Re: Marshall

2000-04-08 Thread Jim Devine
a very interesting post! Ted Winslow writes: > These influences show up in a number of essential ways in Marshall's economics. For instance, Marshall takes a "dialectical" view of social interdependence. This underpins his conception of "caeteris paribus" and

Re: Marshall

2000-04-14 Thread Charles Brown
>>> Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/08/00 02:41PM >>> a very interesting post! Ted Winslow writes: > These influences show up in a number of essential ways in Marshall's economics. For instance, Marshall takes a "dialectical" view of social inter

Re: Re: Marshall

2000-04-08 Thread Eugene Coyle
Equilibrium might have been a central concept with Marshall but he was aware that there might not be one under certain cost conditions. Telser says of Marshall: "This conclusion, together with Marshall's well-known statement that a seller might not lower his price 'for fear

Re: Re: Marshall

2000-04-08 Thread Michael Perelman
Jim Devine understands what Marshall was about. Yes, he wanted labor to improve, but improvement meant becoming more middle-class. Keynes, Marshall, and Smith all had a similar vision of labor becoming assimilated into the middle-class. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State

Re: Re: Marshall

2000-04-09 Thread Ted Winslow
Jim asked > > I don't get how concepts like "ceteris paribus" and "normal" jibe with > dialectics, which involve a process in which ceteris is never paribus and > today's "normal" is always different from yesterday's. How does equilib

Marshall Aid plan

2002-04-15 Thread Chris Burford
ping countries. There are enormously important points in the whole passage from the FT. I of course accept that there will not be any Marshall Aid plan for Europe, but I do not think it is quite that >The US isn't an economic engine that it once was: If anything we are seeing an intensi

Marshall/Martial Plan

2003-02-22 Thread Michael Hoover
not much into paul krugman, don't necessarily agree with some of his take on marshall plan, think title of his 2/21 nyt column is great play on words... http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/21/opinion/21KRUG.html?ex=1046842592&ei=1&en=dce9f5e0c7040c64

Re: Re: Re: Marshall

2000-04-08 Thread Rod Hay
As far as Marshall's politics are concerned. He was firmly in the British liberal tradition of charity towards his social inferiors. And resented it when workers spoke for themselves. As far as dialectics and Marshall are concerned. In a sense there is a dialectic in Marshall. He is one o

Marshall plan for Africa?

2001-10-23 Thread Ian Murray
Leaders back 'Marshall Plan for Africa' Chris McGreal in Johannesburg Wednesday October 24, 2001 The Guardian Leaders of African states formally launched an ambitious plan to rebuild their continent yesterday through a partnership in which good and accountable government and an end t

Krugman on Marshall Plan

2003-09-30 Thread Bill Lear
Today's Krugman: Funds were administered by an agency independent of the White House, and Marshall promised that priorities would be determined by Europeans, not Americans. What happened to the promise? Was it kept, or was the money spent to "encourage" people to vote f

Re: Marshall/Martial Plan

2003-02-22 Thread Bill Lear
On Saturday, February 22, 2003 at 06:52:57 (-0500) Michael Hoover writes: >not much into paul krugman, don't necessarily agree >with some of his take on marshall plan, think title of >his 2/21 nyt column is great play on words... > >http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/21/op

Re: Re: Re: Re: Marshall

2000-04-08 Thread Rod Hay
Michael has urged looking at the Greek meaning of economic to understand the meaning of political economy. We should also look at the Greek root of politics. It derives from polis. And doesn't necessarily carry the meanings inherent in the modern word political. Rod -- Rod Hay [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Marshall

2000-04-09 Thread Jim Devine
>As far as dialectics and Marshall are concerned. In a sense there is a >dialectic in Marshall. He is one of the few economists of his time who >took seriously the interaction of supply and demand. Most of his >contemporaries tried to reduce everything to subjective utility >e

[PEN-L:7591] Marshall & stocks

1996-11-26 Thread Doug Henwood
Wall Street tout Ed Hyman's theme of the day is that with economic growth slipping below the rate of money growth worldwide, "Marshallian capital theory" would suggest that it's a great time to buy stocks. Does this make any sense to anyone - the reference to Marshall, that

Marshall Plan for Third World?

2002-05-19 Thread Louis Proyect
‘Marshall Plan’ for Third World Between 1948 and 1952 the US rulers provided billions of dollars in long-term loans that were used to rebuild the foundations for renewed industrial production and political stabilisation in war-ravaged capitalist Europe and Japan. The expansion of the

Re: Marshall plan for Africa?

2001-10-25 Thread ALI KADRI
: > Leaders back 'Marshall Plan for Africa' > > Chris McGreal in Johannesburg > Wednesday October 24, 2001 > The Guardian > > Leaders of African states formally launched an > ambitious plan to > rebuild their continent yesterday through a > partnership in which goo

Re: Re: Marshall/Martial Plan

2003-02-22 Thread Michael Perelman
Part of the denazification was to bring Nazis to the US to help in the Cold War. I doubt that we will bring too many of SH's people here. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: Marshall/Martial Plan

2003-02-22 Thread Doug Henwood
Bill Lear wrote: Krugman can be proud of his efforts to shed some truth on the mendacious and militant Bush regime, but he should remember that the roots of the current phase of our empire were firmly and consciously put in place beginning with our reconstruction of a postwar world order that woul

Re: Marshall Plan for Third World?

