> From: Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The labor theory of value does not have to be very mysterious. In a
> sense, at least one part of Marx's theory can be read something like
> this: in order for a market economy to function "properly," prices must
> bear some relationship to
Sent: September 21, 2000 10:12 AM
Subject: Bill Blaikie Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SEPTEMBER 21, 2000
ASBESTOS APPEAL UNDERMINES CANADIAN CREDIBILITY ON
ACCESS TO CHEAPER GENERIC DRUGS: NDP TRADE CRITIC
OTTAWA - "It's time for the Trade Minister to rethink his failed trade
policy and address
[Asian leaders are probably foaming at the mouth over this shit]
[full article http://www.iht.com/IHT/TODAY/SAT/FPAGE/traders.2.html ]
Paris, Saturday, September 23, 2000
Banks Catch Traders on Wrong Foot
By Tom Buerkle International Herald Tribune
LONDON - Like many of the world's currency sp
Justin wrote:
>Yeah, we post-Sraffans always get this from believers in the LTV: "It's
>too deep you someone with your analytical equipment to understand." No doubt.
No, that's not it. The neo-Ricardian "analytical equipment" about a
different question than Marxian value theory. That equipment
The labor theory of value does not have to be very mysterious. In a
sense, at least one part of Marx's theory can be read something like
this: in order for a market economy to function "properly," prices must
bear some relationship to the underlying values. Prices don't equal
values, but they mu
Lisa & Ian Murray wrote:
snip
>
> At the same time we should avoid looking for contradictions behind every
> bushlest we metacontradict ourselves,
>
> Ian
Did you mean to put a small "b" in bush? Or is he a contradiction of
capitalism?
Gene
Yeah, we post-Sraffans always get this from believers in the LTV: "It's too deep you
someone with your analytical equipment to understand." No doubt. but H&K have a
sympathetic thoughvery critical treatment of what is living and dead in the TLV in
their The Political Economy of Marx, 2d ed. The
>>Conveniently failing to notice that this same spread of real-time
information adds exponentially to the variables and the dynamic relations
between 'em all. I mean, Greenspan has a point if you define 'information'
as a 'lessening of uncertainty', but that'd mean you have to call stuff
that's (
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 06:42:04PM -0700, Jim Devine wrote:
> While coming home from work, I heard the tail-end of a story on US National
> Public Radio, about a "Maoist" insurgency in Nepal, of all places.
> Interestingly, the reporter's chosen expert blamed the increase in economic
> inequali
from SLATE 9/22/00:
>The NY [Times] biz section reports that contrary to a story it ran
>yesterday, NASA [the US space agency] has not and will not participate in
>a TV show currently being pitched to Fox, CBS and ABC [television
>networks] in which contestants would vie for a televised trip to
forwarded by Michael Hoover
> "Some of the recalled Bridgestone/Firestone tires will be burned in an
> Illinois incinerator that environmentalists criticize as a major
> polluter of low-income neighborhoods. "
> Copyright © 2000 Environmental News Network, Inc
Environment News Service September 12, 2000
NAFTA Suit: Blame Canada
"Something is seriously wrong with the way the NAFTA investment
chapter is working" -- World Wildlife Fund official
WASHINGTON, DC -- An international tribunal has begun considering a
claim that the United States must pay a fo
NY Times, September 22, 2000
In Japan Banker's Suicide, Hints of Debt Burden's Human Toll
By STEPHANIE STROM
TOKYO Sept. 21 - The suicide of the new president of Nippon Credit Bank,
which was saved from insolvency earlier this month by a group of investors
led by the Softbank Corporation, has s
G'day Michael,
You quote Greenspan:
>"We are in a dynamic system that requires not just us, but also our
>colleagues in the Group of Ten to adjust," he said.
>"It must be done substantially right the first time because, with the
>financial system changing so rapidly, we do not
>have the luxury o
[forwarded from Ron Baiman]
>Dear Folks,
>
> Please do what you can to get signatures (electronic or hard copy) to this
>petition. We're going to bring Jeremy's beautiful hard copies and information
>statements to the ASSA in New Orleans. ...
>
>Also - My apoligies if you've already receive
ah, yes, we're in that "place" Marcuse called "repressive desublimation"
where sexual permissiveness has been to work in the service of the
established economic order Michael Hoover
==
What's sexual permissivenss? The recent posts on this thread look like the
popularization of Gary Be
Doug wrote: >Gratuitous ad hominem note: the way Summers ogles women gives
lust a bad name.<
didn't Henry Kissinger (who should know) say that power is the best
aphrodisiac? and isn't Lawrence Summers one of the most powerful economists
(perhaps _the_ most powerful) in the world? isn't he one
Re: Pacifica and the Internet by Louis Proyect
PEN-L,
KPFA radio walked the free speech talk in many ways. One example was
providing air time for conservatives such as Cap Weinberger and members of
the John Birch Society.
I, too, thought that the POV documentary on the hist
At 09:27 AM 9/21/00 -0400, you wrote:
>some of the best examples are available in another new book from Schor,
>coedited with Douglas Holt, The Consumer Society Reader. The benchmarks
>make the book worth buying: Marx on commodity fetishism; Veblen on
>"conspicuous consumption"; Galbraith on ho
[Re: [PEN-L:2154] Re: Re: Re: a profound comment on the "transformation
problem"]
I wrote:
><< His main point seems to be a relatively common-sense explanation of
>the "solution" to the "transformation problem" that Fred Moseley
>advocates. See the latter's article in the current _Review of
Ian, I think recently, posted the article about the Minsky crisis,
because of the declining quality of loans. Here is the other side of
the coin.
THE AMERICAS: Many US banking rules obsolete, says Greenspan
By PETER SPIEGEL, Financial Times, 9/19
Alan Greenspan, chairman of the US Federal Rese
> BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2000:
>
> Today's News Release: MULTIFACTOR PRODUCTIVITY TRENDS, 1998, Private
> Business, Private Nonfarm Business and Manufacturing, indicates that
> multifactor productivity differs from labor productivity (output per hour)
> measures that are publi
Skin trade
Welcome to the new world of dating, where everyone's out to get the best
deal they can.
- - - - - - - - - - - -
By James Surowiecki, salon.com
Sept. 22, 2000 | The September issue of Talk magazine featured a painfully
true-to-life portrait of the dating travails of Kristin Whiting,
Quoth the generous Gene:
>Apologies, Rob, for misspelling your name.
No worries, Gene! (*The Advocate* did far worse with the name the day I got
my first first-grade goal against mighty Ulverstone in the Northern
Tasmanian Soccer League - now THAT hurt!) Dunno if I want my name attached
to thi
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