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BLS DAILY REPORT, JUNE 9, 2000
RELEASED TODAY: The Producer Price Index for Finished Goods showed no
change in May, seasonally adjusted. This followed a 0.3 percent decrease in
April and a 1.0 percent gain in March. ... Among finished goods, the rate
of decline in prices for finished energy
Thanks, Rod, that's what I thought. --jks
In a message dated Sun, 11 Jun 2000 10:54:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Rod Hay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Both labour and nature can produce things of value. But it is society that gives
a value to things. It assigns a value to things appropriated from
Thanks, for this post, Rod. But (as usual) I have a few quibbles
Rod Hay wrote:
Both labour and nature can produce things of value.
I don't know about this use of an active verb ("produce") as applied to
nature. In Marx, at least, production involves prior consciousness of what
is to be
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 23:44:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: MichaelP [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Paul Wright, Editor of PLN Needs Help!
Paul Wright, Editor of Prison Legal News Needs Help
Paul Wright, editor of Prison Legal News and Jailhouse Lawyer Vice
President of the National Lawyers Guild, is
Doyle Saylor wrote,
anti-disabled thinking in Tom Walkers recent posting
. . .
I question his focus on a disability. I think he has a lot to prove.
What are the charges against me? Presumably that my suggestion that there
may be such a thing as collective pathology was tantamount to hate
Is Paul Wright in a North Korean prison ?
CB
Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/12/00 01:14PM
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 23:44:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: MichaelP [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Paul Wright, Editor of PLN Needs Help!
Paul Wright, Editor of Prison Legal News Needs Help
Paul Wright,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/10/00 12:26PM
In a message dated 6/9/00 6:53:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
don't think that I as suggesting that the origin of profit is in
exchange, but
in an economy dominated by monopolies profits will be higher than in a
competitive
Note EPI contact (in other words, don't
e-mail me) for this position:
Research Assistant, Economic Policy Institute, a non-profit think tank
located in Washington, DC. Entry level data collection, literature review,
fact finding and similar work, primarily in support of projects on
Subject: Researcher into laid-off workers in China investigated for
subversion
Monday, June 12 7:23 PM SGT
Researcher into laid-off workers in China investigated for subversion
BEIJING, June 12 (AFP) -
A man who conducted research into the massive number of workers being laid
off in
I stole this from the labor net list.
More evidence against neo-classical economics...
DUTCH WIN BAD FOR ECONOMY
BRUSSELS - While soccer fans in the Netherlands will be cheering their
team on
to victory, there is at least one group of Dutch supporters who are
hoping the
opposite happens
Wouldn't you agree that it's a good thing for economists to discourage
people from caring so much about sports ... so that they can give more
attention to economists?
At 02:40 PM 6/12/00 -0700, you wrote:
I stole this from the labor net list.
More evidence against neo-classical economics...
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ECONOMISTS
struggling to make
sense of the American
economy agree about
To what extent is the rise in labor productivity growth due to unmeasured
(and unpaid) increases in the number of hours of work done, i.e.,
stretch-out, or due to increases in the intensity of labor (work done per
hour of work-time), i.e., speed-up?
At least one observer argued that the
Can anyone give me references to articles about the current state of the
British labor movement and left politics in Great Britain? Thanks.
Michael Yates
Again, I cannot put a number on it, but the ability to mark up goods looks
identical to productivity gains in the data, unless labor can regain lost
ground through comparable wage gains.
Jim Devine wrote:
To what extent is the rise in labor productivity growth due to unmeasured
(and unpaid)
Tom Walker wrote:
things. Redeploying the clinical diagnostic terms from their use as
labels for individuals to a broader critique of collective pathology is
about as far from "anti-disabled thinking" as I can imagine.
"Collective pathology" is a politically suspect term to accept.
Not ony
Mike Yates;
Go to the communist-left web --http://www.ibrp.org
We have cdes from the CWO- Communist Workers Org. -UK
Go the British cdes sections.
There is also the articles from the British cdes Journal
Revolutionary Perspectives, on Rover Struggle, critique
of "New Labor", exposes on the
(Sometimes it seems that no question gets more attention on PEN-L than
whether Marxism is based on a concept of "immiseration" of the
working-class. I have never seen a more lucid contribution to this
discussion than the one given by Harry Braverman in the course of a May
1958 article in the
Micheal Parelman posted on pen-l:
ECONOMISTS
struggling to make
sense of the American
economy agree about
some big things.
Michael Perelman wrote:
Jim also mentioned that wages are falling relative to labor
productivity. I associate this trend with intellectual property as
well. Labor productivity increases with the ability to mark goods up --
Nike shoes are an excellent example, but the same holds for Microsoft
Brad, I am too dense to know when you are serious. I don't even know who Will
Robinson is.
I assume that you know that most people here know that "average market prices
are *not* labor values" and that that fact does not invalidate what most
people mean by the LTV.
I don't undeerstand what you
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