Lisa Ian Murray wrote:
So when will the campus shutdowns
begin in earnest :-)?
My resident expert on student activism tells me that the kids are "in
hiatus," but that things will pick up soon.
Speaking of which, said expert, Liza Featherstone, and I are
co-authors of a piece forthcoming
Lisa Ian Murray wrote:
So when will the campus shutdowns
begin in earnest :-)?
My resident expert on student activism tells me that the kids are "in
hiatus," but that things will pick up soon.
Trying to ameliorate the keg party deficit?
Speaking of which, said expert,
Greetings Economists,
Globalization means to me, a process of communications networks unifying
business forces across national boundaries through "conversational"
structures.See Manuel Castells 3 volumes of sociology published by U.C.
Berkeley. Especially the first volume, "The Rise of
Colin Danby wrote:
"Globalization" adds no analysis, it
simply moves us to a sort of mythic dimension in which visible events
are attributed to powerful spirits.
I like this a lot. I like what Paul Smith does with this in Millennial Dreams.
Doug
Since, perhaps not everyone has seen the whole SFBG interview with Doug:
http://www.sfbg.com/News/35/15/15bgiv.html
DH: I guess one of the more depressing aspects of political life in the last
20 years has been this absolute sense of resignation on the part of so much
of the left. But it seems
Colin wrote:
I asked my class this week what "globalization" was, a term almost all
of them said they had heard. The main idea that came back was
19th-century liberalism -- bigger markets, more trade, more competition.
that's why (contrary to Doug's impression), instead of using the word
Greetings Economists,
Colin Danby writes back,
Doyle writes,
I mean how it is that we won't go that direction that they explicitly tell
us they want to follow?
Colin replies here,
Huh? This is utterly bizarre logic. Why *will* "we" obey "them"? Why
*will* the future correspond to
