[The $150 billion underestimate is only the beginning. The details are
actually worse.]
URL: http://www.nathannewman.org/log/archives/001593.shtml
March 20, 2004
Withheld Medicare Details
In a classic Friday information dump, the Bush administration allowed
Richard Foster, the chief
There is a more fundamental way in which Marx's approach to "capital" differs from Becker's and makes the "human capital" approach an expression of "fetishism." The following passages also elaborate the idea of "forces of production" as an expression of the development of mind i.e. as the objecti
American corporations are planning a major effort to muster their employees
to vote Republican to counter labour unions’ organizing on behalf of the
Democrats, according to today’s Washington Post.
The Post says the Business Roundtable and industry trade associations are
enlisting a rapidly growin
March 2004 Update
Dear Colleagues,
Petition campaign in defense of academic freedom in Palestinian
universities
The Faculty For Israeli-Palestinian peace, FFIPP, an International
Network for Peace, Justice and Democracy in the Middle East, is
launching an international petition campaign in defen
F A C I N G S O U T H
A progressive Southern news report
March 19, 2004 * Issue 76
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INSTITUTE INDEX * One Year Later
Number of intelligence officials who said in 2002 they were pressured by Bush
Administration to "cook" intelligence to exaggerate Iraq threat: 13
Estimated number of pre
http://www.house.gov/reform/min/features/iraq_on_the_record/
On March 19, 2003, U.S. forces began military operations in Iraq. Addressing
the nation about the purpose of the war on the day the bombing began,
President Bush stated: The people of the United States and our friends and
allies will no
I would like to draw your attention to the discussion on pages 32 to 35 of
the 1821 pamphlet, "The Source and Remedy of the National Difficulties"
(described by Engels as "the most advanced outpost of a whole group
of writings of the 1820s..."). The author constructs a "rude guess" as to
how far th
It is a wonderful pamphlet.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
AL-JAZEERA SLAPS OSAMA WITH 7-SECOND DELAY
Warns Madman About Potty-mouthed Terror Rants (by Andy Borowitz)
Reflecting the increasingly prudish tenor of the times, the Arabic-language broadcast
network al-Jazeera today warned al Qaeda madman Osama bin Laden that all future on-air
appearances
My mailbox has been flooded in recent weeks. It's hard to reply to all those ads for
vi*gra and ci*lis! But it delayed my response to the following. my comments are
interspersed.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
> -Original Message
Has anyone looked at Capital Resurgent: Roots of the Neoliberal
Revolution by Girard Duminil and Dominique Levy
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
I, too, am no great fan of Becker (indeed the concept of human capital did
not originate with Becker but with Theodore Schultz) but the concept of 'human
capital' is indeed very useful even within a Marxian theoretical framework,
as the quote by Tom indicates. Indeed, although he doesn't u
Their names are Gérard DUMÉNIL and Dominique LÉVY.
I didn’t see the book yet. Though, I was with Gerard in several
conferences during last 4 months, including in Istanbul where I
commented on one of their papers, the second in the following list. I
suspect, talking to Gerard and seeing the conte
Gérard Duménil and Duminique Lévy -
http://pythie.cepremap.ens.fr/~levy/exindex.htm
- Original Message -
From: "Michael Perelman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 3:05 PM
Subject: book question
>
> Has anyone looked at Capital Resurgent: Roots of
for your own info, and you may want to pass this on to Chomsky, the NDP,
whom I believe he'll be speaking at one of their fundraisers have
committed great human rights violations against indigenous people in
this province.
UPCOMING EVENTS IN SUPPORT OF INDIGENOUS SOVERIGNTY
1) picket in honour of
Title: Message
As many may know, I
give the following extra-credit assignment: With respect to any culture, any
period of history and any person with real (life or death) power, give me a list
of questions that would, if posed, highly likely get you killed and/or your
career totally destroye
--- Marvin Gandall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> American corporations are planning a major effort to
> muster their employees
> to vote Republican to counter labour unions
> organizing on behalf of the
> Democrats, according to todays Washington Post.
>From today's Yahoo news sources these two h
Mike Ballard wrote:
# Kerry Campaign Has $2.4 Million on Hand
# Bush Campaign Has $110 Million on Hand
Seems the capitalist political bird is flying with a
very large right-wing...
Remember that Kerry has a family fortune worth well
over a half-billion dollars. Ralph Nader has characterized
the
Dumenil showed me his galley proofs last week; he said its coming out from
MIT press shortly. My sense was that it builds on the foundation laid by
their article on post-war profit rates in the Fall 2002 RRPE (I posted on
this on pen-l in Jan 2003) BUT now sees a major change caused by the role
of
--- Shane Mage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mike Ballard wrote:
>
> ># Kerry Campaign Has $2.4 Million on Hand
> >
> ># Bush Campaign Has $110 Million on Hand
> >
> >Seems the capitalist political bird is flying with
> a
> >very large right-wing...
>
> Remember that Kerry has a family fortune worth
Hello Michael:
Sincerely, am not trying to stir the pot.
Of course given the situation, it is not unreasonable that participants
feel agitated on this matter. I do fully respect & applaud your sterling
efforts to keep sane discussion here - rather than a virulent insanity -
on this list. But a cert
Joel sent a notice of Henry Waxman's collection of all the lies of the Bush
administration regarding Iraq. Here's my question: Waxman was never a particularly
outspoken politician -- just a dependable liberal. In recent years, he seems to be
the most outspoken representative in Washington. Byrd
I've looked for more info on this book. What an interesting title. I am
reading th e material posted yesterday that links some of their articles. Is
there a table of contents available? A review?
Joel W.
From: Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: PEN-L list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/DUMCAP.html
This gives a few pages + the TOC.
On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 10:36:27PM -0500, Joel Wendland wrote:
> I've looked for more info on this book. What an interesting title. I am
> reading th e material posted yesterday that links some of their articles. Is
>From http://www.prudentbear.com
>
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The office of the Comptroller of the Currency recently
reported fourth-quarter U.S. Commercial Bank
derivative data. For the quarter, Total Derivative
positions (notional value) expanded at a 24%
annualized rate to $71.1 Trillion. By type of risk,
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