It seems interest in human capital, which arose of late, has to do with ineptitude of capital and labor on their own to support empirically any growth path without receding because of diminishing returns (cobb Douglas type as of growth was a purely mechanical asocial process). So add an
Paul Phillips said:
The fact that human capital is tracked by class is not really rellevant.
Does one tract physical capital by class? Does a backhoe owned by a
working class person have less value than the backhoe owned by GW Bush?
It's not the notional class of the person which counts,
PS: I suppose it might be possible that identical twin siblings, both
proprietors of identical capitalist enterprises, one with an MBA and one
without, had differing rates of accumulation, but even then it wouldn't
necessarily be down to their respective levels of education and/or that
piece of
ANyone wnt to do a review of the new Dumenil/Levy book for the RRPE?
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recently, the NY TIMES had an article about how much organizational capital (the
social capital inside the organization a.k.a. corporate culture) could be recorded
in PCs and thus used and remembered more easily. This, they said, was how the PC
helped productivity.
Jim D.
-Original
What binds Bush, Kerry
They're both members of Skull and Bones, a 172-year-old Yale secret society. Now just
try getting its members to talk about it.
By Robin Abcarian
Times Staff Writer
March 23 2004/L.A. TIMES
In the last several months, Tim Russert of NBC's Meet the Press, one of TV's
Devine, James wrote:
It's kind of foreboding looking, said a 48-year-old Toronto writer
who sneaked into the Tomb with her boyfriend during spring break
1975. They made it into this big mystery thing. But it wasn't. It's
just like a big clubhouse, but it's not in a tree. There was a
large dining
Though widely decried as stupid, Israels provocative assassination of
sheikh Yassin simply underscores its opposition to a negotiated settlement
with the Palestinians, according to todays Wall Street Journal.
Journal reporters Karby Leggett and Christopher Cooper note that the Sharon
governments
My own estimate of the number of activists at the March 20th rally is 600-800.
Cf. Columbus March 20th Program,
http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/M20program.pdf; Columbus March 20th
Press Release,
http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/March20PressRelease.doc.
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paul phillips wrote:
Michael,
The fact that human capital is tracked by class is not really
rellevant. Does one tract physical capital by class? Does a backhoe
owned by a working class person have less value than the backhoe
owned by GW Bush? Only because of the social status heaped
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At the San Francisco march last Saturday there were the now-familiar signs.
Noticable were the many Kucinich signs, plus big banners carried by
Kucinich supporters.
The signs mentioning Kerry seemed to all carry an admonition for him to
behave lest support not be forthcoming.
A nice sunny day, a
I think some of the confusion in this thread relates to the fact that
'capital' has two meanings in the economics context. One meaning of
capital is 'stored up dead labour utilized to enhance the productivity
of living labour'; the second, 'a social relation'. Human capital in the
form of
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Who will be the Republican presidential candidate in 2008?
rudy giuliani?
--ravi
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Who will be the Republican presidential candidate in 2008?
is General Curtis LeMay still around?
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Marvin Gandall wrote:
Though widely decried as stupid...
why is this assassination considered stupid? isn't it obvious israeli
strategy to incite hamas into becoming the primary opposition, thus
sidelining more moderate elements with whom they (israel) may be forced
to negotiate with by their
michael perelman wrote
Paul, you are certainly familiar with the sheepskin effect -- that what
people earn with their human capital reflects much more their
credentials than their actual knowledge. A substantial literature
within conventional economics confirms this commonsense idea.
I have
It seems to me that Sharon wants to decapitate -- and thus destroy -- _all_
Palestinian opposition groups, so that he can continue to impose his plans on the West
Bank and Gaza (while continuing to blame any Palestinian leaders who survive for the
terroristic response that seems likely).
Subject: A call for help
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 11:34:57 -0600
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Friends:
Again an interruption. Last Tuesday I stopped my immediate efforts
in order to distribute the essay
* I [John Kerry] led the fight to put 100,000 cops on the
street in 1994. - Jan. 30, Wilmington, Del.
Kerry was very involved in shaping the 1994 anti-crime bill that
included a Clinton administration initiative to help localities hire
100,000 more police officers.
(Maria L. La Ganga and
Dr. Geert Van Moorter, from the Belgian NGO Medical Aid for the Third World=
(www.g3w.be) on a mission in Iraq for www.intal.be, tells how he experien=
ced the bomb attack on the Mount Lebanon Hotel.
A little after 8 pm we hear an enormous explosion and feel the vibrations t=
hrough the air.
Marvin Gandall wrote:
Though widely decried as stupid...
why is this assassination considered stupid? isn't it obvious
israeli strategy to incite hamas into becoming the primary
opposition, thus sidelining more moderate elements with whom they
(israel) may be forced to negotiate with by their
My reaction to the NYC demo was different. Of course there was a smaller
turnout than a year ago, but not 'disproportionately' so (say half). Most
importantly the composition was similar to last time (I watched the entire
length of both marches closely). It was not just the Vietnam-era middle
Perhaps you misunderstood. I said exactly what you have said below. I don't
consider the action was stupid -- that's how it's been criticized in the
West and by Arab conservatives -- but cold-blooded calculation in accordance
with a long-held Likud strategy.
Marv Gandall
- Original Message
Marvin Gandall wrote:
Perhaps you misunderstood. I said exactly what you have said below. I don't
consider the action was stupid -- that's how it's been criticized in the
West and by Arab conservatives -- but cold-blooded calculation in accordance
with a long-held Likud strategy.
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to see the notes I used for a talk I gave on the political economy of
the US in the 1960s, click
http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine/talks/Prosp60s.htm. I assumed that
the students had read the relevant chapters in Sam Rosenberg's excellent
US economic history book. Comments are welcome.
At:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,9060859%255E1702,00.html
I fully realise that talking to a self-professed Stalinist-Hoxhaist, as
though he/she/it is sane, is probably quite taboo - quite infra-dig -
amongst true intellectuals - but could you possible try?
Just
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Zionist colonialism represents the ugliest face of modern imperialism, far worse than apartheid south Africa. but in all it remains part and parcel of the broader imperial agenda and its principal agent in the middle east. killing yassin has two implications..
1 it shows that Israel partly draws
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