She wrote an earlier article on the subject of the TWA flight. Was there
any response/critique?
--
Michael Perelman
The only reference I could find was this article which quoted the NTSB as
saying that such a cause was "extremely remote".
The Boston Globe, July 14, 1998, Tuesday, City Edition
Ian wrote:
Can anyone out there please point me in the direction of a bio of Pareto
wherein his relationship to fascism is spelled out?
MK replies:
Don't know if anyone followed this up, but a few years ago I read a very
useful book entitled "Modern Italian Social Theory" by Richard Bellamy,
BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 2000
The index of leading economic indicators dipped 0.1 percent in July to mark
the third monthly drop in a row, providing evidence of a cooling economy,
the Conference Board said. The decline brought the composite index of
leading indicators to 105.8
Hirschman, Albert O. 1991. The Rhetoric of Reaction: Perversity, Futility,
Jeopardy (Cambridge: Harvard University Press) covers the same crowd quite
well. It is a thin book, but quite good for what it does.
Keaney Michael wrote:
Ian wrote:
Can anyone out there please point me in the
I found this interesting in light of the Business Week comment that the
tax law is not supposed to be subject to dispute.
[The following is from the NY Times, Aug. 31.]
Mexico Is Ordered to Pay a U.S. Company $16.7 Million
By Anthony DePalma
An international tribunal that worked behind closed
The article I just sent reminds us of the decision that Canada had to
accept MTBE. In light of the earlier discussion about the value of
Canadian water, has MTBE been turning up in the water much?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel.
The tend to put meaning(less) parentheses around parts of words, use terms like
"discourse," "privilege," and "theorize" freely, dispise essentialism and
"foundationalism," "valorize 'difference,'" and think ill of class analysis, science,
or objectivity. They are armed, but not dangerous, or
This seems to be capitalism among co-ops. Maybe that is what
Justin means by market socialism. Mill's musings on competition would please
the most ardent free market capitalist.
* * *
Well, it's not the sort of market socialism I would advocate. As many of you know, I
would get rid of private
It's only "thin" in being concise. Most of Hirschman's writings are terse, elegant,
concise, laconic, and crystalline. This is another of his marvels of compressed
erudition. --jks
In a message dated Fri, 1 Sep 2000 10:16:25 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Michael Perelman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This question is actually put to everyone -- What are your feelings on
Jean Baudrillard? I heard somewhere in my own department that he is not
even a sociologist!? I found that amazing, but am not sure why a person
would hold such beliefs. I think this is the group to explain to me why
I thought that it was thin compared to his other books because the scope
was narrow.
It's only "thin" in being concise. Most of Hirschman's writings are terse, elegant,
concise, laconic, and crystalline. This is another of his marvels of compressed
erudition. --jks
In a message dated Fri,
Hi, Nicole.
As an objectivity groupie myself, I think Baudrillard's a fraud. I don't care if he's
a "real" sociologist, in the sense of having a degree in the field or publishing in
sociology journals. Lots of idiots have and do. B is not an idiot, but he regularly
says foolish and
Nico wrote:
... the pomos I know of do not look down on class analysis or science. In
fact, they rather like the "coming to terms with its own
unfirmness" science and the fluidity and function of class analysis.
My experience is that pomos do look down on science, admiring literary
criticism
an additional point: it seems to me that pomos confuse "truth" with the
"Official Truth." (This is not an accusation against specific individuals
as much as part of the a _definition_ of what I think of as postmodernism.)
The latter -- the Official Truth -- is the nonsense pushed down our
Max Sawicky wrote:
If DN made inferences about black/white marginal productivity from a
specification like this, I'm not sure I want him on my side.
Yeah, but who cares about that? He's saying what the people who write
grant checks want to hear.
Doug
Funny you should ask. I am currently reading Naomi Klein's NO LOGO -- a
fantastic book, which we're using for a political economy course this
fall. On pp. 96-97:
"In May 1996, students and faculty at the University of Wisconsin at
Madison did find out what was in the text of a sponsorship deal
It should be kept in mind that our good friend
Doug Henwood is somewhat of a dialectical character.
On the one hand he is the ultimate data wonk of the
lists, the supreme datameister. Just the facts, ma'am.
OTOH, it is easy to forget that once upon a time he
was a grad student in
I wouldn't waste too much time in a dust-up over postmodernism. It's pretty
dead as an intellectual trend. A Lexis-Nexis search on "postmodernism" over
the last 6 months turned up 26 articles. In the same period in 1990 there
were 315 articles that satisfied this criterion.
Other signs of the
Well, folks, time for me to disappear again for
awhile. Just too busy. Gotta go see if I can figure
out how to teach AS/AD in a "non-anti-Keynesian"
way, :-).
Barkley Rosser
http://cob.jmu.edu/rosserjb
I think people who comment on "pomos" should show some evidence of
having read some, and should cite actual texts to make their points
instead of impressions. But maybe I'm just being a stick-in-the-mud.
Doug
J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote:
It should be kept in mind that our good friend
Doug Henwood is somewhat of a dialectical character.
On the one hand he is the ultimate data wonk of the
lists, the supreme datameister. Just the facts, ma'am.
OTOH, it is easy to forget that once upon a
I think people who comment on "pomos" should show some evidence of
having read some, and should cite actual texts to make their points
instead of impressions. But maybe I'm just being a stick-in-the-mud.
