On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 16:57:17 -0400, Barkley Rosser
wrote:
>
> Briefly, there were
> indeed "intellectual bubbles" regarding cybernetics,
> catastrophe theory, chaos theory, and complexity
theory,
> which rose and then fell.
What's your view on Didier Sornette and log-periodic
power laws? Ano
At 2003-06-18 08:28 -0400, you wrote:
I'd love to see Tony Blair's contributions to Marxism Today
(the magazine, not the movement).
mbs
Yes, I wondered that, but on reflection it is probably what one would
expect. The journal did not require any contributor to write in
particularly Marxist phrase
Rate Cut Looking Like a Sure Thing
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/business/?nav=hptoc_b
CORRECTED: Dollar Up; Chance of Fed Rate Cut Fades Reuters, June 18, 2003;
11:40 PM [a technical correction of paragraph 11 of the article; not the
article above]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/busi
Research fund plans 'threaten 8,000 jobs'
Will Woodward, education editor
Thursday June 19, 2003
The Guardian
University lecturers and learned societies made stinging attacks yesterday
on the government's plan to concentrate research funding on elite
institutions.
The Association of University T
Rebels reject farm subsidy reform
France and Germany lead dissent against compromise deal reducing link to
production
Charlotte Denny and Andrew Osborn in Brussels
Thursday June 19, 2003
The Guardian
Europe's agricultural commissioner Franz Fischler issued a
take-it-or-leave-it ultimatum yesterda
How serious is this?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.theonion.com/onion3923/gop_reports_record.html [check the
photos.]
GOP Reports Record Second-Quarter Profits
WASHINGTON, DC-At a stockholders meeting Monday, the Republican Party
announced record profits for the second quarter of 2003, exceeding
analysts' expectations by more than 2
[speaking of intellectual property]
In Focus: Intellectual Property
Monday, June 16, 2003
Written description: a looser requirement?
The Federal Circuit has been edging away from the heightened standard that
it set out in the 1997 'Lilly' case.
By Janet E. Reed, Felicity E. Groth and Scott E. Sc
Les:
> i agree chaos and complexity studies have a
> fad __component__.
Les,
As I know it, fad means craze, trend, mania and the like. In that
sense, anyone who knows some math knows that chaos is a fad. Take
a look at the Preface of that beautiful book by Stephen Wiggins
where he says:
"Finall
Loren Goldner sent this.
I and four collaborators have started a new web site called
Fictitious Capital, Real Retrogression
at
www.munism.com
Further, this web site will accept postings from others.
Our purpose is to investigate social retrogression under the impact of the
world crisis that b
Sasha is the modest one. She and C.S. do an excellent job. Unlike most
interviewers, they actually read the book.
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 04:51:08PM -0700, Sasha Lilley wrote:
> The interview with Michael on intellectual propery
> rights is now up on our site livingroomradio.org --
> just in tim
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/18/03 01:03PM >>>
Strauss was a scholar who came up with a
lot of scholarly interpretations, many of which were controversial,
Jim Devine
<<<>>>
c. b.. macpherson relied greatly upon strauss' book _political
philosophy of hobbes_ (appeared in english in 1936) in developing
I found David's last statement surprising.I suspect that the economics
profession could be considered a conservative network.
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 11:47:10AM -0700, David S. Shemano wrote:
> 4. As far as Straussian networking, as far as I am aware, they are the only
> conservatively incli
Sasha Lilley wrote:
> The interview with Michael on intellectual propery
> rights is now up on our site livingroomradio.org --
> just in time for the Sacramento Agricultural
> Ministerial, where people will be demonstrating
> against the patenting of nature.
>
excellent - its an mp3! thanks for no
The interview with Michael on intellectual propery
rights is now up on our site livingroomradio.org --
just in time for the Sacramento Agricultural
Ministerial, where people will be demonstrating
against the patenting of nature.
Sasha Lilley
Producer, KPFA's Living Room
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
510/848-
Title: FW: Blair & MARXISM TODAY
Max asked about what kind of stuff Tony Blair wrote in MARXISM TODAY. This is what I found by googling:
From WORLDLINK, ( http://backissues.worldlink.co.uk/articles/161198140511/19111998174533.htm) in 1998: >During the early to mid-1990s, Marxism Today was at
Title: RE: [PEN-L] Remotely destroy computers if music pirates persist, Hatch says
in line with Hatch's rampant and untamable sexuality, it also says "You make a dead man cum."
