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37156 Educating Ju-chang (Gini indeces etc) -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Michael Yates wrote: > > > However, I also believe that folks do not think much can be > > done about it. You know, they say and understand that the rich get > > richer and the poor get poorer but they don't know how to get beyond > > this. So the buy lottery ickets and dream. Perhaps this is a major > > failing of our labor movement, to develop any kind of class politics and > > to kick out the people who did. > >I think this ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 7 14:30:07 PDT 1999

37157 East Timor and Kosovo -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Western intervention in East Timor would be criminal, as is 30 years >of western aid to Indonesia. I stopped taking Angela seriously on >foreign affairs when she rejected the principle of non-intervention >in referencd to the NATO aggression in Yugoslavia. She is just >as frivolous here. Her principle seems to be whatever makes >Angela feel morally self-righteous. Two questions: 1) why do you respond so vigorously to stuff you say you don't take seriously?, a ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 7 09:55:18 PDT 1999

37158 Ju-chang's "Solution" to SEA's Financial Crisis -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Charles: Well , that's curve ball. Would it be impertinent to ask >what you consider yourself to be ? Maybe political economist ? Let >me guess: Writer. Journalist. "Writer" is so pretentious. >As for the Marxist label, my first instinct is to say "depends on >who's asking." But if I had to make what the pollsters call a forced >choice, yes or no, then yes, unlike Marx, I'm a Marxist. > > >(((((((((((( > >Charles: You hea ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 7 07:46:01 PDT 1999

37159 Educating Ju-chang (Gini indeces etc) -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >But how ordinary people think about inequality, or if they think about >it, is what I was getting at, and that's a separate matter. Well, what do we know about what they think? Polls I've seen show that people think that welfare benefits are about twice as high was they are (were?), that white people think black incomes are equal to white, and that the poverty line is about twice as high as it really is. I haven't seen polls on average incomes, but I suspect that most p ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 7 06:58:43 PDT 1999

37160 explaining U.S. crime -- rank: 1000

"Understanding the Time Path of Crime" BY: JOHN J. DONOHUE Stanford Law School Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=168614 Paper ID: Stanford Law School, John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics, Working Paper No. 158 Date: April 1998 Contact: JOHN J. DONOHUE Email: Mailto:jjd at stanford.edu Postal: Stanford Law School Alvarado Row & Nathan Abbott Way Stanford, CA 94305-8610 USA Phone: (650)723-0290 F ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 7 06:41:44 PDT 1999

37161 Rieff sez... -- rank: 1000

[The word from a leading theorist of liberal imperialism.] September 7, 1999 A Multiethnic Kosovo Won't Work. What's Next? By David Rieff, co-editor of "Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know" (Norton, 1999). It was probably inevitable that Kosovo's ethnic Albanians, who were oppressed by the Serbs for years and then murdered by the thousands, would repay these cruelties in kind. Yet the international authorities in Kosovo were apparently caught off guard by the Albanians' eagernes ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 7 06:30:24 PDT 1999

37162 Educating Ju-chang (Gini indeces etc) -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Since I raised it, >I'll reveal my own unproven hypothesis: people in the >U.S. don't give a damn about inequality. Oh yes. My impression is that inequality had more salience as a political issue when liberals could blame it on Reagan and Bush, and not the normal operations of American capitalism. Inequality is worse now than in the 1980s, but you hear a lot less about it now. You could say similar things about civil liberties (wiretaps have boomed in the Clinton ye ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 6 21:12:25 PDT 1999

37163 Educating Ju-chang (Gini indeces etc) -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Since I raised it, >I'll reveal my own unproven hypothesis: people in the >U.S. don't give a damn about inequality. Or so they say. What they feel in their heart of hearts is another matter, or what they feel at some unconscious level. Walk into any bookstore in the Land of the Free and you confront a wall of addiction/recovery and self-help books. Americans pop Prozac and other psychotropics like candy. At some level, whether they can articulate it or not, they fee ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 6 20:09:48 PDT 1999

37164 definitions -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >What do post-modernists or post-structuralists say about GDP as a >scientific concept ? What would Zizek, Foucault, Derrida, et al. say >in critiquing the power dynamics shaping the epistemology of the >economic science ? I doubt they would consider it a a scientific >and ideologicially neutral concept. No one claimed it was ideologically neutral. No one ever claimed science was ideologically neutral either. Here's what Zizek says in his intro to his edited ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 6 15:33:04 PDT 1999

37165 Ju-chang's "Solution" to SEA's Financial Crisis -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Gee, is everybody on LBO a Marxist ? Coulda fooled me. I thought >non-Marxist economics was discussable on this list. Absolutely. >I'm not even sure that Doug Henwood terms himself a Marxist economist. I'm not an economist! As for the Marxist label, my first instinct is to say "depends on who's asking." But if I had to make what the pollsters call a forced choice, yes or no, then yes, unlike Marx, I'm a Marxist. > He certainly seems to discuss economi ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 6 15:22:10 PDT 1999

37166 Derrida: everywhere and nowhere baby, that's where you're at -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >I suppose contemporary philosophers are >innoculated against any idea that a writers own view of his work is of >any import as 'an intentional fallacy' - but then, that is part of the >problem, isn't it: If what we intend is of no moment then it doesn't >matter if you join the Nazis or not. Minor historical point: the intentional fallacy was a feature of the venerable New Critical armamentarium that filled one of my undergraduate ears, the other ear having b ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 6 15:07:36 PDT 1999

37167 Immanuel Wallerstein -- rank: 1000

christian a. gregory wrote: >A question: when US corps talk about profits, how much (if any) is due to >current stock market bubble? Are returns or expected returns from equity >counted in this arithmetic? I'm not doubting that profits have gone up, but >I'm wondering how much is due to financial returns, how much from >productivity growth (value added/ hour) in manufacturing. Some share of profits come from the bubble, no doubt, but the numbers I used were for nonfinancial corpo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 6 09:53:10 PDT 1999

37168 definitions -- rank: 1000

Eric Beck wrote: >Doug wondered: > > >All you folks saying "postmodernist!" and "no I'm not!" at each > >other: what's a postmodernist? Aren't we all in part "postmodernists" > >just by drawing breath in 1999? > >But by this logic aren't we all "capitalists" too? We live in capitalist society, yes. But unless we make more than trivial amounts of money from the labor of others, we ain't capitalists. Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 6 09:50:33 PDT 1999

37169 definitions -- rank: 1000

All you folks saying "postmodernist!" and "no I'm not!" at each other: what's a postmodernist? Aren't we all in part "postmodernists" just by drawing breath in 1999? Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 6 09:19:14 PDT 1999

37170 Neue Mitte in the doghouse -- rank: 1000

[any comments from the resident German experts?] Financial Times - September 6, 1999 Schröder's party suffers state election losses By Ralph Atkins in Berlin Gerhard Schröder, German chancellor, was dealt a severe blow last night after sharp losses in state elections in Brandenburg and Saarland reduced further his administration's influence over the Bundesrat, or second chamber of parliament. The poor results - which, according to exit polls and first results, would also see the extreme rightwin ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 5 19:53:19 PDT 1999