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>(Thus water after it is heated up gradually,
>suddenly begins to boil.
If you're going to show this book to people who
From: "Sabri Oncu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > What does it mean to say that economists deliberately
> > *lie* in a world where the relation of theories and evidences
> > is one/many of underdetermination?
> >
> > Ian
>
> In my understanding underdetermination is associated with the
> observation
> What does it mean to say that economists deliberately
> *lie* in a world where the relation of theories and evidences
> is one/many of underdetermination?
>
> Ian
In my understanding underdetermination is associated with the
observation that the system always finds a solution. To put this
in ma
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> I might have added Phil Mirowski as an excellent writer, although he does
> not usually wri
I might have added Phil Mirowski as an excellent writer, although he does
not usually write for an popular audience.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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Subject: [PEN-L:26165] Re: TPA and the new protectionism
> So, the democrats will give it to Georgie. One question. May Nathan
knows. Does the Kerry ammendmen
penner's I stumbled across this quote from Jim D. at the laborrepublic site:
"Chapter three ... is crystal-clear. If we'd read this chapter beforehand,
the famous PEN-L debate with Gil Skillman over volume I of Capital would not
have happened."-Jim Devine
What year did this debate occur so I can
So, the democrats will give it to Georgie. One question. May Nathan knows. Does the
Kerry ammendment
mean that anybody (including US corps) can push such suits or that nobody can? If the
former, it is a
step backward.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chi
The Times of India
MONDAY, MAY 20, 2002
Sony to build semiconductor plant in China: Report
REUTERS
TOKYO: Consumer electronics giant Sony will build a semiconductor assembly
plant in China to keep up with increasing production shifts to that country
by client electric equipment makers, a Japan
[Zoellick goes pomo twice in one article...]
American and EU trade officials swap jabs over steel and farm subsidies
Tue May 21, 8:03 PM ET
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON - The top trade official for the United States and his counterpart from the
European
Union (news - web
[last paragraph...]
Senate defeats worker benefit amendments to trade fast-track bill
Tue May 21, 4:27 PM ET
By JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - With the White House waiting impatiently, the Senate voted down
amendments Tuesday that
would have complicated passage of a major trad
But Worldly Philosophers shouldn't be the standard bearer. Try the
Nature and Logic of Capitalism, one of his best. His most serious
scholarly work are his articles on Smith ("Socialization of the
Individual in AS", "Paradox of Progress"), Schumpeter, ideology
("Economics as Ideology" "Economics
[was: RE: [PEN-L:26158] RE: RE: Lies, damned lies, and economics]
I find Heilbroner to present a watered-down Marxism most of the time, but
his MARXISM: FOR AND AGAINST was pretty good, simply because he got away
from his usual stuff. I don't agree with it as much as like the way he tries
to find
The Wall Street Journal offers this sign that the economy could be
picking up. Do you believe it?
Business Outlays Show Signs Of Picking Up After a Decline
By PATRICK BARTA Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
The long-awaited rebound in capital spending could be at hand, according
to a b
I admire both Galbraith and Heilbroner, but it always seemed clear to me
that Heilbroner (save maybe his New Yorker articles or whatever) was
writing at a more complex, deeper level (even in NYRB--articles on
Schumpeter, Keynes, etc.). One may differ with, e.g., his
interpretation of dialectics i
Michael,
I think you write extremely well. I read your
little book on the information age, and it got better as I read on. From you
work one can learn something new...; ; I wish more economics writers would write
like you !
Regards
Jurriaan
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Subject: Re: Stephen Jay Gould is dead
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 10:53:50 -0400
From: Richard Levins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Thanks for the article on Stephen Jay Gould. The onl
and economics
>Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 13:09:04 -0700
>
>Isn't that what lawyers are trained to do?
>
>On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 07:56:47PM +, Justin Schwartz wrote:
>
> > Because it's hard to communicate clearly and effectively when you're
>lying.
> >
Lawyer jokes aside, no, it's not. Unlike
I am an American Literature professor at the University of Wisconsin,
Madison. I'm currently at work on a book about American fiction and
financial panics between 1880 and 1913 (a revision of my Berkeley
dissertation). At the moment, I'm examining the anxieties a number of
late-19th.-c American ec
Cuban biotech -- threat or lesson?
Anne Sunderland
Monday, May 20, 2002
ACCUSATIONS that Cuba is developing bio-warfare agents and supporting
the same activities in rogue states have yet to be confirmed or
disproven. The following facts, however, are true:
-- The Cuban biotech industry has p
Top Financial News
05/21 16:33
Merrill, Spitzer Reach Settlement With $100 Mln Fine (Update9)
By Stephen Cohen and Philip Boroff
New York, May 21 (Bloomberg) -- Merrill Lynch & Co. will pay $100
million and stop giving investment bankers a say in how much
analysts are paid to settle charges by
In a message dated 5/21/02 12:57:44 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > I find it somewhat ironic that Michael should say that this theory
> > > should have in turn influenced him and others in the area of political
> > > economy. The qu
Cuba is at the forefront of pharmaceutical research, from what I can
gather, especially considering that it is a small, poor country. I assume
that they are also working with genetic engineering and cloning as well.
