Socialism finito, sez Nation

1994-01-08 Thread Doug Henwood
le." I hope PEN-Lers rise to the challenge once they've read the piece. It's funny that a mag that has published virtually nothing on socialism in living memory (with the exception of the Pollin-Cockburn piece sometime back) decided to give such prominence to an obituary. Yours in Lazarus-like s

Re: Mail and no mail

1994-01-20 Thread Doug Henwood
On Thu, 20 Jan 1994, Anthea wrote: January is not a stellar time for academic lists...lots of them get quiet and many get silly in the late-December/January period; but PEN-L has never just totally *GONE*, disappeared, before. Even Doug Henwood is silent! My god. What happened to him

Re: fed rumblings

1994-02-05 Thread Doug Henwood
, begin to bite. A typical recession lasts 4 quarters - ending then in the spring or summer of 1996 - election season. Bush screwed up the whole damned election cycle. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Thu, 3 Feb 1994

Re: Carving Up the Superhighway

1994-02-14 Thread Doug Henwood
Irrelevant personal detail: [Nick] Negroponte is the son of John N, who [allegedly] supervised torture in Brazil in the 1960s for the CIA and who, as ambassador to Honduras, supervised part of the contra war in the 1980s. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020

Karl on Krisis

1994-02-19 Thread Doug Henwood
Somewhere - I think it was the Grundrisse - Marx said there is no such thing as permanent crisis. Now I can't locate the quote. Can anyone help me out? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

RE: Karl on Krisis

1994-02-21 Thread Doug Henwood
Thanks a million. So where does that leave the Monthly Review school and their theories of permanent/irreversible/etc. crisis? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Sat, 19 Feb 1994, Michael Lebowitz wrote: In Message Sat, 19

Re: Interest rates and politics

1994-02-23 Thread Doug Henwood
f the late 80s-early 90s, it was served by low rates. In both cases, the coupon-clippers' bacon was saved. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On 21 Feb 1994, Paul Cockshott wrote: Trond asks what is the difference between an econo

Re: Karl on Krisis

1994-02-23 Thread Doug Henwood
years? It may do immense social and natural damage, but is that crisis? Or just the normal operation of a frightfully dynamic thing? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Tue, 22 Feb 1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Perm

Re: Interest rates and politics

1994-02-24 Thread Doug Henwood
are Pinochet and Thatcher, repressive centralizers both of them. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Thu, 24 Feb 1994, Blair Sandler wrote: Interest rates change not only for economic and political (a la M. HenwoodUs

Re: interest rates

1994-02-24 Thread Doug Henwood
nicknamed Certificates of Confiscation. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Thu, 24 Feb 1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Devine wrote: Behind this were the limits set by class society: interest rates couldn't rise so far

Re: interest rates

1994-02-24 Thread Doug Henwood
CHIPS wire becomes capital in Marx's sense, that of engaging living labor? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Thu, 24 Feb 1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Loanable Funds and rentiers don't strike me as useful concepts for und

Re: Karlos and Interest Rates

1994-02-25 Thread Doug Henwood
last thing on the Fed's mind. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Re: Carving Up the 'Superhighway'

1994-02-25 Thread Doug Henwood
Actually parentage has more than a little to do with the transmission of social power. I confess to being coy about the "irrelevance" issue. Sorry. In the future, I'll be more heavy-handed. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874

Re: The New World Order/Running Shoes of Capitalism

1994-02-26 Thread Doug Henwood
? How too did banks keep the spread between loan and deposit interest rates high during the recent, and now apparently fading, period of low interest rates? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Fri, 25 Feb 1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: progressive usury

1994-02-27 Thread Doug Henwood
boom etc. was a great spur to productivity, rather than a hindrance to real investment? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Sat, 26 Feb 1994, Michael Perelman wrote: One addendum on usury: Marx saw that, even thought it was just

