"Chicago labor economist" is probably most of what you need to know. He
spends a lot of time trying to argue that industry wage differentials are
due to unobservable differences in the workers in those industries, and
other empirical work to support "competitive" hypotheses about the labor
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Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 18:43:41 -0500
From: Softcomm [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Michael Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Apple lays off thousands
By Dawn Yoshitake
March 14, 1997, 1:30 p.m. PT
Looking to drastically shrink its
As an aside it is inaccurate to state that Ms Waring was the
only women member of parliament at the time of her election and
I would be interested in the source of this particular
statement.
I thought this was stated in the video. I could be mistaken.
I happened to watch this Marilyn Waring
Within limits, therefore, her video is useful.
But it is no substitute for analysis.
I think that's what I meant to say (or ought to have said).
I think the video is a powerful visual statement and Marilyn
Waring comes across very well. Not being from New Zealand, I
don't know how she is
Comrades
I note that several of my posts ended with the signature,
Bill Cochrane
Centre for Labour and Trade Union Studies
University of Waikato
Hamilton
New Zealand
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
This was in no way meant to implicate the centre in my opinions, they are
as one might expect my own.
Thankyou to
Kevin Murphy is a very competent econometrician of labor markets. As
you might expect, he leans toward the "Chicago" side of the various
empirical controversies swirling around labor issues, but he remains an
econometrician rather than an apologist as such. His work on the impact
of trade and
I would like to thank Shawgi for posting Fidel's speech and
the Granma article on the net. I would also like to point out,
in furtherence of his previous posting about Walmart's decision
to take Cuban made PJ's out of their Canadian stores, that the
company under Canadian pressure decided to
At 12:42 PM -0800 3/14/97, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Doug, I sure hope you didn't get the impression I was *endorsing* the WSJ
newsitorial?! Because if you did, perhaps I will post a clarification.
Heavens no Blair. I was reacting to the celebration of the American way of
life that's all the
chicago labor economics.
does anyone in pen-l land know anything about the work of Kevin Murphy of
the University of Chicago, who just won the John Bates Clark award?
in pen-l solidarity,
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Econ. Dept., Loyola Marymount Univ.
7900
I have used the Waring video in my classes, in particular Women and
the Canadian Economy, very effectively. It is very good on
the issue of the degrading of women's contribution to the economy
and *as a result*, the degredation of the environment. But it
is shallow on the question of capitalism
On Fri, 14 Mar 1997, Doug Henwood wrote:
At 9:03 AM -0800 3/14/97, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
"Mr. Soros, who worries so much about an anticapitalist backlash, thinks
the new boom 'will be constantly tested' by crises, but nevertheless 'might
last a century.' "
So,... aren't you all
I would like to thank Shawgi for posting Fidel's speech and
the Granma article on the net. I would also like to point out,
in furtherence of his previous posting about Walmart's decision
to take Cuban made PJ's out of their Canadian stores, that the
company under Canadian pressure decided to
Please cancel my listing
does anyone in pen-l land know anything about the work of Kevin Murphy of
the University of Chicago, who just won the John Bates Clark award?
in pen-l solidarity,
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Econ. Dept., Loyola Marymount Univ.
7900 Loyola Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90045-8410
At 12:42 PM -0800 3/14/97, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Doug, I sure hope you didn't get the impression I was *endorsing* the WSJ
newsitorial?! Because if you did, perhaps I will post a clarification.
Heavens no Blair. I was reacting to the celebration of the American way of
life that's all the
On 14 Mar 97 at 14:34, Bill Cochrane wrote:
I write this with some trepidation, given the view in many quarters that
Marilyn Waring should be elevated to the status of at least saint, perhaps
a medium league deity.
Marliyn Waring is and always has been a tory, albeit of a liberal kind. She
I wrote: The actual development of working class movements is much
less predictable than the development of capital.
Jerry writes: Yeah, but the prediction of the actual development of
capital hasn't been that easy either. Perhaps it would be better for
Marxists if they got out of the
Comrades
Our dept of social welfare (DSW) is currently funding a conference called
"Beyond Dependency" at which many reportedly notable and expert persons
will present their views on how to get people off welfare.
Some cynical individuals have suggested that this is merely another of
those events
Comrades
I write this with some trepidation, given the view in many quarters that
Marilyn Waring should be elevated to the status of at least saint, perhaps
a medium league deity.
Marliyn Waring is and always has been a tory, albeit of a liberal kind. She
is no friend of unions or a number of
Released today from EPI:
"The Challenge of Moving from Welfare to Work:
Depressed Labor Market Awaits Those Leaving
the Rolls" by Jared Bernstein. This is a four page
issue brief with new numbers on the miserable
state of the low-wage labor market. Will soon be,
if it isn't yet, available on
At 9:03 AM -0800 3/14/97, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
"Mr. Soros, who worries so much about an anticapitalist backlash, thinks
the new boom 'will be constantly tested' by crises, but nevertheless 'might
last a century.' "
So,... aren't you all just *thrilled* by the good news...?
Where is the
Jim writes,
BTW, I am not predicting that the key factor that M E predicted in the
MANIFESTO will automatically come about, i.e., that the working class will
rise up and transform capitalism into a socialist system. Their prediction,
in retrospect, seems to be based on mere optimism and
Jim Devine wrote:
The actual development of working class
movements is much less predictable than the development of capital.
Yeah, but the prediction of the actual development of capital hasn't been
that easy either. Perhaps it would be better for Marxists if they got out
of the predictive
On Tue, 11 Mar 1997, James Devine wrote:
testing: does this new e-mail facility work? (Sorry to bother you.)
-- Jim
YES!
A. S. Fatemi
Professor and Chairman
Department of Economics
University Coordinator of Strategic Planning
The American University of Paris
102 rue Saint Dominique
75007
At 9:03 AM -0800 3/14/97, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
"Mr. Soros, who worries so much about an anticapitalist backlash, thinks
the new boom 'will be constantly tested' by crises, but nevertheless 'might
last a century.' "
So,... aren't you all just *thrilled* by the good news...?
Where is the
Blair Sandler wrote,
. . . the WSJ today opined that a new global social structure
of accumulation (they don't use that term, of course) is in place for a
sustained period of high growth rates it several times refers to as a "new
golden age."
snip
So,... aren't you all just *thrilled* by the
Thirty-five years after President John F. Kennedy dictated
Executive Order 3447, decreeing a total economic blockade of
Cuba, it is an opportune moment for recalling his own words on
receiving the failed remains of the mercenary brigade that
attempted to destroy the Revolution on the sands of
The film on Marilyn Waring's work is available from Bullfrog Films. Her
book _If Women Counted: A New Feminist Economics_ San Francisco: Harper
San Francisco, (a division of Harper Collins) 1988 is out of print. Your
university library can purchase the film (they will know how to contact
"It is Infuriating that Someone Could Imagine that the Freedom
and Dignity of a People Could Be Bought"
Speech given by President Fidel Castro Ruz, First Secretary of
the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and
President of the Councils of State and of Ministers, at the Event
In what strikes me as an important editorial piece (masquerading as a first
page news article), the WSJ today opined that a new global social structure
of accumulation (they don't use that term, of course) is in place for a
sustained period of high growth rates it several times refers to as a
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