Treacy: We can see Anders did not mispend any of his time as an
undergraduate at a poker table. Oh for the nights of 747, holdem,
seven card stud with everything wild.
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On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Hank Leland wrote:
I believe the term is derived from
Last evening while scanning Walter Cronkite's, "A Reporters Life," p.42 I
noted he reported that Bob Montgomery was one of his few turn on Profs.
at the University of Texas in the 30's. His remarks that Andrew Mellon was
the greatest Sec. of Treasury since Judas made an impression along with
the
Treacy: It will be hell, if the rate gets to zero and they will have to
be given raises. Competition for workers and monopolies for
capitalists!
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On Fri, 2 May 1997, John Pool wrote:
There's an old joke about the professor who always gave the same
Treacy: As a guy who used to drink a lot of beer and roar off on my BMW
bike, I would say a lot of this behavior is just youthful
machismo. After laying down the bike and smelling my self burn a
couple of times it occurred to me that I might be courting death.
Treacy: Preferances in defecation depend on what you are used to. I
remember talking to a guy from Alpine, Texas who told me they
could not keep wooden seats on the courthouse toliets because
cowboys would just hop up on them with their boots and squat like
they
Treacy: And then we have:
Summation sign IOU'S=Summation sign UOME'S
If you both sides of the equation by O and U you are left with:
Summation sign I's=Summation sign ME's
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(y)M*W=(y)D
Treacy: McDonalds had the smallest size meat patty in the industry but
due to chains such as Rallys putting out a .99 cent burger,
others such as Wendys cut prices by introducing "value" menu
items. This past summer McD increased the size of their burger
Treacy: Years ago an Indian friend of mine claimed that Giffin effects
were evident in India in the 1944 famine. The higher the price of
grain in urban areas the smaller the supply that came in from the
country side. The higher income effects made it possible for the
The Community Spirit in this one overwhelms me.
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Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 12:10:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: beno [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: jtreacy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PEN-L:5997] Re: Take me off this list!
hey stupid
Treacy: You can read many British economic histories that talk about
capital formation that never mention profits of slaving. Indeed,
when you read about Liverpool, and Bristol wealth it seems that
"Black Birding" was never the main source of maritime profits.
Hey stupid send a messesage to the listserver saying unsubscribe!
When you ask for help it is nice to include please.
You are like a kid in a strange sandpile saying if you don't get me out
of here I will piss all over your sand.
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Date: Wed, 01 May 1996 12:14:07 -0500
From: jtreacy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Republican Socialism for Capitalists
How we will deal with the winners and losers of the coming Health Care
shake out in is not clear from looking at antecedents
Treacy; And then we have that great cartel that underpays jocks---The
NCAA, under the guise that they are doing this for the good of
the student jock. Free markets and trades would make college
sports more profitable for the jocks.
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Treacy: Don't they have your statue in the capital city?
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On Thu, 8 Feb 1996, Robert Peter Burns wrote:
Who said the following, where, and to whom (allegedly)?
"Nemo mecum sine se pernicie' contendit."
Jerry
Since it means, roughly, "no-one
On Mon, 29 Jan 1996, Carl H.A. Dassbach wrote:
How ever do they define "economic freedom," anyway? Freedom from hunger, or
freedom to fire 5,000 workers?
Doug
Economic freedom in the US is, of course, the freedom to fire 5000, with no
questions ask, the freedom for health care
Treacy: The health care system in the U.S. was and is a mess! We got
into third party payments as a tax dodge and price control
avoidance back in 1944. Over time more and more stuff got shoved
under the medical care tent which was being paid on a fee for services
Treacy: Around 1960, my mentor at Tulane, James Sweeny was invited to
address some group of middle managers next door at Loyala about
the implications of computers on their profession. He started his
talk off with the short answer to the question: Computers are
Treacy: The Federal Barge Line threw the most $ party I have ever seen at a
convention at the 1960 AEA meeting for transportation economics.
