August 3, 2000
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engineer would like some clarifications:
what is "NC economics"?
how do economists define "efficiency"? in engineering, efficiency is
defined as (desirable) outputs/inputs and is always less than 1. 1 -
efficiency = inefficiency, i.e., undesirable outputs/inputs, due to
friction, etc.
thanks
Justin wrote:
No doubt I am confused. It is an occupational hazard. And I haven't seen the
movie. However, whites who played "hot" jazz, like Bix Beiderbecke or even
Benny Goodman, whose swing was pretty hot, as opposed to Paul Whiteman style
"dance" music, were often not just musically close
Greetings Economists,
I will reach into Carrol's comments on depression to make a point about
rationality which leaps out at me from Carrol's comments,
Carrol,
..."Most of us, when "depressed," are unable to do sustained reading (of any
texts). I own a stationary bicycle, and while suffering
I stole this from the LBO list
[From the current Village Voice.]
Press Clips
by Cynthia Cotts
The Timess Crusade Against Ralph Nader:
Krugman Takes On 'Seattle Man'
Has The New York Times unleashed a pissing match between Paul Krugman,
its
op-ed columnist and cheerleader for globalization,
The difference is that the engineers work with relatively unambiguous measures
of outputs and inputs -- btu's or whatever.
Economists use prices, which are often discounted over time. A forest 30 years
from now has virtually no value.
Mikalac Norman S NSSC wrote:
engineer would like some
BOOM FOR WHOM? Economic Apartheid in America A Primer on Economic
Inequality and Insecurity
(full article at tompaine.com)
Chuck Collins and Felice Yeskel are co-founders of United for a Fair
Economy, an independent, nonpartisan organization dedicated to drawing
public attention to the growth
I dob't want to get into this beyong what I say here, but, as I have explained
variously, Bhaskar is a fool who is not taken seriously by real philosophers of
science outside his cult, which mystifies me. I should explain that I was trained as a
philosopher of science in the US and the UK--by
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I was saying something more modest: that we should acquaint ourselves, deeply and
sympathetically, with the best argument of the key antagonists to our most cherished
beliefs. If that is an unattainable, our situation is more dismal than even I
At 08:23 AM 08/03/2000 -0400, you wrote:
engineer would like some clarifications:
what is "NC economics"?
NC economics is short for "neoclassical" economics, the dominant orthodoxy
among economists. (Those who follow the NC rules -- with their implicit
politics -- are more likely to get
At 10:43 AM 08/03/2000 -0400, you wrote:
I dob't want to get into this beyong what I say here, but, as I have
explained variously, Bhaskar is a fool who is not taken seriously by real
philosophers of science outside his cult, which mystifies me. I should
explain that I was trained as a
BLS DAILY REPORT, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2000
TODAY'S RELEASE: In June, 199 metropolitan areas reported unemployment
rates below the U.S. city average (4.2 percent, not seasonally adjusted),
while 122 areas registered higher rates. Fourteen metropolitan areas had
jobless rates below 2.0 percent,
About a week ago I asked about information on increasing concentration
in the U.S. economy. I looked at a rather old piece by Rick Seltzer in
an URPE book on the U.S. Economy in Crisis. I have updated a couple of
charts and thought people on Pen-l might be interested in these
factoids.
In 1960
Rudy Fichtenbaum wrote:
In 1960 sales of the Fortune 500 relative to overall sales in the U.S.
economy were about 40 percent This number rose steadily until 1980
reaching about 60 percent. Between 1980 and 1990 the number declined
back down to about 40 percent. However, by 1999 the number had
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The term "hot" is
not really musically descriptive of anything. It is just a way a tag, like
'jazz' itself.
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CB: Didn't Duke Ellington say he played "music" ?
Miles Davis founded "The Cool" in the fifties, maybe in contrast to Le Jazz Hot.
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By this criterion, Woody Allen was spectacularly
successful. He both bored people and made no point.
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CB: When I think about it, this is the way Woody Allen's movies always seemed to me. I
could never figure out why everybody acted like the
RE
(Sales numbers for the U.S. are from the NIPA and are final sales. Sales
of the Fortune 500 include all sales an thus have double counting.
If international sales/international mergers by Fortune 500 firms have
grown, then comparing total sales to the "size of US economy" might be
Some big names are associated with scamville.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
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Contentville Mystifies Writers and Publishers
Partners in
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Fortune 500 sales are worldwide, though, and multinationals book a
big chunk of their sales abroad; you'd have to correct this for
domestic sales only.
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CB: What about a measure of the concentration of all the wealth in the whole world ?
Charles Brown wrote:
CB: What about a measure of the concentration of all the wealth in
the whole world ?
That's gotten undeniably more concentrated. First-Third World gaps
(or whatever you want to call the respective regions) have never been
so wide. For an extended treatment, see my
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/03/00 11:33AM In my interpretation, critical realism
starts with the axiom that empirical
reality exists independent of our perception of it. The rest of the
epistemology is based on that. In many ways it's a critique of postmodern
ultra-skepticism, in which any
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/03/00 02:05PM
Charles Brown wrote:
CB: What about a measure of the concentration of all the wealth in
the whole world ?