I would appreciate learning more about this.
Cuba has been especially successful
O'Neill Starts Africa Tour With Bono
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) -- It's the Rocker and the Republican, on Africa
Cliche-Breaking Tour 2002.
Singer Bono and Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill embarked Tuesday on a
four-nation odyssey: the activist pop star, Bono, bent on convincing th
Justin: >But Friedman's popular writing isn't economics, it's standard
bourgeois
ideology of a rather blatant sort. I recently reread parts of Cap & Freedom,
same old same old. No attempt to do what Gould does, explain scientific
results to the general reader. You know who's good at this in eco
Isn't that what lawyers are trained to do?
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 07:56:47PM +, Justin Schwartz wrote:
> Because it's hard to communicate clearly and effectively when you're lying.
>
> But Friedman's popular writing isn't economics,
No. Can can write well in his technical articles and b
>if early-onset Alzheimer's hasn't kicked in yet, the problem was not Lysenko
>himself, who was simply updating Lamarck in a period when the alternative
>Darwin-Mendel theory hadn't completely taken hold, even in the U.S. The
>problem was that Lysenko's theory became The Party Line, a line which h
>Incidentally, Russell Jacoby visited Chico couple of weeks ago. In
>decrying the
>absence of public intellectuals, he mentioned that the one area where
>academics
>succeeded in communicating with the broader population was science writing.
> He
>mentioned Gould in particular.
>
>Why are we s
LP:> Yes, of course. There is another side to Lysenko. In fact Stephen Jay
Gould treats him with considerable respect in one of his essays although I
can't remember the technical details.<
if early-onset Alzheimer's hasn't kicked in yet, the problem was not Lysenko
himself, who was simply updatin
Fidel Castro is pushing his scientists
>to clone milking-cows, with the goal being to replicate a famously
>productive, and now deceased, Cuban bovine beast. . . . The idea, according
>to the paper, was "to provide families with
>miniature milk-cows that they could keep in their apartments. The
Drug Dealer Settles With Spritzer
By Bon Whate
Warshington Pist Stuff Writer
NEW YORK, May 21--Notorious drug dealer Joe Scumbag has reached an
agreement with New York Attorney General Eliot Spritzer that requires
the him to pay a $100 million fine and express contrition
for the behavior of his g
>Lou, you've referred off and on to Levins & Lewontin, _The Dialectical
>Biologist_. They don't treat Lysenko at all like this. See Chapter 7,
>"The Problem of Lysenkoism." There were many elements involved, and it
>was no matter of mere quackery.
>
>Carrol
Yes, of course. There is another side t
Louis Proyect wrote:
>
>
>
> I don't know whether Lysenko's reputation revolved around quick, technical
> solutions. I was under the impression that he was infamous for quackery
> under pressure from Stalin.
Lou, you've referred off and on to Levins & Lewontin, _The Dialectical
Biologist_. T
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From: "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 11:53 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:26138] RE: Re: Re: Cuban cows
> I missed that part, probably since I was wandering about looking for a way
> to get my glasses fixed.
>
> Jim De
I missed that part, probably since I was wandering about looking for a way
to get my glasses fixed.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
> When I visited Cuba along with Jim Devine, one of the
> greatest sources of
> pride that I recall was the milk program.
> --
Let me rephrase Scott's question crudely: if Marx developed punctuated
equilibrium on his own and Gould was influenced by Marx, why would I possibly
need Gould to help me understand punctuated equilibrium?
This question makes me think of the difficulty that I sometimes encounter -- sort
of a meth
When I visited Cuba along with Jim Devine, one of the greatest sources of
pride that I recall was the milk program.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Lysenko is relevant, as I've been informed by a friend who's an expert on
>Soviet agriculture, because Lysenko became popular since he proposed a quick
>technical solution to a serious political-economic problem. Cuban's problems
>are completely different than those of the Stalin-era USSR, but th
I wrote:
> >I'm sorry, but it sounds as if Fidel -- or one of his advisors -- has
> >partaken of some grass grown in drawers under fluorescent lights. The
intent
> >is good, but Lysenko's ghost is hovering near-by.
Louis writes:
> Lysenko? What does he have to do with cloning? Leaving aside th
>I'm sorry, but it sounds as if Fidel -- or one of his advisors -- has
>partaken of some grass grown in drawers under fluorescent lights. The intent
>is good, but Lysenko's ghost is hovering near-by.
