FROM: MAYHEW
" ANNE
" SMC
The University of Tennessee (big, Carnegie I university) is searching for a
Director for the Energy, Environment and REsources Center. This is a unit for
multidisciplinary policy research in the areas of energy, waste management and
the environment. Faculty
Jim's reply to my comment that there were times when Marx saw use-value as
quantitative was (IMHO) correct to describe Marx as having two ways of
referring to use-value: as a thing "a by bicycle is a use-value" and
a set of objective (not subjective) qualities. He contrasted this to the
Dear Jim,
A lot of debates on pen-l are foundered on misunderstandingd ogf previous
postings. So thanks for your 2 point su mmary of the areas of agreement
disagreement re use-value and money--they are entirely accurate.
The Canadian government has struck a commission to look into the prospects
of a 4 day work week. The comission will be headed by Arthur Donner, an
economist here in Toronto who is a consultant and teaches part time in my
department. It already knows that a workshare approach is frought with lots
Beyond the fact that tuitions have risen over the past decade or two, there
is another more fundamental shift underway and that is the public policy
shift, and to use Chomsky's phrase" the "selling of the privatization of
higher education". Here privatization means both growth of the private
FROM: MAYHEW
" ANNE
" SMC
The University of Tennessee (big, Carnegie I university) is searching for a
Director for the Energy, Environment and REsources Center. This is a unit for
multidisciplinary policy research in the areas of energy, waste management and
the environment. Faculty
On Fri, 4 Mar 1994, Jim Devine wrote:
(1) does money-lending lead to the creation of surplus-value or is that
simply an illusion arising from the fetishism of commodities?
Here, I believe, Steve Keen and I agree: it is the latter. Gil Skillman
disagrees with us.
Depends on what's done
