RES: [PEN-L] Mad Mel

2003-08-06 Thread Renato Pompeu
-Mensagem original- De: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] nome de Yoshie Furuhashi Enviada em: terça-feira, 5 de agosto de 2003 00:25 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assunto: Re: [PEN-L] Mad Mel There was in the sixties e very good Polish film called (I am translating literally) Mother Joanna

Re: Background of David Kay

2003-08-06 Thread Devine, James
Kay made some published statements of optimism concerning the imminent finding of evidence concerning the WMDs, along with statements that his group had already found evidence of a cover-up. His background tells us how much credence we should put in those statements.

Re: Bank credit rationing

2003-08-06 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
I was thinking of credit rationing as the denial of credit to those who are willing to pay the offered interest rate (an excess demand for loans). It's very hard to pin down empirically, but someone may have done so. I doubt whether you can get data that measures this directly, in the first

Correction - Rosa Luxemburg and bookreading

2003-08-06 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
In a previous mail about the use of books, I wrote: Rosa Luxemburg, Isaac Deutscher and Ernest Mandel all remarked upon the fact, that even among selfstyled Marxists in the 1920s, Marx's magnum opus had mostly not been read beyond the first volume or extracts thereof. In fact, Rosa lived from

Re: Isaac Deutscher's anecdote about the readership of Marx's Capital in the glory days of Classical marxism

2003-08-06 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
what's the name of Kautsky's summary of the first volume of CAPITAL? Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine Well I couldn't remember the title off the top of my head. It's The economic doctrines of Karl Marx, written 1887 and revised in 1903

NYTimes.com Article: Surge in Rates May Hurt Pillar of the Economy

2003-08-06 Thread Anders Schneiderman
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Re: Isaac Deutscher's anecdote about the readership of Marx's Capital in the ...

2003-08-06 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
Hi Melvin, You wrote: This is why I take what you write with a grain of salt. Prove that the main source of difference was over democracy or shut up. I will and prepared to prove exactly what the main source of difference was based on the literature. Prove the difference based on democracy,