That's gotten undeniably more concentrated. First-Third World gaps
(or whatever you want to call the respective regions) have never been
so wide.
The Bombs of August
By Howard Zinn (www.progressive.org)
Near the end of the novel The English Patient there is a passage in which
Kip, the Sikh defuser of mines, begins to speak bitterly to the burned,
near-death patient about British and American imperialism: "You and then
the Americans
We've had this conversation before. One way of summarizing my take on this
is that "dialectical materialism" has some unfortunate baggage which can be
avoided by reconsidering the issues under a new rubric. One source is Tony
Lawson's article on critical realism in volume I of Phil O'Hara's
contentville has competition now at northernlight.com
Cheers, Ken Hanly
The last time I looked at the industrial organization literature, there was
a consensus that such aggregate measures don't mean much in terms of
monopoly power issues. It's better to look at industry data and even then,
the role of international competition mustn't be forgotten.
Of course, it
This is too good to not pass on.
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The Globe and Mail Thursday, August 3, 2000
WTO's next challenge? Unfair use of sushi
By Jim Stanford
This just
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/03/00 02:31PM
We've had this conversation before. One way of summarizing my take on this
is that "dialectical materialism" has some unfortunate baggage which can be
avoided by reconsidering the issues under a new rubric.
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CB: I find a lot of
Look, Jim, I often defer to your economics expertise--not always, but often. If you
tell me that someone is a crank with no respectable following in econ, I will be
inclined to go along with you, since you are a real expert. Expertise is, after all, a
legitimate basis of appeal to authority.
I see that the Clinton administration is giving credit to companies that
plant trees for removing greenhouse gases. Do you think that he will
require offsets from companies that chop down trees?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel.
Joanna once fingered me for being clueless. She is right. I picked
this up from Sid Shniad. Living in an age of such market dominance, I'm
unable to tell whether this is a joke for not.
The Globe and Mail Thursday, August 3, 2000
WTO's next challenge? Unfair use
The Vancouver
Sun August
3, 2000
ELECTRICITY DEREGULATION STEAMS CALIFORNIA
Expectations were so rosy state prepared no
contingency plans should supplies grow tight
By Rebecca Smith
California, which
When our critics are right about something, we should revise our views. Unlike Yoshie,
I don't think we should just listen to formulate better replies to their errors, but
also to see if we can learn something, to correct our own errors. It is not an a
priori truth that "we" are right about
The Globe and Mail Thursday, August 3, 2000
WTO's next challenge? Unfair use of sushi
By Jim Stanford
Jim has a book called Paper Boom about the 'new'
Canadian economy that would probably interest
pen-lers in general. Publisher is James
Lorimer Co.
mbs
I see that the Clinton administration is giving credit to companies that
plant trees for removing greenhouse gases. Do you think that he will
require offsets from companies that chop down trees?
Michael Perelman
Not an offset, but a public-private partnership
wherein those who chop down trees
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When our critics are right about something, we should revise our views.
)))
CB: Sure, but what is an example of something important that they are correct about ?
I say that realizing there has been a recent long thread on Hayek , for example.
Justin wrote:
Look, Jim, I often defer to your economics expertise--not always, but
often. If you tell me that someone is a crank with no respectable
following in econ, I will be inclined to go along with you, since you are
a real expert. Expertise is, after all, a legitimate basis of appeal
I wrote,
The last time I looked at the industrial organization
literature, there was a consensus that such aggregate
measures don't mean much in terms of monopoly power
issues. It's better to look at industry data and even then,
the role of international competition mustn't be
No, philosophy has even less consensus than economics. So it tells you something when
practically nobody takes B seriously, eh? And not just because of his political
orientation. People who share his general political orientation--all those Marxists or
then-Marxists I mentioned--have no
jks . . .
Can't we just disagree without your reading me out of the club?
Dontcha know, if they want you as a member,
it's not worth joining.
P. Wilson
At 05:09 PM 8/3/00 -0400, you wrote:
No, philosophy has even less consensus than economics. So it tells you
something when practically nobody takes B seriously, eh? And not just
because of his political orientation. People who share his general
political orientation--all those Marxists or
For couple of years, Chico employed Marco del Seta, one of the brightest people
I ever met. He had a degree from London School of Economics in the philosophy
of science and had taught some classes there any economics department. Having
done graduate work in both philosophy and economics, I once
Nonetheless, it's best to make criticisms with _content_.
When it's worth doing. It's information to know that someone's viewsare not worth
paying attention to.
Also, I
understand that in the past, there have been philosophers who were rejected
by the vast majority but later turned out to
Doug, when is it due out?
Paul Phillips
Economics,
University of Manitoba
On 3 Aug 00, at 14:05, Doug Henwood wrote:
Charles Brown wrote:
CB: What about a measure of the concentration of all the wealth in
the whole world ?
That's gotten undeniably more concentrated. First-Third
I wrote:
Nonetheless, it's best to make criticisms with _content_.
Justin writes:
When it's worth doing. It's information to know that someone's viewsare
not worth paying attention to.
