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1291 [lbo-talk] Corey Robin on AJE on Bluestocking panel -- rank: 1000

On Nov 15, 2011, at 11:09 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I have not read any of this material, but I would like to point out that the > issue is not what Corey R thinks but what his article says. That is very > often the case. Whether it is the case here or not others can debate. Yawn. The issue is that some people - two immediately come to mind - are quick to pounce on how a writer missed the points that are so obvious to them. Therefore the writer is a hack or a toady or something awful. May ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 15 08:19:15 PST 2011

1292 [lbo-talk] Corey Robin on AJE on Bluestocking panel -- rank: 1000

On Nov 15, 2011, at 10:12 AM, Eric Beck wrote: > On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >> >> On Nov 15, 2011, at 9:40 AM, shag carpet bomb wrote: >> >>> more like reinforces it by pretending as if what happens in "civil >>> society" has nothing to do with the state/market >> >> On what do you base that? > > It's clearly based on what he wrote. Did you read it? He's got > repressive ...

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1293 [lbo-talk] Corey Robin on AJE on Bluestocking panel -- rank: 1000

On Nov 15, 2011, at 9:40 AM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > more like reinforces it by pretending as if what happens in "civil > society" has nothing to do with the state/market On what do you base that? I know Corey very well. I've read his books, talked to him socially, and interviewed him several times. He's a very sophisticated guy. But I know it's more fun to pretend that he's a naif and you're the smarty-pants. Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 15 06:48:04 PST 2011

1294 [lbo-talk] Judge Halts Occupy Wall Street Crackdown -- rank: 1000

On Nov 15, 2011, at 9:35 AM, c b wrote: > Hours later, a judge granted a temporary restraining order prohibiting > the city from enforcing rules of the plaza that she said were > published "after the occupation began." Fun fact: the judge was the officiant at our wedding. Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 15 06:45:49 PST 2011

1295 [lbo-talk] HuffPo: Occupy Wall Street, Faces Of Zuccotti Park: The Columbia Economics Professor -- rank: 1000

On Nov 15, 2011, at 8:10 AM, Joseph Catron wrote: > Even before it became clear that the economy was streaking toward > disaster, Suresh Naidu figured something like this would happen. "It's > been no secret in economics that inequality has gone up, he said > recently. Naidu is a professor of economics at Columbia University, > and it seemed obvious to him that high inequality plus a high > unemployment rate would result in political turmoil. I'm proud to say that one of ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 15 05:49:47 PST 2011

1296 [lbo-talk] Corey Robin on AJE on Bluestocking panel -- rank: 1000

On Nov 15, 2011, at 12:10 AM, Eric Beck wrote: > I thought Robin's piece was unbearably smug. "I think you are shit, > but I'll heroically defend your right to be shit" is not my favorite > genre, with its disavowal of any sort of actual position. And then > what he proceeds to say about "private" repression vs. "public" > repression is a masterpiece in liberal hair-splitting. Oh please. I think Lennard is full of shit - which is not the same as sayin ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 15 05:45:25 PST 2011

1297 [lbo-talk] Doug Henwood declines offer to speak at Platypus panel -- rank: 1000

On Nov 14, 2011, at 1:14 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > Much better suited to designer earth shoes. Last time I did LSD, which was long ago, the guy sitting across from me turned into a platypus. I can't shake that image from my mind.

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Date:	Mon Nov 14 10:30:03 PST 2011

1298 [lbo-talk] Crisis of the Left: Doug Henwood, Mike Ely, Stephen Eric Bronner and many others speaking this week! -- rank: 1000

Not me, after all. http://lbo-news.com/2011/11/14/that-panel-im-out/ I just sent this note to the organizers of Wednesday s Platypus Crisis of the Left panel: On reflection, I ve decided to withdraw from Wednesday s panel. I ve had my reservations about the whole Platypus project for a long time, but in re-reading some of your material, which put words like imperialism and antiwar in scare quotes, those reservations deepened. But Chris Cutrone s comment on Facebook that Platypus aims mor ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 14 07:22:09 PST 2011

1299 [lbo-talk] Subject: Re: the political theater of the repressive state apparatus -- rank: 1000

On Nov 12, 2011, at 5:47 PM, Nicholas Roberts wrote: > lets not forget Reagan really got his start by smashing hippies in Berkeley These are very different times. The hippie thing came at the end of a long boom. Wages were rising for decades. Now, everyone's kind of miserable. There's not much of a generation gap, and alienation is a mass phenomenon. The eras just aren't comparable.

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Date:	Sat Nov 12 14:53:51 PST 2011

1300 [lbo-talk] Progressive articles on European financial crisis? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 12, 2011, at 5:27 PM, // ravi wrote: > I don t know what s on that link, but everything I know about the current European debacle I learned by listening to Doug Henwood and Yannis Varoufakis. I admittedly know very little, but that is no fault of the two mentioned gents. I recommend giving the relevant podcasts a good listen. > > ravi, brown-nosing my way to a 4-post quota :-) That'll get you everywhere, comrade! Doug

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Date:	Sat Nov 12 14:36:25 PST 2011

1301 [lbo-talk] Progressive articles on European financial crisis? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 12, 2011, at 4:07 PM, Rick wrote: > Hi -- can anyone recommend where I can go online to read a good, thorough, historical analysis of the financial crisis in Europe? I'm not trained in economics so I'd need something intended for the layperson. I know the standard right-wing perspectives and have been seeing it everywhere in the mainstream media, and I just read Paul Krugman's rebuttal of some of those claims in Friday's NYT, but I don't know where to get a solid, complete left-wing ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 12 13:28:50 PST 2011

1302 [lbo-talk] Occupy Harvard.... -- rank: 1000

On Nov 12, 2011, at 2:38 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > Hmmmm. > > http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2011/11/11/occupy-harvard-left-students/JIbtdEkZbiFU0bbcPVXywO/story.html A Harvard faculty member I know says that she's looking to use the Occupation to point up Harvard's role in the reproduction of privilege. Which is kind of obvious, I know, but I'm not her. Doug

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Date:	Sat Nov 12 11:48:06 PST 2011

1303 [lbo-talk] the last word on everything these days -- rank: 1000

MarketWatch www.marketwatch.com BULLETIN: Penn State's debt may be downgraded, Moody's says 11/11/2011 05:28:35 PM EDT Visit http://marketwatch.com/bulletins/redirect/go?g=3012F9B252F6419197383B8FFF96D47F&d=bnbt for updates to this story and more

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Date:	Fri Nov 11 14:41:50 PST 2011

1304 [lbo-talk] Historical Dollar-Pound Exchange Rate? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 11, 2011, at 4:05 PM, Charles Turner wrote: > Would I be right in thinking that the historical exchange rate for > dollars to the pound for September 1978 would be $1.96? Here, have the Fed do the work for you: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/data/EXUSUK.txt 1978-09-01 1.9595

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Date:	Fri Nov 11 14:03:36 PST 2011

1305 [lbo-talk] economics job at NYU -- rank: 1000

Assistant or Associate Professor in Business and Economics (tenure track) The Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University invites applications from scholars in the fields of Business and Economics broadly understood for the position of tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professor. The ideal candidate will be a scholar who approaches business and economics from a social scientific perspective (e.g. PhD in sociology, political science, economics, anthropology or a scholar of bu ...

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