In reply to Dr. Orcutt:
1. In *Backdoor to Eugenics* Troy Duster argues precisely that by "crying
wolf" about an explict race-based program of genocide, we will miss the
'backdoor' mechanisms (genetic screening for socially constructed diseases,
for example) by which it will be carried out. Rec
Gilder's delusions are this nation's spectacles.
My first and totally ignored post on the MMM ('the cult of the
male')pointed out the link between Farrakhan and the 'independent' right as
I quoted from Gilder's Men and Marriage, critically reviewed by the way in
a helpful comparative study of B
I am reading the former finance editor of Business Week Jeffrey Madrick's
The End of Affluence: The Causes and Consequences of America's Economic
Dilemma--a short, non-specialist overview of the US economy.
Madrick advances an interesting claim (actually it could be taken as an
indictment of the
Alan argued that a low pound would be preferred by a bloc of capital of
hi-tech manufactured products. Of course, this would be a boon to exports
but an overly devalued currency would also tend to erode the very
superprofit or technological rent which this bloc seeks to garner on the
world market
I am a non-economist, a grad student in Ethnic Studies actually. I was
quite impressed by James Galbraith's book Balancing Acts and later
discovered that he has written a macroeconomics textbook with William
Darity (Houghton-Mifflin, 1994). From what I have read so far (the special
section on "Ke
Perhaps some of you remember George Gilder, the author the manifesto for
the Reagan Revolution Wealth and Poverty. Here is his interpretation of
underclass pathology and his support for the Nation of Islam. I quote from
the chapter 'Ghetto Liberation' from his book Man and Marriage (Gretna, LA:
Dinesh D'Souza is a Christian from Goa, I would suppose. He appeals to the
self-conception of the 'self-made' professionals who have made South
Asians in the US one of the richest (and most stratified) ethnic groups.
This is not to say that most South Asians have heard of him, much less read
hi
To connect threads, let me note that there may a connection between the
increasing importance of "knowledge" and the increasing strategic
importance of capital goods in US exports (Anthony has noted that machine
tools have declined in importance, but this *may* indicate that US is only
increasing
In hopes of eliciting help from those with substantial understanding of
things economic (I am a grad student in the Ph.D Group in Ethnic Studies at
UC Berkeley), here is a summary and some questions on Andrew M Warner,
"Does World Investment Demand Determine US Exports?", American Economic
Review
I have not seen Waterworld, but I think all of you are way off on your
interpretation. Let me go back to Louis' initial message (reproduced
below).
Isn't it obvious to you that the film is nothing but propaganda for Alvin
Toffler's and George Gilder's (and their idiot child Gingrich's)stategy t
Some short replies to John Ernst's much appreciated post about Grossmann
about whom by the way there is an article in the current Science and
Society, vol 59, no 2 by Rick Kuhn: "Capitalism's Collapse: Henryk
Grossmann's Marxism."
First, I agree with John's argument that the mass of surplus va
>The extended reproduction of capital requires that the costs involved
>in capital goods production fall faster than the costs of consumer
>goods production.
Revolutions in the value of fixed capital may be more likely given the
particular threat of overproduction in this sector. To jump ahead,
Jerry Levi recommended
>Marios Nikolinakos POLITISCHE OKONOMIE DER GASTARBEITER-FRAGE: MIGRATION
> UND KAPITALISMUS, Hamburg, Rowohlt, 1973
An article by M Nikolinakos was translated into English as "Notes towards
a general theory of migration in late capitalism", Race and Class, XVII, 1
(1975
>, I would much appreciate tips from people
>on recent good work on the left on immigration. I would welcome
>both literature references and names of people. I am interested
>in the issue from the perspective of the U.S. labor market, but
>by no means exclusively that.
I am sure that Robert P
I remember coming across an volume edited by Julianne Malveaux on the
working and general living conditions of African-American women. The
title, I believe, is Slipping Through The Cracks. I do not know if any of
the authors will answer your specific question.
Rakesh Bhandari
>An epidemiolog
Hello,
My computer crashed sometime back, and I lost the instructions on how to
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could forward to me the instructions as soon as possible.
Thank you very much,
Rakesh Bhandari
UC Berkeley
Stalin's chief economist Varga's conceptualization of poverty was
challenged in tenth plenum of the Bosheviks in 1929 by Otto Kuuisinen.
Kuuisinen suggested that Varga remained beholden to bourgeois economics.
Here is an overview of the challenge from Richard B Day's "'The Crisis' and
the 'Cra
>
>Comparing Gandhi's work with the poor to business executives
>hanging out with their customers seems a bit of a stretch! The
>consultants who write this kind of crap really seem to have no shame.
