[PEN-L] Heterodox Economics

2005-01-20 Thread Chris Burford
Does anyone know any of the organisations in this Association? and have a recommendation? http://hetecon.com/ Chris Burford London

Re: [PEN-L] Heterodox Economics

2005-01-20 Thread g kohler
Q: “Does anyone know any of the organisations in this Association? and have a recommendation? http://hetecon.com/” A: The European Memorandum Group is fighting for leftist economic policies (post-Keynesian style) in Europe, includes leftist economists from France, Germany, others. Critical of the

[PEN-L] Iraqi human rights victim turns out to be pathological liar

2005-01-20 Thread Louis Proyect
Threads Unravel in Iraqi's Tale Story of Husband's Execution Contradicted by Relatives Who Say He Is Alive By Peter Finn Washington Post Foreign Service Thursday, January 20, 2005; Page A18 An Iraqi woman who was granted refugee status in the United States after telling The Washington Post and

Re: [PEN-L] Heterodox Economics

2005-01-20 Thread Lee, Frederic
Dear Chris, I assume that you are referring to the Association for heterodox Economics. It was formed in 1999--its history can be found under the Annual Conference and then click on about the AHE. The AHE is its own organization so to speak--it does not consist of any other organizations. Of

[PEN-L] power

2005-01-20 Thread Charles Brown
I'll take Cohen over KM on 20th century property rights and the legal construction of the public/private binary any day of the week. Btw, at one time Cohen *was* a Marxist... Ian ^^ CB: You can have him. Was a Marxist ? Sounds like he was going out of the world backwards.

[PEN-L] Lawrence Summers: mea culpa

2005-01-20 Thread Louis Proyect
http://www.president.harvard.edu/speeches/2005/women_and_science.pdf -- www.marxmail.org

[PEN-L] Inauguration day hysteria

2005-01-20 Thread Louis Proyect
Boston Hearld, Thursday, January 20, 2005 Find them! Feds hunt 'terror team' as pols appeal for calm By Tom Farmer and Michele McPhee Authorities are scouring Boston for four Chinese nationals and two Iraqi men who may pose a nuclear threat to the city based on a report from an unidentified man

[PEN-L] Juan Cole feedback

2005-01-20 Thread Louis Proyect
Hi, Louis. Thanks for your comments. Academic analysis is about ambiguity, unlike politics. cheers Juan http://www.juancole.com -- www.marxmail.org

[PEN-L] Chavez nationalises Venepal under workers' control

2005-01-20 Thread Charles Brown
http://www.marxist.com/Latinam/venepal_nationalised.htm Chavez nationalises Venepal under workers' control We want to liberate ourselves from capitalism By Jorge Martin Chavez talks to Venepal worker after signing the decree. On the morning of January 19th, in the Ayacucho room of the

[PEN-L] all quiet on the Leftern front

2005-01-20 Thread Devine, James
Pen-l is quiet, too quiet, today. What you folks doin', watching the coronation on TV? Jim Devine, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine/

[PEN-L] Revenge of Socialist Realism

2005-01-20 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Revenge of Socialist Realism: http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/01/revenge-of-socialist-realism.html -- Yoshie * Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/ * Proud of Britain: http://www.proudofbritain.net/ and http://www.proud-of-britain.org.uk/

Re: [PEN-L] Socially created categories

2005-01-20 Thread Jonathan Nitzan
Exchange with Charles Brown: ^ Castoriadis, Marx and Aristotle ^ CB: ... Well then , do tell, what _is_ Castoriadis's critique of Marx ? ... ... the concepts nomos and physis derived exactly from a slaveowning society are not the

Re: [PEN-L] all quiet on the Leftern front

2005-01-20 Thread Carrol Cox
Devine, James wrote: Pen-l is quiet, too quiet, today. What you folks doin', watching the coronation on TV? We had a very quick but (for us and considering the weather) nicely attended and crisply executed Alternate Inauguration at the center of Bloomington: for An Alternate Bush -- i.e. a

Re: [PEN-L] all quiet on the Leftern front

2005-01-20 Thread Chris Burford
With the benefit of the Atlantic between us, what I picked up from the BBC is that the address is an unprecedented declaration of massive global intervention, with the only compromise that there might be a bit more subtlety in how this is coordinated with Europe. That is Blair's only

Re: [PEN-L] all quiet on the Leftern front

2005-01-20 Thread Michael Hoover
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/20/05 1:51 PM Pen-l is quiet, too quiet, today. What you folks doin', watching the coronation on TV? hail to the thief... -- Please Note: Due to Florida's very broad public records law, most written

Re: [PEN-L] power

2005-01-20 Thread Eubulides
-Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Brown CB: You can have him. Was a Marxist ? Sounds like he was going out of the world backwards. - Yawn.

[PEN-L] book review/To Provide for the General Welfare: A History of the Federal Spending Power

2005-01-20 Thread Michael Hoover
Theodore Sky, _To Provide for the General Welfare: A History of the Federal Spending Power_. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2003. 442 pp. $75 (cloth), ISBN: 0-87413-793-4. Reviewed for EH.NET by Michael R. Adamson, NASA Ames Research Center History Office. _To Provide for the

[PEN-L] tsunami and FEMA

2005-01-20 Thread Dan Scanlan
You may not believe this: http://www.fema.gov/kids/games/tsunami/

Re: [PEN-L] power [and the limits to power]

2005-01-20 Thread Jonathan Nitzan
^^^ Exchange with Tom Walker ^^^ TW: Conversely, I would ask how can we use an understanding of the changes in differential accumulation to explain why working people don't rise up in revolt against such evidently oligarchic and antisocial

Re: [PEN-L] Modern art and socialism - part 2

2005-01-20 Thread Waistline2
full: http://atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/FL17Dj01.html Global Economy MONEY, POWER and MODERN ARTPART 2: A monetary coup d'etatBy Henry C K Liu Throughout the history of the United States, up to the present time, this dispute, along with the controversy between specie money

Re: [PEN-L] power [and the limits to power]

2005-01-20 Thread tom walker
Jonathan Nitzan wrote: Differential accumulation works partly through mass persuasion and the use of force. If that's the best it can do, it's an elephant labouring to give birth to a mouse. We could ask, then, what's persuasion?; what's force? but let's not go there until we give value

Re: [PEN-L] power [and the limits to power]

2005-01-20 Thread Jonathan Nitzan
Exchange with Tom Walker: TW: So I can see where value theory or value may seem to be inoperative concepts. They no longer attach themselves to a formidable portion of the accumulation processValue is produced over here and over here and here and capital is accumulated over there and over