Re: On Renaming URPE

1994-09-11 Thread James Michael Craven
From: Ajit Sinha [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: On Renaming URPE I must say I appreciated James Craven's last posting on URPE/RRPE issue a lot. No nonsense--straight talk. I think JC's comment could be divided into two parts. One simply says that

Re: The Cold War

1994-11-10 Thread James Michael Craven
Subject:Re: The Cold War Gil, you SOB, you're absolutely right on this. Despite your usual petty-bourgeois revisionist snivellings, _ad hominem_ attacks should play no role on pen-l. Joking aside, when criticizing someone's views, please let's restrict ourselves to (1) the logic of the

Thought/quote to provoke thought

1994-11-16 Thread James Michael Craven
"...models and theories of 'traditional' economic geography seem to fall short. Studying 'economic regions' invites the danger of confusing appearance with explanation and, at best, tends to abstract regions from their context. The traditional approach to economic regions has been undermined

[PEN-L:3689] rationality II

1995-01-11 Thread James Michael Craven
After posting a message about the near-tautology and non- falsifiable character of the "rationality" assumption in economics, I stumbled on a prima facie case of economic IRrationality that indicates that maybe the "rationality" assumption is falsifiable: at the campus stamp machine last year,

[PEN-L:5487] Re: progress in economics

1996-08-01 Thread James Michael Craven
Date sent: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 13:17:05 -0700 (PDT) Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[PEN-L:5477] Re: progress in economics Gil Skillman seems offended that Jim Devine warns us that his rejection of the classical surplus approach to value

[PEN-L:5498] Re: progress in economics

1996-08-01 Thread James Michael Craven
Doug Henwood wrote: The modeling of social life as a set of simulataneous [sic] equations is part of the problem, not part of the solution. Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email:

[PEN-L:5630] FW-L Welfare Information re: U.S. (fwd)

1996-08-12 Thread James Michael Craven
--- Forwarded Message Follows --- Date sent: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 12:44:20 -0500 Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (S. Lerner) To: FUTUREWORK - Moderated [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:FW-L Welfare Information re: U.S. (fwd) Originally

[PEN-L:5804] RE: Crack Intelligence Agency

1996-08-22 Thread James Michael Craven
Date sent: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 12:03:06 -0700 (PDT) Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Breen, Nancy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[PEN-L:5800] RE: Crack Intelligence Agency I haven't seen them in the Washington Post. Isn't that shocking? Nancy Breen NIH

[PEN-L:5841] Reprise: Former DEA Agent Criticizes IOB Rep

1996-08-26 Thread James Michael Craven
Just thought I would send this along for pen-l folks who might not read this list. Much of this information or information that parallels it can be found in Michael Levine's "The Big White Lie" (memoirs of a 25 year undercover DEA agent). It is a bit removed from the etherial level of

[PEN-L:5861] Imperatives/Dynamics of Capitalist Media

1996-08-28 Thread James Michael Craven
Dear Trond, Thanks for your work in this area. I have been interested in the area of "Political Economiy of the Media" for many years. Here is a model that I developed and use when discussing the question of why journalists all over a given country invariably cover the same stories, ask

[PEN-L:5969] Re: voter turnout

1996-09-05 Thread James Michael Craven
Date sent: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 12:12:32 -0700 (PDT) Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Lynch) Subject:[PEN-L:5968] voter turnout The key to the whole issue is that only 40-50 percent of the electorate in the U.S. bothers to vote on

[PEN-L:6086] We're Number One

1996-09-10 Thread James Michael Craven
With all this talk by Clinton and others about how "America" and "We" are "number One", I just thought we might talk about some of the areas in which "America" is "Number One" among 19 industrialized countries. The following was taken from "We're Number One: Where America Stands--and

[PEN-L:6100] Re: Future Nobel laureate

1996-09-10 Thread James Michael Craven
Date sent: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 14:17:33 -0700 (PDT) Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Jim Westrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[PEN-L:6096] Future Nobel laureate From the Wall Street Journal, Sept.

