needs

2000-12-04 Thread Keaney Michael
Ken Hanly wrote: >But both Hayek and Galbraith ignore the most significant point. Satisfying needs is good only if it leads to human flourishing, not just individual flourishing but of the individual within a commuinity where the flourishing of one is bound up wiht the flourishing of alll. Looked

Racial Blind Spot Continues toAfflictGreens

2000-12-04 Thread Keaney Michael
Penners Gerard Baker's column in the 30 November issue of the Financial Times makes a number of salient points, and highlights the potential racial blind spot of the Gore campaign in the process. Baker: "Take the Republicans' sudden affection for the federal courts. Tomorrow the US Supreme Cour

Re: Re: Three Little Bears

2000-12-04 Thread Dennis Robert Redmond
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Rob Schaap wrote: > I thought they were being pretty tight on interest rates? Duizenberg'd have > to be scared of that droopy euro of his, wouldn't he? Not too much room for > manouvre there, I'd've thought. Well, core EU inflation is around 2.5%, growth is at 3.5%, and sho

RE: Django + Grappelli

2000-12-04 Thread Mikalac Norman S NSSC
a few years ago, i came across Grappelli and Reinhardt indirectly since group instrumentals are not my cup of tea. rather, my large CD collection is voice-oriented - everything from ethnic and hillbilly to pop, big band and opera. i bought a Smithsonian collection called "We'll Meet Again" - WWI

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2000-12-04 Thread Mikalac Norman S NSSC
thx, charles, for the lenin comments on Marx. i've printed and collected a bunch of poster comments like yours, printed a bunch of essays from louis's marxmail last night and ordered about 20 books on the subject via the internet. also, i started to read about marxism in some philosophy books th

Re: needs

2000-12-04 Thread Ken Hanly
I agree with you but in the context of his debate with Hayek re advertising and creation of needs he misses the point that ads can create desires for products that work toward human flourishing rather than frivolous and unnecessary needs. Hayek ignores the fact that such desires could be for produ

Django + Grappelli

2000-12-04 Thread Keaney Michael
Hey Norm You better not read too many of Jim Devine's posts then, otherwise you'll be ordering CDs by Marilyn Manson and Nsync together with Pauly Shore DVDs. Still diggin' Philly, Michael K. Norm wrote: a few years ago, i came across Grappelli and Reinhardt indirectly since group instrument

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2000-12-04 Thread communards
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Re: Racial Blind Spot Continues toAfflictGreens

2000-12-04 Thread Nathan Newman
- Original Message - From: "Keaney Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >In a previous post it was mentioned that the Florida law barring ex-felons >from voting was passed in 1868! Where were the Florida Democrats, and >especially the civil rights-minded Florida Democrats, prior to this >particula

RE: Re: Racial Blind Spot Continues toAfflictGreens

2000-12-04 Thread Max Sawicky
NOBODY HERE HAS EXPRESSED OPPOSITION TO THE CAMPAIGN TO GET THE VOTES OF MINORITIES COUNTED. Pointing out democratic hypocrisy and opportunism is a different matter. So is the 'moral equivalence' issue. For all practical purposes, there is moral equivalence. Virtue and vice are proportionally

needs

2000-12-04 Thread Keaney Michael
Hi Ken One of the interesting bi-products of our deregulated, "liberated" post-Thatcher world is just how relevant the analyses of older critics like Marx and Veblen have become once again. Jim Cypher wrote an excellent chapter for volume 2 of Paul Dale Bush's festschrift (published by Edward Elg

New book on Keynes

2000-12-04 Thread Louis Proyect
Battle for Britain Hywel Williams learns why Keynes had a bad war from Robert Skidelsky's John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Britain 1937-46 Saturday December 2, 2000 John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Britain 1937-46 Robert Skidelsky 591pp, Macmillan, £25 Buy it at BOL At Tilton, Maynard K