Or as the Folksmen sing it in the recent film "A Mighty Wind," "you make a dead man Kum-ba-yah."
--
On the one hand, I hate having to wade through 300+ email crap every
day. (I have old, Web published, email addresses from media work. Those
addresses have been harvested and used by spammers -- as I would imagine
many in academia also have a problem with.) It would be nice to only get
email from s
Devine, James wrote:
> Ignored here is the fact that Hatch is the uncredited co-author of the
> Rolling Stones' "Start Me Up."
>
which was the theme song for windows2000 (or was it xp)? hmmm! i see a
conspiracy here. btw, doesn't the song go: "you make a grown man cry"?
seems appropriate! ;-)
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/18/03 6:24 PM >>>
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah,
The senator, a composer who earned $18,000 last year in song-writing
royalties,
down the hatch is pals with u2's 'socially conscious'
bono (who told oh that his songwriting moniker should be johnny
trapdoor), well it's a one for
Title: RE: [PEN-L] Remotely destroy computers if music pirates persist, Hatch says
Ignored here is the fact that Hatch is the uncredited co-author of the Rolling Stones' "Start Me Up."
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
> -Or
Ian Murray wrote:
>
> Btw, my college roommate's father used to work for the CIA. In the 60's he
> and some others went to IBM requesting a Google like technology. The folks
> at IBM told them it was impossible to build and they didn't mean it in
> 'not with current technology' sense. My friend sho
>> And Ian replied, and very very quickly, by the way:
>>
>> > http://www.hatchmusic.com/songs.html
>>
>> I do not want to know why you have that URL so close
>> at hand, Ian.
>
> =
>
> Hello, Google, Hello.
Uh huh. Suuure, Ian. :)
>Btw, my college roommate's father used to wo
Eugene Coyle wrote:
> I turned the radio on today when I was having lunch.
>
> Discovered our modest leader, Michael, being interviewed on Pacifica's
> KPFA about intellectual property. I missed half the program because
> Michael didn't tell us ahead of time that he would be on the radio.
>
> What
- Original Message -
From: "Kenneth Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I wrote:
>
> >> I never knew Hatch was such a Renaissance Man... Wonder
> >> what the tunes were? $18,000 in 2002 royalties...
>
> And Ian replied, and very very quickly, by the way:
>
> > http://www.hatchmusic.com/songs
I wrote:
>> I never knew Hatch was such a Renaissance Man... Wonder
>> what the tunes were? $18,000 in 2002 royalties...
And Ian replied, and very very quickly, by the way:
> http://www.hatchmusic.com/songs.html
I do not want to know why you have that URL so close at hand, Ian.
The Hatch disco
Kenneth Campbell wrote:
The more I study religions, the more I am convinced
that man has never worshipped anything but himself.
-- Richard F. Burton
"Sad men made angels of the sun..." - Wallace Stevens
- Original Message -
From: "Kenneth Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 3:24 PM
Subject: [PEN-L] Remotely destroy computers if music pirates persist,
Hatch says
> I never knew Hatch was such a Renaissance Man... Wonder what the tunes
> were
Manitoba to create greenhouse gas exchange
Canadian Press
Wednesday, Jun. 18, 2003
Manitoba is formally pursuing the creation of a commodities exchange to
buy and sell greenhouse gas emission credits.
The NDP government has asked Lloyd Axworthy, former Winnipeg MP and
foreign affairs minister,
I never knew Hatch was such a Renaissance Man... Wonder what the tunes
were? $18,000 in 2002 royalties...
Poor music industry fighting the Internet... now making allies with Tin
Pan Alley Hatch... and becoming a government sanctioned virus
propagator.
Ken.
--
The more I study religions, the more
I turned the radio on today when I was having lunch.
Discovered our modest leader, Michael, being interviewed on Pacifica's
KPFA about intellectual property. I missed half the program because
Michael didn't tell us ahead of time that he would be on the radio.
