Do we believe the below?
The centripetal effects of capitalism have become extremely powerful.
It is apparent on a world scale.
In England the economy around London is seriously overheated while the
periphery struggles. A house in London costs three times that of a
comparable house in the
On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, M A Jones wrote:
Hey, Russia posted a whacking bal of payments surplus last year and has done
almost every year since 1991. Is it also a no-brainer to buy up some roubles
right now?
That sounds like a challenge to me. Only trouble is I'm not a Malt Man.
But I'm willing
Dennis R Redmond wrote:
The
Opposing Team is Daimler, Sony, Mitsubishi, Nokia, etc. and not just
Microsoft and Intel. We've got to think *past* the Wall Street Bubble, not
just against it.
Germans flock East for cheap sex and petrol
FROM ALLAN HALL IN CHEB, CZECH REPUBLIC
AS a boom town
There's an article in the Braudel Center journal I referred to yesterday
(in reference to Frank and his critics )dealing with Maori capitalism in
New Zealand, which is apparently influenced by regulation theory.
Wallerstein also refers to it in his article as one of among different
New York Times, April 29, 2000
Huge Losses Move Soros to Revamp Empire
By DANNY HAKIM
After absorbing huge losses in recent weeks, the financier George Soros
said yesterday that he was reorganizing his investment empire and would
abandon many of the high-risk investment techniques that made
Jim Devine wrote:
Eventually (in 1985-7), the dollar fell (in
inflation-adjusted terms, using the trade-weighted measure), due to the
large trade deficits (which had not yet turned into current-account
deficits) and due to a convergence of US interest rates with those of the
rest of the
. . .
Among them was William Appleman Williams who contributed an article to the
July 1957 American Socialist titled "The Choice Before Us". The article
stakes out a position which breaks definitively with the FDR as friend of
peace and democracy paradigm promoted by Earl Browder during the
Max B. Sawicky wrote:
Genovese's subsequent
erratic path is well known.
I have a dim childhood memory of Genovese becoming an issue in the NJ
gubernatorial campaign, after he said he would welcome a Vietcong
victory. As I recall, the issue was whether he should be fired or not.
Back in
Max B. Sawicky wrote:
Genovese's subsequent erratic path is well known.
I have a dim childhood memory of Genovese becoming an issue in the NJ
gubernatorial campaign, after he said he would welcome a Vietcong
victory. As I recall, the issue was whether he should be fired or not.
Right.
you wrote that Eugene Genovese
... was amiable enough and seemed to balance the positives of his own
brand of marxism and conservatism more or less equally. How he
rationalized it is beyond my powers of comprehension. The best I can say
is that there were some things he hated so much about
Jim Devine wrote:
In the specific case of Genovese, there's more than just pressure
from fellow leftists or hatred of sectarians. He also became
attached to the notion that the antebellum South presented a certain
kind of natural order without all the chaos and individualism that
One of these days, when I have the time, I'd like to delve into the
question of Genovese's intellectual evolution. You should remember that in
his Marxist prime, he was linked with Robert Brenner as adhering to a
hard-nosed vision of Marxism that ran counter to the mushy "third worldism"
of the
In a message dated 00-04-29 13:33:05 EDT, you write:
Rutgers history department from '65-'75 was a hotbed of
these types. Included Eugene Genovese, Lloyd Gardner,
and Warren Susman, . . . . They had
little of special note to say about race or
poverty, the two other big concerns of the
Rutgers history department from '65-'75 was a hotbed of
these types. Included Eugene Genovese, Lloyd Gardner,
and Warren Susman, . . . . They had
little of special note to say about race or
poverty, the two other big concerns of the time.. . .
Genovese's subsequent
erratic path
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