Re: needs

2000-12-04 Thread Louis Proyect
Micheal Keany wrote: >Hi Ken > >One of the interesting bi-products of our deregulated, "liberated" >post-Thatcher world is just how relevant the analyses of older critics like >Marx and Veblen have become once again. Speaking of Veblen, PEN-L'ers should keep an eye out for a new book by Douglas

Labor History as Progressive Economics

2000-12-04 Thread Charles Brown
[The article is drawn from James Green's recently published book "Taking History to Heart: The Power of the Past in Building Social Movements" (University of Massachusetts Press, 2000.)] HISTORIANS AS ALLIES OF THE LABOR MOVEMENT By James Green For several years now, we've been hearing abou

Re: Re: needs

2000-12-04 Thread Rob Schaap
G'day Gene, You write: >The clothes washing machine didn't create the need to wash clothes. Even >one of the most important new consumer items of the Twentieth century, >the vibrator, didn't create a new need. Or am I making a distinction >without a difference in reference to Justin's phrasing

Racial Blind Spot Continues toAfflictGreens

2000-12-04 Thread Keaney Michael
Nathan wrote: >Where were the Democrats? In a lot of states working to end this disenfranchisement. Since the problem of disenfranchisement got a lot of play due to research reports by the Sentencing Project, there has been a lot of mobilization on this issue. Legislation has been proposed in st

Re: Racial Blind Spot Continues toAfflictGreens

2000-12-04 Thread Nathan Newman
- Original Message - From: "Max Sawicky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >NOBODY HERE HAS EXPRESSED OPPOSITION TO THE >CAMPAIGN TO GET THE VOTES OF MINORITIES COUNTED. >Pointing out democratic hypocrisy and opportunism >is a different matter. So is the 'moral equivalence' >issue. Excuse me, Max-

Re: (no subject)

2000-12-04 Thread Charles Brown
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/04/00 07:52AM >>> thx, charles, for the lenin comments on Marx. i've printed and collected a bunch of poster comments like yours, printed a bunch of essays from louis's marxmail last night and ordered about 20 books on the subject via the internet. also, i started to r

Re: Racial Blind Spot Continues toAfflictGreens

2000-12-04 Thread Carrol Cox
Keaney Michael wrote: > Nathan wrote: > > > > MK: I haven't and don't. With apologies to my elders and betters I would > much rather have LBJ or HHH than WJC in the White House if only because they Committing genocide abroad is perfectly forgiveable in a U.S. president as long as he allegedly

needs

2000-12-04 Thread Keaney Michael
Sent this earlier ... does not appear to have gotten through ... apologies for repetition in event of repetition ... Hi Ken One of the interesting bi-products of our deregulated, "liberated" post-Thatcher world is just how relevant the analyses of older critics like Marx and Veblen have become

Re: Racial Blind Spot Continues toAfflictGreens

2000-12-04 Thread Nathan Newman
- Original Message - From: "Keaney Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Nathan wrote: >Where were the Democrats? In a lot of states working to end this disenfranchisement. = -MK: Well and good. How supportive has state and national Democratic Party -leadership been in this regard? How compa

RE: unmet needs

2000-12-04 Thread Mikalac Norman S NSSC
it would be instructive to know more about the eventual fate of the successful co-op cited below. norm -Original Message- From: Michael Perelman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2000 10:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:5405] unmet needs When I first

Racial Blind Spot Continues toAfflictGreens

2000-12-04 Thread Keaney Michael
Oh dear, I forgot. No, not about Vietnam, but about Carrol's inevitable sally against me and LBJ. Like I excuse Vietnam, or any act of U.S. imperialism. One of the most sickening sights of recent times was watching Clinton, in the middle of all this Florida mess no less, lecturing the Vietnamese o

Re: Re: Re: Re: unmet needs

2000-12-04 Thread Justin Schwartz
Thank you, Paul! --jks > >There seems to me to be a huge gulf between what various >members on the list mean by entrepreneurship. Michael et al >seem to associate it with profit, Justin with innovations etc. > >Let me try to separate it out by suggesting the, in Schumpeter's >world, the entrepr

