[PEN-L:11318] E.P. Thompson

For those who have read E.P. Thompson's _The Making of the English Working Class_, could you provide a brief description of its strengths and weaknesses? Anything in particular to pay attention to while reading it? Bill

[PEN-L:11316] CAW settlement at Starbucks

The Vancouver Sun Wednesday 16 July 1997 STARBUCKS, UNION SIGN HISTORIC DEAL The B.C. contract with the coffee chain, which has 1,100 outlets, is a North American first. Bruce Constantineau, Sun Business Reporter Vancouver

[PEN-L:11315] Re: econometrics as poetry

Jim Devine asked, >What's your definition of prose, Tom? Ain't them the guys what get paid for playin' ball? Seriously, though, At the risk of offending Doug Henwood's PoMo PoLiCe, my definition of prose is that it's a collection of minor, occasionally utilitarian sub-genres of epic. Just in c

[PEN-L:11314] Re: Industry Canada on payroll taxes

My apologies for sending out an address with an error in it. The correct address for the Payroll Taxation and Employment paper by Joni Baran is: http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/SSG/ra01275e.html Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ knoW Ware Communication

[PEN-L:11313] Re: Re: econometrics as poetry

Eric Nilsson writes: >I think we can all agree that there is a reality out there. The different lays in whether we think models n' metrics can reveal this reality. I don't think they can do this, but I also think models n' metrics are worth doing because they give us insights we otherwise would no

[PEN-L:11312] Re: poetry as econometrics

Tom Walker wrote: >Poetry tries to understand two worlds, the world of language and the world >-- Jim's "objective world" -- to which that language refers. Uh-oh the pomos are gonna get you! You foundationalist! The only referent of language is other language; of a poem, another poem. I'm shocke

[PEN-L:11311] "Critical Thinking" Joke

Two guys were sitting in a bar. The first guy turns to the second and asks: "What do you do?" The second guy answers "I'm a Professor and I teach critical thinking. The first guy asks: "What's that?" The second guy answers I teach how to analyze from different conceptual angles, turn proble

[PEN-L:11310] Re: China's Overcapacity

What's the big deal? The real questions are: how competitive are China's mass-produced goods (e.g. quality) and what sort of export-earnings are associated with those goods. "Made In Japan" used to be a signal of poor quality, now its the standard in certain types of so-called high value-added

[PEN-L:11309] New from EPI

New and free from EPI at web address : (for information about purchases of reports and briefing papers, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Response to President's Report on NAFTA Press Releases on: NAFTA, minimum wage, EPI conference on "broadly-shared prosperity," The Failed Experiment: NAFTA at Thr

[PEN-L:11308] Re: poetry as econometrics

Jim Devine wrote, >But again, as I said above, >poetry in fine in and of itself. But social science, though it shares a lot >with poetry (using metaphors, etc.), is also about trying to understand the >objective world. Poetry tries to understand two worlds, the world of language and the world -

[PEN-L:11307] re CEO's Incomes

In my attempt to be both brief and trenchant, I seem to have confused Gil with respect to my use of power as the determinant of executive incomes and the uselessness of the neoclassical framework to try to justify CEO's pay and perks. I will try to be more clear in the following elaboration. The

[PEN-L:11306] Re: Ajit Sinha

Ajit Sinha wrote: > In my opinion, this is a common mistake commited by Marxist scholars. Since > profit in capitalism is seen as resulting from the exploitation of labor, it > does not mean that an economy with labor input being zero (i.e. 100% > mechanized production process) would necessarily

[PEN-L:11305] Condemn The 19th Century Colonialist Policy Of The Canadian State Towards The Aboriginal Peoples

This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more info. --2E4049B15F0C In the recent period, two important cases have been before the Canadi

[PEN-L:11304] Liberalism "Off The Record": More Evidence Of The Deep Crisis Of The Bourgeoisie In Finding A Credible Standard-Bearer (Canada)

This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more info. --75BA3FF15BB1 At the signing ceremony for Ukraine s admission into the aggressive U

[PEN-L:11303] Re: article on globalization

At 10:02 AM 7/15/97 -0700, you wrote: >>At the same time, the introduction of labor-replacing technology means the >beginning of the end of productive investment capital. All value (and >profit) comes from the exploitation of labor. Laborless production means >valueless production - and hence, >p

[PEN-L:11302] Re: PE: Anything new?

>What new ideas/insights has PE come up with recently? > >Now ducking for cover . . . > >Eric _ Well, you might wanna check out 'A Critique of *Capital* vol. one: The value Controversy Revisited' by Ajit Sinha in *Research in Political Economy vol. 15* 1996. ;) ;) Cheers, ajit