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40936 Overlapping lists -- rank: 1000

Louis Proyect wrote: >Actually Doug and I have discussed this problem in the context of the >decline in posting to PEN-L. I think it is going to take a couple of weeks >for these sorts of questions to be resolved. The last thing that Doug or I >are interested in is weakening PEN-L. Also, it is going to take a little >while for the Marxism list and the LBO list to clarify their identities >better. I do think that the amount of crossposting has died down over the >past day or ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 13 15:37:51 PDT 1998

40937 BJP's Bomb -- rank: 1000

Altaf Bhimji wrote: >generally that is what these polls do, count the "middle classs" thought >that class is of a sizeable number in India (numerically, not neccessarily >in percentage) . It will be intreasting to see what Pakistan's response >will be, my self being originally from there, my guess is that some of the >fanatic religious groups are calling for the test, as may be the army. >However, Nawaz Sharif (the PM) an industrialist, has tended to do things >his ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 13 15:20:28 PDT 1998

40938 Co-state variables... -- rank: 1000

Rosser Jr, John Barkley wrote: > Where are the funky deconstructionists who will >pop out of closets chanting nineteenth century romantic >poems about kinky sex? What do you think this is, a festival organized for the benefit of your own scopophilia? One could start by meditating on the various meanings of "bonds"; I believe it was Nietzsche who called debts titles to cruelty. Or was that Norman O. Brown? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 13 13:49:34 PDT 1998

40939 Co-state variables... -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >It is at the very least an open question how much is left of the >Arrow-Debreu apparatus once the scope of these weasel words is recognized. >Does the Arrow-Debreu apparatus cover 50% of what's going on? 30%? 10%? And >what happens as the information technology revolution proceeds--and as >things of value ("commodities") lose the properties of rivalry and >excludibility that underlie all the claims that markets are good allocation >mechanisms? ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 13 12:25:12 PDT 1998

40940 Co-state variables... -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >Market prices in a competitive economy ("exchange values") *are* indicators >of scarcity: they carry information about the money-metric utility of that >particular commodity or resource in its most favorable alternative use. Why does this remind me of the Baltimore Catechism of my youth? So let's talk about oil prices. They skyrocketed twice in the 1970s, collapsed in the 1980s, recovered a bit in the early 1990s, and are now in real terms at or below wher ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 13 10:16:09 PDT 1998

40941 Were the Nazis radical environmentalists? -- rank: 1000

Mark Jones wrote: >But capital is just a passing dream. Mark, I love you for your optimism. But really, the dream has been going on for, what, seven centuries or so. Are you putting all your chips on oil now to bring about the revolution, or at least the wrenching quasi-terminal crisis of capitalism? What if the oil doesn't run out? What if eco-crisis is just the latest refuge of frustrated crisis theorists? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 13 10:04:24 PDT 1998

40942 BJP's Bomb -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: >Or Rakesh, as the Indian anti-nuke movement posited last night, maybe >it's a sign not of having already consolided its rule, but of the >fragility of rule. A feel-good populist measure to keep intact a very >shaky coalition government? Well, hell, if their bomb-inspired bounce in the polls starts to decay, what will they do for an encore? Vaporize Islamabad? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 13 09:50:12 PDT 1998

40943 Purges -- rank: 1000

Bruce Nissen wrote: >Roger Alcaly Who has gone onto make a small fortune in arbitrage and speculation, with a pause to write hosannas for Mike Milken in the New York Review of Books. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 12 12:35:37 PDT 1998

40944 Were the Nazis radical environmentalists? -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >And if I remember >correctly in Marx's Crises Theories, Michael Perelman quotes crucial >passages from Marx's Theory of Surplus Value where Marx develops his >critiqe of the Ricardian Socialists (Hodgskin or Thompson) in terms of >their failure to specify the kind of labor which creates exchange value >and its mysteries. Michael's book led me to the relevant passages in >Theories of Surplus Value. Got the reference handy, Rakesh or Michael? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 12 11:06:33 PDT 1998

40945 Kemp -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >In practice, Kemp supports some of the worst policies imaginable, but I >believe >it derives from an honest if wacko view of the world. And besides, there's that rumor of his unusual predilictions... Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 12 10:21:18 PDT 1998

40946 i.d. check -- rank: 1000

Frances Bolton (PHI) wrote: >I go on to suggest >that the powers-that-be would *like* for me to go to meetings and argue >about precisely what form of anarchism/socialism/whatever should be >implemented after the Revolution There's a wonderful Adorno quote in the new Nation, in Andrew Rubin's review of a new TWA collection from Columbia. "The question 'what is to be done?' as an automatic reflex to every critical thought before it is fully expressed ... recalls the gesture of so ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 11 13:11:28 PDT 1998

40947 another lecture on behavior -- rank: 1000

I'm sorry to sound so finishing school-ish, but please don't quote 5k or 20k postings just to say "Right on," ok? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 11 14:06:47 PDT 1998

40948 social science production (was: Dark Sides of 'Solidarity'?) -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: > Larry Meyer Meyer seems to be the leader of the hawk faction in the Fed - what's his story? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 11 13:59:43 PDT 1998

40949 leave of absence -- rank: 1000

jf noonan wrote: >On Fri, 8 May 1998, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> I'm off for the weekend, to the Work conference at SUNY-Binghamton. May the >> hugs & kisses fly in my absence.... > >Driving? Yes, as a matter of fact I did, in an expensively rented car. I've logged about 1,000 miles over the last month, and I'm eager for a long vacation from hell on wheels. But now I'm back. I'm getting unsusb's and complaints about volume. I don't know exactly what to do about this - o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 11 09:45:19 PDT 1998

40950 leave of absence -- rank: 1000

I'm off for the weekend, to the Work conference at SUNY-Binghamton. May the hugs & kisses fly in my absence.... Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 8 12:40:19 PDT 1998