine writes:
As Baran Sweezy quote Hegel to say, the truth is the whole.
=
According to Paul Diesing, this should actually read the true is the
whole.
And of course Adorno said the whole is the false.
I thought he said
about Alan Greenspan?
http://www.newyorkmag.com/page.cfm?page_id=4528position=1
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studies the world rather than
simply concocting theories about it.
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Jim Devine:
I'm not the one who invented the term [semi-proletarian]. So you'll have
to explain why it
makes no sense. To me, it expresses the fact that the pure cases of theory
(proletarian, non-proletarian) often don't exist in pure form in empirical
and historical reality. We often see
on.
more specifically addressing Yoshie's previous point, the rise of tourism
and foreign investment in Cuba has encouraged the rise of the dollarized
sector, which has encouraged a rise in economic inequality within Cuba.
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Jim Devine:
To say that each case must be examined only in its own terms (is this what
you're really saying?) is totally anti-theoretic, leaning heavily toward
stereotypes of post-modernism, full of sound and rhetorical fury but
signifying nothing.
Louis Proyect:
No, rather I am saying
At 10:59 AM 5/29/01 -1000, you wrote:
The way you argue I get the sense that Devine is a
bigger enemy of the people than Reagan...and about as dumb a one also...
hey, I'm worse than that. I'm the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, all
wrapped into one.
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, not as a
simple peasant revolution. Perhaps I should repeat myself more often, until
it's clear what I'm saying. ;-)
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tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people talk.)
-- K. Marx, paraphrasing Dante A.
At 04:29 PM 05/25/2001 -0400, you wrote:
Jim Devine:
with regard to the case of contemporary Africa: in the world system,
merchant capital has become subordinated to industrial capital (part of a
unified system), so one might say that Africa is dominated by industrial
capital even if it isn't
and state levels. That's not a perfect plan,
but it has the advantage of both improvement and continued
transparency.
but that kind of plan always has loopholes, too.
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with the candidates-for-sale system is so
high that it might actually happen. (This disgust isn't widespread as much
as deep: the donors are disgusted with the large amounts of money being
spent, with money given to candidate X cancelling out that given to Y.)
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Michael wrote:
everybody could claim to have
donated millions of $.
which devalues the actual giving of money in terms of buying influence.
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that the Big
Wigs see as a compromise relative to what the popular mobilization threatens.
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Max writes: Doh!
please don't remind pen-l of the similarities between yourself and Homer
Simpson, Max.
and though I'm related to Father Divine, he was not close. He was the black
sheep of our family...
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There are few Einsteins
Jim Devine:
Volume III doesn't ignore the role of labor. One of Marx's clearest
statements of historical materialism appears here: the specific... form in
which unpaid surplus-labor is pumped out of the direct producers reveals
the innermost secret, the hidden basis of the entire social
power: If you set aside Three
Mile Island and Chernobyl, the safety record of nuclear is
really very good.
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Institute's Tom Palmer predicts with confidence that politicians will
find more ways around this restriction than two professors can think of.
http://slate.msn.com/Economics/01-05-24/Economics.asp
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.
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skills programme pronto.
Now, what about the dietary habits of Javanese catholics in the seventeenth
century? Anyone?
Michael K.
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not a neoliberal at all.
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in a long time. In every
post is totally inaccurate.
The only reason I brought up Berkeley is because I hoped that it would
encourage Brad to provide a deeper answer than he usually provides (as with
his falling dollar means rising US net exports).
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?). A little of this can be seen
in Argentina, where the iron link between the dollar and their currency may
be diluted by linking their currency (the name escapes me...) to not only
the dollar but the Euro.
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if they make
obvious points about the regressivity of Bush's tax cuts). So the speech is
hardly free.
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of the opposition Conservatives, who, when asked what he would have
done in the same circumstance, replied: It is not my policy to hit voters
during an election.
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to avoid blackouts at any cost. In the face of
this declaration of inelastic demand, the power companies are more than
willing to charge any cost...
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more sense, though of course we have to remember that
there's more to nutrition than just energy.
