[PEN-L:7384] Cuba Solidarity Evening NYC 11-18

The Brecht Forum presents An Evening of Solidarity with Cuba A Benefit for INFOMED-US Monday, November 18 at 7:30 pm A night of culture and friendship to welcome friends and supporters of Cuba's Ministry of Public Health, who are attending the annual conference of the American Public Health

[PEN-L:7385] FW: BLS Daily Report

BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1996 The average annual pay of workers in metropolitan areas rose 3.5 percent from 1994 to 1995, preliminary BLS data shows. In the nation's 311 metropolitan areas, the average annual pay was $29,105 in 1995, up from $28,125 in 1994. Average pay for

[PEN-L:7386] science

I had writtenThe important _caveat_ (which should also apply to the social sciences) is that science should be subject to more questions than Aronowitz lists. Sciences have to jump through more hoops that literary criticism does: is the theory in question consistent with known data, or at

[PEN-L:7387] Urgent Appeal: Workers Dismissal (Indonesia) (fwd)

--- Forwarded Message Follows --- Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 18:16:15 +0800 (HKT) From: AMRC [EMAIL PROTECTED] URGENT APPEAL WORKER LEADER THREAT ON DISMISSION IN INDONESIA Dear people, We received an urgent appeal on a case of workers dismissal at the

[PEN-L:7388] FW: A real story : Woody Woodpecker ! (fwd)

Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 15:01:00 -0800 (PST) From: Williamson Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FW: A real story : Woody Woodpecker ! Matsushita Electric is promoting a new Japanese PC targeted at the Internet. Panasonic has developed a complete Japanese Web browser, and to make the

[PEN-L:7389] Re: science

Jim Devine wrote: yeah, but I don't expect that social science can or will be able to answer these questions, since the object of study (people, society) is much more difficult than that of, say, physics. But we should at least try. Difficult? Don't know about that; it's a lot easier to be

[PEN-L:7390] U.S. Presidential Election Results; How The Argument Is Won And the

U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RESULTS Unofficial results suggest a record low participation in voting for the U.S. presidential and congressional elections on Tuesday, especially among the working class and national minorities. Even commentators in the monopoly-media were dismayed at the continuing

[PEN-L:7391] Re: science

Jim Devine wrote, yeah, but I don't expect that social science can or will be able to answer these questions, since the object of study (people, society) is much more difficult than that of, say, physics. But we should at least try. Doug Henwood replied, Difficult? Don't know about that;

[PEN-L:7392] Re: hard soft science

Years ago, I used to hear the (perhaps apocryphal) story of Max Planck talking to Keynes. Seems that as an undergraduate Planck was undecided between physics and economics. He chose physics on the grounds that economics was "too difficult" --i.e., too many variables. Larry Shute At 12:09 PM

[PEN-L:7393] Slate, Krugman, etc.

In case anyone was wondering, SLATE published my letter about Paul Krugman's trashing of the Kuttner/Robert Reich/James Galbraith school of economics. Their edited version of my letter wasn't too far from what I said (which raises my respect for SLATE). Krugman and Galbraith had a bigger

[PEN-L:7394] more science!

After I unconsciously channeled with Max Planck (thanks Larry!) to say that I thought that physics is easier than social science, Doug wrote: Difficult? Don't know about that; it's a lot easier to be an amateur sociologist (or economist even!) than amateur quantum physicist. Less

[PEN-L:7395] Re: more science!

At 2:38 PM 11/13/96, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought I already said I agree with them that I was willing to agree with Stanley A. that physics was subject to the criticism that its nature was deeply affected by the societal environment. Of course physics and all the other "hard" sciences are

[PEN-L:7396] Re: hard soft science

Keynes told the story in his essay on Marshall, essays in bio. Laurence Shute wrote: Years ago, I used to hear the (perhaps apocryphal) story of Max Planck talking to Keynes. Seems that as an undergraduate Planck was undecided between physics and economics. He chose physics on the grounds

[PEN-L:7397] RESEARCH IN POLITICAL ECONOMY Web site enhancements.

The R.P.E. Web site now includes tables of contents for all issues and more links to other relevant sites. Further suggestions are welcome. Thanks, Paul Z. * Paul Zarembka, supporting the RESEARCH IN POLITICAL ECONOMY

[PEN-L:7398] Re: RESEARCH IN POLITICAL ECONOMY Web site enhancements.

Paul, I checked out the Research web site. Looks quite good. But here are some suggestion about the preamble/introduction. The first line does not sound right. There is some composition problem here. How about something like: The research is a Marxist journal that encourages social analysis on