[PEN-L:8579] Re: Women's work

1997-02-12 Thread Derek Eaton
Excellent book on this area is If Women Counted: A New Feminist Economics by Marilyn Waring published by Macmillan 1988.

[PEN-L:8580] Re: M-I: more threats

1997-02-12 Thread Joan Hac
I recently joined this list. However, I did not join it to get messages like those below. If these kinds of flame wars are what PEN-L is really all about would someone please tell me so I can just unsubscribe. I am not a supporter of censorship. I believe folks should be allowed to say all

[PEN-L:8584] Re: Query: Canada/US health care merger data?

1997-02-12 Thread colleen fuller
I have information on Liberty Mutual's acquisition of non-profit Ontario Blue Cross, on Sun Healthcare Group Inc's acquisition of Columbia Healthcare (a for-profit rehab company based in Toronto), and quite a lot of information on what is quaintly referred to as the "cultural integration" of

[PEN-L:8589] Re: child of NAIRU!

1997-02-12 Thread bill mitchell
This is an interesting discussion and beats flame wars and cockroaches any day. it seems that they have now gone of to wreck M-I. good riddance. Jim once again mustn't have anything much to do and wrote heaps of interesting things two points: 1) As suggested by the end of my last missive

[PEN-L:8588] Re: child of NAIRU!

1997-02-12 Thread Tom Walker
Jim Devine writes, It's better to have some idea than to have no idea at all about these questions. Do we just throw up our hands (or simply throw up?) and say that one can't say _definitely_ that unemployment in the US is lower now than it was in 1933? I agree with much of what Jim says.

[PEN-L:8587] child of NAIRU!

1997-02-12 Thread JDevine
Paul Phillips writes:(The Devine) Jim responded to my comments about the illogicality of heterodox economists even accepting NRU Or NAIRU as the basis of macroeconomic debate by talking about shifts in the institutions governing the labour market and the effect that this can have on the

[PEN-L:8585] Re: market socialism, planned socialism, ut

1997-02-12 Thread BAIMAN
On Sat, 8 Feb 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to Rhon Baiman: 1) Social division of labor: agreed that this is important for socialism. But can't a substantial measure of social control over the division of labor be handled *directly* and decentrally via workers'

[PEN-L:8583] Goldwater

1997-02-12 Thread Wendell W. Solomons
To check out whether anyone could guide me to a text on a hypothetical relationship - Friedman - Barry Goldwater - Las Vegas - Easy Money Tks ! \\/

[PEN-L:8582] FW: BLS Daily Report

1997-02-12 Thread Richardson_D
The first item, on unemployment and the size of the labor force, is very interesting. There is now a higher labor force participation rate than at any time since the series was begun in 1943! Now I do not have memories of 1943 (I hate to say it but it is the year I was born.) It is my

[PEN-L:8581] Re: M-I: more threats

1997-02-12 Thread Doug Henwood
At 7:58 AM -0800 2/12/97, Joan Hac wrote: I recently joined this list. However, I did not join it to get messages like those below. If these kinds of flame wars are what PEN-L is really all about would someone please tell me so I can just unsubscribe. No, PEN-L is not about flame wars. It's a

[PEN-L:8578] Incalcitarnt Stand Of Japanese Militarists

1997-02-12 Thread SHAWGI TELL
Since the Second World War, no Japanese government has paid for the crimes committed by the Japanese militarists during the war. This is because following the war, the Americans dropped the issue of the war crimes committed by the Japanese militarists. They not only refused to pursue the issue

[PEN-L:8577] Market Capitalism And World Poverty

1997-02-12 Thread SHAWGI TELL
"Today, market capitalism has no major ideological rival," United Nations' Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the World Economic Forum on February 1 in Davos, Switzerland. "Its biggest threat is from within itself. If it cannot promote both prosperity and justice, it will not have succeeded." "If