[PEN-L:5577] Re: We MUST be essentialists

This discussion prompts me to try out again a distinction I've been kicking around in my mind. The Wolfnick contention that everything determines everything else is undoubtedly true, though only at a very high level of abstraction. It is also the case as pointed out by others that it doesn't

[PEN-L:5578] FW: Daily Report

BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1996: Employers' health insurance costs have been growing at a slower rate since 1989 and particularly after 1995, according to a new Labor Department report (Daily Labor Report, page A-16). The Employment Cost Index of July 30 showed a 0.1 percent rise ov

[PEN-L:5581] Re: scarcity

Doug Henwood wrote: > On the topic of scarcity, we should always remember the words of Michael > Milken: it's not capital that's scarce, it's vision! We should also remember the peculiar way in which scarcity is defined in neoclassical theory and how that definition differs from other understand

[PEN-L:5579] Indonesia

I'm looking for someone to talk about Indonesia on my radio show. Volunteers? Nominations? Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> web:

[PEN-L:5580] scarcity

On the topic of scarcity, we should always remember the words of Michael Milken: it's not capital that's scarce, it's vision! Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> web:

[PEN-L:5582] Re: scarcity

> Doug Henwood wrote: > > > On the topic of scarcity, we should always remember the words of Michael Milkin is not totally wrong. Think of how fast advanced societies rebuild after disasters, when they are well organized. Even Nagasaki and Hiroshima had telephones and electricity back on lin

[PEN-L:5583] Re: We MUST be essentialists

Terry Mc Donough wrote, > The distinction is not between more and less important causes but > between causes which are determinant and those which are contingent. This is certainly an important distinction. And, it is one that has long been part of the Marxian approach (e.g., tendencies and co

[PEN-L:5584] Scarcity

In teaching college-level sociology courses I have noticed that many people are caught in a blizzard of extremely dangerous dogmas about inequality. One of these ruling class dogmas holds that inequality is based on (alleged) scarcity--supposedly there are not enough resources to go a

[PEN-L:5585] Re: scarcity

At 7:42 AM 8/7/96, Michael Perelman wrote: >Milkin is not totally wrong. Think of how fast advanced societies >rebuild after disasters, when they are well organized. Even Nagasaki and >Hiroshima had telephones and electricity back on line within a matter of >a few weeks -- not for everybody of

[PEN-L:5586] Re: progress in economics

Hi, Rakesh. You write: >Somewhere in this exchange someone (probably Jim) already argued that >scarcity can be artificial; I do not remember any response by Gil as to the >nature of or the reason for the scarcity of the means of production. Yes, certainly scarcity can be artificial, or more pre

[PEN-L:5587] a new call for a min. wage

On NPR this morning, David Frum defended dead beat dads. They can barely get by on $35,000. How can they afford to support their family? Yet min. wage families and those on welfare supposedly live in the lap of luxury. Huh? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University

[PEN-L:5588] Re[2]: science & essentialism

The following is a dialogue between myself and Geoff Schneider which may be of interest. It's pretty abstract and long. Feel free to erase without any tinge of guilt. (It's my last message until August 20.) He wrote: >>What you described as essentialism comes very close to what I consider to

[PEN-L:5589] A taxonomy of scarcity

I can see from recent posts that I've erred in simply adopting Jim D.'s term of "scarcity rent." While I think he and I define the term in the same way, it seems clear that this definition is not commonly held, with the consequence that some have interpreted my statement "profit as surplus value

[PEN-L:5590] Info request from Susan Feiner

>Hi Folks: I'm teaching a course next term which will begin with a couple >of weeks taking a look at the "privatization/deregulation debates." I want >to give the students articles expressing the range of policy/theoretical >views which are at play. Do you have any suggestions? My strongest >p

[PEN-L:5591] Job opening

Forwarded from PKT. > Dear colleagues, > > A position has unfortunately opened up at Alabama State University > possibly for the Fall semester coming up in two to three weeks. That's > right. and certainly for next academic year. I'd like to see what we can > do now. You know how positions can

[PEN-L:5592] FW: Daily Report

BLS DAILY REPORT, Wednesday, AUGUST 7, 1996: Only truck drivers and common laborers suffer more on-the-job injuries than nursing home workers do, says The New York Times (page D1). That is why OSHA, entering a widening rift between nursing homes and their workers, will announce this week a ca

[PEN-L:5593] job opening (fwd)

Forwarded message: Date: Wed, 07 Aug 1996 14:09:44 -0500 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Edward Slattery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: POST-KEYNESIAN THOUGHT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: job opening Dear colleagues, A position has unfortunately opened up at Alabama State

[PEN-L:5594] Re: A taxonomy of scarcity

I was hoping to avoid more e-mail messages until after my vacation. But I can't let Gil's message stand as is. (To paraphrase Peter Burns' famous relative, the best-laid plans of Marx and men oft gang aglay.) Gil writes that >>to say that profit is equivalent to an economic rent is to *deny*

[PEN-L:5595] Re: A taxonomy of scarcity

Jim writes: >I was hoping to avoid more e-mail messages until after my >vacation. But I can't let Gil's message stand as is. >(To paraphrase Peter Burns' famous relative, the best-laid plans >of Marx and men oft gang aglay.) Sorry, Jim, I didn't mean to make you violate your resolution. Don

[PEN-L:5596] Re: scarcity

> ain't enough, at least in some circles.) It's clear that rentiers are > claiming a bigger portion of total U.S. surplus value than they used to. Didn't Keynes refer to the "euthanasia of the rentiers" in proposing political state intervention to manage productive capital investment?. ..Michael