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38341 Frances Bolton in Science & Society -- rank: 1000

frances bolton wrote: >Sure, if someone else feels like doing it--I don't have a scanner. And >actually, since the death of my old computer, I don't have a copy of the >review, either. Rakesh had an advance copy... Is this the S&S that's just out? My copy hasn't arrived yet I guess. Frances, didn't expect to find you in S&S. You have some CP sympathies you haven't told us about? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 11 18:56:23 PST 1999

38342 CIA Socialists -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >Herbert Marcuse managed a rare double acting as an agent both of the FBI >(OSS), and an agent of the newly formed CIA. His CIA reports are among >the papers published in the recent first volume of his collected papers. >The Frankfurt School was working for the US intelligence services >throughout the war, and after, according to Istvan Meszaros. The demented right, from Paul Weyrich outwards, blames the Frankfurt School for American cultural decay. Ralph Ree ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 11 18:16:55 PST 1999

38343 Brenner on devaluation -- rank: 1000

Barbara Laurence wrote: >US strength has been partly a function of Japanese and European investments >in the US ( I mean, new real investment), while no one invests in Germany >and only a handful in Japan. I mean, hasn't there been a reallocation of >productive (industrial) capital to the US, esp. Dept. I, and hasn't this >been a factor in developing a higher X/GDP ratio as "liberalized" financial >mkts? Relocation in relative terms maybe, with the U.S. gaining world ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 11 17:05:44 PST 1999

38344 Gore invented Internet -- rank: 1000

[Maybe everyone's seen this already; thanks Kirsten.] http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/18390.html No Credit Where It's Due by Declan McCullagh 3:00 a.m. 11.Mar.99.PST WASHINGTON -- It's a time-honored tradition for presidential hopefuls to claim credit for other people's successes. But Al Gore as the father of the Internet? That's what the campaigner in chief told CNN's Wolf Blitzer during an interview Tuesday evening. Blitzer asked Gore how he was different than other presumptive ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 11 16:40:28 PST 1999

38345 The Hydrogen Bomb -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >Hey, how about the DJIA going to 9992 today intraday? > >(all at once: welcome back, Jordan!) Welcome back, Jordan. CNBC had a logo all done up for the imminence of Dow 10,000, and you know the actual event will be the occasion for hours of inspired programming. I don't have a good Dow history, but I do of the S&P. So let's see where the Dow would be if the market kept appreciating at the rate it has since 1994. We'd hit 1,000,000 in 2014! There are glories ahea ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 11 16:25:31 PST 1999

38346 Sahlins -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >By the way, I have quoted from Mattick Jr's book Social Knowledge on the >need for an anthropological investigation of the discourse of economics as >conceptually incoherent, internally contradictory, and empirically >disconfirmed but still so vital in the reproduction of a certain form of >social life that its absurdity is systematically not questioned. Yes, someone should definitely do this. Any volunteers here? Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 11 16:04:38 PST 1999

38347 Why does America attract capital? -- rank: 1000

D. L. wrote: >Why is it that the American >borrowers seem not to be daunted by five and a half percent interest rates >and the Japanese find two and a half percent too dear? "The monetary system is essentially Catholic, the credit system essentially Protestant. 'The Scotch hate gold.' As paper, the monetary existence of commodities has a purely social existence. It is faith that brings salvation. Faith in money value as the immanent spirit of commodities, faith in the mode of produ ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 11 13:02:36 PST 1999

38348 common sense -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >> So, strictly speaking, our belief >> in the existence of >> an external world is false yet a necessary belief for us to >> get on in the >> world. > >As Dr. Johnson memorably demonstrated when Boswell commented that, >though Berkeley's theory of the non-existence of matter was clearly not >true, it could not be refuted. "I refute it *thus,*" said Dr. J., >kicking "a large stone, till he rebounded from it." T ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 11 12:31:47 PST 1999

38349 Gray & Demos (not Polanyi) -- rank: 1000

Sam Pawlett wrote: >> >> >> He wrote a tract on "Green Conservatism" once, which fits in with the "Red >> Tory" characterisation. > >Just how great role does the thought of Burke play in Gray's and the Blairite >scheme of things? Havent't read Gray's books, only his articles in New >Statesman. Burke gets just a passing mention in False Dawn though he seems all over it in spirit. I have an extra copy of the book - the New Press screwed up an ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 11 11:28:37 PST 1999

38350 Sahlins -- rank: 1000

Maureen Therese Anderson wrote: >Must be fun to be an economist. You get to use lots more impressive >guy-words than we do. Yeah, the guy words are a nice substitute for thought, observation, the study of history and human motivation, etc. By the way, economists are the only group I've ever seen that dress worse than freelance writers. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 11 11:23:27 PST 1999

38351 local money -- rank: 1000

Jim O'Connor, via Barbara Laurence, wrote: >Doug, Local funny money gets people used to thinking about use value before >exchange value. Does it really? Or does it just encourage fantasies of local self-reliance? >Therefore it does some good fighting the "fetish of money." >Otherwise, I agree with you, and I could tell you some tales about this >whole subject. Please do! Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 11 11:18:17 PST 1999

38352 Fwd: Silicon Valley Cancer Scare -- rank: 1000

High-tech, so clean... >X-Sender: svtc at pop2.igc.org >Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 09:43:37 -0800 >To: (Recipient list suppressed) >From: Camp Responsible Tech <svtc at igc.org> >Subject: Silicon Valley Cancer Scare >Mime-Version: 1.0 > >Greetings: > > >Last night (Wednesday, March 10) Dan Rather started a 2 part series on CBS >nightly news that focuses on high-tech cancer, with interviews of former >workers at IBMís San Jose plant. >http://www.cbs.com ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 11 11:08:55 PST 1999

38353 Kazan demo -- rank: 1000

[from another list...] From: LSandraH at aol.com Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 11:29:13 EST To: mlg-ics+ at andrew.cmu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Protest against Elia Kazan lifetime achievement award The demonstration against the Academy of Motion Pictures's bestowal of a lifetime achievement award to Elia Kazan will take place starting at 3pm outside the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, on Hope Street in Los Angeles on March 21 at the Academy Awards Ceremony. The issue has received broad media coverage ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 11 10:53:32 PST 1999

38354 Polanyi -- rank: 1000

A couple of people have written me offlist to defend Polanyi's Great Transformation against my apparent criticism of it. I wasn't criticizing the book at all - I liked it a lot. I'm concerned more about the uses it's being put to today - it's being appropriated by a bunch of communitarians and conservatives in a rather nostalgic fashion to criticize the "excesses" of capitalism. The critique avoids all the issues that a reading of, oh say Marx, couldn't avoid - issues like class power ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 11 07:31:57 PST 1999

38355 Fwd: 1999-03-10 Radio Actuality by President Clinton on Airline Passengers -- rank: 1000

[More visionary moves from the White House...] >Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 07:47 -0500 >From: The White House <Publications-Admin at Pub.Pub.WhiteHouse.Gov> >To: Public-Distribution at Pub.Pub.WhiteHouse.Gov >Subject: 1999-03-10 Radio Actuality by President Clinton on Airline Passengers >Keywords: Economy, Government, Infrastructure, Legislation, President, >Remarks, > Topical-Remarks, Transportation >Document-ID: pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/1999/3/11/2.text.1 >URL: > &g ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 11 07:20:49 PST 1999