[PEN-L:6208] Re: Dick Morris and my confession

1996-09-16 Thread James Michael Craven
Date sent: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 16:57:28 -0700 (PDT) Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[PEN-L:6207] Dick Morris and my confession At the gym today, I picked up

[PEN-L:6410] Re: freedon from versus freedom to

1996-09-30 Thread James Michael Craven
Date sent: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 10:54:20 -0700 (PDT) Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Gil Skillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[PEN-L:6408] Re: freedon from versus freedom to Eban, I don't know the exact

[PEN-L:6636] Re: a nobel puzzle

1996-10-11 Thread James Michael Craven
Date sent: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 10:41:40 -0700 (PDT) Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[PEN-L:6619] a nobel puzzle Suppose you won the Nobel prize and wanted to put it to use to make the society you live in improve as much

[PEN-L:6805] Re: pen-l

1996-10-20 Thread James Michael Craven
Date sent: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 13:36:12 -0700 (PDT) Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Walter Daum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[PEN-L:6791] Re: pen-l I for one would object to Shawgi Tell's postings being barred from PEN-L. I don't read them all; very few, in fact.

[PEN-L:6806] Re: The continuing saga

1996-10-20 Thread James Michael Craven
Date sent: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 14:08:37 -0700 (PDT) Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[PEN-L:6793] The continuing saga So far two people have spoken up for the usefulness of Shawgi's postings, several for freedom of

[PEN-L:6976] re: Krugman

1996-10-28 Thread James Michael Craven
Date sent: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 11:15:16 -0800 (PST) Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Blair Sandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[PEN-L:6972] re: Krugman The first economics class I took as an undergraduate at Yale, where I eventually got a B.A. in economics, was

[PEN-L:7199] Institutions and the Dissemination of Economic Ideas

1996-11-03 Thread James Michael Craven
Just about everyone I know has horror stories from graduate school about perceived scholar despots, inner cliques, "old boy networks etc". But that level gets us no where beyond anecdotes. A few years ago Dave Colander and Bob Coats edited a book "The Dissemination of Economic Ideas" based on

[PEN-L:7271] Re: Economics in the News

1996-11-05 Thread James Michael Craven
From: "James Michael Craven" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Clark College, Vancouver WA, USA To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 11:57:35 PST8PDT Subject:Economics in the News Priority: normal The tabloids reported t

[PEN-L:7425] A little humor

1996-11-16 Thread James Michael Craven
Two economists (one a Chicago School devotee of Uncle Miltie and one A Rational Expectationist) were walking down the road and came across a pile of shit. The Chicago School devotee of Miltie offered the Rational Expectationist $20,000 to eat the shit. After a quick optimization calculation,

[PEN-L:7435] Re: more science!

1996-11-17 Thread James Michael Craven
Doug Henwood writes on pomo: A theoretical problem: if there is no truth, only provisional constructions of truth, and if there is no master narrative, but only a polyphony of local narratives and situated knowledges, than how can you criticize the official (celebratory) version of history

[PEN-L:7437] Re: more science!

1996-11-17 Thread James Michael Craven
Date sent: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 15:34:26 -0800 (PST) Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug Henwood) Subject:[PEN-L:7436] Re: more science! At 2:57 PM 11/17/96, James Michael Craven wrote: Gradually through debate, cross-testing provisional

[PEN-L:8007] Re: contingent work

1996-12-31 Thread James Michael Craven
Doug Henwood Wrote: I'm not sure how people are defining contingent work, but MANPOWER, INC., the daily hiring agency used for restaurants and blue collar laboring work is now the largest employer in the united states. Well, yes, but there's not much rigorous evidence that this is the

[PEN-L:8013] Re: contingent work

1996-12-31 Thread James Michael Craven
Date sent: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 14:36:22 -0800 (PST) Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug Henwood) To: Multiple recipients of list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[PEN-L:8009] Re: contingent work At 2:17 PM 12/31/96, James Michael Craven

[PEN-L:8011] Re: contingent work

1996-12-31 Thread James Michael Craven
Date sent: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 14:36:22 -0800 (PST) Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug Henwood) To: Multiple recipients of list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[PEN-L:8009] Re: contingent work At 2:17 PM 12/31/96, James Michael Craven

[PEN-L:7779] Re: Lakatos on Bacon (fwd)

1996-12-09 Thread James Michael Craven
I just thought I would forward this from Darwin-L for food for thought. "The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course: it gathers its material from the

[PEN-L:7722] Re: useless Ph.D.s

1996-12-04 Thread James Michael Craven
Date sent: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 09:55:57 -0800 (PST) Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[PEN-L:7721] useless Ph.D.s Maggie Coleman asksdo you think this quote [about business reluctance to hire economics Ph.D.s] is referring to Chicago or

[PEN-L:7741] National Security Archives on contra/cocaine

1996-12-05 Thread James Michael Craven
--- Forwarded Message Follows --- Date sent: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 20:17:21 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (The Parapolitics List) From: Bob Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:National Security Archives on contra/cocaine Commentary: Documents show U.S.

