G'day Mike Jim,
I'm guessing total factor productivity is wrong in as far as it frames the
actual producer as but a factor of production - one of them little ways our
order unconsciously factors its bankrupt ethics/values into its 'objective
science', eh?
Or is Jim also talking about
As usual, Jim - many thanks for this - you're a fine man to have on a list.
I especially like that 'new growth' theory - seems to get terribly close to
notions like variable capital and surplus value. A little more theoretical
development there, and we could be in 1857 by 2010 ...
Now all I
Who's Sticking to the Union?
ANDREW HACKER
New York Review, February 18, 1999
(Complete article is at http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/index.html)
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Dear Pen-L,
Here is a press release concerning steel dumping.
Last week in testimony before congress our international president
George Becker said, "10,000 steelworkers have already lost their jobs
because of
Michael Perelman wrote:
The disease metaphor worked because diseases do not always respect such
barriers.
Doug Henwood wrote:
Build gated communities?
No they don't but I think you're underestimating the preference of the
privileged to insulate themselves as much as possible from a problem
I agree with everything that you wrote. I only mentioned the idea of
disease because insulation is difficult and because it strikes at the
person and raises deep fears that other social problems do not.
Doug Henwood wrote:
No they don't but I think you're underestimating the preference of
Quoth Doug, in conclusion:
I'm sorry to repeat myself on this to the point of boredom, but most
intellectuals overestimate the power of reason in politics.
^^^
Say it yet again, Doug; till they get it.
It's a deadly delusion.
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"This economy is the wonder of the economic world," Robert
Dederick, consultant with the Northern Trust Co., tells the Bureau of
National Affairs. "This is rewrite the [economic] textbook time. While the
consumer continues to buy as if there is no
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The U.S. economy continued to outpace expectations, logging growth of 5.6
Jim,
Recently in Sacramento, David Marshall of the CPUSA spoke about the
Russian crisis and the responses of the Communist parties. In a
nutshell, despite the awful suffering of the population at the hands of
we know who (ex-nomenklatura and U.S. capital), he was encouraged during
his
I'll believe this when Gary Hart enters the 2000 Demo primaries on a
platform of restoring transparency to presidential philandering.
Charles Brown wrote,
How about this as a real motive behind the seemingly self-destructive
Republican continuing press on impeachment ? They are trying to get
Doug Henwood asked,
I've given up trying to get a response to this sort of thing from the
cranks on PKT. Any reactions here?
In a word, "hubris".
So today's WSJ article on Keynes says:
quote
But the 1990s boom has also had a distinctly reverse-Keynesian flavor.
Countries that made the tough
Valis wrote,
Quoth Doug, in conclusion:
I'm sorry to repeat myself on this to the point of boredom, but most
intellectuals overestimate the power of reason in politics.
^^^
Say it yet again, Doug; till they get it.
It's a deadly
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How about this as a real motive behind the seemingly self-destructive Republican
continuing press on impeachment ? They are trying to get rid of the Independent
Counsel statute. It originated after Watergate , and Republicans have always disliked
it. Republican Presidents have been its main
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At 09:06 AM 02/02/99 -0500, Tom L. wrote:
Dear Pen-L, Here is a press release concerning steel dumping. Last week
in testimony before congress our international president George Becker
said, "10,000 steelworkers have already lost their jobs because of steel
dumping and another 100,000
"Every Worker is an Organizer --
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On Tue, February 2, 1999 at 10:11:11 (-0500) Doug Henwood writes:
So today's WSJ article on Keynes says:
But the 1990s boom has also had a distinctly reverse-Keynesian
flavor. Countries that made the tough decisions to reduce their
deficits have thrived, as supportive financial
Friends,
I forgot to state that the book review (actually it is a review article)
from which I quoted, written by Yanis Varoufakis, appears in "Science
Society," Winter 1998-99, pp. 585-591.
michael yates
In a message dated 99-02-01 23:23:26 EST, Jim Devine inquires:
I forget... does "IMF" stand for International Milton Friedman or
International Mother F**kers?
I believe that the two alternative names are interchangeable. But perhaps we
could build a probit model to test for their relative
In a review of "In Defence of History: Marxism and the Postmodern
Agenda" (edited by Ellen Wood and John Foster, Monthly Review 1997),
economics professor, Yanis Varoufakis of the Univ. of Sydney, says,
"Come to think of it, the asymptotic limit of postmodern fragmentation
is the neoclassical
On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Doug Henwood wrote:
So today's WSJ article on Keynes says:
quote
The [IMF] study concluded that the 14 cases where governments had been
the most draconian -- notably Denmark and Ireland in the mid-1980s --
resulted in the fastest growth.
Ho ho ho. The IMF has outdone
Friends,
This is a very fine post, and we should reflect on it. I really love
Andy Warhol. I recommend a visit to the Warhol Museum on Pitsburgh's
seedy North Side. It's a great museum. Warhol was born into poverty in
Pittsburgh, and whatever one can say about his lifestyle, I have never
William S. Lear wrote:
No they don't but I think you're underestimating the preference of the
privileged to insulate themselves as much as possible from a problem rather
than facing it head on. From the first, the response to AIDS has been to
ignore its threat to "normal" (i.e., affluent white
=== Under the above title, I forwarded Doug's Brian Barry quote
from "Thatcherism" to a correspondent in the Deep South.
Presently the following analysis / prophecy came back,
entitled "Common sense and vampires." Whaddya think, class?
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In a message dated 99-02-02 10:11:07 EST, doug quotes a keynesian article:
For a 1996 report on fiscal policy around the
world, IMF economists conducted a detailed study of 62 attempts by
industrial countries over the prior quarter-century to get their finances
in order. The study concluded
Ben Shahn is an icon of the working-class and revolutionary 1920s and 30s.
Jackson Pollock emerges from this milieu, but becomes transformed by
ex-Trotskyist art critics into a symbol of cold-war liberalism. The
respective schools they spoke for--social realism and Abstract
Expressionism--came to
I'll leave it to others to compare pomo with GET. I find it interesting
that Varoufakis writes for Science Society. He is a game theorist
with a refreshingly unorthodox take on the strengths and limitations of
the field. His "critical introduction" to game theory with Shaun
Hargreaves Heap is
A new area for individual action to stay ahead of failures is in electric power.
A number of otherwise inciteful people are extolling the benefits of "getting off
the grid." There are some new small electric generating technologies that appeal
to people. Put one in your garage or on your roof
On Tue, February 2, 1999 at 10:21:06 (-0500) Doug Henwood writes:
Michael Perelman wrote:
The disease metaphor worked because diseases do not always respect such
barriers.
Doug Henwood wrote:
Build gated communities?
No they don't but I think you're underestimating the preference of the
Friends,
In a review of "In Defence of History: Marxism and the Postmodern
Agenda" (edited by Ellen Wood and John Foster, Monthly Review 1997),
economics professor, Yanis Varoufakis of the Univ. of Sydney, says,
"Come to think of it, the asymptotic limit of postmodern fragmentation
is the
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