Stephen:
You are correct to be concerned, but at least the debate has been revived and
the outcome may be a reduction of dependence on foreign trade and investment.
Shanghai, like New York, does not represent all of China.
Henry C.K. Liu
Stephen E Philion wrote:
> Recall what I said last week
Tom L. replied to my objection to protectionism:
>Ok. Bill what's your plan?
Unions should focus on defending workers from *our* bosses, not delude
ourselves that we can fix international capitalism. I responded to your
suggestion that our task is to set the standards for the rest of the world
b
>Consider the recent story about a truck driver who gave a lift to a man in
a dark suit. The man in the suit asked the driver if he ever invested in
stocks. He replied that not only did he do so, but that he had been able to
buy a tropical island with the proceeds. This is the modern equivalent of
THE FINANCIAL TIMES May 13 1999
NONSENSE ON STILTS
Most of the rationalisations for the Wall Street boom were
foreshadowed
in the run-up to the 1929 crash
Samuel Brittan
Whatever Wall Street's immediate reaction to the long-awaited departure
of
Robert Rubin as Treasury secretary, it w
Peter is correct that radical economics is not reproducing itself. The
space for new left economists is limited to a few liberal arts colleges,
Catholic institutions, and less prestigious state colleges. For the most
part, these do not have graduate programs.
During the '60s, students demanded
Let's be blunt. Nonneoclassical economics is not reproducing itself.
It needs a fresh supply of PhD's who can be hired to teach new ones *in
graduate programs*. With a few exceptions the radical/alternative
programs (UMass, New School, AU, Notre Dame, etc.) hire people from
mainstream programs.
On Fri, May 14, 1999, 2:42 pm, Tom Walker wrote:
>>Michael Keaney wrote:
>>
>>>One possible advantage accruing from present circumstances - more an
>>>unintended side effect - is that the so-called old fogeys preserve what
>>>remains of heterodox teaching and research.
>>
>>On the other hand:
>>
Recall what I said last week about the often confused discourse of
anti-imperialism and neo-liberal ideology taking plaace in China at the
moment...
Steve
>
>HK Standard
>May 15, 1999
>
>Backlash against US goods could boomerang
>
> STORY: SHANGHAI: Chinese citizens would damage the
Charles:
>Barkley:
> I get my versions from the Washington Post
>which reports stuff that is not just from "official
>spokespersons."
>
>Charles: This is not very critical thinking. To buy the
>idea that the monopoly media is independent from the
>U.S. power structure is to be under U.S. Big Brot
howdee,
although wall street prices aren't indexed in the cpi, i'm wondering if
there is some relationship between the stock market boom and inflation.
perhaps what the notion of a "bubble" is supposed to imply--but given that
securities are relatively liquid, wouldn't there be something to the i
Ken,
Actually, I am already on record as saying that
Albright is the major player on the NATO side in this.
She must be held responsible, more than anybody
else for the pointlessly civilian dead ("but we had
good intentions!") in Yugoslavia, whose numbers are
unfortunately just going to keep
Barkley wrote:
>Louis,
>OK, so what's your solution? Partition?
>Domination and discrimination by minority
>Serbs of majority Albanians? Removal of
>majority Albanians by minority Serbs by force?
I come at this from a somewhat different angle than most people. I don't
think there can be pea
Louis,
"Originally the home of Serbia's founding dynasty..."
Uh, Louis, did history begin in the 12th century? I think
that we have been through these deep historical
exercises already. You want to start waxing eloquent
about Kosmet as the "spiritual home" of the Serbs?
Give us a break.
Jim,
Well, as a further addendum to my earlier response
to Louis, another hard fact is that there has been
tension and at times violent conflict, between the
Serbian and Albanian ethnic populations in Kosovo-
Metohija for a long time and certainly off and on all of
this century. Furthermore
Louis,
OK, so what's your solution? Partition?
Domination and discrimination by minority
Serbs of majority Albanians? Removal of
majority Albanians by minority Serbs by force?
Or, my preferred approach, enforcement
of everybody's rights by an external group,
preferably, as Gysi urges, f
There's been some confusion about where exactly this article is on the
Covert Action webpage. Here is the exact URL which will point you to it:
http://www.covertaction.org/lead_frameset_5.htm
Louis Proyect
(http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)
Ken Hanly wrote:
>Does NATO intend to pay any compensation to the Chinese for the
>mistaken attack on its embassy?
The unexploded cruises are a gift to Chinese reverse engineers.
Doug
>Louis, that's an interesting article, but is there any evidence that Hoxha
>actively sought to subvert Yugoslavia by arming ethnic Albanian Kosovars,
>propagandizing them, etc.? And did Tito and his successors respond in any
>way?