[PEN-L:7825] Re: Stiglitz to WB

1996-12-11 Thread James Michael Craven
Date sent: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 11:48:48 -0800 (PST) Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[PEN-L:7823] Stiglitz to WB one possible point in J. Stiglitz's favor: hasn't he written a

[PEN-L:8001] Re: contingent work

1996-12-31 Thread James Michael Craven
Date sent: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 12:03:11 -0800 (PST) Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[PEN-L:8000] contingent work Doug writes I'm amazed at how contingent work in general gets

[PEN-L:8008] Re: contingent work

1996-12-31 Thread James Michael Craven
Date sent: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 13:58:57 -0800 (PST) Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug Henwood) To: Multiple recipients of list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[PEN-L:8006] Re: contingent work At 12:40 PM 12/31/96, James Michael Craven

[PEN-L:8016] Re: contingent work

1996-12-31 Thread James Michael Craven
Date sent: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 15:17:25 -0800 (PST) Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug Henwood) To: Multiple recipients of list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[PEN-L:8012] Re: contingent work At 2:17 PM 12/31/96, James Michael Craven

[PEN-L:8031] Re: contingent work

1997-01-01 Thread James Michael Craven
Doug Henwood wrote: Well, yes, but what are we to make of this? LFPR EPR U 195033.932.05.7 11/96 59.656.35.5 change +25.7 +24.3 -0.2 The discouragement/U effect may apply over the business cycle, but there's

[PEN-L:8032] Re: contingent work

1997-01-01 Thread James Michael Craven
Date sent: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 12:11:36 -0800 (PST) Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Ellen Dannin [EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[PEN-L:8030] Re: contingent work Perception in this area is fairly important. There have been lately a number of

[PEN-L:8198] Re: long waves references

1997-01-12 Thread James Michael Craven
Perhaps add to this list a new book out called "The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Thythm of History" by David Hackett Fischer, Oxford, 1996. Jim Craven Date sent: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 14:55:14 -0800 (PST) Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From:

[PEN-L:8249] Re: Euphoria, NO!, Wrecking, YES!

1997-01-15 Thread James Michael Craven
Let a hundred flowers bloom; let all ideas contend. The delete key is on the right side of the keyboard below insert and to the left of end- --for those so inclined. Jim Craven Date sent: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 15:43:58 -0800 (PST) Send reply to: [EMAIL

[PEN-L:8198] Re: long waves references

1997-01-12 Thread James Michael Craven
Perhaps add to this list a new book out called "The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Thythm of History" by David Hackett Fischer, Oxford, 1996. Jim Craven Date sent: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 14:55:14 -0800 (PST) Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From:

[PEN-L:8303] Ebonics

1997-01-21 Thread James Michael Craven
Heard on Roach Limpbone: It seems that in order to promote the concept of ebonics recognized as a separate language from which to proceed to build foundations in "formal" english, the proponents have proposed a "Miss Ebonics" beauty contest. When the idea was pitched, 49 out of 50 States

[PEN-L:8454] Re: Is this a consensus?

1997-02-04 Thread James Michael Craven
Date sent: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 13:02:32 -0800 (PST) Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug Henwood) Subject:[PEN-L:8453] Re: Is this a consensus? At 12:10 PM 2/4/97, D Shniad wrote: "Karl Marx argued that capitalism needs a 'reserve army' of

[PEN-L:9568] DARWIN AWARDS

1997-04-20 Thread James Michael Craven
You all know about the Darwin Awards - It's an annual honor given to the person who did the gene pool the biggest service by killing themselves in the most extraordinarily stupid way. The 1995 winner was the fellow who was killed by a Coke machine which toppled over on top of him as

[PEN-L:9240] A Proposal That Would Make Gary Becker Proud

1997-03-30 Thread James Michael Craven
It's simple: outsource up to but not beyond the point where the marginal cost of outsourcing one's children equals the marginal benefit and... Market "Efficiency" Uber Alles. SUBJ: Bill Adler To Outsource Children GRANADA HILLS, CA - Bill Adler, UNIX System Administrator and father of two

[PEN-L:9161] Addendum

1997-03-26 Thread James Michael Craven
In response to private correspondence, I should have added some other categories: progressive adacemics (tenured and non-tenured) who are isolated from colleagues and access to big grants and publications in "prestigious journals" as a result of the stands they have taken and who, for their

