Ken Hanly wrote, regarding Problems in CBA:
[snip] Surely it is important that a technique that is widely used in
every area from forestry, to health care, to agriculture, to
education should have some theoretical justification that holds
water. It seems to me that there are all kinds of ideologic
I want to disagree with Maggie's second point and -- what is the same
thing -- agree with an earlier poster, I think it was Michael M.
Maggie wrote:
2. While it sounds like splitting hairs, I do think there is a
difference in
result between the government investing social security and the ind
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1. One effect of having the trillions from social security available as a
sort of forced investment is that the stock jockeys will use them for
marginal, low return/high risk, investments while using corporate and other
funds for quality/assured return investments. Rules governing the kind of
in
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On Mon, 19 Feb 1996, Eric Nilsson wrote:
> Good question. Justin's questions have made me understand now
> Callinicos' concerns that Giddens has possibly collapsed all
> structure into agency and, so structure might have 'disappeared'
> in Giddens' theory.
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> But it might all revolve around t
There is a nice discussion of MI in the context of rat choice marxism by
Jutta Weldes in Theory and Society, 1989. She shows, in contrast to Eric's
last message, that it is not a question of whether or not structures "make"
people do things. Rather, the issue concerns the ways in which structure
A review of the flow of funds spreadsheets yields the following (1995 data
is first half at annualized rate):
Since 1982, when the modern U.S. bull market in stocks began, there were
-$224.3 billion in net new stock issues - that is, more stocks were retired
through takeovers and buybacks than we
Justin Schwartz writes,
> Do we think that the claim that structures are patterns of human
> interactions means that structures do not exist? If we don't thgink
> that, how does the claim in question even begin to challenge the
> structure-agency duality?
Good question. Justin's qu
I can't recall the details now, but there was recently
a huge scandal in Britain after hundreds of thousands
of people lost money on private pension plans which
had been sold to them by shady investment "advisors".
I believe there was some kind of public inquiry which
recommended that the whole pr
Blair writes: >>But you claim that I am agreeing with your
anti-PoMo stance, so I could not let that go ... I should have
said that "I theorize every commodity as having its own unique
conditions of existence" [rather than making the ontological
assertion that each commodity is unique]. I woul
It seems to me that there are two issues being discussed at the same time
that need to be disentangled. One is the idea of GOVERNMENT investing
social security trust funds in equities from the private sector --- treating
accumulated social security trust funds just as pension managers treat
priva
Rather than looking to Chile to find out whether investing social
security funds in private markets, I'd look to New Zealand. It has
seized on privatization avidly but has not had the sort of militarisation
and dictatorship which clouds the picture in Chile. Jane Kelsey's new
book called "Ec
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I haven't been keeping up with the details of the discussion about the
privatization of the US Social Security system. But I noticed Doug
Henwood's comments about how little union pension fund investments have
done to better workers' lot in life.
A couple of comments:
First off, it's essent
At 6:01 AM 2/19/96, Mike Meeropol wrote:
>Does anyone out there know of any sources or any individuals who know the
>REAL results of the privatizing of Social Security in Chile --- Chile went
>through a terrible few years in 1982 and right after when the whole
>"Pinochet miracle" unravelled and v
At 2:31 PM 2/18/96, Peter.Dorman wrote:
>My first reaction to the NYT article on investing the SS trust fund in the
>stock market was "uh-oh". I had visions of an equities crash sometime in the
>next century creating a crisis for the system. But then it occurred to me
>that if the trust fund we
Jeez, you guys, I don't know what's wrong with you. of COURSE, Dylan's SONG
is not anti-labor, but the "Maggie's Farm" he describes is a HOTBED of wage
slavery (and thanks to Thad for quoting the lyrics, just to make it clear).
Jerry titled his message (in the subject line), "Back on Maggie's Farm
Michael Perelman wrote:
>
> Just read the rave reviews the right gives Pinochet for trailblazing this
> form of "reform."
> --
Does anyone out there know of any sources or any individuals who know the
REAL results of the privatizing of Social Security in Chile --- Chile went
through a terrible
Don't want to sound like a one-trick pony, but ...
Robert Peter Burns wrote:
>
> Eugene, I think the answer to this is: refuse to
> sell the stocks back to the so-and-sos. Indeed,
> the government would presumably need to hold on
> to the stocks in order to generate the dividend
> income needed
Just one comeback to Justin: I don't think that Marx 'assumes'
anything. He *observes* that commensuration takes place, that's all.
Hugo Radice
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Thank you one and all for the warm welcome. I shall try to be 'insiteful' on
pen-l and 'inciteful' at work ... but may end up just being my normal
obnoxious self.
maggie
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Peter wrote:
There is a very interesting review article in the latest issue of
Monthly Review [snip]
"they found an inverse relationship between
unemployment rates and the level of wages."
[snip]
This suggests that wage-cutting is not the route to lower
unemployment, as the endle
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