UK political realignment?

2001-10-19 Thread Michael Keaney
Tories axe right-wing group over race issue By Nigel Morris Political Correspondent The Independent, 19 October 2001 The hard-right Monday Club was suspended from the Conservative Party last night and told it would only be readmitted if it abandoned campaigning on immigration. David Davi

Strategy of tension

2001-10-19 Thread Michael Keaney
Hoaxers blamed for spate of alarms across Britain By Jason Bennetto Crime Correspondent The Independent, 19 October 2001 Suspected anthrax hoaxers who have posted packages containing harmless white powder are being investigated by anti-terrorist officers. Scotland Yard disclosed yesterda

Strategy of tension

2001-10-19 Thread Michael Keaney
Anthrax scares hit postal centers in New Zealand and Australia Associated Press The Independent, 17 October 2001 Fresh anthrax alerts hit postal centers in New Zealand and Australia , forcing their closure after workers found mail carrying unidentified white powder. Staff at the South Au

frontiers of free enterprise

2001-10-19 Thread Jim Devine
this morning I received an e-mail advertisement for a product which could allegedly record everything my spouse or children do with their PCs. I can check, I guess, to see if my wife is having an on-line affair, while she can see the large numbers of messages I send to pen-l (along with the mu

Re: frontiers of free enterprise

2001-10-19 Thread Rob Schaap
G'day Jim, > In the meantime, I can't read the newest stuff from pen-l. No problem, Jim. PEN-L has been a fortnight ahead of the mass media on the issue of the day, a decade ahead of the Nobel judges on economic critique, and, in seeking to give actual substance to the 200-year-old ideals that

Re: Re: frontiers of free enterprise

2001-10-19 Thread Jim Devine
At 12:41 AM 10/20/01 +, you wrote: >G'day Jim, > > > In the meantime, I can't read the newest stuff from pen-l. > >No problem, Jim. PEN-L has been a fortnight ahead of the mass media on the >issue of the day, a decade ahead of the Nobel judges on economic critique, >and, in seeking to give ac

Re: Re: Re: Re: Discussion of Empire, 26.10.01

2001-10-19 Thread Jim Devine
>Doug Henwood wrote: > > > > C 2) Negri's belief that class struggle influences the profit > > rate (Callinicos' position is the orthodox rising OCC one); ... Carrol writes: >Something screwed up here. Marx is fairly clear that a social element >enters into the value of labor power -- that is th

Former Green will run against Lee

2001-10-19 Thread Ken Hanly
What position has the Green Party taken on Bush's actions? Cheers, Ken Hanly Rep. Barbara Lee Faces Challenge By Karen Gaudette Associated Press Writer Thursday, Oct. 18, 2001; 7:06 a.m. EDT SAN FRANCISCO -- The political fallout has begun for the only member of Congress to oppose a resolution

Re: Former Green will run against Lee

2001-10-19 Thread Michael Perelman
Bock was a ray of hope when she was elected to the assembly, but then she began to take wierd positions -- favorable to tobacco because she was worried about funding -- and she alienated her base. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-

Re: Former Green will run against Lee

2001-10-19 Thread Michael Perelman
Nader has been making very good statements about the war. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Former Green will run against Lee

2001-10-19 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: "Ken Hanly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "pen-l" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 8:44 AM Subject: [PEN-L:18869] Former Green will run against Lee > What position has the Green Party taken on Bush's actions? > > Cheers, Ken Hanly = Gr

Watch out for America's own extremists

2001-10-19 Thread Charles Brown
Watch out for America's own extremists Byline: Gary Ackerman and Cheryl Loeb Date: 10/19/2001 (MONTEREY, CALIF.)As the United States puts in place stringent new security measures, the nation must also watch for a possible unintended consequence: Domestic extremist groups may be inflamed by t

Another one for Max's silverlining list

2001-10-19 Thread Charles Brown
Another one for Max's silverlining list Canada Overrides Patent for Cipro to Treat Anthrax October 19, 2001 By AMY HARMON and ROBERT PEAR NYT Canada, taking an unusual step that the United States has resisted, said yesterday that it had overridden Bayer's patent for Cipro, an antibiotic

capturing ObL

2001-10-19 Thread Michael Perelman
I wonder if capturing Eric Rudolph would be good practice when the U.S. in locating ObL? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: capturing ObL

