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>> Recently, I was visiting Bhatinda in Punjab because of an epidemic of
> farmer suicides. Punjab us
Jim Devine wrote:
> Oh goody! I've always admired magazines like COSMO with their constant
> barrage of quizzes ("Are You Giving Your Man All that He Wants?").
Luckily, MBS has provided us with a "Are You a Left-Wing-Left-Wing
Communist?" quiz.
CC: Since I would need sliga wire to separate Jim's
I want to add a footnote to my last post so that it does not seem to
sour. When I have asked people for pen-l for information, people have
always been very responsive.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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I have been thinking about the recent state of pen-l. We are getting a
lot of long posts without much context, sectarian posts, and very little
that has to do with economics.
I dont want to see the list become a purely academic exercise, but I
think that there is a need for a venue to discuss t
In a message dated 5/27/00 10:57:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< Was it Justice Black who was in the KKK but turned out to be a
stalwart liberal, especially on civil rights? >>
Yes. Though he was appointed as a progressive populist type, which he was in
the Senate,
In a message dated 5/27/00 12:47:43 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< Anyway, I think 'Thaxis' is her coinage, and was meant in
those days to appeal to people more inclined to abstract theoretical
discussions. >>
Actualy, you may be right. Ralph and I pushed it, though.
In a message dated 5/26/00 6:02:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
<< "Thaxis" was neologized by somebody (don't
remember who) involved with what was once called
the marxism-2 list. >>
It was me and Ralph Dumain. --jks
In a message dated 5/26/00 3:15:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< No relation to Thurn und Thaxis, or
whatever that thing from Pynchon's Lot 49 is. >>
If Pynchon is right, everything is related to Thurn und Thaxis. But as a
founder of Thaxis, I think I may have sugges
On population, modernization and enviromentalism:
>The problem with the formula is that if overemphasizes population. This
is because people like Ehrlich believe people are a cancer. It is true
that higher levels of technological development under capitalism, because
of the emphasis on consump
Charles, ops, I disregarded the part where you said "unlike art"..
again, in my view, this text (Pol Eco) was misinterpreted by vulgar
materialists and non-political marxists a lot. I am not quite sure if MArx
really intended that "economics can be done with the exact precision of
natural scienc
> INTERNATIONAL WORKING GROUP ON VALUE THEORY
HISTORICAL MATERIALISM
CAPITAL AND CLASS
FORUM ON
DEBATES IN THE THEORY OF VALUE SINCE MARX
T
Barkley, maybe you could spell out what you mean here?
> My earlier arguments had more to do with continuous
> changes in market structure leading to discontinuous
> changes in market outcomes, actually an old chestnut of
> the IO literature that goes all the way back to Joe S. Bain,
> "Rel
Greetings Economists,
Interesting exchange between Carrol, and MBS about Eitc, and the RAL as
MBS puts those things.
Max Sawicky writes,
All these questions become a kind of political dynamite when
the next recession comes along -- when the myth that welfare
is the cause of unemployment is
Jim Devine wrote:
> Oh goody! I've always admired magazines like COSMO with their constant
> barrage of quizzes ("Are You Giving Your Man All that He Wants?"). Luckily,
> MBS has provided us with a "Are You a Left-Wing-Left-Wing Communist?" quiz.
Since I would need sliga wire to separate Jim'
Oh goody! I've always admired magazines like COSMO with their constant
barrage of quizzes ("Are You Giving Your Man All that He Wants?"). Luckily,
MBS has provided us with a "Are You a Left-Wing-Left-Wing Communist?" quiz.
>Some of these [characteristics of left-wing-left-wing communism] would
Jim,
My earlier arguments had more to do with continuous
changes in market structure leading to discontinuous
changes in market outcomes, actually an old chestnut of
the IO literature that goes all the way back to Joe S. Bain,
"Relation of Profit Rate to Industry Concentration, American
Manuf
You might mention in addition to water, especially when many of the large
landholders have been able to get subsidized irrigation.
"J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." wrote:
> Jim,
> I am aware of at least three things that have gone
> against the ejidos. One is the point that you made
> regarding
Barkley wrote:
>BTW, my original foray on that one was in "The Emergence of the
>Megacorpstate and the Acceleration of Global Inflation," Journal of Post
>Keynesian Economics, Spring 1981, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 429-439. Actually
>this was another case of having trouble getting a paper published.
Jim,
I think you should go whole hog and have three
"left-wings" on there. Joan Robinson used to write
about the "neo-neo-classical production function." I
once wrote a paper on the "neo-neo-neo-classical
production function," but never could get the damned
thing published. I still have i
Max Sawicky wrote:
> It encourages ultimatism and
> left-wing-left-wing communism.
