Rod writes:
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>I don't know what "do artifacts have politics" means. Is this the old
>neutrality of technology debate dressed up in new clothes?
The way you refer to the debate gives it an air of fustiness that I don't
think it deserves, but in answer to your question, yes.
WDK writes:
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>Who do
Fair questions all.
Nussbaum's list keeps changing, which is human and understandable, but
points to the difficulty of anyone saying what the objective conditions
for human flourishing really are.
Actually, the list is pretty good, as far as it goes. Any such list,
however, puts people in the p
I should say a little more, I think, about what I like in Mumford and
what makes it difficult for me to "use" him. Mumford gives technology
an extraordinarily political reading; he thinks through the implications
of technical choices for human liberation and healthy lifeways (which he
sees as lin
For those who are interested in analyses of the political economy of
China, here are two bang-up articles from the Hong Kong Marxist Raymond
WK Lau. Any discussions of China that don't make mention of this guy
are, in my book, missing the boat.
Steve
Lau, Raymond W. K.
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>I have had very good luck with my Palm III handheld computer. Among other
>things, it's extremely simple. The system is much more like DOS or simple
>UNIX and therefore doesn't have all the overhead that Windows has. Better,
>the op
G'day Bill,
>Who do you suggest is a good critic of technology I should read, rather
>than Manders? You're right about him, by the time I got through reading
>his diatribe against TV, bad as I hate TV, I was almost ready to plug in
>my own TV set again.
I still rate Lewis Mumford (*Technics & C
Today in South Africa we have an excellent national public sector
strike underway, mainly over pay.
I've been asked as a favour to help comrades identify, as a matter of
urgency, any studies or experts who've focused attention on
wage/salary differentials between highest and lowest paid civil
THE HINDU
April 27, 1999
South Asia, China will grow fast- World Bank
WASHINGTON, APRIL 26. The World Bank has said that South Asia and China
will grow fast enough to reduce poverty by half by the year 2015. "All
developing regions have lost momentum in achieving their poverty goals...
Curren
Gil Skillman wrote:
>Doug, I can't tell from your post what you're taking issue with: that gen
>eq was revived in the 1930s? That it was considered "everybody's
>economics"? What? Gil
>
> >Mark Blaug writes in Economic Theory in Retrospect (5th ed., p. 290):
> >
> >"Utility theory was graduall
Nathan Newman connects my crass commercial endorsement with more
theoretical topics: >Although the handwriting recognition is still a pain
at times. It is amazing how hard it is even for the smartest computer to
recognize the subtle differences even in printed script between people.
Douglas Hofst
Doug, I can't tell from your post what you're taking issue with: that gen
eq was revived in the 1930s? That it was considered "everybody's
economics"? What? Gil
>Mark Blaug writes in Economic Theory in Retrospect (5th ed., p. 290):
>
>"Utility theory was gradually deprived of all its bite and
I use a HP palmtop -- maybe 5 years old. Again, long battery life. I can
use the same DOS outliner that I use on my laptop. Very convenient.
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One very current author who uses Mumford is sociologist Eugene Halton, based
at Notre Dame. His "Bereft of Reason: On the Decline of Social Thought and
Prospects for its Renewal" (Univ Chicago Press, 1995) is well worth reading.
He berates postmodernism and Rorty, labelling them "fragmatists", and
For my part, the so-called "retreats" (glimpses of recognition of aspects of
reality and the inability of the marginalist paradigm to seriously recognize
or deal with those aspects--e.g. imperfect and asymmetric access to
information, shaped rather than autonomously determined "revealed
preference
I know that the following doesn't really belong on pen-l, but it's summer
and the postings are few.
I have had very good luck with my Palm III handheld computer. Among other
things, it's extremely simple. The system is much more like DOS or simple
UNIX and therefore doesn't have all the overhead
Guess who said it.
" . . . By using anti-population "dumb" bombs for "area bombing," Clinton
has abandoned all pretense that his accelerating air strikes are aimed only
at military targets. His Administration has already had to apologize 13
times for what he calls "collateral damage," including
Keynes exaggerates and Blaug misleads. There was macro-economics before
Keynes, (mostly of the monetarist variety) but there is no doubt that
partial equilibrium economics a la Marshall ruled the day. And lurking in
the background were the Austrians. Few in Britain or USA knew Walras and
Paret
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Doug, I can't tell from your post what you're taking issue with: that gen
eq was revived in the 1930s? That it was
For the life of me, I don't know why I didn't know why the projected
surpluses of the US government are to some extent based on the assumption
that certain civilian discretionary programs will continue to be cut... Did
you mention this, Max?
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As the president would say, it all depends on
what t
So let me get this right. The World Bank is predicting that South Asia will
do better, due to supply-side improvements associated with "open[ing] to
the global economy." But this increased competition from South Asia will
make the bad situation in China worse, undermining the WB prediction that
Ch
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BLS DAILY REPORT, WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1999
RELEASED TODAY: In June, 210 metropolitan areas recorded unemployment rates
below the U.S. average (4.5 percent, not seasonally adjusted), while 109
areas had higher rates. Of the nine metropolitan areas with rates below 2.0
percent, five were located
Which part of this rather peculiar passage do you see as contrary to the
Keynesian, pk story?
What Keynes called 'classical' economics (which we call neo-classical)
is primarily Marshallian, which is to say partial not general equilibrium
analysis. I don't know
if Walras' general equilibrium pe
I wrote: >>For the life of me, I don't know why I didn't know why the
projected surpluses of the US government are to some extent based on the
assumption that certain civilian discretionary programs will continue to be
cut... Did you mention this, Max?<
>As the president would say, it all depends
If you want I can send you the poop on the Federal sector
in the U.S. It's a 500K Acrobat file. Don't have anything
on other countries.
Max
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>From SLATE's "Today's Papers" column (Thursday, July 29, 1999) by Scott Shuger
>The New York Times lead is that despite the UN's nominal administrative
control, it's the Kosovo Liberation Army that's truly in charge of Kosovo
>The NYT's veteran foreign correspondent Chris Hedges, filing f
For the life of me, I don't know why I didn't know why the projected
surpluses of the US government are to some extent based on the assumption
that certain civilian discretionary programs will continue to be cut... Did
you mention this, Max?
from the L.A. TIMES, opinion section:
Thursday, July 2
Rob wrote:
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>I still rate Lewis Mumford (*Technics & Civilisation* comes to mind). The
>list'll tell us quickly enough if he's gone way out of fashion, I s'pose.
>
Mumford's undeservedly out of fashion. Off-hand (to be sure, it is quite
early, and I've not yet had my coffee) I can't think of an
I read this book twice through when I was 20 & still pick it up from
time to time. When he's not pontificating, Mumford's great.
Peter
Rob Schaap wrote:
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> G'day Bill,
>
> >Who do you suggest is a good critic of technology I should read, rather
> >than Manders? You're right about him, by th
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