RE: PEN-AL snap quiz

2000-01-29 Thread Max B. Sawicky
I denounce the Walker/PEN-L junta for disallowing the fourth and correct option -- reduce the rate by half a point. I'm trying to refinance, for Christ's sake. mbs 1. The Federal Reserve Board Open Market Committee has been disolved and replaced by a junta of Pen-l subscribers (Alan Greenspan

RE: Enter the Dragon

2000-01-28 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Subject: [PEN-L:15775] Enter the Dragon Friday January 28, 6:22 pm Eastern Time US Yield Curve-Bonds dance to a different drummer By my count this is part IV of a continuing series. mbs

RE: Re: Why Decry the Wealth Gap?

2000-01-24 Thread Max B. Sawicky
. . . I'd like to see a point-by-point rebuttal to this, sent certified mail, to the authors. Let's draft it here and let Max send it off on his finest letterhead. Bill Send to who? And why on my letterhead? As I mentioned before (might have been on LBO), my boss Larry Mishel and I

RE: Pen-L textbooks

2000-01-22 Thread Max B. Sawicky
. . . So, I would add to the micro section a longer discussion of the institutions that comprise the economy. 1. Public traded corporations 2. private corporations 3. government owned companies. 4. non-profits, co-ops, etc. 5. the various consumption units, households, etc. . . . I did suggest

RE: beginning outline of project????

2000-01-22 Thread Max B. Sawicky
More on our textbook of the mind . . . I-A looks like an interesting one. It would be nice if it mapped popular notions about economics to a more critical and comprehensive history. Re: methodology, to me this would focus on something hardly ever discussed -- the unconscious philosophical

[PEN-L:13046] Re: Re: Re: Re: Business Week confirms the labor theoryofvalue

1999-10-30 Thread Max B. Sawicky
RO: . . .Begin by cataloguing some of the major forms realized surplus value takes today . . . all of government spending (with some exceptions like that for education . . . "Some exceptions"? health care, nutrition, means-tested cash assistance, transportation, etc. etc. etc. mbs

[PEN-L:12937] Re: Re: Know Your Yids c.

1999-10-25 Thread Max B. Sawicky
When we have a spare month we can argue about the democratic secular state. I'm afraid it's a pipe dream. RN:This is the only disagreement between us worthy of continued debate. Which part is the pipe dream, democratic? or secular? or the two in combination? It's hard to see Israeli Jews

[PEN-L:12905] Re: Re: Know Your Yids

1999-10-24 Thread Max B. Sawicky
BN: Shahak is a heroic figure, but I think you're misinterpreting him a bit. . . . Is your characterization based on having read the work I cited? If not, on what? . . . mbs: No, it's based on a supposition that he couldn't have made the error you did in your paraphrase of his work.

[PEN-L:12819] Re: economist attacks living wage

1999-10-20 Thread Max B. Sawicky
See "Beware the U.S. Model" by Mishel, Schmitt and Bernstein, an EPI book, for the US/Euro comparison. See Robert Pollin's book on the living wage. Also tell the coalition to contact John Schmitt at EPI ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) for help on the issue. mbs -Original Message- From: John

[PEN-L:12751] RE: Re: Pessimism of the intellect...

1999-10-16 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Brad De Long wrote: And voter apathy is our friend. We're not at all interested in arguing with "no" voters. We're not very interested in convincing "undecided" voters. We're interested in turning out "yes" voters. In an odd-numbered year voter participation will be perhaps 55% (instead of

[PEN-L:12524] RE: cool it

1999-10-11 Thread Max B. Sawicky
What about this: "I assume these "advocates" must be status-quo worshipping policy wonks. " ? mbs MP: This will not do. "Max B. Sawicky" wrote: But you don't know shit. --

[PEN-L:12522] RE: Wilson

1999-10-11 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Having been caught off-base, Louis tries a jump shot . . . . . . What's needed is militant struggle against Clinton's attack on working people and the poor. The problem with William Julius Wilson and many of the liberal think-tanks . . . "Many"? There are approximately three. Us, Preamble,

[PEN-L:12518] RE: Wilson

1999-10-11 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Right now, on the real side, there is no going back to the old system, much less a GAI. The more you demand it, the more irrelevant you get. The game is different now. If you don't want to take my word for it, ask the advocates who work in the trenches. mbs General Louis, gesturing to the

[PEN-L:12514] Re: Re: Re: success against Health Insurance Companies.