CC:
One learns new isms all the time. Incidentally what is the difference
between left-wing communism and left-wing-left-wing communism?
[mbs] the same as the difference between overdone and
burnt to a cinder.
C
Ted,
In my paper that Chris Burford has just discussed
I addressed this matter of math and dialectics and
noted that it can be argued that math cannot be used
because one is dealing with, so to speak, the emergence
of new variables, not their discontinuous change.
What about the kinds
At 01:38 PM 05/29/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>JD: . . .
>(BTW, I can't believe that I awakened MBS's ire so much when I asserted
>that "the earned income credit (unlike classic income-support measures)
>make workers more dependent on their employers' good wishes, i.e., hardly
>helps their bargainin
Mark,
Chapter 2 of my 1991 book ends with a catastrophe
theoretic discussion of the oil industry. It is retained in
the forthcoming second edition. It is not surprising that
this industry is given to sudden large changes in price.
BTW, my original foray on that one was in
"The Emerg
Chris,
Thank you for the very thoughtful (and sympathetic, :-))
response. There is much here, but I'll try to respond to more
controversial or unclear points.
I am acquainted with the Farjoun and Machover book
and cited it in my 1991 book (volume I, second edn. due out
from Kluwer on
Although the insistence on work for those on welfare blurs the line a bit, the
working poor (EITC) continue to be treated better than those on welfare. TANF
recipients are subjected to constant harassment to demonstrate their need; EITC
have tax forms to fill out, but face no comparable harassme
At 08:59 AM 05/16/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>And on inspection, what with
>hindsight appears to be the most quixotic of all [Alfred Russel
>Wallace's]enthusiasms, his campaign against smallpox vaccination, is also
>surprisingly rational. He objected to the statistics used by the medical
>professio
>The use of money is the purest act of faith; no anchorite who has followed
>a vision into the desert has acted on an idea as far-fetched as our belief
>that if we put a dollar in a machine we will be drinking a Diet Coke in a
>minute.
This act of faith is hardly pure; it's based in practical
And Harry Blackmun, author of Roe v. Wade,
was appointed by Nixon. The most liberal member
of the current court is probably Stevens, appointed
by Gerald Ford, I believe.
Barkley Rosser
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Max Sawicky wrote:
> It encourages ultimatism and
> left-wing-left-wing communism.
One learns new isms all the time. Incidentally what is the difference
between left-wing communism and left-wing-left-wing communism?
The usual defining feature of ultra-leftism is a refusal to work with
"bourg
Jim,
I am aware of at least three things that have gone
against the ejidos. One is the point that you made
regarding lack of credits, which should also be expanded
to a lack of technical assistance. This was a key to the
higher productivity of the green revolution rancheros in
northern Mex
JD: . . .
(BTW, I can't believe that I awakened MBS's ire so much when I asserted
that "the earned income credit (unlike classic income-support measures)
make workers more dependent on their employers' good wishes, i.e., hardly
helps their bargaining power." This is hardly a radical statement.)
At 04:54 PM 05/28/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>JD:
>The EITC is works through the IRS [internal revenue service], an
>organization which scares most people to death, especially now that the
>IRS has decided to pump that cash-cow, the poor. Humor aside, it's
>traditional to help the poor in the most
from SLATE'S survey of what's in US magazines:
Harper's, June 2000
An essay by Tom Wolfe decries the political correctness foisted on us by
"Rococo Marxists" such as Judith Butler and Stanley Fish. Since World War I
American intellectuals have been telling Americans their society is
cancerou
forwarded by Michael Hoover
A Dismal Decade Ahead for Stocks?
TOM PETRUNO
05/28/00
LATIMES.COM
Robert Shiller's dream is everyone else's nightmare.
Here's what Shiller, a Yale University economist, believes the
In regard to the North Korea palaver, there is what I
think is an important article in the Post today that
ventilates elite criticism of the 'rogue state' concept,
which concept is used to rationalize the funding of
anti-missile defense systems.
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14527-20
May 28, 2000 / New York TIMES
RECKONINGS / By PAUL KRUGMAN
Money for Nothing?
I have a lot of time today, but I don't need it, since I have no real
comment on PK's column criticizing the idea of putting social security
funds into the stock market. He's right to criticize Geo
New York Times, May 29, 2000
We Are All Spendthrifts Now
By MARY GORDON
It has become increasingly difficult to read a newspaper or magazine
without encountering the details of extravagant, conspicuous consumption,
usually on the part of new millionaires, or billionaires, usually under 30.
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