BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2002:
Weakness in labor markets across the country will dampen wage increases this
year, holding private industry pay gains below 4 percent, according to the
latest Bureau of National Affairs Wage Trend Indicator report. The WTI's
G'day all,
The history of the war on social democracy , as per the latest LMD.
http://MondeDiplo.com/2002/01/11alternative
United States neo-liberalism seems to have
triumphed: the US now dominates military and
diplomatic affairs; Europe
Forwarded from Sabri
Bush-Ecevit to discuss economy, Turkish-Greek ties and Cyprus
US dubs Turkey excellent model for Islam
The United States has labelled overwhelmingly Muslim but secular
Turkey as an excellent model for Islam amid its ongoing
campaign
against terrorism in a statement that
Where is it, in volume III of CAPITAL, that Marx talks about how financial
fraud becomes common in a financial bubble and is revealed when the bubble
pops (or something like that)?
BTW, thinking about the current melt-down of Arthur Anderson accounting, it
seems a symptom of market failure:
Here is a brief snippet from my Marx's Crises Theories
Moreover, the corporate form of business, wherein ownership and management
are separated, allows those who control firms to use their position to their
own advantage (Marx 1967; 3, pp. 441, 466, and 407; also see Marx and Engels
1859,
Rakesh Bhandari wrote:
This brings us back to the discussion that set off the thread on
crises. Capitalism has proven resilient and has withstood a number of
shocks over the centuries.
yes, michael, but the question is how are crises overcome? jim's
theory leads to one conclusion--raising
According to a 1998 NBER paper by Morck, the Wallenberg family controls
corporate assets equal to 40% of the market value of all corporations on
the Swedish stock exchange.
Statistics Canada tells us that 25 enterprises in Canada control 41% of all
corporate assets in the country.
Ownership
The Economic Times
Sunday, January 13, 2002
Beijing's public servants lose free medical
PTI SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 2002 1:55:39 AM
BEIJING: With China embracing market-oriented reforms, some 9,90,000 public
employees in the Chinese capital will have to bid farewell to free medical
service, a
Tom Walker wrote:
As
of 10:20 p.m pacific time, January 15, a google search on genius of capitalism
and enron returned 453 hits. Following the below news item from AFP, I've
added a few more pre-enron allusions to the genius. I do believe Secretary
O'Neill has spoken the phrase that will
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From:
Eugene
Coyle
In my dreams I imagine that an alert CBS
journalist immediately asked Lieberman "Just how DO you want capitalism to
be?" And in my nightmares I can hear his answer.
Gene Coyle
http://www.nightmareanalysis.org
Rakesh Bhandari wrote:
This brings us back to the discussion that set off the thread on
crises. Capitalism has proven resilient and has withstood a number of
shocks over the centuries.
yes, michael, but the question is how are crises overcome? jim's
theory leads to one conclusion--raising
[link below]
American Corporations: the New Sovereigns
By LAWRENCE E. MITCHELL
Chronice of Higher Education, 2.1.18
One of the most striking yet overlooked aspects of
the
current globalization debate is the quiet retreat of
sovereign
power -- including that of the United States --
U.S.-Europe Clash Stalls World Bank Aid Plan
Bush Seeks Grants, Not Loans, for Poor
By Paul Blustein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, January 16, 2002; Page E01
A plan to increase World Bank aid to poor countries has
stalled because of a dispute between the United States
and European
I'm curious. Son of W. Cleon Skousen? Author of one of the
nuttier anti-communist classics, The Naked Communist, which
cribs from Clinton's mentor at Georgetown,
Michael Pugliese
Gene Coyle wrote,
In my dreams I imagine that an alert CBS journalist immediately asked
Lieberman "Just how DO you want capitalism to be?" And in my
nightmares I can hear his answer.
Wouldn't that just be where the Enronsgive
70% of their campaign contributions to the Demos? Or am I
The show is on a CTV specialty cable channel and
the segment airs at 7:40 p.m. Eastern time this evening.
A House of Cards
The way we work in North America is a HOUSE OF
CARDS and most of us know it at some level or other. When I tell people about
the research I do on shorter work time one
I would like to announce that there is no way in Hell that I
would ever support J. Lieberman for president. Where
have you gone, Monica Moorehead?
mbs
In my dreams I imagine that an alert CBS journalist immediately asked
Lieberman Just how DO you want capitalism to be? And in my nightmares
In addition to the piece quoted by Rakesh and cited by me previously
from An American Dilemma Revisited, there are:
Racial Inequality in the Managerial Age: An Alternative Vision to the
NRC Report (in The National Research Council's Report on the Status of
Black Americans, 1940-85) by William A.
Rakesh Bhandari wrote:... the question is how are crises overcome? jim's
theory leads to one conclusion--raising consumption and/or prices should
work to restore a crisis of overaccumulation as jim d defines it ...
This is a misrepresentation of my viewpoint. It would be like saying that
Fred
now, now, Jim, who's becoming unhinged?
Rakesh Bhandari wrote:... the question is how are crises overcome? jim's
theory leads to one conclusion--raising consumption and/or prices should
work to restore a crisis of overaccumulation as jim d defines it ...
This is a misrepresentation of my
Come on now. I am not concentrating on e-mail, trying to finish Mirowski's
new book -- but first you characterize Jim repeatedly and then say he is
coming unhinged. You have too much to contribute to get into all this
personal stuff.
