[PEN-L:6435] Re: freedom in Marx's vision of capitalism

1996-10-01 Thread Christopher Niggle
On Mon, 30 Sep 1996, Breen, Nancy wrote: Marx, of course, wrote in Capital of freedom in the double sense: freedom from the means of production and freedom to work for wages which is a key contradition that leads individuals in these conditions into labor exploitation under capitalism.

[PEN-L:6341] Re: U. S. State Income Distribution

1996-09-24 Thread Christopher Niggle
Jim, whoever else may be interested: The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) data bases can be disaggregated by states; I think that some researchers using their data bases have experimented...it's tricky though - one needs to know SPSS or SAS..and some states will have small samples. LIS is based at

[PEN-L:6236] Re: Cobb-Douglas

1996-09-17 Thread Christopher Niggle
Jim, others interested in the Cobb-Douglas production function: It is called the Cobb-Douglas function because Douglas, who was also an economist (at Chicago and the New School), were among the first to use it in widely read literature. chris redlands

[PEN-L:6136] Re: Prelude To Fascism (Canada)

1996-09-12 Thread Christopher Niggle
Don't you guys at Buffalo have to teach courses once in a while? What about department meetings? I am amazed at the amount of posts coming out of this place. Must be nice. Chris Niggle overworked at redlands On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, SHAWGI TELL wrote: On August 29, the Ontario

[PEN-L:4295] RE: Robert Samuelson and the CEA

1996-05-15 Thread Christopher Niggle
Robert is Paul Samuelson's son. On Wed, 15 May 1996, C.N.Gomersall wrote: Max S. wrote: [Robert] Samuelson is married to Katherine Graham's daughter, but I'm sure this has nothing to do with his spectacular career. A naive question of mine own: is Robert related to Paul?

[PEN-L:4297] RE: Robert Samuelson and the CEA

1996-05-15 Thread Christopher Niggle
Rosser: I sent the message (Chris Niggle, Redlands); Heilbroner told me that Robert was Paul's son but it was long ago and my memory is fading..like lots of other parts. Could be wrong. On Wed, 15 May 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you sure Robert is Paul Samuelson's son (whoever

[PEN-L:4120] Re: subscription to pen-l

1996-05-03 Thread Christopher Niggle
My host server has been changed. Can someone help this neo-luddite, techno-nerd out and tell me how to resubscribe to Pen-l from my new system? Chris Niggle Redlands

[PEN-L:3840] Re: Teaching economics with Hall and Taylor vs Truth

1996-04-18 Thread Christopher Niggle
On Thu, 18 Apr 1996, Blair Sandler wrote Hall Taylor have this idea that in the long run the classical model and Say's Law are correct: supply creates its own demand, output is determined by the size of the labor force, capital stock and technology, and aggregate demand merely influences

[PEN-L:3797] Re: stock market investment; reply to henwood

1996-04-16 Thread Christopher Niggle
On Tue, 16 Apr 1996, Doug Henwood wrote: The other day, I asked loyal Keynesians to comment on Morck, Shleifer, and Vishny's 1990 paper showing the stock market to have little effect on investment - a very damaging empirical refutation of JMK's line on the malign influence of sentiment on

[PEN-L:3756] Re:Reply to Henwood on Modigliani

1996-04-12 Thread Christopher Niggle
On Fri, 12 Apr 1996, Doug Henwood wrote: At 1:28 PM 4/11/96, Christopher Niggle wrote: Doug Henwood commented that Modigliani seemed nervous about defending the Modigliani-Miller theorem in the late 1980s...as well he should. But in Arjo Klamer's earlier interview with him

[PEN-L:3735] Re: DOUG HENWOOD on Modigliani

1996-04-11 Thread Christopher Niggle
In an interview in Arjo Klamer's "Conversations with Economists" Modigliani said that he had been amazed that anyone had taken the M-M thesis re the neutrality of capital structure (leverage) seriously, since the necessary assumptions were so restrictive as to negate the possibility of

[PEN-L:3724] Re: military keynesianism

1996-04-10 Thread Christopher Niggle
On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, Michael Perelman wrote: who introduced the term, military keynesianism? Dan Fusfeld told me that he thinks that it was pen-l's own Lynn Turgeon. I have heard it attributed to Joan Robinson, but have never been able to locate a source. -- Michael Perelman Economics

[PEN-L:3635] Re: Principles classes

1996-04-05 Thread Christopher Niggle
On Wed, 3 Apr 1996, Mike Meeropol wrote: I am now teaching some one semester "principles" sections. The books I have seen (including the one [ugh] I'm using) are all terrible. Anyone with a good suggestion for one that is a) not too difficult, and b) not too one-sided [example: mine says

[PEN-L:2938] Re: a question about Austrailia

1996-02-13 Thread Christopher Niggle
On Mon, 12 Feb 1996, DOUG ORR wrote: I sent out the following request about a month ago and got no response. I'm thinking it never went thru, so I am trying again. ___ I am hoping our friends in OZ can answer a question. In macro, I was doing the standard rap on

[PEN-L:2754] Re: intermediate macro text by Hall and Taylor

1996-02-05 Thread Christopher Niggle
Re Hall and Taylor's Macro text. For what it is worth, they are closer to New Keynesians than New Classicals. They don't argue that markets clear all the time. Chris Niggle University of Redlands