[PEN-L:12831] "The Big Clock"

1999-10-20 Thread Sam Pawlett
Louis Proyect wrote: > > Defining the noir style has been a preoccupation of many leftwing cultural > historians. This is not surprising since noir not only reflects the > hard-boiled depression-era sensibility but the sense of disillusionment > that followed it during the post-WWII period. Yes,

[PEN-L:12830] Re: Positive features of U.S. policy

1999-10-20 Thread Edwin Dickens
Dear Hinrich, Most of the people who signed the letter would have written it differently, but our comrades in Germany assured us that with these terms and this tone our intervention would help the left challenge Schroder's shift to the right. Were we misinformed? Very Best Wishes, Edwin (Tom) D

[PEN-L:12827] Agriculture 10

1999-10-20 Thread Ricardo Duchesne
Grantham: > 9. The Ricardian paradigm has trapped economic historians > into supposing that traditional agriculture had no > exploitable slack. This was certainly not the view held > by Adam Smith, nor was it shared by Alfred Marshall more > than a century later, when one might suppose that th

[PEN-L:12829] Wierd problem in archives

1999-10-20 Thread Michael Perelman
Louis Proyect mentioned that he could not find a number of posts in the archive. Don Roper told me that probably 300 -400 messages are lost each year, because his software rejects messages with forbidden words, such as xReview or xJoin, without the x's. He says that he is working on this problem

[PEN-L:12817] Re: economist attacks living wage

1999-10-20 Thread Martin Watts
John, The argument mounted by Thomas Palley in a chapter of an edited book, (sorry I don't know the title, I read it in a bookshop in London) is that macro-policy in many european countries has been geared to keeping inflation down, whereas the USA ran budget deficits for years and a much looser

[PEN-L:12826] BLS Daily Report

1999-10-20 Thread Richardson_D
BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1999 RELEASED TODAY: __CPI -- On a seasonally adjusted basis, the CPI-U rose 0.4 percent in September, following increases of 0.3 percent in each of the preceding 2 months. In September, energy costs increased sharply for the third consecutive month -- up

[PEN-L:12824] (Fwd) Barrington Moore, Jr.

1999-10-20 Thread Ricardo Duchesne
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[PEN-L:12825] "The Big Clock"

1999-10-20 Thread Louis Proyect
Best known for his study of the New York anti-Stalinist intellectuals grouped around the 1930s Partisan Review, University of Michigan professor and Solidarity activist Alan Wald has been writing about the intersection of art and politics for over two decades. He spoke last week at the Brecht Foru

[PEN-L:12822] Another J. B. Foster intervention boundary="-

1999-10-20 Thread Ricardo Duchesne
Foster: In the Marxist tradition > > ecology was strong until the mid-1930s. > But prior to this there were > important > ecological discussions--to be found in Morris, Bebel, Kautsky, Lenin and > > Bukharin. From the standpoint of today the three greatest ecological > discoveries all ca

[PEN-L:12821] Re: economist attacks living wage

1999-10-20 Thread Robert Naiman
This was precisely one of the main points of the economists' letter to the SPD; that higher unemployment rates in Europe are largely the result of contractionary monetary policy. Scroll back in your email... or we can send you another copy of the statement. -Robert Naiman, Preamble At 11:35 PM

[PEN-L:12823] Re: Re: Re: WTO and commodity fetishism

1999-10-20 Thread Anthony D'Costa
See below: Anthony P. D'Costa Research Member Associate Professor Taylor Institute Comparative International Development Jackson Sch of Int. Studies University of Washington

[PEN-L:12818] Russia to control leaking IMF money?

1999-10-20 Thread Chris Burford
With his KGB backround Putin may be in the best position to control the leaking sieve of finance out of Russia. This is necessary to placate the IMF and to keep the golden chain that ties the Russian economy to world finance capital. However investigations about fund transfers to New York involve

[PEN-L:12819] Re: economist attacks living wage

1999-10-20 Thread Max B. Sawicky
See "Beware the U.S. Model" by Mishel, Schmitt and Bernstein, an EPI book, for the US/Euro comparison. See Robert Pollin's book on the living wage. Also tell the coalition to contact John Schmitt at EPI ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) for help on the issue. mbs -Original Message- From: John Exdell

[PEN-L:12820] FW: UN Newspeak and Double-think:Indigenous Peoples

1999-10-20 Thread Craven, Jim
James Craven Clark College, 1800 E. McLoughlin Blvd. Vancouver, WA. 98663 (360) 992-2283; Fax: (360) 992-2863 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.home.earthlink.net/~blkfoot5 *My Employer Has No Association With My Private/Protected Opinion* -Original Message- From: Boyle, Francis [mailto:[E

[PEN-L:12812] The Internet Anti-Fascist: Friday, 15 Oct 1999 -- 3:84 (#342)

1999-10-20 Thread Paul Kneisel
__ The Internet Anti-Fascist: Friday, 15 October 1999 Vol. 3, Numbers 84 (#342) __ KLAN TO MARCH IN N

[PEN-L:12814] Re: Re: Re: WTO and commodity fetishism

1999-10-20 Thread Patrick Bond
PR people can do consciousness-raising the other way around. In Johannesburg, virtually all the lefty NGOs have been conscientised, the unions are fairly good critics, dozens of ordinary folk come out to regular weekend workshops, and all and sundry (except our trade minister, who is also pres

[PEN-L:12789] Re: two book requests

1999-10-20 Thread Rob Schaap
G'day Michael, Well, if your mate is as much a beginner as I am, s/he could do a lot worse than Knoedler, Sackrey and Scheider's *Essays in Political Economy*, but that may not be available yet. I reckon Shigeto Tsuru's *Institutional Economics Revisited* (CUP, 1997) is an absolute bottler