Re: The Road to Serfdom

2003-08-10 Thread Mike Ballard
--- andie nachgeborenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JKS refers to the well worn territory of how markets are BAD actually, my understanding is that (except for Mike B), the main trend of the anti-market socialism side was not that markets are

Re: query

2003-08-10 Thread Michael Perelman
How much space do you have on your hard drive? Check the Cal. Sec. of State site. Also, you forget to mention that Issa, the car alarm candidate, began stealing cars. On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 09:56:15AM -0700, Devine, James wrote: does anyone know how to get a complete list of the registered

Reconstruction and the Paris Commune

2003-08-10 Thread Louis Proyect
One of the things I've discovered in my survey of Marxist and left-oriented literature on slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction is the tendency for scholars to look at this history from either the perspective of the ruling class or from the ruled. Genovese and Engerman-Fogel would be an

Re: The Road to Serfdom

2003-08-10 Thread Michael Perelman
Right. If someone had something to say that has not already been said here, fine, but the discussion the last few times went nowhere. On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 07:45:45AM -0700, Devine, James wrote: My understanding is that the reason why Michael Perelman opposes pen-l discussions of market

Re: The Road to Serfdom

2003-08-10 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 8/9/03 2:01:38 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In short, based on my study of the Chinese experience, while there were some in the state that just supported growing marketization for their own gain, there were many in the party that saw the need to overcome

Re: The Road to Serfdom

2003-08-10 Thread Martin Hart-Landsberg
I would say the problem is on the other side, that many leftists no longer appreciate the dangers and underlying contradictory dynamics of export-led growth and see it as a strategy that is complementary and consistent with stable growth and improved living and working conditions (and here I mean

Fwd: Info on Arg debt illegitimacy as background to WP´s article you have posted on Marxmail

2003-08-10 Thread Louis Proyect
Dear Lou, The links below give lots of food for thought as a background to the WPost article on Wall Street and Argentinean debt. I guess Marxmail readers might be interested in them. http://www.jubilee2000uk.org/analysis/reports/it_takes_two_to_tango.pdf (illustrated with a beautiful tango pic)

Outsourcing: Now it's NYC's turn

2003-08-10 Thread Anders Schneiderman
Posted on Mon, Aug. 04, 2003 Financial research joins outsourcing movement BY HIAWATHA BRAY The Boston Globe JP Morgan Chase Co. plans to outsource some of its stock market research to Bombay this summer, signaling possible new arenas for the trend that already has sent tens of thousands of

What is to be done in Argentina

2003-08-10 Thread Louis Proyect
This is a snippet from a dialog between Z Magazine publisher Michael Albert and Argentine radical Ezequiel Adamovsky at: http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=41ItemID=3995. The more I read about Argentina, the more it appears that the political crisis on the left stems from the

Re: The Road to Serfdom

2003-08-10 Thread Martin Hart-Landsberg
Jim, the notion of competing enterprises was precisely at the heart of the Chinese position in the early days of reform. But how do you promote competition, well you need some sort of profit inducement. So, early on the Chinese encouraged firms to operate independently and pursue profits. But,