A cloud over civilisation
Corporate power is the driving force behind US foreign policy - and
the slaughter in Iraq
JK Galbraith
Thursday
July 15, 2004
The Guardian
At the end of the second world war, I was the director for overall
effects of the United States strategic bombing survey - Usbus
Squeezing workers
The latest economic numbers are hard to be optimistic about, especially
since the Bush administration's solutions are likely to further increase
corporate profits, not jobs and wages.
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By James K. Galbraith, salon.com
June 28, 2004 | Let me start
There is an interview that folks here may not have seen that may be
of some interest:
http://www.iveybusinessjournal.com/view_article.asp?intArticle_ID=436
--- the still engaging Galbraith interviewed by the Ivey Business
Journal in June/July of this year.
Bill
Galbraith is a treasure. He was also protective of the left during the
60s.
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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Galbraith is a treasure. He was also protective of the left during the
60s.
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Michael Perelman
Note: The test that is failed is the test of mutuality or a rule that gives
both sides an equal right to use the rule as justification.
From:
http://www.ecaar.org/Newsletter/Oct02/Galbraith.htm
cheers, Ken Hanly
The doctrine of pre-emptive self-defense, which is the right of one country
to
http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/21/galbraith-j.html
The Unbearable Costs of Empire
Bush's war could help the economy in the short run. The big harm comes
later.
By James K. Galbraith
http://www.levy.org/docs/pn/02-2.html
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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For a complementary take:
http://www.brazil.ox.ac.uk/workingpapers/dePaula28.pdf
Expansion Strategies of European Banks to Brazil and their Impacts on the
Brazilian Banking Sector
The paper aims at
country in the world
is moving that way. It is a recipe for uncompetitiveness. And with the
competitive challenge we face, we can`t afford errors.
One man who takes issue with the Treasurer is James
Galbraith, the son of John Kenneth Galbraith, one of the 20th century`s most
Free marketeers putting on a poor show
By JAMES K. GALBRAITH *THE AGE*
Friday 27 July 2001
Adam Smith, the patron saint of free markets, had a
clear-eyed analysis of inequality. Servants, laborers and workmen of
different kinds, he wrote, make up the far greater part
G'day all,
Yesterday, Australian Treasurer and Prime Minister-in-Waiting Peter Costello
gave a long and (inevitably) simplistic speech on the virtues and
inevitabilities of globalisation (I won't repeat it - you can pretty well
imagine it verbatim). Tonight Jamie Galbraith graced SBS TV's
G'day also,
Thanks to Rob for the summary of J. Galbraith' propositions.
There are some parts that I sincerely do not understand very well (e.g. what
Rob or James mean with Keynesian managed globalization -did such a thing
ever existed?). Anyway, I do not feel obliged to 'interpret
Thanks for the reply, Alex.
Keynesian managed globalization -did such a thing ever existed?).
Well, Jamie called the quarter century after the War 'managed globalisation'
(or something very like it). I thought it an interesting characterisation,
too, but then, Keynes did talk to the Americans
Nobody intended for the tax cut to have a Keynesian
effect, even w/no spending cuts. If you're a
keynesian, it's too small ($40b this year) and
maldistributed. If you're not, its size is
irrelevant.
mbs
In any event, J. Galbraith is, IMO, right in stating that if behind a tax
cut there comes
Alex Izurieta wrote,
Less unlikely, but not highly probable either, would be a sort of
worldwide coordinated reflation.
But _given the alternatives_ doesn't the normal improbability of such a
response take on at least a more intense hue of possibility? The
institutional skeleton is there,
What about glomming onto Bob Greenstein CBBP, projections with that
program #er crunchin' gizmo he has?
Michael Pugliese
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?
What about glomming onto Bob Greenstein CBBP, projections with that
program #er crunchin' gizmo he has?
Michael Pugliese
[Isn't corporate democracy a contradiction in terms and didn't the Italians
have a name for what's happening?]
full article at http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0107-01.htm
Published on Sunday, January 7, 2001 in the Boston Globe
Our New Corporate Republic
by James K. Galbraith
Michael Perelman said on 10/29/00 7:28 P
Martin, exactly. They line up for the few good jobs. The majority will not
succeed and will become unemployed.
I'm sorry if I interrupted a point you were trying to turn into a thread.
I read that they would join the queues of the unemployed and not
Conceiao, Pedro, Pedro Ferreira, and James K. Galbraith. 1999.
"Inequality and Unemployment in Europe: The American Cure." LBJ School
of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, UTIP Working Paper
Number 11
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/delivery.taf?8336_Use
Michael Perelman said on 10/29/00 6:43 P
Regions with low average incomes are marked by the presence of large
numbers of relatively impoverished people in low productivity
occupations, and thus relatively high inequality across occupations,
industries, and sectors. Many such people seek any
Martin, exactly. They line up for the few good jobs. The majority will not
succeed and will become unemployed.
martin schiller wrote:
Michael Perelman said on 10/29/00 6:43 P
Regions with low average incomes are marked by the presence of large
numbers of relatively impoverished people in
Michael Perelman said on 10/29/00 7:28 P
Martin, exactly. They line up for the few good jobs. The majority will not
succeed and will become unemployed.
Speechless.