I have attended a "Conference" at a lavious resort on Lake LBJ
held by Southwest Bell. Private cottages with balcony so you
Treacy: Now that NCR, headquartered here in Dayton got its old name and
independence back this week from ATT GLOBAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS,
I pass on Jerry Pournolle's remark that if ATT took over
Kentucky Fried Chicken they would have used as an advertising
Treacy: Plus the demise of the F.S.U. which also contributed to the
dislocation.
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On Thu, 11 Jan 1996, Doug Henwood wrote:
Amidst all the laments about high European unemployment, always attributed
to high wages and a generous welfare state, we've never
Treacy: If you believe no oppression under tradition I have a bridge
between Brooklynn and Manhatten that I want to sell you.
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On Thu, 4 Jan 1996, Doug Henwood wrote:
I've been reading Ecofeminism, a book of essays co-written by Vandana Shiva
and Maria
James Walker, a Wright State Political Scientist is leading a movement to
get McDonalds to call their "French" Fries "Dayton" Fries in retaliation
for the French Government attempt to rename the Dayton Accord on Bosnia
to something French. Remember this the next time you roll up to the
golden
AK Steel under investigation for the eight accidental deaths at the
MiddleTown Ohio works since 1993 had another accident yesterday that sent
13 burned workers in for treatment when OSHA personnel were in the plant.
The Chairman of AK Steel was the highest paid executive this year with
Treacy: The half in and half out of the Federation is a rather awkward
posture to maintain. The trick is to see if a multilingual
country can be held together. It might be better to adopt Spanish
as the offical language of Canada so that no one could feel
Treacy: Joan Robinson coined this term.
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On Sun, 1 Oct 1995, Tom Walker wrote:
The expression "beggar your neighbour" sticks in my mind from a high school
economics class. As I recall, beggar your neighbour policies referred to
strategic currency devaluations
Treacy: It would seem that the problems mentioned below do not stem from
de-regulation but from profit maximizing behavior in the wrong
context. In Ohio we are allowing competition for local service
providers--Ameritech and Cincinnati Bell--- such as Time Warner
Treacy: As an addendem to this movement you may want to read the Scot
MCCartny, Lone Star Rising, Wall Street Journal, Sept. 12, 1995,
A1 which points out that Texas has not gone in for immigrant
bashing, shooting down minority set asides, and has elected a
murders.
Which bird slips its eggs into the nest of other birds for them
to raise?
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On Sun, 3 Sep 1995, Ellen Dannin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 3 Sep 1995, jtreacy wrote:
Treacy: I think Maggie has some very interesting stuff in her reply
Treacy: Ellen pointed this out to me. Our problem is that a lot of kids
are not getting what is needed in terms of economic and support
under current arrangements.
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Jtreachy says that all women do not
Treacy: Some behaviors are "hardwired" because they confer survival
advantages on a species. E.O. Wilson notes that social species
such as bees, ants, and mankind engage in cooperative behavior
because it helps the species survive.
Social questions may raise
Treacy: I think Maggie has some very interesting stuff in her reply but
to credit all women as knowing who Pops is streachs credulity.
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One last point -- the term legitimate and illigitimate as applied to
Treacy: This is just another chapter in what I call the LEANING AND
MEANING of America. We have started to experience a lot of rapid
change due to large drops in transportation costs along with cuts
in information costs. It has hit every sector in our society
Treacy: "Death Ain't Got Any Mercy" an old blues song sung by J. Garcia.
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On Wed, 9 Aug 1995, James Devine wrote:
"what a long, strange, trip it's been."
-- J. Garcia, recently deceased.
sincerely,
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Treacy: It was not reported on ABC NEWS last evening so it must have been
considered either too dull or too complex for those who get their
news via the tube.
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On Mon, 10 Jul 1995, James Devine wrote:
Eugene Coyle refers to "a price-fixing
Treacy: Chandler is well worth reading. More recent is Goddard's popular
"Getting There." It is an account of formation of govt. and
business cooperation of highway network. It has serious flaws
but shows how the progressive movement came out of the rural
Treacy: See Wall Street Journal piece on leaning and meaning not paying
off in yesterdays Wall Street Journal p. A1.
