book announcement

2004-04-16 Thread michael
Mark Weisbrot, ex-penner, thought that this would be of interest to the list. WHOSE TRADE ORGANIZATION? The Comprehensive Guide to the WTO Lori Wallach and Patrick Woodall, Public Citizen Published by The New Press, Distributed by Norton A crucial guide - devastating and highly readable.

Socioeconomic Democracy Book Announcement-pen

2002-03-27 Thread GeorgeCSDS
progressive economists network Dear Friends: The purpose of this communication is to announce the existence of, and provide an introduction to, Socioeconomic Democracy. The following items are briefly discussed below: 1. Definition of Socioeconomic Democracy. 2. Description of the

book announcement

2001-06-09 Thread michael perelman
MICROECONOMICS Neoclassical and Institutionalist Perspectives on Economic Behavior Susan Himmelweit, Roberto Simonetti and Andrew Trigg o Do consumers really want what they buy? [GOOD QUESTION!, JL] o Does the stock market

Book announcement

2001-04-24 Thread Louis Proyect
Loren Goldner. VANGUARD OF RETROGRESSION. Post-Modern Fictions as Ideology in the Era of Ficticious Capital. New York, Queequeg Publications, 2001. ISBN 0-9700308-1-9. 131 p. $10. Marx/Third Millennium Series. Order with check or money order from Queequeg Publications, PO Box 672355, New York

Book Announcement: Taming Global Financial Flows

2000-10-04 Thread Kavaljit Singh
** Apologies for Cross Posting ** BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT TITLE: TAMING GLOBAL FINANCIAL FLOWSChallenges and Alternatives in the Era of Financial Globalization: A Citizen's Guide AUTHOR: Kavaljit Singh PUBLISHERS: - Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong - IBON Foundation Inc, Manila - Madhyam

Re: book announcement

2000-04-06 Thread Jim Devine
What was ending was the century of the "progressive" state bureaucrat, who had entered the international workers' movement in the German SPD and its 1875 Gotha Program, and who for 100 years seemed, in "socialist" and "communist" guise, to represent something "beyond capitalism". Events

book announcement

2000-04-05 Thread Michael Perelman
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 22:50:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Loren R Goldner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Edmond Caldwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Book Announcement Queequeg Publications (Cambridge MA USA) announces the first book in the Marx/Third Millennium Series: Loren Goldner. UBU SAVED FROM DROWNING

[PEN-L:7257] Corporate Predators: New Book Announcement

1999-05-26 Thread Robert Naiman
*** NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT *** CORPORATE PREDATORS: THE HUNT FOR MEGAPROFITS AND THE ATTACK ON DEMOCRACY by Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman Wealth disparity, megamergers and the resulting consolidation of corporate power

[PEN-L:4674] Book Announcement: Valuing New Issues

1999-03-31 Thread Jim Devine
Amsterdam, March 1999 Please note the following publication: Valuing New Issues Information Quality of Initial Public Offerings at the Amsterdam Stock Exchange by Tjalling van der Goot An initial public offering is a fruitful setting for analyzing firm value. This study compares two ways

[PEN-L:577] Re: book announcement

1998-08-06 Thread Patrick Bond
And another, if it doesn't insult comrades' anti-commercial sensibilities... (Oh, the day this debuted at the Harare book fair, on Monday this week, the Zim currency dropped 12% due to rampant speculation. Dialectically, what more could one want, a confirmation of financial parasatism, at

[PEN-L:582] Re: Re: book announcement

1998-08-06 Thread michael perelman
Patrick Bond wrote: And another, if it doesn't insult comrades' anti-commercial sensibilities... Congratulations Patrick. I would like to see more people let us know what sort of work we are doing. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel.

[PEN-L:463] book announcement

1998-08-03 Thread Martin Hart-Landsberg
I know Korea is not the current topic, but still lots of important struggles are going on there. So, I hope Penners do not mind me sharing the news of the recent publication of my new book on Korea. The title is Korea: Division, Reunification, U.S. Foreign Policy. It is published by Monthly

Book Announcement - Ross - Working-Class Hollywood (fwd)

1998-02-02 Thread michael
Maine-Augusta" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Book Announcement - Ross - Working-Class Hollywood BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT FROM PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS: Steven J. Ross WORKING-CLASS HOLLYWOOD: SILENT FILM AND THE SHAPING OF CLASS IN AMERICA Princeton: Princeton University Press,

Re: Book announcement

1997-11-17 Thread Jim Davis
In said book, Caffentzis ("Why machines cannot create value, or, Marx's theory of machines") notes that the significance of the Turing machine is that, with a few notable exceptions, any mental activity can in theory be ^^^ automated. Fascinating! But still

Re: Book announcement

1997-11-16 Thread Hsin-Hsing Chen
In said book, Caffentzis ("Why machines cannot create value, or, Marx's theory of machines") notes that the significance of the Turing machine is that, with a few notable exceptions, any mental activity can in theory be ^^^ automated. Fascinating! But still

Re: Book announcement

1997-11-14 Thread Jim Davis
In said book, Caffentzis ("Why machines cannot create value, or, Marx's theory of machines") notes that the significance of the Turing machine is that, with a few notable exceptions, any mental activity can in theory be automated. Whether the technology is yet available to automate a given task,

Re: Book announcement

1997-11-14 Thread Dennis R Redmond
On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Hsin-Hsing Chen wrote: ...But the idea of the FMS is NOT "laborless production system" in today's business-school textbook. Instead, it is even more "labor intensive," in terms of the importance of human intervention in the production process, than the comic-book version

Re: Book announcement

1997-11-14 Thread Hsin-Hsing Chen
++ A robot can build a car. But a robot cannot buy a car... The explosion in the development of computer- and robotic-based manufacturing is seeing the rapid expansion of laborless production systems. Robots can NOT (presently)

Re: Book announcement

1997-11-10 Thread Gerald Levy
++ A robot can build a car. But a robot cannot buy a car... The explosion in the development of computer- and robotic-based manufacturing is seeing the rapid expansion of laborless production systems. Robots can NOT (presently)

Book announcement

1997-11-07 Thread Jim Davis
++ Book Announcement CUTTING EDGE Technology, Information Capitalism and Social Revolution Edited by Jim Davis, Thomas A. Hirschl and Michael Stack Published by Verso, Fall, 1997 Available at bookstores