Immiseration (was Krugman on Marx)

[Fellows, Jeffrey]

Sorry for the misstatement, I guess I've been doing too much "research
shows" type work :-0. I was indeed concerned about the "reserve" army.
Oh well, it gave me a good laugh this morning.
Jeff

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From: Mathew Forstater
To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
Subject: Re: Immiseration (was Krugman on Marx)
Date: Thursday, August 13, 1998 6:13PM

Fellows, Jeffrey wrote:


> This leads me to ask a question about the nature of the reserve army
> today as it relates to notions of concentrated poverty. If there are
> areas where poverty is excessive and certain segments of the
population
> are isolated in those areas without real connections to the (legal)
> system of production, can this portion of the unemployed be considered
> part of the research army?
>
> Jeff

The *research army* are those of us who are supposed to be doing
research
but instead are playing around on e-mail lists and so are soon to be
part of
the reserve army.