FW: Genoa - To all my non-italian friends

-Original Message- From: Veneziani,R (pgr) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 06:05 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; Bar-Isaac,H (pgr); '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; Cruces,GA (pgr); '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; Hay,J Cc:

URPE circular letter about Andrew Kliman

. Please ensure both sides of this story are heard, and do not hesitate to contact me to discuss how you can help Andrew clear his name. Yours truly, Alan Freeman

IWGVT-EAEPE Value Theory Symposium, Greenwich 9-10 July 2001

, University of London) On Two Recent Approaches to Accounting for Marxian Value 12:30 pm: LUNCH 2:30 pm: ALAN FREEMAN (Economic Advisor, Greater London Authority; and University of Greenwich) Money: What it is and what it represents Tuesday, 10 July 9:30 am: ANDREW KLIMAN (Pace

FW: new book

-Original Message-From: Francisco Louçã [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: 22 March 2001 12:02To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: new book (please forward this to whom you may intend) Dear colleagues, This is to announce the publication of a new book AS TIME GOES BY - From the

IWGVT (Value Theory) website update: apologies for cross-posting

, check where you are chairing, or discussing. Alan Freeman

Please excuse cross-posting: Provisional List of IWGVT sessions at the EEA

www.greenwich.ac.uk/~fa03/iwgvt Best wishes Alan Freeman SessionListAsText.rtf

Reminder: Association of Heterodox Economists Conference

Apologies for cross-posting This is a reminder about the forthcoming conference in July 2000 of the 'Association of Heterodox Economists'. Beginning two years ago as a one-day fringe event at the Royal Economic Society Conference with 40 participants, the conference grew last year to a two-day

Details of Value Theory Symposium 29th and 30th June, Greenwich

on to Marx -Chris Arthur Friday 30th June 10am The Marxist Debate on Crisis and the rate of Profit -Alan Freeman, Greenwich University 2pm The Theoretical Work of Nobuo Okishio -Takeshi Nakatani, Kobe University Venue: == Room 138, Queen Anne Court, Marit

Greenwich seminars in Critical Political Economy

Greenwich University seminars in Critical Political Economy restart on Thursday 11th May, at the usual time of 5.30 and the usual location of room 138, Queen Anne Court, Maritime Campus, Greenwich University. The provisional list of speakers and titles is attached, and is appended to this

Livingstone's press statement and website

://www.livingstoneforlondon.org.uk Alan Freeman the University of Greenwich School of Social Science Avery Hill Road London SE9 2HB home phone: 0208 858 6865 work fax: 0208 331 8905

[PEN-L:10896] FW: Support Jubilee 2000's final push to drop the debt by the millennium

Apologies if there are any cross-posts. I thought this worth forwarding - AF -Original Message- From: Jubilee 2000 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 7:02 PM To: List Member Subject: Support Jubilee 2000's final push to drop the debt by the millennium 7

[PEN-L:9982] IWGVT 2000 repeat call for papers

beginning to be recognized as a forum for all those interested in the discussion of value, irrespective of theoretical orientation. Alan Freeman School of Social Sciences University of Greenwich Avery Hill Road London SE9 2HB (44) 181 858 6865 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.greenwich.ac.uk/~fa03

Virtual hype as social fact

Without (much) comment, news from Greenwich, centre of time and space. It's trying to tell us something it didn't intend but I'm not quite sure what... This is a genuine original, no changes, forwarded 'as is'. Subject: Science day in the spirit of the new millennium Date: Fri,

Value Theory Mini-Conference Program (IWGVT at the EEA)

INTERNATIONAL WORKING GROUP IN VALUE THEORY CO-ORGANIZERS: ANDREW KLIMAN AND ALAN FREEMAN FIFTH ANNUAL MINI-CONFERENCE AT THE EASTERN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE FEBRUARY 27-MARCH 1, 1998 CROWNE PLAZA MANHATTAN HOTEL, NEW YORK CITY MINI-CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Apologies for erroneous posting

, seasons' greetings everyone. Alan Freeman

[OPE-L] NIPA (1): a practical research proposal based on a gooddiscussion

Seasons' Greetings to all and sorry I haven't been able to take part more. The seasons' end also gives me a breathing space to catch up on some of the discussion so expect a few posts end on end. Since several deal with NIPA I'll number these in the order I wrote them to minimise confusion. I

Ask the cat, dummy

Surely no discussion on cats is complete without the experiment first proposed by Schroedinger (Naturwiss 48.52 (1935) trans Jauch, Josef M (1965:125), Foundations of Cat Mechanics (Reading, MA and Addison-Wesley)) cited in Griffiths (1994), an experiment to my knowledge never performed, so

[PEN-L:10995] Call for Papers; International Working Group on Value Theory

ill in your name, so that we know you wish to be in receipt of 1998 materials. The IWGVT is run on a voluntary basis and its costs greatly exceed its income. We have no formal fee but suggest an annual donation of $15 or L10. Larger sums will not, of course, be turned down. Alan Freeman,

[PEN-L:6931] Help: Whereabouts of Horverak, Day?

