Fw: Iowa sociologist fired for labor/abortion comments

2004-05-19 Thread Matías Scaglione
-Original Message-From: Steven Colatrella [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 1:34 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Iowa sociologist fired for labor/abortion comments Dear Prof. Rosen

Re: The Teixeira thesis

2004-03-05 Thread Matías Scaglione
D. Henwood wrote: I'm not saying that worker = working class. A worker is someone who works; a member of the working class is someone with little or no property who must earn a paycheck to stay alive. Doug So a person who works and does not sell her or his labor-power in the labor market is

Re: Marx abstraction [was Query: critique of production functions -clarification-]

2003-11-06 Thread Matías Scaglione
Dear James: --- Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: I agree: Marx was deliberately abstracting in a way that (he thought) reflected the actual process under capitalism. In my very short précis, I was only summarizing one part of his approach and its actual application. I was in no way

Marx abstraction [was Query: critique of production functions -clarification-]

2003-11-04 Thread Matías Scaglione
Dear James: On Marx's use of abstraction in Capital I you wrote: In order to understand capitalist production in volume I, he deliberately and clearly abstracts from the differences among heterogeneous use-values, types of labor-power, and means of production. He uses the acid of

Marx abstraction II [Was: Query: critique of production functions -clarification-]

2003-11-04 Thread Matías Scaglione
Dear Julio: The line of my argument is very similar to the comment I sent to James Devine. You wrote: As Jim Devine wrote, Marx's description of the process of production in Capital (vol. I, part III) is akin to this idea. After all, the material substratum of the capitalist value equation,

Query: critique of production functions

2003-11-03 Thread Matías Scaglione
of the productivity of capital, the notion of factors of production, etc. I wonder if there exists some work(s) that systematically destroys the concept. Thank you very much for your help, Matías Scaglione Internet GRATIS es Yahoo! Conexión 4004-1010 desde Buenos Aires. Usuario

Query: critique of production functions -clarification-

2003-11-03 Thread Matías Scaglione
Thanks to Michael, Juriaan and Ahmet for the reference to Shaikh's work. I should have warned you that I knew this paper, and that the very few critiques of productions functions I have found led to this paper. As I mentioned in my first mail, I am now not looking for immanent critiques of

Alberts Participatory Economics and the problem of allocation

2003-10-28 Thread Matías Scaglione
I wrote a little comment on Michael Albert's Parecon as a reading interrogation for a class. We, the students, had a teleconference with Albert, in which the problem of allocation appeared as the critical issue of his propposal. Here are my brief comments: --

Re: Alberts Participatory Economics and the problem of allocation

2003-10-28 Thread Matías Scaglione
Michael? Thanks, Troy Matías Scaglione [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wrote a little comment on Michael Albert's Parecon as a reading interrogation for a class. We, the students, had a teleconference with Albert, in which the problem of allocation appeared as the critical issue of his

Re: interesting quote

2003-06-24 Thread Matías Scaglione
Could you please give us the source of the quote? Matías Scaglione [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Paul Samuelson sneers at the sterile verbalizations by which economists have tended to describe fertility decisions in terms of the jargon of indifference