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2001-07-12 Thread Julio Huato
Michael Pugliese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I knew I should have phrased that differently! No. It's fair, Michael. And thank you for all the URLs. I have heard of de Soto before. Louis Proyect already honored me by associating me with him. But I haven't read him directly. Now I should. ___

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2001-07-12 Thread Julio Huato
michael pugliese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >This sounds like the "articulation of modes of production" >approach reviewed back in the late 70's in NLR by Aidan-Foster-Carter. >Another part of what Julio says sounds like to me like the Peruvian >economist touted by Mario Vargas Llosa, and the late

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2001-07-12 Thread David Shemano
The New York Times Magazine had a lengthy article about Hernando de Soto on July 1: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/01/magazine/01DESOTO.html?pagewanted=all What is especially interesting is that he is apparently catching on in various places: Aristide in Haiti and Mubarak in Egypt, among others,

RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: : Yet another take on Hubbert's peak

2001-07-12 Thread michael pugliese
This sounds like the "articulation of modes of production" approach reviewed back in the late 70's in NLR by Aidan-Foster-Carter. Another part of what Julio says sounds like to me like the Peruvian economist touted by Mario Vargas Llosa, and the late Richard Milhous Nixon, whose name I'm blank

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2001-07-09 Thread Ken Hanly
You brought the matter of tar sands up not me. You brought the matter up to show that there must be a crash.I quote: This is first of all and above all, an accumulation crisis, not a resource crisis. The oil will never run out, and most of even known, easily-accessible conventional oil reserves

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2001-07-09 Thread Ann Li
L:14847] Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: Yet another take on Hubbert's peak > > > > > At 01:19 PM 7/9/01 -0400, you wrote: > > > But I guess a glass at 50% capacity is always half empty. > > > > pessimist: the glass is half empty. > > > &g

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2001-07-09 Thread Ian Murray
> At 01:19 PM 7/9/01 -0400, you wrote: > > But I guess a glass at 50% capacity is always half empty. > > pessimist: the glass is half empty. > > optimist: the glass is half full. > > realist: it's half a glass of water. > > surrealist: it's a cow. > > Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http: