Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 17:11:03 -0500
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Cornell University Press has
His car briefly went onto the shoulder of the road when he swerved to
avoiding hitting the ghost of Mary Jo Kopechne.
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island
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I've been thinking about the rationalization for voting for Gore based
on the Supreme Court. With the Bush administration, it's possible that
the Democrats might actually behave like an opposition party -- not
likely but possible. They might holdout for someone better than
Ginsburg or Breyer.
http://www.wpunj.edu/~newpol/nader1.htm
Some signatories:
Michael Perelman, Economics, Calif St U, Chico
Doug Henwood, Journalist, NYC
Paul Buhle, American Civilization, Brown U
Stanley Aronowitz, Dist Prof, Sociology, Grad Ctr, CUNY
Alan Sokal, Physics, NYU
Dean Baker, Co-Dir, Ctr for Economic
Bob Burnett, founding vice president of engineering at Cisco Systems, will
take over as publisher of In These Times, a twenty-four year old,
Chicago-based progressive newsmagazine that was established by historian
and author James Weinstein with the support of such noted intellectuals as
Noam
Ian said:
Economies are Newtonian in only the trivial sense that we're all "just"
physical objects moving in space.
I said:
why do theories have to be Newtonian? I don't get this. Please explain.
Ian replies:
They don't; I was commenting on the use of "the laws of motion of capitalist
Robin Hanson wrote:
Iowa Electronic Markets (http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/iem/) ...
Does that market predict better than the polls?
Yes, it predicts substantiallly better than polls. Follow URL for refs.
As they say in physics, don't believe an observation until it's
confirmed in theory. Why
I'm on that list, too, though they miscapitalize my name as "DeVine." To
err is human, to forgive...
At 11:00 AM 11/3/00 -0500, you wrote:
http://www.wpunj.edu/~newpol/nader1.htm
Some signatories:
Michael Perelman, Economics, Calif St U, Chico
Doug Henwood, Journalist, NYC
Paul Buhle,
so Gore has been endorsed by both Buffets, Jimmy and Warren? 'nuff said.
waiting 'til the end of work to visit Margaritaville,
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/02/00 07:52PM
This query is based on an argument advanced some years ago by Sweezy and
Magdoff. I can't remember the exact source, but I believe it was an MR
Review of the Month. They were speaking specifically of socialist
society, and argued that one of the mistakes of
I sent this to Salon and TomPaine.com, but who knows
what they'll do with it. Feel free to circulate if
you think it worthwhile.
The latest, liberal anti-Ralph sally from Prof. Wilentz company is
disappointing. It is also blatantly inaccurate in its purported quotations.
A little
Louis Proyect wrote:
Stanley Aronowitz, Dist Prof, Sociology, Grad Ctr, CUNY
Alan Sokal, Physics, NYU
Wow. Politics does make strange bedfellows.
Doug
Last two posts I sent were numbered in the reverse order.
Before I get to the question
Were these "enclosed" peasants the ones who rented the
expropriated lands as *leaseholders*?
I want to emphasize that O'Brien really thinks that it was the
landlords who led the enclosure movement,
If the Dems run Carnahan, I expect the Repugs
to run Abraham Lincoln, which, come to think of it,
wouldn't be too bad
Barkley Rosser
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Date: Thursday, November 02, 2000 7:15 PM
Is it not the case that the Iowa market had
Gore in the lead until just about a week ago or so?
Barkley Rosser
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Date: Friday, November 03, 2000 12:59 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:3895] Re:
Timework Web said on 11/3/00 7:49 A
His car briefly went onto the shoulder of the road when he swerved to
avoiding hitting the ghost of Mary Jo Kopechne.
The first report that I heard on abc last night stated that he was
arrested for "driving too slow". My experience doesn't lead to me to
Ian,
Egads, madness? Well, actually I'm holding a
tea party here in Wonderland for any who are interested
in multi-valued logics and causal dynamics, :-)
Two minor notes:
1) Leibniz was more influenced by
Confucius than by Taoism. In China these are very much
competing dogmas,
Michael,
I agree that the Supreme Court fear is probably
overdone. It is pretty clear that the actual outcomes of
Supreme Court appointments by any president are very
hard to forecast. Impact on lower levels of the judiciary
are another matter, however.
Also, although I think that
From a new report by the House Budget Committee,
Democratic minority staff:
Table 2: Growth of Non-defense Appropriations by Presidency
Average annual percent change in real outlays,
adjusted for timing shifts
Ford1973-1977 7.2%
Nixon 1969-1973 4.3%
Bush
I agree that the Bush administration together with the Republican Congress
will be a disaster. I'm figuring that the disaster will coincide with an
economic slowdown and that the Democrats might be forced to play and
oppositional role.
Even if we got Gore and a nominally democratic house, I
Michael Perelman wrote:
The Democrats would continue caving to the
Republicans.
I simply don't believe this. I think you should take the Democrats at face
value, what they say and how they vote. This so-called caving-in is no
caving-in but simply manifests what the Democrats stand for. I
Jr.
