Re: dulce decorum

2000-09-13 Thread JKSCHW
Dulce ET Decorum est pro patria mori.

Re: Re: dulce decorum

2000-09-13 Thread Brad DeLong
Dulce ET Decorum est pro patria mori. touche...

Re: Re: Women Industrialization (was Re: capitalistpatriarchy)

2000-09-13 Thread Michael Perelman
Yoshie, I was looking at my notes and I found: Humphries, Jane. 1991. "The Sexual Division of Labor and Social Control: An Interpretation." Review of Radical Political Economics, 23: 3 and 4 (Fall and Winter): pp. 269-96. 277: The need to monitor female sexual behavior made families reluctant to

More refugees from capitalism

2000-09-13 Thread Seth Sandronsky
I am no fan of Monbiot but I can't complain about much in this concise and damning indictment of present-day capitalism. Cheers, Ken Hanly THE GUARDIAN (LONDON) June 29, 2000 This is a war of all worlds By George Monbiot Fuss about the human genome just hides the brutality of global

Re: Re: dulce decorum

2000-09-13 Thread Jim Devine
At 10:04 AM 9/13/00 -0400, you wrote: Dulce ET Decorum est pro patria mori. I know: I was trying to say "sweet decorum," though perhaps Justin will want to reenact the scene from "Monty Python's Life of Brian," in which the Roman guard lectures Brian on the poor Latin grammar of his anti-Roman

dulce decorum all that

2000-09-13 Thread Jim Devine
[corrected version] Justin wrote: Dulce ET Decorum est pro patria mori. I know: I was trying to say "sweet decorum," though perhaps Justin will want to reenact the scene from "Monty Python's Life of Brian," in which the Roman guard lectures Brian on the poor Latin grammar of his anti-Roman

Re: Re: Re: Re: Economics and Literature

2000-09-13 Thread Charles Brown
_The Manifesto of the Communist Party_, _Value, Price and Profit_, et al are more accessible to popular audiences. CB [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/11/00 02:30PM Brad DeLong wrote: I'm amazed that the literary qualities of even chap. 1 of Capital are being called into question. Section 4 is one

: Thatcher and nationalism

2000-09-13 Thread Charles Brown
Is Brad a resident sparing partner ? CB [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/11/00 02:55PM I agree with everything the Doug says here. I used the word "provocative" to weasel out of saying something more precise. Doug wrote That seems a bit excessive. I was interested that Michael used the word

BLS Daily Report

2000-09-13 Thread Richardson_D
BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2000: On its Web site, the Bureau of Labor Statistics offers kid-oriented statistics on a variety of professions, including "rock star," says the "Work Week" column of The Wall Street Journal in its end "The Checkoff" paragraph. The durability of the

Economics and Literature

2000-09-13 Thread Charles Brown
The thing I like about Marx's writing is the feeling of a combination of enormous erudition combined with earthiness and common sense wit. CB [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/11/00 12:17PM I'm amazed that the literary qualities of even chap. 1 of Capital are being called into question. Section 4 is one

Re: BLS Daily Report

2000-09-13 Thread Jim Devine
The durability of the recent productivity surge will help ensure that the U.S. economy stays on a steady path of solid expansion without threat of inflation heating up and ending the longest period of growth in the nation's history, a Federal Reserve official and leading business economists

Re: Re: Re: dulce decorum

2000-09-13 Thread Carrol Cox
One of the weaknesses of internet communication is that the frequency of typographical errors tends to preempt a fundamental principle of interpretation: Assume, unless there is definite proof otherwise, that the writer not only means what he/she says but knows what he/she means. This principle

From the Guardian

2000-09-13 Thread Charles Brown
.Blair tells oil firms to resume deliveries .Police promise to protect tanker drivers .90% of petrol stations out of fuel .Buses, trains and schools affected .NHS faces crisis, operations cancelled Special report: The petrol war Patrick Wintour Wednesday September 13, 2000 Tony Blair was at