1999-10-11 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Patients' rights is indeed the next baby step back to a national health care debate. The basis for this debate will be the discrediting of HMO's, which is in progress as we speak and is reflected by the House vote. Note that if patients have rights, then it is not much of a stretch to

[PEN-L:12507] Re: Re: Re: Re: Wilson

1999-10-11 Thread Max B. Sawicky
. . . I'm positive you don't need to be reminded of the radical demand during the Marxist Nixon administration to delink a person's livelihood from their employment status with a guaranteed annual income in the Family Assistance Plan. But those halcyon days are far behind us and there's no

[PEN-L:12468] Re: RE: Wilson

1999-10-09 Thread Max B. Sawicky
. . . I disagree with some of Wilson's strategic positions and his empirical emphases on certain areas, but he is an ally of radical strategies for change. Wilson and Charles Murrary share the same politics only in the sloppy class-blind analyses of mainstream commentators - a blindness

[PEN-L:12259] Re: The New Government of the New Democrats

1999-10-04 Thread Max B. Sawicky
I am looking at the annual report of the patent office. It reads like a corporate report detailing its assets and liabilities, as well as its return on investment. Do all government agencies to this now? Michael Perelman I doubt it, but they should. The General Accounting Office and

[PEN-L:12264] Re: Re: Re: The New Government of the New Democrats

1999-10-04 Thread Max B. Sawicky
? Max B. Sawicky wrote: I am looking at the annual report of the patent office. It reads like a corporate report detailing its assets and liabilities, as well as its return on investment. Do all government agencies to this now? Michael Perelman I doubt it, but they should

[PEN-L:12256] Re: Re: Re: Schoder's capitulation to the bond markets

1999-10-04 Thread Max B. Sawicky
. . . one of the problems with the studies that minimize the role of capital mobility in search of more profitable climes is that it ignores the fact that the capitalists lobby like hell to make sure that the place where they are currently located (where their sunk costs are) will change its

[PEN-L:12254] Re: Re: Lagavullin

1999-10-04 Thread Max B. Sawicky
. Kindly ship the case of Lagavullin to: Max B. Sawicky Suite 1200 Economic Policy Institute 1660 L Street, NW Washington, DC 20036 If it's any consolation, I do not partake of hard liquor myself, so I will be doling out the bottles to assorted members of LBO-Talk and PEN-L, many of whom

[PEN-L:12253] Re: Re: Re: Schoder's capitulation to the bond markets

1999-10-04 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Max, I recall that his controversial point was that development would decrease overall pollution. He was not very convincing. "Max B. Sawicky" wrote: Alan Krueger got some raspberries at an URPE panel . . . We have different recollections. I also remember some nimrod getting

[PEN-L:12219] Re: Schoder's capitulation to the bond markets

1999-10-03 Thread Max B. Sawicky
There was a piece this a.m. in the Post along the same lines. Hand wringing over the level of public debt (which is much lower than the U.S.) and the aging of the population. Exactly the story used to beat up on the U.S. fisc over the past 15 years. It's easy to overstate the importance of

[PEN-L:12228] Re: Wojtek's Works? (was Re: Jim Petras on Imperialism and NGO's)

1999-10-03 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Actually, I'm a bit curious as to what Wojtek has written as an academic. I don't intend to engage in any personal attack on this list at all (any difference that I have with him, I've already expressed elsewhere). It's just a matter of idle curiousity -- does he publish the sort of

[PEN-L:12224] Lagavullin

1999-10-03 Thread Max B. Sawicky
to pass. Kindly ship the case of Lagavullin to: Max B. Sawicky Suite 1200 Economic Policy Institute 1660 L Street, NW Washington, DC 20036 If it's any consolation, I do not partake of hard liquor myself, so I will be doling out the bottles to assorted members of LBO-Talk and PEN-L, many of whom

