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on the Marxist theory of international trade, you might want to look
at Anwar Shaikh's work in SCIENCE AND SOCIETY a few years ago (I
don't have the reference here). His main element is a rejection
of the classical view of the determination of exchange rates. This
leads to a rejection of comparat
Dear pen-l,
Can't resist completing a reference to something that appeared
in Science & Society! Jim D. must have known I'd ring in.
The article by Anwar Shaikh, "Foreign Trade and the Law of
Value," was in two parts: Part I, Vol. 43, No. 3 (1979); Part II,
Vol. 44, No. 1 (1980).
I
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It has been an education to learn what progressive economists think and
>> talk about (on e-mail, at least!). I would be very interested to see the
>> same intelligence turned to the question of how North America (probably all
>> indust
dir
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Can anyone give me the full citation to Bertell Ollman's "Is there a
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be that they are intelligent mathematicians who do not understand the nature of
economic theory. Economic theoreticians are not interested in prices as any
merchant or trader would be. For economic theory, price is just a ch
Berkley Rosser wrote:
1) The argument that as one traces back "indirect energy"
(or whatever) each successive stage contributes less and therefore
one cannot have a model based on that does not hold. This is
true of labor as well. In a linear I-O model, any Sraffian basic
can in principle
NO WONDER THEY INTRODUCED COMPETITION!
"In a monopoly [environment] you tend to get steeped
in a tradition of trying to serve everyone,
regardless of their value to you."
--Roy Osing, BCTel Business Division Vice
President, quoted in the March 28 issue of
Barkley writes
<<
1) You are right that the way "indirect summation" must
not go to zero is for the "source of value" to be unproduced
and "external". This raises some serious issues. For example
the solution to labor heterogeneity as proposed by Allin
Cottrell is to view high-skill labor
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A couple of unrelated points. First, Anthony D'Costa made the following remark
recently, and I wonder if I could incite him to expand on it.
interpreted as progressive. In this sense Michael Perelman is
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Alan Issac asks if price competition might not be the
motive force behind innovation.
My objection to the term price competition is that it is a
superficial concept drawn from a problematic that focusses on the
interaction between agents buying and selling goods on the market.
But the fact that t
Marx's analysis of mechanisation focuses on the process of
real subordination of labour to capital, the process by which
the labour becomes subordinate to the machine. The analysis
divides the machine into three parts, a motive source, a tool
or active part, and a guiding mechanism. The decisive p
Recently Chris Barret wrote:
In addition to the AER paper by Persson and Tabellini that Gil
Skillman mentions, there is also a paper by Alberto Alesina and Dani
Rodrik in the May 1994 Quarterly Journal of Economics on the very
same subject, entitled "Redistributive POlitics and Economic Growt
I thought folks might be interested in this little polemic, which will
appear in tomorrow's (Jul 8) Financial Times letters column.
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"I'll buy your prediction of a death of the DP, ecxept that it is no more
'out of office (except for the presidency)' than the Republicans were
during the Reagan/Bush years."
Yes, but unlike the DP these days, the GOP has grass roots in the country
clubs, fundamentalist church
Yesterday's (Tuesday, Feb. 1) New York Times carries the following:
FED CHIEF IMPLIES A PRE-INFLATION RISE IN RATES
Washington, Jan. 31--The Federal Reserve chairman, Alan
Greenspan, strongly implied today that the central bank would
break with tradition and raise interest r
One of the old-time chairs of the Fed (Wm. Machesney Martin?) once
said that he saw his role as being to take away the punchbowl before
the party begins. Greenspan seems in that tradition.
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Perelman poses a question about the price of Nike
trainers produced in Indonesia. He asks why they are
not lower.
In the writings of Marx there is very little about foreign
trade. He is reputed to have intended to write a volume of
Capital on the subject, but died before starting the task. On
The some thoughts on the nature of the value metric
---
This is just an idea that I had about the nature of value as a metric
It is closely related to what Marx had to say about the nature of the
value form.
Consider the space made up of bundles of
Terry Allen, editor of Cover Action Quarterly, is looking for people to
write about the emerging global economic order - the WTO, G7, IMF, and the
rest of it. Anyone interested should contact her at 202-331-9763.