Re: Karl on Krisis

1994-02-28 Thread Doug Henwood
of overcoming challenge are tested and possibly found wanting. The 1930s were a real crisis; the 1970s, a norm; the 1950s and 1960s, an unusally sunny period. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Sun, 27 Feb 1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Nike, again

1994-03-02 Thread Doug Henwood
talking to curlew.cs.man.ac.uk: RCPT To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 550 Unknown local user 'PEN-L%EDU.CSUCHICO.ECST.BOBBY' 550 [EMAIL PROTECTED] User unknown - Unsent message follows - Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 15:16:06 -0500 (EST) From: Doug Henwood dhenwood Subject: Re: Running further with those

Re: Nike, again

1994-03-02 Thread Doug Henwood
Damn, folks are so sensitive. By transient I meant high labor turnover. Sorry. I didn't mean they were irresponsible or sluttish or anything like that. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Wed, 2 Mar 1994, Anthony D'Costa

Laura D'Andrea Say

1994-03-09 Thread Doug Henwood
-47 at the back of the very volume these words appear in, showing nonfarm productivity up 15.9% between 1982 and 1983Q3, and real compensation up 6.6% (a number inflated by health benefits). The contrast for manufacturing would be much more vivid. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business

Census gopher

1994-03-15 Thread Doug Henwood
Apologies if you've seen this elsewhere, but the Census Bureau is opening a gopher site later this week that should house reams of data. Its address is gopher.census.gov. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Re: New system

1994-03-15 Thread Doug Henwood
bituated to PINE, and like all old farts, reluctant to change. So is there some way to fill the reply field? Or can some Unix junkies offer some advice? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Tue, 15 Mar 1994, Marshall Feldman wr

Re: bashing the FED

1994-03-18 Thread Doug Henwood
helm? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

re: economic strategy and the state

1994-03-23 Thread Doug Henwood
on the IMF? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Re: Inflation measurement

1994-04-05 Thread Doug Henwood
), he couldn't believe it, doubted the BLS knew what it was doing, etc. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Mon, 4 Apr 1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does the CPI numbers reflect quality increases/decreases in a product

Re: natural unemployment

1994-04-07 Thread Doug Henwood
Genetics has nothing to do with it. Weiner proved it using econometrics. As Larry Summers said in a very different context (specifically, the wisdom of dumping toxic waste in Africa, where incomes are low), the logic is "impeccable." Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Lef

Re: natural unemployment

1994-04-07 Thread Doug Henwood
have no particular interest in preserving. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Wed, 6 Apr 1994, Peter.Dorman wrote: In reply to Ellen F's question about why blacks have a higher "natural" rate of unemployme

Re: the real interest rate

1994-04-07 Thread Doug Henwood
(which price index, over what period?). Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Wed, 6 Apr 1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Penners -- Can anyone out there shed some insight on why lenders do not index

Re: Russia/China what to do on pen-l

1994-04-13 Thread Doug Henwood
On Tue, 12 Apr 1994, Jim Devine wrote: But we should try to keep a diversified portfolio of pen-l postings (sorry, I couldn't resist). From high theory to current events, and back again! from the sublime to the ridiculous! Jim - which is the sublime, and which the ridiculous? Doug Doug

Re: People who like to tell other people to shut up

1994-04-13 Thread Doug Henwood
In a grandiose attempt to bridge theory and praxis, can I ask the theorists if the LTV debate has any relevance to real politics - is it an instance of clarifying analysis and strategy, or is discourse of the angelic pindancing sort? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business

Re: Health Care Demystified article

1994-04-24 Thread Doug Henwood
Sorry. Got it. Thanks. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Sat, 23 Apr 1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fellow Pen-lers, Percentage of recipients of "Health Care Reform Demystified" who were asked to acknowled

Re: Mandela touts stox

1994-04-24 Thread Doug Henwood
NVC's proposed Reconstruction and Development Programme worth R39bn (5.3bn pounds) over five years, which will fund black development projects, as an example of government trying to set a framework to help business." Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voic

Re: Marriott Corp.