[PEN-L:12220] Re: bedtime

1999-10-03 Thread Max B. Sawicky
. . . Take the Brenner business. None of the people who have been upholding Brenner's views on the rise of capitalism have taken the trouble to read _The Brenner Debate_, or to read my criticque of Brenner which is posted on a web page available to all. . . . Actually this whole flap has

[PEN-L:12176] Re: Jim Petras on Imperialism and NGO's

1999-10-02 Thread Max B. Sawicky
LP: Let us examine some examples of the role of NGOs and their relation to neoliberalism and imperialism in specific countries: . . . [click] Let's not and say we did, since the ensuing quote has nothing to do with what is going on. LP has yet to give any sign that he has read one word of

[PEN-L:12177] Re: US imperialism

1999-10-02 Thread Max B. Sawicky
For those interested in US imperialism, I have forwarded an article from this morning's Toronto Star . . . The bit about buying up Canadian assets with the benefit of devalued currency reminds me of the Korean situation, where somebody was quoted as saying Korean assets were now for sale,

[PEN-L:12137] Re: RE: Some sponsors of Johns Hopkins Institute forPolicy Studies

1999-10-01 Thread Max B. Sawicky
This was a joke. Most of my jokes have a point. Not all of them are funny. That about sums it up. mbs Max Sawicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/01/99 04:12PM Charles Brown-- anything I say will be racist, including this Charles: I think you are having flash backs to Henry Liu. Don't

[PEN-L:12138] Re: Re: RE: Some sponsors of Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies

1999-10-01 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Loyola/Jim Devine-- Vatican Council this is inaccurate. I work for the Inquisition, which is a different arm of the Vatican Octopus. Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] What I've always said about Devine. You can't torquemada anything.* mbs (*Mel Brooks, "History of the World")

[PEN-L:11826] Re: Re: Re: Free labor as a precondition for capital

1999-09-28 Thread Max B. Sawicky
. . . I don't suggest that someone can be Eurocentric on the matter of European and non-European history and not be progressive on contemporary struggles. . . . Let me try to join in on this new love feast. To me any negative connotation to "Third worldism" does not stem from any interest in

[PEN-L:11682] Re: RE: binary passions

1999-09-25 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Charles: Maybe if we substitute the word "exploited surplus value" for "plundered", you can see how a scientific Marxist understanding of this factor enters in. The gold was not snatched by the hands of the Spanish from the ground. It used Indian miners to do the labor, and then extracted

[PEN-L:11609] Re: Re: Empiricism, was Re: UK Agricultural Revolution

1999-09-24 Thread Max B. Sawicky
550 Sawicky. Where do you get this "capitalism itself is not a stage of historical progress, relative to feudalism." You don't get it from me. But saying it No I get it from others here. I didn't say I got it from you, did I? gives you a chance to sneer at revolutionsary

[PEN-L:11598] Re: poor officer perelman

1999-09-23 Thread Max B. Sawicky
How could a petty ideologist ever keep up with a daring theoretician such as the charming Max S.? Michael Perelman Dear kindly Officer Perelman, You gotta understand, It's just my bringing up-ke That get's me out of hand. My mother was idealist, My dad collected facts, Holy Lenin, natcherly

[PEN-L:11384] Progressive Nationalism

1999-09-21 Thread Max B. Sawicky
PB: c) a "progressive nationalism" (again, a PEN-L phrase) which, in advocating WB/IMF defunding, takes heart and strength and knowledge from the potential unity of the variety of particularistic struggles against local forms of structural adjustment,malevolent "development" projects and Bretton

[PEN-L:11261] Re: 2 random questions

1999-09-18 Thread Max B. Sawicky
1. Is Hoffa doing much damage to the Teamsters or is it business as usual? 2. While most religions have created vicious theological dictatorships, have the Buddhists so far avoided such excesses? Have any dictators claimed to ground their abuses in Buddhist principles? Hard to see much

[PEN-L:11248] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Social structue and hierarchy of capital:superprofiteers at the top

1999-09-18 Thread Max B. Sawicky
RO: I'm not sure I understand your question. A fundamental problem I am raising is that because foreign gross product type data isn't caclulated, foreign profit numbers are as reported by corps only, without the adjustments the BEA does to have the numbers better refelect economic reality.

