[PEN-L:11897] Re: Risk and Unequal Opportunity under cap

1997-08-19 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 16:19:40 -0700 (PDT) Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Walker) Subject: [PEN-L:11893] Re: Risk and Unequal Opportunity under cap ulterior motivation of bureaucrats, politicians or voters. In other words, bureaucrats

[PEN-L:11896] Mouthpiece For Dishonest-Minded Forces

1997-08-19 Thread Shawgi A. Tell
This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more info. --3838311F752F Pyongyang, August 18 (KCNA) -- William Taylor, vice-director of the

[PEN-L:11895] Economics History

1997-08-19 Thread anzalone/starbird
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 16:26:50 -0700 To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (anzalone/starbird) Subject:Economics History Two labor studies courses: Economics and California Labor History are offered Monday night at 4th and Mission. They are at room 318 and 319 respectively. Worth 3 units

[PEN-L:11894] Southern California Multipliers

1997-08-19 Thread Laurence Shute
Does anyone know where I can find multipliers for California or Southern California? AE multipliers, export multipliers, etc. Is this BEA stuff? or does the Anderson School have that? Many thanks. Larry Shute -- Laurence Shute Voice:

[PEN-L:11892] Re: Risk and Unequal Opportunity under cap

1997-08-19 Thread Tom Walker
Max Sawicky wrote, Yeah but every theory abstracts from something. Whether it's important or not is another way of saying whether you dig the theory. (I've started rereading the Beats.) I can dig that. A virtue of utilitarianism is that in its specificity it is more compelling than utter

[PEN-L:11891] Re: Risk and Unequal Opportunity under cap

1997-08-19 Thread Max B. Sawicky
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Walker) Subject: [PEN-L:11887] Re: Risk and Unequal Opportunity under cap I doubt that public choice right-wingers would have much use for Ellsberg's Paradox. If anything, the paradox presents an indictment against any kind of reductivism. As I

[PEN-L:11889] FW: Daily Report

1997-08-19 Thread Richardson_D
BLS DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 1997: In a comparison of nine industrial economies, only Germany and Japan had greater increases in manufacturing productivity than the United States in 1996, BLS reports. "U.S. productivity growth in 1996 resulted from a combination of a 2.7 percent

[PEN-L:11888] Why the UPS Win Matters

1997-08-19 Thread Nathan Newman
Why the Victory at UPS Matters -- Nathan Newman With last night's labor contract deal between UPS and the Teamsters agreed to, it appears that the Teamsters have scored

[PEN-L:11884] Why they won: Random Thoughts on UPS

1997-08-19 Thread Michael Perelman
I think that we might take a few moments to consider why and how UPS won. So far, some of the obvious factors were: 1. The drivers had made a good impression on the public before the strike. The Wall Street Journal had an article a couple of years ago, describing the drivers as sex symbols to

[PEN-L:11880] Dissident Organizers in the Teamsters Union

1997-08-19 Thread Louis Proyect
Steve Kindred climbed onto a Greyhound bus in the Cleveland depot on a dreary April morning in 1975 with five pounds of Spanish peanuts, three pounds of raisins, and a list of Teamster activists in his pack. He had a ticket in his pocket entitling him to travel wherever Greyhound went for the

[PEN-L:11879] urpe update

1997-08-19 Thread susan fleck
hello all. for those of you going to the union for radical political economics summer conference, remember to bring your directions. directions can be found on the urpe homepage- http://economics.csusb.edu/orgs/URPE remember to bring bedding, flashlight, bathing suit, and some rain clothes

[PEN-L:11881] Re: Risk and Unequal Opportunity under cap

1997-08-19 Thread Nathan Newman
On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, Max B. Sawicky wrote: If risk is seen as a friend and an equal opportunity for entrepreneurship, then inequality becomes just a reward system for those willing to take the risks that drive wealth creation. . . . This is interesting but perhaps a little too

[PEN-L:11883] Re: From the Ivory tower

1997-08-19 Thread Wojtek Sokolowski
At 01:58 PM 8/15/97 -0700, Jim Craven wrote: In other words, building Socialism in those countries--and elsewhere-- especially in the context of ongoing and very hostile imperialist encirclement, dealing with the legacies of the past, tyring to build a future and trying to balance myriad

[PEN-L:11887] Re: Risk and Unequal Opportunity under cap

1997-08-19 Thread Tom Walker
Nathan Newman wrote, Bernstein did highlight Ellsberg's work as a pioneer in risk theory but you gave a better summary than he did, since he quickly moved onto others. Have any of the public choice rightwingers or other game theorists working around government decision-making used Ellsberg in

[PEN-L:11890] FW: Daily Report

1997-08-19 Thread Richardson_D
BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1997 A tentative agreement was reached late Monday in the 15-day-old strike by the Teamsters against United Parcel Service, both the company and the union said. UPS workers could return to their jobs as early as Wednesday, said a union spokesperson. Voting