a Brit on Bush

Published on Monday, October 27, 2003 by the Guardian/UK Bush Is Not Welcome In Britain The President's State Visit Serves No One's Interests But His Own by Roy Hattersley Has anyone yet explained why President George W Bush is about to make a state visit to the United Kingdom? In my time at the

Re: Marx abstraction [was Query: critique of production functions -clarification-]

I agree to Scaglione. This process through which the diverse particular works are changed result in a process of real abstraction. An action carried through for the acts of the people in society. One is not about reflective results. / Mário - Original Message - From: Matías Scaglione

Catastrophists weigh in

Euphoria and the bursting bubble By Michael Roberts As you read this, the papers are probably full of the news that the US economy is growing at the fantastic rate of over 6% a year. No wonder the stock markets of the world have been booming. US share prices are up 25% this year in anticipation

A Krugman book review

NY Review of BOoks, Volume 50, Number 18 November 20, 2003 Strictly Business By Paul Krugman George W. Bush Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America by Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose Random House, 347 pp., $24.95 Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth by Joe

Imperialism

Africa: Imperialism Goes Naked by Sarah Bracking and Graham Harrison (clip) Marx never used the term imperialism, but it remains a key part of any analysis of contemporary global capitalism. The sinews of political power and accumulation that are derivative of capitalisms birth as a global

Re: Marx abstraction [was Query: critique of production functions -clarification-]

I agree: Marx was deliberately abstracting in a way that (he thought) reflected the actual process under capitalism. In my very short précis, I was only summarizing one part of his approach and its actual application. I was in no way endorsing Cohen or Thernborn's interpretation of anything.

Re: Myron Scholes' day in court

From: Michael Pollak [EMAIL PROTECTED] [This is hilarious. I missed it when it first came out, and someone just told me about it at a Halloween party.] New York Times July 13, 2003, Sunday A Tax Shelter, Deconstructed By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON ... Dr. Scholes has told friends that most of his wealth

Potos

NY Times, November 5, 2003 LETTER FROM THE AMERICAS Grievances That Can Bring Globalization to Grief By LARRY ROHTER LA PAZ, Bolivia A natural resource coveted on the international market was sitting in the ground, and the Bolivian government wanted to exploit it with the help of foreign

Frieda Kahlo

A while back I posted a review of the awful movie Frieda that relied heavily on the work of art critic Margaret A. Lindauer. You can hear an interview with her at: http://www.livingroomradio.org/ Wed 11.05.03| Fetishizing Frida Frida Kahlo's life and work have become world famous -- yet what has

Response to Amnesty Int. ban of The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

PLEASE CIRCULATE THIS AND PROTEST IMMEDIATELY TO AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. in solidarity, michael SIGN THE PETITION AGAINST AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL'S CENSORSHIP OF LA REVOLUCION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED FIRMA LA PETICION EN CONTRA DE LA CENSURA DE LA REVOLUCION NO SERA TRANSMITIDA DE AMNESTIA

Guardian: Resurrecting Draft Boards?

Tuesday November 04 2003 The Guardian Appeal for draft board volunteers revives memories of Vietnam era Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington The Pentagon has begun recruiting for local draft boards, dredging up painful memories of Vietnam era conscription at a time of deepening misgiving about

Marx abstraction II [Was: Query: critique of production functions -clarificati

Dear Matías: Nowhere did I say that the production function describes the value equation. I said instead that it refers to the material substratum of the capitalist value equation. The material substratum of value is use value. By physical inputs I mean concrete labor power and means of

Re: The Revolution Will Not be Shown by AI

Ted, To reach the petition, try http://www.PetitionOnline.com/vendoc/ You can, as I did, paste in the names of AI people to write directly. in solidarity, michael At 12:44 05/11/2003 -0700, you wrote: The links in your message about AI and TRWNBT were apparently HotMail specific, so I couldn't

New heterodox electronic journal- Nueva revista electrónica hetrodoxa

Aquí envio la dirección de una revista electrónica hetrodoxa, ojalá y visiten la página. http://metropolis.cjb.net/ I am sending electronic address of a new hetrodox journal, I hope it interest you. http://metropolis.cjb.net/ Alejandro Valle Baeza

Re: Guardian: Resurrecting Draft Boards?

