[PEN-L:3413] Ernest Mandel seminar

Dear Alan Freeman, Salah Jaber told me that you agree in principle to do an introduction during the 'Ernest Mandel seminar' that will be organized in the IIRE by the Ernest Mandel Study Centre, July 4 to 6. Good. As we don't have your address I hope we can get into e-mail contact. There are

[PEN-L:3414] Israel: The Hijack State (II)

TERRORIST STATES TAKE ACTION AGAINST CIVILIAN POPULATIONS Terrorist actions against the civilian populations by governments in Israel, the Israel-occupied areas, Jordan and Egypt have intensified following the meeting of terrorist states in Sharm el-Sheikh last week, under the aegis of U.S.

[PEN-L:3415] Financial crimes

Dear PEN-L ers, I beg your assitence. In Japan, the current most political problem is pouring state money amount to 680 bil. yen to the dissolvation of big housing companies. These are dummies of japanese big banks. I heard that many managers were sent to jail at the financial scandals around

[PEN-L:3416] Re: Memorials for David Gordon

I want to say a few words about David Gordon. I met him a few times, but mostly I knew him from his work. He was clearly a person who tried to bridge the gap between "mainstream" and radical economics. VIrtually all his work, though clearly following a radical paradigm that placed conflict at

[PEN-L:3417] Re: RadioHenwood

At 9:26 PM 3/20/96, Doug Henwood wrote: On my radio show, Thursday, 3/21/96, 5-6 PM, WBAI New York City (99.5 FM): * Jon Entine, author of articles exposing the hypocrisy of the Body Shop, Ben Jerry's, and other outposts of "socially responsible" business, on that, and the limits of "boutique

[PEN-L:3418] Cost of Job Loss

Re Eric, Was it with your efforts to re-calculate the cost of job loss that David took issue with? If so, perhaps you would share his criticisms with the list. Yes it was. A preliminary note: David was the "keeper of the series" for the Gordon, Bowles, Weisskopf team. He provided

[PEN-L:3422] David Gordon

I just heard about David Gordon, and can't quite believe it. Please let me know what happened. Marianne Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:3423] Re: Cost of Job Loss

Eric, Thank you for the reflections on your research, and David's comments on it. My primary concern is whether your work is calling into question the theses Gordon/Bowles/Weisskopf/ Schor,etc. use the cost of job loss to substantiate. As I understand them, the argument is that a Golden Age of

[PEN-L:3424] Re: Cost of Job Loss

Re Edwin's questions about my findings on CJL. The one who makes the strongest claims about CJL is Julie Schor who wrote in her chapter in The Imperiled Economy (1987) that, ". . . the Golden Age of United States capitalism was based on a high cost of job loss and high profits. . . . [W]orkers'

[PEN-L:3426] Apologies for message 3413

Sorry to all Pen-l-ers, I put a personal message for Alan Freeman by mistake on the wrong address and sent it to the list. Sorry. Robert Went International Institute for Research and Education (IIRE) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Postbus 53290, 1007 RG Amsterdam, The Netherlands Tel: 31 20 6717263 Fax:

[PEN-L:3427] Re: Protest Anti-Labor Purge at UC Berkeley

I must said that I fall quite far from your geographical settlement. That does not mean that your approach as a whole does not appeal to me. From the moment I subscribed to the list I only benefited from your insights and information. Keep up! With warm support, Alex Date: