[PEN-L:2203] Re: Capital/ out of print

1999-01-15 Thread Doug Henwood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I am finally getting to teach my course on Capital again. Now, I learn >that the Penguin/Vintage volumes 2 & 3 are out of print!! The >International Publishers edition also seems to be unavailable. > >Does anybody know about this? Amazon has all three volumes (with Er

[PEN-L:2207] Re: Animals and class (was: Lenin statues)

1999-01-15 Thread Ken Hanly
Interesting post. Although it is true that animals are sometimes treated better than humans, at least the unemployed are not put down if they can't find a boss who will adopt them within a few weeks. I guess that is partly because the reserve army of unemployed serves a capitalist function whereas

[PEN-L:2206] (no subject)

1999-01-15 Thread michael
pen-l will be down over the weekend until 5:00 pm California time. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:2205] [BRC-ALL] White privilege in racist America

1999-01-15 Thread Michael Eisenscher
> > This article appeared in the Baltimore Sun newspaper > and was written by a white professor at the U of > Texas. > > "White people need to acknowledge benefits of > unearned privilege" By Robert Jensen > > BALTIMORE: Here's what white privilege sounds like: > I'm sitting in my University

[PEN-L:2202] Capital/ out of print

1999-01-15 Thread michael
I am finally getting to teach my course on Capital again. Now, I learn that the Penguin/Vintage volumes 2 & 3 are out of print!! The International Publishers edition also seems to be unavailable. Does anybody know about this? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State Universit

[PEN-L:2204] Re: Re: Bosses

1999-01-15 Thread Michael Eisenscher
Obviously whoever said that management had no creative impulse was wrong in at least a limited respect. They just don't happen to demonstrate it in ways that the rest of the world is likely to perceivebut among their own, all their creative juices (such as they are) appear to flow like the Ni

[PEN-L:2201] john gurley and maoism

1999-01-15 Thread Michael Perelman
Does anybody recall where John Gurley published his famous essay on Maoism? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chico, CA 95929 530-898-5321 fax 530-898-5901

[PEN-L:2200] Re: IN FOCUS: World Bank's Private Sector Agenda

1999-01-15 Thread Ken Hanly
Erik Leaver, in a separate post, maintains that the Interhemispheric Resource Center does not support the World Bank lending to the private sector but maintains only that IF it does so there should be appropriate filters to ensure funds are used for sustainable development, are ecologically sound,

Shleifer and incentives

1999-01-15 Thread Peter Dorman
I finally got around to reading Andrei Shleifer's rant against the public sector in the Fall 98 J of Econ Perspectives. For those of you who haven't looked at it (and I can understand why), Shleifer argues that contract theory (post Williamson and Hart) supports the idea that almost any good or s

[PEN-L:2199] Animals and class (was: Lenin statues)

1999-01-15 Thread sokol
At 12:18 AM 1/15/99 -0600, Ken Hanley wrote: >P.S. Isn't attitude towards animals an indication of attitude towards people? >My sister-in-law broke off an engagement when her fiancee tried to run down a >rabbit with his pickup. The person she married also thought that was an >unforgivable act. The

[PEN-L:2198] Re: Re: IN FOCUS: World Bank's Private SectorAgenda

1999-01-15 Thread Interhemispheric Resource Center
Ken- Thanks for the critique--it is always good too keep pressuring the project to stay to the left. In the recommendation section it was noted that: >> If the World Bank sees the private sector as a partner and contributor to >> its overall development approach, then it must clarify the develop

[PEN-L:2197] (Fwd) (Fwd) Information

1999-01-15 Thread James Michael Craven
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[PEN-L:2196] (Fwd) RE: Email Addresses for NASC

1999-01-15 Thread James Michael Craven
Dear Pen-l Friends, I have been "allowed" to contact pen-l and 21 other addresses while there is a decision pending whether or not I will be banned permanently from contacting those addresses from work. Part of the change was due to union pressure and also my colleague Gerry Smith put the hea

[PEN-L:2195] Democratic Left Discussion Documentboundary="------------8CE3C4371BFF1F87DE0D6B7B"

1999-01-15 Thread Tom Lehman
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --8CE3C4371BFF1F87DE0D6B7B --8CE3C4371BFF1F87DE0D6B7B for jhurd_dsa-doc-outgoing; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 13:17:04 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 13:16:35 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Hurd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Democratic Lef

[PEN-L:2194] Re: Bosses

1999-01-15 Thread valis
I want to thank Michael E for the delectable list of put-downs - a number of them actually quite clever - that some or another impulse moved him to post. I've taped a printout to the back of my downtown Washington street map, just in case I have to relate to anyone the next time I'm there.

[PEN-L:2190] Re: Lenin statues

1999-01-15 Thread Ken Hanly
Of course I meant my remarks as an attempt at humour, but by implication I meant them to have more "pompous" import. Lenin was contemptuous of sculptures as icons promoting the predominant culture. Their proper role is to be the receptacles of pigeon-shit. At the same time, he realized that they w