2001-10-19 Thread Jim Devine
who is Eric Rudolph? At 11:47 AM 10/19/01 -0700, you wrote: >I wonder if capturing Eric Rudolph would be good practice when the U.S. in >locating ObL? >-- >Michael Perelman >Economics Department >California State University >Chico, CA 95929 > >Tel. 530-898-5321 >E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jim Devi

Re: Re: capturing ObL

2001-10-19 Thread Michael Perelman
He is wanted for the bombing at the Olympics, a gay bar and an abortion clinic. The FBI supposedly sent hundreds of agents looking for him, but can't locate him. On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 11:51:08AM -0700, Jim Devine wrote: > who is Eric Rudolph? > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department Calif

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Discussion of Empire, 26.10.01

2001-10-19 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >Doug Henwood wrote: > > > > > > C 2) Negri's belief that class struggle influences the profit > > > rate (Callinicos' position is the orthodox rising OCC one); ... > > Carrol writes: > >Something screwed up here. Marx is fairly clear that a social elem

the bombing of Khuron

2001-10-19 Thread Michael Perelman
The massacre of Khorum If you have Real Player, then go to http://www.channel4.com/news/home/20011014/4afg.ram for a video and audio report of the total destruction of the village of Khorum and the massacre of its population by US bombardment. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department Californi

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Discussion of Empire, 26.10.01

2001-10-19 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
oops out the door. meant it's hard to see why the rate of exploitation would decrease in secular terms over the course of accumulation, though it's easy to see why it may not tend to increase sufficiently. rb. ps this statement was a blunder; what I meant is above: For such reasons, it is d

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Discussion of Empire, 26.10.01

2001-10-19 Thread Jim Devine
I wrote: > > the key issue is whether or not the profit falls due to (1) wages rising > > relative to labor productivity (i.e., a fall in the rate of surplus-value > > due to a rise in the value of labor-power) or (2) a rise in the organic > > composition of capital [the OCC] (i.e., a fall in the

the bombing of Khorum

2001-10-19 Thread Charles Brown
the bombing of Khorum by Michael Perelman 19 October 2001 19:20 The massacre of Khorum If you have Real Player, then go to http://www.channel4.com/news/home/20011014/4afg.ram for a video and audio report of the total destruction of the village of Khorum and the massacre of its population by

Re: Women in the early industrial revolution

2001-10-19 Thread Michael Perelman
Carolyn Tuttle has a book about early child labor in hte industrial rev. On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 11:56:50AM -0400, Diane Monaco wrote: > Can anyone direct me to sources that reveal the deplorable working > conditions of women and children during the early part of the industrial > revolution (in

RE: Re: Women in the early industrial revolution

2001-10-19 Thread Forstater, Mathew
Maggie Coleman would be a good resource on this. She used to be on this list. She may still be on femecon. She also did some collaborative work with Susan Pashkoff and Christine Rider on related issues. Christine is at St. John's U. in NY, Susan is at DeMontfort U. in England. Mat -Original

more crisis theory.

2001-10-19 Thread Jim Devine
[was: Re: [PEN-L:18878] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Discussion of Empire, 26.10.01] Rakesh writes:. >oops out the door.< I know the feeling. > meant it's hard to see why the rate of exploitation would decrease in secular terms over the course of accumulation, though it's easy to see why it may not

Interesting article on excess TV watching and excess working hours

2001-10-19 Thread Peter Dorman
Worth a look for those interested in the above topics: "Work and Television" GIACOMO CORNEO Universitaet Osnabrueck CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute for Economic Research) Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) Institute for th

Re: the bombing of Khorum

2001-10-19 Thread Chris Burford
At 19/10/01 16:21 -0400, you wrote: > the bombing of Khorum >by Michael Perelman >19 October 2001 19:20 > >The massacre of Khorum > >If you have Real Player, then go to > >http://www.channel4.com/news/home/20011014/4afg.ram > >for a video and audio report of the total destruction of the village o

Scott Ritter: Don't blame Iraq

2001-10-19 Thread Chris Burford
Important witness on the possibility of Iraqi involvement on anthrax http://www.guardian.co.uk/anthrax/story/0,1520,576782,00.html Chris Burford London

