At 16:46 29/09/00 +0800, you wrote:
>Totally uninformed.
To be totally uninformed must be as difficult a goal as to be totally
informed.
>Are taxes in Europe specified as a fixed amount
>of physical oil or as a percentage of the value of oil?
kj khoo is at least not claiming to be total
> Is this a sign? If so of what?
Remember Keynes. If savings=investment, then the US economy is eating
its own future.
Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
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The equivalence elides the "direction" of causality. If investment drives
growth and profitability [a la Minsky's
David Bacon's work is usually excellent, but I enjoyed this one more
than most.
Subject:
national security or international solidarity
Date:
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Yes, the voice recognition technology can lead to great creativity.
Jim Devine wrote:
> At 02:25 PM 9/29/00 -0700, you wrote:
> >Jim, I agree with you that its suspending that counts. The advantage of
> >military
> >spending is that it does not cut in to the markets of the typical
> >corporatio
En relación a [PEN-L:2518] (Fwd) US savings rate drops to recor,
el 29 Sep 00, a las 14:43, Paul Phillips dijo:
> Is this a sign? If so of what?
Remember Keynes. If savings=investment, then the US economy is eating
its own future.
Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 02:25 PM 9/29/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Jim, I agree with you that its suspending that counts. The advantage of
>military
>spending is that it does not cut in to the markets of the typical
>corporations,
>such as housing, health-care, or public transportation would.
your typos are funny sometim
Doug Henwood already mentioned why the present expansion is so improbable
given the budget surpluses. Much of the impetus has come from increased
reliance on debt, perhaps through the wealth effect. I suspect that when
the a slowdown occurs, there will be a sudden realization that much of the
ph
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Jim, I agree with you that its suspending that counts. The advantage of military
spending is that it does not cut in to the markets of the typical corporations,
such as housing, health-care, or public transportation would.
PS. I might have to revise the above statement now with the privatizatio
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Jim Devine wrote:
>
> another NPR story remarked unlike the Ozzies and the Kiwis, the "Yanks"
> don't really have a cute nickname for themselves. What should it be?
I like Yanks because otherwise it would be hard to tell who won
the war of the slave
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Michael Perelman wrote:
>I don't see the inconsistency. Massive waves of downsizing
>eliminated lots of good
>jobs (instability). Later, those that could clung to their good
>jobs. The second
>stage may not represent instability, but it does not r
>Richardson_D wrote:
> > The issue of mandatory overtime has become one of concern in the labor
> > relations arena. Employee advocates contend that employers use mandatory
> > overtime to reduce the costs of hiring more workers and paying benefits.
> > Companies counter that worker shortages ha
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I find this a little odd. The U.S. economy has its longest expansion
ever, with many strange features that scream out for analysis (how'd
it happen along with a fiscal tightening - shouldn't Keynesians be
talking about this?; the alleged productivity
Is this a sign? If so of what?
Paul Phillips,
Economics,
University of Manitoba
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>Lenin: "The export of capital influences and greatly accelerates the
>development of capitalism in those countries to which it is exported.
>While, therefore, the export of capital may tend to a certain extent
>to arrest development in the capital-exporting countries, it can only
>do so by ex
>TOL> OK, my question is: In the depression, there was mass unemployment
>TOL> all over the world. During world war 2 there was full employment all
>TOL> over the world. If war spending didn't cause this turnaround, what
>TOL> did? Or do you think the depression continued until 1945?
>
>It is not
Louis Proyect wrote:
>No, Lenin's point was a more overarching one.
1) Just because one makes a point, it doesn't exclude another.
> He, along with figures such
>as Rosa Luxemburg and Bukharin, were attempting to point out that
>capitalism no longer had any progressive aspects. It retarded eco
Doug:
>Pardon the imprecision. But Lenin's point, as I remember it, was that
>imperial powers are characterized by the export of capital, and
>dependent countries by the import of capital. The U.S. invests
>abroad, but on balance is an importer of capital. At its peak the UK
>was a large net c
At 01:48 PM 9/29/00 -0400, you wrote:
>There's no such thing as a Leninist analysis of imperialism. There is
>Lenin's analysis of imperialism that was written to address the cause of
>WWI. By the same token, there is no such thing as a Leninist definition of
>the revolutionary party. Five years af
Brad DeLong wrote:
>>the pause in the narrowing of the gender gap...
>
>This I do not understand at all...
Theories, none proven as far as I know: 1) welfare reform; 2) growth
in IT jobs, in which women are underrepresented; 3) male employment
is more procyclical than female; 4) weakening of a
>the pause in the narrowing of the gender gap...
This I do not understand at all...
Brad DeLong
Louis Proyect wrote:
>There's no such thing as a Leninist analysis of imperialism. There is
>Lenin's analysis of imperialism that was written to address the cause of
>WWI.