1994-04-27 Thread Doug Henwood
Call their headquarters. In the US a public company is obliged to give out such information. Reference works like Standard Poors company directories also have such info. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Tue, 26 Apr 1994

Re: The Krugman article

1994-04-28 Thread Doug Henwood
pink pundit, if this is fresh thinking then I'm RuPaul. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Wed, 27 Apr 1994, D Shniad wrote: Given several inquiries about my endorsement of Krugman's article, I feel that a bit

Re: RSolidarnosc

1994-04-30 Thread Doug Henwood
On Fri, 29 Apr 1994, Jim Devine wrote: if A is capitalism and B is stalinist central planning, C is democratic socialism, no? That was my guess, but what does that mean? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Thatcherism kills

1994-04-30 Thread Doug Henwood
ries, life expectancy has increased most rapidly where income differences have narrowed. endquote Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Bubbles tightness

1994-06-01 Thread Doug Henwood
ment, Determinants, and Monetary Policy Implications (BIS Economic Papers No. 40, April 1994). Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Re: Penl'rs book on finance

1994-06-03 Thread Doug Henwood
You're probably thinking of Transforming the US Financial System, edited by Gary Dymski, Gerald Epstein, and Robert Pollin, published by ME Sharpe for the Economic Policy Institute. My book. I gotta finish it first. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020

Re: India and World Bank

1994-06-10 Thread Doug Henwood
development model to replace them. Are traditional ways of life to be preserved forever? Is electrification a bad thing in itself? In other words, what should be done in place of the dams? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Re: India and World Bank

1994-06-10 Thread Doug Henwood
along those lines. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Thu, 9 Jun 1994, Ben Crow wrote: Andrew Sessions has posted the 'Manibeli Declaration', a proposal from the International Rivers Network, of Berkeley CA

Re: India and World Bank

1994-06-11 Thread Doug Henwood
interrupted to say - you have no idea what it's like to be a finance minister who has to come up with $100m in foreign exchange next week. Does any of the works you cited - and I'll check them out on my own as soon as I can - address this problem? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business

Re: IMF/WB on social policy within G7 ?

1994-06-21 Thread Doug Henwood
ore_ is far more unequal than Western Europe's, and probably is the most unequal in the First World. The IMF is trafficking in fantasy. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Mon, 20 Jun 1994, Arbeitslosenselbsthilfe Oldenburg wr

Re: ANC Economics policy

1994-06-23 Thread Doug Henwood
said "It comes as a surprise to see an ANC government handong out goodies to the corporate sector but not to the masses." The JSE liked the budget, as did Buthelezi. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Thu, 2

Re: The Nation (magazine) on the Internet?

1994-06-25 Thread Doug Henwood
is still in formation, and requires direct dialup. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Sat, 25 Jun 1994, Bill Humphries wrote: I understand _The Nation_ maintains a presence on PeaceNet, but are there any other sites for gopher

No Subject

1994-07-07 Thread Doug Henwood
I thought folks might be interested in this little polemic, which will appear in tomorrow's (Jul 8) Financial Times letters column. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) PS: The sexist "Sir" isn't my choice - it'

NLR #205

1994-07-16 Thread Doug Henwood
to insist on it more than ever, it seems, and insist on it, moreover, as the very indestructibility of the 'it is necessary.' This is the condition of a repoliticization, perhaps of another concept of the political endquote Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 21

Re: Women Academics and Welfare

1994-07-18 Thread Doug Henwood
Is there no room for non-women and non-academics in such a statement? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Race, morals, and welfare

1994-07-19 Thread Doug Henwood
uivalences of right=racist and multiculti=progressive must be rethought, no question mark following. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

re: race, morals, and welfare

1994-07-20 Thread Doug Henwood
On Tue, 19 Jul 1994, Blair Sandler wrote: Doug Henwood wrote about today's WSJ article on the Christian Coalition. "They want to become, says organizer Ralph Reed, a true rainbow coalition. This means that the easy equivalences of right=racist and multiculti=progressive

Re: problems with marx's crit of utop socialism

1994-07-20 Thread Doug Henwood
practical political terms. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Tue, 19 Jul 1994, Julie Matthaei wrote: Reading the suggested texts on Marx and Engels' critiques of utopian socialism brings to mind my experiences when first re

Re: URPE = UPE?

