[PEN-L:3730] Positivism

The following list of "strict" positivist doctrines comes from Giedymin, Jerzy. 1975. Antipositivism in contemporary philosophy of social science and humanities. _British Journal of the Philosophy of Science_ 26: 275-301. 1. Identification of knowledge with science and mathematics. 2.

[PEN-L:3731] Re: Black unemployment rate

To: Gene Coyle From: Marc Breslow, Dollars and Sense. I do believe it, because historically black unemployment and wages improve more than white in upswings, and fall more during downswings -- due to being at the end of hiring queues. See my article in the Jan/Feb 95 issue of Dollars and Sense,

[PEN-L:3734] Re: Positivism

On Fri, 13 Jan 1995, Marshall Feldman wrote: The following list of "strict" positivist doctrines comes from Giedymin, Jerzy. 1975. Antipositivism in contemporary philosophy of social science and humanities. _British Journal of the Philosophy of Science_ 26: 275-301. 1. Identification of

[PEN-L:3735] Re: Middle Class

This discussion of the economic boundaries between classes fails to grasp that class alignment is essentially determined by the way economic interests interact with political struggles. If we base ourselves on what has actually happened in advanced capitalist countries, there is little evidence

[PEN-L:3737] Support for National Student Strike (fwd)

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[PEN-L:3741] Method

I'm totally blown away by Justin's long critique of what I said about positivism and will have to digest it more. But I want to make one comment with regard to the following: Justin says: "Also, we can cite Kuhn and Lakatos against Popper. There is a function for dogma on science." One of the

[PEN-L:3742] dean baker's e-mail address.

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[PEN-L:3744] Re: Black unemployment rate

I understand that minorities are at the end of the quee (how do you spell that?) And I emphatically agree that we should be running a high pressure economy to raise all boats or get to the end of the -- line. But here's why I expressed disbelief in the report that Black unemployment was suddenly

[PEN-L:3745] Re: rationality

Just a brief note about Marx's uses of "rationality." Whatever he meant by it, if he was talking about the individidual decision-making processes of capitalists, then hewas not putting a Hegelian spin on the term. For Hegel, rationality is something that emerges at a systematic level behind the