[OPE-L:4877] Charles Andrews

From: Gerald_A_Levy (Gerald_A_Levy@email.msn.com)
Date: Mon Feb 12 2001 - 20:49:47 EST


Charles Andrews, a writer/activist from the San Francisco Bay 
Area,  has joined OPE-L.  

Charles is the author of _From Capitalism to Equality_ (which he
describes below) and _Profit Fever_, a book about the political
economy of health care. In the Web site listed below you will
also find a number of "topical commentaries" on various issues
including globalization.

The following is his introduction:
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charlie" <charles1848@value.net>

> Dear OPE-L:
> 
> Thank you for inviting me to OPE-L, especially to Paul Zarembka,
> who took the initiative when he knows only my new book,
>     From Capitalism to Equality
>     An Inquiry into the Laws of Economic Change
> 
> In this book I try to do three things:
> 1) Explain the persistent decline in the median conditions of
> life and work in the U.S. since 1973. I could only do this by
> using the labor theory of value.
> 2) Give a popular but rigorous introduction to the labor theory
> of value. Whether or not you are not ready to assign Capital for
> a course, for example, I believe you will find this book
> suitable. It relies on contributions to the theory made over the
> last twenty years by many people on this list, although it is an
> examination of (primarily U.S.) capitalism, not an account of
> debates.
> 3) Suggest principles of a socialist economy that flow from the
> explanation sought in point 1. These principles support a
> renewed socialist vision for highly developed economies.
> 
> The publisher's Web site for this book is at
> http://www.LaborRepublic.org.
> You can find the table of contents and additional details there.
> 
> I have no academic position, which must have disadvantages that I
> hope people will point out as they show up, but it does signal
> that my efforts in theory are for practical ends (but not
> pragmatic).
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Charles Andrews
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Charles: welcome aboard!

In solidarity, Jerry



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