Neither did the Mahatma; there has been a lot of scholarship on his role in
demobilizing pro
I think Jerry Levy is right: the attempt to open up the Japanese market is
key. Isn't this what Laura Tyson has argued is the primary problem in US
trade relations with Japan? But why the emphasis on the Japanese market? Is
it in fact more closed the French, German or Italian market?
Is Clinton
In Trade, Development and Foreign Debt (London: Pluto Press, 1992) Michael
Hudson explains the polarization tendencies in the world economy, so
devastatingly demonstrated in Africa this decade:
"The preceding pages have established that economic obsolescence in less
developed countries is a dir
I am not an economist.
I would recommend Walter Daum, The Life and Death of Stalinism: A
Resurrection of Marxist Theory (New York: Socialist Voice Publishing Co.,
1990)$15pb.
PO Box 3573, Church Street Station, NY, NY 10008-3673.
For the following reasons:
1)conceptual clarity: the basic conc
Patrick Mason wrote:
> Some Marxist have argued that the
>twin forces of competition and accumulation -- and the accompanying process
>of capital mobility-- does produce a tendency towards equal profitability
>(after accounting for systemic differences in risk) as capitals continuously
>seek "su
Reproduced below is an absoutely brilliant analysis of "the ratio of
dynamic to stagnant sectors" in an individual nation. The analysis comes
from Tilla Siegel who I believe is now a Prof (or perhaps Chair) of
Sociology at the Goethe University at Frankfurt. I am hoping it will
provoke discussi
BTW, The WSJ article Gene Coyle mentioned made optimistic use of the
Kondratiev idea:
"perhaps the most reassuring evidence for a middle-class surge is that it
has has happened before. Around 1900, the US also faced what economists
called a 'productivity paradox': Big electrical generators had b
I need help understanding an argument by Riccardo Bellofiore who argues
here that both Classical and neo-Classical economics has no real theory of
endogeneous structural development (Schumpeter is the lone successful
bourgeois success who for Bellofiore even outdoes most Marxists). Is this
true?
Gene Coyle called for discussion on the following article
>Today's Wall Street Journal (3/29) had two interesting features. On
>the front page was "Middle Class's Fears About Coming Years Might Be
>Misguided." It argues that there is good reason to believe that living
>standards will get be
Flipping through some early issues of RRPE, I came across some interesting
pieces by Marc Aldrich and Robert Cherry about racial assumptions in some
economic theory and the racism of some economists. I would like to follow
through on such work (I am doing a Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies). Can anyone
h
I appreciate Doug's correction to what I have posted. I misspoke. There
is indeed no drift to protectionism in the neo-colonial world. There may
indeed be a need for a drift towards certain kinds of protectionism (which
is Raghavan's argument), and towards the demonstration of such need, th
On the importance of exports to a late capitalism, see Henryk Grossmann's
1929 discussion of "foreign trade and the sale of commodities at prices of
production deviating from their values." Grossmann's Law of Accumulation
and the Breakdown of the Capitalist System has been translated and
abridge
>Subject: [PEN-L:3625] Power and Method
>
>Re Feldman's inquiry
I do remember as stimulating
William Buxton's Talcott Parsons and the Capitalist Nation-State.
Instrumentalist in argument, Buxton attempts to prove a connection between
social scientific practice and the legitimation of the A
It was mentioned that we should turn to Jesse Jackson for leadership in a
new national contract. Adolph Reed, Jr. has written an excellent critique
of Jackson--The Jesse Jackson Phenomenon, in which the relationship between
Black leadership and the Black masses is incisively discussed. Though th
I would recommend looking up Professor Troy Duster at the Dept of Sociology
and the Institute of Social Change at UC Berkeley. He has written Backdoor
to Eugenics.
>The discussion on the Bell Curve has been very interesting to follow. Could
>someone point me in the direction of someone who wo
I have been reading Wolfgang Stolper's new biography on Schumpeter (Joseph
Alois Schumpeter: the public life of a private man), and it led me to think
that, instead of all being Keynesians, we are now all Schumpeterians.
Let me quote two short passages from Stolper on the dynamics of wages a
In a very sympathetic review of Herrstein and Murray in Forbes (10/24/94),
Peter Brimelow reads their book as a four-pronged critique of social
policy:
1. a critique of the welfare system as it subsidizes birth among low IQ women
2. a critique of federal educational programs in that they overinv
I am hoping that we can use this line to think through our responses to
Murray and Herrenstein's latest "research".
I want to raise here two points: their concern with differential birth
rates and the critique of positivism. For those of you whose appreciation
for the delete key grows as my p
I needed help on the following: neo malthusianism and the dynamics of the
rate of exploitation.
1. the Malthusianism specific to a late capitalism
"An author like Malthus, who used underconsumption theory during this
period [during the battle with the rural aristocracy] as an apologist for
unpr
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