Does anyone know if the Census or FTC has published an update of
the Herfindahl index for various industries? I want to compare
measures of concentration from manufacturing and non-manufacturing
sectors.
Thanks
Jason
William,
For what its worth I'm about to teach an undergraduate course on
Marxist Economics (essentially though its not called this) , I'll be using:
Paul Sweezy's THEROY OF cAPITALIST dEVELOPMENT NY:Monthly Review Press 1942,
1970 ;
John Roemer's FREE TO LOOSE, Harvard U. press ,
Rev. Devine wrote:
BTW, such confusions ("overreactions") can be avoided by reading
someone's e-message all the way through before (over)reacting to
it paragraph by paragraph.
I tried that once, but my lips got numb.
Regards,
Tom Walker
Maggie Coleman asksdo you think this quote [about business
reluctance to hire economics Ph.D.s] is referring to Chicago or
the New School?
probably both. My grad-school labor econ. prof., Clair Brown (an
institutionalist) used to emphasize over and over again that
Chicago-school economics
Does anyone have (or know of) a recently-calculated time series
of data on the cost of job loss (C-O-J-L) for the US?
My hypotheses are (1) that the ratio of the C-O-J-L to the
conventionally-measured unemployment rate has risen, especially
since 1980 and (2) one reason why the the US has
Max S. suggests "more sex with immigrants" as one way to solve
the US Social Security system's demographic problem. This seems a
good idea (as is sex in general), but it's got to be without the
use of birth control.
Getting beyond such frivolity, the point which I should have made
clearer
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The following article is reprinted from The Pyongyang Times ,
dated November 16.
An enlarged meeting of the Presidium of the Central Committee of
the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland which
was held in Pyongyang on November 5 discussed the agenda "On
Smashing
The Christian Science Monitor Dec. 4, 1996
CHILE'S FORMER DICTATOR DICTATES TERMS OF POWER
SANTIAGO, Chile -- Next year is due to be the last one
for Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte as head of the Army -
and the threatening shadow the former dictator casts
over Chile's young
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996
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Subject: Re: French doubts about the EU
Greetings:
Many thanks for having sent to me this document.
Not only France is doubting about
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 10:56:34 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: [PEN-L:7723] Re: Social Security
One thing has to be emphasized again and again in the discussion
of (US) Social Security's threatened bankruptcy 25 years
Why worry? As Dean Baker pointed out in Challenge, now that the CPI
revision is rolling we'll all be fabulously rich in 30 years, and should
have no trouble caring for the boomers.
Eban
On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, Doug Henwood wrote:
At 12:01 PM 12/4/96, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
yes and no. The
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 13:19:27 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: [PEN-L:7728] Social Security and Sex
Max S. suggests "more sex with immigrants" as one way to solve
the US Social Security system's demographic problem.
One thing has to be emphasized again and again in the discussion
of (US) Social Security's threatened bankruptcy 25 years or so in
the future:
the "demographic problem" (too many old retired codgers compared
to the number of energetic young workers) applies just as much to
private pension
In today's _Washington Post_ there was a special story
by Elizabeth Salett alleging that Count de Almasy, the hero
of the new hit movie, _The English Patient_, portrayed in
that movie as a romantic figure who helped the Germans a
little to help save his lover, was in reality a full-blown
Yesterday's (Dec. 3, 1996) Wall Street Journal had a long article
on the efforts of Wall Street firms to promote privatization of Social
Security.
There are two points here: First, the assault on Social Security
goes on.
Second, the article reports on the money being
At 12:01 PM 12/4/96, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
yes and no. The change in the ratio of workers to retirees only
matters in a pay-as-you-go framework. If current workers somehow
saved enough in private plans it wouldn't matter how many younger
workers there were. One consideration would be the
Brother Sawicky writes that: I meant that a privatization
scheme which successfully increases savings could raise economic
growth (level, not rate), granting lots of additional assumptions
or qualifications. In such an admittedly fictitious context,
the worker-retiree ratio isn't at issue. A
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Subject:[PEN-L:7721] useless Ph.D.s
Maggie Coleman asksdo you think this quote [about business
reluctance to hire economics Ph.D.s] is referring to Chicago or
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 12:58:10 -0800 (PST)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug Henwood)
Subject: [PEN-L:7726] Re: Social Security
Saved? As Keynes said, we cannot as a community make financial provision
for the future. What would these
BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1996
A congressional advisory commission tomorrow will recommend alterations in
the government's method of calculating changes in consumer prices that
would slow the growth of many federal benefit programs by 1.1 percentage
points annually, according to
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 14:42:58 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: [PEN-L:7705] Re: Rifkin
Max Sawicky wrote,
I guess the most galling thing is the contrast between the
media attention he soaks up and the
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