Dear friends,
Those who have been following Louis' posts on ecology will be
interested in knowing that the 1998 Socialist Scholars Conference will
feature a panel on "Marxist Contributions to Ecological Theory" with
John Bellamy Foster, University of Oregon
Stephen Jay
Someone mentioned Brian Arthur and his part in Mitchell Waldrop's book
"Complexity". That book
had a fairly interesting and novel (novel to me anyway) critique of the
mathematical "culture" of
Economics. The critique originates from a group of physicists called to
the Santa Fe institute
to do
This is the epigraph to "Pere Goriot".
Louis P.
At 09:34 PM 2/22/98 -0800, you wrote:
Where did Balzac write: "Behind every fortune lies a grand crime."?
Thanks.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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Subject: Boucher's entire article
A VISION OF ECOLOGICAL CATASTROPHE is becoming increasingly prominent in
leftist thought. . . .
Thanks for uploading this splendid article, though
obviously you and others don't see it that way.
The
== From a member of balzac-l comes a somewhat contrary reply.
valis
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 16:15:53 GMT
From: Joe Carson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: Balzac query
The passage
February 23, 1998
Drought in Borneo Feeds Fear of New Asian Fires
By SETH MYDANS
SAMARINDA, Indonesia -- The eastern coast of Borneo, dry after a year of
drought, is bursting into flame again, raising fears that a wave of choking
smoke could soon blanket Southeast Asia as it did last fall.
Over the weekend, I heard an album by the anarchist-singer U. Utah
Phillips, where he suggested that the (U.S.) Democratic Party, and by
implication liberalism in general, involves simply "rearranging the
deck-chairs on the Titanic." This, plus our current torrential rains,
brought my fevered
From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: boucher, epi and coal
Max's defense of Boucher was not surprising. EPI has raised serious
questions about the Clinton approach to global warming, from the
perspective of the coal miners.
Let's try to be a little more precise
On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, James Devine wrote:
Can anyone think of a better metaphor than the Titanic one?
How about all those Spaceship Earth metaphors, i.e. a more eco-leaning
Titanicity, where we're all supposed to be our own deck chairs? They're
still kind of incomplete, because spaceships are
Max B. Sawicky wrote:
From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: boucher, epi and coal
Max's defense of Boucher was not surprising.
I did not mean this as a criticism of you.
EPI has raised serious
questions about the Clinton approach to global warming, from
If government gives away emissions permits, then clearly
corporations do not benefit as a group, since one firm's
sale is another's purchase. If the government sells them,
corporations are net losers in the aggregate. This does
not mean of course, that the trading scheme would
At 09:58 AM 2/23/98 -0500, Louis wrote:
In "What is to be Done" Lenin cites 3 examples of what tasks a "vanguard"
should undertake...
Lous, why did you feel the need to cite Lenin chapter verse to argue that
sectarianism is bad?
Harvey draws a dichotomy between proletarian concerns: working
In a message dated 98-02-22 13:50:11 EST, Jason Hecht writes:
When one goes up for tenure, do NCs (and PB committee members) regard URPE
publications as "legitimate?" When I was at the New School, it was clear
that
faculty publications in URPE were not considered "valid."
Actually, this
The John Birch society used to make a big deal that Earth Day was
celebrated on Lenin's birthday.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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Max brings up an interesting challenge. I disagree with him, but I do not
have enough factual evidence to clinch my case.
I am sure that the poor are hurt more by pollution than they are helped by
the decrease in costs.
Any suggestions?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California
From time to time, listproc drops people from pen-l, or people need to
postpone or change their status. Well, here is the relevant material:
Dear Penners,
This is an occasional reminder of some of the listserv commands at your
disposal. The commands have been capitalized for emphasis.
These
These are the issues that Tom Athanasiou covers in "Divided Planet." Also,
check out Mark Dowie's "Losing Ground", a stinging critique of the
pro-corporate drift of mainstream groups. Finally, everybody who has even
the slightest interest in these questions should subscribe to Counterpunch,
Jim Craven's acerbic comment on academic patois was necessary
but ultimately futile, for this is an old problem that never
really changes.