Doug
I have read lots of this stuff myself:
Lyotard: The Postmodern Condition
Derrida:
At 02:53 PM 9/1/00 -0400, you wrote:
I think people who comment on "pomos" should show some evidence of having
read some, and should cite actual texts to make their points instead of
impressions. But maybe I'm just being a stick-in-the-mud.
I totally agree. I agree that all theoretical
They are armed, but not dangerous, or maybe it is the other way around. --jks
Don't you mean: "They are 'armed', but not 'dangerous'"?
Brd DeLong
I asked PEN-L:
Is it possible to teach a Marxist theory of value today in an
undergraduate course, as a matter of academic politics?
The first reply (if the daily digest is accurate) came from Brad
DeLong. He did not discuss the question, but he went on in a
revealing way. Apparently, he read
Doug Henwood wrote:
I think people who comment on "pomos" should show some evidence of
having read some, and should cite actual texts to make their points
instead of impressions. But maybe I'm just being a stick-in-the-mud.
I agree. Butler's almost habitual failure to observe this
Hi Barkley,
I must confess that I too got an English degree with a focus in Modernist
Women's Literature. I find it strange now to be working on "applying" what
I learned from the literature in sociology. (oops... was that pomo to apply
the quotes?) Trying to transfer the criticism into
H...nothing like starting a big one on Labor Day weekend. I will start
with Jim's response first since this (for me anyway) is the easiest for me
to discuss.
Hi Jim,
Agree, agree, and agree. I think it is helpful to look back at what
influenced the pomo I saw developing during the 1990s:
Brad DeLong wrote:
Bullshit. You meant it as a personal attack.
Brad, this is a bit over the top. He merely said that you commented on
the book without without reading it. Your thought seems to have been
that you didn't need to read it. There doesn't seem to be anything wrong
with that
Carrol Cox wrote:
I agree. Butler's almost habitual failure to observe this elementary
decency is the reason that I finally decided that she was a fraud. I
have made this complaint about her frequently (in specific reference to
her article in NLR) on several different maillists but no defender
RE
I must confess that I too got an English degree ...
I can't take the pressure any more... I must confess that I too have a degree
in English Lit. Please forgive me. I was young and didn't know what I was
doing.
Eric
Brad wrote,
You look at countries over time, and the principal changes in real
wages and standards of living are differences in aggregate productivity
levels--not differences in the distribution of the product between
land, labor, and capital.
Sticking to the US case: the real wages of
What about the postmodern texts:
Paige: Coffee and Power
Castells: The Power of Identity and others in the series
Held et al: Global Transformations
Geertz: The Interpretation of Cultures
And don't forget Foucault, Deleuze, Kristeva, Lacan, Hillman and Hegel.
Judith Butler:
12. So I have more to say. I just want to say this too. What ever
happened to all that great work in Marxist economic anthropology--I
don't know, I read all this fabulous stuff, Karl Polyani, and
Marshall Sahlins' work, and others, the historical work of Marc Bloch
and others
Louis,
This is an interesting comment and one that should be recognized
more by labour economists. A number of years ago (many
numbers) I was passing a campaign office of the NDP for an
election that had been called, unexpectedly, just days before. I
dropped in and to my surprise saw an
[Have to wonder how many offshore accounts the Republicrats have?]
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Europe/2000-09/architect020900.shtml
Kohl's offshore funds architect 'laundered drugs cash'
2 September 2000
A close friend of Helmut Kohl, who helped set up the former German
My response is 1) the truth is individual, 2) objectivity is impossible
(including in the argument I just created) and 3) accepting our "man-made"
god means accepting ourselves and trusting in our own magic. Why do
academic work at all: 1) because it is fun, 2) it is the healthiest thing
for our
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From Justin to Nicole:
I find your objection to essentialsim and foundationalsim confused,
and not just because you dot say what you mean by these terms. It's
rather because you seem to fall into a self-reference problem common
to those espouse pomo skepticism or relativism. You say that
Brad DeLong wrote:
Bullshit. You meant it as a personal attack.
Brad, this is a bit over the top. He merely said that you commented on
the book without without reading it. Your thought seems to have been
that you didn't need to read it.
My, my...
I wasn't *asked* to read the book. And
I think people who comment on "pomos" should show some evidence of
having read some, and should cite actual texts to make their points
instead of impressions. But maybe I'm just being a stick-in-the-mud.
Doug
No, but you are being pre-post-modernist. Imposing the grid of
explicit text-citing
Brad, the Cliff Notes statement was wrong, but I thought that you jumped
it up a couple of notches.
Brad DeLong wrote:
Bullshit. You meant it as a personal attack.
Brad, this is a bit over the top. He merely said that you commented on
the book without without reading it. Your
G'day Doug,
No need for you and I to go at it again, mate. Shouldn't really have
posted that vehement rant, but I was just back from a wet lunch. Being
Friday'n'all.
To quote one or two now would look like I'm just picking particularly
crappy bits for my own ends ... speaking of which! What
Yesterday as I was recounting the feud on alt.politics.socialism.trotsky
which led to my being victimized at work, a friend politely but firmly
insisted I needed a psychotherapist. Leaving aside the question of why I
would want to throw 100 dollars down the toilet each week, I tried to
explain to
Nice one, Eric!
This quote fits nicely, too. Apologies to Giddens-haters (I feel your
pain; for an anti-pomoista, he can write awful wank, and be politically
awfully uncommitted - unless you consider 'The Third Way' a mode of
commitment, I s'pose), but here 'tis:
"Postmodernism, if it means
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