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41281 Fwd: URPE at ASSA schedule -- rank: 1000

[folks in & around NYC might find the lure of hundreds of convening economists irresistible...] From: Fleck_S <Fleck_S at BLS.GOV> To: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> Subject: URPE at ASSA schedule Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 08:56:55 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Doug, please circulate to your email discussion list. Paul Bartlett has put up the URPE at ASSA schedule for January 3-5, 1999, meetings in NYC on his organization's website (along with the Fall newsletter). We hope to see y ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 29 06:25:55 PST 1998

41282 Doug on Mattick Jr. -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >Doug raises the question of why do crises break out where and when they >do, but ignores the subpoint that based on a value theoretical model of >the capitalist system, Mattick Sr was able to predict the end of Keynesian >stabilization in the late 50s. So did Hayek and Friedman, didn't they? Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 28 18:38:29 PST 1998

41283 Doug on Mattick Jr. -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >d. Doug misses Paul's argument that the inspectors' reports of >factory conditions served as >confirmation of tendencies Marx was able to theorize due to the power of >abstraction he employed. The way Doug puts it, one would think Capital was >simply a description of early industrial capitalism, not a theory of its >laws of motion. > >e. Paul's argument--as I understood it--was that while by itself Marx's >theory provides little assistance in u ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 28 16:45:51 PST 1998

41284 book -- rank: 1000

C. Petersen wrote: >Hey, I was wondering how many copies Wall Street has sold so far About 12,000 worldwide in hardcover (of which almost 10,000 in U.S., 1,500 in Canada, 500 UK & rest of world) and pushing 8,000 in paper. Verso just did a paperback reprint run of 3,000, since the first run of 8,000 is almost gone. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 28 15:46:24 PST 1998

41285 psephologists confused -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: >At 05:03 PM 12/28/98 -0500, you wrote: >>I suppose I'm not supposed to forward specific posts, but participants on >>the American Association for Public Opinion Research list, some of them big >>academic and commercial names, are collectively scratching their heads over >>the inability of the U.S. media to set the political agenda - i.e., on >>impeachment - and over the Republicans' refusal to pay attention to what >>the polls are saying. Crisis ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 28 14:46:44 PST 1998

41286 psephologists confused -- rank: 1000

I suppose I'm not supposed to forward specific posts, but participants on the American Association for Public Opinion Research list, some of them big academic and commercial names, are collectively scratching their heads over the inability of the U.S. media to set the political agenda - i.e., on impeachment - and over the Republicans' refusal to pay attention to what the polls are saying. Crisis material! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 28 14:03:56 PST 1998

41287 WSJ hit on Menchu -- rank: 1000

The latest hit on Rigoberta Menchu comes from that notorious bastion of truth-telling, the Wall Street Journal editorial page. This screed's ingenious innovation: her "lies" might provide a pretext for violence! Anyone know who this Schwartz character is, and what the source of his expertise on "the Hispanic world" is? Doug ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WALL STREET JOURNAL - December 28, 1998 Commentary A Nobel Prize for Lying By Ste ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 28 07:48:53 PST 1998

41288 clarity -- rank: 1000

Daniel wrote: >The Jameson quote is interesting. I'm not familiar with Jameson. Is this >essay relatively recent? His comments on the nature of polyphony and monody, >or rather his idea of what is "natural" and "unnatural" in each, would be >hard to excuse if expressed in a time such as our own, in which it is really >not TOO difficult to hear, say, classical Indian music. For, there is an >example of music which is not polyphonic, yet manifests the same &qu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 27 15:53:56 PST 1998

41289 Hutton on Labour splits -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford quoted Will Hutton: >How Blair responds will be decisive. Mandelson's fall is a warning that a >Labour leader must keep his moderate Left onside to succeed; if he does >not, the tensions at the top of New Labour can only grow. If Clinton is any precedent, Blair will piss on the Labour left - and should Blair hit a rough patch, the left will be among his strongest defenders. Of course, Britain is a different country.... Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 27 14:01:59 PST 1998

41290 psychic at wholarts.com -- rank: 1000

Daniel wrote: >But, Doug, if you cannot appreciate Schoenberg, I do, personally. But I spent lots of years studying & listening to the Western musical canon. Now, though, I listen mainly to arty rock & roll. ?why do you jump to the >conclusion that it has something to do with education? There may be some people who find a tone row instinctively compelling, but I doubt there are very many. It doesn't necessarily require formal education, but it does require experience and socializat ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 27 08:55:40 PST 1998

41291 clarity -- rank: 1000

Daniel wrote: >Does that mean it's hard to understand? I've heard people say >that a canvas of Hieronymus Bosch is extremely complex. Look at >Michelangelo's Judgment Day. Can anyone absorb such wealth of detail in a >single look? Yet, there's nothing difficult to understand. > >There is nothing difficult to understand in Schoenberg either. Oh, maybe if you've studied music for years, Schoenberg isn't difficult, and if you're steeped in Western art, Bosch & Michelangelo are ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 26 16:39:09 PST 1998

41292 Zionism/Dogs/Fab J Freddy -- rank: 1000

Daniel F. Vukovich wrote: >PS: a related query: can anyone give point me to some sources, or offer >your own views about why Gorby failed so miserably..... both by the end of >his "regime," and during the last Pres. election? All Ive heard were vague >comments about him moving "too slow," him wanting to ban/restrict alcohol, >and his getting slugged by some voter last time out.... In short, was that >punch simply alcohol related? Check out Revolution from ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 26 15:21:41 PST 1998

41293 Not really a post Dougdaddy, just a question I forgot to ask. -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: >Ted Williams? Teddy Woozivelt? Theodor W. Adorno, gloomy German philosopher/sociologist. Doug

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Date:	Sat Dec 26 12:43:36 PST 1998

41294 clarity -- rank: 1000

William S. Lear wrote: >Thus the jargon-infested defend themselves. Sure, sometimes you >have to use four syllable words, but Jameson's facile equation of >simple writing with shallow thinking, and opaque writing with deep >thinking is preposterous. I'm half with Fred here, and half against, which seems to be my default position on nearly everything. This is from his chapter on Adorno, and Fred emphasizes TW's view of high art using difficulty as an antidote to the products of the c ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Dec 26 08:33:16 PST 1998

41295 clarity -- rank: 1000

Hence the willed "ugliness" of modern music in general, as if, in this state of pathological hebetude and insensibility, only the painful remained as a spur to perception. The parallel with language is only too clear, and it is enough to evoke the fad for rapid reading and the habitual conscious or unconscious skimming of newspaper and advertising slogans, for us to understand the deeper social reasons for the stubborn insistence of modem poetry on the materiality and density of langua ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 25 20:30:20 PST 1998