I'll tell you the truth. I've been digging through the history o
>to what extent are the current troubles in Serbia due to Enver Hoxha's
>efforts to attack Tito (or due to antagonisms between the old Yugoslavia
>and the old Albania)?
>
>Jim Devine
>From an article by David Binder, NY Times, Apr. 19, 1981:
Outsiders sometimes forget that socialist Yugoslavia
Ok. Bill what's your plan?
Your email pal,
Tom
Bill Burgess wrote:
> At 04:04 PM 13/05/99 -0400, Tom L. wrote:
>
> >What we do here sets the standard for the rest of the world!
>
> This is partly true, but when linked to various protectionist-like schemes
> it really means "we" come first, whi
Tom Walker wrote:
>APRIL CPI STILL SHOWS NO SIGNS OF WAGE-PUSH INFLATION.
Quite true. The real wage growth of the last few years seems to have
peaked. Real wages are still positive, year-to-year, but ebbing.
Doug
> Robert Naiman wrote:
> >>So how does the U.S. look compared to other OECD countries if you count
> >>institutionalized adults as part of the population? Can one also account
> >>for the role of the military?
>
> Doug gave us the figures on incarceration, but what about the military? I
> remembe
Now that's just like Barkley to obtain vicarious pleasure in imagining His
Excellency dead and
then imagining as well that the present Kosovo mess might not have followed.
But why not
pick on some of the pro-NATO heroes? Imagine that Clinton's inordinate
sexual desires got the better of him last f
Barkley wrote:
> I think that this is a very interesting letter.
>Unfortunately we all must face another hard fact.
>Part of the fact that Milosevic has won (nor more
>"petulance," Louis, now I'll just call him a schmuck
>and a mass murdererer (would the 200,000+ of the
>Croatian-Bosnian war b
Michael,
The problem is that the heterodox old fogeys
are not in positions of power in the main Ph.D.
granting institutions. There are a few such
institutions that have heterodox economics programs.
But they are few in number and their graduates have
a great deal of trouble getting placed ou
Michael,
I do not think that "evil emanates from a single
person," certainly not always. But when one person
seems to be generating a lot of it, I do not see any
reason not to point a finger and hold responsibility.
In this case, let's think about it carefully. This is
repetition of st
Does NATO intend to pay any compensation to the Chinese for the
mistaken attack on its embassy? THere seems no mention of this,
just profuse apologies. Shouldn't NATO at the very least pay for
the damage, and perhaps some compensation to families of the
victims? Was there ever any compensation for
Seems to me that a lot of the heterodox old foggies have become converted to
orthodox fogdom with their
spectacles fogged by a slightly different coloured fog. Those who a few years ago
may
have asked interesting questions re Marxism have settled down in a sort Walrasian
Analytical Marxism, that t
Doug writes:
>Didn't Joan Robinson say that the only thing worse than being exploited
>under capitalism is not being exploited?
Your mate Manuel Castells seems to say this, too. Without having much to
say for or against the Marxian argument for the category of exploitation,
he merely pronounce
I think that this is a very interesting letter.
Unfortunately we all must face another hard fact.
Part of the fact that Milosevic has won (nor more
"petulance," Louis, now I'll just call him a schmuck
and a mass murdererer (would the 200,000+ of the
Croatian-Bosnian war be alive if he had die
Does D.C Heath publishing still exist? If not, who bought them?
Thanks,
Doug Orr
PS if they exist, does anyone know their URL?
At 01:54 PM 5/14/99 -0500, Ken wrote:
>But why not
>pick on some of the pro-NATO heroes? Imagine that Clinton's inordinate
>sexual desires got the better of him last fall and he had a passionate
>affair with Madeline Albright and she had a fatal heart attack during sex.
>Imagine also that at the
>>From an article by David Binder, NY Times, Apr. 19, 1981:
Louis, that's an interesting article, but is there any evidence that Hoxha
actively sought to subvert Yugoslavia by arming ethnic Albanian Kosovars,
propagandizing them, etc.? And did Tito and his successors respond in any
way?
Jim Dev
At 01:31 PM 5/14/99 -0400, Louis wrote:
>Barkley, you leave out enormous gaps in your account of the Balkan
>problems. Milosevic's attack on Kosovan autonomy did not come out of the
>blue. It was preceded by at least 7 years of mounting tensions in which
>Kosovars had made life miserable for the a
At 04:04 PM 13/05/99 -0400, Tom L. wrote:
>What we do here sets the standard for the rest of the world!
This is partly true, but when linked to various protectionist-like schemes
it really means "we" come first, which is not a sound basis for
international solidarity.
