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39376 Sadie Plant (Re: postmodernism and neoclassical economics -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >read her book on the Situationists - _The Most Radical Gesture_ - some >years ago, a decent read as I recall although she gives Baudrillard >more attention than he deserves, Michael Hoover I was just reading some early Baudrillard, from when he was still something of a Marxist, and it's not half bad. When did he really go around the bend? And what does your average Baudrillard fan really like? Surely not what I was reading (i.e., written before The Mirror of Produ ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 3 15:46:35 PST 1999

39377 Lesbian 'Phallus' or Gratuitous Rudeness? (was Re: CopShows....) -- rank: 1000

Liza Featherstone wrote: >it isn't meant to imply that >lesbians are fake men -- if we are, then men are also fake men Isn't the fear of being a fake man what's behind every performance by a "real man" of his real manliness? Gawd, who wants to be a girly-man? Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 3 13:24:49 PST 1999

39378 Fwd: IMF Notification Service: As issued notification -- rank: 1000

New propaganda on the IMF website, including their touching new concern for "human dimensions" of economic crisis. Doug >From: contentservice at imf.org >To: dhenwood at panix.com >Reply-To: contentservice at imf.org >Subject: IMF Notification Service: As issued notification >Date: 3 Feb 1999 16:14:08 -0500 > >New on the IMF Website > > On the Need for an International Lender of Last Resort -- Stanley >Fischer >http://www.imf.org/external/np/speeches/1 ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 3 13:21:29 PST 1999

39379 Charles Murray -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >The WSJ's willingness to give him so much of the editorial page suggests >that real cancer has not yet been eliminated. The WSJ runs lots of nonsense on its edit page, so Murray is hardly a departure. The scary thing is that his lunacy has a way of becoming conventional wisdom a decade later. Losing Ground came out in, what, 1984? Clinton ran for president 8 years later on a pledge to end welfare as we know it, and by god he did. If the U.S. economy ever sinks again ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 3 09:28:27 PST 1999

39380 "America's Poor are Rich" -- rank: 1000

Margaret wrote: >http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/business/DailyNews/cox990202.html > >The idiot will be online at 1pm Eastern-US time on >Thursday. Sounds like a wonderful chance to pin a >tail on a donkey. Ah, Michael Cox. He and his sidekick, Richard Alm, have been pumping out apologies for the U.S. income distribution for the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas for years now. They're the authors of one of the most devious pieces of economic "research" I've ever seen - ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 3 08:41:43 PST 1999

39381 postmodernism and neoclassical economics -- rank: 1000

Michael Yates wrote: >Actually, though, doesn't supply-side economics go back to the arguments >of J.B. Say? Sure, but the Laugher Curve, which claimed that lower tax rates would result in higher collections (and vice versa), is what I had in mind. And its ideological corollary, that the U.S. economy fell ill in the 1970s because rich people were overtaxed. Loyal supply-siders are adamant that the 1980s boom was caused by a rejiggering of incentives, through lower taxes on capital and high ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 3 06:39:23 PST 1999

39382 postmodernism and neoclassical economics -- rank: 1000

Michael Yates wrote: >Friends, > >In a review of "In Defence of History: Marxism and the Postmodern >Agenda" (edited by Ellen Wood and John Foster, Monthly Review 1997), >economics professor, Yanis Varoufakis of the Univ. of Sydney, says, > >"Come to think of it, the asymptotic limit of postmodern fragmentation >is the neoclassical general equilibrium economic model. In both cases, >the only admissible social explanation springs from differences in > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 2 18:32:32 PST 1999

39383 Ministry of Addition -- rank: 1000

[Another misaddress from Max Sawicky.] From: sawicky at epinet.org (Max Sawicky) Subject: Ministry of Addition Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 17:37:04 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Importance: Normal "There have been a lot of questions about the accounting behind the President's budget, and I think that we need to underscore a very, very basic point. Every dollar that's in the unified budget surplus can ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 2 15:06:57 PST 1999

39384 Pacifica (CounterPunch) -- rank: 1000

THE NEUTERING OF PACIFICA from CounterPunch, January 16-31, 1999 [CounterPunch, PO Box 18675, Washington DC 20036 - 202-986-3665] Those involved with public radio are sadly familiar with the largely silent privatization of the small slice of the FM broadcast spectrum set aside for non-commercial purposes. At small public radio outlets, the process has often been brutally abrupt, with little resistance. In contrast, at Pacifica Radio, the largest and most powerful public radio broadcaster (NPR is ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 2 11:57:32 PST 1999

39385 Fwd: [PEN-L:2799] BLS Daily Report -- rank: 1000

BLS DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1999 The U.S. economy continued to outpace expectations, logging growth of 5.6 percent at an annual rate in the last 3 months of last year. The Commerce Department says solid consumer spending, business investment in equipment, home building, and an improvement in exports lifted gross domestic product to the strongest growth rate since the second quarter of 1996, when it advanced 6.1 percent. ... One measure of inflation, the GDP chain price index, increas ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 2 09:02:37 PST 1999

39386 Fwd: BOUNCE lbo-talk at lists.panix.com: Non-member submission from [JEAN DEPREUX <jdepreux at Caramail.com>] -- rank: 1000

[This bounced as a nonmember submission, but it's too tasty to suppress.] >Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 17:07:33 GMT >Posted-Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 17:07:33 GMT >From: JEAN DEPREUX <jdepreux at Caramail.com> >To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com >Message-ID: <917971430027232 at Caramail.com> >X-Mailer: Caramail - www.caramail.com >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Subject: enquieries about "the mannifeste" >Content-Type: multipart/mixed; >boundary="=_NextPart_Caramai ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 2 08:59:45 PST 1999

39387 Murray erupts -- rank: 1000

[The latest from Charles Murray, in today's WSJ. There's a longer version of this article, which I'll happily send to anyone who asks.] Wall Street Journal - February 2, 1999 AND NOW FOR THE BAD NEWS By Charles Murray, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Good news is everywhere. Crime rates are falling; welfare rolls are plunging; unemployment is at rock bottom; teenage births are down. Name an indicator, economic or social, and chances are it has taken a turn in the right direction. ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 2 07:01:44 PST 1999

39388 Fwd: Up From Debt Reduction -- rank: 1000

[This was addressed to the listowner rather than the list.] From: sawicky at epinet.org (Max Sawicky) Subject: Up From Debt Reduction Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 08:56:48 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Importance: Normal If you consider discretionary spending adjusted for inflation, Clinton's budget allows for $18.2b total increases over the next five years, more than half in FY2000 ($12.6b). In other word ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 2 06:09:53 PST 1999

39389 Marc Cooper responds -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >are there any welfare schemes in the US which are universal schemes? Yes, Social Security, our public pension and disability insurance scheme. Highly successful, efficient, and popular, which is why it must be privatized! Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 1 20:09:51 PST 1999

39390 dollar finds a rival -- rank: 1000

[More evidence that the euro is giving the US$ a run for its money.] FINANCIAL TIMES - February 2 1999 Euro beats dollar in bond issues By Edward Luce, Capital Markets Editor The euro has pushed the dollar into second place in international bond markets in its first month of trading. Since its launch, the euro has been the currency of choice for half of all new international bond issues, with a value equivalent of $69.3bn. The dollar took 40 per cent ($55.7bn) of the total. Analysts have warned ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 1 20:08:44 PST 1999