I mentioned this in class yesterday. My students immediately responded that they would get student deferrments. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Guardian: Resurrecting Draft Boards?

I say: draft all those who support the war! Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine -Original Message- From: andie nachgeborenen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 1:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: Guardian: Resurrecting Draft Boards?

It would be very unpopular otherwise. On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 01:21:24PM -0800, andie nachgeborenen wrote: I don't think those will be available this time around, do you? --- Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mentioned this in class yesterday. My students immediately

Re: Guardian: Resurrecting Draft Boards?

Devine, James wrote: I say: draft all those who support the war! Let the Rich Go First A rap poem by U. S. Representative Major R. Owens Working Families Keep your soldiers at home, For overtime in Iraq No cash No comp time Not even gratitude, Republicans intrude To exempt all heroes, No

the new gated community

from SLATE's news summary: The LA [TIMES] travels to Saddam's birthplace, the village of Auja, which the military has surrounded with barbed-wire and checkpoints. One officer explains to the Times that residents have a level of security most people don't have. Once they get their ID cards, they

Re: Guardian: Resurrecting Draft Boards?

Devine, James wrote: I say: draft all those who support the war! Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine Waaay too logical... Joanna

Re: the new gated community

Devine, James wrote: It sure seems as if the US has learned how to successfully occupy a country from its ally Israel. Except Israel has more personnel and better intelligence.

Re: the new gated community

Well, the strategic hamlet goes back to Vietnam days. It was used in Central America too. The Israelis of course actually have people who know Arabic. jks --- Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: from SLATE's news summary: The LA [TIMES] travels to Saddam's birthplace, the village of Auja,

Re: the new gated community

Devine, James wrote: It sure seems as if the US has learned how to successfully occupy a country from its ally Israel. Except Israel has more personnel and better intelligence. right, but I was being ironic. Jim

Polish Philosopher Wins $1M Kluge Prize

No one has commented on this today. Polish Philosopher Wins $1M Kluge Prize By CARL HARTMAN Associated Press Writer November 5, 2003, 12:18 AM EST WASHINGTON -- Leszek Kolakowski, an anti-communist Polish philosopher at Oxford University in England, will receive the first $1 million John W.

They decapitate babies don't they?

PEN-Lers, There's a good article in the New Yorker (see link) in which Seymour Hersh expresses incredulity that this story hasn't gotten much more attention.   http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/?031110ta_talk_hersh Brian McKenna

Re: They decapitate babies don't they?

But that was in another country, and, besides, the wench is dead. --- Brian McKenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PEN-Lers, There's a good article in the New Yorker (see link) in which Seymour Hersh expresses incredulity that this story hasn't gotten much more attention. A

Re: Polish Philosopher Wins $1M Kluge Prize

isn't a Kluge a make-shift fix of some sort of technical problem? Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine Polish Philosopher Wins $1M Kluge Prize By CARL HARTMAN Associated Press Writer November 5, 2003, 12:18 AM EST WASHINGTON --

Re: the new gated community

strategic hamlets were supposed to separate the people from the guerillas. Here, it's presumed that the people sympathize with Saddam. Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine -Original Message- From: andie nachgeborenen

Re: Frieda Kahlo

Thanks for the promo for my show, the audio for which is now up on the web. And for clarification's sake I'll just add that the film Frida was based on the biography of Frida Kahlo written by Hayden Herrera. Art critic Margaret Lindauer, interviewed for this edition of Living Room, takes

Re: Frieda Kahlo

Sasha wrote: Thanks for the promo for my show, the audio for which is now up on the web. And for clarification's sake I'll just add that the film Frida was based on the biography of Frida Kahlo written by Hayden Herrera. Art critic Margaret Lindauer, interviewed for this edition of Living Room,

me on PBS

I've just been told that the interview I taped several weeks ago with David Brancaccio about After the New Economy will be aired on the next edition of NOW with Bill Moyers. In New York, it's on WNET, Channel 13, at 9 PM on Friday. Other PBS stations may vary. Doug

