The other interesting thing going on is the trivialization of the
campaign, with major statements being made about Kerry's donning of a
clean suit at NASA, debunking his mouth-to-mouth resuscitation of a
hamster, etc. I strongly suspect that the corporate media will be going
gung-ho for BUSH in
% increase in wages. The 3%
annual improvement factor (AIF) was actually lost during years of
concessionary contracts - 1980-1993, and "re-won" in the mid 1990s.
Correction
10% should be one percent. Contract negotiations took place
every three years until changed in the late 1990s
Sorry. Michael Ignatieff. George was his dad, a Canadian diplomat.
Salt Lake City was added
to the Baghdad article, this further comment from Tarek Hassoun was
omitted: But I'm sure he didn't run away.
snip
As Eric Umansky of Todays Papers points out, this correction fails to
mention the tiny bit of context that his purported desertion was what that
article
Maybe they could save space by having a small section of the paper reprinting the
material that did not need
to be retracted.
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 12:54:46PM -0400, Michael Pollak wrote:
They should create a new section entitled Retractions.
Michael
--
Michael Perelman
Economics
From: Michael Pollak [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[See comment at end]
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/01/pageoneplus/corrections.html
The New York Times
July 1, 2004
Corrections
... As Eric Umansky of Todays Papers points out, this correction fails to
mention the tiny bit of context that his purported
s property
relations. Lenin is very . . . very clear about this distinction and speak
repeatedly of it in his assessment of the national question.
Correction
In other words when the genocidal wars of extermination was
launched against the Indians and after their brutal conquest there did
In a message dated 6/22/2004 4:41:39 PM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It gets deeper because Comrade Marx - an unyielding champion
against tyrants, advanced a specific proposition concerning what he called the
bureaucracy. After over thirty years engaging the
Wrong URL, sorry
http://thewolfatthedoor.blogspot.com
It's the simple things that give us the most
trouble
Game Theory should have been the title of my previous post.
By the way, that I do not like Game Theory has nothing to do with that I am
a Leftist.
But it has a lot to do with that I am an Easterner.
Best,
Sabri
In a message dated 4/10/2004 7:23:03 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The world sewage system - even in the most modern countries, is configured on the basis of man existing in a pathological condition (embedded with ancient and modern forms of property expressed in our
I should have written "might not decades of support for imperialism . .
by organized labor..."
Michael Yates
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From: MICHAEL YATES
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2004 2:55
PM
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Third World
Resistance and Western
"since global warming has accompanied, step for step, increases
infossil fuel use"
should read "has not
accompanied...
Anyway enough about that-- Interested if
anyone else saw Fuse and/or Vodka Lemon at theFilm
Center/MOMA new directors film festival?
I thought they were both great
My previous post went to the list with a wrong title,
because I just hit the reply button to an old message
to save myself from typing the list address.
By the way, I hate to fight with people on the net
and I apologize for furthering this stupid debate in
a public domain.
Best,
Sabri
I wrote:
But this story has another implication. As I have said previously, the
perfect crime is the crime which is not a crime since then it considered a
crime, and can be prosecuted legally as such.
That should obviously be:
But this story has another implication. As I have said previously,
I wrote:
But this story has another implication. As I have said previously, the
perfect crime is the crime which is not a crime since then it
considered a crime, and can be prosecuted legally as such.
That should obviously be:
But this story has another implication. As I have said previously,
Chris comments: BTW [the author, John Dolan] not Russian; he's a US
citizen who taught English in Auckland, NZ, for several years and then
relocated to Moscow. His wife is a New Zealander.
J.
I wrote:
Total federal employees 1.8 (domestic overseas)
Should be: not 1.8 but 1.8 million.
Because US capitalist society is a competitive society based on business and
government secrets, rivalry and lack of nationwide coordination or planning
in most fields (i.e. the closed-off society
Excuse the error, please, 10 million not 20 million.
For more check:
http://www.epinet.org/newsroom/embargoed/bp-flsa-e.pdf
dms
I wrote:
In the meantime, wise men which consult about how to continue the system of
exploitation for the long haul.
It should be:
In the meantime, wise men will consult about how to continue the system of
exploitation for the long haul.
J.
The following reference in Jurriaan's message on unequal exchange does
not exist. The only article Anwar wrote for that book was the one on
transformation problem. However, the revised version of the Science and
Society articles on international trade and unequal exchange was later
published in
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Subject: [PEN-L] Correction and the others on unequal exchange.