Bill Burgess
>
I think so (refers to your question at the end). Manuel Castells' take on
the global-informational economy is that it incorporates and it excludes.
His effort in showing how it excludes (Africa, inner cities, child labor)
should not be interpreted as calling for inclusion under exploitative
relat
Now that inflation has returned to the financial pages, at least for a
day, and papers are filled with glowing stories about corporate
consolidations, I wonder if we're going to see a return to the idea that
corporate power is a major factor in price increases?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Depa
On Thu, May 13, 1999, 7:30 pm, Michael Perelman wrote:
>
>Jim Devine made a point that I raised some time ago. In my department, the
>average tenure must be about 20 years. We have no young people and we old
>foggies hang on. Previously, when we had more openings, some young people did
>not ge
Tom L,
So true, so true, my friend,
And then I look at the O.J. case, Littleton, Bill "all is fair in love and war"
Clinton, the fall of the Soviet Union , DNA results of all kinds, etc. and I think:
Truth is stranger than fiction; life imitates art.
I'll do a web search on Ewen. I heard a g
It looks like the real thing this time.
All shares dropping rapidly, Europe lost an average of 2% overnight.
Dow is dropping faster than I can type - 121 points in 8 minutes since
opening and falling.
30 yr bond edges towar 6%.
If it continues into next Monday, it will be all over.
If it doesn't,
I too like facts, and when they resonate as urban legend or rumor, I like them even
better!
Speaking of fiction becoming fact, rather than fact becoming popular---take a look at
Stuart Ewen's book PR! A Social History of Spin.
The novel thing about rumors and legends, is they often turn out to
Michael Keaney writes: >All of which is to say that my original point was
that recruitment policies focusing primarily or significantly on the race,
class or gender of applicants/candidates should also recognise the
intellectual individuality of these individuals. Otherwise we can be as
politicall
TL
My idea is WE are correct, virtuous, highminded, cultured, beautiful, efficient,
poets, practical, sporty, pals ,all that. Nothing's too good for the working class.
It is THEY (the tophats) who are wrong, bad, lowdown, incorrect, grammatically off,
trashy.
As we say in the vernacular.
Yes, they sure do---and I really don't care how it's phrased. Vernacular is
vernacular. And I'm sure your an expert on Detroit vernacular. ;o)
I read super market tabloids and enjoy urban legends, too.
Your email pal,
Tom L.
Charles Brown wrote:
> Tom,
>
> Don't you think most politicians
Barkley raises an important question. If we buy into the fact that all evil
emanates from a single person, then the strategy of demonization works well. I
suspect we should look at larger social forces.
J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote:
> would the 200,000+ of the
> Croatian-Bosnian war be alive
JUST OUT: CPI up 0.7% March to April, 2.3% from April 1998 to April 1999.
These are much larger than anything I have seen in a long, long time. Part
but not all of this is due to gasoline: the "core" rate, excluding Food and
Energy, was up 0.4% in April.
Dave
-
> BLS DAILY REPO
Tom,
Don't you think most politicians need a lot of political correction ?
Charles
>>> Tom Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/13/99 04:04PM >>>
Well, Jim, if it's controls on capital flows. And you can combine that with an
effort to educate and legislate controls right into the corporate charters o
To coin a term: is there a "heterodoxymoron"?
At 07:25 AM 5/14/99 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Michael Perelman wrote:
>
>>>In my department, the
>>>average tenure must be about 20 years. We have no young people and we old
>>>foggies hang on.
>
>Michael Keaney wrote:
>
>>One possible advant
APRIL CPI SOARS 0.7%, MOST SINCE GULF WAR.
As Doug can remind us, though, Henry's exuberant expectation may be
premature. But the question remains: how are the authorities going to squeek
through this one? If the surge in the U.S. CPI can be explained as an
anomaly that takes a lot of heat off.
Michael Perelman wrote:
>>In my department, the
>>average tenure must be about 20 years. We have no young people and we old
>>foggies hang on.
Michael Keaney wrote:
>One possible advantage accruing from present circumstances - more an
>unintended side effect - is that the so-called old fogeys
08:30 APRIL CPI NEARLY DOUBLE EXPECTATIONS.
08:30 APRIL CPI CORE UP 0.4%, MOST IN 4 YEARS.
How now?
regards,
Tom Walker
http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/covenant.htm
Should Osama bin Laden explain that he made a "tragic" mistake and that
he meant only to bomb the building across the street and walk free after
expressing "regret".
Food for thought.
Henry C.K. Liu
Friday May 14 1999
Bin Laden linked to killings
REUTERS in
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