EU 'back down' from overthrow of Taleban

2001-10-19 Thread Chris Burford
Under the influence of the smaller EU states - Times: >19:35 FRIDAY OCTOBER 19 2001 EU 'back down' from overthrow of Taleban EU >leaders tonight delivered their strongest backing yet for America's >military offensive against terrorism. > >A statement at the end of a Euro-summit in Ghent spo

Re: Re: Re: Re: Discussion of Empire, 26.10.01

2001-10-19 Thread Doug Henwood
Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> C 2) Negri's belief that class struggle influences the profit >> rate (Callinicos' position is the orthodox rising OCC one); 3) >> Negri's hostility to the idea of a Vanguard Party. > >Something screwed up here. Marx is fairly clear that a social el

Re: more crisis theory.

2001-10-19 Thread Carrol Cox
Jim Devine wrote: > > I don't know of anyone who thinks that the rate of exploitation > would decrease secularly. Any tendency for this to happen > would be counteracted with what's crudely called a "capital > strike." I believe there was an Italian group in the '60s-70s that thought wor

And now you know

2001-10-19 Thread Michael Perelman
Carnahan, Ira and Janet Novack. 2001. "But Some Academics Spend More." Forbes (17 September): p. 28. As part of an expected $178,000 in federal grants from the National Science Foundation, three college economists -- Princeton's Yacine Ait-Sahalia and Jonathan Parker and Harvard's Motohiro Yogo --

Re: And now you know

2001-10-19 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: "Michael Perelman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > p.s. Who is the most "left" economist ever to win a NSF grant??? > > -- > == John Roemer? Ian

"The future is in tatters"

2001-10-19 Thread Steve Diamond
Global: The End of the New Economy Stephen Roach (New York) Morgan Stanley It now seems as if history will judge the latter half of the 1990s to have been an aberration. It wasn't supposed to have been that way, of course. America's boom was widely presumed to have ushered in a period of unbridle

Re: "The future is in tatters"

2001-10-19 Thread Carl Remick
>From: Steve Diamond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Global: The End of the New Economy >Stephen Roach (New York) Morgan Stanley > >The New Economy had its champions from all walks of American life. It >wasn't >just the entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley, or the venture capitalists and >Wall Street underwrit

Re: "The future is in tatters"

2001-10-19 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: "Steve Diamond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Nasdaq bubble made it even easier. = Harpers magazine list states that the total of Nasdaq listed firms' profits '95-'00 was Zero... >But those days of > innocence are now over. The bubble popped and the wor

the political economy of buzzin'

2001-10-19 Thread Ian Murray
[Financial Times] The beautiful, the damned and the just plain stoned Out of the lab and into the counterculture: Simon Garfield describes the perennial hunger for drugs Ecstasy, the drug of choice for clubbers and the flared-trousered everywhere, began life in Mercks German laboratories in 191

Robert Fisk..........

2001-10-19 Thread Ian Murray
[the Independent] A defiant sermon in the town of the infidel killer Robert Fisk in Ghaziabad, North West Frontier Province 20 October 2001 Ghaziabad lay under a grey, smouldering sky. Its brick-stacks pumping a black smog over the equally angry Mosque. "Now Afghanistan is like a bloody river," a

Re: Discussion of Empire, 26.10.01

2001-10-19 Thread Greg Schofield
Doug and all, the discussion of Callinocos' criticism of "Empire" may well be true, but does not I think hit at the critical question itself. Insofar as the authors continue to give support to their pet form of struggle, Callinocos' criticisms are worth considering. But "Empire" attempts to do

An endless task?

2001-10-19 Thread Ken Hanly
But I thought that al Qaeda is in 60 countries. So it will be one country down, 59 to go? And what is to stop the organisation from re-developing after the military operation stops? Cheers, Ken Hanly WHITEMAN AIR FORCE BASE, Missouri (CNN) -- The U.S. military's role "will be over (in Afghanista

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Discussion of Empire, 26.10.01

2001-10-19 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
Jim, you can put "orthodox" or "fundamentalist" marxist in quotes if you wish, but the point is that grossmann and mattick did not refer to their theoretical efforts that way. i wish you would forgo using such appellations even in quotes. As I said, there are theoretical and empirical reasons