The following reference in Jurriaan's message on unequal exchange does
not exist. The only article Anwar wrote for that book was the one on
transformation
Power Trip website: http://www.powertripthemovie.com
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I quoted Powell as follows:
His On War, written 106 years before I was born, was light a beam of light
from the
past, still illuminating present-day military quandaries.
That should be like a beam of light. I ought to spellcheck the message
before I send it I suppose.
J.
Apologies on the mischaracterization of Robert Pollin's topic - it's
the 1990s boom and after, not the Bush revolution in foreign policy
http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html.
Doug
The Fidel Castro article I referred to was actually by Fernando Morais, in
Penthouse, December 1978 issue (a collector's item these days). Tad Szulc
wrote mainly on American subversion of foreign governments as I recall,
although he later also published a biography of Castro. Oui magazine also
Castro has a great sense of humor and gives great interviews. In one of
the interviews you mention, he is asked whether there could be a
socialist revolution in the U.S. He denies the possibility citing the
undermining power of advertising on Americans' ability to desire
something (for example,
In a message dated 12/14/03 7:25:48 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The Fidel Castro article I referred to was actually by Fernando Morais, in
Penthouse, December 1978 issue (a collector's item these days). Tad Szulc
wrote mainly on American subversion of foreign governments
Typo. A bit blurry I guess. I wrote:
Anthropology texts from the early twentieth century detail
how among the Ashanti of Ghana, and in Afghanistan, an adulteress was
chastised by the serving of her nose,
serving should be severing.
J.
I wrote:
...future exploitation is best left to specialists.
That should of course be ...future exploitation is best left to specialists,
and what the specialists actually do, should be shrouded in ultimate
mystery, authority must have its mystique. For example, a war is fought in
Iraq. Why is
The above should have been the title of my previous
post.
Sabri
(K-K')/K should be (K'-K)/K. Typo, I didn't put the dash in correctly
(obviously this refers to the rate of accumulation expressed as the growth
in the value of the capital stock in real terms, rather than the rate of
reinvestment of realised surplus-value, and not the nelimination of the Klux
I wrote:
Your RP is an average value RP pertaining to the sphere of
production only, but quantitatively its magnitude depends a lot on the
definition of (Uf) (whether it enters in the nominator or denominator, since
if it does not enter in the denominator, it enters into the nominator; an
Planning as a property relation and socialism is a political form of property, means reproduction outside of the law system that compels private capital to follow a circuit of profitability.Should read:Planning IS NOT a property relation and socialism as a political form of property, means
Union and
high technology: Correction
Should read:Planning IS NOT a property relation and
socialism as a political form of property, means reproduction outside of
the law system that compels private capital to follow a circuit of
profitability.
I wrote:
If the monetary system were to break down
radically, as has happened at various intervals in history, then simple
reproduction can still occur through barter and countertrade, all that
really happens, is that new terms of exchange are established, and some
people are relieved of their
In the list of corporations I cited, two spelling errors slipped in:
Randstand Detache - 254,000
KNP Telecom -38,000
Randstand should be Randstad, this is a corporation which hires out
detache's and temporary workers to other companies. KNP Telecom should be
KPN Telecom. The original state-owned
I wrote:
His [i.e. Marx's] discussion of the capitalist production process and its
social relations on the assumption of unequal exchange, is intended to
reveal precisely that
which the observable surface appearance of the competitive market hides or
inverts, and cannot reveal.
Typo, That should
I wrote:
But I know what you are talking about, because in 1991 my landlord caught me
reading Marx and said to be Yeah, I knew a Marxist once and he was
constantly drunk and unhappy.
1991 should be 1981 - typo.
J
I wrote:
6. THE PRIVATE DEBT: FOUR-FIFTHS OF GDP
That should be:
6. THE TOTAL FOREIGN DEBT: FOUR FIFTHS OF GDP
(I am still working on the foreign private debt issue)
J.
I wrote:
The United States accounts for more than half the total value of arms
transfer agreements with the Near East during the 1993-2000 period,
somewhere around US$55.
That should be:
US$55 billion (this is a guesstimate indicating the order of magnitude, not
a precise figure, but somewhere
Jeez, I'm losing it. I wrote:
See for instance her essay Stagnation and Progress of Marxism (1903),
first published in 1927 by David Riazanov,
the original director of the Marx-Engels Institute founded in 1920 in
Moscow.
