Mat wrote:
By the way, I just read a novel that includes an interesting exploration of
consumer debt and personal bankruptcy in Japan:
Miyuki Miyabe, _All She Was Worth_
A lawyer in the book argues that there is a tendency for society to blame the
individual who goes into debt, but that the
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Last night, five Justices of the Supreme Court declared that the 14th
Amendment was created to suppress the black vote and protect the
Jim D. wrote:
BTW, I think one way that Japan could recover is to imitate an old
US practice. Give aid to a poor area (such as East St. Louis,
Illinois) but "tie" it so that it can only be spent in Japan.
It takes a real burning ambition to become _the_ global hegemon -- as
opposed to a
Excellent, Nathan. I'm sending this around. --jks
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Yoshie quotes Jan Kregel sayingClearly, in present conditions it is not
the lack of a credible inflation policy [as he dubs Krugman's cure], but a
credible interest rate policy that is creating difficulty. As Keynes notes
in relation to Fisher's recommendations of inflating out of the Great
Actually I disagree with Jim's assessment, and think Yoshie is right. I don't
think Jan is just concerned with what Keynes "really" meant or said, but with
whether Krugman's analysis is useful for effective policy.
By the way, there are some other useful papers on the subject at Levy. Marc
Jim- Are you an advocate of IS-LM??
Is this analysis totally wrong?
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At 10:42 AM 12/13/00 -0600, you wrote:
Jim- Are you an advocate of IS-LM??
No, but ISLM provides a good language for the _start_ of a discussion,
since almost every macroeconomist knows it. For example, Paul Davidson, a
well-known anti-ISLMicist, uses IS-LM in his paper on the finance demand
Yoshie- I would say Miyabe's book gives a very different view of consumer credit
in Japan than what you put forward. It does argue that there are a group of
people who do not go for credit cards, but this is not due to their
unavailability, etc. I will try to type a few paragraphs in later. Some
By the way, is it cool that Yoshie is evaluating Levy working papers and I
am
discussing Japanese novels, or is this scary?!
Fantastically cool, Matt! Only a jack of all trades can really aspire to be
master of one! Especially when the one in question is political economy,
eh? I realise it's
At 04:29 AM 12/14/00 +1000, you wrote:
Fantastically cool, Matt! Only a jack of all trades can really aspire to be
master of one!
or jill of all trades, in Yoshie's case.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
Thanks, Dennis. Can you provide some references?
Peter
Dennis Robert Redmond wrote:
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Peter Dorman wrote:
investment. The structural question is whether the elimination of
these unproductive investments, and the resulting financial drag, can
be accomplished within
So it looks like we're going to have another 4 years in the Bush Leagues,
here in the old US of A. People like Alex Cockburn argue that the
Bushwackers won't have much of an impact because of the gridlock in
Congress. With gridlock, Cockburn argues, big initiatives like
Clinton-Gore's welfare
[was: Re: Have You Read All These Books?]
I wrote: Okay, we agree in practice. _In practice_, AP's [analytical
philosophy's] method involves discouragement of scholarship as Justin
defines it here.
Justin responds: Of course we could drop the "method involves" and have a
sentence that
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Would it also exclude my brother the philosophy professor, who's into
"natural law"? BTW, he's also very logical, given his premises.
CB: That's natural, because law focuses on formal logic ( of which non-contradiction
is the first
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Perhaps "AP" can be _defined_ as the rejection of discussions of "method"
(i.e., how logical analysis and empirical study should be combined to
answer moral, empirical, and other questions)? So issues like the debate
between Kuhn, Popper, Lakatos, and others who study the philosophy of
science
I wrote:
Perhaps "AP" can be _defined_ as the rejection of discussions of "method"
Justin writes:
No, the anti-method thing is more of a pragmatist trope than a general AP
thing. I, predictly, do not believe there is any such thing as "scientific
method," and as someone trained in philosophy
I am not sure what the point of the study of scientific method is,a nd I am
specially trained in it. There may not be a single point. I doubt if there
is. But I am absolutely certain that philosophers have no insight denied to
scientists about what counts as good science. If the philosophers
Michael, Isn't Bob Perelman your brother? I wanted to check the status of
the coined word "unaugural" as of Dec. 13, 2000 and did an Alta Vista and
Google search (6 and 26 hits respectively). Most of the entries appear to be
typos but one of them referred to an essay by Bob Perelman that briefly
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This discussion of what is capitalism?, it seems to me, has great
relevance for any real left-green synthesis. Most of the left is
oblivious to the existence of postindustrial productive forces geared to
qualitative development, and the fact that capitalism is absolutely
incompatible with
Many analytical philosophers have been interested in the philosophy of
science. Often they are interested in analysis of scientific concepts both
in psychology and physical sciences. Norman Malcolm for example argued at
great length with Skinner re Behaviorism. Ryle's Concept of Mind on the
other
This discussion of what is capitalism?, it seems to me, has great
relevance for any real left-green synthesis. Most of the left is
oblivious to the existence of postindustrial productive forces geared to
qualitative development, and the fact that capitalism is absolutely
incompatible
[Ernie Tate was a leader of the British Trotskyist movement in the 1960s,
where he helped to build the Vietnam antiwar movement, and where he
recruited Tariq Ali among many other radicalizing students and youth. He
now lives in Canada where he is employed as a skilled worker. If I get a
hold of
Justin wrote:
I am not sure what the point of the study of scientific method is,a nd I
am specially trained in it. There may not be a single point. I doubt if
there is.
Perhaps you had the wrong professors (and given your complaints about them,
that seems likely). But you don't present an
One of the
reason why economics is bombarded by so much worthless research is because
people do it simply to climb up the academic ladder rather than because
they're genuinely interested in it.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine
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Isn't it more accurate to say
Jim Devine wrote:
To paraphrase some dead old philosopher (who's likely to be ignored by
analytical philosophers), unexamined research isn't worth doing.
I'll be damned. You put some legitimate zing into a proposition
that in the original was pretty vicious. To say the unexamined *life*
is
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Gore's concession speech hardly helps the cause of those who want to use
the closeness of the race to shift US politics to the left.
It was patrician and patronising in tone and substance. Its overuse of
quotations and dignified good humour was intended to signal that the New
Democrats are
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