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32626 marxism on wgn-fm -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >All sane advocates of market economies recognize that they need >social democratic control to correct for externalities Do you think that most members of your profession, at least the American ones, would agree? My guess is not, so that would make most economists insane. Doug

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Date:	Tue Feb 20 07:40:36 PST 2001

32627 Steuart and Rousseau -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >Someone someday should write a study of how people's attitudes >toward the future reflect which of the classical republics--Athens, >Rome, or Sparta--they admire... Well, what's your thumbnail sketch? Doug

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Date:	Tue Feb 20 07:38:48 PST 2001

32628 Desai on globalization -- rank: 1000

Rakesh was very upset that no one on the Socialist Register list responded to this piece by Meghnad Desai. It seemed to me like standard issue neoliberalism, not much different from an Economist editorial, though with a Third World elite spin. The image of unions dictating U.S. trade policy is kind of surreal; Lord Desai at least has the excuse of living in the U.K. Blaming Africa for failing to integrate into the global order is fairly obscene. Desai's claim that "there are more books on ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 20 07:35:08 PST 2001

32629 UNITE -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Narpat Bhandari wrote: > I signed one of the posts under my own name today when I asked >someone to push the issue of why in their coverage of UNITE Doug and >Liza did not mention its successful campaigns to deny Cambodia a >quota increase and load the African Trade Bill with several >protectionist measures. After all, when I was on this list, I had >spent considerable time raising questions about this. But it seems I >wasted my time. The "coverage" of UNIT ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 20 07:26:17 PST 2001

32630 marxism on wgn-fm -- rank: 1000

George Thomas wrote: >I suppose, if I saw Los Angeles (and the world), as Davis does, >through Marx-colored glasses, I would not object to the >mischaracterizations and near-sophistry (and resultant abuses) his >work lends itself to. As it is, I'm rather disgusted with it all. The feeling is mutual, I'm sure. Why'd you sign on here? Just to be a pain in the ass? Doug

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Date:	Tue Feb 20 06:50:12 PST 2001

32631 "Volatility as Social Flaring" -- rank: 1000

J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote: >Alan Greenspan accurately labeled it "irrational exuberance." Ah, but that was more than 4 years ago. AG changed his tune, saying that he wouldn't presume to second-guess millions of very sophisticated investors, and the productivity boom could have changed everything. Of course, irrational exuberance is a fading memory. Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 19 14:15:11 PST 2001

32632 Carowan unmasked -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >well, i guess i can only say that Yates was right. I would still like to have seen what he'd have done as MR's book editor. Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 19 13:12:51 PST 2001

32633 Carowan unmasked -- rank: 1000

Uday Mohan wrote: >Interesting. In a way the style of "both" has a link. When I first >joined the list I was struck by the disparity between Rakesh's anger in >some of his emails and his friendly sign off. Basically he would be very >hostile in his message but end with a polite "best, Rakesh," the same >peculiar tic afflicting Carowan. Rakesh as Rakesh could be tough and angry, but he was always sane and serious. From the first time I saw him in cyberspace 5 or ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 19 12:53:32 PST 2001

32634 Carowan unmasked -- rank: 1000

Well it turns out that Jan Carowan was Rakesh Bhandari, a list alum, under a pseudonym. I'm rather stunned by this deception. Rakesh would have been perfectly free to criticize Sweeney, Nader, me, and whatever else he wanted to under his own name, but "Jan Carowan" just sounded like another net lunatic to me. And his whiny offlist emails to a number of subscribers only confirmed that. One unwilling recipient even suggested contacting hotmail's harassment staff, so I'm not alone in feel ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 19 12:23:15 PST 2001

32635 marxism on wgn-fm -- rank: 1000

SergioL652 at aol.com wrote: >I vote for Doug ;-) for?

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Date:	Mon Feb 19 12:06:18 PST 2001

32636 Fwd: Looking for Mr. Nader -- rank: 1000

<http://www.inthesetimes.com/web2507/ireland2507.html> Looking for Mr.Nader Since Election Day, Ralph has been missing in action by Doug Ireland [In These Times, March 5, 2001] Where's Ralph? That's what many enthusiastic supporters of Nader's 2000 presidential campaign have been asking. Even though more people were paying attention to politics during the Florida election mess than they were during the campaign, Nader chose not to go to the Sunshine State. Nor has there been a coordinated ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 19 11:36:04 PST 2001

32637 preaching, waiting -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >How do you square Adolph Reed & the Labor Party with Hardt & Negri's >anti-statism? Well, I like unions, at least if they're democratic, imaginative, and inclusionary, and I like the idea of political parties, as long as they're not a self-appointed vanguard, and I like the LP's emphasis on organizing rather than electoral politics. So, at best, it looks like an attempt at the self-organization of the working class. In my heart, or gut, or whatever organ it ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 19 11:33:27 PST 2001

32638 Anti-Semitism of Certain Famous Economists -- rank: 1000

JayHecht at aol.com wrote: >I found the quotes from Keynes a little more credible. But I'm not sure how >far Reder can push his claims. Was Keynes a Nazi? Of course not. Was his >insights tainted by his anti-semitism? I don't think so. Query most >assimilated Jews who went to places like Cambridge, Oxford, or even Cornell >(like my dad) in the 1940s and other universities, and anti-semitism was >pretty much something you had to deal with. > >I found the article inte ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 19 10:11:23 PST 2001

32639 SJ Gould on genome -- rank: 1000

Justin, this must have something to do with your fondness for Hayek; I'm going to have to think about it. Some fundamental individualism maybe? Biologists used to think, and most lay people went along with them, that genes were the book of life, the determining code, and all that. That's rather definitively been shown to be wrong - context and totality matter, timing matters. As Gould puts it, "So organisms must be explained as organisms, and not as a summation of genes." Doug Justin S ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 19 09:27:43 PST 2001

32640 preaching, waiting -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >So, what's Adolph Reed's plan of "getting there from here"? The >Labor Party??? Part of it, yes. Worth a try, no? Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 19 09:14:27 PST 2001