Pardon the imprecision. But Lenin's point, as I remember it, was that
imperial powers are characterized by the export of ca
Doug:
>PS: By the way, the coincidence of massive current account deficits,
>rising foreign debts, and expanded U.S. imperial power should inspire
>a rethink of the Leninist analysis of imperialism, no?
There's no such thing as a Leninist analysis of imperialism. There is
Lenin's analysis of im
Louis Proyect quoted:
>It is not spending part of the budget for arms, but actually
>_making_ war.
>
>All imperialist powers fought the war in the prospect of finding
>huge new sources of superprofits. Besides this, war destroys capital,
>even more effectively than a depression.
>
>
If the correct analogy is to the Gilded Age, then isn't the obvious political
problem how to ensure that the coming version of the "Progressive Era" does more
than merely rationalize the marketplace?
Joel Blau
Jim Devine wrote:
> At 10:17 AM 9/29/00 -0400, you wrote:
> >Keeping an eye on prote
JD>
speaking of which, I've noticed that the media make a lot of comparisons
between the last 20 years or so and the US "gilded age" of the late 19th
and very early 20th centuries. I think there's a lot of validity to these
comparisons (though no analogy is perfect). In the last gilded age, the US
Michael Perelman wrote:
>Marc Linder seems to lead several lives. Remember Anti-Samuelson.
He's a law prof at the University of Iowa, who seems to publish a
book a year. He co-authored a history of Brooklyn that came out about
a year ago, and Void Where Prohibited, which uses restrictions on
[This post appeared as a followup to discussion on the Marxism list. It
also would relate to our thread from yesterday.]
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TOL>
TOL> OK, my question is: In the depressi
Marc Linder seems to lead several lives. Remember Anti-Samuelson.
Richardson_D wrote:
>
> The issue of mandatory overtime has become one of concern in the labor
> relations arena. Employee advocates contend that employers use mandatory
> overtime to reduce the costs of hiring more workers and
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At 10:17 AM 9/29/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Keeping an eye on protesters International authorities are sharing
>information -- not all of it accurate -- about anti-globalization activists.
speaking of which, I've noticed that the media make a lot of comparisons
between the last 20 years or so and the
yes, but notwithstanding what the author says about western exploitation of
w. asian countries, when one considers the cross-fertilization over 1000
years btwn europe and w. asia, the demise of european colonialisation in the
region, big oil revenues sloshing around many muslim countries over the
One good argument to use about sweatshops
is the amount of non-free-market stuff involved.
The number of death squads and government oppression involved.
The fact that government policies are probably driving people
into the cities, to create a surplus labor force.
The fact that people with c
Michael Perelman said on 9/28/00 8:06 PM
>I understand that RN will be on TV tonight. How could he be as funny as
>Bush? Slate reports
RN appeared on Fox News yesterday with Phil Donahue(sp) and described
Bush as a corporation disguised as a human being. Sounds a little like
Steve Gaskin's "
>> >So although the militancy of the Venezuelans is very welcome, we need to
>> >consider what the end result is likely to be.
>> >
>> >Chris Burford
>>
>>I know the answer to that. CIA plots to overthrow Chavez.
>>
>>Louis Proyect
>
>Surely. We have to assume it has been going on already, but th
At 09:38 PM 9/28/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Ah. Tom Lehrer...
>
>Where oh where is his equal today?
Try Roy Zimmerman (no relation to Bob) or the group he used to lead, The
Foremen. I think their albums are still available (from Warner Brothers, I
believe). Like many of the best artists, most of the
You scared me. I thought you were referring to Richard Nixon, who allegedly
is tanned and rested and ready to run for office again (in Hell). Of
course, Nixon was better than the current crop of politicians.
At 09:06 PM 9/28/00 -0700, you wrote:
>I understand that RN will be on TV tonight.
Jim
Keeping an eye on protesters International authorities are sharing
information -- not all of it accurate -- about anti-globalization activists.
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By Sarah Ferguson
Sept. 29, 2000 | On Sept. 17, 23-year-old Kay Morrison of Seattle was
standing on the platform at the Bad Sch
>some of these scholars said that about 1000, muslim clerics became more
>conservative, didn't want their scientists and technicians, along with
>jewish ones scattered among them, medddling with nature any more and had
>enough political power to close down scientific investigations.
>
>flaws in my
apropos the eurocentrism view of scientific, technological and capitalist
origins, in a muslim forum i asked this question: "What happened to muslim
science?", knowing that it and its accompanying technology were the most
advanced in the world during the middle ages.
i received a number of intere
Chris Burford wrote:
>Not just the Venezuelans but other OPEC members are arguing that
>European
>governments should reduce the price of oil by reducing taxes.
>Assuming that
>the price of crude oil remains high this is therefore a proposition
>which
>in net terms means a vast transfer of exchan
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