Re: Re: needs

2000-12-04 Thread Joanna Sheldon
Hi pen-lers, Under socialism, we would not want to lower the standard of cleanliness & public health.  Instead, we would want to socialize laundry, so that we could cease the wasteful practice of individual purchase & use of privately washing machines.  Doing the wash privately is not only ecolog

Racial Blind Spot Continues toAfflictGreens

2000-12-04 Thread Keaney Michael
Nathan, quoting Max: >NOBODY HERE HAS EXPRESSED OPPOSITION TO THE >CAMPAIGN TO GET THE VOTES OF MINORITIES COUNTED. >Pointing out democratic hypocrisy and opportunism >is a different matter. So is the 'moral equivalence' >issue. Excuse me, Max- the post I quoted said "It is incumbent upon Gore

Re: ["True Happiness"?

2000-12-04 Thread Ricardo Duchesne
> it's good to be suspicious of Aristotle, since (after all) he did apologize > for slavery. If only it had been you who had lived in ancient times and not Aristotle; what a wonderful world!

Re: Re: Re: unmet needs

2000-12-04 Thread Joanna Sheldon
Hi Michael and Yoshie, Not exactly right.  The word entrepreneur may be a red flag to some.  To others, like me, the very idea that creating new needs can be a good thing is anathema.  Whether it's a cooperative venture or a venture capitalist producing the new not-to-be-done-without item is of n

Re: "Happiness"

2000-12-04 Thread Ricardo Duchesne
"Security, human solidarity, health, intellectual stimulation" may be some of the key things humans want. I would still hesitate to put these things under the rubric of "happiness", and would hesitate even more pretending that I know what it is that humans want. Kierkegaard, for one, preferr

downturn

2000-12-04 Thread J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
For what it's worth (not necessarily all that much), in this mornings macroseminar in my department, the most right-wing member who is also a professional investment adviser declared that the recession in the US actually began on Oct. 1. He figures that this is a good thing for Bush who can

climate tidbits

2000-12-04 Thread J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Here are a few climate tidbits probably few of you have seen. 1) An aggravating element with regard to global warming has been the successful efforts to rein in SO2 emissions and also aerosol (particulate) emissions in higher income countries, US, Japan, and all of Europe, including t

BLS Daily Report

2000-12-04 Thread Richardson_D
BLS DAILY REPORT, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2000 The idea that the United States is increasingly a nation of entrepreneurs and self-starters has become accepted wisdom. ... Thirty million Americans are now some form of freelancer, recent articles in business magazines have proclaimed. ... There is a

Re: Kolakowski

2000-12-04 Thread Ricardo Duchesne
> Kolakowski is a genuinely great scholar, deeply learned, widely read, > profoundly thoughtful. He used to be a humanist Marxist of note, until he > soured and went over to reaction and religion. See here E.P. Thompson's very > moving Open Letter to Leszek Kolokowski, in his The Poverty of Th

Re: Re: Re: the downturn

2000-12-04 Thread Jim Devine
Barkley wrote: > Funny thing is that the latest forecasts in >The Economist have positive growth rates for >the next year for all the leading economies. Even positive growth rates can be a problem if the growth isn't fast enough to absorb increases in the labor force and deal with the fall

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: unmet needs

2000-12-04 Thread Jim Devine
Michael P. wrote: >Paul, I did not mean to exclude the idea of innovation from >entrepreneurship. But I only meant to insist that the word as it is used >by most economists involves a profit making function. By using this term, >in the sense that Justin does seems to cede too much ground to th

Re: Django + Grappelli

2000-12-04 Thread Jim Devine
At 03:08 PM 12/4/00 +0200, you wrote: >You better not read too many of Jim Devine's posts then, otherwise you'll >be ordering CDs by Marilyn Manson and Nsync together with Pauly Shore DVDs. hey, what's wrong with Marilyn Manson? or 'N Sync? or Pauly Shore? Do you want to step _outside_ and say