1994-09-01 Thread Doug Henwood
by the day. Of course our message and our program need rethinking and retuning, but dilution gets you nowhere. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Re: Re[4]: Population

1994-09-01 Thread Doug Henwood
untries of the south. I also wish folks would tend more towards viewing human beings as a resource rather than a threat. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Population agendas

1994-09-02 Thread Doug Henwood
n misery, ultimately from starvation," wrote King. Kill them to be kind. endquote [For info on CounterPunch, write to CounterPunch, c/o Institute for Policy Studies, 1601 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington DC 20009, or call 202-234-9382.] Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Silence

1994-09-07 Thread Doug Henwood
After reading that count, whatever the errors Gil points out, I've taken a vow of silence. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Re: Henwood Follies

1994-09-10 Thread Doug Henwood
a mass appeal, no? Now if I could just think of something to say Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Fri, 9 Sep 1994, Cotter_Cindy wrote: When I was a kid I attended a performance of Peter Pan in which the audience

Broken vows Coase

1994-09-12 Thread Doug Henwood
of Coase's theorem of why firms exist? Relatedly, are there any Marxian theories of the firm? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Re: principal/agent social conscience

1994-09-20 Thread Doug Henwood
How do you begin to encourage cooperation and a social conscience in a society that is hostile to those ideas? Don't you have a chicken/egg problem here? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Mon, 19 Sep 1994, Jim Devine

Fed tightening again?

1994-09-21 Thread Doug Henwood
Telmex and the Singapore Fund - call your broker! Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Re: WOMEN'S STATEMENT ON WELFARE

1994-09-25 Thread Doug Henwood
The Women's Statement is a fine document. Should there a be a similar men's statement? Or do men only concern themselves with macro issues like fiscal policy and trade? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Re: Krugman's Fantasy Economics

1994-09-28 Thread Doug Henwood
This may be bad. But is it nonsense? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Wed, 28 Sep 1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Herewith El Kruger: Reports by international organizations are usually greeted with well deserved yawns

Re: Krugman's Fantasy Economics

1994-09-28 Thread Doug Henwood
I assume that mainstreamers who blame technology never acknowledge that RD is financed by capital and capital's state, and that it's part of the strategy to cheapen labor? It's just the innocent at the party? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice

Re: RACHEL: Economic Trends (fwd)

1994-09-29 Thread Doug Henwood
the NYT front-pages it? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

LBO gopher open

1994-10-03 Thread Doug Henwood
Path=1/econ/orgs/LBO Host=csf.Colorado.EDU Port=70 Admin=Studly Gopher Admin +1 (612) 338-3970 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ModDate=Sun Oct 2 17:26:17 1994 19941002172617 URL: gopher://csf.Colorado.EDU:70/1/1/econ/orgs/LBO Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice

Re: Mandela vs. Aristide

1994-10-05 Thread Doug Henwood
It's indeed sad to hear Mandela say this, but what choices do small poor countries have these days? If you, or any of us, were given the task of devising a development strategy for SA, or Brazil, or Sri Lanka - what would we do? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer

World Bank Legal Action (fwd)

1994-10-05 Thread Doug Henwood
FYI. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) -- Forwarded message -- Date: 04 Oct 94 06:22 PDT From: The Development GAP [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Recipients of conference mlist.wbbig" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subj

Re: World Bank Legal Action (fwd)

1994-10-05 Thread Doug Henwood
On Wed, 5 Oct 1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way, does this rant count as an example of the "populism" that I've seen criticized in various circles (not here) of late? Is World Bank-bashing merely populist? I hope not What do you mean, Ian? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL

