Max Sawicky wrote,
immediate relevance is that business firms could
be handed 'user fees' or Pigouvian taxes (e.g.,
taxes that 'correct' externalities, like
pollution) and these would show up as costs in
any accounting framework. So would general taxes
on capital which financed goods whose
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From: "K. Austin Kerr (by way of Richard Jensen
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Subject: H-B: REVIEW: Rise of Big Government in U.S.
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From ACCOUNTANTS AND THE PRICE SYSTEM:THE PROBLEM OF SOCIAL COSTS
Donald R. Stabile, Journal of Economic Issues, March, 1993
One does not have to be pro-labor or a Marxist to argue that wages that
do not cover the social costs of the worker could prevail under
conditions of competitive
Max Sawicky wrote,
Secondly, why should capitalist accountants
record the depreciation of an asset which they do
not own? Presumably they can buy labor in
whatever state they like.
This is precisely Clark's point, as I understand it second hand, by way of
Stabile. Capitalist accountants
The sequence of capitalist expansion, destruction of traditional bonds and
global integration was, according to Marx, the process of creating a
unified working class, conscious of its class interests and linked across
national boundaries. His chain of reasoning lacks a clear understanding of
the
January 11, 1998
Traffickers' New Cargo: Naive Slavic Women
By MICHAEL SPECTER
RAMLE, Israel -- Irina always assumed that her beauty would somehow rescue
her from the poverty and hopelessness of village life. A few months ago,
after answering a vague ad in a small Ukrainian newspaper, she
The financial accounting myopia has produced the mirror image of that
incomplete socialist accounting. Instead of discounting capital depreciation
and assigning fictional values to inventory, it discounts the social costs
of labour and thereby enormously inflates the value of financial
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Louis
Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Russell Means, a leader of the Wounded Knee occupation, presented a paper
titled "The Same Old Song." It is a challenge to dogmatic Marxism and a
powerful one at that. He says:"But, as I've tried to point out, this 'truth' is
Heartfield:
Louis Proyect is right to say that post-modernism and
indigenism have the same outlook, because both are an expression of the
anti-enlightenment thinking. From this reactionary standpoint it is
right to say that Marxism and Capitalism share the same prejudice
towards progress and
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Walker)
From ACCOUNTANTS AND THE PRICE SYSTEM:THE PROBLEM OF SOCIAL COSTS
. . .
Sounds like the overhead costs of labor can be
translated as public goods in the neo-classical
sense of the term.
Don't get me wrong. I love public goods. At the
Tom Walker wrote:
Max Sawicky wrote,
immediate relevance is that business firms could
be handed 'user fees' or Pigouvian taxes (e.g.,
taxes that 'correct' externalities, like
pollution) and these would show up as costs in
any accounting framework. So would general taxes
on capital
Louis writes: On the eve of the Gulf War, [Baudrillard] argued that
television made actual war superfluous.
Baudrillard was absurd, but it sure suggests the recent Robert de
Niro/Dustin Hoffman flick "Wag the Dog," in which a spin doctor and a
Hollywood producer conjure up an imaginary war with
Gar Lipow wrote, in response to my crude outline of an overtime tax:
Presumably layoffs, work which produced more than average injury, death,
mental illness, and addiction would also be taxed as well.
I agree in spirit, but have reservations in the letter. Presently layoffs
and injuries are
Brian Green writes: As one of these "anarcho-marxists" -- though I'd
probably self-define as an autonomist marxist, if anything -- I'd suggest a
different distinction here. In my opinion, the state/non-state issue is
better understood as a debate between socialists and anarchists, rather than
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