Re: Re: RE: Re: RE: iraq

2001-12-27 Thread ALI KADRI
from a friend: WHY DO DEATHS FIGURES IN THE THIRD WORLD MATTER TO THE FIRST. they never did before, and even if it did to the peace movement that was small and ineffective. take Algeria’s death toll in the war of independence: was it one million take or add one half! or any other war in the periph

Re: Re: RE: Re: Re: RE: Farm "subsidy" data base

2001-12-27 Thread michael perelman
Excellent questions, Ken. Ken Hanly wrote: > > 2) Why is the sector involving intellectually protected sector > differentiated? When the protection runs out are the commodities > undifferentiated as the now competing types of glysophate? They are > differentiated only because they are prote

RE: Re: RE: iraq

2001-12-27 Thread michael pugliese
oY VeY! No, Rakesh, I know you aren't pimping for the Ba'athist regime! (And, neither, am i neo-conservative!! [Heh, some may say different!] That fwd. went to the Numbers debate, from folks that know the issues quite well. Follow the URL's. I know we lefties can really get defensive...I'm

Re: RE: Re: RE: iraq

2001-12-27 Thread Michael Perelman
Michael, you know better than to get into this sort of thing. Rakesh should not have made it personal either. On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 03:14:36PM -0800, michael pugliese wrote: > >oY VeY! No, Rakesh, I know you aren't pimping for the Ba'athist > regime! (And, neither, am i neo-conservative!!

Re: the profit rate & recession

2001-12-27 Thread Bill Burgess
Yes, I did find your talk interesting. Do you have any similar numbers for other countries, or when you compare your trends for the US with profit trends in other countries, what are the differences? I generally agree with your focus on fixed capital and using 'conventional' profits rates, but

Re: RE: Re: the profit rate & recession

2001-12-27 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
Title: Re: [PEN-L:20986] RE: Re: the profit rate & recession concerning my notes that I posted on-line (at http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/faculty/jdevine/FROP/sacramento.htm),  Rakesh writes:   > 1. you have confused changes in vcc with changes in occ.<   I don't care, since what's important is the c

Re: RE: iraq

2001-12-27 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
>The following is an archived copy of a message sent to a Discussion >List run by the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. > >[Re: can we trust Iraqi sources? are you implying that I said that we could? Wow! I speak to the lack of reasoned analysis in the Nation coverage (double meaning of cover

RE: iraq

2001-12-27 Thread michael pugliese
The following is an archived copy of a message sent to a Discussion List run by the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. [Re: can we trust Iraqi sources? From: "farbuthnot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: can we

RE: RE: Re: the profit rate & recession

2001-12-27 Thread Devine, James
Title: Re: [PEN-L:20980] the profit rate & recession Rakesh writes: >Doug H and Fred M have both argued that spike of profit rate (as conventionally measured) especially in the 90s was a result influx of foreign capital, which reduced borrowing costs. <   I missed this. I don't know what Dou

RE: Re: the profit rate & recession

2001-12-27 Thread Devine, James
Title: Re: [PEN-L:20980] the profit rate & recession concerning my notes that I posted on-line (at http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/faculty/jdevine/FROP/sacramento.htm),  Rakesh writes:  > 1. you have confused changes in vcc with changes in occ.<    I don't care, since what's important is the chang

Re: RE: Re: Re: RE: Farm "subsidy" data base

2001-12-27 Thread Ken Hanly
Some queries and remarks: 1) What does 'works' mean. Farm commodities are not sold as free market commodities since they are subsidized. THe only sense I can see to "works" here is that consumers pay low prices. But in market theological terms arent they "artificiallly" low? 2) Why is the

Re: the profit rate & recession

2001-12-27 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
Title: Re: [PEN-L:20980] the profit rate & recession For those interested, I recently gave a talk at the Marxist School in Sacramento, California, suggesting that the recent recession is connected with the trend rise of the rate of profit. My notes are available at: http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/facu

RE: Re: Marx & Ricardo on fiscal impotence

2001-12-27 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
Jim doesn't want our very civil offlist exchange on the list so i'm just sending my reply especially because i want to share the quote with which i end: Constatin Pecquer, 1839: "One fact is certain, general...it is the silent but very decisive struggle of the workers against their masters wi

iraq

2001-12-27 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
michael pugliese wrote: > On the Iraq #ers, that was from The >Nation and the background stuff I added about David Cortright >was a fyi in the interests of just saying in effect this not >some guy like Anthony Cordesman from the Georgetown CSIS or some >such. well i found this article pretty un

RE: Re: RE: Re: textiles

2001-12-27 Thread michael pugliese
Rakesh, the speaker was not identified but he did not sound like someone with academic credentials, probably got the stat from his shop steward in UNITE! On the Iraq #ers, that was from The Nation and the background stuff I added about David Cortright was a fyi in the interests of just saying in

the profit rate & recession

2001-12-27 Thread Devine, James
For those interested, I recently gave a talk at the Marxist School in Sacramento, California, suggesting that the recent recession is connected with the trend rise of the rate of profit. My notes are available at: http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/faculty/jdevine/FROP/sacramento.htm Jim Devine [EMAIL PRO

