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9511 [lbo-talk] Keynes, Marx Koran -- rank: 1000

On Sep 19, 2007, at 2:01 PM, Rakesh Bhandari wrote: > But putting aside grave political uncertainty or war Doug there needs > to be an explanation of what annoys the nerves and creates hysteria > and why they can't always be turned back again by a wave of the hand, > a little regressive tax relief here or big government program there. > Investment is not just a collective action problem or a matter of > nerves and digestion. As an explanation of the investment deficit in > t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 19 11:26:48 PDT 2007

9512 [lbo-talk] Marx, Keynes and the Koran -- rank: 1000

On Sep 19, 2007, at 1:38 PM, Shane Mage wrote: > If any interpretation is a misinterpretation, it is so *only* > insofar as > it *misses* the correct interpretation. And if correct interpretation > is *per se* nonexistent, than all criticism, especially hers, is > mere blather. Of course, that's just your interpretation.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 19 10:50:18 PDT 2007

9513 [lbo-talk] Keynes, Marx Koran -- rank: 1000

On Sep 19, 2007, at 1:27 PM, Rakesh Bhandari wrote: > In estimating the prospects of investment, we must have regard, > therefore, to the nerves and hysteria and even the digestions and > reactions to the weather of those upon whose spontaneous activity it > largely depends.' [Keynes 1936] Not untrue, really.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 19 10:42:59 PDT 2007

9514 [lbo-talk] loony press release of the day: Ahmadinejad to visit Ground Zero & he must be stopped! -- rank: 1000

AHMADINEJAD, PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD'S BIGGEST TERRORISM-SPONSORING COUNTRY, REQUESTS TO VISIT GROUND ZERO, THE ULTIMATE SYMBOL OF TERRORISM "What a mockery! A public, bold sponsor of terror should never be allowed permission to visit this sacred site." Says Syndicated columnist, Terrorism expert, and Middle East analyst Micah Halpern Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, has reportedly asked for permission to visit Ground Zero during his visit to New York City (September 25- ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 19 10:35:02 PDT 2007

9515 [lbo-talk] Marx, Keynes and the Koran -- rank: 1000

On Sep 19, 2007, at 12:22 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > Ted: "I think this misinterprets "My Early Beliefs."" > > Sontag: 'All interpretation is misinterpretation Bloom: "What is being freshly repressed?"

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 19 09:29:49 PDT 2007

9516 [lbo-talk] Human Freedom Index -- rank: 1000

The 1991 Human Development Report <http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/ 1991/en/pdf/hdr_1991_ch1.pdf> came up with a Human Freedom Index, based on countries' performance on some 40 measures of personal freedom. The rankings of those in the top group, "high freedom": 1 Sweden 2 Denmark 3 Netherlands 4 Finland 5 New Zealand 6 Austria 7 Norway 8 France 9 Germany 10 Belgium 11 Canada 12 Switzerland 13 USA 14 Australia 15 Japan 16 UK 17 Greece 18 Costa Rica With the exception of NZ, ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 19 09:28:08 PDT 2007

9517 [lbo-talk] Marx, Keynes and the Koran -- rank: 1000

On Sep 19, 2007, at 11:45 AM, Michael Perelman wrote: > This is a long tradition in economics that stretched back from Adam > Smith to Alfred > Marshall: express noble sentiments about the future of the working > class along with > contempt when ordinary people fail to behave appropriately. > > > On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 11:39:31AM -0400, Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> On Sep 19, 2007, at 10:55 AM, Ted Winslow wrote: >> >>> In fact, this appropriation ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 19 09:06:58 PDT 2007

9518 [lbo-talk] health insurance employment growing twice as fast as caregivers -- rank: 1000