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On Thu, 6 Jul 1995, James Devine wrote:
For a more up-to-date sketch of business history that is based
partly on Chandler, see Bennett
Treacy; American medicine is a great example of interaction between the
state and capitalistic agents. So long as the system was willing
to pay all charges assessed by providers things were hunky dory.
However, workers found that soaring hearlth care costs were being
Treacy: Start with Duke University which took $33 million from old J.B.
Duke's tobacco money when it was Trinity College, a Methodist
school that considered smoking a sin!
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On Thu, 22 Jun 1995, Gina Neff wrote:
Direct money from the rich is
Treacy: Have you tried the Austin Lounge Lizards? Their latest Album has
one about Newt and another about life at the "Shallow End of the Gene Pool"?
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On Wed, 31 May 1995, Anthony D'Costa wrote:
I kind of like of Fine Young Cannibals, at least the one album I
Treacy: Economic growth may have been low but look at the boat that was
built. It is going to bring home the America's Cup. The peasents
will be happy with this.
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On Fri, 12 May 1995, Robert Peter Burns wrote:
Ellen Dannin and others who haven't
Treacy: The cost of job lose might also force job losers to seek other
alternatives that might lead to better situations than the one
they lost. Only under the assumption that the job losers were
maximizing their opportunities and had been actively monitoring
Treacy: Using decenial data may allow you to compare the number of people
in the cenus that have moved. For example in the 1950's and
early 1960's we were still experiencing major moves of workers
out of agriculture. Search times may be longer for those that
Treacy: This study was an emperical study of what happened to fast food
joint wages when the minimum wage rate was raised in New Jersey. It was a
before and after study of what rates were before in Eastern Penn. and N.J.
and after to contrast the effect.
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On Wed,
Treacy: Now we know the reason for the low national savings rate. The
poor have not been doing their part because they have been
offered inappropriate incentives. Why not cite the title and
author of this piece of sparkling prose.
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Last evening on the Rose Show of PBS there was Dough Henwood, handsome,
urbane, articulate discussing the Mexican Debt Crisis and the U.S. bailout.
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Treacy: Robert Eisner's position that the balanced budget amendment
should be melded with a prayer in schools amendment is one that I would
support. We have such whacked out notions of debt floating around.
All forms of debt in the private sector should be banned as well.
This would force
Treacy: Remember the wag who said that if God were not around we would
have to invent him. He is a very efficient monitoring agent. He knows
when you have been good or bad and will reward you---incentives are
important---according to your just deserts.
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Treacy: There are differences between what I would call the Latin Church
and the old Irish Dominated Catholic Church. Don't knock the old nuns.
They may have laid guilt trips on us but did not let us carry nines, do
drugs, or goof off.
See Andrew Greely and Rossiti's study on the comparing
Treacy: I am going to take a position that is going to get me flacked on
this but someone should try and step up to reality. Having grown up as
the oldest of eight children in a poor family, I must say that a lot of
what I see going on these days in child care problems stems from very
poor
Treacy: The Fanjoul Family of American Sugar get my nomination. Raoul was
George Bush's finance committee chairman. They benefit from the sugar
import quota that keeps out cheap third world sugar and also the
department of labor importation of mostly cheap Jamacian labor that is
kept from
Treacy: Succienct, terse, and succulent!