Re: RE: Re: textiles

2001-12-27 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
michael pugliese wrote: >Yesterday on NPR it was said that 75,000 textile jobs have >been lost in the last yr. lost due to national and global recession? loss of jobs that would have been added if not for recession? lost due to automation? lost to specifically defensive automation in the

Re: Re: Re: RE: Farm "subsidy" data base

2001-12-27 Thread Eugene Coyle
I'm looking forward to your book. Gene Michael Perelman wrote: > Gene, I have been pushing the idea that the economy breaks into two > different sectors. 1 consists of the undifferentiated commodities, and > the other, those sectors protected by intellectual property rights. The > former will

Re: Jeff Madrick on the CPI

2001-12-27 Thread enilsson
RE >What about tubes of toothpaste that go from 6.5 ounces to 6 ounces yet >charge the same price? Has anyone watched the price of, say, pet >supplies over the past 5-10 years? The BLS does attempt to take these sort of things into account. It is a near impossible task to come up with a "cost-o

RE: Re: textiles

2001-12-27 Thread michael pugliese
Yesterday on NPR it was said that 75,000 textile jobs have been lost in the last yr. in the U.S. Compared to 15,000 in steel. Michael Pugliese P.S. If Roger Milliken, a major bankroller of the Birch Society and a textile tycoon is in that textile industry association, how much noise did he mak

Re: Re: textiles

2001-12-27 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
>Wasn't the textile industry cave in the key to getting fast track passed >in the house? the nyt reporter at the time suggested that it was indeed quite important. rb

Re: textiles

2001-12-27 Thread Michael Perelman
Wasn't the textile industry cave in the key to getting fast track passed in the house? On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 10:48:05AM -0800, Rakesh Bhandari wrote: > An old nemesis who runs marxmail.org was kind enough to send this to > me this morning: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/27/opinion/27BRAI.

textiles

2001-12-27 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
An old nemesis who runs marxmail.org was kind enough to send this to me this morning: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/27/opinion/27BRAI.html Doug and Liza, have USAS said anything about all this yet? It's not a cynical question. Rakesh

Re: Marx & Ricardo on fiscal impotence

2001-12-27 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
Jim writes: > In a footnote in the latter, Marx quotes >Sismondi, a deviant Ricardian. jim, you're joking right? sismondi a deviant ricardian? sismondi criticized ricardo root and branch for failure to theorize possibility of a general glut which failure he traced back to the faulty abstract

RE: RE: Re: RE: Re: Re: RE: Enron's Success Story

2001-12-27 Thread Devine, James
Gene writes: > Max, I read the big push to define the Enron affair as > criminal as an effort to > suggest that there is nothing wrong with the functioning of > the market, just > some bad apples who everybody thought were good apples... Max writes: > You could read it that way, but whether or

farm "subsidies"

2001-12-27 Thread Devine, James
[was: RE: [PEN-L:20964] Re: RE: Farm "subsidy" data base] Gene writes:> My argument is that selling an undifferentiated commodity on the market -- like many farm commodities -- actually results in prices that only cover marginal costs, not average costs.  The difference has to be made up so

Marx & Ricardo on fiscal impotence

2001-12-27 Thread Devine, James
[was: RE: [PEN-L:20847] Re: RE: jim d? doug?] Rakesh writes: > as i am writing on the state, mixed economy, etc presently, i would > appreciate it if you could point me to the quote in which Marx > accepts Ricardo's view of fiscal policy. In the volume III, chapter 29, there's a reference to

RE: Re: Re: RE: Farm "subsidy" data base

2001-12-27 Thread Max Sawicky
That's a useful distinction, but I would say it is the commodity sector that 'works' as far as markets go, and the other one that doesn't. The stability of the intellectual-prop sector preserves its inefficiency and unfairness. Market functionality travels over the dead bodies of failed supplier

RE: Re: RE: Re: Re: RE: Enron's Success Story

2001-12-27 Thread Max Sawicky
You could read it that way, but whether or not the affair does point to an inherent problem with markets is another matter. Choice and imperfect law creation/enforcement make illegal acts possible; that doesn't mean the underlying arrangement isn't the best available.mbs Max, I read the big

Re: Re: RE: Farm "subsidy" data base

2001-12-27 Thread Michael Perelman
Gene, I have been pushing the idea that the economy breaks into two different sectors. 1 consists of the undifferentiated commodities, and the other, those sectors protected by intellectual property rights. The former will remain in trouble while the latter will prosper as long as it is backed b

