Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 10:39:21 PST
Subject: M-I: N.Y. Times Ad by Economists Opposing Balanced Budget Amendment
From: farmelantj-AT-juno.com (James Farmelant)


I have noticed in todays N.Y. Times a full-page advertisement  by 1100
economists
opposing the Balanced Budget Amendment.  In addition to 11 Nobel
laureates and numerous other "usual suspects" I noticed some names
familiar to subscribers of this list such as Jerry and Barkley.  Now, I
take it for granted that the merits of opposing the Balanced Budget
Amendment need not be argued at great length on a Marxism list.  Rather I think it would be of more interest here if Barkley or Jerry or others
would present to us a Marxian political economic analysis of the Balanced
Budget Amendment in terms of what forces are supporting it and what forces are
opposing it.  In other words I think we would be interested in seeing
analysis of this
debate in class terms with emphasis on the impact that passage of the
Amendment might have on the role of the state and of the state's relations to the different classes and class fractions in the United States.  
                                                                
                                                               James F.


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