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30001 calling in loans -- rank: 1000

eric dorkin wrote: >If the Shrub started to make policy based on the >position of Saturn, then you might have to. For >crying out loud, we are still arguing over evolution. How much does Shrub justify policy on the basis of neoclassical econ? It's all about rewarding his friends - clearcut the national forests, break unions, cut wages, drill in ANWR, cut the taxes of centimillionaires, etc. Insofar as they use any theory to justify it, it's bastard supply-side-ism, with a few supply an ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 27 07:42:53 PDT 2002

30002 calling in loans -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Yes, many things are but most theories do not presume to prove efficiency. >All Sraffa was showing was that profits were indeterminate, and that with >a different profit rates, you get different prices. No big deal unless >you buy into neo-classical orthodoxy. More realistically, all sorts of >thing influence profit rates -- including the legal environment. Yup, which is why I never thought it was worth the trouble. Maybe I just don't find refuting neocl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 26 15:59:41 PDT 2002

30003 calling in loans -- rank: 1000

No, I read the Cambridge Controversy book and some other stuff some years ago. But I'm not persuaded that mutual determinations are fatally flawed - aren't lots of things in social life like that? Doug Michael Perelman wrote: >Wow. It took economists until 1960 to figure that out. Well, Sraffa began >in the 20's but only published in 60. > >On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 06:26:38PM -0400, Doug Henwood wrote: >> Michael Perelman wrote: >> >> >The importance of reswitc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 26 15:44:39 PDT 2002

30004 calling in loans -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >The importance of reswitching is that it shows that the marginal >productivity of capital is invalid as a macroeconomic concept. Because of the circularity problem? How can the value of capital be determined by the value of output, and simultaneously the value of output by the value of capital? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 26 15:26:38 PDT 2002

30005 Hitchens: Hawks in the dovecote -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >This war would be a senseless, useless slaughter Whew. I was worried. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 26 15:23:52 PDT 2002

30006 SA cops go nuts, vigorous counter-protest -- rank: 1000

[It's weird to be defending the IFG, but this is outrageous.] <http://southafrica.indymedia.org/> Social Movements Indaba Marches Against Repression JOHANNESBURG 24 AUGUST 10pm - Last night over 1000 people marched towards the Johannesburg Central police station (called Thabo Mbeki-John Vorster square to highlight the repressive continuity between the ANC government and the Apartheid state) demanding an end to the arrests and deportation of anti-capitalist activists. The march comes in the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 26 13:27:55 PDT 2002

30007 office space in NYC -- rank: 1000

Anyone interested in renting the office space next to mine, let me know. Would accommodate 2-4 people, fairly private, highly congenial surroundings, excellent lower Manhattan location. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 26 13:23:15 PDT 2002

30008 DeLong: America's Date With Deflation -- rank: 1000

Jeffrey Fisher wrote: >On Monday, August 26, 2002, at 12:32 PM, Ian Murray wrote: > >> >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Bradford DeLong" <jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu> >>Surely we should struggle to preserve pre-modernist, modernist, >>>and post-modernist High Culture as parts of our Plan for Human >>>Liberation, shouldn't we? >>> >>>Brad DeLong >>================ >> >>A Picasso in every ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 26 11:38:21 PDT 2002

30009 calling in loans -- rank: 1000

Bradford DeLong wrote: >I'm still mulling over whether "reswitching" and associated >Cambridge stuff that is barely less deadly than the transformation >problem is an important critique of Solow, or the equivalent of >Giffen goods. I mean, you need a *really* weird cash flow profile >for "reswitching" to become relevant, don't you? I once tried earnestly to comprehend the reswitching debate, but it seemed obscure and scholastic (in the bad sense) - pretty much ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 26 11:04:23 PDT 2002

30010 jewish sensitivity? -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >it would do us all well to develop a sensitivy to our rotten racial >history and its present impact, at least to the level that some of us >still seem to insist on re historic jewish suffering, which happened in >other places, in other times. Again I ask - why the implication that it's an either/or matter? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 26 10:09:25 PDT 2002

30011 Raimondo does Hitchens -- rank: 1000

RangerCat67 at aol.com wrote: >The implication being that Stalin had good intentions? As Hitch once said, in response to the standard Stalin = Hitler equivalence, "At least with Stalin, he was betraying something." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 26 10:05:30 PDT 2002

30012 Richard Posner seems to get stupider every day -- rank: 1000

Too bad Justin isn't here to tell us how smart Posner is. - Doug dave dorkin wrote: >from atrios: > >Richard Posner, who seems to get stupider every day, >had this to say this morning on NPR about the tension >between liberty and security. > >Judge POSNER: If the country feels it's in danger, >yeah, there are going to be abuses and excesses, but >that's life. > >Not so different from his impassioned defense of Bush >v. Gore which amounted to "well, someon ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 26 07:48:00 PDT 2002

30013 Hitchens: Hawks in the dovecote -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Date: >Tue, 20 Aug 2002 13:02:40 -0700 > >From: >Ross Boylan <RossBoylan at stanfordalumni.org> > >Subject: >RE: [ASDnet] The Case Against War on Iraq > >To: >Majed Tomeh <majed at tomeh.com> > >Cc: >asdnet at igc.topica.com, ross Boylan <RossBoylan at stanfordalumni.org> etc. Michael, why do you forward badly formatted things from people unkonwn to most of us, devoid of any context? Why not say what you think f ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 26 07:45:58 PDT 2002

30014 Hitchens: Hawks in the dovecote -- rank: 1000

RangerCat67 at aol.com wrote: >http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,780386,00.html > >An excerpt: > >"What the Iraqi and Kurdish democrats would like is American aid for and >endorsement of their own efforts to replace the regime. And what they fear is >what I also fear - a heavy-handed US attack which results in an Iraqi puppet >government that is designed to placate the Saudis and the Turks. That, it >seems to me, is where a principled critique of the ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 26 07:44:01 PDT 2002

30015 wasn't there a movie about this? -- rank: 1000

New York Post - August 26, 2002 FUROR OVER LIST OF FUTURE 'CRIMINALS' WILMINGTON (AP) - Police in Delaware have set up a database that contains a list of people who officers believe are likely to break the law. Defense lawyers and the American Civil Liberties Union oppose the database, which lists names, addresses and photos of the potential suspects - many of whom have clean slates. The precise grounds for putting a person on the list aren't clear. But since the system was introduced in Wilming ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 26 07:28:49 PDT 2002