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Over the last few days, I have been watching some screeners that have been
sitting around on my shelves for the past couple of years or so. Six of
them date from the 2005 Asian Film Festival in NYC, of which four are not
worthy of comment. The remaining two are something special. Although they
wer
Cy Gonick is a PEN-L'er who taught economics at the University of Manitoba
and who is the editor of Canadian Dimension, a magazine that has published
a number of my articles. His son Noam has a film about Canadian Indians
that is reviewed in the Village Voice, which doesn't care for it very much.
The economies of some of the poorest nations of the world depend
on the fishing industry for food and international/regional trade.
BBC NEWS / SCIENCE/NATURE
Wednesday, 4 January 2006, 18:33 GMT
'Critical danger' warning on fish
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/4581428.stm
Deep se
On capital allocation:
1. one idea is that with perfect competition capital flows to best uses
first, then to less lucrative projects, and so 'on the margin' productivity
of capital and the rate of profit fall. In the extreme, the rentier is
euthanized as capital becomes so plentiful that the ra
Max is spot on. Marx seemed to have excessive strength in reason.
Even the workers' false consciousness was supposed to be temporary.
The only irrational is that capitalists get wiped out by new tech.
before they can recover their costs in long lived fixed capital. But
the dot.com boom does not s
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Very early this morning (jet lag will do this to you), I watched "Chop
Socky: Cinema Hong Kong," a one hour documentary on the IFC cable channel
(don't go to their theater in NYC--they use non-union projectionists.) It
revealed how important creative in
On 1/4/06, Max Sawicky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The third is embodied in this fragment I picked up today:
>
> "Hedge funds so flush with cash that they are lending money into a
> commercial real estate bubble, bidding up the price of gold and financing
> hostile takeovers."
>
> http://www.wash
Autoplectic wrote:
The sentence in the article before your quote is even more pertinent:
"A corporate sector unable to find a more profitable use for its
record retained earnings than buying up its own stock or overpaying
for questionable acquisitions."
[Interested readers can consult Susan St
But in this case the sellers of the stock have to do something else with the
proceeds, so it doesn't quite resolve the question, does it?
Autoplectic wrote:
>The sentence in the article before your quote is even more pertinent:
>
>"A corporate sector unable to find a more profitable use for its
On 1/4/06, Max B. Sawicky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But in this case the sellers of the stock have to do something else with the
> proceeds, so it doesn't quite resolve the question, does it?
>
>
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Welcome to the paradoxes of capitalist accumulation! :-)
Autoplectic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Welcome to the paradoxes of capitalist accumulation! :-) It's only a paradox if you believe there needs to be an identity between two very different concepts of capital, one of which is an accumulation of surplus value and the other a capitalization of a
On 1/4/06, Sandwichman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's only a paradox if you believe there needs to be an identity between
> two very different concepts of capital, one of which is an accumulation of
> surplus value and the other a capitalization of a future income stream.
> Rather than an ide
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