How things have changed. Twenty five years ago it was about the removal of
private facilities within the NHS. Now it's about the privatisation of the
NHS...
Of course, if you are a conspiracy theorist like me, then you'll know that
all the managerialism, increased paperwork and performance
Penners
Here's an interesting interview with someone who sounds interesting on the
topic of the IT investment boom and the great US productivity miracle. In
the same edition of the FT, Harvard professor Martin Feldstein pens an
opinion piece warning that thanks to this apparent miracle the US is
Penners
One need not be a reader of the New York Times to feel one's blood pressure
rise when reading the sort of nauseating filth spewed forth by Thomas
Friedman. The Financial Times has its own effluent society, including, not
least, the utterly incredible Amity Shlaes. Occasionally Doug H.
The death of demand
Financial Times, Jun 25, 2001
By GLOBAL INVESTOR - ANDREW HILL
Imagine if demand went away - and never came back. Inflation would die;
companies would be forced to cut costs to sustain profit growth; the central
bank would be pushed into interest rate reductions.
It sounds
Penners
As well as computer hardware and software and financial accounting, now we
are on the verge of a new era of common standards in weapons production. In
the newspaper version of this article the following ties are listed:
BAE Systems bought Lockheed Martin's aerospace electronics business
Keaney Michael:
As well as computer hardware and software and financial accounting, now we
are on the verge of a new era of common standards in weapons
production. In
the newspaper version of this article the following ties are listed:
BAE Systems bought Lockheed Martin's aerospace
Hong Kong has a wide range of policies to encourage domestic investment. It uses
large projects (like its huge new airport) to stimulate the economy. Following
the Asian financial crisis it bought $36 billion worth of shares on the Hong
Kong sharemarket to prop up the Hong Kong dollar. It still
Penners
Just to show that old habits die hard, and that the mindsets of George
Kennedy Young, Walter Walker and Airey Neave still linger, witness the
uniquely British contribution to Plan Colombia:
UK general calls for anti-rebel militias
Owen Bowcott
The Guardian
Friday May 18, 2001
Keaney Michael wrote:
Carrol Cox
Mark is
proposing mass slaughter.
Carrol, please don't give currency to this unforgivable slander, whatever
your rationale may be.
Mark
=
It's amazing that, on a list supposedly chock-full of folks well-versed in
dialectical
Carrol Cox
Mark is
proposing mass slaughter.
Carrol, please don't give currency to this unforgivable slander, whatever
your rationale may be.
Mark
=
It's amazing that, on a list supposedly chock-full of folks well-versed in
dialectical reasoning, there is so much either/or
At 03:40 PM 07/03/2001 +0300, you wrote:
General Sir Michael Rose called on the Colombian government yesterday to
boost its military spending and establish local militias to combat
leftwing guerrillas and rightwing paramilitaries.
Addressing a conference to boost trade between Britain and the
From a comrade:
Wellsurprise, surprisea party member, with strong convictions and a
trade union history and a true passion for studying the works of our
marxist/communist forebearsand an ex-slaughterman.
During my years in meat works I guess I would have been involved in the
Therefore, it is critical to my argument that, generally speaking, a
change
in the gold price is NOT a reflection of a change in the scarcity of gold,
but a reflection of a change in the scarcity of the currency.
Gotcha.
There are a couple of assumptions that we don't share. The first is
Without comment, I offer up a position paper by Billy Gunn in juxtapose to
the eloquence of the ex-slaughterman
It seems that it is the equality of the individual amid the seething mass
that defines the status and justice of the society and the value system of
the culture. -- an ex-slaughterman
Tom Walker wrote:
Without comment, I offer up a position paper by Billy Gunn in juxtapose to
the eloquence of the ex-slaughterman
It seems that it is the equality of the individual amid the seething mass
that defines the status and justice of the society and the value system of
the
Political Affairs
Volume 80 No. 7 July 2001
High Tech's Low Road
Racism, sexism and toxic waste are the high-tech revolution's other products * deadly
to workers and the environment.
By PA Science Department
The
Fred says:
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
*Who else* do you think have the *potential* to become a collective
historical agent to transform the structures of production,
distribution, consumption in an ecologically sustainable direction,
if not the working class? Surely not the bourgeoisie.
Carrol says:
As to Mark's original complaint, you bring it on yourself Mark by your
determination to maintain a frame of reference for your posts which few
except. We are going to continue to misread you as long as you take the
attitude that philosophical agreement is prior to talking about
Hi, Max! My note on False Holism somehow hasn't come back to my
in-box from PEN-l, but since you replied to it, I guess it got
posted. I must be having some problem with my computer or server.
You and MR are talking about financial capital,
and most of what you say is well-taken, but I
thanks to those who responded to my question (re: ehrlich).