[PEN-L:9103] Re: The Sozialismus and Social Text Af

1997-03-24 Thread James Michael Craven
Date sent: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 10:14:27 -0800 (PST) Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Gerald Levy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[PEN-L:9094] Re: The "Sozialismus" and "Social Text" Af James Michael Craven wrote: I would not characterize thi

[PEN-L:9093] Re: The Sozialismus and Social Text Af

1997-03-24 Thread James Michael Craven
Date sent: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 17:23:41 -0800 (PST) Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[PEN-L:9075] Re: The "Sozialismus" and "Social Text" Affairs Compared Jerry, please. I do not know Hinrich's politics or why he chose

[PEN-L:10211] Re: Letter from Chief Sealth 1855

1997-05-19 Thread James Michael Craven
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[PEN-L:10199] Letter from Chief Sealth 1855

1997-05-18 Thread James Michael Craven
Letter from Chief Sealth to President Franklin Pierce--1855 " The Great Chief in Washington sends word that he wishes to buy our land. How can you buy or sell the sky--the warmth of the land. The idea is strange to us. Yet we do not own the freshness of the air or the sparkle of the water.

[PEN-L:10337] Intro/Intermediate Econ Book

1997-05-26 Thread James Michael Craven
For those teaching Intro or Intermediate Macro or Micro, you might want to take a look at "Economics and Changing Economies" by Mackintosh, Brown, Costello, Dawson, Thompson and Trigg, 1996, Thomson Business Press, The Open University (Milton, Keynes, UK). It is based on an Open University

[PEN-L:10225] Re: Letter from Chief Sealth 1855

1997-05-19 Thread James Michael Craven
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[PEN-L:11984] 25 Things to Know

1997-08-26 Thread James Michael Craven
Just came back from Browning to interview candidates for a postion here and will be going back. I thought I would share this with the pen-lers. This is from one of the BLackfeet Elders given to graduating high-school students. "25 Things you'll Need to Know Now That You've Graduated From

[PEN-L:11925] Market Niches

1997-08-21 Thread James Michael Craven
Every now and then I watch Politically Incorrect to see the evolution of Disney's market niche. They frequently will have some person designated as a "conservative activist" from some organization with a title like "National Council for Family Values" or something like that. When you research

[PEN-L:11919] Re: Blackfeet National Bank--Another Stru

1997-08-21 Thread James Michael Craven
Economics MIME-Version: 1.0 X-PMFLAGS: 34078848 From: "James Michael Craven" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:11917] Blackfeet National Bank--Another Struggle I posted this previously with no response. I got a lot of response on the subject of "high-class

[PEN-L:11920] Re: Your view of my profession

1997-08-21 Thread James Michael Craven
Dear Pen-lers This is my last post. I tried to send this directly to Ms Quan and Harry Cleaver but my mail was returned. I'll use this medium for the last time on this issue. Notice, I sent a response and got something immediately back. Why? What do my views matter? This cover I could be

Re: Universal Grade Change Form

1998-02-26 Thread James Michael Craven
Part of it was cut off (see below) You forgot: 12. __ I lost the syllabus and didn't know when the exams were. 13. __ I am sorry I have an average of less than 40. What can I do for extra credit? In a message dated 98-02-26 16:39:49 EST, Jim Craven writes: For those on

Universal Grade Change Form

1998-02-26 Thread James Michael Craven
For those on pen-l who are teaching and are continually swamped with begging and appeals for grade changes, I thought I would share a standardized form that I use in order to get to the point quickly and efficiently. UNIVERSAL GRADE CHANGE FORM

Red and/vs/=? Green

1998-02-26 Thread James Michael Craven
Food for Thought (from "Beyond Capital" by Istvan Meszaros): "Contrary to widespread belief, popularized by the legitimate fears of green movements, the shadow of uncontrollability is not a new phenomenon. Although undoubtedly it has become much darker in the twentieth

Smithoian

1998-02-24 Thread James Michael Craven
I love this one! "in the name of science" Ok, the story behind this... There's this nutball who digs things out of his back yard and sends the stuff he finds to the Smithsonian Institute, labeling them with scientific names, insisting that they are actual archeological finds. The

Re: the Titanic

1998-02-24 Thread James Michael Craven
Date sent: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 17:32:23 EST Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: the Titanic In a message dated 98-02-24 12:12:01 EST, you write: The character Rose as a metaphor for all the women

Re: the Titanic

1998-02-24 Thread James Michael Craven
OK how about Faustus? To add to the Titanic Metaphor list: The character Rose as a metaphor for all the women who are told that the ultimate and pinnacle of achievement is to become an ornament of some rich scum and who seek self-actualization and independence in a system that commodifies

