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Harper's Magazine February 1999
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DISTRICT 11'S
(The spell-checker translated Shliefer as "Slicer" and "Shifter" and
"neo-liberalism" as "neocolonialism." From the mouths of machines! Of
course, Peter was Doorman.)
Beware. The spell-checker translates the name of Shleifer's frequent
co-author Robert Vishny as "Vishnu."
OM MANI PADME HUM...
By the way is David Yaffe, the same fellow that wrote marxists stuff a few
decades ago?
--
No, that David Yaffe is a different David Yaffe.
Louis Proyect
(http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)
.. . . we had a four-day work week?
The NEXT CITY asked Tom Walker, a social policy analyst with TimeWork Web,
and Jock Finlayson, vice-president of policy and analysis for the Business
Council of British Columbia, to comment.
go to:
http://www.nextcity.com/whatif/whatif14.htm
Who makes more
Rosser Jr, John Barkley wrote:
1) Bourdieu was the first to coin the term "social
capital."
According to Senior, England was successful because "the intellectual and moral
capital of Great Britain far exceeds all the material capital, not only in
importance, but in productiveness"
Trevor,
You are right about how the nineteenth century US case
differs from the euro case. But, how do you answer my
arguments about a possible black market in cash, with my
potential Dutch drug dealers as a possibility. Answering
that Moroccan hashish dealers don't prefer marks or
I think that Barkley's examples differ from the situation regarding the
euro. Notes issued by US banks in the nineteenth century exchanged at
varying discounts because there was no central bank that integrated the
monetary system. In the case of the euro, the European System of Central
Banks
Peter Dorman writes:
Shliefer's theory of soft incentives goes like this: We know that
private, profit-seeking firms minimize costs.
I know that Peter knows this, but profit-seeking firms do not minimize
costs _in general_, but only their own (private) costs. As E.K. Hunt
pointed out years
Yeah, I thought it was very disappointing article; Lewis has never written
anything even half as good as Liar's Poker. It was also very
Trail Fever was pretty good, I thought,
though you have to be struck by Lewis'
predilection for agreeing w/either Morrie
Taylor or Alan Keyes, depending on
Peter Dorman wrote:
I wonder if we could provoke Doug Henwood's reaction to the article on
LTCM in last Sunday's New York Times Magazine. It struck me as an
apologetic: Michael Lewis went to Greenwich, listened to LTCM's side of
the story, and wrote it up. The only thing wrong with their
Josh Mason wrote:
Gerald Levy wrote:
Doug writes:
H-lp! LBO badly needs an intern snip
What did you say you were offering prospective candidates in terms of an
hourly wage and benefits?
$50/week for 5-10 hours of work. No benefits, sorry.
Except an education money can't buy.
The education
I wonder if we could provoke Doug Henwood's reaction to the article on
LTCM in last Sunday's New York Times Magazine. It struck me as an
apologetic: Michael Lewis went to Greenwich, listened to LTCM's side of
the story, and wrote it up. The only thing wrong with their models,
they say, is that
I'm with Gery on this one Doug, you evil, bloodthirsty, imperialist,
exploiter
Steve
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Doug Henwood wrote:
Gerald Levy wrote:
Doug writes:
H-lp! LBO badly needs an intern snip
What did you say you were offering prospective candidates in terms
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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 17:27:21 -0800
From: Peter Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Organization: The
Interesting post, Lou. Several observations.
1) Bourdieu was the first to coin the term "social
capital." This has become a hot topic among
"communitarians," most notably with Harvard's Robert Putnam
and his "bowling alone" stuff. He derives the concept from
James Coleman and
Greetings from Scotland, and thanks to Lou for his comments and analysis,
which seldom fail to be interesting and are usually pertinent, if not
always 100% accurate.
On accuracy, I'll just mention that the department at Duke that has
"imploded" is not the Literature Program (at which I did, and
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Dear Pen-L,
This sounds pretty good to me. Anyone want to go into the radio
business?
Your email pal,
Tom L.
http://chicagotribune.com/version1/article/0,1575,SAV-9901280202,00.html
name="0,1575,SAV-9901280202,00.html"
It's funny, really, that such certifiably educated folks would confound self
and subjectivity. That's the root form of *essentialism* that has been known
to philosophy for ages as solipsism.
Tom Walker
http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/
Hi Lou,
Long time no converse. I have attached a reply I wrote to an article that
you posted from MR last year, Christopher Rudes review of _Globalization
and Its Discontents: The Rise of Postmodern Socialisms_ by Roger Burbach,
Orlando Nunez, and Boris Kagarlitsky. My reply focuses on the
Last night I read the Lingua Franca article on the decline and fall of the
Duke Literature department with morbid fascination. ("The Department that
Fell to Earth," David Yaffe, Feb. 99) While not quite as scandalous as the
discovery that Paul De Man, Yale's post-structuralism guru, had been a
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Adding to a series of Internet-related calamities at BLS, the agency's
Gerald Levy wrote:
Doug writes:
H-lp! LBO badly needs an intern snip
What did you say you were offering prospective candidates in terms of an
hourly wage and benefits?
$50/week for 5-10 hours of work. No benefits, sorry. The Village Voice pays
$0/week for full-time interns, and The Nation,
Doug writes:
H-lp! LBO badly needs an intern snip
What did you say you were offering prospective candidates in terms of an
hourly wage and benefits?
Jerry
Ray E. Harrell wrote,
Ed,
Let us talk about artists. Truth and Beauty. A mirror and an ideal.
At Kyoto it is a mirror and a stone which seems a parallel but the
Japanese will have to tell us about that. In America it was a dark
mirror and a clear mirror with a hole in it that spoke of the
--
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999 11:03:32 Jim Devine wrote:
In response to Doug's effort to hire an intern,
Tom Walker wrote: Would that be LBO as in LiBidO?
Doug responded: I'm too old for one of those.
easy: body, soul and spirit in tandem (or is it traend'em now?
that fool freud who was raised
what's that work like then tom?
Growing a site?
Does it come with seedsaver samples
produce subscriptions or acreage or anything like that?
HotBot - Search smarter.
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So Amazon delivered to me vols 1 2 of Capital and the Grundrisse today,
and vol 3 is on the way. So they're not out of print yet.
Doug
Gerald Levy wrote:
Doug writes:
H-lp! LBO badly needs an intern snip
What did you say you were offering prospective candidates in terms of an
hourly wage and benefits?
$50/week for 5-10 hours of work. No benefits, sorry.
Except an education money can't buy. And the doors Doug's name opens
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