Re: URPE = UPE?

1994-08-31 Thread HKR
The question of changing URPE's name arose in slightly different form at a meeting of the RRPE Ed Board in Salt Lake City, I think in April 1989. There, the debate was over changing the title of the journal to Review of Political Economy or something similar. But the reason was basically the

Re: help-price competition

1994-05-27 Thread HKR
Maybe I shouldn't start this hare off, given upcoming hell of exam marking, butwhat is competition? The conventional neo-classical approach, including the cost-plus schools, operate with what John Weeks aptly termed a "quantity theory of competition". On the other hand, a growing number

Re: Unemployment Crisis

1994-04-21 Thread HKR
Ulf wanted to know about this Copenhagen meeting in April 1995. I've come across mention of a 'World Social Summit' being organised by the UN in 1995. Is this the same thing? Hugo Radice [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: People who like to tell other people to shut up

1994-04-13 Thread HKR
Doug Henwood asks whether the LTV debate is relevant to political strategy. Yes, I think so. Developing an effective strategy for overthrowing capitalism in favour of democratic socialism - which I take it we all want to do - requires us to understand as well as we can the nature of capitalism

Re: MTV

1994-04-13 Thread HKR
Thanks to Jim Devine for noting Mike Lebowitz' proposal of "equality" between total abstract and concrete labour. Surely a mistake here? You can't aggregate concrete labours in any socially meaningful sense - that's why the concept of abstract labour is so important. Hugo Radice.

Re: Economists for a California Single-Payer Plan?

1994-04-06 Thread HKR
Nathan: since firing off my query I have now read the various responses to your original posting and understand, more or less, what a single-payer plan is. No need to reply to my last message! Hugo.

Re: Economists for a California Single-Payer Plan?

1994-04-06 Thread HKR
I'm not in California, but I would like to know what a 'single-payer initiative' is.Yrs, Hugo Radice [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: electric utility regulation

1994-04-06 Thread HKR
I'd like tosee your piece on electric utility regulation. As you may know, this has become a very significant matter over here since privatisation... Please send by snailmail to: Hugo Radice School of Business & Economic Studies University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT, UK. Thanks!

Re: Assn for Evol Econ

1994-04-06 Thread HKR
Dear Anne Mayhew, 1) Could you send me subscription information on the AEE/JEI - including library rates? 2) I'll certainly look for the Dugger/Sherman piece. I was RRPE 'coordinating editor' for a piece that Bill wrote for the RRPE a few years ago. 3) Apropos heterodox economics, what do you kn

value theory

1994-03-29 Thread HKR
I'm still digesting Allin Cottrell's contributions so am not yet able to offer a substantive contribution to the debate. I just wonder if participants are familiar with Diane Elson's view in her essay "The value theory of labour", in D Elson (ed), Value: the Representation of Labour in Capitalism

value theory

1994-03-29 Thread HKR
I'm still digesting Allin Cottrell's contributions so am not yet able to offer a substantive contribution to the debate. I just wonder if participants are familiar with Diane Elson's view in her essay "The value theory of labour", in D Elson (ed), Value: the Representation of Labour in Capitalism

lost message re: Central & E Europe

1994-03-24 Thread HKR
Someone on pen-l sent me a message today (March 24th) in response to my mailing on C & E Europe. I seem to have inadvertently lost the message before I got to read it. (I did, however, get the message from James Lawler) Whoever you are, please try again! I have all the earlier messages & will se

lost message re: Central & E Europe

1994-03-24 Thread HKR
Someone on pen-l sent me a message today (March 24th) in response to my mailing on C & E Europe. I seem to have inadvertently lost the message before I got to read it. (I did, however, get the message from James Lawler) Whoever you are, please try again! I have all the earlier messages & will se

Central & Eastern Europe

1994-03-22 Thread HKR
Thanks to all who have responded to my note. I am very pushed for time at present, but will be mailing or emailing the papers in the next week or so. Hugo Radice

Central & Eastern Europe

1994-03-22 Thread HKR
Thanks to all who have responded to my note. I am very pushed for time at present, but will be mailing or emailing the papers in the next week or so. Hugo Radice

Central & Eastern Europe

1994-03-18 Thread HKR
I thought that I should reintroduce myself properly to pen-l in the time-honoured fashion of setting out my current interests. For the past couple of years I have been studying the role of foreign capital in post-Soviet Central/Eastern Europe. While large numbers of bourgeois economists have jum

Central & Eastern Europe

1994-03-18 Thread HKR
I thought that I should reintroduce myself properly to pen-l in the time-honoured fashion of setting out my current interests. For the past couple of years I have been studying the role of foreign capital in post-Soviet Central/Eastern Europe. While large numbers of bourgeois economists have jum

CSE 1994 Conference

1994-03-14 Thread HKR
We are currently putting together the programme for this year's Conference of Socialist Economists annual conference. CSE'94: SOCIALISMAND BEYOND? University of Leeds, July 8th-10th 1994 Programme so far includes: plenaries: on globalisation and on racism. streams/workshops: capital, repro

CSE 1994 Conference

1994-03-14 Thread HKR
We are currently putting together the programme for this year's Conference of Socialist Economists annual conference. CSE'94: SOCIALISMAND BEYOND? University of Leeds, July 8th-10th 1994 Programme so far includes: plenaries: on globalisation and on racism. streams/workshops: capital, repro

quantifiability of use-value in Marx

1994-03-14 Thread HKR
The use-value of labour-power is not that it IS a quantity exceeding its own (exchange)-value, but that it is a SOURCE of a quantity of value exceeding its own EV, as one of Steve Keen's Marx quotes makes clear. In addition, LP is only a POTENTIAL source of value (and thus to an unquantifiable ex

quantifiability of use-value in Marx

1994-03-14 Thread HKR
The use-value of labour-power is not that it IS a quantity exceeding its own (exchange)-value, but that it is a SOURCE of a quantity of value exceeding its own EV, as one of Steve Keen's Marx quotes makes clear. In addition, LP is only a POTENTIAL source of value (and thus to an unquantifiable ex