Das Kapital Vol. 1 came out on 14 September 1867 in an edition of 1,000
copies, priced at 3 Taler and 10 groschen per copy.
J.
There are forms of abuse that are a lot worse than child abuse.
J.
Regarding child abuse in pre-modern societies, I think we often tend to see
in such societies the things that we want to see, i.e. "noble savages". And
what is considered abuse in one society may be a social norm or even an
obligation in another society. Infanticide, genital multilation, incest,
ch
I believe to have read somewhere that of the first German edition of Karl
Marx, Das Kapital, only 100 (one hundred) copies were printed. Does anyone
know about that? Thanks - GK
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[New York times]
December 21, 2003
U.S. Fund Troubles Are Spilling Into Europe
By CONRAD DE AENLLE
LONDON
EUROPEAN regulators
Not that this is worth belaboring, but clearly the author of this passage is
not referencing aboriginal societies as he bases his conclusions on an
investigation of diaries, pediatric, and pedagogical literature.
Even then, I think it is safe to assume he means European and
European-derived diarie
joanna bujes wrote:
Mike Ballard quoted
What we found in examining diaries, letters,
autobiographies, pediatric and pedagogical
literature back to antiquity was that good parenting
appears to be something only historically
achieved, and that the further one goes back into
the past the more likel
>From the New York Times Magazine on Sunday.
Economically,
Mike B)
December 21, 2003
ENCOUNTER
The Loophole Artist
By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON
Few Americans have heard of Jonathan Blattmachr, a
partner at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy. But among
the 16,000 or so lawyers in America who specialize in
Measuring the Measures:
Here's where the economy was 3 months ago: WSJ 9/8:
US
manufacturing capacity mid1995-2000 grew by one third, largestincrease
in 50 years.However, since 2001, paper, textile, metals industries have
closed so manyplants, capacity is back to 1995 levels.1999-200
The farm boom will also lower the deficit by maybe $4 bill. because of
lower subsidies.
The higher commodity prices may put pressure on the Fed., but Greenspan
will not dare to raise interest rates before the election.
You never know where the cracks will appear, but I suspect it will come in
the
My apologies, it slipped my mind. I cannot remember everything. Yes, I agree
Samir Amin's writing are also very important. He is really one of the few
people considering unequal exchange theoretically and empirically in recent
years.
J.
- Original Message -
From: "E. Ahmet Tonak" <[EMAIL
You might ask, how can we empirically verify that unequal exchange has
occurred ? Of course, economists who think in the spirit of Marx don't just
want theory or moral diatribes, they want empirical evidence. Well, there
are at least six good indicators of unequal exchange in price terms:
(1) the
MIchael asked about the economy. A rare subject for this list.
I had the feeling that the bump this fall from the tax cut might end
before carrying Bush to triumph. But the WSJ had a story the other day
that the farm economy is starting to boom. High prices for cattle and
grains. Leading to bi
The following reference in Jurriaan's message on unequal exchange does
not exist. The only article Anwar wrote for that book was the one on
transformation problem. However, the revised version of the Science and
Society articles on international trade and unequal exchange was later
published in a
Bob Herbert was being ironic. Anyone who actually read the
column knows that by "best" he meant "most" informed
about trivia, and that such information is part of the
process of "entertaining ourselves to death."
Shane Mage
"When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all
thing
I wrote:
"In the meantime, wise men which consult about how to continue the system of
exploitation for the long haul."
It should be:
"In the meantime, wise men will consult about how to continue the system of
exploitation for the long haul."
J.
Mike asked:
> I can see how an employer can profit from selling the
> commodities her workers produce for wages. I'm afraid
> I'm ignorant about how one State can expoit another
> State through purchasing. Is China now exploiting the
> USA because "it" buys less than it sells to the US?
Unequal
ravi wrote:
joanna bujes wrote:
What's the "continuum concept"?
something to do with there being no transfinite numbers between aleph-0
and aleph-1? (where 2**c = aleph-1???). whether that is correct (as
recalled from my sketchy knowledge of math) is doubtful. what it has to
do with fidel castro i
joanna bujes wrote:
>
What's the "continuum concept"?
something to do with there being no transfinite numbers between aleph-0
and aleph-1? (where 2**c = aleph-1???). whether that is correct (as
recalled from my sketchy knowledge of math) is doubtful. what it has to
do with fidel castro is of cou
According to BLS: Losses in manufacturing and transportation. Gains in
finance, construction, and professional and business services.
Stock market bubble? Dead cat bounce is more like it, which doesn't mean you
can't make money in it.
I think the US is really about to drop into the double of th
- Original Message -
From: "dmschanoes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fine with me. I have no interest in discussing the vicissitudes of
contracts and every interest in the dynamic disequilibrium of capital.
dms
=
The two, of course, being totally separable issues, especially w
Fine with me. I have no interest in discussing the vicissitudes of
contracts and every interest in the dynamic disequilibrium of capital.
dms
J. Edgar Hoover used to to reenactments of the capture of famous
criminal, where he would heroically appear to apprehend the evil doer.
Why did Bush not fly his fighter plane to Iraq and pull Saddam out of
the hole on prime time tv? Is Karl Rove getting stale?
By the way, I suspect that the soldi
I don't understand why we go round and round on threads like this.
Doesn't everybody understand where each poster is coming from now?
What I would love to see is new threads that would engage the hundreds
of lurkers on the list.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State Universi
Bill's note reminds us how pervasive planned obsolescence is. He then says
that good software is made to have "metric coupling", but then good commerce
makes software incompatable. Isn't that right?
Bill Lear wrote:
> When I was a lad, I used to play with Hot Wheels. Our next-door
> neighbor w
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > [I thought this was a surprising good discussion that covered all the
> > bases.]
>
> Interesting though, that the general principle that in a fixed rate
> system the burden of adjustment falls on the deficit country, is
> completely ignored; ie the
Shanksville, PA is the town where the jet hijacked by terrorists crashed on
9/11. It is close to Johnstown, where I taught at the Univ. of Pittsburgh
campus for 32 years. In today's New York Times, there is an article about
the impact of 9/11 on the folks there. Most are rabid Republicans
About the Maasi. . .I was referring to the pre-capitalist Ilparakuyo Maasi as described in the work of anthropologist Peter Rigy. . .
as for the Continuum concept. . .refer to the website under that name. . .
Brian
from Ray Hanania. . . .
A detailed profile of Palestine Media Watch was published this week that
examines how organizations have been able to influence the media using the
Internet that I thought members would be interested in ...
==
The revolution will be e-mailed
Can a widespread
When I was a lad, I used to play with Hot Wheels. Our next-door
neighbor worked for Mattel and would bring us new cars and track
before they were released to the public. My brother and I had tons of
track and we would set up huge race courses about our house; we'd
spend lots of time thinking abou
National Security Archive has just released a "Saddam Hussein Sourcebook"
at:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/special/iraq/index.htm
dms
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/19/03 9:39 AM >>>
According to Bob Herbert in today's NY Times, "Americans are the
best-informed people in the history of the world."
Bill
which explains why more than 50% (according to public opinion polls
anyway) of them still think that saddam hussein was responsible fo
For a look back to the better times of U.S. relationship with Saddam
Hussein, see the following:
Patrick E. Tyler, "Officers say U.S. aided Iraq in war despite use of
gas,"
New York Times, August 18, 2002.
"U.S. Chemical and Biological Warfare-Related Dual Use Exports to Iraq
and
their possible i
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