[PEN-L] Internal Relations [was tobin's q & oil}

2005-07-06 Thread Charles Brown
From: Ted Winslow Here is another elaboration of the idea of social relations as internal relations from the German Ideology. ^ CB: I was starting to think that internal relations _are_ social relations, as when you say: "Relations are internal where the essence of the individual is the o

Re: [PEN-L] Senator Obama Speech

2005-07-06 Thread Waistline2
My memory stammers but my soul bears witness. Between the years 1974 and 1978 - when Doug Frasier was President of the UAW (Auto workers union), we raised and demonstrated in downtown Detroit on behave of portable pensions or what we called at the time "portability."   The circumstance was that

Re: [PEN-L] Senator Obama Speech

2005-07-06 Thread Waistline2
Senator Obama's speech to the Knox College Commencement Galesburg, Illinois Saturday, June 4th, 2005 is profound in its summation of this moment in American history and highlighting powerful economic and social currents in the world today.   For comrades outside the American Union (and this Unio

[PEN-L] Ahmadinejad: "un hombre muy joven y comprometido con su pueblo y por las luchas por la soberanía y la autodeterminación"

2005-07-06 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
In addition to calling and congratulating Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whom he had met before when he visited Iran, Hugo Chávez has publicly saluted Ahmadinejad as "un hombre muy joven y comprometido con su pueblo y por las luchas por la soberanía y la autodeterminación" and congratulated the Iranian peop

Re: [PEN-L] More bad news

2005-07-06 Thread Jeffrey Fisher
On 7/6/05, Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Even worse, the numbers are skewed because some of the schools don't offer > undergrad > business degrees, so students take econ. instead. i think you're right. can't we correlate these numbers with business major numbers for a better pictu

[PEN-L] Ford, Chrysler follow GM's discount lead

2005-07-06 Thread Charles Brown
Here's a novel idea. Lower prices to boost sales. Charles ^^^ Ford, Chrysler follow GM's discount lead Automakers offer employee pricing incentives July 6, 2005 BY JAMIE BUTTERS FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER The success of General Motors Corp's. popular employee-pricing program, which boos

Re: [PEN-L] Ford, Chrysler follow GM's discount lead

2005-07-06 Thread Michael Perelman
I am surprised that this did not happen long ago with rampant overcapacity in the industry. If this continues, the automobile industry might well come to resemble the airline industry, with shakeouts, takeovers, and bankruptcies. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State Univers

[PEN-L] Bush speech recap

2005-07-06 Thread Dan Scanlan
Pascal Riché, a journalist for the French Daily "Liberation" has kindly posted on his blog a synopsis of the speech by Bush at Fort Bragg, leaving in only those most important words that conveyed the core of the message that Karl Rove wanted to get across to the American people. Note, all of t

[PEN-L] Halliburton

2005-07-06 Thread Michael Perelman
Our friends, according to today's Wash. Post, got $7.6 billion in fiscal year 2004. Shouldn't this give pause to those who call for efficiencies through privatization? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.cs

[PEN-L] The Property Time Bomb

2005-07-06 Thread Louis Proyect
http://www.marxist.com/Economy/property-time-bomb280605.htm The Property Time Bomb By Michael Roberts The world capitalist economy is being held up like Atlas by just two forces: US household spending and Chinese manufacturing production. If either or both of these should die, then world capita

[PEN-L] Interview with famous economist

2005-07-06 Thread michael perelman
* * *BIG DOGS EAT FIRST: THE FALSE ECONOMICS OF ELECTRICITY DEREGULATION—AN INTERVIEW WITH DR. EUGENE P. COYLE, ENERGY ECONOMIST* San Francisco, October 20, 2001 DB: How did you get interested in public power? It is not a common interest among economists. EPC: As a young man I was a member

Re: [PEN-L] Interview with famous economist

2005-07-06 Thread Max B. Sawicky
[applause] Link please. mbs -Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of michael perelman Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 4:37 PM To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Subject: [PEN-L] Interview with famous economist * * *BIG DOGS EAT FIRST: THE FALSE ECONOMICS OF ELE

[PEN-L] fists fly over WTO

2005-07-06 Thread Autoplectic
Fists fly as Ukraine parliament debates WTO entry Wed Jul 6, 2005 6:38 PM BST By Olena Horodetska KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's liberal government pressed on with legis

[PEN-L] when money disappears

2005-07-06 Thread Autoplectic
[perhaps they could set Jack Blum and R.T. Naylor on the case.] [for full piece] So, Mr Bremer, where did all the money go? At the end of the Iraq war, vast sums of money were made

Re: [PEN-L] Internal Relations [was tobin's q & oil}

2005-07-06 Thread Autoplectic
On 7/6/05, Charles Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the "intuitive" in "direct intuitive observation" ? > - Ah, but it's axiomatic to some that neither "intuitive" nor "direct intuitive observation" can be analyzed in terms of any "thing" more fundamental than themse

[PEN-L] Blair ascendant over Chirac

2005-07-06 Thread Chris Burford
A senior civil servant in the UK is said to have remarked that no-one can feign sincerity like Tony Blair. The dramatic Olympic win for London over Paris (and New York) at the moment when Blair flew back early to chair the G8 is his apotheosis as world leader in front of all the others. It is no