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35356 Is John Sweeney a Socialist? -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >What is it about some leftists that they have to excommunicate as many >people as possible in order to feel righteous in their own politics? > >During his campaign for the AFL-CIO Presidency, Sweeney rather publicly took >out a membership card in the Democratic Socialists of America as one of the >marks of his break with the past. Since Samuel Gompers left his socialist >origins back in the 19th century, no President of the AFL had been a member >of ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 28 07:34:38 PST 2000

35357 Valid Materialist Theory -- rank: 1000

Roger Odisio wrote: >A conspiracy is an agreement between 2 or more people to commit a crime or >illegal act. You can only deny the Kennedy killing was a conspiracy by >embracing the single bullet theory. Good luck with that one. What does it matter, really? That's my objection to this whole line. Embracing the conspiracy theory of JFK's murder leads you to some pretty surreal mythmaking about him - that he was a closet dove, or too much an anti-racist, neither of which is true. I find ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 28 07:29:03 PST 2000

35358 where the boom ain't -- rank: 1000

[The rest of the series is at <http://www.sacbee.com/news/projects/leftbehind/dayone_main.html>.] Sacramento Bee - January 23, 2000 Good times barely touch state's poor By Dale Kasler and Aurelio Rojas Bee Staff Writers First of three parts A middle-age garment worker in Sacramento, her $6.05-an-hour wage depressed by cheap foreign labor. A machine-shop worker in South Central Los Angeles, his lack of education limiting him to $8 an hour with no health insurance. Husband and wife orange pi ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 28 07:11:42 PST 2000

35359 Polo wars (replies to Justin, Jim F, Carl, Rob.) -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >I believe that with sufficient ridicule this empty, wearisome topic >will simply go away. Hey, Carl - do you think the development of the fields of public relations and advertising had anything to do with the development of those phenomena frequently denounced as "postmodernism"? Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 28 07:25:16 PST 2000

35360 Fwd: NGOs launch "The Public Eye on Davos" -- rank: 1000

X-From_: finance at evb.ch Fri Jan 28 08:35:01 2000 X-Sender: Peter at 192.168.0.11 Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 15:17:58 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Peter Bosshard <finance at evb.ch> Subject: NGOs launch "The Public Eye on Davos" Mime-Version: 1.0 X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: dhenwood at panix.com X-Return-Path: finance at evb.ch Reply-To: finance at evb.ch Press release: NGOs launch "The Public Eye on Davos" An international NGO coalition launched a new project to moni ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 28 07:18:39 PST 2000

35361 inflation & growth -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of an attachment] From: DANIEL.DAVIES at flemings.com Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 12:29:35 +0000 >Every morning on NPR Maureen McCallister talks about the impending interest rate hike to ward off inflation. >Are there any studies correlating inflation with growth/contraction? This would be the Philips Curve, and its countless derivatives. Check out Brad's website is probably the best thing -- this one should do it; http://econ161.berkeley.edu/multimedia/USPCurve.html (ooh dig the ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 28 07:13:48 PST 2000

35362 Inflation and growth -- rank: 1000

Hep Ingham wrote: >Every morning on NPR Maureen McCallister talks about the impending >interest rate hike to ward off inflation. > >Are there any studies correlating inflation with growth/contraction? >Are there limits, above which, inflation causes contraction? I think that even World Bank economists concede that inflation doesn't become a serious problem until it gets over 10%. What they don't say is that an economy experiencing >10% inflation is generally one suffering from ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 28 07:03:14 PST 2000

35363 Now Stiglitz makes more trouble! -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >I put the blame on the left opportunist distortion of marxism which eschews >all talk of reform, and, like Stalin in the thirties, concentrates its fire >on progressive middle elements. Um, Chris, the worldwide population of such folks is now down to about 7,657. How much can be blamed on them? Compared to, say, the Tony Blairs of the world? Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 28 06:52:42 PST 2000

35364 Kagarlitsky on Putin -- rank: 1000

[From Johnson's Russia List; the DJ who signed the headnote is the eponymous David Johnson. The article he mentions seems to be in Russian, because it comes up as all question marks in my Cyrillic-challenged browser.] Moscow Times January 28, 2000 Putin Is Just a Nobody By Boris Kagarlitsky [DJ: There is an important article by Boris Kagarlitsky about Putin and the origins of the war in Chechnya in the January 24 issue of "Novaya Gazeta." Its URL is: <http://www.novayagazeta.ru/art ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 27 22:50:28 PST 2000

35365 Desire under the Elms (Was Marx and Equality) -- rank: 1000

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: >Has it occurred to you that the only other bunch of academics other than the >pomists to talk about Desire are the neoclassical economists and rational >choice theorists? Um, uh, what about poets, psychoanalysts, and lovers, not to mention Iggy Pop? Who said anything about limiting the universe to academics? >If, however, we want to discuss the concept of Desire, rather than lust or >greed, though I am not sure why we would want to or why someone would th ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 27 22:40:52 PST 2000

35366 Marx and Equality (Was: Why Decry the Wealth Gap?) -- rank: 1000

Roger Odisio wrote: >What do you mean by basic needs being "plastic", Doug? I think you said >that once before, and I don't have a clue what you mean. What are basic human needs? Aside from the bare minimums of oxygen, water, and nutrients? Love? Tasty food? Art? They seem to vary enormously across time & space, and by temperament too. >And by basic means, do you mean the same thing as Marx--i.e., social >subsistence? What's that mean, exactly? It varies, and not just ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 27 22:44:09 PST 2000

35367 immigration amnesty -- rank: 1000

"IRCA's Impact on the Occupational Concentration and Mobility of Newly-Legalized Mexican Men" BY: SHERRIE A. KOSSOUDJI University of Michigan DEBORAH COBB-CLARK Australian National University Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=166541 Date: January 1999 Contact: DEBORAH COBB-CLARK Email: Mailto:dcclark at coombs.anu.edu.au Postal: Australian National University Economics Program, Research School of Social Sci ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 27 20:38:07 PST 2000

35368 Marx and Equality (Was: Why Decry the Wealth Gap?) -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >There is a fine point here of some importance: Do we want to talk about >"desire" or "desires"? The latter would be an empirical and historical >investigation of some interest though not great theoretical importance. >The former should be left to the theologians. Carrol, I don't think I'd like to live in your utopia. Cue the Stooges, "No Fun." Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 27 20:19:56 PST 2000

35369 CPI shenanigans -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of an address oddity] Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 22:41:45 -0500 From: Enrique Diaz-Alvarez <enrique at ee.cornell.edu> Hi y'all, my wife has her year-end review at her job next week, and she wants to take in some sort of evidence that the CPI is underreporting inflation. Does anybody know any links to coherent critiques of the revisions to CPI, hedonic pricing, substitution, efficiency gains, and the like, preferably with alternative quantitative estimates? Thanks in advance. Tod ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 27 20:17:35 PST 2000

35370 Tedium or Te Deum? (Re: Spivak & Eagleton) -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >So far as one can determine from the actual content of posts, >the only subscriber to this maillist who has ever read Lacan is >Yoshie. Ahem. I've read Lacan. Angela & Daniel have read Lacan. I'm sure there are many other subscribers who've read Lacan too. For a post opening with a call for "minimal verbal accuracy," this is a helluva way to end it. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 27 14:09:16 PST 2000