What the guy do, refuse to pay an IOU he had to you? did he cut you off in
traffic? I make a
Paul Phillips wrote:
Doug, when is it due out?
End of the year. I haven't quite finished it...
Doug
Jim D. wrote: "who is it that determines who a "real authority" is? Is there
a World
Congress of Philosophers who makes this decision?"
=
Roger Coase floated the idea that there should be a few years back...very
scary.
Ian
. . .
I am with Jim on this one. My entire roralties from
writing academic and
political articles amount to less than $100 in 20 years. I
would be happy if
someone read and used the stuff. I did make several
hardcover copies of my
dissertation (one for the U, one each for mt parents and
Max Sawicky wrote:
Bastids. selling my diss for money. Outrageous.
Wow. And just $29.95! The Laffer effect? How kinky of you, Max.
ON THE FISCAL BEHAVIOR OF STATE GOVERNMENTS
by max ben sawicky
Degree : PHD
School : UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK (0117)
Date : 1991
Pages : 237
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Subject: [L-I] Moderator remark on terminology
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 15:10:31 +0200
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Comrades,
as a member of the moderation team I would ask all comrades to be make
No, there will be more credits for companies that chop down trees, because
that makes room for planting trees. Before long we'll have more than
covered the Kyoto targets and will sell credits to other countries, like
Australia.
Gene
I think there's something extremely fucked up by this
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Ian Murray wrote,
Jim D. wrote: "who is it that determines who a "real authority" is? Is
there a World Congress of Philosophers who makes this decision?"
=
Roger Coase floated the idea that there should be a few years back...very
scary.
In effect there is a "WCP" with the authority
The study of economics began with Alfred Marshall. Marshall was upset that
untrained people could comments on political economy, so he took a
little-known term, economics, and formalized the training of future economists
at Cambridge.
Today, the World Conference of Economists ostracizes anybody
Michael Perelman wrote:
When is the last time that a leftist economist has been hired at a major
university economics department?
When I was in Frankfurt in June, I talked a bit with a left German
economist, who told me the local profession was being totally
Americanized, in both content and
Japan grew very fast in the postwar period because its previous economists
were mostly excluded because of their fascist past, leading to a void that
Marxist trained economists filled. Eventually, Japan started hiring mostly
orthodox economists and their economy slowed down.
During the
Do people see the commercialisation of universities in order to obtain basic
funding and research $$ as a threat to the independence of staff
appointments? You would expect that backers would favour appointment of
persons who have a free-market orientation.
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From: Doug
In a message dated 8/3/00 6:18:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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Right, so I read his damn book. Several of them. I thought about them,
more than they deserved, and concluded he was an idiot.
why didn't you say so from the beginning, rather than coming off as a flip
That is a major theme in my book on intellectual property.
Do people see the commercialisation of universities in order to obtain basic
funding and research $$ as a threat to the independence of staff
appointments? You would expect that backers would favour appointment of
persons who have
In a message dated 8/3/00 7:22:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jim D. wrote: "who is it that determines who a "real authority" is? Is
there
a World
Congress of Philosophers who makes this decision?"
* * *
A very interesting question. Steve Shapin has explored this
What's the title Michael?
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That is a major theme in my book on intellectual property.
Do people see the commercialisation of
It is about 95% complete. The working title is Intellectual Property
Amidst Poverty.
What's the title Michael?
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That is
95% completeonly 95% to go;)
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It is about 95% complete. The working title is Intellectual Property
Amidst Poverty.
Johannes Schneider wrote:
Generally, if you want to say someone is an idiot. Its better to explain
why he or she is so, so that everyone can see it, without saying so.
exactly!
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine
This article appears in the latest issue of Green Left Weekly
(http://www.greenleft.org.au):
HONG KONG: Socialists run in elections
BY JIM McILROY
HONG KONG -- "Our election campaign is based on a transitional program
aimed at gaining the attention of the working masses of Hong Kong",
Charles Brown wrote:
It is an a posteriori truth that we are correct about more things
than our critics are.
Why aren't there more of "us" then?
Doug
Jim wrote,
The last time I looked at the industrial organization
literature, there was a consensus that such aggregate
measures don't mean much in terms of monopoly power
issues. It's better to look at industry data and even then,
the role of international competition mustn't be
Thursday, August 3, 2000 / Los Angeles TIMES.
By Luck or Skill, DWP Gets the Last Laugh
Energy: Utility's decision to eschew deregulation plan pays off as
the rest of the state faces power shortages.
By DOUGLAS P. SHUIT and JOE MOZINGO, Times Staff Writers
With much of California facing the
Doug Henwood wrote:
Charles Brown wrote:
It is an a posteriori truth that we are correct about more things
than our critics are.
Why aren't there more of "us" then?
Is it all the left's fault that a majority of Americans believe in god,
creationism, and astrology? It is becoming more
Can't we just disagree without your reading me out of the club? I think many of your
views are abhorrent and represent no socialism I would ever want anything to do with,
but I don't deny that they represent a current of left thinking. You think that market
socialism is a contradiction in
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