What I heard was good -- and I heard
- Original Message -
From: "Barkley Rosser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I think Ralph Abraham is a genius. He is also
> a great coiner of phrases, including the "blue
> bagel catastrophe" and "chaostrophe" and
> "morphodynamics." He also discovered "chaotic
> hysteresis," although I am the
Les,
My quick answer is that in your list 1-3 are more
foundational and have little direct applications in
economics. One does find quite a few applications
of points 4-6, although largely in pretty theoretical
and mathematically oriented literature.
I think Ralph Abraham is a genius.
My view on the "four C's" is laid out in my Journal of
Economic Perspectives, 1999, article, "On the Complexity
of Complex Economic Dynamics," which can be seen
on my website, with a much more thorough discussion in
the book I have already mentioned. Briefly, there were
indeed "intellectual bu
Title: RE: [PEN-L] Straussians
<>
I would definitely get rid of Puerto Rico. I would keep the Virgin
Islands, Samoa and Guam.
Everybody knows the moon landing was a hoax, so that is a non-issue.
David Shemano
Interesting. I stand corrected. In the Communist
Manifesto, M&E use the term "capitalist," but not
"capitalism," although mostly they speak of
"bourgeois" and "modern industry." In "The
German Ideology," which predates the CM, Marx
contrasts "communism" with "political economy."
Curiously b
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 11:47:10 -0700, "David S. Shemano"
wrote:
>3. I have no personal knowledge whether Straussians
>are secretive or
>elitist,
I bet you do really, but you're not telling us.
dd
Title: RE: [PEN-L] Straussians
That's right. So the US rocket ships carrying cheese from the moon would have to pay toll.
BTW, I should have mentioned that though the vast majority of pen-l would agree with Jahn's manifesto, David Shemano would not. ;-)
Jim
-Original Message-
Fro
I am not sure why this string was cut off at 9/11, although
a couple seem to be from after it. A lot of these seem to come
from the early 90s, although maybe some of the ones in the
Kurdish regions are from more recent times. I think the real
issue to confront the war propagandists with is ho
i agree chaos and complexity studies have a fad __component__.
Sabri Oncu writes:
: However, with what I know about chaos, and it is not much, mind
: you, my subjective judgment is that "chaos" is a fad as
: "topology" was once to "mathematical analysis" or "game theory"
: was to "economics".
to
- Original Message -
From: "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * The Moon belongs to America because we got there first, and our space
> program should make good this claim
===
As the USSR was the first to reach extra-earth space, shouldn't all of
non-earth space-time belo
2. I am not claiming that Straussians have a monopoly of interest in the contemporary relevance of the ancients. However, I think a fair review of the intellectual history supports the notion that Strauss, who began writing on the topic in the 1930s, was as responsible, if not more responsible,
David
writes:> I have no personal knowledge whether Straussians
are secretive or elitist ... <
of course!
they keep it secret.
Jim
A couple of random responses:
1. The difference between Strauss and Straussians is a major topic of
discussion on the Strauss list.
2. I am not claiming that Straussians have a monopoly of interest in
the contemporary relevance of the ancients. However, I think a fair review
of the intell
there are
also none in our poli. sci. department.
Of course, if
the Straussians are indeed nihilists as Jahn suggests, then they wouldn't fit
well at a Jesuit university.
BTW, here's
the entire list of slogans from Jahn's web-site:
Welcome to The American Nationalist, a
website dedicated t
My colleague in philosophy says there are no Straussians in his department at Loyola Marymount Univ.
* * * There wouldn't be. They'd be in polisci departments. I never heard of Straussianism in philosophy. jks
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Title: Straussians
I should
mention that the author, Karl Jahn, is extremely conservative. His web-site has
the slogan "Fighting the Never-Ending Battle for Truth,
Justice, and the American Way" at the top. Still, he seems pretty
perceptive about the Straussians.
Jim
Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] &
Title: Straussians
My colleague in philosophy says there are no Straussians in his department at Loyola Marymount Univ.
He also directed me to a useful web-site at: http://home.earthlink.net/~karljahn/Strauss.htm.