[PEN-L:11106] Re: Re: Re: Social structue and hierarchy of capital:superprofiteers at the top

1999-09-15 Thread Max B. Sawicky
. . . The publication of gross product of foreign affiliates of US nonfinancial corps was discontinued in the 80s wasn't it? This is important because you need the capital consumption adjustment to reported profits provided by the BEA in corp. gross product numbers to make the foreign profits

[PEN-L:11105] Re: Re: Re: Re: imperialism

1999-09-15 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Sam writes: I agree but the post-WWII order was to a great extent planned by U.S. UK government officials. These plans made it quite clear that the third world was to be used for its raw materials and cheap labor, that third world economies were to be subordinated to the core. The social

[PEN-L:10860] Re: IMF to become autonomous?

1999-09-12 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Burford proves that Marxism-Leninism and reasonableness are not necessarily inconsistent, notwithstanding LP's evidence to the contrary. Most any time that communists have participated in important, progressive historical events they have reflected the essential soupcon of pragmatism typified by

[PEN-L:10735] Re: Re: Returning Pen-l to the CSF server

1999-09-09 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Instead of a disappearing URL, why not just a regular citation and the home page of the source, trusting in people to find what they need w/that information. mbs I would like to see pen-l back on their server in a visible form, but it would mean that we would have to resist sending articles

[PEN-L:10413] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Ideology/consciousness and material/social

1999-08-26 Thread Max B. Sawicky
it is a bit difficult to imagine a chimpanzee as an individual, and a human individual is unimaginable. Try the mind experiment of stripping away every social relation you have ever had. What would be left? what would happen if you were to strip away all of human biology? what would be left? Jim

[PEN-L:10324] Imperlialism 101

1999-08-24 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Anybody catch the PBS documentary "The Crucible of Empire" on the Spanish-American war? I thought it was pretty good, for television anyway. No visible marxist historians, but a good multicultural line-up of experts. The stuff on the anti-imperialist league was pretty neat (major stalwarts, the

[PEN-L:10160] Re: Re: Is a Fetus an Appendix?

1999-08-17 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Rod H: In my experience, every woman I have known who had an abortion went through a big moral struggle. That is not the point. The point is that it is her moral decision not any one else's. It is her choice. A fetus is not an appendix and no woman treats an abortion like she would an

[PEN-L:10046] Re: Re: Abortion

1999-08-15 Thread Max B. Sawicky
.. . . The right to an abortion is not an issue on which the left can compromise. It should not be seen as up for sale. mbs: I would not put 'it' up for sale, in case anyone is wondering. I can't speak to the legal implications of limited restrictions relative to the basic right. We've seen

[PEN-L:10061] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Abortion and communication

1999-08-15 Thread Max B. Sawicky
CC, for the prosecution: "What do *you* think, Max? You speak of bargaining. Bargaining always *begins* with a position to bargain from. All you offer is a generalized speculation about possible results of the bargaining process. What is your position on abortion just before you sit down at the

[PEN-L:10065] Re: Roe v. Wade (was Abortion and communication)

1999-08-15 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Yoshie: Do you know that Roe v. Wade (1973) itself gave women only a very limited and circumscribed right? Roe v. Wade merely guarantees women's right to *seek* a legal, medically supervised abortion *during the first trimester of pregnancy,* which a woman may or may not get through her

[PEN-L:10058] Re: Rudy Giuliani Senate Campaign parody website

1999-08-15 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Leftwing critics of this rightwing politician running for Senate have put together a website that is cleverly designed to look like the real thing at: http://www.yesrudy.com/. -- Good stuff re: RG. With a few exceptions, the Bush people have registered most any uncomplimentary and

[PEN-L:10056] Send In the Clowns

1999-08-15 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Anybody listen to the Republican prez candidates' speeches in Iowa? Keyes was the most frenetic and extreme, accusing Clinton of treason. Buchanan came close, intimating he would arrest Clinton upon taking the oath of office; the difference is that Buchanan knew he was kidding, whereas Keyes