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From: Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler
To:all interested parties
Conference Panel on "THE CHANGING POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ARMS EXPORTS"
Planni
on the Marxist theory of international trade, you might want to look
at Anwar Shaikh's work in SCIENCE AND SOCIETY a few years ago (I
don't have the reference here). His main element is a rejection
of the classical view of the determination of exchange rates. This
leads to a rejection of comparat
Dear pen-l,
Can't resist completing a reference to something that appeared
in Science & Society! Jim D. must have known I'd ring in.
The article by Anwar Shaikh, "Foreign Trade and the Law of
Value," was in two parts: Part I, Vol. 43, No. 3 (1979); Part II,
Vol. 44, No. 1 (1980).
I
Ajit Sinha asks what problem I was trying to solve in my
posting on the nature of the value metric.
It is not so much what problem am I trying to solve, but what
problem am I able to discover.
What I am asking is whether there is a theoretical problem here in
the nature of the value metric. The
>I don't think I understand everything you say. But this does not mean that you
>should change your language; I don't mind groping. In anycase, as far as the
>empirical works are concerned, they may have some merits of their own but they
>cannot be used as
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It has been an education to learn what progressive economists think and
>> talk about (on e-mail, at least!). I would be very interested to see the
>> same intelligence turned to the question of how North America (probably all
>> indust
dir
Dear reader,
I understand that you are working on a petetion to limit the use of
clipper chips in electronic communication.
This issue interests me and I would like to hear your position
Thanks
Erik
Can anyone give me the full citation to Bertell Ollman's "Is there a
Marxian Ethic?" Thanks.
Marsh Feldman
Community Planning Phone: 401/792-2248
204 Rodman Hall FAX: 401/792-4395
University of Rhode Island Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Ajit writes I think, F & M's baby is still born. The problem may
be that they are intelligent mathematicians who do not understand the nature of
economic theory. Economic theoreticians are not interested in prices as any
merchant or trader would be. For economic theory, price is just a ch
Berkley Rosser wrote:
1) The argument that as one traces back "indirect energy"
(or whatever) each successive stage contributes less and therefore
one cannot have a model based on that does not hold. This is
true of labor as well. In a linear I-O model, any Sraffian basic
can in principle
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Doug Henwood:
>
>Of course South Korean growth wouldn't have been possible without support
>from the U.S., and even before the Vietnam war - Korean firms learned how
>to do large construction projects in part by building bases for the U.S.
>military in Korea itself. I share your admiration of Cub
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Subject: Re: In a NUTshell
Dear Tracy,
Please forward my comments on to the appropriate list.
Jim Craven wrote:
> >So of course a few hookers who attempt to sanitize it all with the
> >title s
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Dear Friends, Scholars, Activists,
The winter issue of SCIENCE & SOCIETY contains:
John L. Stanley, "Marx's Critique of Hegel's Philosophy
of Nature"
Alan Shandro, "Karl Kautsky on the Relation of Theory
and Practice"
Jerry Harris, "First Reaction: U.S. Communists & the
Khrushchev Revelation
Vox populi, according to the NYT:
But most people here said private sin has little to do with public
statesmanship. "I might not think of him[Clinton] as a good husband," said
Scott Inman, a 36-year-old warehouse worker, "but I approve of him as a
president."
And some might judge Clinton more
To whom...,
Late night reports of official Japanese reaction to the G7
communique on for-ex make the Japanese mind-set a little clearer. Either
they are playing it extremely cute or they are living in a dream world.
The latter seems more likely. The communique quite
Date:Sun, 29 Mar 98 16:39 LCL
From:PHILLPS
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<
Subject: Kosovo (corrected)
I had trouble with my e-mail and the previous post was cut
off and the last part garbled. So let me please correct it.
But this relates back to Barkley's message. From what I have
been a
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Sid,
I couldn't figure out what this guy's email address was to reply to him. Could
you dorward this reply?
Tim,
In 600 words I could only focus on the theme of corporate con
Michael Perelman wrote,
>Didn't Churchill and Roosevelt refer to him as Uncle Joe? As I recall
>the inventor of the condom left his estate to the Bolsheviks. His family
>appealed and his estate went to his three daughters. In order to reclaim
>their rightful wealth, the Bolsheviks dispatch the
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Anyone have ideas for this inquiry from another list?
anyone have any information on privatization of health care in
prisons?
thanks in advance
> Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 13:10:27 -0500
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> From: FM
Tim Stroshane wrote:
>
> anyone have any information on privatization of health care in
> prisons?
