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35911 Save us from 60s Nostalgia (RE: Sweeney Defends Gore Endorsement -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Gulick may of course be quite correct in his estimation. It is only that the >arguments he gives for it are utterly irrelevant outside the classroom. Why do you always have to adopt the tone of Yaweh speaking from on high? Doug

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35912 Save us from 60s Nostalgia (RE: Sweeney Defends Gore Endorsement -- rank: 1000

John Gulick wrote: >Also, some have argued (to my mind, fairly convincingly) that the "big powers" >in the WTO (especially the US) are using the threat of labor/environmental >standards to get TW countries to kowtow to guaranteeing bio-tech and other >TNC's intellectual property rights (high value-added exports from the North). Do they have any evidence for this, or is it just a neat theory? Doug

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35913 the class struggle -- rank: 1000

Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 15:15:01 -0500 (EST) From: Rakesh Bhandari <bhandari at phoenix.Princeton.EDU> To: "'lbo-talk at lists.panix.com'" <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Subject: RE: FROPerie In-Reply-To: <518B8516EDC0D011BE3F00C04FD4EE5A27C533 at NTSERVER1> Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10002161439390.28496-100000 at phoenix.Princeton.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > Rakesh wrote: > > > At one level, FROP is a theory ...

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35914 There's no shame in being elite -- rank: 1000

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: >Colonial is not an "elite" Skull & Bones secret society Does Princeton have such, or are they unique to Yale? Doug

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35915 FROPerie -- rank: 1000

Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 12:20:54 -0500 (EST) X-Sender: bhandari at mmp.princeton.edu Message-Id: <v02130500630bde7e04de@[128.112.71.24]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-mailer: Eudora Pro 2.1.3 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: bhandari at mmp.princeton.edu (Rakesh Bhandari) Subject: Re: FROP etc >Rakesh: > >>Mattick did predict the limits of the mixed economy in the 60s! > >So did a lot of right-wing economists. Cmon Doug, 1. ...

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35916 China Deal Redux -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky quoted: >These claims are misleading. The Administration has proposed to >facilitate China’s entry into the WTO at a time when the U.S. >already has a massive trade deficit with China. In 1999, the U.S. >imported approximately $81 billion in goods from China and exported >$13 billion – a six-to-one ratio of imports to exports that >represents the most unbalanced relationship in the history of U.S. >trade. 2 While exports generated about 170,000 jobs in the United ...

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35917 Kovel respondes to Charles Brown -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Thanks for the reply. I don't really expect that a U.S. public >figure running for office would make as strong a statement as I did >(recopied below) blaming capitalist world historically giganitic >warfare as the main cause of the failures of socialism ( even if >what I said is true). Joel is a public figure, but to a rather small public, and he's a Marxist. He's not likely to be on Meet The Press anytime soon. Doug

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35918 Russian GDP -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] Jamestown Foundation Monitor 15 February 2000 CONFUSION OVER RUSSIAN GDP GROWTH IN 1999. Vladimir Sokolin, chairman of Goskomstat (Russia's statistical agency), told the Russian press on January 26 that Russian GDP grew by 3.2 percent in 1999, the fastest rate of growth since the mid-1980s. According to Sokolin, at the end of 1999 Russian GDP--despite a fall in output of 4.6 percent in 1998--was only 0.2 percent below its 1997 output level. These announcements have n ...

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35919 Kovel respondes to Charles Brown -- rank: 1000

I forwarded Charles Brown's comments to Joel Kovel, who responds: >Thanks, Doug, You might tell Brown that I do address the question, >though certainly not in enough depth, having major constraints deriving >from keeping a manageable length. Anyhow, I do say: > >--they falsely assume that the twentieth century regimes that called >themselves socialist, like the USSR, had a monopoly on what socialism >means. This overlooks the fact that in virtually every case, the >statis ...

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35920 FROP etc -- rank: 1000

Rakesh: >Mattick did predict the limits of the mixed economy in the 60s! So did a lot of right-wing economists. > > and the state of the class struggle than the OCC. > >This is the wage squeeze theory which even your bete noire (?)Brenner Heavens! Brenner isn't my bete noire! I have my disagreements, but please!! >accepts through the back door: One of my disagreements being that it deserves being admitted through the front door. >On the other hand, Moseley is able to show a ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 15 22:20:53 PST 2000

35921 FROP etc -- rank: 1000

Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 17:27:26 -0500 (EST) From: Rakesh Bhandari <bhandari at phoenix.Princeton.EDU> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Subject: Re: productivity miracle or workhouse? In-Reply-To: <v04220803b4cf6db0b185@[166.84.250.86]> Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10002151704570.8384-100000 at phoenix.Princeton.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Oh, Doug, here we go again. > Useless in that it's done a rather poor job of explaining the > beha ...

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35922 Haider Haider Haider -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >praise for the "employment policies" of Germany in the 1930s. We already >know this isn't an exceptional position. No, certainly not. Lots of otherwise mild-mannered Keynesians have been known to do this, including JMK himself. Doug

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35923 Save us from 60s Nostalgia (RE: Sweeney Defends Gore Endorsement -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Of course, generalizations can be challenged; I was challenging the >generalization that the 60s left can be considered a success or that we >should be excited that activism today might be resembling that era. For me, the major excitement is that the level of activism seems to be rising to 60s levels. It's a quantity issue more than a quality one. In fact, as the much-demonized Marc Cooper said to me at the Seattle jailouse demo, "They're smarter than we were. ...

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35924 productivity miracle or workhouse? -- rank: 1000

christian a. gregory wrote: >What does it mean to say these things aren't charged? It means they're imputed. If you get free checking, this is treated as interest. If you own your house, you're consuming housing services. There's a table listing all the imputations in the GDP accounts in the annual benchmark revision issue (July? August?) of the Survey of Current Business. Big bucks. Doug

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35925 2m in jail -- rank: 1000

Guilherme Roschke wrote: > any ref's to people addressing the impact of this incarceration >rate on unemployment figures? both in terms of removing people from the >labor force and in the impact of prison jobs. > > i.e. is it empirically plausible to claim what we are seeing is >the ole "employ half the masses to imprison the other half"? or does this >theory just miss out on the profitability of prisons as the driving >factor? [from Left Business Observer #88 ...

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