On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Carl Remick wrote:
> >Frankly, I don't think that Paul Krugman is corrupt, at least not in the
> >sense of personal venality.
>
> How do you define personal venality? PK got $50K for a do-nothing
> advisory position transparently concocted to give Enron greater
> intellectu
Ben Fine wrote an excellent critique of new growth
theory, far more comprehensive than just an emphasis
on conceptual cum measurement problems associated with
knowledge or human capital.
--- Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Abramovitz was critical of new growth theory.
> --
>
> Mic
I wrote:
>Frankly, I don't think that Paul Krugman is corrupt, at least not in the
>sense of personal venality.
Carl writes:> How do you define personal venality? PK got $50K for a
do-nothing advisory position transparently concocted to give Enron greater
intellectual respectability. As someone
French attack 'secretive and obsessive' euro bank
Larry Elliott, economics editor
Thursday January 24, 2002
The Guardian
Government backing for an early referendum on the euro was thrown into fresh doubt
last night when
two leading members of the French left - including Europe's trade commissio
Michael,
It is interesting that last week in Winnipeg there was a 'job fair'
where hundreds of American hospitals sent recruiters to entice
Canadian (Manitoban) nurses to the US, Texas and North Carolina
were particularly prominent. We have just re-introduced a two-year
registered nurse train
Wage Gap Widens
By Shannon Henry
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, January 23, 2002; 4:01 PM
Just when it seemed people were forgetting about the glass ceiling, it turns out it's
much lower
than many had believed.
The wage gap between most women and men managers actually widened during t
[Anybody else having that kind of biophilic tingling on their skinsThis is just
huge]
< http://www.newscientist.com >
Ultimate stem cell discovered
19:00 23 January 02
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A stem cell has been found in adults that can turn into every single tissue in the
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Thanks!
At 1/23/2002, you wrote:
>Nice job, Alan.
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montage:
http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/genius.htm
Tom Walker
You're right. Now is a good time to talk about it.
That still leaves the heap o' work. -- mbs
I agree with you, Max, that the best time to raise the Time issue is when
the economy is in good shape. The problem then, however, is that no one is
worried much about unemployment and so it is off t
Michael Perelmany writes:
> I don't think that Abramovitz wrote such an article. Also, I think that
it is unfair to tar him as a neoclassical economist. He was much broader.<
you're right. The article I was thinking of was:
Nelson, Richard, "How New Is New Growth Theory?" Challenge v40, n5
(Sep
>From: "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Frankly, I don't think that Paul Krugman is corrupt, at least not in the
>sense of personal venality.
How do you define personal venality? PK got $50K for a do-nothing advisory
position transparently concocted to give Enron greater intellectual
res
It happens all the time from up here in Canada. You see we
have a 62 cent dollar. What we do is train nurses and then when the graduate
offer them lousy working conditions and pitiful salaries. The Texans and
Californians come up here with a fistful of Yankee greenbacks and fly back with
a p
I agree with you, Max, that the best time to raise the
Time issue is when the economy is in good shape. The problem then, however, is
that no one is worried much about unemployment and so it is off the political
agenda. I recall you specifically making that comment to me in this
forum, oh, a
Gene Coyle wrote,
> We should take umbrage at anything over
3.0.
I take umbrage where ever I can find it.
Tom Walker
it also encourages hospitals to kick patients out.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
Michael Perelman writes:
> The nurses do not exist in those numbers. He is
> grandstanding -- unless
> we can kidnap nurses from elsewhere.
> > so what does pen-l think of th
Abramovitz was critical of new growth theory.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chico, CA 95929
530-898-5321
fax 530-898-5901
I don't think that Abramovitz wrote such an article. Also, I think that it is
unfair to tar him as a neoclassical economist. He was much broader.
"Devine, James" wrote:
> Fred Guy writes:>Steedman tried the same thing with efficiency wage theory a
> couple of years back, in Metroeconomica, exc
We should take umbrage at anything over 3.0.
Gene Coyle
Max Sawicky wrote:
> Well-taken, but if people start to care about the unemployment
> rate, then it becomes important, indicators be damned. Now
> that we've seen 4-oh, we should take umbrage at anything over
> 5.0.
>
> mbs
>
> > The Conf
The nurses do not exist in those numbers. He is grandstanding -- unless
we can kidnap nurses from elsewhere.
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 02:28:26PM -0800, Devine, James wrote:
> so what does pen-l think of the following?
> >California hospitals will need 5,000 more workers to meet proposed minimum
>
It didn't work!
I was trying to send a scan of John Heartfield's
1932 photomontage, "Spitzenprodukte des Kapitalismus" (The Finest Products
of Capitalism) to juxtapose with a photo of an ex-Enron employee
from today's New York Times. The sign in the Heartfield composition reads,
"Nehme je
Frankly, I don't think that Paul Krugman is corrupt, at least not in the
sense of personal venality. Instead, it seems to me that orthodox economists
such as PK got swept up in (and in turn helped create) the intellectual
bubble that also included Arthur Andersen and the auditing "industry," the
W
so what does pen-l think of the following?
>California hospitals will need 5,000 more workers to meet proposed minimum
nurse-staffing levels released Tuesday by California Gov. Gray Davis.
Davis' plan requires a minimum of one nurse for every five patients in
medical wards -- and fewer patients pe
Fred Guy writes:>Steedman tried the same thing with efficiency wage theory a
couple of years back, in Metroeconomica, exchanging shots with both Herb
Gintis and Peter Skott. Steedman doesn't like functions that treat things we
can't measure, like effort and knowledge, as variables with cardinal
or
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