Doug Henwood wrote:
The Euro central bank makes the Fed look like a model of accountability.
Maastricht specifies that the president of the ECB and its governing board
must be restricted to "persons of recognized standing and professional
experience in monetary or banking matters," language
In a message dated 98-03-09 12:01:57 EST, you write:
there's a
big increase in lawsuits by employees against companies. It's expensive,
but not totally so given the ability to hire a lawyer on contingenc
Jim.
Most lawyers do not take wrongful termination or other employment cases on a
"... much of the recent [noninflationary] economic growth [in the US] has
been caused not by productivity gains but by new jobs and by the greater
number of hours worked by those already employed. Workers 'are coming out
of the woodwork' as jobs become available, so the pressure raise wages and
I am no fan of Jeffrey Sachs's, indeed have criticized
him in print. But I must support and add to Jim Devine's
remarks on him.
1) He was a product of Harvard, not Chicago,
allegedly a bastion of some kind of Keynesianism. No, he
neither was nor is a direct and personal
Amongst other things Jim Devine writes:
Another reason for the US boom has increased consumer indebtedness. This,
partly caused by relatively stagnant real wages, has allowed consumer
spending to do relatively well.
Good point. Now a question about the relation of consumer debt to
Thanks to Uncle Lou for an interesting post on the
Incas. The only problem with it is the claim that the
colonial government ruled with little opposition until the
1700s. In fact there were off and on uprisings from the
beginning throughout the 1500s and 1600s. A good source
that
Any suggestions for *commercial* films that address "globalization"
issues, intentionally or otherwise? Non-western films would be
especially nice. Thanks.
Peter Dorman
There has been a story floating around in academia for
some time about an anthropology professor somewhere whose
tenure was revoked for using the term "Indian" in classes
rather than "Native American." Can anybody either verify
or refute this tale?
I am glad to hear Jim Craven
My section on jobless phd's was not readable. Here it is again:
Equally appalling is our failure to put to good use the skills of those
people who earn graduate degrees in science. Throughout the Cold War,
the military-industrial complex was the primary employer of scientists.
For more than a
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Subject: Rumours from Paris.
To: Ed Finn, Research Director,
Canadian Council on Policy Alternatives, Ottawa.
Dear Ed:
Below, you will find an email I've
Michael Perelman wrote:
I would like to start a dialogue on why the (U.S.) economy has been
doing as well as it has over the past few years. We know about the
problems, inequities , but why has the house of cards stayed up as
long as it has.
Hey, how about this - taxing the rich reduced
Comments, anyone?
Doug
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Barkley is correct to point this out. What I should have said was that the
rebellions of the 1700s were much larger in scale than anything that had
preceded them.
Louis Proyect
At 03:11 PM 3/10/98 -0500, you wrote:
Thanks to Uncle Lou for an interesting post on the
Incas. The only
Pen-lers will be interested in two (at least two) debates at the
upcoming Socialist Scholars Conference.
Globalization or Not: Its Political Consequences for
Organizing at the Millennium.
Sponsor: CUNY Democratic Socialist of America
Panelists:
In the midst of making many other interesting points, Louis Proyject writes:
What it will take to reverse these trends is a strengthening of the labor
movement, which is already beginning. Alex Cockburn's column in the same
digital edition of the Nation reports on the struggle of Oakland
In a message dated 98-03-09 14:32:22 EST, Arvind Jaggi asks:
Greetings. Could you point me to books/studies on the subject of
unemployment in academe. Specifically, I am interested in the work on the
broad phenomenon that covers the rise of adjunct and visiting faculty, and
the proliferation
So far, we have agreed on the role of credit and the transfer of power
to capital. I would add the expansion of capital made possible by the
opening of China, E. Europe and the like. In addition, the
financialization of business has added to profits, as well as the
likelihood of a future
At 10:07 AM 3/10/98 -0500, Louis P wrote:
The Nation Magazine Digital Edition (www.thenation.com) has an article by
Mark Cooper on Chile today that includes the following passage:
what's the URL (web page address)? I am getting sick of being in the NATION
time machine, where I read columns and
Check out the lastest issue of the "Chronicle of Higher Ed."
also "Academe" and "Aft On Campus" have had a bunch of articles.
Jason
The Nation Magazine Digital Edition (www.thenation.com) has an article by
Mark Cooper on Chile today that includes the following passage:
"Chile hardly holds the patent on a pullback from politics, a reflex now
rampant from Peoria to Poland. But few countries in recent decades have
traveled
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Robert: Please distribute. Thanks, Mwiza.
STATEMENT OF RANDALL ROBINSON, PRESIDENT, TRANSAFRICA
HR 1432, the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act, is the most sweeping
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