Re: Global Alternative Economic Programme

2001-09-09 Thread Chris Burford
At 09/09/01 23:01 -0500, Andrew Hagen wrote: >Raising the possibility of increasing global GDP would be a tempting >carrot to wave in front of the capitalist donkey. The global justice >movement has a wider agenda, however, not necessarily incompatible with >growth, but potentially forgettable wh

Re: The Global Alternative Economic Programme

2001-09-09 Thread Andrew Hagen
I found one article called "James K. Galbraith on Global Keynesianism, an essential summary" (via Google). http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/art/artg0002.htm It would be advantageous to propose an alternative system. Raising the possibility of increasing global GDP would be a tempting carrot to wav

RE: prisons, airlines and privatization

2001-09-09 Thread Forstater, Mathew
re: prisons, and military keynesianism of another michael post, have you seen?: http://www.cfeps.org/public/KeynesWrayWP4.htm it's randy wray's piece on military and penal keynesianism. we will have a conference on incarceration at umkc in the spring, btw. people doing work on these issues shd

prisons, airlines and privatization

2001-09-09 Thread Michael Perelman
The following article is interesting in several respects. First, it shows how the state is trying to shortchange the local prisons in favor of the for-profit prisons. Also, take a look at the comparison between the situation of prisons and airlines. Mississippi's Prison-Building Spree Creates G

Re: Corn flakes

2001-09-09 Thread Ken Hanly
>From the very first the evidence that GM corn was a serious threat was blown out of proportion. The author of the first paper that argued for a positive link between GM corn and the Monarch's problems noted specifically that his results were very preliminary and tentative. That did nothing to sto

The Global Alternative Economic Programme

2001-09-09 Thread Chris Burford
Gernot Köhler (clearly not to be confused with the Managing Director of the IMF, Horst) responded to my post about Japan with something much more imaginative than his namesake could have produced. (I picked the post up only so far on the website and I do not know if it has also come through th

Fw: Cyber-Marx online

2001-09-09 Thread Michael Pugliese
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sunday, September 09, 2001 3:01 AM Subject: AUT: Cyber-Marx online >An online version of Nick Dyer-Witheford's book Cyber-Marx: Cycles and >Circuits of Struggle in High Technol

Re: Speaking of uncle Miltie

2001-09-09 Thread Andrew Hagen
Thanks to Jim for correcting many errors of mine. Some further points are below. On Sat, 08 Sep 2001 11:50:39 -0700, Jim Devine wrote: >The way in which US individual, external,and (to a lesser extent) >corporate >indebtedness were increasing -- the Three Bears attacking the >Goldilocks economy

Re: No Way Out for Japan?

2001-09-09 Thread g kohler
a comment on  Burford's post -- In my opinion, Japan's problems are not only Japan's problems but a world system problem. I look at this in a global-Keynesian kind of way. The capitalist world system tends to generate more supply than demand. There is not enough global effective demand in the

No Way Out for Japan?

2001-09-09 Thread Chris Burford
The Guardian summarises the bleak prospect for Japan's impending recession. It reports Japan has the worlds biggest public debt. Is that likely to be in absolute figures, or at 130% of GDP is the relative figure the relevant one? With US consumption hovering to contract, the recession in Japan