No matter how much I would like to keep out of this debate, I have to ask you a
simple Mike. How do you make the quantitative relation between abstract labor
and money? Other questions will follow, depending upon the answer!
Cheers, Ajit Sinh
Dear PEN,
A brief reply to Paul Phillips' request for sources on worker
participation and productivity. I never miss an opportunity to
advertise. The Spring 1992 issue of Science & Society carried
several articles devoted to models and conceptions of socialism.
David Schweickart's piece (he
I reviewed some of the evidence in my Spring 1993 JPKE paper "Is There
a Natural Rate?" As I read it, the standard belief that labor force
composition changes can account for much of the changes in the "natural"
rate during the past three decades is ill-founded. I also argue in this
paper that the
or was Ricardo a minor pre-Marxian?
in pen-l solidarity,
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In Message Fri, 8 Apr 1994 09:17:16 -0700,
Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>One of our job candidates during the interviewing season (Wei Li)
>argues that the reason why China has boomed while Russia has
>collapsed is the following: Russia (and other former parts of
>the USSR) decontroll
Just as a footnote to Mike Lebowitz's posting, what was new in Marx was his
attempt to treat the rather flat classical political economy concepts as
Hegelian -- in the sense that he was arguing that the classical political
economists had stumbled upon categories that expressed more about the econo
On Thu, 7 Apr 1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Let me repeat what I sent to a Canadian colleague about the offensive
> posting on this network. " Sorry if I am unrepenetant, but I am sick
> and tired about American Liberal "holier than thou"sim and -- "do as I do,
> not as I say". When you look
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 1994 21:56:39 -0700
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Subject: Imperialism
What is wron with Ameng with
America that they have to grovel to the level of sesual perversion to
get "truth". Given the level of morality of the Congress, the Senate
and the White House, it is hard to believe the
One of our job candidates during the interviewing season (Wei Li)
argues that the reason why China has boomed while Russia has
collapsed is the following: Russia (and other former parts of
the USSR) decontrolled all prices, leading to massive chaos, as
firms found themselves unable to afford input
Someone (Nathan?) praised the US first amendment recently over these
wires. But that amendment does not apply to a lot of important
situations: crucially, one's employer can restrict one's speech.
Labor unions have to live within very strict guidelines when
picketing. (Recently, the anti-aborti
At the annual meeting of the American Economic Association in
Boston in January, 1994, Lawrence Summers gave a retrospective look at
"Putting People First," Clinton's international economic policy, as
reproduced in CHALLENGE for March-April, 1994. Summers argues that it
would be a grave m
It's shocking, but this posting almost excited a twinge of patriotism in
me. We're not without *some* redeeming characteristics.
Doug
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On Thu, 7 Apr 1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Let me repeat wh
On April 5, Doug H. said:
>The CPI does try to make quality adjustments. Whether the BLS succeeds is
>a matter of controversy, but they do try. As an aside, I talk to a lot of
>the faceless bureaucrats at BLS, BEA, Census, and elsewhere who produce
>these figs, and I've always been impressed w
Finally! Classes for this term are over, and I can now
make a few comments in relation to Allin Cottrell's defence
of the LTV. Although I don't think Allin answered all of the
points I raised (18/3), he did object to my question, "how
is this [identical, homogeneous, universal, abstract] jell
Re the messages of Ellen Frank and Sam lanfranco on what drives an
economist. I remind of two pieces that have appeared earlier on pen-l;
the first is
Economics: The Politicized "Science"
(by Edward S. Herman, from Z Magazine, Feb. 1993, p43)
and I quote
Economics has
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