In a message dated 9/15/00 12:17:43 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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<< why gas
prices are high. Do you have any inputs that I should pass on? >>
Isn't the FTC looking into possible antritrust violations? Tell him to ask
over there. --jks
In a message dated 9/14/00 6:45:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
<< Could someone explain for non-economists the terms
Micro- and Macro-economics. When did they arise?
Are they tied to any particular theory/theories of economics
or of the purpose of economics? Etc?
>>
Peter Dorman wrote:
> ps: By "supply and demand" I mean models in which the units of analysis
> are "households" and "firms" which purportedly maximize utility and
> profits. Keynesian analysis is based essentially on the conditions that
> must hold if aggregate levels of employment, income, a
A former student who is now in Congress wants me to tell him why gas
prices are high. Do you have any inputs that I should pass on?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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I don't pretend to know much about Peron's policies. He had a basically
agricultural economy without the educational level or the distribution of income
of a Korea. I don't think that he could have accomplished what Korea did
without attacking the structure of land ownership. The US did that fo
Brad DeLong wrote:
> I think the U.S. sanctions policy on Iraq is mistaken and
> counterproductive. But I don't think Clinton is morally culpable for
> the fact that the Iraqi government prefers not to spend its foreign
> exchange on pharmaceuticals and nutrition but to husband it for...
> other
I do not think Amsden's "getting prices wrong" is not applicable to
Peronist Argentina. The South Korean state and Peron's Argentina, both
intervened in the economy, thus deliberately got prices wrong (as
opposed to getting prices right with well functioning markets). The
main difference between
The Ottawa Citizen Thursday 14 September 2000
Drug prohibition has become the successor system to Jim Crow in the U.S.
Following is an excerpt from remarks by Ira Glasser, executive director of
the American Civil Liberties Union, at the May, 2000 conference of the
Drug Policy Foundation in Washi
The Globe and Mail Thursday, September 14, 2000
There's no risk-free way to keep peace
Many would argue that the Security Council's inclination not to
intervene in Yugoslavia's sovereign affairs was the best solution.
By Lewis MacKenzie
Now that the New York traffic jams are back to normal and
I wanted to share the following job opening with penners. This is for a
senior position (at the full professorship level) in the economics
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Thanks
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>I have never seen as concise description of social democracy. I like Alice
>Amsden's refutation of your perspective -- especially her praise of
>getting prices
>wrong.
>
>Brad De Long wrote:
>
>>
>> in a mixed economy, the government
>> should be used to redistribute income and the market us
>I appreciate Brad's response here, but I do not hear him calling Clinton a
>war criminal, for the deaths of say, .5 mill. Iraqi kids.
>>
>> >But is it not equally our business what the US does to bomb, kill
>> >and maim civilians and children in Columbia, Yugoslavia, Iraq etc.
>>
> > Yep.
I t
This vision of the synthesis that you attribute to Samuelson is very clear
in Keynes' General Theory, except of the concern about inflation, which is
not in the General Theory, but does come later in Keynes.
I thought that Brad expressed this same idea clearly while denouncing
Nestor.
>
> As I
Peter wrote:
>The so-called neoclassical synthesis of the
>post WWII era was really two different bodies of theory laid
>side-by-side.
As I understood the "synthesis," it involved a faith that the government
would use fiscal policy to maintain full employment (this was an era before
the rentier
Tinbergen was the first to coin that term, macroeconomics.
Tinbergen, J. 1939. Statistical Testing of Business Cycle
Theories. Vol. I: A Method and Application to Investment Activity.
Vol. II: Business Cycles in the United States of America, 1919-
1932 (Geneva: League of Nation, Economic Intellige
The standard story is that these terms represented confusion in the wake
of Keynes. Keynes said that most of the story told by classical
economics (by which he meant Marshall) was correct, but that it did not
explain the level of income and employment. He offered his own theory,
which was quickl
At 05:42 PM 09/14/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Could someone explain for non-economists the terms Micro- and
>Macro-economics. When did they arise? Are they tied to any particular
>theory/theories of economics or of the purpose of economics? Etc?
Micro deals with individual firms, consumers, markets
Prior to the 1997 feature "The Eel", the only other film of Shohei Imamura
that I had seen was "Eijanika". This 1981 masterpiece was set during the
Edo era, when local warlords battled the emperor for control of the
country. All of Japan is under cultural pressure from the West. Political
loyaltie
forwarded by Michael Hoover
> >From Dollars and Sense, Sept./Oct. 2000
> http://www.DollarsandSense.org
> Subscriptions to Dollars and Sense are $18.95 a year
> Dollars and Sense
> P.O. Box 3000
> Denville, N.J. 07834-9810
>
> THE WAL-MART TRAP
>
> By Annette Bernhardt
>
>
> For every woman s
And now, to illustrate its embarrassment about the incident, the following
statement has been issued.
