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Forum Post Hahnel: Hasta la Victoria Siempre

Forum Post, August, 16 2010 Robin Hahnel
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Congratulations on your work, and thanks for letting all of us know what you are doing.I don't have personal email addresses for any of you, so I am letting you kinow via this message that if there is anything I can do to help you in your efforts ...

Forum Post Hahnel: Re: Re: Phew!

Forum Post, July, 18 2010 Robin Hahnel
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Dear Steve,There is an excellent essay about participatory economics on the website of Organization for a Free Society, OFS, www.afreesociety.org.It is the best attempt to present the ideas in a more accessible and entertaining way I have seen.

Forum Post Hahnel: Re: Carbon Tax Clarification?

Forum Post, July, 15 2010 Robin Hahnel
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In theory a carbon tax should be on the emissions of carbon into the atmosphere. But in practice that requires monitoring too many sources of emissions -- as you point out. So in practice a carbon tax is always placed on coal, oil, and gas as they...

Forum Post Hahnel: Re: environmental limits to growth

Forum Post, July, 15 2010 Robin Hahnel
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There are environmental limits to growth of what ecological economists call "through-put" -- the intake of varioius natural resources measured in physical units, and the output of waste products into the environment, also measured in phy...

Forum Post Hahnel: Re: Contradictions and Baker

Forum Post, July, 14 2010 Robin Hahnel
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Dean Baker and I are long time friends, and we agree to a great extent on the evils of neoliberal, capitalism. We also agree that the notion that we have ever had truly free market capitalism in the US is a myth because government has long interve...

Forum Post Hahnel: Re: Re: Phew!

Forum Post, July, 14 2010 Robin Hahnel
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Dear Steve,There are many important tasks that need to be tackled if we are to (1) challenge conventional wisdom that there is no alternative to markets and authoritarian planning; (2) think through how worker and consumer councils and federations...

Forum Post Hahnel: Re: Re: Re: Cap-and-Trade and Individuals?

Forum Post, July, 14 2010 Robin Hahnel
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Dear Sampson,You are right to argue that in all these bills the devil is often in the details, and that last minute changes can make a huge difference. This was true for the healthcare bill, This is now true for the financial reform bill. It would...

Forum Post Hahnel: Re: Re: Cap-and-Trade and Individuals?

Forum Post, July, 14 2010 Robin Hahnel
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Dear Paul,The first step is getting an international treaty signed that caps national emissions for all countries -- very low caps for advanced economies, and caps even higher than current emissions for underdeveloped countries so they can still d...

Forum Post Hahnel: Re: Too Late

Forum Post, July, 14 2010 Robin Hahnel
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Dear Samson,You're right about what is commonly called the "momentum problem" and that most people have no idea just how much trouble we are in. I take my cue from people like Bill McKibben who is a leader of the 350 campaign. They argue...

Forum Post Hahnel: Re: Sources?

Forum Post, July, 14 2010 Robin Hahnel
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Dear Nicholas,You should be asking me for references to back up my claims.... And you should also be asking for CREDIBLE references from people who are acknowledged experts to back up the claims that people make about Kyoto and the CDM &...

Forum Post Hahnel: Re: Triumph of hope over experience -- for which side?

Forum Post, July, 14 2010 Robin Hahnel
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Dear Merius,I could not agree with you more about this:"An enlightened and agitating populace will still be necessary to push the UN to functioning status." And the US government as well. The question is what exactly should the enlighten...

Forum Post Hahnel: Re: Strategic Deficit?

Forum Post, July, 14 2010 Robin Hahnel
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Dear James,Peter Bohmer and I have just written three articles about the current crisis for a Left newsaper in Greece, but they will be going up on Znet as well. The first was posted today. The second considers your question and spe...

Forum Post Hahnel: Re: Reward for output?

Forum Post, July, 08 2010 Robin Hahnel
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Dear Jean-Frnacois: Great question.The participatory planning process is designed to generate accurate estimates of the opportunity costs of natural resources, different kinds of labor, and different kinds of capital equipment, as well as the full...

Forum Post Hahnel: Re: responding to Marxist "crisis theories"

Forum Post, March, 19 2010 Robin Hahnel
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 Yes. I am saying that capitalism has no “internal contradictions” --  it is not “self-contradictory” in any of the ways that Marxist crisis theorists have thought or still think it is today. People write whole bo...

Forum Post Hahnel: Thank you Norm

Forum Post, March, 19 2010 Robin Hahnel
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 I completely agree with Norm on this one. The bill is a disaster and the Democratic Party “cave” on healthcare reform is another example of how progressives are betrayed by the Democratic Party – as if we needed anothe...

Forum Post Hahnel: Re: Internal Contradictions

Forum Post, March, 17 2010 Robin Hahnel
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I have not read Andrew Kliman's book, Reclaiming Marx's Capital, so I cannot comment on what he says.Warning: I'm not trying to be snide in what follows, simply honest.I have no intentions of reading the book and here is why. From 1967 to 200...

Forum Post Hahnel: Re: Strategy

Forum Post, March, 16 2010 Robin Hahnel
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I do think it is mostly a matter of hard-work organizing. Although I think what is most needed is some rethinking about how we do that hard work and organizing -- more on this in a minute.I do NOT think that academic scholarship has much to contri...

Forum Post Hahnel: So Tell Us!

Forum Post, February, 27 2010 Robin Hahnel
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 Andrej:This sounds EXACTLY like what I want to be reading. So tell us who is the publisher and how we can best get the book!I attended a talk by Tom Hayden, whose wisdom I have long appreciated, at Reed College yesterday, February ...

Forum Post Hahnel: Re: Does cheap-solution-hunting via trading postpone more effective

Forum Post, February, 13 2010 Robin Hahnel
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In his last two comments Jean Francois makes two arguments against allowing LDCs to sell offsets to sources in MDCs that are made by many others as well. I don't think either holds water upon careful examination, and here is why:(1) You argue...

Forum Post Hahnel: Re: Does cheap-solution-hunting via trading postpone more effect

Forum Post, February, 02 2010 Robin Hahnel
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