Does anyone know e-mail or other address of Alwyn Young, who made a study
of economic growth for 100+ countries and where his work was published?
Evidently Paul Krugman's article, "The Myth of the Asian Miracle," is based
on the evidence that Young obtained.
Thanks in advance.
Fikret.
Louis Proyect wrote:
Louis: The interpretation of "current events" is the number one priority for
Marxists, as it was in Marx and Engels' era. I have volume 12 of their
collected works on my desk right now, which covers the years 1853-1854.
This
is where I found the telling quote on India. Volume
The world has become a spectator of the tragedy unfolding in
Albania, waiting to see what measures the foreign powers,
principally the Americans and the European Union, will take to
restore order in Albania. Last week, international headlines
attempted to portray the situation in Albania as a
Justin:
He also writes so clearly that he is difficult to
understand--a strange expression, I know, but I don't know how else to put
it. Sentence by senyence his writing _is_ clear and unambigious, and his
writings are logically structured, but they are hard to follow, perhaps
because of their
Bill,
Congratulations on completing your comprehensives!
Regards,
Tom Walker
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I believe that Kevin Murphy along with Finis Welch have been very
critical of the Card and Krueger's work on minimum wage.
Rudy
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Thanks for the kind words, Bill. Perhaps I will post some things on Elster
and G.A. Cohen I wrote as part of a series on "An Idiot's Guide to
Analytical Marxism" over on our dysfunctional Spoons list. Lots of good yuks
in there as well.
Lou
At 05:53 PM 3/16/97 -0800, you wrote:
Louis wrote:
On Sun, 16 Mar 1997, Michael Perelman wrote:
Keynes once wrote of a Hayek book, It is an extraordinary example of
how, starting with a mistake, a remorseless logician can end up in
Bedlam." I have the same feeling about John Roemer. He is very bright,
but get fascinated with math, which
Dear pen-lers,
Returning to the list after a long absence... On the question of a new
'SSA', the regulation-theory literature has also always exhibited
tensions over whether a new 'mode of regulation' (MR) is emerging.
Post-Fordists, of course, have already answered the question in the
Michael Perelman wrote,
If our Ponzi scheme fails, will the Wall Street mob demand to get
reimbursed?
It's not the Wall Street mob we should be worried about. What about the
drywall installers and toy store clerks with their mutual funds?
Regards,
Tom Walker
We should worry about a
Paul Phillips argues that I share Jesse Helm's criticism of Canada on
Cuba and that it hurts Cuba and Canada to suggest the latter's policy is
motivated by imperialist greed.
Well, I think Helms is right that Canada is putting it's own commercial
interests first. I think it is also worth putting
BLS DAILY REPORT, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1997
RELEASED TODAY: The incidence of nonfatal work-related injuries and
illnesses fell in 1995 to the lowest rate in nearly a decade. A total
of 6.6 million injuries and illnesses were reported during 1995,
resulting in a rate of 8.1 cases for every
BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1997
RELEASED TODAY: Unemployment rates for most states showed little
movement in January, as 32 states reported changes of 0.3 percentage
point or less in either direction from December. The national jobless
rate was essentially unchanged at 5.4
Jim (Devine),
I liked your post on dumping costs and the idealization of
markets by some market socialists as a magical way to avoid "political"
social choice decisions.
I too like much of Hahnel-Albert's work but feel that their
categorical rejection of all market mechanisms
On 14 Mar 97 at 14:36, Bill Cochrane wrote:
cocktail one of my spies attended a BRT dinner at which a Sister
Connie Driscoll, manager of the St Martin de Porres House of Hope in
Chicago spoke. She also apparently has an attachment to the Acton
Foundation from Grand Rapids, Michagan.
Could
*Third Annual CPC Conference on African American Studies*
SANKOFA
(Knowing the Past, Living the
Comrade Jim D, it's not that Roemer retreats from descriptive or policy
poli-econ, but that when he comes into it the traces of his neverland
distract us from actually existing K. I think I mentioned on PEN-L that he
paid a vist to Jo'burg about eight months ago and confounded worker
audiences
Anyone see the AFP report about how "the worlds' financial system
was seriously at risk from structural faults in the offshore banking
system" according to a leaked BIS document? 141 offshore banking
centres are either inadequately regulated or not at all.
Can't put new SSA meat on those
At the end of a well-argued posting, Louis Proyect wrote:
Albania, Zaire, etc. are imperfect and semicloaked manifestations of the
proletarian revolution.
This is strange. Where in the world are "etc."? Why talk of "Zaire" when
the "rebels" (whose overwhelming mass support is now evident)
Ron Baiman writes: I too like much of Hahnel-Albert's work but feel that
their
categorical rejection of all market mechanisms is counter productive and
leaves them open to the wishfull thinking impractical utopian type
criticism to which they have been subjected.
It's important to remember
Dear PEN-Lers:
This may or may not be the same attack to which Gene Coyle refers, but I
think Greenspan recently came under fire from a Republican House
member as well. I recall two comments in particular (perhaps by Jim
Bunting of Kentucky?). In one, the congressman asked Greenspan why he
Michael wrote:
If our Ponzi scheme fails, will the Wall Street mob demand to get
reimbursed?
--
Michael Perelman
I greatly enjoyed the attack on Greenspan from Republican senators,
who were asking "How dare you tighten money and threaten the money people
are making in the stock market?"
On Sat, 15 Mar 1997, Michael Eisenscher responded to "my" reperiodization of
the stages of US capitalist development: BTW, it is worth recalling that
Gordon, Edwards, Reich, et al. arrived at their periodization of SSAs based
on a fair amount of econometric work and empircal examination of the
BLS DAILY REPORT, FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1997
RELEASED TODAY: The Producer Price Index for Finished Goods declined
0.4 percent in February, seasonally adjusted. This followed a
decrease of 0.3 percent in January and an increase of 0.6 percent in
December. Prices received by producers of
Breaking away from animal husbandry with my sheep, I am tempted to defend
Los Angeles against the dire slander that it is New York (the so-called
"Big" Apple) that is the world center of sarcasm and irony rather than the
City of the Angels. But instead, a couple comments on Roemer.
First, I want
I trust the above website will provide abundant financial and enonomic
insights.
vronsky
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