[PEN-L:10590] more musings...

1999-09-02 Thread Jim Devine
yesterday I wrote: As Bob Pollin points out in his article in the REVIEW OF RADICAL POLITICAL ECONOMICS (Summer 1998), the US labor market is becoming more and more like that of Bolivia: in the latter, overt (officially-measured) unemployment is nil, but the high degree of insecurity of workers

[PEN-L:10592] Re: Re:

1999-09-02 Thread William S. Lear
On Thursday, September 2, 1999 at 13:32:02 (-0400) Ricardo Duchesne writes: Isn't there a way to get rid of this irritating re re re? If not, could people here do it manually as I think it devalues the whole list. thanks, ricardo If you have the ability to filter your mail through an external

[PEN-L:10582] Re: Re: Re: Re: e: normal profits, etc.

1999-09-02 Thread Ajit Sinha
Michael Perelman wrote: Ajit Sinha wrote: Michael, your firm must have a market value today. How do you arrive at the market value of your firm? Why? Is it reflected in the stock market value? The value of a firm cannot be known. The market is too thin to know the price in

[PEN-L:10597] Re: more musings...

1999-09-02 Thread Wojtek Sokolowski
At 09:39 AM 9/2/99 -0700, Jim Devine wrote: We should also look at the bright side of the Bolivianization process. The decrease in worker insecurity -- corresponding to the shrinkage of the importance of the "good jobs" in the primary sector -- also means that employees are less loyal their

[PEN-L:10599] RE: Countering bigoted rightwing attack on Free Speech

1999-09-02 Thread Craven, Jim
James Craven Clark College, 1800 E. McLoughlin Blvd. Vancouver, WA. 98663 (360) 992-2283; Fax: (360) 992-2863 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.home.earthlink.net/~blkfoot5 *My Employer Has No Association With My Private/Protected Opinion* -Original Message- From: Nathan Newman

[PEN-L:10593] Mike Moore, champion of the poor?

1999-09-02 Thread Robert Naiman
Would our New Zealand comrades like to comment on this? I was under the impression that during Moore's tenure as Prime Minister he was less than the "committed left-winger" referred to in the article. Not that it would make much difference -- he won't be calling the shots -- but it's an

[PEN-L:10606] What is a bigot

1999-09-02 Thread Michael Perelman
Horowitz is agrieved at being called bigot. I supect that he would feel very comfortable lunching with Alan Keyes. ergo, he is not biggoted. Most of us would use different standard, but since we rely on such shorthand expressions, especially in an age of dissembling, shouldn't we expect such

[PEN-L:10591] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

1999-09-02 Thread Doug Henwood
Ricardo Duchesne wrote: Isn't there a way to get rid of this irritating re re re? If not, could people here do it manually as I think it devalues the whole list. thanks, ricardo Sort of shows how meaning is produced through repetition and displacement, though, don't you think? On a totally

[PEN-L:10589] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

1999-09-02 Thread Ricardo Duchesne
Isn't there a way to get rid of this irritating re re re? If not, could people here do it manually as I think it devalues the whole list. thanks, ricardo

[PEN-L:10610] Re: What is a bigot?

1999-09-02 Thread Sam Pawlett
Michael Perelman wrote: Horowitz is agrieved at being called bigot. I supect that he would feel very comfortable lunching with Alan Keyes. ergo, he is not biggoted. Most of us would use different standard, but since we rely on such shorthand expressions, especially in an age of

[PEN-L:10601] current Yugoslav economy

1999-09-02 Thread J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Have just returned from the Twelfth World Congress of the International Economic Association in Buenos Aires. Among other things, had fairly extended conversations with some economists from Yugoslavia, in particular from the Economics Institute in Belgrade. A few observations based on those

[PEN-L:10603] Re: A voice from the past

1999-09-02 Thread Jim Devine
Strangely enough, I attended Horowitz's wedding in 1982 or so. He was a friend of an ex-girlfriend of mine, one who continually argued with him to stop shifting so far to the right. Of course, arguing was in vain. I met him at a picnic in Berkeley. I asked him he knew that "George Killian's Red

[PEN-L:10608] Re: Re: City on Fire

1999-09-02 Thread ann li
In one early Woo film, the primitive accumulation of multiple gunshot wounds was magnificent with the destruction of a hospital concealing an arsenal rivaling ( as fiction ) the recent NATO activity in Serbia, saving babies while concentrating weapons fire. Ann - Original Message -

[PEN-L:10584] Fw: Emergency Protest Actions to Stop the War Against Iraq!

