Re: [PEN-L:7583] Cookies

1996-11-26 Thread Dennis Grammenos
On Tue, 26 Nov 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: $250 Cookie Recipe This is a true story. Pass it on!!! My daughter I had just finished a salad at Neiman-Marcus Cafe in Dallas decided to have a small dessert. Because both of us are such cookie lovers, we decided to try

[PEN-L:7574] The Decline of Economics

1996-11-26 Thread Walter Daum
There's an article with this title in the current New Yorker, by John Cassidy. One quote: "A number of important economic phenomena remain beyond our comprehension. The two most significant developments in the American economy over the past twenty years are the slowdown in productivity growth

[PEN-L:7591] Marshall stocks

1996-11-26 Thread Doug Henwood
Wall Street tout Ed Hyman's theme of the day is that with economic growth slipping below the rate of money growth worldwide, "Marshallian capital theory" would suggest that it's a great time to buy stocks. Does this make any sense to anyone - the reference to Marshall, that is, not the argument

[PEN-L:7584] Re: Technology Shock and Teen Pregnancy

1996-11-26 Thread Doug Henwood
At 11:27 AM 11/26/96, Gerald Levy wrote: I must have missed something. Did _anyone_ on PEN-L suggest that the decision about whether to have children without being married _wasn't_ or _shouldn't_ be a woman's decision? I _love_ the way you emphasize _so_ _many_ _words_, Jerry. Though your

[PEN-L:7594] Re: The Long Term

1996-11-26 Thread Doug Henwood
At 6:35 PM 11/26/96, Tom Walker wrote: "Rifkin suggests we may have to take the existing work and spread it around. He says we have to look once more at the question of reduced work time. "I don't agree with all of Rifkin's analysis or his proposed solutions. "But here's the paradox. We see

[PEN-L:7576] Re: The Decline of Economics

1996-11-26 Thread Doug Henwood
At 4:44 AM 11/26/96, Gerald Levy wrote: From Cassidy's perspective, radical economists may not be counted _as_ economists. From the hegemonic perspective of neo-neoclassical economics, all heterodox economists (but, especially Marxist economists) are viewed implicitly (and sometimes explicitly)

[PEN-L:7580] Re: Technology Shock and Teen Pregnancy

1996-11-26 Thread Doug Henwood
At 9:21 AM 11/26/96, Eban Goodstein wrote: At 8:09 AM 11/25/96, Eban Goodstein wrote: 1. According to the Urban Institute, the non-marital birth rate increased from 26 to 45 per thousand, between 1970 and 1992. So there clearly has been a dramatic increase in non-marital births. It's

[PEN-L:7575] Re: The Decline of Economics

1996-11-26 Thread Gerald Levy
There's an article with this title in the current New Yorker, by John Cassidy. One quote: "A number of important economic phenomena remain beyond our comprehension. The two most significant developments in the American economy over the past twenty years are the slowdown in productivity

[PEN-L:7596] Re: The Long Term II

1996-11-26 Thread Tom Walker
Doug wrote (and I reversed the order of his sentences), For another view, see http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/Work.html And what's so new about this? Doug, Looked through your Work its Future article and its thesis sounds an awful lot like that of the 1983 article by Henry Levin and Russell

[PEN-L:7595] Re: The Long Term

1996-11-26 Thread Tom Walker
Doug Henwood misquotes my post and then asks, And what's so new about this? For another view, see http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/Work.html Doug, With all due respect, if you're going to react to a message, read it first. I didn't write the words you quoted, B.C. Premier Glen Clark said them.

[PEN-L:7587] Glen Clark moots shorter work time (fwd)

1996-11-26 Thread D Shniad
Forwarded message: Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 12:06:07 -0800 Reply-To: Forum on Labor in the Global Economy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: Forum on Labor in the Global Economy [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Tom Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Glen Clark moots shorter work time [EMAIL

[PEN-L:7578] Re: The Decline of Economics

1996-11-26 Thread Tom Walker
Honestly, the "two most significant developments in the American economy" are not "economic phenomena". An honest economist would have to admit simply that there is no adequate *economic* explanation for either. This should be no more difficult than an honest mathematician admitting that there

[PEN-L:7590] Latin America Events; NYC

1996-11-26 Thread Bill Koehnlein
The Brecht Forum 122 West 27 Street, 10 floor New York, New York 10001 (212) 242-4201 (212) 741-4563 (fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (e-mail) Upcoming Latin America Events--New York City Following is a schedule of events concerning Latin America that are either co-sponsored or endorsed by The

[PEN-L:7593] The Long Term

1996-11-26 Thread Tom Walker
From a speech by British Columbia Premier Glen Clark to the Convention of the B.C. Federation of Labour, November 26, 1996... The Long Term "These are important initiatives -- creating jobs in the forest sector, rebuilding our coastal communities, working to save Canadian Airlines -- but I want

[PEN-L:7581] Zaire, US and French imprialism

1996-11-26 Thread Karl Carlile
From: Self Single-user mode To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: EASTERN ZAIRE AND THE US Date sent:Sun, 24 Nov 1996 20:50:53 A KARL CARLILE MESSAGE KARL: The Great Lakes Region crisis is essentially a product of inter-imperialist rivalry between

[PEN-L:7599] Re: Fordism or post-fordism? No thanks! -Reply

1996-11-26 Thread Patrick Bond
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 27/November/1996 03:32am The basic idea makes sense, however. Given the underlying tendency toward instability and crisis of the laws of motion of capital, one can posit certain institutional forms that stabilize the system, explaining the so-called "Golden Age" of the

[PEN-L:7585] Re: Zaire, US and French imprialism

1996-11-26 Thread Tavis Barr
I think this is a very narrow interpretation of what's going on. I've worked here in New York with people currently fighting in Kabila's army and they're hardly dupes of US imperialism. Nor, for that matter, are they Tutsi. They have been active participants in anti-imperialist movements

[PEN-L:7597] Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: Technology Shock and Teen Pregnancy

1996-11-26 Thread MScoleman
True, not all, but, in my experience, most. In fact, even on those rare occasions where marriage is a truly equitable arrangement, the society at large constrains the woman by expecting certain behavior of her in marriage. Sooo, there is the marital relationship between the two individuals, and

[PEN-L:7583] Cookies

1996-11-26 Thread PBurns
Subject: $250 Cookie Recipe This is a true story. Pass it on!!! My daughter I had just finished a salad at Neiman-Marcus Cafe in Dallas decided to have a small dessert. Because both of us are such cookie lovers, we decided to try the "Neiman-Marcus Cookie". It was so

[PEN-L:7586] Re: Cookies

1996-11-26 Thread Gil Skillman
This is but the nth resurfacing of an ancient "urban myth", "Revenge of the Unsuspecting Cookie Recipe Buyer." Earlier versions used Tollhouse cookies and Famous Amos cookies, and probably others as well. I wonder how often people will continue to fall for this tale. I wonder if any of the

[PEN-L:7592] Re: Fordism or post-fordism? No thanks!

1996-11-26 Thread JDevine
In addition to Patrick Bond's points (which seem plausible to me), the problem I have with regulationism and also the related theory of SSAs is that they have an undertheorized understanding of accumulation absent regulation or an SSA. The basic idea makes sense, however. Given the underlying

[PEN-L:7598] Fwd: Re: Technology Shock and Teen Pregnancy

1996-11-26 Thread MScoleman
My comments were in no way meant to absolve men from their responsibilities in child rearing and I did not mean to imply that single parenting is a pancea. My comments were in response to the wisdom of most mainstream economists, which is that there is no rationality at all in women having