Ian,
Egads, madness? Well, actually I'm holding a
tea party here in Wonderland for any who are interested
in multi-valued logics and causal dynamics, :-)
Two minor notes:
1) Leibniz was more influenced by
Confucius than by Taoism. In China these are very much
(posted to the Marxism list by Chris Brady)
This article in the NYTimes bemoans the increase in the prices of
scholarly journals, which have tripled over the past 14 years:
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/03/business/03PUBL.html
You don't have to read it to know that the cost of some journals has
BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2000
RELEASED TODAY: The preliminary seasonally-adjusted annual rates of
productivity growth -- as measured by output per hour of all persons -- in
the third quarter were: 3.2 percent in the business sector and 3.8 percent
in the nonfarm business sector.
We'll be keeping this puppy. Looks like grist
for endless raspberries, after the fact.
mbs
. . . Here's my more precise early bird call on what to make
of those first-to-be-announced results out of Kentucky. Given
that it is strongly leaning Bush, if Bush takes it with more than
an
Michael,
Unfortunately, that is probably correct. Getting
back to the original question, the Supreme Court,
I fear it will be heading right no matter what. The
most likely justice to be replaced next is the oldest,
John Paul Stevens, appointed by Gerald Ford, and
easily far more liberal
At 02:43 PM 11/3/00 -0500, you wrote:
From a new report by the House Budget Committee,
Democratic minority staff:
Table 2: Growth of Non-defense Appropriations by Presidency
Average annual percent change in real outlays,
adjusted for timing shifts
Ford1973-1977 7.2%
Nixon
JD
Metaphor or simile? it depends how the sentence is structured. When
economists use a model to describe the economy, that's metaphorical. If
they say that the economy is _like_ the model, that's a simile. It's all
poetry, though hopefully it's logically consistent on the inside (unlike
Lisa Ian Murray wrote:
Thus, Vol. II of Capital and such stuff as the simple
and expanded models of reproduction look pretty "Newtonian"
and following rather simple "laws of motion." However, the
discussion in much of Vol. III looks a lot more complex.
Unfinished texts usually look
Unfinished texts usually look more complex than more finished
ones. But my core
question is, how useful is it to label arguments "Newtonian" or
"Non-Newtonian."
Nothing in Newton has actually been falsified -- it's just been
placed in a
larger context. And while the first section of Vol.
would this be a case of corporate syndicalism?
full article http://thenation.com
FEATURE STORY | November 20, 2000
The Last Farm Crisis
by WILLIAM GREIDER
The contemporary triumph of free-market capitalism has revealed to farmers,
if not to other Americans, the bitter last act in this
Would progressive movements have been better off today if we had just had
8 years of Bush/Dole?
Eric
yes... Michael Hoover
before, I stated the following equation: Al Gore = Michael Dukakis + focus
groups.
After long analysis and discussion, this equation should be modified:
Al Gore = Michael Dukakis + focus groups - principles.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
At 01:17 PM 11/3/00 -0800, you wrote:
Remember, a materialist must accept the materialist basis of formal logic
and mathematics if he/she wants to avoid charges of ontological dualism.
How did reality figure out making math makers?
Martin Gardner says that mathematics is based on the abstract
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 17:10:26 -0500
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From:
Cuba announces boost in power supply, end to blackouts
BY CARLOS BATISTA
Agence France-Presse
HAVANA -- After decades of long, scheduled blackouts caused by electricity
shortages, Cubans woke up to the news Tuesday from officials who announced
the lights -- and the refrigerator and TV -- were on
I'm working on an article, along with Liza Featherstone, for Lingua
Franca on the academic angle on the campus anti-sweatshop movement -
profs' involvement, intellectual response to the "free-trader"
position taken by Jagdish Bhagwati his colleagues in the Academic
Consortium on
Michael Perelman wrote:
Robin, we have discussed your question quite a bit in the past. ...
A few people on the list are sympathetic to the Hayekian view of markets. We
exhausted that discussion, so much so that I called a halt to the discussion.
I know that at one time your colleague, Don
In my Natural Instability book, I made the case that foreign exchange markets are
perhaps the purest markets that exist, yet they are perhaps the most unstable.
did not mean to say anything ill about Don. I only met him once although I had
corresponded with him for a while. My experience
An example of what you are talking about is Domenico Nuti's idea of a "pari-mutual"
stock market: people would buy and sell stocks in socialist firms, and even make (or
lose) money off the transaction, but there would be no ownership rights or (if I recall
correctly) dividends. The whole point
Has anybody looked at the Bernanke/Frank intro. book? I just glanced at
it, but it seems like it might be ok.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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Tipped by a student column in the OSU student paper (Martha Knox,
"Voting for Nader won't hurt Gore's chances," _The Lantern_ 3
November 2000 at
http://www.thelantern.com/archives/gendisp.asp?id=973258722515), I
just visited "Yellow Dog Greens for Nader" at
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