Ricardo writes:
>
>Problem is once you start talking about exploitation without the
>exploiter owning the means
>of production then you are moving outside the marxian framwork,
>which is what happened to Erik Wright (1979). Here he tried to
>explain the class structure of contemporary societie
BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1998
__Sharply falling petroleum and nonpetroleum prices help lower the price
of imported goods by 1.3 percent in January, the largest monthly drop in
nearly a year, BLS reported. BLS also reported that import prices from
the Asian Newly Industrialized Cou
At a Hearing in Phoenix held by the Arizona Corporation Commission on
Tuesday the 10th, a witness, being paid $600 per hour, said something about
passengers on the Titanic selecting life boats to coordinate with some
color scheme.
Later in the day a Commissioner said something close to this: "An
> The current issue of the San Francisco Flier contains an article about
> labor conditions in Russia that begins as follows:
>
>
> Russia: Whats Up, Whats Down, Whats Left
>
> At the height of Cold War xenophobia in America there came the
> occasional heretical suggestion that were we reall
I teach a journalism history survey course at the undergraduate level, and
the Titanic takes up most of one lecture. It is important historically in
mass media (and mentioned in all recent mass media history survey texts)
as one of the factors in the passage of the Radio Act of 1912, which,
amon
What a lovely idea, Jim!
Haven't seen the film, but here are a couple of sickeners:
5) The Titanic was a commodity, produced with exchange in mind, and
therefore had to be pretty. Sufficient lifeboats for projected passenger
manifests would have broken the commodity's seductive lines (apparentl
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> I agree with Gil on this point. In the resultate, Marx is talking about
> formal and r
The Department of Economics at Gettysburg College seeks to fill a full
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will also be considered. Candidates will be expected to teach primarily
Principles, Labor and Introductory Statistics. The ability and
willingness to teach
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Following is Dean Baker's response on the CPI flap.
This should give you some idea of the excitement
that pervades EPI research.
MBS
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Max,
The CEA is claiming a total reduction in the CPI
from the changes
since 1995 and projected forward to 1999
> Peter Drucker is a contemporary of ex-Trotskyist and
later
> publisher of the
> National Review, James Burnham, in putting managerialism
> on the ideological
> map. Drucker published his version of managerialism in
> "The End of Economic
> Man" (1939) and "The Future of Industrial Man" (1942).
Economy Connection, the URPE speakers bureau, is looking for someone in the
Philadelphia area who can speak about the world economy and it's effect on
the US economy -- specifically, the recent crises in Southeast Asia and
other similar potential crises in other parts of the world, and how these
c
This analysis contains a very useful explanation of the origins of the MAI
and its relationship to GATT, MIA, WTO, etc., as well as the tensions
between the First and Third Worlds that led U.S. and European capital to
start promoting an investment treaty through the OECD when they couldn't
get
[Michael Campbell is a right wing media commentator and brother of
British Columbia Liberal Party opposition leader Gordon Campbell. He
often lectures the social democratic NDP government on the facts of
capitalist life.]
The Vancouver Sun Tuesday 17 February 1998
More on the Berlin wall metaphor from today's New York Times:
"Just as the fall of the Berlin wall represents a political and ideological
victory for the U.S. over socialism, the collapse of the economies in Asia
marks another more subtle triumph of U.S. financial imperialism over the
rest of thi
The more acute among you will recognize my
prescience in mentioning the promising British
rock group, Chumbawamba, on this list some
months ago.
Drink a whiskey, cider, or lager drink to them
at your next opportunity.
MBS
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On Monday, February 16, 1998 7:34 PM, William S. Lear
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> On Mon, February 16, 1998 at 19:15:07 (-0500) Louis
> Proyect writes:
> >Check out the Baffler "Commodity your Dissent"
> >collection. (W.W. Norton)
> >There's an article "Apostles of the New Enterpreneur:
>
BLS DAILY REPORT, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1998
The number of work stoppages dropped to an all-time low in 1997, but the
number of workers idled by stoppages increased from 1996, BLS reports.
BLS says 29 major work stoppages began during 1997, putting 339,000
employees out of work and resulting in 4.
>Haven't seen the film...
Right, and won't be able to for another month or two. And when it does come
to Bolivia, chances are I'll see it in the bootleg video store first. Each
time around, the news comes late, and with a different message.
Tom
Tom Kruse / Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
T
Anders Schneider wrote,
>d) Another good defensive strategy is to say, if we're going to start
>talking about new ways of running our software shop, let's take a serious
>look at the "best practices" that have been developed in the field of
>managing software development.
See the story by Nikola
Gil Skillman wrote,
>Jim writes:
>
>>idea, since it's in Marx. I also have argued on pen-l (against Gil Skillman)
>>that without formal and real subsumption by capital, there cannot be
>>capitalist exploitation.
>
>And I've argued that this conclusion follows neither from Marx's definitions
>of c
Michael E. wrote,
>I'm not sure this is a response to Drucker or not, but has anyone taken a
>look at Peter Senge's "Fifth Discipline." He lays out an approach to what
>he terms the "learning organization" built around five disciplines (building
>a shared vision, personal mastery and continuousl
Rob Schaap, replying to Jim Craven, wrote:
..
> 5) The Titanic was a commodity, produced with exchange in mind, and
> therefore had to be pretty. Sufficient lifeboats for projected passenger
> manifests would have broken the commodity's seduc
At 05:29 PM 2/16/98 -0600, you wrote:
>I am having a bit of a battle at my company with a manager who is a
>Druckerite over plans to bring "management by objective" (Drucker's
>phrase) and other kindred intellectual frauds to manage our software
>development group. I picked up Drucker's *Manageme
Jim writes:
>I still don't get it. I am perfectly willing to admit that people under
>capitalism are both formally and really subsumed (or subordinated or
>subjugated). I never said otherwise. I don't see it as an especially new
>idea, since it's in Marx. I also have argued on pen-l (against Gil
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