For those of you in the New York City area, THIS THURSDAY EVE:
NY Union for Radical Political Economics and the Brecth Forum present:
A BOOK PARTY!!
for
Political Economy and Contemporary Capitalism: Radical Perspectives on
Eocnomic Theory and Policy
An URPE project - all book sale proceeds
Jim,
That would be great if we could fly all book contributors out, but alack
alas, those interested in your signature will just have to mail their copy
to you with a SASE since you will be absent.
Susan
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From: Jim Devine[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, June
I was playing with words, but also was thinking that disinflation was only a
situation of low inflation, not necessarily linked to low unemployment,
given that the neoclassical explanation would suggest that low unemployment
rates signal wage pressure thus 'fueling' inflation.
I think it's time
Elliot Abrams.
Susan
--
From: Jim Devine
BIG SNIP
Some of their people ended up involved in the Reagan
administration, as part of the war against Nicaragua and in Iran-Contra.
I'm trying to remember the name of the lying bastard assistant secretary
of
state who was
Get ready Washington, DC, for Seattle, part II, on April 16, 2000
See the comments from the press.
sf
Original Message Follows
From: "Laura Jones"
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [a16-dc-planning] Press Conference Hits
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 12:54:55 -0500
Hello all--
Ellen,
Here's a copy of the note I sent to the list a few days ago:
The small publisher of the _Review of Radical Political Economics_ was
bought out by Elsevier Press this past autumn, and details of how to handle
subscriptions were not ironed out as URPE had thought. Members of URPE who
To those of you who are URPE members - the URPE winter newsletter would like
to announce any recent publications of members that have come out in
1999-2000 or are expected out soon. If you have more than one, then give me
the two most recent or interesting ones. Please include the complete
Here is a final schedule of sessions for the URPE 30th Summer
Conference, Aug 22-25, at Camp Chinqueka, in Bantam, Connecticut, (zip
code 06750). If you need directions, the maps.yahoo.com webiste can
give you directions using the zip codes of provenance and destination.
(The Camp is right at
Financial services - particularly loans - to small businesses and
'micro' businesses (those with fewer than 15,10, or 5 employees) and
'micro-micro' businesses (self-employed with no employees or only family
employees) is known as micro-credit. In third world countries, and
increasingly in
Re Jim Devine's comment on group formation imposing enforcement of loan
repayment -
Social capital has its pros and cons. The cons are as you mention - why
should a group have to repay what one of their members has defaulted on?
The pros are that 1)group formation is voluntary, so there is a
If you are planning on participating in the Union for Radical Political
Economics 30th Anniversary Summer Conference, "Gender, Work, and
Poverty", this August 22-25, 1998, at Camp Chinqueka, in Bantam,
Connecticut, you can contact the URPE website:
Please come to the 30th anniversary summer conference of URPE, and
consider presenting a paper or organizing a roundtable. If you would
like the information in an attached message rather than in text, please
email me and I will send it to you.
Susan Fleck
w:(202) 606-5654 x415
h:(301) 270-1486
Congratulations to Doug and Louis on your new e-mail lists, but since I
have not (yet?) subscribed to either of them, my e-mail life seems
awfully quiet now that I only get 2 messages a day on pen-l and not
40-50.
Maybe I'll just be more productive at work, then.
Susan
Susan Fleck
w:(202)
To register your protest against the unilateral action of the American
Economics Association (AEA) to cut the number of heterodox sessions in
the January economics meetings, you can write/fax/email/call any or ALL
of the members of the AEA executive committee below.
You can contact Al Campbell
LONG POST
This post is for anyone concerned about the American Economic
Association's unilateral cuts imposed on sessions organized by heterodox
economics groups for January 1999 and beyond. The AEA's top-down,
non-democratic action threatens the intellectual community of heterodox
economics
Hello all,
Thanks for your input on the URPE cuts in the ASSA program. The
Steering Committee of URPE is meeting this weekend in Washington DC and
will discuss everyone's ideas, suggestions, and also develop a plan of
action. We are seriously concerned about the lack of democracy, and -
of all
personal opinions do not necessarily reflect those of my employer and
my postings can not be attributed to my employer.
--
Sent: Monday, February 23, 1998 10:14 AM
To: Fleck_S
Subject: ASSA
Original
message
Dear
Trevor Evans asked about the URPE Summer conference. Here is some
information on it (longish post).
For those of you who may have received your newsletter, we have just
changed newsletter editors, so we had some snafus in getting all the
information out. you''ll note that a couple of the
long post on AEA cutting URPE sessions from 32 to 18 for 1999 ASSA
meetings (AND TO 9 FOR 2000)..
Hello Pen-lers,
I have some dour news that needs some serious thinking and action. Al
Campbell, organizer of the Union for Radical Political Economy sessions
at the January Economics meetings
I have been skimming the amazingly prolific discussion of prostitution
on pen-l and am interested to see how most contributors talk about class
issues but don't mention gender. Gender inequality fuels prostitution
and promotes another phenomenon (which i have not seen anyone discuss
yet) of
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