Re: shame of neo-classical economists

1994-10-06 Thread Doug Henwood
a liberal; he supports some enviro and pop contol causes (excluding tobacco). But the pig once refused to give his daughter a dime when she was unemployed and living in a trailer park. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On

Re: short-term horizons

1994-10-07 Thread Doug Henwood
The power of financial capital moves with, or in the opposite direction of, retained earnings? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Thu, 6 Oct 1994, Michael Perelman wrote: I have just completed a book in which I find

1994-10-05 Thirteen Named to Trade Policy Committee (fwd)

1994-10-07 Thread Doug Henwood
The makeup of this group speaks volumes. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 11:47-0400 From: The White House [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 1994-10

Income poverty reports

1994-10-07 Thread Doug Henwood
a copy (about 97K) to anyone who asks. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Re: south african policy

1994-10-08 Thread Doug Henwood
a debt crisis and avoid pricing itself out of world markets? And how did it get away with this in the political sense? Why didn't the US pry them open earlier? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Argentina income stats

1994-10-10 Thread Doug Henwood
to explain these oddities, but they haven't responded yet. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Income poverty - last chance

1994-10-11 Thread Doug Henwood
Final offer to have the US Census Bureau's income poverty reports for 1993 emailed to you. I'm gonna purge the file on Friday morning, NYC time. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Re: Cheryl Payer's whereabouts

1994-10-17 Thread Doug Henwood
There's a C Payer listed in my Manhattan phone book who I'm pretty sure is Cheryl. 212-255-2957, 13 Carmine St. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Mon, 17 Oct 1994, Robert Naiman wrote: Anyone out there know how to find

Immigration

1994-10-19 Thread Doug Henwood
should govern immigration to the US? The issue seems complex, dangerous, and trivialized in mainstream discussion. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Re: Immigration and Job Competition: Longer article

1994-10-20 Thread Doug Henwood
Thanks to Nathan Newman for posting his article. That was exactly the sort of thing I was looking for. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Re: Credit scoring again??

1994-10-27 Thread Doug Henwood
Duh, I dunno. I ain't taken no vow of no silence, but I dunno. Guess I've been watching too much Beavis and Butt-head. Call Larry Lindsay at the Fed! Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Thu, 27 Oct 1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: The Hayek critique

1994-10-28 Thread Doug Henwood
red. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Barro sez...

1994-11-01 Thread Doug Henwood
of education and health, and low fertility rates. endquote Anyone know what research Barro is referring to? Is it credible? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Re: IQ, genetics, and statistics (fwd)

1994-11-04 Thread Doug Henwood
FYI. - Doug Henwood Original message The following are comments of the president of the ETS on misinterpretation and abuse of data sets by the authors of Bell Curve: -- Forwarded message -- Subject: Re: IQ, genetics

Atlas plugged

1994-11-08 Thread Doug Henwood
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Election results

1994-11-11 Thread Doug Henwood
Comrades, do not exaggerate your despair. The share of the Congressional popular vote was 52% Rep, 48% Dem. This hardly qualifies as the landslide of reaction it's been portrayed as - especially given depressed turnout on the left and energized turnout on the right. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL

Re: social security

1994-11-22 Thread Doug Henwood
Are the Danish funds managed according to social principles or according to orthodox share price maximization? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Re: new party spin

1994-11-24 Thread Doug Henwood
tal rethink of basic institutions that Rogers and Pope called for in their Nation manifesto? One might suspect they're pitching for the same Perotians that Clinton is, and that they're afraid of blowing it by getting too specific. More thought and less posturing please. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTE

new LBO article in csf gopher

1994-11-25 Thread Doug Henwood
: gopher://csf.Colorado.EDU:70/0/0/econ/orgs/LBO/Myth-smashing--on.small.busi ness.and.corporate.downsizing I post one article from LBO about 4 to 5 weeks after the publication date. This is the freebie from #66. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212

Re: NAFTA and Trade Surplus

1994-11-27 Thread Doug Henwood
globalization prefigure a heaven of stateless communism or is it too hellish to tolerate? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Sat, 26 Nov 1994, Tavis Barr wrote: There was a message on here a couple of days ago that bothered me

BIOREGIONALISM (fwd)

1994-11-28 Thread Doug Henwood
By coincidence, from another list, here's an example of bioregionalist thinking. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 10:07:50 -0500 (EST) From: PNEWS [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: BIOREGIONALISM [PNEWS CONFERENCES] From: Inst. for Bioreg.

