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9121 [lbo-talk] economists think about women's liberation -- rank: 1000

"Women's Liberation: What's in it for Men?" NBER Working Paper No. W13919 MATTHIAS DOEPKE, Northwestern University, Department of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles - Department of Economics, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Email: doepke at econ.ucla.edu MICHELE TERTILT, Stanford University - Department of Economics Email: tertilt at stanford.edu The nineteenth century witne ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 28 14:55:41 PDT 2008

9122 [lbo-talk] Doug's case against Naomi Klein -- rank: 1000

On Apr 28, 2008, at 4:03 PM, Robert Wrubel wrote: > I heard her speak before 1000+ people and she didnt make the kind > of general/historical claims you said she did. It was clear she > was talking about recent history, new tendencies, unfolding > stories, etc. Um, my point was that she speaks about recent histories and new tendencies as if they're entirely without precedent. She exaggerates the role of shock and disaster, and ignores the continuities with the past four centuries ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 28 13:14:25 PDT 2008

9123 [lbo-talk] Raw video of LN conference contradicts CNA propaganda -- rank: 1000

On Apr 28, 2008, at 4:06 PM, John Thornton wrote: > Since the thread is closed I'll make one last off-list post Oops.

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Date:	Mon Apr 28 12:52:49 PDT 2008

9124 [lbo-talk] Doug's case against Naomi Klein -- rank: 1000

On Apr 28, 2008, at 1:13 AM, Patrick Bond wrote: > Hey, you have some good points, but isn't this review a bit over > the top > and often a caricature, Doug? Well, no. I thought my critique was fairly detailed, or as detailed as you can get in 2700 words. > * Doug, there are increasing reports, e.g. by David Harvey (whom you > hailed at his booklaunch a few years ago), that extraeconomic > coercion - > accumulation by dispossession - is central to contemporary political > ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 28 12:52:26 PDT 2008

9125 [lbo-talk] Doug's case against Naomi Klein -- rank: 1000

On Apr 28, 2008, at 10:20 AM, Marvin Gandall wrote: > The review, Doug, is foul-moody. > ===================================== > Not my impression. I thought the review was a very good commentary > on the > analytical shortcomings of the anti-globalization movement, of > which NK is a > leading representative, and that the tone was on the whole > constructive. But > I suppose it depends on the angle of vision of the reader. I tried hard to be constructive in tone - unl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 28 12:07:42 PDT 2008

9126 [lbo-talk] Doug's case against Naomi Klein -- rank: 1000

On Apr 28, 2008, at 1:03 PM, Robert Wrubel wrote: > Strange. I thought Doug's review was excellent (maybe because he > actually read the book all the way, whereas I only heard Klein > speak and read part of it. The whole bit on mind-control theory was > embarassing!) But I also thought Patrick's criticism was right on > -- Doug did misrepresent her position in some way. How do you know, if you didn't read the whole book?

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Date:	Mon Apr 28 12:05:20 PDT 2008

9127 [lbo-talk] celebrity, the universal equivalent -- rank: 1000

["It was bit drier over at the Vanity Fair party, hosted at political scribe Christopher Hitchens' stunning abode. There, Barack Obama supporter Kal Penn (best known as Kumar in the 'Harold and Kumar' movies) was spotted schmoozing with Salman Rushdie." New York Post [Page Six] - April 28, 2008 'HILLS' HUSTLERS GRAB A TABLE NOBODY expected to see Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt at the White House Correspondents Dinner in Washington, DC, Saturday night, especially after the obnoxiou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 28 08:30:04 PDT 2008

9128 [lbo-talk] review of Klein's shock doctrine -- rank: 1000

Just posted to the LBO website, my review of Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine: <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Shock.html>. Doug

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Date:	Sun Apr 27 13:58:48 PDT 2008

9129 [lbo-talk] Max's randomness persists... -- rank: 1000

Begin forwarded message: > From: gallupnews at gallup.com > Date: April 27, 2008 1:17:47 PM EDT > To: dhenwood at panix.com > Subject: From Gallup.Com: Gallup Daily: Clinton and Obama Remain > Tied at 47% > > > National Democratic voters preferences for their party s > nomination remain evenly split, with the latest Gallup Poll Daily > tracking results showing Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton each > receiving 47% support. > Read more at GALLUP.com. > > ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 27 11:02:23 PDT 2008

9130 [lbo-talk] An Age of Transition -- rank: 1000

On Apr 26, 2008, at 10:27 PM, Shane Mage wrote: > Now, with the cancer- > like progress of world capitalism, we face the ongoing reality of > destructive, industry-generated, climate change whose possible effects > range from grave (the best case) to (non-cosmic) catastrophe caused by > uncontrollable feedbacks (melting polar ice--increased planetary > albedo--melting of permafrost and upset of deep-ocean methane clydrate > deposits--release of massive quantities of methane ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 27 06:30:02 PDT 2008

9131 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood podcast: <http://shout.lbo-talk.org/lbo/radio-feed.php> iTunes: <http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/ viewPodcast?id=73801817> or <http://tinyurl.com/3bsaqb> now also broadcast on KPFA, Berkeley! (details below) "Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005 -------------------------------------------------- Newly/recently posted to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserv ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 26 18:11:11 PDT 2008

9132 [lbo-talk] Reps take lead on ethanol freeze -- rank: 1000

On Apr 26, 2008, at 8:18 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> [from Mike Allen's Politco Playbook - an SUV tank full of 100% >> ethanol uses enough corn to feed 450 people for a year] > > I wonder how they compute that stat? Oh, wow, did my memory play tricks on me! Sorry. <http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20070501faessay86305/c-ford-runge- benjamin-senauer/how-biofuels-could-starve-the-poor.html> > How Biofuels Could Starve the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 26 17:42:32 PDT 2008

9133 [lbo-talk] Raw video of LN conference contradicts CNA propaganda -- rank: 1000

On Apr 26, 2008, at 3:34 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > All props to John, but I think this is thread, like the parrot in the > Python sketch, has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its > maker. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If Mark > hadn't nailed it to the perch, it'd be pushing up the daisies. > > A little love, Doug? I think you're right. It's an ex-thread. Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 26 13:36:40 PDT 2008

9134 [lbo-talk] Reps take lead on ethanol freeze -- rank: 1000

[from Mike Allen's Politco Playbook - an SUV tank full of 100% ethanol uses enough corn to feed 450 people for a year] SLEEPER ISSUE - A member of the Senate Republican leadership is taking lead on an effort to freeze ethanol mandates that are cited as a cause of food-price inflation around the world. Sen. Kay Bailey HUTCHISON is party of a unique coalition forming among food producers, grocers, Hispanic businesses and environmentalists. KBH has an Op-Ed in Monday's Investor's Business Dai ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 26 10:41:11 PDT 2008

9135 [lbo-talk] Raw video of LN conference contradicts CNA propaganda -- rank: 1000

On Apr 26, 2008, at 9:34 AM, John Gulick wrote: > The once fantastical projections > of ecological-economic catastrophists appear to be bearing > themselves out > -- enough so as to be warranting serious comment, anyway -- and yet > the the > most energetic thread at lbo-talk involves a myopic pissing match > between > the CNA and the SEIU. So start another.

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Date:	Sat Apr 26 10:32:16 PDT 2008