1999-09-02 Thread Frank Durgin
-- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Yugoslavia list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Emergency Protest Actions to Stop the War Against Iraq! Date: Thursday, September 02, 1999 1:55 AM Emergency Protest Actions to Stop the War Against Iraq! Internationally Coordinated Week of Emergency

[PEN-L:10586] The Internet Anti-Fascist: Tuesday, 31 Aug 1999 -- 3:70 (#323)

1999-09-02 Thread Paul Kneisel
__ The Internet Anti-Fascist: Tuesday, 31 August 1999 Vol. 3, Numbers 70 (#323) __ INVITATION TO JOIN MAILING LIST

[PEN-L:10602] A voice from the past

1999-09-02 Thread Eugene Coyle
David, a voice from the past -- Berkeley in the 1970s. I was (and am) doing energy economics when we knew each other then. Recently David Horowitz' appeal letter was forwarded to me. I'm surprised that he wraps himself in the assertion that his editors have known him since the Sixties. I

[PEN-L:10583] Re: Re: Bonelessness...

1999-09-02 Thread Ajit Sinha
Brad De Long wrote: I have heard Phil Harvey of Rutgers Law School use this story on more than one occasion in public presentations. No matter how much dogs are trained to be good bone gatherers, as long as the number of bones remain fixed, there will still be dogs left without bones.

[PEN-L:10598] Countering bigoted rightwing attack on Free Speech

1999-09-02 Thread Nathan Newman
PLEASE FORWARD Folks, People may of caught the nasty David Horowitz column in Salon attacking the NAACP's lawsuits against the gun lobby where he argued that black leaders should "[abandon] the ludicrous claim that white America and firearms manufacturers are the cause of the problems

[PEN-L:10600] student evaluation

1999-09-02 Thread Charles Brown
Fucking victory! by Ann Mullen, Curt Guyette Jennifer Bagwell 9/1/99 Detroit Metrotimes www.metrotimes.com Fucking victory! Macomb Community College professor John Bonnell, suspended for the past seven months, returned to the classroom Monday after a U.S. District Court judge ordered

[PEN-L:10596] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

1999-09-02 Thread Ricardo Duchesne
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 10:14:54 -0700 From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:10594] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I do always erase my res, I just hope others will do

[PEN-L:10605] Re: City on Fire

1999-09-02 Thread Michael Hoover
For a fascinating exegesis of the allegories of primitive accumulation, cutthroat gangsterism, etc. in the Hong Kong cinema, read _City on Fire_ (NY: Verso, 1999) by Lisa Odham Stokes and (our very own) Michael Hoover! Yoshie A big shoutout to Yoshie for the plug! Book is now available

[PEN-L:10585] BLS Daily Report

1999-09-02 Thread Richardson_D
BLS DAILY REPORT, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1999 TODAY'S NEWS RELEASE: In July, 215 metropolitan areas recorded unemployment rates below the U.S. average (4.5 percent, not seasonally adjusted), while 110 areas had higher rates. Among the 16 metropolitan areas with jobless rates below 2.0

[PEN-L:10587] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: e: normal profits, etc.

1999-09-02 Thread Michael Perelman
Ajit, I am very busy and do not want to keep repeating. Here it is simply: 1. Many parts of the economy have a value without a price. 2. When the need arises, some agent, a bank lending officer can put a price on them. 3. Such prices are not objective measures, but the subjective measure by

[PEN-L:10607] Re: more musings...

1999-09-02 Thread phillp2
Jim, We should also look at the bright side of the Bolivianization process. The decrease in worker insecurity -- corresponding to the shrinkage of the importance of the "good jobs" in the primary sector -- also means that employees are less loyal their employers and thus perhaps more

[PEN-L:10588] Re: teaching evals/merit pay.

1999-09-02 Thread Charles Brown
Forward on merit pay, a potential use of evaluations. Charles Brown There are some CAL State "Memoranda of Understanding" with merit increase provisions at http://www.calstate.edu/tier3/EmpRel/Contracts_HTML/contracts.html A teachers' contract with a merit increase