Re: [PEN-L] Steven Levitt and the behaviorists

>Gassler Robert wrote: >> This is riminescent of the nonsense over altruism from a couple of decades >> back: whatever nice thing you do, it is really selfish underneath. Two >> references come to mind that counter this nonsense. David Collard's Altruism >> and economy showed the neoclassicals t

[PEN-L] Imperialist anthropology

I am not surprised about the report about the use of US anthropologists in the NY Times, but rather by the extraordinary lapses of memory by the profession, wreaked by an intense debate involving their members in the infamous Project Camelot. David Barkin Mexico ___

[PEN-L] Long Island lobster extinction related to global warming

What's Killing the Lobsters Of Long Island Sound? Argument on Global Warming's Role Comes to a Boil By Anthony Faiola Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, October 7, 2007; A01 LONG ISLAND SOUND, Conn. -- The trap buoys, orange and white, wink between the waves in this murky estuary, beckoning wi

[PEN-L] Tony Judt on liberal hawks

NY Times, October 7, 2007 Op-Ed Contributor From Military Disaster to Moral High Ground By TONY JUDT THE “liberal hawks” are back. These, of course, are the politicians and pundits who threw in their lot with George W. Bush in 2003: voting and writing for a “preventive war” — a war of choice th

Re: [PEN-L] Imperialist anthropology

david barkin wrote: > I am not surprised about the report about the use of > US anthropologists in the NY Times, but rather by the > extraordinary lapses of memory by the profession, > wreaked by an intense debate involving their members > in the infamous Project Camelot. When I was taking frosh a

Re: [PEN-L] Imperialist anthropology

Jim Devine wrote: When I was taking frosh anthropology at Yale 1970 or 1971, the prof, J.V. Murra (reputed to be a leftist) assigned a book, titled (I believe) "Life in the Barrio." It was a an example of "applied anthropology" (for either Venezuela or Colombia), in which anthro-tools were applie

Re: [PEN-L] Imperialist anthropology

I wasn't slamming Murra. It's possible that the book's value exceeded its down-side. I think Murra was one of the best profs I had at Yale. On 10/7/07, Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Devine wrote: > > When I was taking frosh anthropology at Yale 1970 or 1971, the prof, > > J.V. Mur

[PEN-L] the apple doesn't fall far from the tree /part 2

my son Guthrie wrote the following Xmas carol: [apologies for the spellng] Who gets away with surveillance worldwide? Who gets away with a billion break-ins each year? Why doesn't he have the law stalking him as he hides? Why don't they strike his little heart full of fear? I'll tell you why he st

[PEN-L] Colonial anthropology

Last Friday the New York Times reported that anthropologists have been working alongside the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan in order to make the occupation more effective: In this isolated Taliban stronghold in eastern Afghanistan, American paratroopers are fielding what they consider

[PEN-L] The Liberal Virus

I appreciate Louis Proyect's piece on Colonial Anthropology which I've sent on to an anthro listserv. They do not take kindly to criticism of Boas. . . I also just sent them this item which I send to PEN-L, the best listserv in the world! "The tyranny of the wage slave relationship, taken for g

[PEN-L] RECLAIMING MARX’S “CAPITAL” Book Launch

The New SPACE (The New School for Pluralistic Anti-Capitalist Education) Presents U.S. Book Launch RECLAIMING MARX’S “CAPITAL”: A REFUTATION OF THE MYTH OF INCONSISTENCYby Andrew Kliman Thursday, November 8 at 7:00 p.m. CUNY Graduate Center365 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan (between 34th & 35th Stre

Re: [PEN-L] "Intangible Wealth"

Jim Devine wrote: --- Shane Mage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In the invention of this inherently unobservable entity, they are merely following the methodology pioneered by that exemplar of modern science, Cosmology. To save the expanding universe/big bang dogma in the face of a flood of "

Re: [PEN-L] "Intangible Wealth"

Steve Houston wrote: Compared to this stuff, James Joyce might be a piker Wait a moment--these old Irishmen knew a thing or two. Not only was Joyce the first to know about quarks and that there are three of 'em, his predecessor Swift was the first to know about the moons of Mars, and that th

Re: [PEN-L] "Intangible Wealth"

Shane's post presents an important quandry. We economists often revert to dark matter -- unobserved forces that explain deviations from perfect competition. I was just reading The Cigarette Century, which details how the bastards sowed doubt and confusion about their cancer sticks by hiring "repu