Re: The ghost in the mirror

1998-01-10 Thread Tom Walker
Doug Henwood wrote, >Tom Walker wrote: > >>The lesson of the Asian crisis is that the limit of fictional accounting has >>been reached. Humpty-dumpty has fallen off the wall. > >How do you know? Why can't the big boys restructure Asia into a nicely >subordinate region just like they did Latin Ame

re: anarcho-marxists

1998-01-10 Thread Brian Green
..My >understanding is that the difference between "antiauthoritarian Marxists" (a >redundant phrase, at least in my book) and pure anarchists is that while the >latter want to abolish the state as soon as possible, the former want to >first subordinate the state to the democratic will of the peop

Re: your mail

1998-01-10 Thread Steven S. Zahniser
Dear PEN-Lers: I would like to apologize for my inadvertently applying to a personal message via PEN-L. I would greatly appreciate it if you would delete the previous message that I sent from your inbox. Thanks, Steven Zahniser [EMAIL PROTECTED]

No Subject

1998-01-10 Thread Steven S. Zahniser
Dear Conrad: Rose Ann and I enjoyed seeing you in Chicago, and we hope that you will find meaningful and lucrative employment to follow your stint at Simon Fraser. Be sure to check the job postings on the web site of THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION every Friday, and most of all, don't give up!

BLS Website Paralyzed by Electronic Barrage

1998-01-10 Thread Michael Eisenscher
U.S. agency's Web site barraged, delaying access to key labor data 1/10/98 By Rajiv Chandrasekaran WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON -- The Bureau of Labor Statistics, which usually tallies such things as consumer prices, unemployment levels and worker salaries, has been counting some

Russell Means, the RCP and Jean Baudrillard

1998-01-10 Thread Louis Proyect
During the Pine Ridge reservation struggle, most US Marxists responded positively. Their ideology might have preempted such a response, but the demand for justice spoke louder. Sometimes it is just as well if the heart overtakes the brain, especially when the brain is not functioning too well. Wha

clones

1998-01-10 Thread James Devine
from Reuters, via Yahoo!: "Alarmed Clinton Wants Human Cloning Ban By Steve Holland "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Clinton on Saturday said he was troubled by a scientist's desire to clone a human and urged Congress to pass a ban on human cloning experiments for at least five years..." (Sa

Re: The ghost in the mirror

1998-01-10 Thread Doug Henwood
Tom Walker wrote: >The lesson of the Asian crisis is that the limit of fictional accounting has >been reached. Humpty-dumpty has fallen off the wall. How do you know? Why can't the big boys restructure Asia into a nicely subordinate region just like they did Latin America after its import substi

Re: Final Comment

1998-01-10 Thread James Heartfield
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, James Michael Craven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Capitalism produces a whole host of slick facades to "show" that >choices are indeed free choices or if they are even "constrained >choices", we are all constrained and they are choices nontheless. >But the reality

Greenspan on Deflation

1998-01-10 Thread Tom Walker
The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition -- January 3, 1998 Speech by Alan Greenspan Remarks by Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan at the Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association and the American Finance Association, Chicago, January 3, 1998 'Problems of Price Measurement

The ghost in the mirror

1998-01-10 Thread Tom Walker
Someone, long ago misplaced a decimal point when reporting the iron content of spinach. This careless mutation led to the birth of Popeye. From spinach to myth on the placement of a small dot. We will hear many times over the next weeks and months from the likes of Bill Clinton and Alan Greenspan

David Card's Response

1998-01-10 Thread PHILLPS
Thanks to all the pen-l-ers who responded to my request, particularly to Bill Lear who posted me Card's response. Paul Paul Phillips, Economics, University of Manitoba

Re: David Card's Response

1998-01-10 Thread michael
I spoke to David Card yesterday. He like Doug Henwood will be following the well travelled path to Chico. He says that he has a new paper that answers the critique of his work. He feels very confident that his work was correct all along. I mentioned the EPI study Schmitt, John. 1996. "The Min

re: anarcho-marxists

1998-01-10 Thread James Devine
Jerry Levy's discussion of anarcho-Marxists is very welcome. My understanding is that the difference between "antiauthoritarian Marxists" (a redundant phrase, at least in my book) and pure anarchists is that while the latter want to abolish the state as soon as possible, the former want to first s

anarcho-marxists

1998-01-10 Thread Gerald Levy
Jim Craven wrote: > Anarcho-Marxists? What's next? Communist Nazis or Nazi Communists? The above sounds, whether intended or not, like an [ill-informed] insult to anarchists. To begin with, anarchists are part of the Left and the workers' movement (and should in no way be confused with Nazis