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The Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory
122 West 27 Street, 10 floor
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***WHAT IS THE THEATER OF THE OPPRESSED?
The Theater of the Oppressed, established in the early
1970s by B
Barkley Rosser has raised the 'la duree' cycle of Braudel
Given that various people have mentioned the
recent performance of East Asian economies, some of
which have been the only economies in the world to
generally perform BETTER since the presumed 1973
turning point of the global Kondratie
The Diamond Walnut workers - 500 mostly female minority workers - have been
on strike since September 1991 against Diamond Walnut growers in
Stockton, CAl. The dispute concerns wages and health care contributions.
They were permanently replaced. There have been 2 decertification
elections th
Given that various people have mentioned the
recent performance of East Asian economies, some of
which have been the only economies in the world to
generally perform BETTER since the presumed 1973
turning point of the global Kondratiev long wave
(except for a few oil exporters during the 1970
It's a teensy-weensy point, but could people try to find more informative
subject lines than the following:
"Subject: Re: [PEN-L:4622] Re: PEN-L digest 671".
It makes it easier to decide which threads one wishes to follow...
Thank you,
Francis Thompson
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Montreal, Quebec
Cana
Carl: I am serious. We tend to gloss over the costs associated with
capitalism in the early industrializing nations. So the point is if you
want material improvements you have to have growth, investment, and
production. Imperialism can do part of the job. Repressive governments
may or may
It is
>capitalist development in a marxist sense that is taking place in Asia
>and imperialism (export of capital) is significantly influencing it.
As, I might add, Marx predicted it would. In fact, Marx was quite clear on
the `progressive' role of imperialism - capitalism reshaping the worl
>I read someplace that there is a lockout at Diamond Walnut in
>Stockton, California. Can the Californians tell us anything about this? Is
>there a boycott?
>
>-bob
>
>
>P.S. There was a nice article in yesterday's NYT about the end of the
>baseball strike: how the baseball players are the
Yes, but you notice they are only doing the experiment on "white graduate
students." I've tried to figure out whether this is good or bad -
suppose it depends on the sort of experimentation involved. Or does it
mean that with pending legislation on affirmative action and tuition rises
there
Mark SElden wrote:
>I've been working recently on East Asia and it seems clear that for the
>last fifteen years there have been large, sustained gains in per capita all
>of the above which have translated into higher income and consumption,
>higher life expectancy (and not just high growth rates)
Could I get Mark Selden's post? Somehow I seem to have missed it.
Dependency is dead but the consumption of it in the US is alive and well.
The bleeding heart liberal shows up in the dependency-type arguments.
Besides, the world-system perspective, seems to have a life of its own.
As for
Trond writes:
>My main research activity from 1989 to 1992 was electric vehicles. I
>headed a project group which built a demonstration "hybrid" natural
>gas/electric vehicle. I know this field fairly well. The _only_
>important obstacle against the auto industry moving from combustion
>engine to
I hope is OK to introduce some
religion on pen, brothers and sisters! :-)
Jim Devine sent me this personal note:
> but since Jesus is coming with the onset of the Millenium, shouldn't
> we ask Him if it's okay to have a jubilee? :-)
>
No problem, Jesus - and God - is firmly behind even athe
Mark Selden is accurate (as far as I can tell) about the rise
in working-class living standards in East Asia. However, I would
be very careful with market measures of economic welfare and focus
issues such as life expectancy, infant mortality, and literacy
(factors he mentions). These countries ar
With renewed interest in a jubilee, let me remind the group of my proposal for
a "stochastic jubilee", which would include (as did its biblical forerunner)
equity as well as debt assets. No set date, just an annual lottery with a 2%
chance of immediate declaration of jubilee. Unlike the determin
Michael Brun writes:
"The libertarian fear of experimentation reflects, I think, a belief in
economic equilibrium that its own greatest exponents (e.g. Hayek) didn't
share. The recent discussion on cycles should thus be slightly
reassuring to them. Equilibrium is not too relevant."
IMHO, it's n
I read someplace that there is a lockout at Diamond Walnut in
Stockton, California. Can the Californians tell us anything about this? Is
there a boycott?
-bob
P.S. There was a nice article in yesterday's NYT about the end of the
baseball strike: how the baseball players are the exceptio
And isn't it funny that libertarians are always willing to engage in
massive social experimentation, as long as the experiment concerns
dismantling current institutions to hand power from public government to
private corporate governments. As they say in the West Indies, I must
laugh, or I go cr
In contrast to the case in East Asia, median incomes in a lot of Latin
Maerican nations have seen sharp declines in the last ten years. And in
AFrica, in a lot of countries not only have (partly IMF imposed) policies
help push down median incomes, but per capita incomes and in some cases
gros
we have been fortunate in avoiding Libertarian spams so far.
The problem that they create is enormous. They say outragoues thing.
Rather than let them go unanswered, we rise to the occassion.
Soon the whole list is a dialgoue about libertarianism.
This list is designed for progressive economis
The libertarian fear of experimentation reflects, I think, a belief in
economic equilibrium that its own greatest exponents (e.g. Hayek) didn't
share. The recent discussion on cycles should thus be slightly
reassuring to them. Equilibrium is not too relevant.
Consider the by now famous quote
Jim Devine offers a definition of the present epoch in terms of declining
"working class standards of living (and on a global scale).
It seems an appropriate measure.
But has it been measured, by Jim or by others less able?
And would, say, per capita GDP (or GNP) or PPP indexes provide the most
Proponents of the job-killing theory of the minimum wage make fairly modest
claims, even if we take them at face value. The classic line is that a 10%
increase in the MW results in a 2-3% reduction in employment. So even a 25%
increase, which is much larger than anyone talks about, would still lea
..>>>*Klick*<<<...
Lurker mode? (On Off) [Off]
Andy English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>Is there anything to the notion of Kondratiev waves?
>I tend to be skeptical, since the underlying technology
>of society changes so much during the 50-year "cycle"
>and because of the impact of large politica
I said
> Great idea, Carl.
Sorry, not Carl, but Michael (Brun).
Too many postings on too many topics going out this morning!
Trond Andresen
I am not the least impressed by cocky white mice analogies, and I
recognize the tone from postings on Internet Newsgroups (in fact, my
main reason for giving up most Newsgroups 1.5 years ago).
To this day pen-l has been free of that ubiquitous Internet pest,
libertarians. Is that still the case?
> How about a campaign
> called "Jubilee 2000", which would call for the cancellation of debts,
> and perhaps a few other things as well? Using the turn of the century,
> the millenium!!, as a special excuse (which has been done at previous
> century turns) would reduce the weight of argument
Carl H.A. Dassbach says
> Without going into details, it is my opinion this cluster
> of innovations (understood in the broadest sense) propelled post war
> expansion (albeit at somewhat different rates and temporalities in core
> countries) until the 1970s when the expansive potential of the inn
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