[PEN-L:10045] Re: Re: Re: Abortion and communication

1999-08-15 Thread Max B. Sawicky
I am convinced! Good approach. - mbs: You're much too easy. If abortion is murder (not my position, BTW), then Yoshie's remarks about women are beside the point. The pro-life position, rightly or not, begins from the standpoint of the unborn *person*. The fact that mothers fare

[PEN-L:10042] Re: Re: Re: Value Theory and Abortion: [Was Free Speech and

1999-08-14 Thread Max B. Sawicky
whoops, guess not, notice how quickly Yoshie's concern with decline in abortion providers and query about how to reverse this trend was followed by posts about 'morality' and 'legitimacy' of abortion itself...sheeshMichael Hoover -- Sheesh yourself. Nobody used those words or

[PEN-L:10022] Re: Tax cut alert

1999-08-13 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Max S! You are correct about 80% of the tax cuts going to 20% of the people. Neil!!! Thank you very much. It's not my number. It's from my friends at Citizens for Tax Justice, yet another rotten petit-bourgeois arm of the left wing of capital. But Max, under bourgeois democracy the fix

[PEN-L:9943] Re: Re: Free Speech and Opportunity Cost (was Re: TINAF Special onWashington Nazi Demo)

1999-08-11 Thread Max B. Sawicky
But I would add that it is best not to have to respond to the Nazis. It is better to have in place a well organized network of people and organizations before they come to town. While some troubled people might gravitate to the Nazis no matter what, I suspect that a good fraction of the young

[PEN-L:9945] Re: science news

1999-08-11 Thread Max B. Sawicky
In a related story, the Governor of Alabama signed a state law making the mathematical constant pi exactly equal to 3. In response, all circles were replaced by hexagons. Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clawww.lmu.edu/Faculty/JDevine/jdevine.html Actually this is not all that crazy.

[PEN-L:9763] RE: Re: RE: Technology critics (Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: BillMcKibben)

1999-08-01 Thread Max B. Sawicky
thanks for the clarification. mbs On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Max B. Sawicky wrote: N.B. Directions to Jones Beach By train and bus, take the LIRR from Penn Station to Freeport; buses run from Freeport to Jones Beach every half hour; roundtrip tickets to Jones Beach include bus fare

[PEN-L:9754] RE: Sweatshops Won't Get Rid of Poverty

1999-07-31 Thread Max B. Sawicky
There's a feisty student movement re: sweatshops that you faculty geezers might be interested in referring students to. Here's the link: http://home.sprintmail.com/~jeffnkari/USAS/ Makes for an interesting discussion of corporate logos, trademark property, and commericalist creation of culture

[PEN-L:9753] RE: Technology critics (Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Bill McKibben)

1999-07-31 Thread Max B. Sawicky
I'd read Langdon Winner's *The Whale and the Reactor*--it's got the famous "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" piece. His analysis of the bridges Robert Moses built on Long island was pretty damn convincing. For those who haven't read the piece--Moses was built Jones Beach and some other state parks

[PEN-L:9606] RE: Re: RE: Re: Shades of Summers

1999-07-25 Thread Max B. Sawicky
K, looks like you've been away for a while. Oceania is no longer at war with Eurasia. Follow the thread out, then resubmit your post, verbatim if you feel it is appropriate. Cheers, max -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ken Hanly Sent:

[PEN-L:9609] Conquest of Sudanese Aspirin Industry

1999-07-25 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Good article this a.m. in the Post about the Sudanest factory bombing. The owner, a crony of the Saudi royal family, is suing the U.S. and apparently winning. Two choice excerpts: " . . . Over at the White House, Clinton's national security adviser, Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger, was referring to

[PEN-L:9560] RE: Re: NAFTA case; Clinton Pursues Fast Track Authority Again

1999-07-23 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Michael's information seems very important. Would other people like to comment, especially on the speculation that the liberal democrats will accept the fast track. In a wierd way, it could help the liberals in the limited objective, by firing up the red meat repugs, thus making the Shrub's

[PEN-L:9562] RE: tiresome debates

1999-07-23 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Look, I think that it is settled. Brad and Max think that the left has done unspeakable evil, while imperialism has done some rather bad stuff. . . . mbs: Which Brad and Max are those? The same one alleged to have said that genocides of non-whites were of no importance? These burlesque

[PEN-L:9496] RE: Social Security quote?

