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40636 The End of Welfare as We Don't Know It -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >There is very little change in burdens in the U.S. over the >past twenty-five years. The share and burden of the rich >has bounced around more than other groups, but not outside >a very narrow range. > >See "State of Working America" for details. Which I just did. You're right, Max, that the federal tax burden has changed very little for the bottom 80% of the distribution. According to table 2.10 in the forthcoming State of Working America, the po ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 13 09:21:21 PDT 1998

40637 Paula's query on investing -- rank: 1000

Greg Nowell wrote: >3. Forbes publishes every August and early Septembrer >its ratings of mutual funds and closed end funds >(which I think was Sept.; the other was early August). >I personally think this is one of the better ratings >out there (money magazine does it, WSJ does it too, I >think quarterly and annually) because rather than rate >over a specific *time* they rate over *two complete up >and down cycles.* > >4. Conservative financial advice is: stick w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 13 07:41:23 PDT 1998

40638 Jameson & "capital" -- rank: 1000

Thanks to all who enlightened me on Kroker. Dennis R Redmond wrote: >Fred Jameson once said around 1991 or 1992 or so that >critical theorists ought to avoid two words: "power" and the "body", and >replace these, wherever possible, with "capital" and "class". But in FJ, these are completely abstract concepts. He took Bob Fitch to task in his recent NLR article for putting some flesh on these names, denouncing Fitch as a hack conspiracy theorist fo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 13 07:17:15 PDT 1998

40639 Kroker -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >Nancy Paterson would probably include AK >among those she criticizes for their infatuation with 'cyber-culture' >without understanding the hard-wiring... That explains the Aronowiz blurb.... Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 12 17:33:12 PDT 1998

40640 Kroker -- rank: 1000

Ok, so who is Arthur Kroker? I just bought a book on the street by him & Michael Weinstein called Data Trash: The Theory of the Virtual Class ("smelling the virtual flowers and counting the road-kill on the digital superhighway"). It comes with blurbs from Mondo 2000, The Observer (London), and Stanley "Kiss of Death" Aronowitz ("Arthur Kroker is our remorseless Adorno" - does that mean *anything*?). This looks like the "radical" version of Greenspan & ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 12 13:28:41 PDT 1998

40641 FW: Chomsky book -- rank: 1000

[bounced because of a bad address] From: "John St. Clair" <jstclair at chuma.cas.usf.edu> Subject: FW: Chomsky book Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 14:53:24 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Importance: Normal Forwarded from another list: CELEBRATION You are invited to celebrate Noam Chomskys 70th birthday (December 7, 1998) by contributing to a collection of essays by everyone whose work over the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 12 12:09:51 PDT 1998

40642 The End of Welfare as We Don't Know It -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >Barlett and Steele are *extremely* unreliable. And the write so badly. Lots of simple sentences. And one-sentence paragraphs. That hurt. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 12 12:04:06 PDT 1998

40643 Chomsky and Hero Worship -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >BE can't count. Barbara Ehrenreich has a PhD in biology, so I think she can probably count. You can rightly point to the relatively small decline in the "income security" lines of the federal budget, but on the other hand you know what happened to the real value of the typical AFDC check in the last 20-25 years of that program's life. I suspect Ehrenreich's main political point, her numeracy aside, was the end of welfare as an entitlement and its replacement by a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 11 14:38:57 PDT 1998

40644 American Left -- rank: 1000

alec ramsdell wrote: >So what is the New Party about? There are some fine people working at the grassroots for the New Party, especially out in smaller cities and rural areas. But at the upper levels, and in places like New York, I see them as part of the liberal foundation culture, either cynically trying to bind their followers to the Democrats through their perverse in-out shuffle, or lacking the courage to break from the Dems. A largely top-down operation with no internal democracy at all ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 11 10:38:41 PDT 1998

40645 Kalecki on full employment -- rank: 1000

John K. Taber wrote: >So, what's the difference between a ruling class and a nomenklatura? >They sound the same to me. The nomenklatura was the Soviet ruling class, sure, why not? And lots of them were able to turn their privileged position in the state/party apparatus into a ruling position based on the possession of money and property. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 11 10:23:28 PDT 1998

40646 Chomsky and Hero Worship -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >ITT is one of the misses of Cox's index. I dropped my sub quite a few >years ago, and it is still chugging along, even sponsoring stupid >conferences (charge $100) in Chicago that pre-empt the space of a very >fine annual conference, Midwest Radical Scholars and Activists. I do >hear that that creep Jon Judis no longer writes for it, but it still >supinely tails the Demireps. There was a rumor circulating a while ago that Weinstein wanted to make ITT the offi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 11 10:16:49 PDT 1998

40647 Kalecki on full employment -- rank: 1000

Michael Cohen wrote: > Also Kalecki argues that full employment might be in the actual >interest of the Capitalist class and they may realize it. He also shows >why they might not favor a government favoring full employment. I looked >at BLS for the last 20 years or so and Sweden reported about a 2% >unemployment rate until recently. The same was true for Japan whose reported >unemployment >is now slightly lower than the US at 4.3% . Sweden was the same until the >mid ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 10 17:38:40 PDT 1998

40648 "Nobel" prize in Econ. -- rank: 1000

Did anyone say this yet? The Economics Nobel was endowed by the Swedish central bank (the world's oldest) and is administered by the Swedish Academy of Sciences. The official name is The Sveriges Riksbank (Bank of Sweden) Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. You can find a list of winners at <http://www.nobel.se/laureates/>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 10 16:34:42 PDT 1998

40649 Kalecki on full employment -- rank: 1000

rayrena wrote: >One more thing: The phrase "ruling class" has been appearing in this >thread. I just finished reading C. Wright Mills' "The Power Elite," where >he talks about that term. I don't bring this up to invalidate the way the >phrase has been used in this thread--the discussion has been about the >economic elite after all--but because it is an interesting distinction, at >least semantically. Mills wrote the book over forty years ago, and I think > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 10 13:52:48 PDT 1998

40650 Guess who -- rank: 1000

michael perelman wrote: >Yes, please let us know. Telos had their conference here in Chico. I was >very excited because I had read some of their old stuff, but they had some >very bizarro people and ideas, especially the fellow who wanted Alabama to >sucede from the Union so that they could follow their Southern culture. Hmm, was this guy affiliated with the Rockford Institute (Rockford, Ill.) or the von Mises Institute (Auburn, Ala.) by any chance? Both are hotbeds of polite neo-c ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 10 10:23:39 PDT 1998