US Destroyers leave S China seas

2001-04-02 Thread Chris Burford
>China has rejected offers of help to locate the missing pilot and the >three destroyers have been ordered to move on. It looks like the Bush regime has decided not to huff and puff too much since it is in a position of considerable weakness. The plane has been confirmed as an EP-3E Aries II

(Fwd) Complaint about violation of academic freedom in hiring

2001-04-02 Thread phillp2
I think all North American academics should be aware of this travesty of academic freedom and human rights. Paul Phillips, Economics, University of Manitoba --- Forwarded message follows --- Date sent: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 15:07:59 -0800 To: (Recipient list

Re: Economic Development

2001-04-02 Thread Ian Murray
Tim, try getting a hold of these folks as they might be able to put you on the right track: http://www.cfed.org/ Ian - Original Message - From: "Tim Bousquet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PEN-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 7:44 PM Subject: [PEN-L:9903] Economic Develop

Economic Development

2001-04-02 Thread Tim Bousquet
I realize that PEN-Lers don't put much stock in the issue, but I'm trying to find some sort of industry standard in the "economic development" biz. Specifically, how do the people running these organizations, or I suppose more importantly, the people providing the funding, measure and assess the r

US recession?

2001-04-02 Thread Seth Sandronsky
Jim, Yeah. I glanced at the current BW today. The sidebar "Excess, Excess Everywhere" seemed to sum things up, eh? Seth US recession? by Jim Devine 02 April 2001 16:37 In the most recent issue of BUSINESS WEEK that I've received, I find that their reporters are talking in terms that I used

Re: Re: Re: Re: World War III did not start this morning

2001-04-02 Thread Chris Burford
At 13:41 02/04/01 +, you wrote: >I don't get the title of this thread. It's not like the US and China are >inches away from >a "hot" war the way the US and the USSR were for decades. And even then, >there were lots >of similar incidents between them that didn't start the nukes flying... We

Fwd: [mayday2k] Six College Students Occupy Sikorsky Corporation Conference to Protest Plan Colo

2001-04-02 Thread Sabri Oncu
Subj: [mayday2k] Six College Students Occupy Sikorsky Corporation Conference to Protest Plan Colo Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 5:27:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: "Peace Activist Coalition" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Six College Students Occupy Sikorsky Corporation Conference to

RE: kids say the darndest things

2001-04-02 Thread Brown, Martin (NCI)
Sound like a Bayesian -Original Message- From: Forstater, Mathew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 1:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:9897] kids say the darndest things "Keynes made the distinction

kids say the darndest things

2001-04-02 Thread Forstater, Mathew
"Keynes made the distinction between risk and uncertainty. When you use risk you know your odds, but when there is uncertainty the chance is 50-50." Principles of Macroeconomics Exam

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: "Transformation problem" [was US Consumer Confidence...]

2001-04-02 Thread Jim Devine
Although I think that the main issues of the so-called "transformation problem" are not mathematical and the "problem" should be renamed as the "disaggregation problem," I think it's a mistake to totally reject math or even equilibrium conceptions. At 01:52 AM 4/2/01 -0700, you wrote: >IN AN

RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: "Transformation problem" [was US Consumer Confidence...]

2001-04-02 Thread Forstater, Mathew
Shaikh uses math, econometrics, simulations, etc. But his points in such papers as "The Humbug Production Function," "The Poverty of Algebra," and the papers on the transformation problem are well to be considered: we must not confuse the laws of math or statistics with the laws of economics; math

US recession?

2001-04-02 Thread Jim Devine
In the most recent issue of BUSINESS WEEK that I've received, I find that their reporters are talking in terms that I used in my "three bears" analysis. The big complaint with the US these days is unused industrial capacity -- including several empty billboards at Times Square in New York City

Motherhood and apple pie

2001-04-02 Thread Keaney Michael
Penners In the March 12 issue of Business Week there is a review of a book by Ann Crittenden, "The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World is Still Least Valued" (Metropolitan Books). The review kicks off with the current news of Massachusetts governor Jane Swift's pregnancy

humor

2001-04-02 Thread Keaney Michael
Louis Proyect wrote: You can also see contempt for working people in shows like SNL or Mad TV, which offer up skits about feckless messengers, waiters, or truck drivers when they are not mocking black people or the retarded. The funny thing, of course, is that these shows are uniformly unfunny. I

Is Bhagwati blaming the victim?

2001-04-02 Thread Ian Murray
http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3IY3FUWKC&liv e=true The truth about protectionism Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya say poor countries are the worst offenders when it comes to obstructing free trade Published: March 29 2001 19:09GMT | Last Updated: March 29 200

Re: Marx's law of value

2001-04-02 Thread Charles Brown
Marx's _Value, Price and Profit_ , as the title implies , gives a basic understanding of how Marx analyzed the relationship between value and price. CB >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/31/01 11:31AM It's true that Marx has a much more >complex notion of value than this. In reality, according to M

Re: Re: Re: World War III did not start this morning

2001-04-02 Thread jdevine
I don't get the title of this thread. It's not like the US and China are inches away from a "hot" war the way the US and the USSR were for decades. And even then, there were lots of similar incidents between them that didn't start the nukes flying... --

Re: Re: Re: Re: "Transformation problem" [was US Consumer Confidence...]

2001-04-02 Thread ALI KADRI
IN AN ARTICLE ENTITLED "Geometry and experience" by Albert Einstein, on the relevance of mathematics he says "as far as mathematics corresponds to experience it is not certain, and as far as mathematics is certain it does not correspond to experience". Of the many misunderstandings of Marx, there