As I mentioned in an earlier posting, we are having a workshop at U Mass
that critiques neoclassical introductory micro texts and reviews some
alternative "heterodox" texts. I've attached a description of the e-mail
discussion list associated with this workshop and a memo outlining some of
the th
The men running in the Presidential primaries today have either endorsed
the right of the rebel flag to fly over the South Carolina statehouse or
provided such a weak response that it amounts to backhanded support. The
magazine American Socialist took aim at this deep-rooted problem in
American po
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The Internet Anti-Fascist: Tuesday, 1 February 2000
Vol. 4, Number 10 (#384)
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Louis Proyect wrote:
> The local cows formed a chapter of the John Birch Society.
Tom Walker
Jim Devine wrote
> The only way to successfully debate PK, therefore, is to
> present a theory. Ideally, it would be a general theory
> which would include PK's theory as a special case.
> Can anyone on pen-l provide?
Here's my theory, it's a play on Keynes' famous quote:
"Practical men, who
Chris:
>What are the class and economic phenomena behind the risk of parties like
>Haider's? It does indeed represent the literally reactionary stance of
>bourgeois and petty bourgeois elements, who resist the integration of the
>market favoured by finance capital. Such nationalistic right-wing pa
At 11:29 02/02/00 -0500, Louis Proyect wrote:
>Since this list is titled "Progressive Economists Network," I thought I
>might take the liberty to provide an economic explanation for the turmoil
>in Austria. Basically, the coalition between the Social Democrats and its
>traditional partner, the con
Tom Walker wrote:
>>Let's make it fun. Get Krugman to do the review of lefty economics and
>>William Greider to respond.
Brad de Long writes:
>I like Paul a lot. Paul has been very good to me. Paul can't do a
>sympathetic critique of *anyone*. I don't think it would accomplish my
>educational
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Michael Perelman wrote:
>Amazon announced that it lost $185 million on sales of $676 million last
>year. The stock went up. Isn't America great?
To be fair, it also announced that its book business was profitable
for the first time, and that it expected future losses to narrow,
also for the
EPI seeks a senior-level labor market expert
interested in spending their sabbatical year
at EPI in Washington, D.C.
Must be oriented towards empirical and/or
policy-related work. Will pay half of the
academic year salary. Start date is 9/1/00.
Send vitae to:
EPI
1660 L St., NW
Suite 1200
Was
Louis Proyect wrote:
> One of the unfortunate legacies of the "academic turn" in Marxism is that
> it fragments his thought into compartments. You can even find this in
> mailing lists, where Progressive Sociologists and Progressive Economists
> live in separate sections of cyberspace. In order
Amazon announced that it lost $185 million on sales of $676 million last
year. The stock went up. Isn't America great?
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chico, CA 95929
530-898-5321
fax 530-898-5901
Doug Henwood wrote:
> Jim Devine wrote:
>
> >To me this suggests the possibility of Marx-Keynes syntheses: the
> >holistic analysis of the capitalist mode of production of vol. I
> >left out a lot of the important details of finance and the like,
> >which can be filled in using content from the
>It looks like Brad has emulated the goddess Eris...
Well, Discordianism is the dominant religion of the internet. (Just
as Librarianism is the dominant political philosophy of the internet.)
Brad DeLong
>Let's make it fun. Get Krugman to do the review of lefty economics and
>William Greider to respond.
>
>Tom Walker
I like Paul a lot. Paul has been very good to me. Paul can't do a
sympathetic critique of *anyone*. I don't think it would accomplish
my educational objectives...
But you are righ
This may be of interest to some.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
Call for papers. The 2000 meetings of the International Network for
Economic Method will be held on 29 June 2000 at the University of
British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Abstracts of papers (no more than
200 words) or proposals for sessio
Jim Devine wrote:
>To me this suggests the possibility of Marx-Keynes syntheses: the
>holistic analysis of the capitalist mode of production of vol. I
>left out a lot of the important details of finance and the like,
>which can be filled in using content from the Keynesian tradition
>(Minsky,
At 09:41 AM 2/3/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Comparing Marx to Keynes is like comparing apples to oranges. I can
>understand why there would be confusion around this question on a mailing
>list focused on economic questions per se. But Marx's writings on economics
>were part of a more holistic body of wo
I'd bring in some of the labor process literature, like Devine & Reich, in
the REVIEW OF RADICAL POLITICAL ECONOMICS, 1981. There was also a good
comment on that paper in that journal, too, if I remember correctly. ;-)
Peter Dorman and Gil Skillman (are you there, Gil?) are obvious source of
Louis Proyect wrote:
> One of the unfortunate legacies of the "academic turn" in Marxism is that
> it fragments his thought into compartments.
Louis, you're partially right about the fragmentation. However, Marxists have
always used his work to look at different parts of the world. Martha Gime
Are you volunteering?
"Max B. Sawicky" wrote:
>
> I imagine something on theories of the state,
> of which I have none. But what else?
> mbs
I might if somebody answered my question.
Otherwise I wouldn't know what to write.
Actually I do have a few theories of the
state, just none of the radi
Louis Proyect commented that comparing Marx to Keynes is like comparing
oranges to apples. Agreed.
Discussing Marx's "economic theory" is as pedantic as discussing
Shakespeare's "psychological insights". Of course, there are
psychological insights in Shakespeare, just as there is economic theory
Are you volunteering?
"Max B. Sawicky" wrote:
>
> I imagine something on theories of the state,
> of which I have none. But what else?
>
> mbs
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Comparing Marx to Keynes is like comparing apples to oranges. I can
understand why there would be confusion around this question on a mailing
list focused on economic questions per se. But Marx's writings on economics
were part of a more holistic body of work that attempted to understand the
entir
Doug Henwood asked,
> What's a Marxist? What's a Keynesian?
The Henwoodian answer is: I was hoping you would tell us, Doug.
The Walkerist answer is: a Marxist is someone who imagines there is a
warrant for what they believe somewhere in the collected works of
Karl Marx or in the political or in
. . . We also have Sam promising to give us a start on Mexico, which would
be
ideal in understanding the nature of trade agreements.
Who is the next volunteer?
What would teachers like to see in a section on
the public sector or market failure that is not
in the standard textbo
>Timework Web wrote:
>
>>I would say that most people -who consider themselves Marxists- are closet
>>Keynesians.
>
>What's a Marxist? What's a Keynesian?
>
>Doug
A Keynesian reckons capitalism's troughs can usually be obviated and always
ameliorated (to little worse than a sobering dip) by caref
> >but long gone are the days of $200 cross-country flights.
> $200 round trip or $200 one way?
It was precisely $200 (total) I paid a couple of weeks ago for a
Dulles-SF plus a LAX-JFK; if you buy these tickets outside the US,
you can often get "coupons" which just add a Bennie each time you
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