2002-05-19 Thread Chris Burford
At 19/05/02 11:46 -0400, Louis Proyect quoted: >‘Marshall Plan’ for Third World From >Full: http://www.dsp.org.au/links/index.htm (from Doug Lorimer's >"Imperialism in the 21st Century", current issue of Links Magazine) Quite an impressive thoughtful article. I unders

Re: Re: Re: Marshall/Martial Plan

2003-02-22 Thread Seth Sandronsky
True. They might still have the receipts for U.S weaponry bought by the govt. of SH. Re: Re: Marshall/Martial Plan by Michael Perelman 22 February 2003 Part of the denazification was to bring Nazis to the US to help in the Cold War. I doubt that we will bring too many of SH's people

Re: Re: Re: Marshall/Martial Plan

2003-02-22 Thread k hanly
lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 10:35 AM Subject: [PEN-L:34968] Re: Re: Marshall/Martial Plan > Part of the denazification was to bring Nazis to the US to help in the > Cold War. I doubt that we will bring too many of SH's people here. > -- >

"Marshall, Sraffa, and the Problem of Returns"

1994-03-13 Thread Neri Salvadori
This is just to inform that I have inserted some a paper on "Marshall, Sraffa, and the Problem of Returns" in the archieves of pkt. The archives can be accessed by using either local-prompt> ftp csf.colrado.edu local-prompt> gopher csf.colorado.edu 70 Gopher is user

"Marshall, Sraffa, and the Problem of Returns"

1994-03-13 Thread Neri Salvadori
This is just to inform that I have inserted some a paper on "Marshall, Sraffa, and the Problem of Returns" in the archieves of pkt. The archives can be accessed by using either local-prompt> ftp csf.colrado.edu local-prompt> gopher csf.colorado.edu 70 Gopher is user

Marshall Aid plan for Africa, plus more?

2001-07-22 Thread Chris Burford
Thoroughly indignant at the Genoa summit being disrupted by the unelected, Tony Blair yesterday claimed that it had made major progress on the world financial system. But although he went on record to claim that the plan for Africa was a "kind of Marshall Plan" (which would

[PEN-L:7612] World Bank Marshall Plan?

1999-06-03 Thread Michael Hoover
dig world bank web page header... as for below proposal, surely its architects won't impose kinds of strings attached to original Marshall Plan - demand for balanced budgets, stable currency, high profit margins, low wages, inegalitarian tax structures in order to assist capitalist class

[PEN-L:9054] Marshall Plan conference, May 1997

1997-03-21 Thread Hugo Radice
Dear IPE and PEN-L list members, The following conference announcement will, I hope, be of interest to you. Please feel free to forward it to other lists. Hugo Radice THE MARSHALL PLAN AND ITS CONSEQUENCES A 50th Anniversary Conference University of Leeds, Leeds, UK May 23rd-24th 1997 The

Re: Marshall Aid plan for Africa, plus more?

2001-07-23 Thread Rob Schaap
G'day Chris and Ellen, > Bush is quoted as reiterating that the dollar's value is a matter for > markets: "The dollar needs to float in the marketplace." "If the > market is allowed to function, the dollar will be at an appropriate > level." What the market decides is appropriate, so it's appro

[PEN-L:7616] Re: World Bank Marshall Plan?

1999-06-03 Thread Henry C.K. Liu
the draining exploitative regime is more important than token aid. Henry C.K. Liu Michael Hoover wrote: > dig world bank web page header... > > as for below proposal, surely its architects won't impose kinds of strings > attached to original Marshall Plan - demand for balanced b

[PEN-L:1303] Jacob, Esau and Alfred Marshall

1998-12-06 Thread Tom Walker
Essay question: Compare and contrast Thomas Mann's Joseph and his Brothers and Alfred Marshall's Principles of Economics. Extra credit: use the words 'elide' and 'palimpsest' in your essay. Tom Walker http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/

[PEN-L:1312] Re: Jacob, Esau and Alfred Marshall

1998-12-07 Thread Tom Walker
Star pupil valis asked: >Hmm, were Jacob and Esau somehow the first Marginal Utilitarians, >or am I getting my theorists mixed up? To do a proper job on this genealogy, we have to all the way back to Adam. Smith, that is. Adam begot David and James. David begot Karl. James begot Nassau, John a

[PEN-L:1308] Re: Jacob, Esau and Alfred Marshall

1998-12-07 Thread valis
Prof Walker assigns: > Essay question: Compare and contrast Thomas Mann's Joseph and his Brothers > and Alfred Marshall's Principles of Economics. Extra credit: use the words > 'elide' and 'palimpsest' in your essay. There was more to those definitions than I could stick on my gyp sheet, so I th

[PEN-L:1226] FW: THE G7 "SOLUTION" TO THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS: A MARSHALL PLAN FOR CREDITORS AND SPECULATORS

1998-12-04 Thread Robert Mac Diarmid
-Original Message- From: Discussions on the Socialist Register and its articles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Sid Shniad Sent: Thursday, December 03, 1998 2:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: THE G7 "SOLUTION" TO THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS: A MARSHALL PLAN FOR CRE