> On prisons, see John Donahue, The Privatization Decision (book), and
his report for EPI. A public administration prof, Van Johnston (can't
dance, as far as I know) at the Air Force Academy has do
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***CALL FOR PANELS***
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Dear Friends, Scholars, Activists,
Regarding LatAm reaction to FT defeat, I made the following notes for Doug
H. It might be of interest for the rest of the list, so here goes.
>Tom -
>
>Hmm, this might be interesting. How much attention is Bolivia paying to the
>fast track thing? How does Bolivia fit into proposals for LatAm int
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The sixteenth ann
On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, James Devine wrote:
> I thought that Heilbroner's NATION commentary on Mankiw was in many ways
> More interesting (to me, at least), was the criticism of Mankiw in BUSINESS
> WEEK: Mankiw leaves recessions, inflation, etc. to the end because he
> thinks they're unimportant a
Does American capitalism require that one-fourth of our children under
the age of six be raised in poverty, so that the number (and wealth
holdings) of millionaires can continue, maximally, their phenomenal
growth? It would seem so. If not, why did the real value of AFDC
payments fall by 45
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THE NATION, Vol. 259, No. 22, December 26, 1994, pp. 784-85.
TALKING UNION
Early results of the Worker Representation and Participation
Survey show a strong employee desire for more power in the
workplace, frustrati
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Is this Aristotle or Proyect? Worms and spiders are insects?
Computer science - A
Biology - F
Within insects, you have worms, spiders, moths, etc.
It is not that Engels misunderstood Marx. Marx unfolded a new law system.
Marx ame first. Engels agreed to the best of his ability. To continue.
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BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, MAY 13, 2002:
A sharp decline in food prices out-weighed the increase in gasoline and
tobacco prices, causing the producer price index to drop 0.2 percent in
April, compared with a 1.0 percent increase in March, according to the
Bureau of Labor St
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>[...] I have made no inductive
>leap, because I have read old Popper and don't use historical law theory, or
>predictions of the future. Therefore the status of these intervals is
>analogous to, say, the economic cycle. We look backward, measure economic
>facts, and see a p
<< so if Zhirinovsky says it's bad, it must be good? >>
I can think of worse rules of thumb.
But what I find so interesting here is how the Mark of fiction and the Mark
of social analysis so closely follow each there. Why it is almost down right
lit-crit pomo, to invoke a much overused stereoty
<< Leo, what on earth are you trying to say? >>
I has thought that the parallels between the oil/energy crises of your novels
and the imminent energy crisis you have been predicting here were pretty
obvious. Seems like fiction and social analysis seem to seamlessly fade into
each other...
Leo
Mark:
<< Did you read them? >>
I don't imagine any of us have read them yet. Just going by your publicists'
synopsis.
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It never has, and it never wi
I am still cut off from my normal access to e-mail.
I was thinking this morning about what would happen in the power of the US
relative to the IMF and World Bank were reduced by 99%. What would a
structural adjustment plan for the US look like?
Also, I thought that one good thing about the US a
Anti-racism Conference Expected to Reach Agreement on
Slavery Compensation: Official
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2001-08-14
Sipho Pityana, director-general of the South African
Foreign Affairs Department, said on Tuesday he was
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from the Boston Globe
Train stopped in Providence
Man arrested not connected to attacks, authorities say
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A man allegedly carrying a knife aboard an Amtrak train
was arrested Wednesday, but authorities said he had no apparent connection
to this week's terrorist attacks.
Trai
This is too much, but for a suggestion from a reader in Honolulu's
Honolulu Advertiser: Then again, it beats 'retaliate with the military'
ideas that have been floated thus far...
Fighting terrorism with our checkbooks
The nation sat riveted to the television on Sept. 11 as news of terrorist
at
Where I wrote
>There's no reason
to think that Marx understands "a bourgeois system of ethics"
to embrace the notion "that every commodity sells at its [labor]
value," and some significant reasons to believe to the contrary.
First, Marx associates the former primarily with *formal* (as opposed to
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