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On Mon, 9 Jan 1995, Doug Henwood wrote:
At 1:55 PM 1/9/95 -0800, Peter Pflaum wrote:
Can someone explain the PC on this list - that some views don't belong
strikes me as very strange -
Well for one you spew
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On Mon, 19 Dec 1994, Cotter_Cindy wrote:
My husband and I have a combined income of $120,000. I feel like a fool
calling myself working class. But my husband's a marine clerk, my brother
drives a concrete mixer, my father a taxi, my
Treacy: The Fed to my knowledge pays no taxes but contributes part of its
profits to the Treasury. This subject was one that was near and dear
to Congressman Wright Patman of Texas. He used to be concerned with
the fact that the Fed was not subject to Congressional
Treacy: Yesterday's Wall Street Journal Managers Corner piece pilloried
Economics and all other Business Schools for serving up tripe to
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On Mon, 28 Nov 1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Doug Henwood asks who it was who celebrated
Treacy: Yes you can have all sorts of opponents. The simplest game in the
beginning texts is the old prisioners dilemma game. If two felons do not
rat each other out they win. If one rats on the other he gets a lesser
sentence. The cops tell each one individually that the other is going to
Yes Please!
Thankyou!
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On Tue, 11 Oct 1994, Doug Henwood wrote:
Final offer to have the US Census Bureau's income poverty reports for
1993 emailed to you. I'm gonna purge the file on Friday morning, NYC time.
Doug
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Left Business
On Mon, 3 Oct 1994, Ellen Dannin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Treacy: A couple of years ago the Wall Street Journal had a good
write up of the Flat Rock, Michegan Mazada Plant fisco.
The local government was requesting state relief from the
bad deal it had cut. [EMAIL
are text-based sources always more accurate?
maybe the difference is that for text, there's more left to the
imagination.
Treacy: The best movie I have seen recently is the Tiwainese Chinese movie
"Eat, Drink, Man, Women." Check it out!!!
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My sense is that the Southern opposition was tied up intricately with
subordination of the black labor pool in the South -- not surprisingly, you
need to look at race and gender along with class to understand Southern
opposition to a federal AFDC benefit.
The first one has a
terrific
Sure its good for employers to have more applicants than
vacancies. But I'm not sure even employers really want to
see a ten to one ratio!
Treacy: Friday's Population column in the Wall Street Journal carried word about
a U.S. Cenus Bureau report that found in 1993 that the age
Worse, the real estate/Wall Street elite consciously and deliberately
drove the port of New York over to New Jersey, to free up the West Side of
Manahattan for real estate development. This massively increased the cost
of doing business for small manufacturers - and also greatly increased
The FIRE boom did drive up costs, but the real estate glut helped keep
them down. Meanwhile, social decay and the lack of a skilled labor force
make it more difficult to do business here. Giuliani's cutbacks will only
worsen this situation.
Treacy: You have hit the nail on the head here! The
A Swedish flic the sling shot relates the growing up of a boy whose
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I'm in the midst of a literature search on race and educational attainment.
In particular, I'm trying to find other articles that may help me account
for the following anomaly. In racilly stratified (white, African
American, Latino) regressions which control for a ton of personal
background
While in the first year
there may be charges to the profit and loss account which reduce profits
in the next years the effect of sharply lowered expenses on profits
produces an upward trend in profits for which top managers should
be rewarded, n-est-ce pas?
Treacy: Non! If the reduction in
I was shocked to read that Calpers, the California Public Employees
Retirement System, was planning to make treatment of workers one of its
criteria in voting shares. Calpers had been the leader among
institutional shareholders in promoting the downsizing agenda. When I
interviewed their
I'm starting to think about the fall :^( and redesigning my course on
urban and regional theory.
Treacy: Sometimes it is fun to use something like Von Thunan's Der Isolated
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Community Planning
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 1994 07:34:30 -0700
From: Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Mandela touts stox
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Mr Mandela was at pains to emphasise the 'critical
role of business in building our economy.'" A grateful exchange, which
the ANC once denounced
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 1994 21:56:39 -0700
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Subject: Imperialism
What is wron with Ameng with
America that they have to grovel to the level of sesual perversion to
get "truth". Given the level of morality of the Congress, the Senate
and the White House, it is hard to believe
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 1994 12:39:22 -0700
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Subject: Inflation measurement
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How does the CPI numbers reflect quality increases/decreases in a
product? For example, car engines today have longer-lasting engines and
are 2-3 time better fuel economy; in
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