I'm trying to contact the following and would be grateful for any help which can be mailed privately to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oyvind Horverak Richard B Day Horverak write and article in History of Political Economy in 1988 and there gave the correspondence address as The Norwegian Fund for Market

[PEN-L:3434] Mad Cows and Englishmen

against earthquake prediction. Does anyone know the source of this? Alan Freeman

[PEN-L:3435] Keynes and Porkies: Request for Info

This is a request for some scholarly info. I'm doing a paper on (among other) Keynes's definition of 'Classicals' as economists who accept Say's Law. Marx doesn't fit this definition, which it seems to me Keynes must have known. Keynes had advisors including Sraffa (for example) who must have

[PEN-L:3314] Visa exclusion

on this will be treated in confidence. Alan Freeman

[PEN-L:3293] Definitions of Value for Money

To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Patrick S.W.Fong" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Definitions of "Value for Money" Forwarded by Alan Freeman Sorry for cross posting. The term "value for money" becomes a buzzword in our everyday life. Different people have different mean

[PEN-L:3279] Re: Money books

government by men who believe that all positive action is inimical to what they call thoughtfully the fundamental principles of free enterprise." Alan Freeman

[PEN-L:2802] Re: Another quote

'No'. Alan Freeman

[PEN-L:2626] V-Word biter bit

Re: the V-word; biter bit In earlier posts I proposed every school of economics has a concept of value and the differences lie in their views on its origin, nature and magnitude. I didn't expect to get eaten by my own proposal. Apologies to Urban Hedlund for passing on the following exchange:

[PEN-L:2562] Re: The V-word

A response to Gil's legitimate questions in PEN-L 2501: "Alan's claim, issued in our early PEN-L exchange, that certain capitalist phenomena can *only* be understood with respect to a Marxian theory of value (indeed, in this light, it is Alan and not me who has insisted that an entire

[PEN-L:2493] Sid's posts

the widely-available technology for 'killing' or redirecting unwanted material from intrays automatically. Could we perhaps have a 'technical Alan Freeman

[PEN-L:2494] The V-word

Re: Gil Skillman's post dated Thu, 18 Jan 1996 12:53:29 -0800 [PEN-L:2425] Re: The V-word I think this post gets the discussion onto a far more useful track. Apologies for a not-to-be-missed chance for a plug: an up-to- date overview of collective work around the emerging new perspective

[PEN-L:2495] Sequential and NonDualist Value Theory

Re: Gil Skillman's post dated Thu, 18 Jan 1996 12:53:29 -0800 [PEN-L:2425] Re: The V-word (second of two posts) In an earlier post I tried to deal with Gil's points on value in general. This post is separate because people might want to discuss the issues involved separately. Sequentialism:

[PEN-L:2453] Copy of: Re: The V-word

Thanks to Tery and Bllair Let me put the thing in its simplest possible form. The more nature, the less capital The less nature, the more capital The more capital, the less nature. The less capital, the more nature capital is dead humans humans are live nature Rage against the coming of the

[PEN-L:2403] Re: The V-word

I'm sorry I sent out my last posting before reading Jim's PEN-L 2389 which I think clears things up considerably. Alan

[PEN-L:2401] Re PEN-L:2359-The V-word (PEN-L 2351)

Thanks for Mike Meeropol's contribution [PEN-L 2359;repeated at end] Personally, I am not opposed to exploring what value theory would look like if there were sources of value other than human labour. This may seem heretical but my reasons are that I think if this is done, we will discover what

[PEN-L:2351] The V-word

ow it is transferred from one capital or individual to another. This can be done with, or without, reference to Marx. It sounds as if that might have been what the Randall Wray discussion was about and if so, I'm sorry I missed it. And let's hear it from Gil: is there such a thing as value? Alan Freeman

[PEN-L:1327] World Bank, Latin America After Mexico, [2/2] Aug (fwd)

