[PEN-L:5796] Re: a little more frop

Hi Ajit, I assume you want to know more what is the *point* of the whole exercise. The point is the following: the conclusion of the usual argument re. the max. rate of profit is the latter must fall with a rising c/v, hence so too must the actual rate. This conclusion seems to contradict

[PEN-L:5651] Re: Iqbal Masih -- escaped child laborer, murdered in

s murdered in Pakistan. John Rosenthal [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:5676] Re: Turner vs. Abraham on Role of Big Business in

*virtues* of Siemens (though, nB, they were written before the war and Siemens' participation in the slave-labor program). So, the crudities of the "monopoly capital" approach are certainly not the only alternative to the apologetics of a Turner. John Rosenthal [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:5599] Re: query

law school. John Rosenthal [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:5447] Growth and Employment Query

r the help. John Rosenthal [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:5404] Re: Havana Heat, Bronx Beat: Salsa Party, NYC

oint of particularly heightened emotion, the grande dame extemporized (something to the effect of) "Cuba libre! Que Fidel se vaya!" ("Free Cuba! Fidel has got to go!"). Very sickening. It has put me off Celia and Tito forever.

[PEN-L:5193] Re.: Trade Sanctions

ns. A third explanation might be the "polyvalent" one I've proposed, taking into account US-relations with the EU and, above all, Germany. Globalization etc. notwithstanding, geo-political maneuvering is not to be sneezed at. The latter gets ignored only at a very high risk.

[PEN-L:5196] Re: Trade Sanctions

mystery remains. A third explanation might be the "polyvalent" one I've proposed, taking into account US-relations with the EU and, above all, Germany. Globalization etc. notwithstanding, geo-political positioning is not to be sneezed at. The la

[PEN-L:4640] theory experimentation -- libertarians?

genuine article turned up on pen-l some months ago, spouting Alvin Toffler and inundating our mailboxes, Trond's initial reaction was to give encouragement. Anyway, I would not be so quick to judge -- neither assumed friend nor assumed foe. John R

[PEN-L:4465] Re: creating Larry Summerski

I wonder if list members realize that one of the more prominent centers of "heterodox" economics in the US, viz. New York's own "New School", has also been flooded with Soros money in recent years. I even heard just some months ago that a program was being set up there with funding from both the

[PEN-L:4350] Re: Bohm-Bawerk rides again? -Part 2

g here. A deduction is a deduction is a deduction. If there are many different "logics", then we might as well all pack up and move to some intolerable "postmodernism" list (for instance). Having read enough Hegel to make me extremely ill, I would not demand of anyone that they read "all of Hegel's *Logic*" (per Lenin's suggestion) before they be allowed to pronounce upon *Capital*. In fact, I wouldn't even require that they read a little of it. John Rosenthal [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:4323] Re: Values and prices

hat Rubin smuggles the regularity assumption into Marx's argument -- whether or not, given that assumption, Marx or Rubin or any of us can demonstrate that socially necessary labor-time is what governs said regularity. John Rosenthal [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:4152] Re: story

ter would have to be replaced not by "story- telling" in the sense of arbitrary fictions, but rather political (conjunctural) analysis and historical research, which certainly have their own protocols of proof. John Rosenthal [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:3647] Re: Power and Method

ast the U.S. academy. John Rosenthal [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:3630] Re: Power and Method

A quirky but very stimulating read on the subject is Alfred Sohn-Rethel's *Intellectual and Manual Labour: A Critique of Epistemology*.

Re: The Cold War

o say that it is also more inimical to significant dialogue and/or debate than the latter. Yours, John Rosenthal [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The Cold War

there are only so many hours in the day and doing battle with shadows is not a productive way to spend them. My little contribution to the niceness debate is completed. Yours, John Rosenthal [EMAIL PROTECTED]