Re: AEA cuts URPE and other heterodox sessions for 1999

1998-02-20 Thread James Michael Craven
--- Forwarded Message Follows --- Date sent: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 10:43:09 EST Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: AEA cuts URPE and other heterodox sessions for 1999 In a message dated 98-02-19

Re: Extra Credit Assignment

1998-02-18 Thread James Michael Craven
Date sent: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 07:06:27 -0500 Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Michael Pearlman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Extra Credit Assignment One important aspect of the Titanic disaster not mentioned in the film or on

Re: Extra Credit Assignment

1998-02-16 Thread James Michael Craven
Date sent: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 15:14:08 +1100 Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Rob Schaap [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Extra Credit Assignment What a lovely idea, Jim! Haven't seen the film, but here are a couple of

Re: Peter Drucker

1998-02-16 Thread James Michael Craven
Date sent: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 17:29:15 -0600 (CST) Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "William S. Lear" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Peter Drucker I am having a bit of a battle at my company with a manager who is a Druckerite over

Re: prostitution

1998-01-07 Thread James Michael Craven
I don't like markets in general. Prostitution is just a commercialization of another human relationship. I think Fred Lane is onto something in looking at the class nature of th subject. Some sleeze cruises around and picks on a poor young girl who has few options in life. He has

Bright responds to Valis Craven

1998-01-07 Thread James Michael Craven
I passed along Valis' and Jim Craven's comments on Nina Hartley porn to Susie Bright - an anarcho-marxist aka Susie Sexpert - who writes: Nina is a very special woman, but her college education and leftie political opinions are not as rare in the sex industry as the writer imagines. In fact,

Re: Research -- Yeah, right!

1998-01-07 Thread James Michael Craven
Too much! Who has the barf bag? Just what homage does Paul Kneisel - the same whose Computer Kills Fascists - imagine he is paying to truth and proportionality by introducing us to Nina Hartley? How many Berkeley faculty brats with a magna cum laude degree in a marketable skill does he

Re: prostitution

1998-01-08 Thread James Michael Craven
On Thu, January 8, 1998 at 11:02:39 (-0500) Doug Henwood writes: William S. Lear wrote: Bright nor Hartley Remember that these two women are socialists whose critique of degradation and exploitation focuses on wage labor, not sex. Yes, quite right. It's easy to get sucked into a pointless

Re: prostitution

1998-01-08 Thread James Michael Craven
James Michael Craven wrote: I'm sure that the few rich Jews of Hungry had rationalized away or insulated themselves from knowing exactly what fate awaited the other Jews that they helped to identify, register, collect and have deported. Am I the only one who finds this analogy offensive

Re: marriage and prostitution

1998-01-08 Thread James Michael Craven
At 04:01 PM 1/8/98 -0500, Susan Fleck wrote: What's different between prostitution and many marriage contracts? 1.prostitution is sex for direct payment of money, marriage is sex for indirect payment of money/financial security. Response: Marriage is or equals sex for indirect payment of

The End of Prostitution?

1998-01-09 Thread James Michael Craven
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Re: prostitution

1998-01-09 Thread James Michael Craven
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re: anarcho-marxists

1998-01-14 Thread James Michael Craven
Jerry Levy's discussion of anarcho-Marxists is very welcome. My understanding is that the difference between "antiauthoritarian Marxists" (a redundant phrase, at least in my book) and pure anarchists is that while the latter want to abolish the state as soon as possible, the former want to

Re: Full translation of Castro speech

1998-01-22 Thread James Michael Craven
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Re: Baffling indeed

1998-01-26 Thread James Michael Craven
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What is a market economy?

1998-01-28 Thread James Michael Craven
This kid, little Johnny, was assigned to do a high-school paper on "What is a market economy?". At dinner, he asks his Father to help him. The father, somnewhat flustered, remembering the D he got when he took economics, said: "Well a market economy is a system in which people play different

Re: jokes

1998-01-29 Thread James Michael Craven
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Re: Santa Fe

1998-02-01 Thread James Michael Craven
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Re: Krugman-Arthur Brouhaha

1998-02-01 Thread James Michael Craven
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Chaos/Complexity

1998-02-01 Thread James Michael Craven
It is interesting to note that the chaos/complexity "paradigm" is often portrayed as "cutting edge; the notions of hidden order in complexity and complexity out of assumed order, fuzzy logic, strange- attractors, spirals rather than linear chains of causality etc. The earilies known date of