Should be:
See for instance her essay Stagnation and Progress of Marxism
In a previous mail about the use of books, I wrote:
Rosa Luxemburg, Isaac Deutscher and Ernest Mandel all remarked upon the
fact, that even among selfstyled Marxists in the 1920s, Marx's magnum opus
had mostly not been read beyond the first volume or extracts thereof.
In fact, Rosa lived from
I wrote:
However, this is a reactive, after-the-fact morality, based on
extrapolations which have already occurred
That should be:
However, this is a reactive, after-the-fact morality, based on
extrapolations from events which have already occurred...
It could of course be the case, that a
I referred to non-profit local government work, that is obviously a wrong
formulation, since many local government functions are privatised,
semi-privatised or contracted out to private enterprise. It is just that
where I worked, it was mainly non-profit.
Local government agencies often have low
Actually, my sister didn't work for a Fletcher Challenge company in
Christchurch, but rather for a Brierley Investments company, a bookstore
called Whitcoulls, originally Whitcombe Tombs.
Brierley was an authorative expert in the rationalisation of capital in New
Zealand. His method of primitive
Apologies, important sections were somehow excluded from the text that was
previously forwarded:
International Conference The work of Karl Marx and challenges for the
XXI Century - Second Call for Papers
The Institute of Philosophy of the Ministry of Science, Technology and
Environment of
The market rebound. Now they are saying that the market was overdue a
correction. What rubbish. When they dont know our experts drag out the
correction word. A code for we dont know.
Karl Carlile
Communism Site:
http://homepage.eircom.net/~beprepared/
h ... correction has a pretty precise meaning in this context, which
technical analysis bores like me would agree is overused, but was probably
appropriate in this case.
The point is that part of the reason for the fall was that there had been
short selling. By yesterday, the shorts had
Doesn't the term market correction (rebound) work like the description of
the Middle East peace process -- suggesting a hope rather than
information?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Michael Perelman wrote:
Doesn't the term market correction (rebound) work like the description of
the Middle East peace process -- suggesting a hope rather than
information?
No. As DD pointed out, a correction is a move counter to the larger
trend. A correction in a bull market is a downdraft
to a
tatonnement process which does not affect the conclusion that stock market
investors in general set prices rationally.
dd
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From: Doug Henwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 25 July 2002 16:42
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L:28473] Re: Re: RE: Market correction
Michael
everyday i hear/read pundits (financial analysts, market analysts,
MBAs, consultants, commentators, etc) speak forth on the stock
market collapse caused by the tech bubble that we (as they say)
all fell prey to. but iirc it was they that created the bubble
and assured us that it was justified.
At 12:52 PM 07/25/2002 -0400, you wrote:
everyday i hear/read pundits (financial analysts, market analysts,
MBAs, consultants, commentators, etc) speak forth on the stock
market collapse caused by the tech bubble that we (as they say)
all fell prey to. but iirc it was they that created the bubble
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 9:52 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:28481] Re: RE: Re: Re: RE: Market correction
everyday i hear/read pundits (financial analysts, market analysts,
MBAs, consultants, commentators, etc) speak
At 07:33 AM 07/25/2002 +0100, you wrote:
The market rebound. Now they are saying that the market was overdue a
correction. What rubbish. When they dont know our experts drag out the
correction word. A code for we dont know.
Karl Carlile
Communism Site:
http://homepage.eircom.net/~beprepared
To take an example, I think Pete Seeger's songs had much greater influence
on working class consciousness...than any utopian novel.
I'm spacing...I meant Woodie Guthrie.
Joanna
joanna bujes wrote:
To take an example, I think Pete Seeger's songs had much greater
influence on working class consciousness...than any utopian novel.
I'm spacing...I meant Woodie Guthrie.
Joanna
Nmm, well regardless of what folk music represents today, there was a
time
I just re-read the David Felix Foreign Policy in Focus article and realized
it was from September 2001, so of course he doesn't mention events in
December!!
My apologies,
Alan
At 10:57 AM 12/27/2001 -0400, you wrote:
Well, in the case of Argentina, I think it is quite clear when it stopped
* For more info, contact the Committee for Justice at the Ohio State
University in Palestine at 614-668-6554.
Sorry for a mix-up in cutting pasting, but the name of the org
should of course have been the Committee for Justice in Palestine at
the Ohio State University. Now, I need some
oops, i just noticed where I wrote 'Non-American', I meant to wrtie
'non-Arab American'.