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something has been done many times doesn't mean
that we should do it. Just because many economists often assume that
markets are perfectly competitive doesn't mean that we should do it. As my
Mom used to say, if everyone else is jumping off a cliff, does that mean
you should do it?
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of Brad's presence on pen-l, but at least it would make
my participation marginally more pleasant and useful.
The problem with this proposal, of course, is that Brad can't read it!
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why don't you be quiet until you do?
this is flame-bait. Michael K. did provide an argument, but Brad simply
ignored it. Michael, please warn Brad to stop this behavior.
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quality. Carter adds that no influential person ever spoke
of solving energy shortages exclusively by conservation.
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Cubans
and Christian fundamentalists who wouldn't vote for him if he ran as a
Republican, but he didn't bother to make an appeal to people who would
describe themselves as liberal. Gore can run again, and I won't vote for
him again.
Joel Mielke, San Diego
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. agriculture in Europe.
Are you now saying that it can't be done?
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, proletarianization) were the most crucial part of the mix.
With that, the pieces can fall into place.
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efficiency between countries producing
dissimilar goods (as when Fogel compares the efficiency of wheat production
to that of cotton production) or you can't.
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At 09:44 AM 5/17/01 -0700, you wrote:
Jim Devine writes:
At 07:59 AM 05/17/2001 -0700, you wrote:
I object strongly, however, to repeated smart-ass intrusions by an
allegedly
brilliant economist who deigns to spend time with the progressively
inclined...
Michael K.
As I said, if you had
At 10:27 AM 5/17/01 -0700, you wrote:
Max's idea is wonderful. We can get Jessie Ventura to moderate.
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was going to say, but I hit send by mistake before I
got to it. (sorry!) I must have channeled Doug -- or vice-versa.
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participated in its filming.
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the dominant mode of
production.)
We've gone through this before. Perhaps Michael will tell us not to
continue the current thread.
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tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people talk.)
-- K. Marx
by
cooperatives or whatever.) Bob agreed with me that it didn't fit with his
vision of capitalism even though she cites him a lot.
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. Suddenly some of their
assets would lose value.
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occupations besides farming.
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programming [ie. strategic emulation] - and it's not as if the three are
particularly incompatible with each other, either - I swallow 'em all,
myself).
Cheers,
Rob.
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reason. It should be monopoly vs. competitive press. Of course the
powers that be want to prevent competition from workers and the rest of the
potential grass-roots civil society, while monopolizing information to
preserve the state/corporate bloc in power.
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perception? inquiring minds want to know...
(and does Brad really snort? Maybe UC Berkeley profs can afford it, but we
at Torquemada University can't.)
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(e.g., China).
why criticize Brad's ex-roomie? because he seems to be a corrupt person.
I wouldn't link this character to Marx (the editor who is obscurely
referred to here). Marx seemed much more principled, moral, honest, and
intelligent.
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empiricism.
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) but the productivity of the cutting-edge countries that
were using that edge to cut the throats of other civilizations, including
China's. Further, productivity in individual countries is much more
accurately measured than these kinds of global averages for entire
continents.
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than other ethnicities, though.
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per
hectare (or hour), we _can_ compare rates of growth.
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of territory after 1500, and so can't
receive the lion's share of such benefits.
Further, the benefits of silver are typically fleeting, since increases in
supply typically encourage inflation (devaluation of silver money).
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are these days, but it suggests that the Cubans should spend an equal
amount subverting the US government.
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There are few Einsteins today. Maybe they all flunk the Graduate Record
Exam or get poor grades. -- Temple Grandin
could blow up a U.S. ship in
Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba, and, casualty lists in U.S.
newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation.
hey, didn't the US do that before? Remember the Maine!
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At 01:48 PM 5/15/01 -0700, you wrote:
There used to be a lot of literature about using nukes for desalization.
Maybe would could make an artificial salt bed to store the wastes.
why not in Texas, near Bush's alternative White House (in Crawford?)
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.
Some Marxists have gone to Wall Street (e.g., as a result of being driven
out of the labor unions by McCarthyism). Some, I've heard, claimed that
Marxist insights could help them succeed there. I doubt it.
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.)
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will do.
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Disequilibrium, in Baldassarri M. et. al
Global Disequilibrium in the World Economy, Basingstoke: Macmillan.
