[PEN-L:581] Re: Increased need

1995-09-28 Thread kl811af
I would like to comment about the question of "incentives" in the context of creation of knowledge and information. I fully agree with those who point out that material rewards often are overemphasized *as far as the individual level* is concerned. Major cultural, scientific, technological contr

[PEN-L:530] Re: Increased need for knowledge in production - grounds for optimism?

1995-09-26 Thread kl811af
Trond, I very much agree with you about the consequences of the growing importance of the "knowledge-content" of the products of modern technology. The very same intuitions you had aroused my interest in the questions of intellectual property rights. I didn't react when you posted your ideas abo

[PEN-L:5912] Neo-marxism?

1995-07-19 Thread kl811af
I'm wondering about what is meant by Neo-Marxism in economics. Analytical Marxism, rational choice Marxism a la Roemer? In Germany the term Neo-Marxism is reserved for that Marxist tradition, which in reaction against dogmatic tendencies in the official orthodoxy returned to the humanistic basis

[PEN-L:5011] Re: Revolt of the Haves

1995-05-08 Thread kl811af
On Mon, 8 May 1995, Paul Cockshott wrote: > Through the > use of terror tactics in Germany they have suceeded in shifting > the political spectrum there decisively to the right. For instance > it is now politically dangerous for Kohl to come out and say > that VE day was a day of liberation for

[PEN-L:4572] Re: economic effects of export of used clothing to LDC's

1995-04-02 Thread kl811af
> To state them simply, my own preconceptions at this point (early = > in > the study) are that recycling used clothing from anywhere in the world to= > > anywhere where there's effective demand (sufficient to pay the necessary > costs) must be a good thing, but that subsidizing such ex

[PEN-L:4445] Re: More Sraffian System ToV

1995-03-16 Thread kl811af
On Wed, 15 Mar 1995, Paul Cockshott wrote: > The labour that counts as value is abstract social labour not concrete > labour. > Concrete skills change, but abstract social labour counts as a fraction > of the > social working day - in whatever technical conditions it takes place. > Ownership

Re: the continuing Cold War

1994-11-10 Thread kl811af
On Thu, 10 Nov 1994, Elaine Bernard wrote: > Good idea Mike, re the CUBA bonds. But one amendment. > I would suggest that they be 1 year. Here's why. First, > the situation has to change, real soon, or CUBA doesn't > have 5 years. Second, your method of cashing in -- that > is redemned by g

[Q] Marx cite

1994-05-03 Thread kl811af
Some time ago somebody posted a citation from the Capital speaking about workers being formed (or deformed) by the work they do. As I lost it, I would be very grateful, if somebody could repost it to my address. Thanks in advance Andreas Goesele Mannheimer Str. 12 D-80803 Muenchen [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Bosnia

1994-04-15 Thread kl811af
> Yugoslavia has for > some time been the target of a covert policy waged by the West and > its allies, primarily Germany, the United States, Britain, Turkey, > and Saudi Arabia, as well as by Iran, to divide Yugoslavia into its > ethnic components, dismantle it, and eventually recolonize it." (p.

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

1994-04-12 Thread kl811af
On Tue, 12 Apr 1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I promise to shut up just so some people will be happy. Well, others (like me) won't be happy. I even doubt, that that is the result people who think, "we could do better", were aiming at. So I hope > Barkley Rosser, one of the "Last of the

help on endogenous preferences

1994-03-22 Thread kl811af
First of all I want to say something about myself. I'm a Jesuit priest studying economics in preparation of work at our institute for social studies here in Munich. For already some months now I have been lurking on pen-l, very happy for having found a forum of progressive economic thought (someth

help on endogenous preferences

1994-03-22 Thread kl811af
First of all I want to say something about myself. I'm a Jesuit priest studying economics in preparation of work at our institute for social studies here in Munich. For already some months now I have been lurking on pen-l, very happy for having found a forum of progressive economic thought (someth