More from the Guardian

2000-09-13 Thread Charles Brown
Lorry drivers paralyse EU capitals Special report: The petrol war Ian Black in Brussels Wednesday September 13, 2000 Blocked roads, wildcat action and frayed nerves tested the patience of commuters and consumers across continental Europe again yesterday as anger over the price of petrol

Re: Re: Re: Thatcher and nationalism

2000-09-13 Thread Ken Hanly
Well this might be nice if nations intervened in other countries when bad things are done and were able to stop the bad things happenings. Often they cannot. Somalia and Rwanda are good examples. In practice however this practice would turn out to be the white man's burden, or the Monroe

Re: dulce decorum

2000-09-13 Thread Charles Brown
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/13/00 12:13AM Of course, it's quite possible that new kinds of internationalist opposition movements are brewing... CB: I probably have e-mail list saturation amnesia, but has the economy of Venezuela 2000 been discussed here much ?

Re: Re: Thatcher and nationalism

2000-09-13 Thread Charles Brown
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/13/00 12:52AM As Doug said, you have a lot to offer the list, but sometimes you get on your high horse and seem to behave rather dogmatically. Let's look at the record: "(The internal structure of Argentina is not the business of interlopers from the imperialist world

Thatcher and nationalism

2000-09-13 Thread Charles Brown
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/13/00 12:31AM You do not explain why it is "nutso" to consider that it is no business of the rest of us what dictators do to their own people. But isn't it common among certain types of pragmatist and "realists" to claim that foreign policy ought to be based upon

Poem celebrating American foreign policy

2000-09-13 Thread Louis Proyect
The White Man's Burden By Rudyard Kipling Take up the White Man's burden-- Send forth the best ye breed-- Go, bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need; To wait, in heavy harness, On fluttered folk and wild-- Your new-caught sullen peoples, Half devil and

Re: Re: dulce decorum

2000-09-13 Thread Jim Devine
I wrote: You should read more carefully. I wasn't saying that you should be filtered, Saith Brad: You need to write more carefully. You were: NĂ©stor wrote: (The internal structure of Argentina is not the business of interlopers from the imperialist world -- and interloping from alleged

Re: Thatcher and nationalism

2000-09-13 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Ken Hanley wrote: Well this might be nice if nations intervened in other countries when bad things are done and were able to stop the bad things happenings. When socialist nations did intervene, imperialist nations did not appreciate such interventions at all. Many intellectuals -- including

Re: Re: Re: Re: Thatcher and nationalism

2000-09-13 Thread Brad De Long
Well this might be nice if nations intervened in other countries when bad things are done and were able to stop the bad things happening... It was called World War II...

Value, Price, and Profit (Abridged) by K. Marx: Now available for student/scholar use

2000-09-13 Thread Paul Zarembka
An abridged version of "Value, Price, and Profit", by Karl Marx is now at http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PZarembka/Marx.htm with the publisher's permission and includes a new Preface. The abstract reads: "Marx's 1865 lectures offer an easily accessible summary of his theory,

Re: Re: Thatcher and nationalism

2000-09-13 Thread Jim Devine
Yoshie writes: When socialist nations did intervene, imperialist nations did not appreciate such interventions at all. Many intellectuals -- including many leftists -- in the West condemned the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, though the Soviets were backing the side of modernizers --

RE: Those questionable productivity numbers

2000-09-13 Thread enilsson
This is primarily to Doug. I was going to respond to Doug's question of the other day but I'm still daddy at home and don't have Doug's message. But, I'll give a shot at it anyway. The question was something like why can't one compare a change in the absolute value of a nominal variable with

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Thatcher and nationalism

2000-09-13 Thread Doug Henwood
Brad De Long wrote: Well this might be nice if nations intervened in other countries when bad things are done and were able to stop the bad things happening... It was called World War II... Yeah, and after the war, the U.S. assimilated most of the Nazi intelligence apparatus. They had such

Re: Re: Women Industrialization (was Re: capitalist patriarchy)

2000-09-13 Thread Eugene Coyle
Thanks, Yoshie, for your posts, including this one: Gene Coyle Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: Jim Heartfield wrote: In message v04210100b5e4154c9b46@[140.254.114.95], Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Typical faces of industrial workers changed from female colored to male white to