1999-07-22 Thread Max B. Sawicky
the guy was Gerry Nadler from NYC. Don't know where the quote appeared, if anywhere. mbs -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of DOUG ORR Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 10:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:9492] Social Security quote?

[PEN-L:9478] RE: Rummel dismantled on alt.politics.socialism.trotsky

1999-07-21 Thread Max B. Sawicky
.. . . The last sentence demonstrates the worthlessness of his chosen method. The error range (97,808,000) is larger than his "estimate" (61,911,000). I don't have to be a statistician to know that when your estimate is smaller than your error range, your method is about as good as a ouija

[PEN-L:9468] RE: cut the crap. NOW!

1999-07-21 Thread Max B. Sawicky
brouhaha of brutish, ill-mannered badinage. I prefer to reserve my pasquinades for the ears of the cultivated. Better to contemplate the supernal oneness, the music of the spheres, the lives of the saints. Or last nite's broadcast of the thrilling sequel, Predator II. [sniff] Max B. Sawicky, Doctor

[PEN-L:9104] RE: Re query

1999-07-11 Thread Max B. Sawicky
I want to thank Max, Brad and Henry for their helpful responses to my query, "Is there some rule of thumb which sates how many dollars the tax harvest falls for each $billion decline in GDP?" Henry stated that total tax receipts( fed, state and local) are some 36% of GDP. But given the

[PEN-L:9082] RE: query

1999-07-10 Thread Max B. Sawicky
You can find a discussion in CBO's Economic and Budget Review, published every January, free on their web site. Has a chapter, the economy's effect on the budget. mbs -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Frank Durgin Sent: Saturday, July 10,

[PEN-L:8975] RE: Re: The Mouse That Roars, and Introducing Sammy Super-Trot

1999-07-07 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Max writes that, according to his calculations, see below, "only" 62 billion of the new 1 trillion surplus is going to what he and Clinton call "defense" expenditures. And Max, you don't think that's too much. But why is ANY going to war spending? Gene Coyle Please bite your tongue. I NEVER

[PEN-L:8857] RE: Economic motives behind the war on Yugoslavia

1999-07-04 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Louis P., channeling the breathless Barry Lituchy: . . . Finally, let's not forget the interests of the military-industrial contractors themselves. Having used up their inventory of certain weapon systems, the Pentagon got Congress to rush through a $15 billion military spending bill for just

[PEN-L:8861] RE: Re: So why the hike then?

1999-07-04 Thread Max B. Sawicky
.. . . sov-er-eign (sov'rin, sov'uhr in, suv'-) n. 1. a monarch or other supreme ruler. 2. a person who has sovereign power or authority. 3. a body of persons or a state having sovereign

[PEN-L:8825] RE: US government budget surplus

1999-07-03 Thread Max B. Sawicky
The Post is what should be satirized for years of mindless babble about deficits, helping to give rise to the mindless reform of welfare and restraint on public investment. As Ellen noted, all the dirt is in the OMB's mid-session review and CBO reports, all of which are free on the web. I

[PEN-L:8826] NFL/Subsidies

1999-07-03 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Speaking of Greg LeRoy, here's an item from him this week: -Original Message- From: Greg LeRoy/Good Jobs First [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, July 03, 1999 12:47 PM To: Recipient list suppressed Subject: Hyundai Debate Continues TO: Subsidy Accountability Watchers FR:

[PEN-L:8798] RE: Divisions on the left

1999-07-02 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Michael wrote: The left took an awful long time recovering from the splits caused by WW I also. You are absolutely correct. Actually, they never really did recover. . . . There are two different arguments tangled up here. The trivial one, pertaining to flames on PEN-L and LBO, has nothing

[PEN-L:8686] RE: Serb dictatorship?

1999-07-01 Thread Max B. Sawicky
The kind in the throes of collapse? The kind that acts one way towards the national majority, and quite another w/respect to others? mbs [was that repetitious?] Max, perhaps we have different definitions of dictatorship. . . . I take your point that Serbia and Nicaragua are and were more

[PEN-L:8704] RE: RE: Thomas Friedman an economist?