Landslide for Land Use (decommodified) in Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor's Greenbelt proposal against capitalist developers won landslide voter approval yesterday. About 67% of voters favor tax mileage to preserve open space. See: http://www.mlive.com/news/aanews/index.ssf?/base/news-6/106803060198290.xml The fight was led by Ann Arbor's Ecology Center who

Long live freedom

NY Times, November 5, 2003 $1 Million Humanities Prize Goes to a Polish Philosopher By ELIZABETH OLSON WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 — The Library of Congress will award the new $1 million Kluge Prize for lifetime contribution to the humanities to a Polish philosopher who provided intellectual backing for

Ridiculous paper of the day

Brian gave us good news from Ann Arbor. Here is what economists say about land use: large, monocultural farms with no windbreaks are best suited to fight erosion. Huh??? Small Farms, Externalities, and the Dust Bowl of the 1930's BY: ZEYNEP KOCABIYIK HANSEN Washington

Re: Ridiculous paper of the day

Is that really what they say? The abstract points to overcultivation and underinvestment in erosion control as problems (a function of small scale), and to government action as a solution. Haven't read the paper, though. Doug michael wrote: Brian gave us good news from Ann Arbor. Here is what

Re: Myron Scholes' day in court

DAVID CAY JOHNSTON has a new book on tax inequities, which should prove interesting. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University michael at ecst.csuchico.edu Chico, CA 95929 530-898-5321 fax 530-898-5901

frontiers of bureacratic nonsense

I just got this: The October, 2003 GAO report on 9/11 disaster relief has been released. Full GAO report at: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0472.pdf highlights at: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0472.pdf Page 38 states: Specifically, after a disaster occurs, FEMA relies on the expertise of

question on causalties in Iraq

I heard an interview on Pacifica to the effect that immigrant soldiers without US passports are not being reported as dead American soldiers. Has anyone else heard that story? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University michael at ecst.csuchico.edu Chico, CA 95929

Loren Goldner on the economy

Pause In The Crisis or Beginning of a New Boom? By Loren Goldner On Oct. 30 the U.S. Department of Commerce announced that the U.S. economy had grown at a 7.1% annual rate in the third quarter of 2003. Since these statistics are constantly being revised, one wonders what they really

Re: Loren Goldner on the economy

who is Loren Goldner? JD -Original Message- From: michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 11/5/2003 6:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: [PEN-L] Loren Goldner on the economy Pause In The Crisis or

Re: Loren Goldner on the economy

Here is Goldner's web site: http://home.earthlink.net/~lrgoldner/ Ahmet Tonak who is Loren Goldner? JD -Original Message- From: michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 11/5/2003 6:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: [PEN-L] Loren

Re: How Kolakowski philosophises about Christianity and Marxism

GRAY: There seems to be some pressure on the Pope from certain Marxist factions within the Church in Latin America to adopt a more Marxist or pseudo-Marxist version of social teaching. Is that part of what you're referring to when you say that certain aspects have to be clarified? KOLAKOWSKI: In

Dean Needed for U. of Michigan, Dearborn

To URPE Members and Friends From Bruce Pietrykowski *** The University of Michigan-Dearborn is searching for a Dean of the College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters. The economics program is housed in the College, within the Department of Social

Social Democrats Win in Saskatchewan

This was entirely unexpected as the ultraright was widely expected to win. (The 'Saskatchewan' party was a kind of amalgam of the discredited -- due to corruption -- Conservative Party and the Canadian Alliance Party which in Canada is known as the Canadian Republican Party -- an alliance of

election results

I didn't give the actual results. Here they are from the Globe and Mail which headlined its article something like "NDP squeeze by in Saskatchewan" If Bush had anything like this support ... Paul Phillips Economics, University of Manitoba (BA, MA, University of Saskatchewan!)