Re: Re: Re: needs

2000-12-04 Thread Jim Devine
At 01:21 AM 12/5/00 +1000, you wrote: > >The clothes washing machine didn't create the need to wash clothes. Even > >one of the most important new consumer items of the Twentieth century, > >the vibrator, didn't create a new need. Or am I making a distinction > >without a difference in referenc

Democrats and Disenfranchisement

2000-12-04 Thread Jim Devine
[was: Re: [PEN-L:5455] Re: Racial Blind Spot Continues toAfflictGreens] At 10:13 AM 12/4/00 -0500, you wrote: > >Where were the Democrats? In a lot of states working to end this >disenfranchisement. >= >-MK: Well and good. How supportive has state and national Democratic Party >-leadership be

Re: Re: Three Little Bears

2000-12-04 Thread J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Share prices in Taiwan and South Korea are way down also. In Taiwan this may be more a matter of politics. In South Korea it includes such elements as the Washington-approved bustup of the Daewoo chaebol, with its auto firm now shut down, part of the general global retrenchment in the auto

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: needs

2000-12-04 Thread J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Jim may teach there, but he does not preach there. Barkley Rosser -Original Message- From: Ken Hanly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sunday, December 03, 2000 1:04 PM Subject: [PEN-L:5415] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: needs > >Well Jim teaches at a Jes

Re: Re: Re: needs, wants, definitions

2000-12-04 Thread J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Louis, Guess I'll dust it up with you here. Several years ago, don't remember on which list, you said that Sweden's high standard of living was purchased at the expense of the sweat of workers in Central America growing fruit, etc. or words to that effect. But, imports to Sweden

unmet needs

2000-12-04 Thread Charles Brown
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/04/00 12:10PM >>> Justin, on the other hand, is using non-standard (non-Schumpeterian) sense because he dropped Schumpeterian/Austrian view that "entrepreneurship" involves aggressive profit-seeking (without telling us that he was doing so). As I said, it's okay to use

Re: Re: Re: Re: needs

2000-12-04 Thread Jim Devine
At 12:21 PM 12/3/00 -0600, you wrote: >Many people feel a need to learn more about the world. New technology and >companies such as Amazon.com have created new ways of satisfying that. The >need for entertainment e.g. music is satisfied in new ways by the >development of phonograph, 78s, lps, c

smut's role in economics

2000-12-04 Thread Jim Devine
from SLATE: >Yesterday's NY [TIMES] mag issue on secrecy included screenwriter and >novelist Erik Tarloff's confession of his little secret: as an >18-year-old he got a job writing pornography. (Actually a semi-confession: >he doesn't reveal the pseudonym he wrote under.) Tarloff explains that

Re: RE: unmet needs

2000-12-04 Thread Michael Perelman
It still flourishes. Mikalac Norman S NSSC wrote: > it would be instructive to know more about the eventual fate of the > successful co-op cited below. > > norm > > -Original Message- > From: Michael Perelman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2000 10:49 PM > To:

Re: Re: Re: needs

2000-12-04 Thread Michael Perelman
For most people in urban areas in the US, they just replaced commercial laundries. Rob Schaap wrote: > > Whilst it didn't create the need to wash clothes, it did make washing > clothes easier. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-53

RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: needs

2000-12-04 Thread Max Sawicky
Depends on how fussy you are. I investigated buying a turntable in hopes of transferring our records to CD's. You can find them at Circuit City and Best Buy for a hundred bucks or so. Not many choices, but not hard to find a couple. mbs We should remember the imposed obsolescence part of the

needs

2000-12-04 Thread Charles Brown
Here is how Engels and Marx discuss "needs" in _The German Ideology_. Note there is a basis for differentiating physiological needs , those that must be fulfilled regularly to sustain human life, from other needs that have developed over the human history. CB History: Fundamental Co

RE: Re: Re: Re: needs, wants, definitions

2000-12-04 Thread Max Sawicky
Just for shock purposes, I'll take Louis' side insofar as I don't think you have debunked his premise. Sweden is quite a special case, & not only because it escaped damage in WWII. Even putting that aside, Sweden is integrated in a world system that is prey to L's charge. If it was an autarchy, y