But now I got a question about university and affirmative action. I just
saw a 60min segment about a lawsuit in U of Mich by
James K. Galbraith, author of CREATED UNEQUAL, will be speaking at the
University of Missouri - Kansas City tomorrow, Oct. 6, at 11am, on "The
Evolution of Inequality in the Age of Globalization." Anyone in the area who
wants to attend is welcome, and if you contact me offlist we m
This short book review also touches on our discussion of the Pareto
distribution. It is readable, nontheless, for non-economists.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/books/2000/0009.galbraith.html
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel.
ts exhibit "fat tails" (leptokurtosis), whatever one
attributes them to.
Barkley Rosser
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, August 23, 2000 4:43 PM
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At 03:56 PM 8/23/00 -0400, you wrote:
Actually, I recently read something by Scholes where
he admitted the importance of the normal distribution
assumption and admitted that it does not hold
At 03:56 PM 8/23/00 -0400, you wrote:
Actually, I recently read something by Scholes where
he admitted the importance of the normal distribution
assumption and admitted that it does not hold.
was this before or after the Long-Term Capital Managment debacle?
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
's article -- and to that which Tom Palley presented at the
URPE session I chaired.
At 02:55 PM 2/21/00 -0500, you wrote:
Article URL: http://www.prospect.org/archives/V11-7/galbraith-j.html
HOW THE ECONOMISTS GOT IT WRONG
Written by: James K. Galbraith
The America
Sid Shniad wrote:
THE VANCOUVER SUN TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 1999
GALBRAITH WARNS OF U.S. BUBBLE
Legendary economist cites 'another exercise in speculative optimism.'
Ashley Seager, Reuters
LONDON Legendary "people's economist" Jo
Rod Hay wrote:
Galbraith came from a agricultural setting but hardly from the backwoods. He
grew up in a rich agricultural area in south western Ontario, about 30
minutes drive from Detroit.
Please forgive my poor knowledge of Canadian geography, and the implication
of my evocative
"Michael Keaney" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/11/99 06:24AM
Charles Brown wrote:
Charles: I don't know if you meant this, but Marxism does not pose an
uncrossable demarcation between intellectuals and the masses. Engels, Marx,
Lenin and Mao were all intellectuals connecting with the masses .
I
Charles Brown wrote:
Charles: I don't know if you meant this, but Marxism does not pose an
uncrossable demarcation between intellectuals and the masses. Engels, Marx,
Lenin and Mao were all intellectuals connecting with the masses .
I didn't mean this at all. I am concerned, however, with a
Years ago, Bob Fitch wrote an essay titled "A Galbraith Reappraisal: the
Ideologue as Gadfly" in E.K. Hunt and Jesse Schwartz, A CRITIQUE OF
ECONOMIC THEORY, Penguin, 1972. It's been many years since I read it, but
if I remember correctly, it says tht Galbraith says a lot of
radica
tuals
who are Marxiod thinkers generally have some "spectacle" in the Marxoid left. Today,
he plays almost no public role in politics even outside the left, in the center,
whatever. He was in the Kennedy administration, I believe. That was a pretty liberal
(non-Marxist) admin. ,
Howdy y'all
Jim Devine wrote:
Years ago, Bob Fitch wrote an essay titled "A Galbraith Reappraisal: the
Ideologue as Gadfly" in E.K. Hunt and Jesse Schwartz, A CRITIQUE OF
ECONOMIC THEORY, Penguin, 1972. It's been many years since I read it, but
if I remember correctly, it says tht
Galbraith came from a agricultural setting but hardly from the backwoods. He
grew up in a rich agricultural area in south western Ontario, about 30
minutes drive from Detroit.
Michael Keaney wrote:
Galbraith also knew poverty in an agricultural setting, coming as he did
from the backwoods
hat masses? What was Mao if not an intellectual? And so what if
his image is somehow improved by his plowing the fields. Galbraith also knew
poverty in an agricultural setting, coming as he did from the backwoods of
rural Canada. In a technologically developed society such as the one we have
now, and
Max Sawicky wrote:
Excerpt from:
http://www.progressive.org/conniff9903.htm
Here, before he was quickly cut off by Chairman Archer, Kemp let
the cat out of the bag: If we continue having even modest
economic growth, there is no reason to believe the Social
Security system will reach a crisis.
Dear Pen-lers
Seminar on Created Unequal with James K. Galbraith
Jamie Galbraith online in a pkt (post Keynesian thought) Seminar
October 26 to November 2, 1998.
Welcome is the latest of a series of on-line seminars conducted under
pkt-seminars. Our current seminar features James Galbraith
Though Galbraith does not advance your straw man--
that ownership is totally irrelevant--he does discuss
the formation of power based upon bureaucratic
functions.
There is a wonderful discussion of Drucker, Galbraith, Berle and the
managerial thesis generally in Scott R Bowman, The Modern
What is one to make of Keynes's introduction to the German edition of
THE GENERAL THEORY dated 7 September, 1936? "This is one of the reasons which
justify calling my theory a GENERAL theory. Since it is based on less
narrow assumptions than the orthodox theory, it is also more easily
adapted to
From James K. Galbraith
SUBJECT: KEYNES AND EINSTEIN: TWO GENERAL THEORIES
Note to Readers of PKT and other interested parties: This article
is forthcoming in the Winter 1994 issue of THE AMERICAN PROSPECT.
It is Copyright 1994, by The American Prospect. It is transmitted
over
From James K. Galbraith
SUBJECT: KEYNES AND EINSTEIN: TWO GENERAL THEORIES
Note to Readers of PKT and other interested parties: This article
is forthcoming in the Winter 1994 issue of THE AMERICAN PROSPECT.
It is Copyright 1994, by The American Prospect. It is transmitted
over
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