A Ministry of Defence inquiry into the incident has found that the unit's
commanding officer, Maj. Alan Marshall of the Royal Irish Regiment, had made
"a grave mistake", and "an error of profess
Could someone explain for non-economists the terms
Micro- and Macro-economics. When did they arise?
Are they tied to any particular theory/theories of economics
or of the purpose of economics? Etc?
Carrol
Dear Penners,
Wanted to call your attention to the following opening where I teach
and ask your help in getting some good applicants.
Thanks, Marty Hart-Landsberg
Lewis and Clark College seeks a social scientist specializing in the
social, political, and/or economic dynamics of contemporary C
[full article at http://www.iht.com/IHT/TODAY/FRI/FIN/mob.2.html ]
Paris, Friday, September 15, 2000
The Mob in the Markets: FBI Sees Bigger Presence
By Sandra Sugawara Washington Post Service
WASHINGTON - Organized crime's presence on Wall Street is growing and there
are increasing signs that
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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forwarded by Michael Hoover
> COAST TO COAST AND AROUND THE WORLD
>
> OCTOBER 7 ACTIONS TO STOP MILITARIZATION OF SPACE STILL GROWING
>
> The list of demonstration sites for the "International Day of Protest to
> Stop the Militarization of Space" is getting larger each day as we move
> closer t
I see a big part of Marx's crisis theory as the build up and eventual
destruction of fictitious capital -- both a micro and a macro process.
More like vol. 3 than vol 1.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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>At 05:19 PM 9/13/00 -0700, you wrote:
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>>>Rethinking Marxism -- is finally here.,,
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>>>
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Edward Wolff writes:
>...The movement of the rate of profit over time is due to two major
>effects: changes in the share of profits in value added and movements in
>the organic composition. The latter, in turn, is due to movements in
>sectoral organic composition levels and shifts in the employ
>forwarded by Michael Hoover
>
> > >From Dollars and Sense, Sept./Oct. 2000
> > http://www.DollarsandSense.org
> > Subscriptions to Dollars and Sense are $18.95 a year
> > Dollars and Sense
> > P.O. Box 3000
> > Denville, N.J. 07834-9810
> >
> > THE WAL-MART TRAP
> >
> > By Annette Bernhardt
> >
>
At 05:19 PM 9/13/00 -0700, you wrote:
>>MARXISM 2000 -- the 4th International Gala Conference hosted by
>>Rethinking Marxism -- is finally here.,,
>>
>>
>>
>>#
>>Stephen Cullenberg Office: 909-787-5037, ext. 1573
>>Professor of Economics
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> Ong, Aihwa. 1987. _Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline:
> Factory Women in Malaysia._ SUNY Press.
> Ong also provides an impressive analysis of the
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> Best, Colin
See also
Next year's surplus is now projected at $258 billion.
Today the Post reports that both Clinton and the
GOP Congress want to reserve 90% of it for debt
repayment. Of the remaining 10%, Clinton wants
all of it for spending, & the GOP wants half for
spending and half for tax cuts.
Note that from a
I asked:
> >did the dominions -- and the colonies -- have any choice in this matter?
Rob said:
>Yep, we did. The one thing about which I agree with Brad is that it was no
>bad thing we went the way we did.
yeah, I think it was good to fight Hitler, too. Too bad so many --
including the US gov'
Brad DeLong wrote,
> Let me second Chris Burford: the reduction of taxes on oil is not a
> step forward in the direction of utopia...
This is true. However, it may be a useful warning about the impossibility
of a utopia that we shouldn't be too sanguine about. I refer to
sustainable development
>From Johnson's Russia list.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
September 14, 2000
Vodka's killer reputation grows as rivals slug it out for control
RUSSIA by FRED WEIR in Moscow
The traditional belt of vodka is getting deadlier than ever for the average
Russian as warring distillers kill each other in more e
New York Times 14 September 2000
The Mahogany King's Brief Reign
By JOSEPH KAHN
SUVA, Fiji - This South Pacific archipelago is best known for its
fine-grained white beaches and cloudless vistas of cobalt sea. But a
cockscomb range of steep-sided mountains divides the main island of
Viti Levu
thanks much, colin, for your source which i'll check out.
the quote you asked about was from an article cited earlier by louis proyect
stating that, in mexico, wages are lower since the advent of NAFTA. i'll
check out the source of study cited by that article in addition to yours.
since the maq
Asks Jim,
>did the dominions -- and the colonies -- have any choice in this matter?
Yep, we did. The one thing about which I agree with Brad is that it was no
bad thing we went the way we did. But we've actually had the sovereignty
since 1901 to decide for ourselves whether we'd enter wars, sh
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