What follows is - in case you can't tell - a cri de coeur
on the subject from a member of Berkeley's Bad Subjects
Emissions trading is a crock. If you want to give polluction credits, why
not give everybody an equal credit instead of rewarding people for
historical patterns of pollution?
In the case of Southern California, companies buy old junked cars, under the
assumption that the hulk would run and spew
This isn't the whole story of the NDP, loggers and the environmental
movement, Paul.
As part of its pandering to business and right wing labour, the BC NDP
government actually labelled Greenpeace "enemies of BC". When enviros
were arrested for blocking logging in the Carmanah watershed a couple
At 05:54 p.m. 2/23/98 -0800, you wrote:
Emissions trading is a crock. If you want to give polluction credits, why
not give everybody an equal credit instead of rewarding people for
historical patterns of pollution?
In the case of Southern California, companies buy old junked cars, under the
The Daily Telegraph Sunday 22 February 1998
ANC GUERRILLAS TURN TO CRIME
By Alec Russell in Johannesburg
In a nightmare for post-apartheid South Africa, former African
National Congress guerrillas have become disillusioned with their
SPRING OFFENSIVE TOURS
Knocked down but not knocked out. Detroit's locked-out newspaper
workers are continuing their thirty-two month long fight against the Detroit
News and the Detroit Free Press and for their jobs and a good union
contract.
2000 Detroit newspaper workers struck the
CREDIT: Lila Kingsland, Calgary
The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has
been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European
communications, rather than German, which was the other
Max B. Sawicky wrote:
If government gives away emissions permits, then clearly
corporations do not benefit as a group, since one firm's
sale is another's purchase. If the government sells them,
corporations are net losers in the aggregate.
For every tradable pollution permit
Aside from those rather snide comments, I think the more interesting question
is how to get some of these lefty journals talking to each other and the rest
of the profession rather than addressing their little piece of audience.
Feminist Economics was named one of the year's best journals
R. Anders Schneiderman:
Lous, why did you feel the need to cite Lenin chapter verse to argue that
sectarianism is bad?
Because I am in the process of collecting my thoughts for a more formal
reply to Harvey. Harvey tries to stake out a classic Marxist position on
social movements, but I will
Max talks about the conflict between the coal miners
and ecologists in the US. Here in Canada, there has
been a major conflict between loggers and ecologists,
particularly in BC where the forest industry is the
key to the provincial economy.
This has led to major problems for the NDP both
At 03:46 PM 2/23/98 +, Max wrote:
Environmentalism in the large is about raising the costs
of consumption that is most susceptible to taxation under
current circumstances.
Maybe DC is populated mostly with bone-headed liberal environmentalists
whose version of "environmentalism" would fit
In a message dated 98-02-23 15:57:51 EST, you write:
Can anyone think of a better metaphor than the Titanic one?
Well, Jim, since you asked, how about Dante's Inferno. An eternity of crises.
maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Here's Phil Ochs' definition of liberalism, from back in the day:
As for a short aphorism about the future of capitalism (rather than a
metaphor), how about "Socialism or Barbarism." I think that's usually
credited to Rosa Luxemburg.
http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~trent/ochs
Love Me, I'm a Liberal
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Over the weekend, I heard an album by the anarchist-singer U.
I just got word from somebody who can place Boucher and these disputes into
some kind of context. He said that he believes that Boucher comes out of a
group associated with RETHINKING MARXISM, which includes others who are all
pursuing a similar line. There was an article by Blair Sandler in RM
Max's defense of Boucher was not surprising. EPI has raised serious
questions about the Clinton approach to global warming, from the
perspective of the coal miners.
Here is a real and serious environmental problem. The corporations will
make out with their emissions trading and the workers
I'd be interested to hear your analysis of Harvey's position. Again, from
what you cite here, it hardly seems like a sectarian sin. Isn't Harvey's
complaint about exactly the kind of problem that led to the Environmental
Justice movement?
Anders Schneiderman
In "What is to be Done" Lenin
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