[PEN-L:5137] URGENT ACTION: SUPPORT MEXICAN FORD WORKERS (fwd)

1995-05-17 Thread D Shniad
Forwarded message: Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 14:03:22 -0700 From: Mary McGinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: URGENT ACTION: SUPPORT MEXICAN FORD WORKERS URGENT ACTION * URGENT ACTION * URGENT ACTION

[PEN-L:5136] The wonders of competition

1995-05-17 Thread D Shniad
The Globe and Mail Saturday, May 6, 1995 Thanks and goodbye LEANER AND MEANER/ Mobil announced a fat first- quarter profit last week, but that didn't stop the oil giant from giving pink slips to 4,700 people this week. It's part of a trend that sees corporate profits surging, but more lay

[PEN-L:5135] Baker Proposal (fwd)

1995-05-17 Thread Ellen Dannin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
A labor lawyer's perspective on the TIAA-CREF proposal after this was forwarded to the Worklaw list. ellen Ellen J. Dannin California Western School of Law -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 16 May 95 13:47:05 EST From: Goldman, Alvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] S

[PEN-L:5134] Re: Usury & Exploitation

1995-05-17 Thread GSKILLMAN
Response to Jim's recent 4-parter: Now there's a surprise, Jim and I continue to disagree on the social logic of exploitation. That's OK: we all know that PEN-L is good at eliciting ideas and positions but ill- suited for resolving issues or disagreements. So be it. Just some comments abou

[PEN-L:5133] Re: profit-rate equalization

1995-05-17 Thread GSKILLMAN
Andrew Kliman recently wrote > I, Kliman, am NOT an advocate of what is *generally* called the "new solution" > to the "transformation problem," i.e. the interpretation of Dumenil, Lipietz, > Foley, etc. I have been arguing for several years (in print, since 1988 > _Capital & Class 35, "The

[PEN-L:5132] Usury & Exploitation -- role of monopoly

1995-05-17 Thread Jim Devine
- part 4 of 4: the Role of Market Imperfections - Gil's question #3: >>If exploitation in the cases considered previously did not in fact require formal subsumption ..., did they instead require the existence of monopoly power in a sense distinct from Roemer's? In particular, did exploit

[PEN-L:5131] Usury & Exploitation -- w/o subjection?

1995-05-17 Thread Jim Devine
Part 3 of 4: Exploitation by Pure Money-Lenders? Gil's question #2: >>Is formal subsumption necessary for the exploitation of labor (understood in the strict sense of expropriating surplus labor) via relationships of exchange?<< Gil has >>in mind here not only usury, the circuit o

[PEN-L:5130] Usury & Exploitation -- what is subjection?

1995-05-17 Thread Jim Devine
--- part 2 of 4: What is "Subjection"? -- Gil's question #1: >>What is meant by the formal subsumption (subjection) of labor under capital?... Jim ((presents a definition)). This reading of the term cannot be found in CAPITAL. The condition Jim identifies here Marx refers to as workers being

[PEN-L:5129] Usury & Exploitation -- intro.

1995-05-17 Thread Jim Devine
WARNING: long and abstract. Here we go again! For any and all bored by Roemerian economics and its follies, please hit the delete button on all four of these messages. I have also written part 1 as a survey, so that people can scan it and decide what's interesting. --- Part 1 of 4: Key Question

[PEN-L:5128] Re: profit-rate equalization

1995-05-17 Thread Paul Cockshott
My appologies to Andrew for saying that he was an advocate of the 'new solution'. The figures that I posted used should better have been labeled the 'Old Marx Solution' to the formation of prices of production. Paul

[PEN-L:5127] Re: profit-rate equalization

1995-05-17 Thread Paul Cockshott
Ajit continues his discussion with me on value thus: - In Marx a theory of prices is needed to insure the reproduction of the system, which intails realization of the surplus. Thus prices occupy different places and significance in differ

[PEN-L:5126] West Publishing bill

1995-05-17 Thread DOUG ORR
A while back, someone posted a long msg on how a bill to hand over property right to most Federal data to West Publishing was barely blocked in a House committee. I thought I saved it, but now I can't find it. If someone still has a copy, please forward it to me. Thanks, Doug Orr [EMAIL PROTECT

[PEN-L:5125] Studies on the Fed Budget?

1995-05-17 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Dear Pen-lrs, We'd like to link our National Budget Simulation to progressive analyses of the federal budget or issues surrounding it (e.g., tax fairness). If anyone has written such an analysis, we'd love to up it up. Just e-mail it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Anders Schneiderman Center for