Thanks for an exceptionally informative post

[PEN-L:1299] (PEN-L:1187] Quebec Referendum Results

no, in order to stay in. This would also be an interesting principle to apply to parliamentary and presidential elections. I don't think there many governments would get elected if it was. Alan Freeman

[PEN-L:1235] (PEN-L:1232) globalization

Nillson. I can't remember whether it features in his review or not. Probably it does. Perhaps one response to capitalist globalisation ought to be a more systematic attempt at globalising the efforts of progressive researchers, both as to the contacts they take and as to the topics they study? Alan

[PEN-L:1242] (PEN-L:1232,1236) globalization

Alan Freeman wrote [Pen-L 1232] It seems to me that Amin, Palloix, Gunder-Frank, Emmanuel hit on a vital line of enquiry which the rest of the Marxist world has blithely ignored. I think it should be resumed by the rest of the left. In this sense, the writings of these authors should

[PEN-L:1153] Re: Andre Gunder Frank Publications

-- Forwarded Message -- From: "A. Gunder Frank", INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TO: Alan Freeman, 100042,617 DATE: 10/27/95 10:04 PM RE: Re: Publications Andre Gunder Frank writes by way of info [in response to a complicated message received about severa

[PEN-L:1096] Two questions, an extract, a note, a hypothesis and a suggestion

Two questions: == (i) why did the Republican Party become a party of reaction? (ii)was Teddy Roosevelt perceived in his time as a social reformer? An extract == from Paul Kennedy's 'Rise and Fall of the Great Powers': "The growth of American industrial power and

[PEN-L:1076] One Nation Tories

C. N. Gomersall: I teach economics at a liberal arts college and manage to do a little research on the side. Right now I'd like to gather any references you may have to Tory economics. I should explain. The kind of Tories I'm asking

[PEN-L:1071] (PEN-L:1054) Mary had a little Lambda

Hi Jim, Didn't respond because I thought someone better informed would. However I did go to the community action workshop at the URPE summer camp which I found interesting and where a number of information packs got handed round on the Contract on America. One compendium with lots of short,

[PEN-L:1040] The loan arranger

A key text: Dangerfield's 'Strange Death of Liberal England'. A wonderful and underrated book. Sometimes I wonder if the US left could study more history and less economics. Alan Freeman

[PEN-L:1032] Re (1026) Correction, acknowledgment to Paul

Sorry to clog up the airwaves again but Paul's (PEN- L1026) post has drawn my attention to an error. I said = [Iamtherefore slightly uncertain about Paul's conclusion [PEN-L 939] that a lower interest rate calls forth a

[PEN-L:982] The loan arranger or: who was that Marx man?

practical issue of our age. Alan Freeman 16 October 1995

[PEN-L:919] Re (PEN-L:853) The strange case of the reserve loan army

capital or retained earnings is contingent and historically determined. Alan Freeman 15 October 1995

[PEN-L:805] Words

Sid Shniad suggested I pass this to a wider audience: In the UK the expressions 'pissed as a newt' or just plain 'newted' mean 'very drunk' . Does this expression exist in Canada or the USA? Alan

[PEN-L:752] Oh, that's all right then

: Postage due = $1342177.28 - --- To: Alan Freeman Fr: Jaime Spicer Customer Service Representative DATE: 10/10/95 Re: Postage Due Charge of $1342177.28 Thank you for using Feedback! I am writing in response

[PEN-L:742] Re:Re:capital good exports

Paul writes: == I can accept much of your argument Alan, but how do you claim that actual value transfers occur from the low to the high productivity regions, if the former have a lower rate of value production?

[PEN-L:705] Re: capital good exports

, along the lines above. I have a paper on this but unfortunately in French. I can send it if you are interested. Alan Freeman

[PEN-L:699] Re:Zeno's Paradox!

In [PEN-L 688] Dionisio Carmo-Neto wrote: __ Hi fellows, I am writing a paper on Zeno's Paradox, attempting to make an application in economic theory. Does anyone know any particular article or book in your own

[PEN-L:498] Marx-Actuel Conference, Paris

Anyone else on PEN-L going to the Marx-Actuel Conference in Paris next week? If so and you are interested in meeting up, mail me. Alan Freeman

[PEN-L:410] An endogenous FROP cycle

help would be welcome. Thanks to John Ernst and Phyllis Attwater specially for a very useful discussion on capital-output ratios. AN ENDOGENOUS PROFIT RATE CYCLE Alan Freeman, University of Greenwich 1. THE EQUATIONS Consider the following system