>
>Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
Lysenko? What does he have
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From: "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 10:44 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:26131] Cuban cows
> from SLATE's summary of today's news from major US papers: >An article in
> the [Wall Street JOURNAL] says that Fidel Castro i
from SLATE's summary of today's news from major US papers: >An article in
the [Wall Street JOURNAL] says that Fidel Castro is pushing his scientists
to clone milking-cows, with the goal being to replicate a famously
productive, and now deceased, Cuban bovine beast. Castro turned to that plan
after
In a message dated 5/21/02 9:04:53 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Stephen Gould's is a great loss. He seems to have been an exceptional
> person in many ways. He certainly has enriched my understanding of
> economic processes, especially with his theory of the punctuat
For a good piece on related issues and a great example from a NY
restaurant menu, see Bruce Pietrykowski, "Consuming Culture" in
Rethinking Marxism from a the mid nineties.
Michael Pollak: >Although of course I think there's no doubt PK's column is
better.
Frankly, at the moment, I think it's the best bi-weekly editorial column
in the country. Which is kind of remarkable, considering how bad it was
for his first nine months. The guy seems to have approached column
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From: "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I loved Gould's work, especially his MISMEASURE OF MAN, a needed critique of
> IQ tests and the like. But I think though the theory of punctuated
> equilibrium is an important contribution to evolutionary theory, it isn't
>
On Tue, 21 May 2002, Fred B. Moseley wrote:
> > a media evaluation web page voted PK's column the most consistently
> > partisan of op-ed regulars.
>
> More partisan that pro-Israeli fire-eater and let's-go-get-Saddam
> William Safire?
Hey, fair's fair -- Safire's a flaming asshole on those iss
"Devine, James" wrote:
>
>
> --
> alas, "partisan" seems to mean "anti-GOP" or "anti-Dem."
> JD
That's what "political" means legally too I believe. That is why "our"
type of political organization can often get tax-exempt status. Opposing
the United States is non-partisan, while opposing (or
Michael Perelman writes:
> Stephen Gould's is a great loss. He seems to have been an exceptional
> person in many ways. He certainly has enriched my understanding of
> economic processes, especially with his theory of the punctuated
> equilibrium.
I loved Gould's work, especially his MISMEASURE
Stephen Gould's is a great loss. He seems to have been an exceptional
person in many ways. He certainly has enriched my understanding of
economic processes, especially with his theory of the punctuated
equilibrium.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 9
Here's the original article on partisanship (which seems like it has a
laughable methodology) --
To view the entire article, go to
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9598-2002May13.html
Ranking the Big-Time Pundits
By Howard Kurtz
Do you find some columnists eminently predictable
[Financial Times]
Mass customisation: Make every one different
By Peter Marsh
Published: May 21 2002 11:43 | Last Updated: May 21 2002 11:43
At a factory in Wichita, Kansas, run by the Cessna aircraft company, a
gleaming new Citation Excel executive jet rolls off the production line
roughly ever
Famed biologist, author Stephen Jay Gould dies at 60
BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) --Stephen Jay Gould, a world-renowned
scientist who brought evolutionary theory and paleontology to a broad
public audience in dozens of wide-ranging books and essays, died Monday
of cancer.
He was 60, and died a
Exerpt from petition in support of
" . . . Dr. Ilan Pappe, who holds a rank roughly equivalent to a tenured
Associate Professor, criticized the institution (University of Haifa) and
its procedures following the nullification of a highly controversial
Master's thesis that documented the fates of 5
Merrill Settles With Spitzer
By Ben White
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, May 21, 2002; 9:23 AM
NEW YORK, May 21--Merrill Lynch & Co. has reached an agreement with New York
Attorney General Eliot Spitzer that requires the securities firm to pay a
$100 million fine and express contrition
Joan Robinson thought economists of the neo-classical line suffered
from "mumpsimus" (spelling I can't remember). But the problem was
continuation in an error long after it had been pointed out.
>Greetings Economists,
>Michael Hoover sent us an account in a recent "New Statesman" of the "Post
>
On Tue, 21 May 2002, Devine, James wrote:
> By the way, a media evaluation web-page voted PK's column the most
> consistently partisan of op-ed regulars. As I told PK, "not that there's
> anything wrong with it."
More partisan that pro-Israeli fire-eater and let's-go-get-Saddam
William Safir
In Paul Krugman's 5/21/02 NY TIMES colun:>One final thought: This
[accounting reform] isn't just a question of treating American investors
fairly. Like the Asian nations before their crisis, the United States relies
heavily on inflows of foreign capital, inflows that depend on international
faith
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