<http://www.epi.org/content.cfm/webfeatures_snapshots_20070919> Health insurance industry employment outpacing providers and all- industry growth rates by Ross Eisenbrey Economist Paul Krugman and many others have suggested that the health insurance industry has a lot to do with the excessive cost of U.S. health care. As Krugman describes the industry, an important part of its business model is collecting premiums while denying deserving claims and seeking out reasons to exclude patien ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 19 08:46:10 PDT 2007

9519 [lbo-talk] Marx, Keynes and the Koran -- rank: 1000

On Sep 19, 2007, at 10:55 AM, Ted Winslow wrote: > In fact, this appropriation of Moore and of the tradition to which > the particular idea of the "Good" belongs makes Keynes's conception > of the "ideal commonwealth" very like Marx's, a fact that explains > his claim that "the republic of my imagination lies on the extreme > left of celestial space." Except Keynes was a total snob and racist. Need I quote the classics? Marx wanted to organize the my ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 19 08:39:31 PDT 2007

9520 [lbo-talk] "Skull, Bones and Electricity" -- rank: 1000

On Sep 19, 2007, at 10:02 AM, Carl Remick wrote: > The online site where I found a text of Bartleby has a footnote that > (needlessly) describes the estimable John Jacob Astor in these terms: > "A poor German immigrant to the United States, Astor (1763-1848) was > immensely successful in fur trading and real estate, becoming the > richest man of his time. However, his name was synonymous with the > worst abuses of big business: monopoly, worker exploitation, and > polit ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 19 07:29:55 PDT 2007

9521 [lbo-talk] Liberalism (was Molding the Ideal Islamic Citizen) -- rank: 1000

On Sep 19, 2007, at 9:25 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > In short, political liberalism tends to privatize, expanding the space > for freedom (of the negative sort, freedom from government regulation, > the only kind of freedom that Americans recognize as freedom) -- > sexual and religious, as well as political and economic, freedoms -- > in the private sector and contracting the scope of the public sector > that provides citizens with goods and services as a matter of their > ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 19 07:27:16 PDT 2007

9522 [lbo-talk] verification, perception -- rank: 1000

A delicious paragraph from the NYT's account of the Blackwater affair: <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/19/world/middleeast/19blackwater.html? pagewanted=2&_r=1> > The Iraqis' accounts have not been verified, but the anger in their > telling served to reinforce the feeling among Iraqis here that > private security companies care little for Iraqi lives. In a war > where perceptions are paramount, the effect is poisonous. A professor could turn this little paragraph into an en ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 19 06:54:18 PDT 2007

9523 [lbo-talk] Liberalism (was Molding the Ideal Islamic Citizen) -- rank: 1000

On Sep 19, 2007, at 9:25 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > The United States government, independent of which party is in power, > is more substantially based on the principles of political liberalism > than governments of continental Europe, to say nothing of Iran or > Cuba. Generally speaking, English-speaking countries like the USA, > the UK, and Canada tend to have governments closer to ideal-typical > political liberalism -- and therefore more freedom in civil society > an ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 19 06:52:32 PDT 2007

9524 [lbo-talk] Israel declares Gaza an "enemy entity" -- rank: 1000

Israel declares Gaza "enemy entity" as Rice visits By Jeffrey Heller 49 minutes ago JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel declared the Gaza Strip an "enemy entity" on Wednesday and said it would reduce its fuel and power supplies to the Hamas-run territory in response to rocket attacks by Palestinian militants. Hamas described the move, complicating a visit to the region by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to prepare for a U.S.-led Middle East peace conference, as a decla ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 19 06:40:13 PDT 2007

9525 [lbo-talk] ANSWER vs. UFPJ -- rank: 1000

Scott McLemee writes up a study of the ANSWER-UFPJ split. Conclusion: yeah, the groups are different, but the people who go to their demonstrations are pretty much the same. McLemee: <http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2007/09/19/mclemee> paper: <http://plaza.ufl.edu/mtheaney/Coalition_Dissolution.pdf>

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Date:	Wed Sep 19 06:37:37 PDT 2007