Re: Leftovers

1994-11-28 Thread Doug Henwood
Who wrote these vile but sadly accurate words? Not Herb Gintis, I'm assuming. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Mon, 28 Nov 1994, Brian Eggleston wrote: I just encountered this in the most recent Chronicle of Higher Ed

Re: the Democrats are dead?

1994-11-30 Thread Doug Henwood
trade and their dependence on the vote of working class white men, but so far they've been able to paper over this issue through appeals to bigotry. Environmental and health and safety issues would be rather important to this aim. Yeah. But the paymasters won't like that. Doug Doug Henwood

Re: CA tax initiative

1994-01-03 Thread Doug Henwood
ature," Economic Development in the States No. 1 (Washington?: The Council of State Governments, 1989). Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 On Sat, 1 Jan 1994, Jim Devine wrote: happy new year!! A friend asks me to ask pen-l the following questions:

Socialism finito, sez Nation

1994-01-08 Thread Doug Henwood
le." I hope PEN-Lers rise to the challenge once they've read the piece. It's funny that a mag that has published virtually nothing on socialism in living memory (with the exception of the Pollin-Cockburn piece sometime back) decided to give such prominence to an obituary. Yours in Lazarus-like s

Re: Salinas' fax number

1994-01-08 Thread Doug Henwood
in central Mexico / Carlos Salinas de Gortari. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020

Re: Mail and no mail

1994-01-20 Thread Doug Henwood
On Thu, 20 Jan 1994, Anthea wrote: January is not a stellar time for academic lists...lots of them get quiet and many get silly in the late-December/January period; but PEN-L has never just totally *GONE*, disappeared, before. Even Doug Henwood is silent! My god. What happened to him

Re: Does International Trade Lower Wages in the 1st World?

1994-01-20 Thread Doug Henwood
focus too much competition among capitalist and not enough on the relation between K and labor? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020

Re: Apple and the Unionization of Silicon Valley

1994-01-27 Thread Doug Henwood
This is some of the best news I've heard in a long time. Wonder if I should do a Marketplace commentary about it and scare all the rentiers in the audience? Where could I find out more? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Wed

Re: Free trade and wages

1994-01-27 Thread Doug Henwood
Is this vast wedge between pay productivity sustainable? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) PS: I'd like to hear more about your work on SK steel. On Wed, 26 Jan 1994, Anthony D'Costa wrote: Low wages is a challenge

Re: Bank on Asian Miracles

1994-01-31 Thread Doug Henwood
Reflecting their good cop/bad cop pairing, the World Bank is exquisitely sensitive to criticism, unlike the IMF, which pays no attention to its critics. So the WB is a good place to make a stink. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax

Greenspan's inflation fears

1994-02-03 Thread Doug Henwood
), and you're talking Jimmy Carter all over again. It's lunatic, for sure, but that's how these guys think. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Wed, 2 Feb 1994, Dale Tussing wrote: Yesterday's (Tuesday, Feb. 1) New York Times

Fed follow-up

1994-02-03 Thread Doug Henwood
more words than action in the next few months. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

No Subject

1994-02-03 Thread Doug Henwood
Terry Allen, editor of Cover Action Quarterly, is looking for people to write about the emerging global economic order - the WTO, G7, IMF, and the rest of it. Anyone interested should contact her at 202-331-9763. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice

Re: fed rumblings

1994-02-05 Thread Doug Henwood
, begin to bite. A typical recession lasts 4 quarters - ending then in the spring or summer of 1996 - election season. Bush screwed up the whole damned election cycle. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Thu, 3 Feb 1994

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