[PEN-L:409] help: governmental negotiations with World Bank

1995-09-08 Thread JFOSTER
Dear Pen-lers, To help a government engaged in negotiations with the IMF, we need to obtain very quickly the best critical information and references on privatization, information that would be useful in countering IMF arguments in this regard. Please help if you can. Send your messages to [EMA

[PEN-L:408] Dialectic Immaterialism

1995-09-08 Thread Jim Jaszewski
On Fri, 8 Sep 1995, James Devine wrote: > I don't know how substantial this issue is, but as far as I can > tell, there are 5 different meanings of "dialectics": It was very important for someone here to at least try to put such complex, mind-bending confusion into some kind of order,

[PEN-L:407] Re: dialectics, cont.

1995-09-08 Thread Gilbert Skillman
Jim corresponds: > I wrote:>If I accurately understood what Gil said in response to > Trond, he is saying that dialectical models may be great but > that does not mean that we need dialectical reasoning. To me, > this doesn't make sense; it is crude formalism (a glorification > of math, form

[PEN-L:406] dialectics, cont.

1995-09-08 Thread James Devine
(this replies to a note titled something like "the effects of gamma rays on closet stalinists and man in the moon marigolds") I wrote:>If I accurately understood what Gil said in response to Trond, he is saying that dialectical models may be great but that does not mean that we need dialectic

[PEN-L:405] AFL-CIO foreign policy

1995-09-08 Thread D Shniad
DEMOCRACY BACKGROUNDER: A Forum for the Study of U.S. Government Democratization Programs and Other Democratization Issues. * The DEMOCRACY BACKGROUNDER is a bi-monthly publication produced by the Interhemispheric Resource Center, a

[PEN-L:404] GAO online

1995-09-08 Thread Doug Henwood
Good news for geeks! The GAO Daybook is now online!! Details follow!!! Doug -- Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax = >1.1 - GAO's DAYBOOK VIA LISTSERV > >The U.

[PEN-L:403] Re: A closet stalinist without knowing it my

1995-09-08 Thread Gilbert Skillman
Jim writes: > If I accurately understood what Gil said in response to Trond, he > is saying that dialectical models may be great but that does not > mean that we need dialectical reasoning. To me, this doesn't make > sense; it is crude formalism (a glorification of math, formal > logic, and g

[PEN-L:402] Eric, please contact Robert

1995-09-08 Thread Robert McIntyre
Dear Eric please tell me where you are at the moment? Regards, Robert McIntyre

[PEN-L:401] Journal Stuff on Internet

1995-09-08 Thread Eric Nilsson
Two internet sites of possible interest: 1) Information on 20+ heterodox economics journals. Initial (& crudely presented) information about 20+ journals that are indexed in the Review of Heterodox Economics. It appears at csf.colorado.edu. Go to Economics direc

[PEN-L:400] Re: A closet stalinist without knowing it my

1995-09-08 Thread glevy
James Devine wrote: > The neoclassicals, for example, start with an implicit > ontological assumption that the world is inherently static, that > the different spheres of human experience and action are easily > separable, etc. This vision produces a form of reasoning that is > inherently st

[PEN-L:399] Re: A closet stalinist without knowing it my

1995-09-08 Thread James Devine
Ajit writes: >>Congratulation to Barkley for introducing a substantial issue for debate and steering us away from the mud throwing contest on individual personalities. It is always problematic to really know what is meant by *dialectics* in Marxist literature.<< I don't know how substantial t

[PEN-L:398] Status of URPE at ASSA

1995-09-08 Thread Davis, Ann
Does anyone know the status of the URPE panels at the ASSA for January, 1996? Thanks, Ann Davis

[PEN-L:397] U.S.-Tepoztlan links, Sept 6 (fwd)

1995-09-08 Thread D Shniad
> -- Forwarded message -- > Date: Wed, 6 Sep 1995 21:44:46 -0400 > From: Andrew Wheat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Multiple Recipients of List Mexico2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: U.S.-Tepoztlan links > > Please cross-post > > Call write or fax Jack Nicklaus and GTE's Don Hayes

[PEN-L:396] Re: A closet stalinist without knowing it myself (was:

1995-09-08 Thread ROSSERJB
To Trond A. Not to drag this out too much, but I think Ajit Sinha's remarks are useful in clarifying that Engels' version of dialectics was not Hegel's and was viewed rightly by many as a travesty. It was this version that filtered through Plekhanov to be misused later. Again, very signifi

[PEN-L:395] Re: A closet stalinist without knowing it myself

1995-09-08 Thread Trond Andresen
Reply to Jim D., who says in a comment on my message: > Recent work by Levins and Lewontin (THE DIALECTICAL BIOLOGIST) > and others suggest that the Hegel/Engels perspective that > dialectical reasoning can help us understand nature has a lot of > truth in it. Possibly, but if you by "nature

[PEN-L:394] Re: A closet stalinist without knowing it myself (w

1995-09-08 Thread Trond Andresen
Reply to Gil Skillman, who says > > Trond writes > > > I find the following elements of dialectics in conjunction with > > materialism very appropriate: > > > > - Description of social relationships and phenomena as transitory > > and changing as opposed to static. > > > > - These

[PEN-L:393] Re: A closet stalinist without knowing it myself (was:

1995-09-08 Thread Trond Andresen
Reply to Barkley, who says: > I did not throw out dialectics. I fully agree with > your analysis of it, including especially its use/interpretation > in modern nonlinear dynamics. I suspected that, Barkley. :-) But all the same - > The issue is the extension of > dialectics d