Re: Re: needs, wants, definitions

2000-12-04 Thread Louis Proyect
Barkley: >Louis, > Guess I'll dust it up with you here. > Several years ago, don't remember on which >list, you said that Sweden's high standard of living >was purchased at the expense of the sweat of >workers in Central America growing fruit, etc. >or words to that effect. I have no id

marxism-socialsim concepts and people

2000-12-04 Thread Mikalac Norman S NSSC
CB: Nice going , Norm. Did anyone mention _Value, Price and Profit_ yet ? It was explicitly a popular lecture by Karl Marx on the fundamental's of his approach to political economy. - i pulled that essay off louis's list along with a bunch of others, incl

Re: New book on Keynes

2000-12-04 Thread J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Two observations: 1) It has already been noted on this list that Harry Dexter White, cofounder of the IMF and World Bank at Bretton Woods with Keynes was actually a Soviet agent, based on the Venona tapes. 2) Skidelsky's linking of the German financial plans with the emergence

Re: Re: needs

2000-12-04 Thread J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Louis, It has been several decades since the "Cornell professor" Doug Dowd was at Cornell. He was at San Jose State for many years after leaving Cornell. Now 80 years old, he is retired and mostly hanging out in Bologna, Italy with his third wife who runs a feminist bookstore there. Barkley

needs

2000-12-04 Thread Charles Brown
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/02/00 06:57PM >>> Michael wrote: >Marx's use of needs is similar to Sen's terminology of capabilities. I[t] >does not >mean -- gee, I'd like a liposuction or a hair or breast transplant -- but >here is >an opportunity (as Jim suggested) to expand my world and make my

Re: Progressive Information Aggregation Institutions?

2000-12-04 Thread Robin Hanson
Peter Dorman wrote: >... I suspect that publicizing the ongoing status of a betting game would >tend to interfere with discourse just as constant opinion polling does to >our elections and repeated straw votes would do to a discussion at a >meeting. Just about anything that happens at a meeti

Re: Re: Re: Re: the downturn

2000-12-04 Thread J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Jim, Let's keep in mind that there is a crucial difference between a "slowdown" (reduction in the rate of still positive growth) and a "recession," actual negative growth. One of the reasons why those downturns go fast once they start is for the oldest of Keynesian reasons, one rapidly bein

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: unmet needs

2000-12-04 Thread J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Jim, Schumpeter may have "celebrated" entrepreneurship. But, he was the one who coined the phrase, "creative destruction." He fully understood that it was not an unmixed blessing... Barkley Rosser -Original Message- From: Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL P

Re: Re: Re: needs, wants, definitions

2000-12-04 Thread J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Louis, Exactly that they don't. Barkley -Original Message- From: Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, December 04, 2000 1:15 PM Subject: [PEN-L:5485] Re: Re: needs, wants, definitions >Barkley: >>Louis, >> Guess I'll dust it

Re: needs

2000-12-04 Thread Charles Brown
Marxist use of the word "need" is related to the word "necessity" , as in "freedom is the mastery of necessity".

Re: RE: Re: Re: Re: needs, wants, definitions

2000-12-04 Thread J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Max (and Louis), I am not disputing that there is much that is exploitative in the trade and investment relations involved in the integration of poorer countries into the world economy. Obviously Sweden is in many ways a special case. But, would the EU as a whole be drastically worse off

goodbye for now, once again

2000-12-04 Thread J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
OK, folks, I am facing a severe end-of-semester workload crunch. Discussion has been high quality generally, and lively, but also getting a bit too high volume for me at this moment (and probably most of you have noted that I have trouble keeping my trap shut when I am on here). So, I'm g