Some quotes from the essay there, by Karl Jahn:
>The Straussians are also
I don't agree with David that the Straussians are particularly responsible for reviving the ancients. They've never really been out. The study of Palto was part of the 19th century Oxbridge education for very Straussian reasons -- to teach the Rulers to Do Their Duty by the hoi poloi. Course the an
To follow up on Jim's fourth point, networks are very important in staffing
political positions. There are many social networks out there, most of them
invisible to those on the outside. When a new administration takes power,
it relies on the networks it's tied into for recruitment. This is
* For Immediate Release: June 17, 2003
For More Information: Kim Schaffer, National Low Income Housing
Coalition, 202-662-1530 x230
Housing Affordability Worsens
State of the Nation's Housing 2003 finds 3 in 10 households have
affordability problems
By many measures, 2002 was another strong
Actually, I bring a Dewey perspective to questions relating to
democracy. Virtue is not something people simply have, nor is it likely
to be the product of cloistered study. Ordinary, somewhat virtuous
people can produce more or less beneficial social groups depending on
the ways they constitute
three points:
1. It's
important to distinguish Strauss from the Straussians. (Similarly, Marx is quite
different from the Marxians, while Friedman is different from the Friedmaniacs,
though not much.) Strauss was a scholar who came up with a lot of scholarly
interpretations, many of which wer
In addition to this list, I receive the Strauss list, which is
maintained at Yahoo Groups. I have also read quite a bit of Strauss.
Strauss took Marx very seriously as a philosopher. One of his books, On
Tyranny, contains an exchange of letters with Alexandre Kojeve regarding, among
other th
In addition to this list, I receive the Strauss list, which is
maintained at Yahoo Groups. I have also read quite a bit of Strauss.
Strauss took Marx very seriously as a philosopher. One of his books, On
Tyranny, contains an exchange of letters with Alexandre Kojeve regarding, amon
Title: RE: [PEN-L] commentary
>Iraqis, Iranians, Pakistanis, Saudis, Taliban, al-Qaida ... it's all
too much for many geographically challenged Americans. Don't bother
us with the details and strange names, they say, kill 'em all, God
will sort 'em out. The Muslim 'A-rabs' did 9/11 and we got
http://www.canoe.ca/Columnists/margolis_jun15.html
Toronto Sun June 15, 2003
U.S. media caved in to the Bush agenda
By Eric Margolis -- Contributing Foreign Editor
Why, readers in the U.S. keep asking me, are so many Americans
unconcerned their government appears to have misled them and Con
Title: RE: [PEN-L] Banned in Iraq
speaking of which, here's a letter to the editors of the L.A. TIMES:
"With all the recent disclosures about the false infomation used by the Bush administration as grounds for the Iraq invasion, the worst of all scenarios has come to pass -- the French were
Chris Burford wrote:
http://www.opendemocracy.net/themes/article-3-1093.jsp
Open Democracy is an ideological Stealth bomber. It positions itself as
another "alternative" news and information outlet, but the funders and
backers include banks, Rockefeller Foundation, etc. and ideologically
can be
I've heard this is becoming a big problem. The overuse
of reserves.
Presently the U.S. doesn't have enough troops to defend
an Empire, and I think it won't easily get there. Bush's
main problem becomes pulling back.
mbs
-Original Message-
From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Beh
I'd love to see Tony Blair's contributions to Marxism Today
(the magazine, not the movement).
mbs
-Original Message-
From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chris Burford
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 2:21 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Tony Blair and the Marxists
The
Here's an interesting and worthwhile webpage http://www.cjr.org/owners/
for those who are interested in learning more about the extent of media
concentration in this country (and world). This page is maintained by
the
Columbia Journalism Review, a magazine published by Columbia
University's
Gradu
* Detained or Disappeared?
by Tram Nguyen, ColorLines Executive Editor
Before the 9/11 round-ups, INS detention had already grown into a
system handling 150,000 immigrants a year. Tram Nguyen looks for the
connections
...In addition to the 9/11 detainees, the ranks of INS detainees
include th
* New York Times June 15, 2003
Anxious and Weary of War, G.I.'s Face a New Iraq Mission
By STEVEN LEE MYERS
...After fighting their way from the Kuwaiti border to Saddam
International Airport in three fierce weeks, they believed that the
war - or at least their part of it - was over.
Six mo
> >That's an outrageous policy, of course, but if I were on mainstream
>TV, I wouldn't use "capitalist" or "capitalism" either - I'd opt for
>more acceptable euphemisms. I've found over the years that lots of
>ordinary people are susceptible to Marxist analyses as long as they
>don't know that
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