Computers and Productivity musings

2000-09-13 Thread enilsson
The 'true' impact of growth rate of the computer sector on the growth rate of the whole economy is impossible to measure. The reason has to do with how real series (real GDP, real compensation, etc) are generated. Suppose you have 2 sectors in the economy: computers and food. Suppose you

RE: Re: RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: Economics and Literature

2000-09-13 Thread Max Sawicky
yes. Eileen publishes a ton in journals. Peter was offered (and took) a position at Michigan State (I think) when he wasn't even on the academic market. Of course, it was in an IR department. Not "econ." mbs Does that work win the respect of "real" economists? I beg your pardon but our

Kakistocracy update...

2000-09-13 Thread Lisa Ian Murray
[full article at http://www.iht.com/IHT/TODAY/THU/IN/beijing.2.html ] Paris, Thursday, September 14, 2000 Secret Trials of Chinese Officials Begin Agence France-Presse XIAMEN, China - Trials in the biggest corruption scandal in Communist China's history opened Wednesday with senior officials

Colombia top Union killer again...

2000-09-13 Thread Lisa Ian Murray
[full article http://www.iht.com/IHT/TODAY/THU/FIN/union.2.html ] Paris, Thursday, September 14, 2000 Colombia Tops Unions' Peril List The Associated Press GENEVA - At least half of the more than 140 union members who disappeared or were killed last year came from Colombia, making it the

Brit Unions foaming at the mouth on productivity..

2000-09-13 Thread Lisa Ian Murray
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/0,6957,,00.html Brown runs into a barrage of criticism from unions Seamus Milne and David Gow Wednesday September 13, 2000 Union leaders yesterday lashed out at Gordon Brown for failing to act over "the disaster" overtaking British manufacturing and what

Announcement: MARXISM 2000 Conference -- NEXT WEEK

2000-09-13 Thread Stephen Cullenberg
MARXISM 2000 -- the 4th International Gala Conference hosted by Rethinking Marxism -- is finally here. Next week, 21-24 September, over 1,000 people will gather at UMass-Amherst from all continents (except Antarctica) to celebrate the richness of contemporary Marxism in all its varieties in over

Re: Re: Prayin' for a warm Winter

2000-09-13 Thread Joanna Sheldon
We'd love to help, down here, by keeping our air conditioners cranked up all summer long (October to April) but that might make things worse... Jo At 14:14 13-09-00 , you wrote: Re: Prayin' for a warm Winter luckily, global warming will provide... ;-) Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: Re: dulce decorum

2000-09-13 Thread JKSCHW
In a message dated 9/13/00 11:51:05 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know: I was trying to say "sweet decorum," though perhaps Justin will want to reenact the scene from "Monty Python's Life of Brian," in which the Roman guard lectures Brian on the poor Latin grammar

Re: Re: Thatcher and nationalism

2000-09-13 Thread JKSCHW
In a message dated 9/13/00 4:27:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well this might be nice if nations intervened in other countries when bad things are done and were able to stop the bad things happenings. When socialist nations did intervene, imperialist nations did

Re: UK Petrol tax revolt

2000-09-13 Thread Brad De Long
We expected networks to deliver more protests against global capitalism, of the sort that have just taken place in Melbourne - Congratulations! But there are special reasons why networks have produced the cascade of positive feedback leading to the petrol tax revolt in Britain. The petrol

Re: Announcement: MARXISM 2000 Conference -- NEXTWEEK

2000-09-13 Thread Brad De Long
MARXISM 2000 -- the 4th International Gala Conference hosted by Rethinking Marxism -- is finally here.,, # Stephen Cullenberg Office: 909-787-5037, ext. 1573 Professor of EconomicsFax:909-787-5685 University of California

UK Petrol tax revolt

2000-09-13 Thread Chris Burford
We expected networks to deliver more protests against global capitalism, of the sort that have just taken place in Melbourne - Congratulations! But there are special reasons why networks have produced the cascade of positive feedback leading to the petrol tax revolt in Britain. The petrol