[PEN-L:8849] Thus Spoke Krugman

I was catching up on my NYT Sunday reading in our public library, and I caught a wonderful quote from Krugman. In an article comparing Krugman and Thurrow, Krugman says that Thurrow is full of it if he thinks that moving manufacturing to Third World counties was pushing down U.S. wages.

[PEN-L:8848] Summer research position available

Dear Pen-L'rs, please circulate as appropriate to graduate students and others who may be interested in this: The National Center for Economic and Security Alternatives is seeking a short-term, full-time researcher for the summer months of 1997 to assist with a forthcoming annotated bibliography

[PEN-L:8847] Bankers Knew About Gold, Swiss Critic Says (fwd)

Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 11:14:23 +0200 Subject: Bankers Knew About Gold, Swiss Critic Says Mercredi 5 Mars 1997-International Herald Tribune -par INTERVIEW, Jean Ziegler

[PEN-L:8845] Overworked and Underemployed

Barry Bluestone and Stephen Rose's article, "Unraveling an Economic Enigma: Overworked and Underemployed", in the March-April issue of American Prospect, is available online at: http://epn.org/prospect/31/31bluefs.html The copyright notice permits re-transmission of the article in its entirety.

[PEN-L:8846] A split-screen American Gothic

== Do our national pathologies spring wholly from economic determinism? I suspect that our revolution is expiring in homeless shelters and bus stations - with no assist from Pope or Czar, Metternich or Guizot, French Radicals or German police spies - driven there by the abiding

[PEN-L:8844] Teamsters organizing McDonald's in Quebec

The Globe and Mail Report on Business March 6, 1997 TEAMSTERS TAKING ANOTHER RUN AT A MCDONALD'S OUTLET By Konrad Yakabuski, Quebec Bureau Employees at a McDonald's restaurant near Montreal hope to succeed where their forerunners twice failed by asking Quebec's

[PEN-L:8843] Two queries

Dear Penlrs, Does anyone know roughly what percentage of the U.S. stock market is made up of pension funds? Are similar figures available for 401ks? Thanks, Anders Schneiderman Progressive Communications

Re: 'Open the Social Sciences'

At 11:52 AM 3/5/97 +, David Byrne wrote: Finally, there is a serious addressing of the issue of the collapse of disciplinary boundaries in relation to =91fields=92 as the objective of social science. If I have a criticism of the report it is that it really only recognizes

[PEN-L:8842] CPI for those over 65

Can anyone provide me with a cite showing that the CPI for those over 65 has been rising more rapidly than the overall CPI? I know Trudy Renwick had figures for women and other groups, but I don't know where her Public Utility Law Project is and don't know if she has figures for the general

[PEN-L:8841] Re: wealth distribution query

You need to get Eddie Wolff's book on Wealth published by the 20th Century Fund. I borrowed data from that source and put it in "The Political Economy of Economic Justice" (McGraw Hill 1996) available from them for $4.50. Also See the latest EPI version of the State of Working America and The New

[PEN-L:8840] Re: wealth distribution query

Check out the American Prospect webpage for Edward Wolf's article analyzing wealth distribution through the 1980s. He draws from the Survey of Consumer Finances including the most recent round. The url is http://epn.org/prospect/22/22wolf.html. Dennis Breslin Uconn

[PEN-L:8839] Worldwide Economic And Political Chaos Marks Anniversary Of Stalin's

Today marks the forty-forth anniversary of the death of J.V. Stalin on March 5, 1953. Both Stalin and the first-ever socialist society in the world built by him are the targets of the most vicious anti-communist campaign on the part of U.S. imperialism and all of world reaction. It is