Re: marxism-socialsim concepts and people

2000-12-04 Thread Charles Brown
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/04/00 01:01PM >>> CB: Nice going , Norm. Did anyone mention _Value, Price and Profit_ yet ? It was explicitly a popular lecture by Karl Marx on the fundamental's of his approach to political economy. - i pulled that essay off lo

co-ops

2000-12-04 Thread Mikalac Norman S NSSC
thank you for your response that leads me to my next question: if co-ops can successfully give people what they want at a price that excludes "surplus value", then why haven't they become a major factor in republican-capitalist societies? norm -Original Message- From: Michael Perelman

RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: needs

2000-12-04 Thread Mikalac Norman S NSSC
JL: I don't have good enough ears to agree with Eric Clapton that CDs are anathema (since they don't sound good) - please ignore what Eric and other luddites tell you about CD sound quality because it is far better than that of tapes and LPs. li

Re: Re: Re: Re: needs, wants, definitions

2000-12-04 Thread Louis Proyect
>Louis, > Exactly that they don't. >Barkley Okay, let me spell out what the problem is since you are not interested in doing so. If Sweden did not have access to cheap oil, the high standard of living would go down the drain tomorrow. The pillage of the third world has a complex character. If

needs

2000-12-04 Thread Charles Brown
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/03/00 04:25PM >> and ascend from the concrete to the abstract (Marx). Or, if you will, at the level of abstraction at which it doesn;t make a difference, we can just say that we need lots of new ways to satisfy the old neeed, so the abstraction doesn't affect the poi

Re: Re: New book on Keynes

2000-12-04 Thread Jim Devine
At 01:00 PM 12/4/00 -0500, you wrote: >Synarchist movement. the anarcho-syndicalists? Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine

Re: marxism-socialsim concepts and people

2000-12-04 Thread Jim Devine
>been reading a lot about the marxist "dialectic" these days. would a >translation be: dialectic = social "law" or inevitable cause-effect >relationship among social events? The best quick summary of the Marxian dialectic would be to say that Marx and Marxists see society as a interconnected d

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: the downturn

2000-12-04 Thread Jim Devine
At 01:32 PM 12/4/00 -0500, you wrote: >Jim, > Let's keep in mind that there is a crucial >difference between a "slowdown" (reduction >in the rate of still positive growth) and a "recession," >actual negative growth. One of the reasons why >those downturns go fast once they start is for the

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: unmet needs

2000-12-04 Thread Jim Devine
At 01:35 PM 12/4/00 -0500, you wrote: > Schumpeter may have "celebrated" entrepreneurship. >But, he was the one who coined the phrase, "creative >destruction." He fully understood that it was not an unmixed >blessing... yes, Schumpeter was better than the "Austrian school" (the vons, Mises

Re: co-ops

2000-12-04 Thread Jim Devine
At 01:55 PM 12/4/00 -0500, you wrote: >if co-ops can successfully give people what they want at a price that >excludes "surplus value", then why haven't they become a major factor in >republican-capitalist societies? there are at least two reasons: (1) if they grow, they lose most or all of thei

Re: needs

2000-12-04 Thread Charles Brown
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/04/00 08:56AM >>> Hi Ken One of the interesting bi-products of our deregulated, "liberated" post-Thatcher world is just how relevant the analyses of older critics like Marx and Veblen have become once again. Jim Cypher wrote an excellent chapter for volume 2 of Paul Dal

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: unmet needs

2000-12-04 Thread Justin Schwartz
> >Justin, on the other hand, is using non-standard (non-Schumpeterian) sense >because he dropped Schumpeterian/Austrian view that "entrepreneurship" >involves aggressive profit-seeking (without telling us that he was doing >so). That's just not true. I told you REPEATEDLY. I am telling you NOW

Re: unmet needs

2000-12-04 Thread Justin Schwartz
>CB: Yea ,the word for innovation with socialism should be "innovation", not >entrepreneurship. Seeesh. > Not the same thing. In my lexicon, innovation is coming up with new techniques or products, entrepreneurship is coming up with new needs. Of course, the significance of my nonstan