This discussion has been for the most part very useful.
Come on now. I am not concentrating on e-mail, trying to finish Mirowski's
new book -- but first you characterize Jim repeatedly and then say he is
coming unhinged.
I characterized Jim as a social democrat after he himself spoke
favorably of such a regime in terms of doing good for the
The International Herald Tribune | www.iht.com
Accounting for Enron: Global Ripple Effects
Eric Pfanner International Herald Tribune
Thursday, January 17, 2002
Failure Brings Call for Tougher Standards
LONDON The collapse of Enron, the giant energy trading
company, has challenged the notion
The International Herald Tribune | www.iht.com
Catfish Are Catfish, Unless They're Caught in a Trade
War
Elizabeth Becker New York Times Service
Thursday, January 17, 2002
BALCH, Arkansas With blue herons circling overhead as
fishermen pull in the day's catch, Joey Lowery explains
why he is
Off and on over the years, a few capitalists have done
more to de-legitimize capitalism than America's
impotent socialist critics ever did or today's moribund
left could hope to. It is the Republicans' special
responsibility to punish such capitalists.
George Will
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com
WTO vindicated
EDITORIAL
[ THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 2002 12:09:05 AM ]
The ruling of the WTO's appellate body on tax treatment of
Foreign Sales Corporations in the United States could well
mark a significant milestone in the development of the
World Trade
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This whole
The American Economy in the Thirties (in The American Economy in the
Interwar Period) Arthur Smithies The American Economic Review, Vol. 36,
No. 2, Papers and Proceedings of the Fifty-eighth Annual Meeting of the
American Economic Association. (May, 1946), pp. 11-27.
--
Michael Perelman
an earlier version of the paper is at
http://eres.bus.umich.edu/docs/dwpname.html
Inherited Wealth, Corporate Control and Economic
Growth: The Canadian Disease
RANDALL MORCK
University of
The pen-l archives will probably be moved fairly soon. I will keep you
posted.
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Michael Perelman
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California State University
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This whole discussion
Rakesh, please stop calling people ignorant and please stop informing the
list about how incorrect Jim D.'s ideas are -- even though he keeps saying
that you are mischaracterizing him.
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 06:55:40PM -0800, Rakesh Bhandari wrote:
Date sent: Tue, 15 Jan 2002
Rakesh, please stop calling people ignorant and please stop informing the
list about how incorrect Jim D.'s ideas are -- even though he keeps saying
that you are mischaracterizing him.
Michael, you're joking right! Paul Phillips went bonkers against me.
He called me ignorant of social
As everybody else on the list know, I am not joking. Why is it Jim,
Carrol, and, you add, Paul get into arguments with you? I think that
abrasiveness detracts from the exchanges. Give us your information, but
spare us your disputatious approach.
Thanks.
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 07:28:04PM
Doug, Schumpeter's creative destruction does not occur in the context of
weak demand. It is a theory of investment-led aggregate demand, followed
by an overshooting, and then a crash. Mellon's scheme might work, but it
sure took a long time for the economy to get going. Without World War II,
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From: Rakesh Bhandari [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No thanks, Kick me off the list anytime you want. I shall
continue to
respond in the style that I respond. I am not here to share
information as if I am an information processing machine
but to
discuss and debate and learn. I
As everybody else on the list know, I am not joking. Why is it Jim,
Carrol, and, you add, Paul get into arguments with you? I think that
abrasiveness detracts from the exchanges. Give us your information, but
spare us your disputatious approach.
Thanks.
No thanks, Kick me off the list
Oy vey, fellow cmrdes!
William J. Blake mentioned. Married to Christina Stead, the
novelist. http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=+Christina+Stead+William+J.+Blake+
Michael Pugliese
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Date: 1/16/02 3:46:55
Debating and learning are at the core of what we are trying to do.
Personal attacks get in the way.
No thanks, Kick me off the list anytime you want. I shall continue to
respond in the style that I respond. I am not here to share
information as if I am an information processing machine
http://www.indexonline.org/news/401_20011018_ali.shtml
Debating and learning are at the core of what we are trying to do.
Personal attacks get in the way.
As I said, Phillips laid into me first. So, Michael, you have to ask
yourself why you said something to me. I said nothing to him. I don't
even know who he is.
rb
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Disputing and discussing ideas and strategies is one thing
but you *still* aren't winning friends and influencing
people.
ian, isn't it a bit pretentious for you to think that you know
what every-one who reads this
Did the left lose the war?
Kabul fell in five weeks. The Islamic world has not
erupted. So did the left get it all wrong - and does it
matter?
Andy Beckett
Thursday January 17, 2002
The Guardian
Guy Taylor is a political activist of great height and
confidence. He used to be an organiser for
I am sorry if i missed Paul's attack. I lost about a week of e-mail when
our system crashed at CSU. I only looked at some posts on the archives.
Rakesh Bhandari wrote:
.
As I said, Phillips laid into me first. So, Michael, you have to ask
yourself why you said something to me. I said
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The topic of the next President and Provost's Diversity Lecture
Series at the Ohio State University is The Debt: What America Owes
Blacks, featuring Randall Robinson, president of TransAfrica and the
TransAfrica Forum. Robinson is the author of _The Debt_, a social
and political text about
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