Steve
There was a typo in the URL for the Layard paper. Here is the corrected URL:
Welfare-to-Work and the Fight Against Long-term Unemployment, a report to
Prime Ministers Blair and D'Alema and the Council of Europe, March 2000
http://cep.lse.ac.uk/welfare.pdf See also
I have no idea what traditional societies means to you. I am talking
about how the Blackfoot lived in 18th century Montana. When there was a
particularly brutal winter, some people starved. However, there was such NO
thing as infectious diseases (I am leaving aside smallpox blankets.) That
came
Penners
Spare a thought for two elderly philanthropists...
Number's up for Murdoch/Packer venture
The Guardian - United Kingdom, May 31, 2001
BY PATRICK BARKHAM IN SYDNEY AND DAVID TEATHER
The heirs to the Murdoch and Packer media empires suffered a humiliating
blow to their reputations
G'day Michael,
Mr Rich and Mr Keeling further antagonised their paymasters by
awarding themselves multimillion dollar bonuses last year.
Yeah, about $14.5 million. Unfortunate, that - as the word is that this is
just about the amount of the accumulated entitlements that the company's
Sabri, the people demonstrating in the streets are not really interested in
a discussion about the feasibilty of socialism versus capitalism, I would
surmise. The single event that seems to have energized the recent PROTESTS
was
a florist hurling an empty cash register at Ecevit.
Louis Proyect
I apologize for mislabeling the source of the
article in question. Here is a full and exact citation.
Melvin W. Reder, "The Anti-Semitism of Some
Eminent Economists," History of Political Economy,
Winter 2000, volume 32, no. 4, pp. 833-856.
Barkley Rosser
Where it reads in my posting,
(from 100 billion computing communications now to 10 trillion in
2012) 100 billion ought to be 800 billion.
En relación a [PEN-L:2288] Re: Re: Re: The US buys democracy fo,
el 25 Sep 00, a las 21:22, Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky dijo:
What would they say if, for example, Pinochet lavishly funded a pro-
Russian party for the American elections? Or would they, in the end,
prefer to vote for "their
From: "Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date sent: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 22:27:30 -0300
Subject:[PEN-L:2294] A correction (was Re: Re: Re: The US buys
democracy for Yugoslavia.
En relación a [PEN-L:22176] Re: kargarlitsky on Russian sociolo,
el 24 Jul 00, a las 21:12, Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky dijo:
Where I wrote,
... We should not forget that,
historically, emulation with the West emptied Soviet ideology of
that
basic component of Lenin's (and Stalin's to a
Title: Re: [PEN-L:20674] Typo correction, Re: Re: Re: Re: Concerning Wynne Godley
Greetings Economists,
I felt the need to restate what C. Gregory asked to M. Perelman. I failed to put a question mark in the sentence where I meant it. See below for correction.
Christian Gregory
I get
Doyle, maybe I did not understand the question. The ultimate result
of the bonds coming due would be that households would be holding money
rather than bonds. They could use the money to buy other assets,
but the could not add to their holdings of bonds because the gov't would
not be offering
I wrote,
Camouflaged fish that swim blythly into the maw of the predator on the
pretext that their camouflage gives them immunity are indeed "something
else altogether . . ." A meal.
Correction: I should have said a snack.
Tom Walker
book. One at http://www.marxmail.org/sol_genora.jpg depicts the two authors
in 1944, with Roy Snowden to their right.
Snowden is actually to the left.
Louis Proyect
Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org/
Attempts in Guatemala under Arbenz, Dominican Republic under Bosch,
Nicaragua under the Sandinistas, Chile under Somoza to foster economic
growth...
---
This obviously was meant to be: Attempts in Guatemala under Arbenz,
Dominican Republic under Bosch, Nicaragua under the Sandinistas, Chile
Meanwhile, the rabbi has also instructed MEIR to end his marriage with
Rivka. The fact that she has not been able to conceive is regarded as a sin
by the close-knit community and it is time for him to live up to his
responsibility as a Jew. In their world, men are brought into the world to
study
Andre G. Frank's home-page is at http://csf.colorado.edu/archive/agfrank/
Louis Proyect
(http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)
This heading:
1. URBAN OR RURAL ORIGINS OF AGRICULTURE?
should obviously have read:
1. URBAN OR RURAL ORIGINS OF CAPITALISM?
Louis Proyect
(http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)
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From: LISN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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Subject: Leonard's Book: Urgent Correction for Book Orders
Leonard's Book: Urgent Correction for Book Orders
Please Note: We just received the following notice
When you really get down to it, the base/superstructure model is nearly
useless when you are doing sophisticated class analysis of societies past
or present. Right now I am taking a close look at the late 17th and early
18th century in order to understand what Leibniz stood for. David Harvey,
Greetings from Scotland, and thanks to Lou for his comments and analysis,
which seldom fail to be interesting and are usually pertinent, if not
always 100% accurate.