Re: RE: Re: Re: RE: Enron's Success Story

2001-12-27 Thread Eugene Coyle
Max, I read the big push to define the Enron affair as criminal as an effort to suggest that there is nothing wrong with the functioning of the market, just some bad apples who everybody thought were good apples. Which is not to say that pushing the criminal investigation high into the Bush ad

Re: RE: Farm "subsidy" data base

2001-12-27 Thread Eugene Coyle
My argument is that selling an undifferentiated commodity on the market -- like many farm commodities -- actually results in prices that only cover marginal costs, not average costs.  The difference has to be made up somehow.  That is what I see as the idea behind farm subsidies.     I agree with

RE: Re: RE: Re: Re: RE: Enron's Success Story

2001-12-27 Thread Max Sawicky
I would say the relevant test in this context is whether the product kept flowing to customers at prices that covered production costs. The California crisis is clearly an example of consumptis interruptis, but no role of Enron's bankruptcy in that crisis has been raised, as far as I know. So I

RE: Re: Re: Re: Fiscal Crisis of the State

2001-12-27 Thread Max Sawicky
thanks. I don't expect to resolve any debates about Marx, or even to engage them. I don't know anything about that stuff. All I could hope to do is fairly evaluate JOC's theory in light of subsequent experience. I don't have a horse in the marx interpretation contest, so in that sense I may be

Re: Re: Re: Fw: After the Fall: Argentine CrisisandPossible Repercussions

2001-12-27 Thread Michael Perelman
For those of you who want to hear what Alan says about Argentina on Democracy Now, tune in to http://www.webactive.com/pacifica/exile/dn20011221.html Alan Cibils wrote: > Well, in the case of Argentina, I think it is quite clear when it stopped > developing: March 24, 1976. That was the date o

More villages attacked

2001-12-27 Thread Ken Hanly
Still no news of the US investigation of the convoy bombing. How long will it take? Or will the issue just disappear--a more likely scenario. Already media almost entirely ignore the issue even though the basic US story seems quite unlikely to put it mildly. And it has not changed. I am sure that

Re: Argentine Crisis... Correction

2001-12-27 Thread Alan Cibils
I just re-read the David Felix Foreign Policy in Focus article and realized it was from September 2001, so of course he doesn't mention events in December!! My apologies, Alan At 10:57 AM 12/27/2001 -0400, you wrote: >Well, in the case of Argentina, I think it is quite clear when it stopped

Re: Jeff Madrick on the CPI

2001-12-27 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: "michael perelman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The main contention of the Boskin report was that the Labor Department's > statistical experts did not > fully take into account the improved quality of many products. You may > pay $1 for a razor, but if you > get twice

RE: Jeff Madrick on the CPI

2001-12-27 Thread Devine, James
Jeff Madrick writes: >Certainly quality improvements have to be taken into account. But so must many other factors that affect the standard of living, including the quality of public goods, like transportation and the environment. >The Schultze panel concludes that such an index is inherently too

Enron

2001-12-27 Thread Ian Murray
Enron Moves Money to Democrats By Larry Margasak Associated Press Writer Thursday, December 27, 2001; 8:02 AM A week before filing for bankruptcy protection, Enron Corp. contributed $100,000 to Democrats after giving nearly all its prior donations this year to Republicans. The money went to t

RE: Farm "subsidy" data base

2001-12-27 Thread Devine, James
Gene writes: >I put "subsidy" in quotation marks because I think of farm payments as covering the overhead costs, while proceeds from crop sales cover the out-of-pocket costs of getting a crop.  <   I don't understand this. Why do you see "subsidies" as covering overhead costs? it seems to m

Re: Economics Insider Story

2001-12-27 Thread Carl Remick
>From: michael perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >... the NYT reports that ObL looks gaunt in the new tape. The NYT also says that the tape was apparently made in late November or early December -- in other words, at the end of Ramadan with all its fasting. Since ObL doesn't appear to do things b

Re: Re: Fw: After the Fall: Argentine Crisis and Possible Repercussions

2001-12-27 Thread Alan Cibils
Well, in the case of Argentina, I think it is quite clear when it stopped developing: March 24, 1976. That was the date of the military coup that introduced neoliberalism for good into the country (it is also not a coincidence that this was the bloodiest coup in the country's history, as people

Re: Jeff Madrick on the CPI

2001-12-27 Thread enilsson
It is good to see Brookings noting the problems with the Boskin approach. But they are somewhat behind the curve on this topic. Most of the criticisms of Boskin noted by Brookings, and more, are discussed in my article, "Trends in Compensation for Production Workers: 1948-1995," Review of Rad

Starting from economic 'scratch' in Afghanistan

2001-12-27 Thread Chris Burford
Characteristically weak article on the Afghan economy perpetuating the patronising myth of neo-liberal economics that it is starting from scratch. Compare the sneering about former socialist countries being "basket cases" throughout the 90's. http://www.iht.com/articles/43022.htm Dismissivel