Re: Re: unmet needs

2000-12-04 Thread Louis Proyect
>Here, scare words for socialists: markets, boo! profits, yaaah! management, >eek! efficiency, arrrggh! entrepreneurship, yikes! > >That's part of why we are in the fix we are in. > >--jks What do you mean by "we", white man. Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

Re: Re: needs

2000-12-04 Thread Justin Schwartz
An interesting idea, but I am at the office and dob't have the German texts at hand. I will look this up and determine whether I think there is anything to it. --jks >Marxist use of the word "need" is related to the word "necessity" , as in >"freedom is the mastery of necessity". >

Re: Re: needs

2000-12-04 Thread Justin Schwartz
> >Marxist use of the word "need" is related to the word "necessity" , as in >"freedom is the mastery of necessity". > OOps. The quote is that freedom is the RECOGNITION of necessity, not the same thing, Charles. --jk

Re: co-ops

2000-12-04 Thread Justin Schwartz
>thank you for your response that leads me to my next question: > >if co-ops can successfully give people what they want at a price that >excludes "surplus value", then why haven't they become a major factor in >republican-capitalist societies? > >norm > > I have a rough draft paper on this. For

Re: needs

2000-12-04 Thread Justin Schwartz
Yeah, but recall what he says about method in the Grundrisse. --jks >and ascend from >the concrete to the abstract (Marx). Or, if you will, at the level of >abstraction at which it doesn;t make a difference, we can just say that we >need lots of new ways to satisfy the old neeed, so the abstract

Re: Re: co-ops

2000-12-04 Thread Justin Schwartz
Sources, Jim? Especially on the bank stuff. I know the growth stuff, though if you have something I'd like to read it. --jks >>if co-ops can successfully give people what they want at a price that >>excludes "surplus value", then why haven't they become a major factor in >>republican-capitalist

Re: Re: Re: unmet needs

2000-12-04 Thread Justin Schwartz
Oh, I see. The traditional revolutionary Marxist left is going from strength to strength, buildinmg huge mass parties in the advanced countries, ruling successfully in large parts of the third world, putting capitalsim to shame and drawing millions of steely-eyed adherents. How foolish of me no

Re: co-ops

2000-12-04 Thread Charles Brown
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/04/00 01:55PM >>> thank you for your response that leads me to my next question: if co-ops can successfully give people what they want at a price that excludes "surplus value", then why haven't they become a major factor in republican-capitalist societies?

Re: unmet needs

2000-12-04 Thread Charles Brown
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/04/00 02:57PM >>> Here, scare words for socialists: markets, boo! profits, yaaah! management, eek! efficiency, arrrggh! entrepreneurship, yikes! That's part of why we are in the fix we are in. ((( CB: Scare words for Hayekians: planning hahahahhah. efficie

RE: Re: co-ops

2000-12-04 Thread Mikalac Norman S NSSC
to CB: can you make a substantiated case for capitalists putting co-ops out of business? of course one would be for banks to lend at higher interest rates as JD says. what other destructive mechanisms do they have? to JD: can you corroborate banks lending at higher rates? that is ideologically

Re: Re: needs

2000-12-04 Thread Charles Brown
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/04/00 03:09PM >>> > >Marxist use of the word "need" is related to the word "necessity" , as in >"freedom is the mastery of necessity". > OOps. The quote is that freedom is the RECOGNITION of necessity, not the same thing, Charles. --jk ((( CB: Ps, you m

Re: Re: needs

2000-12-04 Thread Charles Brown
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/04/00 03:08PM >>> An interesting idea, but I am at the office and dob't have the German texts at hand. I will look this up and determine whether I think there is anything to it. --jks >Marxist use of the word "need" is related to the word "necessity" , as in >"free

RE: Re: co-ops

2000-12-04 Thread Brown, Martin (NCI)
I don't have the sources at my fingertips, but there are several case studies of successful utopian-socialists experiments in California that were actively suppressed, using legal and extra-legal means, by what can only be described as agents of Capitalist interest, when they became economically s