On accuracy, I'll just mention that the department at Duke that has
"imploded" is not the Literature Program (at which I did, and
I wrote,
well as level). IN HER EXECUTIVE SUMMARY, Baran simply stated that "Most of
the evidence, however, concludes that adverse employment effects do not
persist in the long run." Technically, her statement is correct because most
of the studies surveyed were old and ignored the structure of
In my last post--I hope it is my last-- there is a "not" missing. I
should have said why "wouldn't" Summers have written another memo
immediately (when he learned about the other memo).
CHeers, Ken Hanly
Then the total labour cost with 90 employed workers and 1% unemployed is
That should have read 10 unemployed.
Regards,
Tom Walker
^^^
#408 1035 Pacific St.
Vancouver, B.C.
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It is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Protests should be directed to:
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Louis Proyect
(http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)
I wrote,
Most of the increases in assets shown in these tables resulted from the gain
in asset prices but between 1995 and 1997 there were also annual net inflows
of new retirement money into mutual funds of between 85 and 107 billion
dollars.
I should clarify that I didn't mean to say the net
On Louis Proyect's long missive in which I and others were quoted and
my background described, I would like to make one correction so that
there is no misrepresentation--due in no way to Louis.
I am a member of the Blackfoot Confederacy whose Blackfoot
blood-quantum has been acknowledged
Correction/Addendum:
Actually the harassment against my family continued right up to July
23, 1991 the day my father died--and even after, with notes
celebrating my father's death.
The night before my father decided he was going to cross the line he
and I sat up late to talk about it. My
I made an error in my long post on Wah'habism. The
owner of Achnacarry Castle at which the Red Line Agreement
of 1928 dividing up the world for the oil majors was owned
by the Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell, but he was Sir Henri
Deterding, not Walter Teagle. Teagle was in attendance as
correction: shouold read NOT free on line 7 para 3
On 18 Aug 98 at 10:14, James Michael Craven wrote:
G'day Rob,
I agree with what you are saying. And further, I must say that I
believe that Monica was--from what I can see and with the caveat I
may be wrong and am open to counter
How embarrassing.
The announcement of the LBO-talk l*st I sent out the other day had a typo
in it, in the TO JOIN section, rendering my advice nearly useless. The
corrected portion follows.
TO JOIN Write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the command
subscribe lbo-talk
in the
DM1880.2 bn does not equal = $1106bn but $1044 bn, as
the bottom line says. If anyone has a spreadsheet with the exact
currency spot rates, I should be interested to see a more refined
calculation. But the essential point remains: after 17 years of
Thatcherite 'restructuring', UK pc incomes are
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 06:16:20 -0100
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GPDI_GERAKAN PENDUKUNG DEMOKRATISASI DI INDONESIA
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In general I see a tendency to let capitalism's
moral crimes and despoilation of the environment
obscure the advances it brought in terms of
productive capacity. The latter doesn't justify
the former, but the former does not negate the
latter either.
Cheers,
MBS
OK, yes. But why the
From: Thomas Kruse [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In general I see a tendency to let capitalism's
moral crimes and despoilation of the environment
obscure the advances it brought in terms of
productive capacity. The latter doesn't justify
the former, but the former does not negate the
The more relevant question with concern to the environment and hunter/gatherer
societies (including native americans) is whether their way of life is really
ecologically stable. In other words, there is the idea that the rise to
agriculture is
inevitable (but not because of self-organizing
PJM0930 wrote:
The more relevant question with concern to the environment and
hunter/gatherer
societies (including native americans) is whether their way of life is
really
ecologically stable. In other words, there is the idea that the rise to
agriculture is
inevitable (but not because of
Date sent: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 13:01:13 -0600 (CST)
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On Thu, January 29, 1998 at 07:23:19 (EST) PJM0930 writes:
What thi
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