Lawson, T., (1997) Economics and Reality, London: Routledge.
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spokesman, Scott Stanzel, has called Dorr well-qualified for
the USDA post.
as does this: if the White House likes him, he's probably pretty bad.
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staffer) who
approves of the meetings: He's made every effort to make everyone and
everything feel comfortable.
in related news, it reported that President Dumbya was found sacrificing a
goat to an idol of a Golden Calf.
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largely destroyed, so that
more and more jobs are secondary, leaving a shrinking group of
primary-sector workers.
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concepts will improve our conflict resolution
skills or
I am NOT -- repeat, NOT -- in favor of eliminating moral concepts. Please
stop this nonsense!
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a highly-skilled work-force and much to fall back on.
BTW, aren't a lot of the diamond profits sent abroad? Wouldn't these be
reported as a plus in GDP even though they are income somewhere else?
wouldn't that help explain the low investment rate relative to the saving rate?
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, Napoleonic,
and Moslem legal traditions spring to mind, though I'm no lawyer. Hey, I
should stop bragging...)
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the above.
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abstractions that have no
obvious link to the empirical world.
But this letter from Engels is not the one that discusses relative autonomy.
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wages (and thus ultimately, consumer demand) down
and the way in which capitalist investment can stop on a dime causing the
economy to stall.
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tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people talk.)
-- K
to emulate oil
millionaires around the world.
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that there are multiple points of view (a debate) and that
there always will be (until the state goes away). However, that doesn't
mean that we shouldn't try to synthesize the various theories in order to
transcend the differences...
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(about bowels), steadily quantitative (about ulcers), a detectives
guide to gut science.
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. Should I post it to pen-l?
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There are few Einsteins today. Maybe they all flunk the Graduate Record
Exam or get poor grades. -- Temple Grandin, _Thinking in Pictures and
Other Reports From My Life with Autism_.
base for the system, so that resistance to its abolition was sapped.
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, barring any institutional changes, we predict
a small equity premium in the future.
p. 33 of Is the Stock Market Overvalued? Federal Reserve Bank of
Minneapolis QUARTERLY REVIEW Fall 2000.
Buy!
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sweeping aside any accusations of hypocrisy.
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a right). Double
standards never came up.
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University, Was Vice
Chairman of the Federal Reserve From 1994-96. he Is the Senior Advisor to
Saber Partners, Which Is Advising Gov. Gray Davis on Energy Policy
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, etc.), while those in rich countries
often receive the goods they need from the welfare state for free. As the
neoliberal bug spreads, these disappear of course, but that problem is
ignored by a total reference to money incomes.
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this practice?
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, no?
I wasn't advocating amorality. You misread what I wrote.
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in another.
similarly, ideology is relatively autonomous. The ideology of social
democracy helped European capitalism in the 1960s but is now seen as
dangerously outmoded.
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as the Forces of Darkness.
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by the
amount of money and influence of its backers. The actual result is the
resultant of all those vectors.
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Today I discovered that the Jesuit saint that my college is named after,
Robert Bellarmine, was the man who axed Galileo for heresy...
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FYI: here's a letter I sent to the L.A. TIMES. As usual with such efforts,
I toned down the politics in order to get it published.
Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 13:58:57 -0700
To: Editors, Los Angeles TIMES [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Bush's proposed tax cuts
the importance of how the
surplus-product was utilized.
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to be written from a _laissez-faire_ perspective. Is
that one you trust?
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does anyone know if Texas is one of those states that must balance its
government's budget?
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in the unoccupied zone are wondering and arguing
about who will replace him. Could it be Heydrich? Goebbels? Himmler? they
get into a lesser-of-two evils argument, about how Goebbels would be better...
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it. In short, the wheels are stuck
in the mud, and no one is getting out to p
Keynesian tax cuts -- including Dumbya's -- affect consumer spending much
more than (real) investment. That in turn could create the markets that
businesses require if they want to invest in new plant and equipment.
Jim
state.
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competing top-40 AM rock stations.
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a
bigger role. This is more of an empirical generalization than a theory, but
it seems to be true.
Maybe others on pen-l could help...
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