New York Times, April 2, 2000
As Life for Family Farmers Worsens, the Toughest Wither
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
TRYON, Neb. -- Walking across the prairie, stepping carefully around cow
pies, Mike Abel confesses that he has told his son and daughter not to
follow in his line of work.
He sounds
I find this post somewhat unusual. The paradigm of
agricultural poverty around here would not be ranchers but
grain farmers. Cattle prices are relatively good and
ranchers are on the whole much better off than straight
grain producers. Perhaps Nebraska has had specific problems
that impact on
In the US, the feed lots pretty much set the price for cattle. They are highly
concentrated. Farmers are suing them for price fixing, but have not won so far.
Al Krebs' Agbiz Examiner has covered this in detail.
Ken Hanly wrote:
I find this post somewhat unusual. The paradigm of
Ken Hanly wrote:
This is a serious problem and nothing much is being done to
solve it. This
is a much greater risk, in my view, than GM foods but it
does not seem to be in the press very much.
From glancing at the post I'm prepared to agree with Ken that
the problem is serious -- but I'm
WHITE COLLAR CRIME.
THE CRIMINALS ARE ADMITTING THEY STOLE TAX PAYERS MEDICARE FUNDS BUT OUR
JUSTICE SYSTEM IS NOT CRIMINALLY PROSECUTING THEM OR COLLECTING ALL THE
MONEY THEY STOLE. WHY?
*If the FACT that nursing homes are killing and seriously injuring 30%
of their patients, and only 3% of
Ken, the disease resistance is only part of the problem. These animal
factories produce huge lagoons of manure, which also threaten human health,
especially when floods spread the manure over large areas. The manure also
seems to be responsible for the outbreaks of pfisteria. Pretty nasty
Rob Schaap wrote:
And, btw, (following Joel Blau's post of the other day), is there a
table
of (actually comparable) comparative international unemployment statitics
available on the Net? And are there other salient statistics
around that
are differently calculated in different (eg OECD)
Perhaps someone could summarize (or supply citations on)
current (heterodox) thinking on interest rate determination
(in the U.S.).
Seat of the pants empiricism suggests that everything
just follows the discount rate but there's probably
a better story. I'm woefully behind the times on this
Title: Marx's materialism
Perhaps a discussion of the relation of Marx's materialism to scientific materialism will be less emotionally provocative than a discussion of the scientific materialist explanation of schizophrenia.
What follows examines the consistency of a particular kind of
Ted Winslow wrote:
To begin with, the idea that ideas can be fully "reduced" in this way
is mistaken. It is, for instance,
I agree that Ted has chosen extremely important passages from Marx, but
I
don't have the slightest ideas what this post is about because (a) I
don't know
who said
Ted, I loved the topic, and I will jump in, but tonight. I am under time
pressure now. Unlike others, somehow, I did not relate it to the recent
topic on psychology, and I thought you offered a *new* debate on ideas
and materialism in relation to Aristo and Marx. May be I
misunderstood your
Here are the rough, rough notes for a talk that I will give Wednesday.
It is the first time I've ever tried to dictate something this long
using voice recognition so they're probably some really stupid mistakes
from the program over and above my own lapses. Any comments will be
very welcome.
My
I would add that to discuss Marx's materialism, one would have to take into
account the twentieth century contributions to the understanding of 'matter'
and 'energy'
Second, it not an unusual position in twentieth century social science to
admit the dialectic between matter and idea. There are
At 08:05 PM 04/02/2000 -0400, you wrote:
I would add that to discuss Marx's materialism, one would have to take into
account the twentieth century contributions to the understanding of 'matter'
and 'energy'
Second, it not an unusual position in twentieth century social science to
admit the
Michael Parelman wrote:
Today, United States depends on the sale of goods protected from
competition by intellectual property rights. Not surprisingly, three of
the four richest people in this country are associated with one of these
companies. Intellectual property rights, however, are
Mine Aysen Doyran wrote:
michael, i thought intellectual property rights were central to the
principles of the free market.
Not really. People, such as Hayek, were against intellectual property rights,
since they granted a monopoly to the supposed owner. Although here is Ayn Rand
125:
Actually Jim D. the dialectic of society has any number of moments, and
if you take the hegelians and marxists seriously, these moments can only
be separated intellectually. And then at the risk of rendering them
meaningless.
In my previous message I had at less two moments in mind. The material
That is Ayn Rand, not me.
Rod Hay wrote:
Please explain. This is new to me, unless you mean something other than what I
would by the word 'patents'
Rod
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since patents are the basis of all property rights,
--
Rod Hay
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The History of Economic
The model of efficiency and Pareto optimality in
neo-classical economics within a perfectly free market
assumes perfect knowledge by participants. If there
are patents then this condition will not be met. The
introduction of patents
is usually justified as producing some type of dynamic
Rod wrote:
Please explain. This is new to me, unless you mean something other than
what I
would by the word 'patents'
Rod
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since patents are the basis of all property rights,
Rod, I was implicitly referring to Micheal's quote from Rand. Rand says
that " 125: "Patents
yeah, exactly, I reminded this, but I may misinterpret Rand too since I
am not quite sure about the context of his discussion..
Mine
Micheal wrote:
That is Ayn Rand, not me.
Rod Hay wrote:
Please explain. This is new to me, unless you mean something other than
what I
would by the word
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