Re: RE: Re: co-ops

2000-12-04 Thread Louis Proyect
Martin Brown wrote: >I don't have the sources at my fingertips, but there are several case >studies of successful utopian-socialists experiments in California that were >actively suppressed, using legal and extra-legal means, by what can only be >described as agents of Capitalist interest, when th

Re: Re: Re: Re: needs, wants, definitions

2000-12-04 Thread Carrol Cox
"J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." wrote: > Louis, > Guess I'll dust it up with you here. > Several years ago, don't remember on which > list, you said that Sweden's high standard of living > was purchased at the expense of the sweat of > workers in Central America growing fruit, etc. > or wo

RE: Re: co-ops

2000-12-04 Thread Charles Brown
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/04/00 03:30PM >>> to CB: can you make a substantiated case for capitalists putting co-ops out of business? of course one would be for banks to lend at higher interest rates as JD says. what other destructive mechanisms do they have? (( CB: Credit unions are c

Re: Re: Re: co-ops

2000-12-04 Thread Jim Devine
At 08:15 PM 12/4/00 +, you wrote: >Sources, Jim? Especially on the bank stuff. I know the growth stuff, >though if you have something I'd like to read it. --jks > >>>if co-ops can successfully give people what they want at a price that >>>excludes "surplus value", then why haven't they become

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: the downturn

2000-12-04 Thread Carrol Cox
Jim Devine wrote: > > perhaps more importantly, they've purged the accelerator effect and the > debt-deflation theory of great depressions. In the history of industrial capitalism, how many "great depressions" have there been? Carrol

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: unmet needs

2000-12-04 Thread Jim Devine
At 07:50 PM 12/4/00 +, you wrote: >>Justin, on the other hand, is using non-standard (non-Schumpeterian) sense >>because he dropped Schumpeterian/Austrian view that "entrepreneurship" >>involves aggressive profit-seeking (without telling us that he was doing so). > >That's just not true. I t

Re: Re:Re: unmet needs

2000-12-04 Thread Louis Proyect
>as far as I can tell, you never defined your "lexicon" (entrepreneurship, >needs), so I was forced to divine your meaning (especially since you don't >use standard meanings). > >Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine Maybe this would help: OXFORD DICTIONARY ONLINE

Re: Re: Re: needs

2000-12-04 Thread Justin Schwartz
Ah, but you haven't determined whether _I think_ there is anything in it! Sorry bout that formulation. Hazard of my job. I was talking with a philosopher friend about a case, explaining it to him. He said, so you are arguing . . . . Ah, I said. We don't argue, where I work. We _hold_. But _he

Re: Re: Re: Re: co-ops

2000-12-04 Thread Justin Schwartz
Thanks. If you have specific cites, I'd appreciate 'em. --jks > >Gary Dymski has done a lot on this. . . . and >others (at one point or another) associated with UMass-Amherst Economics >have pointed to the refusal of banks to provide that financing.

Re: co-ops

2000-12-04 Thread Michael Perelman
A case hit the Supreme Court a couple years ago in which the banks tried to curtail the credit unions. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chico, CA 95929 530-898-5321 fax 530-898-5901

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: unmet needs

2000-12-04 Thread Justin Schwartz
It['s not worth goin on about, but I did what I call definition. I didn't provide a lexicon. I didn't says: entrepreneurship =df creation of new needsa nd ways to satisfy them. I just explained, almost immediately and many times, using that exact expression, that that was what I meant. In addi

Fwd: synarchy

2000-12-04 Thread Jim Devine
Barkley sends the following comment: > Synarchism was a peculiarly French political >movement that started in the 30s and went into the >50s. It was probably more right wing than left wing, >and was a kind of bureaucratic, indicatively planned >nationalism. In short, what actually came out

needs

2000-12-04 Thread Charles Brown
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/04/00 04:27PM >>> Ah, but you haven't determined whether _I think_ there is anything in it! Sorry bout that formulation. Hazard of my job. I was talking with a philosopher friend about a case, explaining it to him. He said, so you are arguing . . . . Ah, I said. We d

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