1999-07-01 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Max Sawicky wrote, Not to get you too worked up about all this, but suppose leisure is admitted as an argument into utility functions, and/or the social welfare function uses a Rawlsian weighting of individual utilities? Or how about a SWF variable like 'walkerz' representing social harmony?

[PEN-L:8749] RE: Re: the NFL and urban development

1999-07-01 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Depends on the numbers, Jimbo. Typically the official renditions are hype to boost the deal, big surprise. I testified in Annapolis on this issue for our progressive state senator, Paul Pinsky (New Party). He was trying to get regs on the use of state money for stuff like this. At the time

[PEN-L:8664] RE: Left Racism 1968/69 - 1999

1999-06-30 Thread Max B. Sawicky
The standard posture seems to be: we are against racism, but let's not discuss it, because it is divisive, it turns people off, it make the poster sound frenzied, let just oppose it quietly but not draw attention to it. I haven't followed most of this thread -- in self defense I am deleting

[PEN-L:8625] Liberal Stuff

1999-06-30 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Items of current interest . . . Campaign for America’s Future -- Steel Sold Out The US Senate failed to support a measure to stop the illegal dumping of foreign steel in the U.S. after Clinton Administration lobbying against a

[PEN-L:8626] RE: Serb dictatorship?

1999-06-30 Thread Max B. Sawicky
.. . . useful to consider today's NY Times for an obvious refutation of theme 3. What kind of dictatorship would allow peaceful protests such as these in the aftermath of a catastrophic military defeat?] NY Times, June 30, 1999 10,000 Serb Protesters Demand Resignation of Milosevic . . . The

[PEN-L:8612] RE: re: Thomas Friedman an economist?

1999-06-30 Thread Max B. Sawicky
.. . . The difference between shit and shinola: if you assume that maximum output equals maximum welfare, you're making an interpersonal comparison of utility between those who have a preference for consumption goods and those who have a preference for disposable time. The "no interpersonal

[PEN-L:8611] RE: re: Thomas Friedman an economist?

1999-06-30 Thread Max B. Sawicky
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Walker Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 10:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:8596] re: Thomas Friedman an economist? Ken Hanly wrote: COMMENT: But this confirms my point doesn't it? Isn't it

[PEN-L:8610] RE: Re: Re: On Prevarication (not about racism)

1999-06-30 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Louis Proyect wrote: My suggestion to Charles and Henry is to avoid getting bogged down in debates with Professor Delong. As far as I can tell, he is a very upscale sort of troll. Louis, I don't think that this sort of characterization is useful. He knows that PEN-L is not really a haven for

[PEN-L:8486] LP, Call Your Office

1999-06-29 Thread Max B. Sawicky
You haven't commented on this. What's the buzz? Others have been excoriated for much less. mbs Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 09:59:35 -0400 From: Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NYSE-FARC [The "president of capitalism" touts shareholder democracy to armed revolutionaries]

[PEN-L:8485] RE: Re: Re: good news!

1999-06-29 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Wojtek, This is a bit of a muddle. Ormerod was an accomplished econometric modeler in Britain. Built up a business around it, then sold it for big bucks, so he knows what he's talking about, but you tripped up in a few places. His argument can be summarized as follows: Prediction in

[PEN-L:8113] RE: Dry goods 2000

1999-06-19 Thread Max B. Sawicky
And the Emmy for most inscrutable e-mail post of the year goes to . . . Gore-Tex (gôr'teks , gohr'-) Trademark . . .

[PEN-L:8112] RE: JKG

1999-06-19 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Michael Perelman wrote: Yes, but Galbraith is a principled liberal -- a rare bird these days. Actually under the Law of Proportionate Moral Distribution, principle among liberals is no less real than among the holier- than-thou left. Lyapunov proved it with his famous pentagonal matrices.

[PEN-L:8019] RE: Evidence

1999-06-16 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Apologies to the list for the double posting, though sometimes repetition can be helpful. mbs -- A Third of Refugees Report Rights Abuses . . .