Nathan Newman wrote:
snip happens
On both those bases, encouraging immigration from Mexico or other developing
nations, especially from rural provices, to come to the US in urban settings
like Los Angeles, is one of the
the following makes Sweezy sound as if he's dead. Last time I heard, he wasn't.
At 01:08 PM 07/03/2001 -0400, you wrote:
* Sweezy was also a proponent of an underconsumption
interpretation of Marx, a new theory of imperialism rooted in dependency
and the examination of Keynesian demand
the following makes Sweezy sound as if he's dead. Last time I heard,
he wasn't.
At 01:08 PM 07/03/2001 -0400, you wrote:
* Sweezy was also a proponent of an underconsumption
interpretation of Marx, a new theory of imperialism rooted in
dependency and the examination of Keynesian demand
... _Monopoly Capital_, etc. need to be revised.
Yoshie
All books need to be revised, but none should be except by their authors.
We can learn from their mistakes to create better books.
my 1983 article in the REVIEW OF RADICAL POLITICAL ECONOMICS provides some
constructive criticism of
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Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Perhaps the debate can get going if you Michael write up how the
world is to be reconstituted -- more importantly -- how to arrive
at such reconstruction. A political program strategy, in other
words. Then others can respond
[from the NYT]
July 3, 2001
Climate Research: The Devil Is in the Details
By ANDREW C. REVKIN
In 1922, Dr. Lewis Fry Richardson, a British physicist with a penchant
for grand ideas, described how to forecast the behavior of the
atmosphere.
He had details wrong but the basic concept right: a
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I write to object to Louis Proyect posting 22 times to this list in one day.
(((
CB: Especially since we are about to run out of fossil fuels
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, DAILY REPORT, JULY 3, 2001:
Activity in the manufacturing sector improved in June, but not enough to
prevent the sector from contracting for an 11th consecutive month,
according to the National Association of Purchasing Management. NAPM's
purchasing managers
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At 11:21 AM 6/29/01 -0400, you wrote:As for why the Mayan civilisation
collapsed, both in Peruvian antiquity and the Classic period (9th C AD), I
can tell you right now: it collapsed because of a series of intense El Nino
events which altered the climate,
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[was: Re: [PEN-L:14294] Re: The Vulnerable Planet (was Re: suburbia)]
Yoshie wrote:
socialism allows for as much socialization of reproduction as
possible, thus freeing women for creative work.
taking care of children (and other tasks related to
BTW, Henryk Grossman see,
... a Preface placing it in context. The political activism and theoretical
work of
Henryk Grossman through 1926 is summarized in some detail, and a
rarely-known ...
www.sf.colorado.edu/pen-l/2000IV/msg04001.html
R E S E A R C H I N P O L I T I C A L E C O N
Yoshie...a more equal and
democratic division of labor in the household is needed...
See, When Woman and Men Mother, by Diane Ehrensaft, Socialist Review,
#56, March-April 1981.Nancy Chodorow, too.
Michael Pugliese
- Original Message -
From: Eric Nilsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Patrick Bond wrote, very much in passing, in an
argument centered on Zimbabwe:
Mugabe resisted the IMF, and was cut off after the first small tranche
of the loan. But hatred of the Zanu(PF) leader continued to grow in
the cities when he deployed 10,000 troops to the DRC
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/story.jsp?story=81637
Three million in strike against Mugabe 'tyranny'
By Basildon Peta in Harare
04 July 2001
Zimbabwe ground to a standstill yesterday when almost three million
workers staged a largely peaceful strike in defiance of President
Robert
This is very interesting. I have never seen the demand growth rate figures
before. The increasing reliance on imports makes this situation seem even more
threatening to economic health.
Keaney Michael wrote:
The death of demand
Financial Times, Jun 25, 2001
By GLOBAL INVESTOR - ANDREW
Strassmann's book, The Squandered Computer, is interesting. His work is often
contrasted with Eric Brynjolfsson of MIT, who seems to make the strongest case
for the New Economy of all the economists. He tries to measure the actual
productivity of computers and high tech gear. Needless to say,
[NYT]
July 4, 2001
Review of Nissan Car Loans Finds That Blacks Pay More
By DIANA B. HENRIQUES
A statistical study of more than 300,000 car loans arranged through
Nissan dealers from March 1993 to last September - believed by experts
to be the largest pool of car loan data ever analyzed for
At 03/07/01 15:27 -0400, you wrote:
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I write to object to Louis Proyect posting 22 times to this list in one day.
(((
CB: Especially since we are about to run out of fossil fuels
You are suggesting that at least it is a form of manual (mainly
Campaigns to cancel debt have been a very valuable step to a global
movement against capitalism, but I think this campaign is in great danger
of running into its own contradictions. IMO they can only be transcended by
explicitly arguing
a) that capitalism itself produces unequal exchange,
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