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34786 growth: De Long view -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Dean Baker in Getting Prices Right explains the absurd >implications of the Boskin estimate. I got a version >of BDL's latest in garbled format so didn't read it closely, >but it reminded me of the illustrious Cox and Alm. I'll >see what Dean has to say about it. I sense BDL is crawling >out on a weak limb. Hope he's got a safety net. Well for one, Boskin & Co. didn't look at a single reason why the CPI might understate inflation, even though ex-BLS ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 18 14:26:51 PST 2000

34787 VV on AIDS in SA -- rank: 1000

[Apropos recent controversies; Geshekter shows up towards the end.] Village Voice - March 20, 2000 FLIRTING WITH PSEUDOSCIENCE By Mark Schoofs South Africa's President May Become the First World Leader to Believe That HIV Is Not the Cause of AIDS JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - While the scientific world has long accepted that HIV causes AIDS, a fringe group of scientists has stubbornly denied that the virus plays any role in the disease. Now, these so-called AIDS dissidents have captured the atten ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 18 14:18:41 PST 2000

34788 Kalecki's political business cycle -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >This suggests a high degree of class consciousness on the part >of capitalists. I tend to agree -- and it is one of the reasons for >feeling that however remote the chances of a successful >revolution may be they are far less remote than the chances >of a gradualist shift of class power???? (Or for any substantive >changes in the condition of workers inside capitalism.) > >Do you see this as a contradiction in your political thought? >If not, why not ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 17 16:12:37 PST 2000

34789 growth: De Long view -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >On the other hand, suppose you threatened to take me back in time >and have me born not in 1960 but in 1860. I would pay everything I >have to avoid it, for I would be dead of pneumonia at the age of 5... > >And I, at least, cannot think of anyone in 1900 whom I would regard >as being as well-off in a material-welfare sense as I am today... True, but there's no such thing as time travel, and I'm pretty sure there never will be. Let's turn that around: do yo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 17 16:10:03 PST 2000

34790 Fwd: "global corporate liberalism" -- rank: 1000

[John Gulick asked me to post this. By the way, I think I'm responsible for feeding Pat B the "Marx was for free trade" line. I was on an obscure cable network with his sister Bay discussing NAFTA a few years ago, along with John Cavanagh of IPS and a really terrible woman from Forbes. The Forbesian was the only pro-NAFTA person on the panel. At one point, I said to her, "You're getting beaten up pretty badly here, so let me give you some support. You might not be pleased with its ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 17 15:55:19 PST 2000

34791 Kalecki's political business cycle -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >Doug, don't some post keynesians/kaleckians argue that the prop to >effective demand from debt financed fiscal expansion should be welcomed by >powerful enough sections of productive capital that are suffering from >excess capacity? In this way, why wouldn't it be possible to split the >bourgeoisie and have labor make alliance with productive capital against >rentier capitalists who are paranoid about inflationary consequences of >fiscal expansion? A ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 17 15:29:42 PST 2000

34792 growth: De Long view -- rank: 1000

Those of you who subscribe to Brad De Long's distribution list will have gotten today's speculation on economic growth. Here's the nut graf, as they say in the journalism trade: >So how much has material wealth grown in the past century? > >If you do need a single number, the Boskin Commission's number, that >inflation has been overstated and real growth understated by between >1 and 1.5 percent per year, is as good as any. Splitting the >difference, applying it to the past cen ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 17 15:25:30 PST 2000

34793 Jacques & Paul -- rank: 1000

[a friend writes...] (Found this on alt.psychology.psychoanalysis) >http://www.bibliofind.com > > [_] LACAN, Jacques.: Ecrits. ; Paris: Editions du Seuil, > 1966. Octavo, 912pp. Lacan's most important volume, collecting > twenty seven articles and lectures originally published > between 1936 and 1966. > > Astonishingly inscribed, "A Paul Newman, Qui m'a fait voir > New York et toi a prouve' qu'il m' entendait mieux que > personne," and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 17 12:31:57 PST 2000

34794 Boeing Strike Agreement Reached -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >By bracketing major fights supporting everyone from minimum wage home health >care workers in Los Angeles to Boeing engineers, the AFL-CIO is hopefully >outlining a range of solidarity across sectors of the working class. Yeah, >lots of people on these lists disagree with what Sweeney et al are doing >with that solidarity at times, but anyone should admit that building a >broader unified conception of the "working class" in America is an importa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 17 12:26:47 PST 2000

34795 Fwd: Hopkins Sit-In Ends -- rank: 1000

Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 11:01:52 -0800 From: Jess Walsh <jwalsh at EPINET.ORG> To: LABOR-L at YorkU.CA Hopkins Living Wage Sit-In Ends with Wage Increases, But No Living Wage for Hopkins Workers The 17-day occupation of the Johns Hopkins adminstration building ended yesterday with an agreement that will raise wages for some of Hopkins' lowest paid workers. The agreement, between Hopkins and the Student Labor Action Committee, commits Hopkins to accelerate efforts to ensure that wor ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 17 09:10:31 PST 2000

34796 thinking long term -- rank: 1000

Today's Wall Street Journal reports on why Old Economy stocks have been booming over the last several days. The star of the piece is a mutual fund manager, whose thinking is reported thus: "For his part, Mr. Ognar says he has been trying to anticipate what kinds of stocks would start performing well six months from now, when he anticipates that the Federal Reserve will have ceased to ratchet interest rates upward." That's the New Economy for you - no recession, no bear market, just a h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 17 06:22:39 PST 2000

34797 Hopkins sit-in ends -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - March 17, 2000 Johns Hopkins Students End Sit-In Over Campus Workers' Rights By SCOTT CARLSON A student sit-in at the Johns Hopkins University ended Thursday, after lasting for more than two weeks, when the university agreed to accelerate its schedule for pay increases for its support staff. Members of the Student-Labor Action Committee, which supports workers'-rights issues, demanded that Hopkins raise wages among support-staff employees like parking- ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 17 06:27:54 PST 2000

34798 scary site -- rank: 1000

<http://www.eugenics.net/index.html> Future Generations is about humanitarian eugenics. Humanitarian eugenics strives to leave a genuine legacy of love to future generations: good health, high intelligence, and noble character. We advocate measures to improve the innate quality of humankind which are entirely voluntary. Please be forewarned that most ideas expressed on this website are "politically incorrect." We aspire to total honesty, believing that it is the only policy for p ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 17 05:58:44 PST 2000

34799 campus news -- rank: 1000

[from Sam Smith's Progressive Review] ON CAMPUS UAW ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS: UAW academic student employee unions, representing 10,000 employees at the University of California, announced that a strike over unfair labor practices will begin on Friday, March 17 on all eight UC teaching campuses. The unions filed over 40 unfair labor practice charges with the state's public employment relations board . . . UC has been charged with a pattern of unilaterally changing working conditions, bar ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 16 20:28:51 PST 2000

34800 Marx -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >How about Keynesian ? How about it? I ain't one, if that's what you're implying. Or are you just querying its status as a label? Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 16 15:58:52 PST 2000