On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Doug Henwood wrote:
> My own recent tours of campuses, and conversations with
> academics, combine to present a less pretty picture of the U.S. college
> population. They seem, for the most part, poorly educated and don't seem to
> give a fuck about much of anything. Am I jus
Quoth jf noonan:
> > With a certain and fortunately infrequent shift of wind, I'm sometimes
> > made amply aware that the Milorganite plant is cranking. Not a particularly
> > offensive odor, but maddeningly suggestive of this and that.
>
> Milorganite turns out not to be the miracle substanc
john gulick lividly debunks:
> >Milwaukee feels like a well-run city.
>
> H ... I thought that Milwaukee was among the most if not the most
> segregated cities in the U.S. (not that you can pin this sorry condition
> on one neo-liberal hack mayor).
Yes, John, whatever Milwaukee was during
I'm intrigued by the reference to Mike Cooley in LP's last post on
Rover. First, what is Cooley doing these days? Has he written anything
we can get our hands on in the US? Second, why didn't South End reprint
the revised version of his ARCHITECT OR BEE?, which is much better (IMO)
than the fir
Dennis R Redmond wrote:
>Or you can teach 40 or so hip hop-chanting undergrads the latest in the
>global cultural dialectic. They'll keep you honest, believe me; if you
>start preaching theory at them, they go to sleep right in front of
>you (hey, after 10,000 hours of TV, they're past masters of
Milorganite was thought to have caused an epidemic of Lou Gerig's disease
among former SF 49ers football players, who had their faces ground into
the grass before the days of astroturf.
By the way, since this discussion brought up the term sewer socialism, I
have been trying to find out where Eng
Louis, I for one find personal criticisms of David Harvey to be useless.
I'll bet he has character flaws, since everyone else does (including that
old hairy German guy who wrote so much). The question is: what are the
theoretical and/or empirical holes in his perspective? I know you've talked
abou
Rosser Jr, John Barkley wrote:
>In case you didn't know, privatizing money and
>eliminating central banks is an old Austrian idea long
>pushed by Hayek.
Yeah, and some Thatcherites were hot on the idea, I think. But they weren't
nutty enough to do it.
Doug
james m blaut wrote:
> Louis P:
>
> Read on. Give us a new post on each chapter of David Harvey's book as you
> finish reading it. Let's see if your ideas change as you proceed.
>
> En lucha
>
> Jim B
>
> P.S. Tail the workers. Down with theory.
This is silly. It was precisely the workers who
I find myself increasingly drawn into the existential-political subtext of
David Harvey's "Justice, Nature & the Geography of Difference."
Although I began reading the book in order to prepare a rebuttal on the
American Indian/ecology question, I find myself deeply fascinated with the
self-portra
Does anyone know of any work that has been done that brings the figures in
Anwar Shaikh's _Measuring the Wealth of Nations_ as up-to-date as possible?
jd
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Business economists report that growth in demand
We still have trolleys on some of the public transit lines in Boston -
long ones that bend in the middle when going around curves.
Peter Dorman wrote:
>Milwaukee was one of the last cities to have a working trolley system.
>I remember the cars whizzing by when I was a kid. (I'm from Racine.)
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Remember all those rumors a month or so ago that we had def
Milwaukee was one of the last cities to have a working trolley system.
I remember the cars whizzing by when I was a kid. (I'm from Racine.)
Peter Dorman
Michael Eisenscher wrote:
>
> Milwaukee's last "socialist" mayor was Frank Zeidler, who, if memory serves
> me, served until 1961. Milwauke
On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, valis wrote:
> Michael Eisenscher recalled, in part:
>
> > its own sewage treatment plant to convert waste into organic fertilizer with
> > the trade name Milorganite (I think that was it), which it sold to Wisconsin
> > farmers. I may have some details wrong since it's been
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On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Mark Jones wrote:
> Between 1990-1996 Chinese GNP
> increased by 56%. Ex-Soviet GDP DECLINED by fifty %. The Chinese
> state had long been incorporated as a periphery into the world
> market and was not challenged by the collapse of the 1917-91
> world-system.
China's per ca
Rob Schaap wrote:
> A study has just been promulgated in Oz which shows that our
> part-publicly-owned Telco charges more for its calls than anyone else in
> the first world. I'm thinking this might be for several reasons (not least
> that if you partially privatise something it will be inclined
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