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31621 famous economist defends exploitation (bit long) -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >Fair question; I don't read the AER, but the last Journal of >Finance had the following articles (see below). I count about >25% apologetics, with most of the worst articles giving >fair-enough clues straight up, like the presence of the words >"International Monetary Fund" in the guy's affiliation. The >rest of it is mainly technical papers on known inefficiencies >in the operation of stock markets. So, given that stock >markets are pa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 8 08:38:34 PDT 2001

31622 union-label sweatshops -- rank: 1000

Newsday - May 6, 2001 Discord Rocks Garment Union Workers: Our leaders are failing us by Stephanie Saul Staff Writer They are hidden in dilapidated Chinatown buildings or tucked away in Flushing basements and Sunset Park warehouses. The city's 3,500 registered garment factories are difficult to find, their conditions and immigrant workers concealed from public view. Yet, as a growing number of the city's garment workers have come forward to complain about wages and safety violations in the facto ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 7 15:04:17 PDT 2001

31623 Politics, Moralism, & the "individual" -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >since Kendall apparently replied at some length Kendall signed off the list because of what he perceived as needless hostility. He thought I should have booted you, Carrol. I don't want to do that, but your inability to disagree with people without getting out the flamethrower is pretty distressing. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 7 14:13:50 PDT 2001

31624 working class thinking -- rank: 1000

[Apropos the recent thread on the "middle class," here's an excerpt, thanks to my new scanner - apologies if there are any OCR quirks remaining - from a book review by Andrew Levison in the May 14 issue of The Nation. "Halle" is David Halle's America's Working Man (University of Chicago Press), and "Lamont" is Michele Lamont's The Dignity of Working Men (Harvard University Press). I'd give a URL if the piece were on The Nation's website, but it's not.] ...Halle...co ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 7 13:55:21 PDT 2001

31625 Fwd: FC: Timothy McVeigh, muzzled by U.S. government, speaks via the Net -- rank: 1000

Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 14:29:58 -0400 From: Declan McCullagh <declan at well.com> To: politech at politechbot.com Subject: FC: Timothy McVeigh, muzzled by U.S. government, speaks via the Net Mail-Followup-To: emc at artifact.psychedelic.net X-URL: http://www.mccullagh.org/ X-URL: Politech is at http://www.politechbot.com/ X-Author: Declan McCullagh is at http://www.mccullagh.org/ X-News-Site: Cluebot is at http://www.cluebot.com/ ----- Forwarded message from Eric Cordian <emc at artifact ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 7 11:49:58 PDT 2001

31626 congestion -- rank: 1000

[The full report is at <http://www.transact.org/>.] Monday May 7 12:44 PM ET Study Shows Los Angeles Worst for Commuting WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Los Angeles is again the worst rush-hour traffic in the United States, but new findings released on Monday showed it was also the worst for commuting overall because there were few mass transit options. San Francisco was second for traffic headaches in the Surface Transportation Policy Project analysis, but ranked 29th in the group's ``Congestion B ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 7 11:03:33 PDT 2001

31627 Doug to FT: Eye popping -- rank: 1000

SAckerman wrote: >But doesn't the *distribution* of capital gains income have a macro >significance through its effect on balance sheets? Let's say households' >bull-market CG income came at the expense of the corporate sector. Wouldn't >that mean that household balance sheets are a little better off, and >corporate balance sheets a little worse off, than the NIPA stats make it >seem? Wouldn't that have some Minskyan significance for the financial >fragility of the macroecon ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 7 10:48:58 PDT 2001

31628 Doug to FT: Eye popping -- rank: 1000

SAckerman wrote: >The Bank Credit Analyst study was talking about *realized* capital gains. >Its point is that household saving numbers are derived by subtracting >spending from income, but household income is understated for two reasons: >realized capital gains aren't included; and higher bull-market pension >benefits aren't counted (only corporate contributions). It makes sense to talk about realized CGs when you're talking about income distribution, but when you're talking macr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 7 10:23:18 PDT 2001

31629 Doug to FT: Eye popping -- rank: 1000

SAckerman wrote: >Doug, what do you make of the contrary argument - that realized capital >gains and higher pensions aren't counted in conventional savings numbers; >when they're counted, household saving has been steady over the 1990's? Pension contributions are counted as savings, but unrealized gains of any kind aren't - and there's good reason for that. To paraphrase Keynes, savings and investment are two names for foregone consumption - a diversion of income and production from the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 7 10:02:56 PDT 2001

31630 Bookchin v. "lifesyle anarchism" -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >More attention should be paid to New England-style everything, in my >humble, regionally chauvinistic (being a Massachusetts native) >opinion ;-) I just watched a C-span discussion on Emerson and >Thoreau (part of a new series on American authors) and was struck >again by how fresh, vigorous and accessible their thinking was and >is. > >America's cult of the individual has today devolved into a >retrograde celebration of selfishness. But I believe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 7 09:59:42 PDT 2001

31631 The Coming Anarchy -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >P.S. Seriously, on depoliticization, one of the zillions of books with a >good rap sheet (I mean good blurbs) by Nina Eliasoph, a former editor of >Socialist Review, back in the '70's, >http://www.peace.ca/avoidingpolitics.htm is_AVOIDING POLITICS: HOW AMERICANS >PRODUCE APATHY IN EVERYDAY LIFE, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998. >www.cambridge.org/sociology/catalogue/052158759X/default.htm It's a good one. Charles Brown sent us this review long ago... Doug - ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 6 14:47:51 PDT 2001

31632 Dave the Obscure -- rank: 1000

>From: DavidMcR at aol.com >Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 13:52:51 EDT > >Ah, glad to take the blame away from Ralph, who's had enough problems. Those >of us who are obscure need all the blame we can get! > >Best, >David > ><< > jeradonah quoted the Washington Post: > > >Reporters discovered that 2,908 voters punched holes for Gore and > >the candidate beneath him on the ballot, obscure Socialist Party > >nominee David McReynolds, who recei ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 6 11:02:07 PDT 2001

31633 Borders Books union drive -- rank: 1000

Bordersunion at aol.com wrote: >Employees of the Marlton, NJ store voted against joining the Teamsters last >Thursday. Why? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 6 10:37:17 PDT 2001

31634 FW: Zizek help -- rank: 1000

Guerino Calemine wrote: >I haven't read everything Zizek has written, but I simply can't >imagine Zizek, who certainly critiques materialism, considering >himself antimaterialist. He certainly wouldn't have organized his Essen conference on the "retrieval of Lenin" - whatever its shortcomings - if he considered himself an anti- or post-materialist. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 6 10:49:38 PDT 2001

31635 Attempts to Answer Election 'What Ifs' Take Longer Than Expected (wpost) -- rank: 1000

jeradonah quoted the Washington Post: >Reporters discovered that 2,908 voters punched holes for Gore and >the candidate beneath him on the ballot, obscure Socialist Party >nominee David McReynolds, who received 622 votes statewide. So Ralph's off the hook. It's McReynolds' fault! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 6 10:41:12 PDT 2001