Industrial Reserve Army

1998-02-04 Thread James Michael Craven
In my Macro courses, I find that when I am discussing the concepts and paradigms embodied in the so-called "Natural Rate of Unemployment" or target rate of unemployment, bringing in Marx's Industrial Reserve Army opens up all sorts of discussion and thought. "The industrial reserve

Re: primitive communism

1998-02-09 Thread James Michael Craven
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Re: primitive communism

1998-02-11 Thread James Michael Craven
Date sent: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 15:12:25 EST Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: primitive communism In a message dated 98-02-09 14:48:09 EST, you write: s this really going to happen? I find it

Joke

1998-02-13 Thread James Michael Craven
This guy was sitting in his car on I-405 in LA surrounded by wall-to- wall cars with nothing moving for miles. He figures it is due to some kind of accident way up ahead. He then sees this guy going from car to car with a bucket talking to each motorist and figures he'll find out what's

Re: Extra Credit Assignment

1998-02-16 Thread James Michael Craven
Date sent: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 11:31:33 -0600 (CST) Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: valis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Extra Credit Assignment James Michael Craven wrote: For my classes in which there are some who have had

response: Titanic in the classroom query (fwd)

1998-02-17 Thread James Michael Craven
I teach a journalism history survey course at the undergraduate level, and the Titanic takes up most of one lecture. It is important historically in mass media (and mentioned in all recent mass media history survey texts) as one of the factors in the passage of the Radio Act of 1912, which,

Publishing in URPE for Tenure

1998-02-22 Thread James Michael Craven
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Re: Publishing in URPE for Tenure

1998-02-23 Thread James Michael Craven
Aside from those rather snide comments, I think the more interesting question is how to get some of these lefty journals talking to each other and the rest of the profession rather than addressing their little piece of audience. Feminist Economics was named one of the year's best journals

the Titanic

1998-02-23 Thread James Michael Craven
--- Forwarded Message Follows --- Date sent: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 11:06:54 -0800 Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: James Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:the Titanic Over the weekend, I heard an album by the anarchist-singer U.

Re: State of the World

1998-02-22 Thread James Michael Craven
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Extra Credit Assignment

1998-02-16 Thread James Michael Craven
For my classes in which there are some who have had a problem demonstrating "command of the subjects" through the usual examination modalities, I have given the following extra-credit assignment: "The central concerns of 'Mainstream Economics' are seen by some as analogous to concern with

Re: David Card

1998-02-11 Thread James Michael Craven
Date sent: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:16:24 -0800 (PST) Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Sid Shniad [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: David Card What the fuck's this line of discussion about? (Canadian) Sid Of course.

Takings

1998-02-09 Thread James Michael Craven
As an addendum to previous remarks, the ultra-rightist "property rights" arguments are being examined for some dialectical turnabout by some of the Tribes. Where the "property rightists" argue that any social legislation that abridges, modifies, eliminates the effective, full and

Re: Ecology and the American Indians

1998-01-29 Thread James Michael Craven
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Energy Tribes

1998-01-19 Thread James Michael Craven
Comment: This piece was simply very well done and to the point. Under the old formulae of Reagan/Bush, the oil-holding Tribes were ripped off for over $5 billion through systematic and calculated under- valuation of oil and mineral assets. Add another $3 to $5 billion of BIA accounts suddenly

Final Comment

1998-01-09 Thread James Michael Craven
I lived in Puerto Rico 1983-86 and worked as a Senior Planner for the Planning Board of the Office of the Governor of P.R. My original assignment was to work as a project leader restructuring and examining the input-output system used for planning and forecasting estimates. After some time I

Re: prostitution

1998-01-08 Thread James Michael Craven
On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: there is a better chance a woman being brutalized by someone with whom she is in non-commodified relationship (a boyfriend or a husband) than by a 'john' in the commodified sexual act. This is not only too much faith in the equality

Re: Pornography Research -- Yeah, right!

1998-01-07 Thread James Michael Craven
A couple of quick thoughts in response to Valis' remarks italic[ snip ... ] /italic And how much of a connection is there between her polished ideological trumpetings and the terms of Fred Lane's original request? Actually, in Paul's defense, enough to make it worthwhile. Hartley had

Re: Marx on Native Americans

1998-01-05 Thread James Michael Craven
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Re: query: Indian schools

1998-03-02 Thread James Michael Craven
Date sent: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 12:58:53 -0800 Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: James Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:query: "Indian" schools I heard a report this morning on (US) NPR about the abuses that many Canadian Indians

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