[PEN-L:144] Africa: request for information

I'm forwarding this from ECON-VALUE to see if anyone has any ideas. If so reply direct to the original sender, not to me. Alan Freeman Forwarded message follows I'm not sure if this is the right list to send

[PEN-L:44] Goodbye

be a shame if I couldn't, and it would be a shame if you were forced to read something you don't want to. It seems to me there is no reason we shouldn't both meet our private objectives on a public list; and I hope we will see you again. Alan Freeman in [PEN-L:39] Brent Phillips wrote: I must

[PEN-L:26] Positive profit, negative surplus

Positive profits with negative net profits: an example __ Alan Freeman In the extremely interesting and relevant discussion on extended reproduct ion in PEN-L, I have the sense that there is a tendency to try and grapple with value

[PEN-L:5866] Re:Hetorodox Classification

Eric, You have obviously done a lot of work and I think the result is very useful. To make a proper response would take at least as long as you have spent preparing this classification, so excuse me if I don't do it immediately. I have only three immmediate comments, which is to suggest that

[PEN-L:5789] FROP cycles

happens, it's what Marx says, and its theoretically consistent. Once you know that, the heavy math is unnecessary. To be more precise, math comes in after the numbers, not before. So, just do it. Alan Freeman

[PEN-L:5767] Stephen Lawrence appeal; please forward

Dear friends This appeal comes from the parents of murdered Black youth Stephen Lawrence, killed 22 April 1993 waiting for a bus home in a quiet Eltham, London street; the fourth racist murder in two years in Greenwich, dubbed 'race murder capital'. Doreen and Neville Lawrence

[PEN-L:5752] A Non-Linear FROP Cycle

and in particular the falling rate of profit, cyclic behaviour can be demonstrated without recourse to anything other than the endogenous effects of the accumulation process. A request: can anyone produce an equation (5) which results in stable cycles? I couldn't. Alan Freeman

[PEN-L:5753] A Non-Linear FROP cycle

I forgot; when you have entered rows 3 and 4 of the spreadsheet, copy row 4 down to the next 1000 columns, or so. Each column is then the time-trajectory of one variable. For graphs, select a column or two and call the wizard, whatever you have in your spreadsheet that makes graphs. Alan

[PEN-L:5677] re Journals to Read

Some other journals: Don't forget Kyklos. I don't know the current editor. I haven't seen it for a while. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics carries a lot of material from Goodwin et al but is highly mathematical. Mattick's International Journal of Political Economy, published by

[PEN-L:5637] Okishio, Okishio

John and Jim Thanks for your necessary correctives to my outburst. I accept all you say. Certainly, I have no difference with the insight that the profit acquired by a capitalist as a result of owning any asset whether or not it has intrinsic value and whether or not it is productively deployed

[PEN-L:5491] Joan Robinson

I couldn't resist it: "After the war, Keynes' theory was accepted as a new orthodoxy without the old one being rethought. In modern textbooks, the pendulum still swings, TENDING towards its equilibrium point. Market forces allocate given factors of production between alternative users,

[PEN-L:5432] Correction;please read first.

them having first go at defining their own stance. Of course you can refer to the 'Laws of Chaos crowd', 'those revisionists', 'Dana's little helpers' or anything you choose but these would be more in the nature of epithets than characterisations. Alan Freeman

[PEN-L:5422] Labour value and price

t defining their own stance. Of course you can refer to the 'Laws of Chaos crowd', 'those revisionists', 'Dana's little helpers' or anything you choose but these would be more in the nature of epithets than characterisations. Alan Freeman

[PEN-L:5179] Re: Profit-rate equalisation

From Alan Freeman Gil Skillman [PEN-L 5133] writes: As I recall, Kliman and McGlone's approach (or if you'd prefer, their clarification of what Marx was about in Volume III, Ch. 9) presupposes a series of iterations

[PEN-L:5047] Clara Zetkin

into English, extant or otherwise, of this work? If so I would be v. grateful if you could E-Mail me. Many thanks Alan Freeman === Alan Freeman School of Social Sciences University of Greenwich Avery Hill Eltham London SE9 6PQ [EMAIL PROTECTED

[PEN-L:4970] profit rate equalization

the Marxist literature, pace Grossman, but it doesn't apply to Marx. Sixty years on, why is anyone still trying to prove that it does? There's a lot of guys out there trying to kill us; why do it for them? Fruitful discussion, Alan Freeman ======= A