[PEN-L:8021] RE: Re: Re: Greg Elich: URGENT ACTION REQUIRED

1999-06-16 Thread Max B. Sawicky
it sound's like it's time for the US and NATO to start bombing these ethnic cleansers. After all, wasn't the whole point of the war against Serbia to make sure that it would never happen again? And the US/NATO use of strategic bombing to end ethnic cleansing was so successful last time, right?

[PEN-L:8033] RE: Burning down monasteries

1999-06-16 Thread Max B. Sawicky
I am not particularly in favor of organized religion. For that matter, most Serbs according to today's NY Times stay away from church as much as I stay away from synagogue. What seems to be the issue, however, is bloody assault on Orthodox Churches, which has led the Patriarch to call for

[PEN-L:8014] Evidence

1999-06-16 Thread Max B. Sawicky
A Third of Refugees Report Rights Abuses Kosovo Survey Reveals 'Brutal Campaign' By William Branigin Washington Post Sta*ff Writer Wednesday, June 16, 1999; Page A32 Nearly a third of Kosovo refugee

[PEN-L:318] RE: Pen-l EEG

1998-05-30 Thread Max B. Sawicky
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Walker Sent: Saturday, May 30, 1998 12:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:316] Pen-l EEG --- Nice to hear from you. Hope

RE: Jewish art, Jewish politics

1998-05-04 Thread Max B. Sawicky
. . . Perhaps the recent awakening in Jewish culture and the left-wing politics of previous generations will reach a whole new generation of Jews. The Israeli state has long ceased to act as a pole of attraction. It is high time that Jews understood that their interests are with people

RE: New Yorker extinction

1998-04-28 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Unless I've become too much of a town-booster, Milwaukee is the _only_ American city with socialist government in its purple past, You have. The city of Reading, PA had a socialist mayor by the name of Stump. He had a fondness for the bottle but is generally well-regarded in memory. I'd

RE: Dinosaur extinction

1998-04-28 Thread Max B. Sawicky
I thought the dinosaurs died because the Phillips Curve shifted. Fred F.

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1998-04-27 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Heard this the other night and need to share it. MBS === Philosophers song Immanual Kant was a real pissant Who was very rarely stable Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar

RE: Citizens as clients/consumers

1998-04-27 Thread Max B. Sawicky
. . . One thing this is doing (and this was very much part of Thatcher's agenda when she floated BT) is creating a class of share-holders - the idea being that their vote against any pro-public sector party (such as Kinnock's mob) can be assured in return for but a couple of thousand

RE: IMF vote

1998-04-27 Thread Max B. Sawicky
At 03:13 p.m. 4/26/98 -0400, Max wrote: Liberals don't get excited about investment. According to the current [May 4] issue of BUSINESS WEEK, there's a new wing of the [US] Democratic Party that's very excited by investment, led by Barry Bluestone, Bennet Harrison, James K. Galbraith, and

RE: IMF vote

1998-04-27 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Liberals don't get excited about investment. That's for the Clintonoids. I suspect my folks will find an traditional Keynesianism perfectly appropriate. The IMF is a pro-austerity leg-breaker for bankers, anti-public sector, anti-democratic, etc. No? Everyone knows the

RE: IMF vote

1998-04-26 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Max, for the ADA I'd spin it by saying that the IMF deliberately depresses investment in countries desperately in need of higher levels of investment. In Asia, the only region of the "Third World" to show gains in income relative to the First over the last several decades, they're forcing

RE: IMF vote

1998-04-26 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Max B. Sawicky wrote: You are putting an ideological overlay on this vote which is probably not held by the ones voting. The vote was one part political -- let's give Clinton a win after kicking his ass on Fast Track -- and one part a fear of disaster, since Rubin and Summers give

RE: IMF votecharset=iso-8859-1

1998-04-26 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Marx did not like Bismarck but he supported centralization of the German state, since that was preferable to the competition of small little states. Just as Marx could attack Bismarck's actions while supporting a more centralized state, Which would seem to apply to the EU debate, but

RE: IMF vote

1998-04-26 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Interesting tally on the IMF funding vote in the House, from Robert Weissman of Multinational Monitor: AYES NOES PRES/NV REPUBLICAN 22 193 11 DEMOCRATIC164 28 13 INDEPENDENT 1 TOTALS186 222 24

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