Re: [PEN-L] navigating the medical system

One word: Ombudsman, The hospital should have the phone #. Just asking for the number may make them jump. California's system seems to be pretty effective, can't comment on the other states. Leigh On 12/25/05, Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My mother in law is very ill, needing to go

Re: [PEN-L] Ernest Mandel

If the labor theory of value has been around so long, why isn't it understood yet? On 12/25/05, Autoplectic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/25/05, Brian McKenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PEN-Lers, How do the readers of this list regard the work of Ernest Mandel? I'm reading over his

Re: [PEN-L] navigating the medical system

there are advocacy groups for the ageing. Maybe you can find them on-line. Also, try calling the CEO of the hospital or whoever the head honcho/a is. On 12/26/05, Leigh Meyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One word: Ombudsman, The hospital should have the phone #. Just asking for the number may

Re: [PEN-L] Ernest Mandel

A good feature of Ernest Mandel's theory is that it assigns an important role to effective demand (consumption and investment demand), in addition to the important role of production relations. In that regard, there is a similarity with Kalecki, Robinson and various contemporary post-Keynesians

[PEN-L] Ernest Mandel

Doesn't Marx in _Capital_ basically say that Aristotle developed the distinction between use-value and exchange-value, which is basically the labor theory of value ? Nature is the source of some use-value. Labor is the only source of exchange-value. CB As an aside, it was the Muslim scholar

Re: [PEN-L] navigating the medical system

When my late father was dying, my Mom and took shifts, spending 24 hours a day in the hospital and then the hospice making sure he was not neglected or abused. Don't know if you have other family members who can do something like this. But after a few days they begged us to go home. On

Re: [PEN-L] navigating the medical system

I want to thank everybody who responded to my question. The answers are very helpful. The ambulence took her to a Sutter Health Care hospital -- an operation notorious for its terrible relations with workers. So maybe it is like the person that gets crap at work comes home to kick his dog, or

[PEN-L] The Constitution in Crisis;

I thought some people on Pen-L might not have seen this report that makes vividly clear the dastardly occurances at the highest levels of the US government -- I include the 2 page summary http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/iraqrept.html Investigative Status Report of the House Judiciary

Re: [PEN-L] The Constitution in Crisis;

Thanks... Consider that blogged: http://leighmdotnet.blogspot.com/2005/12/constitution-in-crisis-democratic.html On 12/26/05, david barkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought some people on Pen-L might not have seen this report that makes vividly clear the dastardly occurances at the highest

Re: [PEN-L] Ronald Reagan was right!

Scott's Seing like a state does an excellent job of attacking German tree plantations, which I think were the first to try that form of forestry. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu

[PEN-L] Not a housing bubble

I am just now taking a few minutes to look over the papers proceedings from the last American Economics Assn. meeting. I missed the session, but the AER published the papers from a session explaining the high price of housing as the result of regulation. I never cease to be be amazed at how we

[PEN-L] The key to our success lies with a realistic, less ideological, more humble economics - Paul Ormerod

Adbusters: More Realistic, Humble Economists Can Stop Environmental Ruin http://adbusters.org/the_magazine/63.php?id=137# What do the English, the French, oysters, economics and the environment have in common? A lot, it turns out. The first three components of this equation form the title of a

[PEN-L] regulatory arbitrage redux

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-idlobby26dec26,0,6599609.story Data Brokers Press for U.S. Law Fearing tougher state laws, the industry wants federal rules to say what must be disclosed when the security of sensitive information is violated. By Joseph Menn Times Staff Writer December 26,

Re: [PEN-L] The key to our success lies with a realistic, less ideological, more humble economics - Paul Ormerod

Sort of good, but certainly Professor Bond could explain a bit about carbon trading to Omerod. Also, why not better public transit to reduce congestion or a better spatial mix between housing, work, commerce? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929

Re: [PEN-L] regulatory arbitrage redux

A state senator has passed bills in the legislature trying to regulate data, but Gov. Davis -- yes, the dem. -- would not go along with it. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu

Re: [PEN-L] The key to our success lies with a realistic, less ideological, more humble economics - Paul Ormerod

On 12/26/05, Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sort of good, but certainly Professor Bond could explain a bit about carbon trading to Omerod. Also, why not better public transit to reduce congestion or a better spatial mix between housing, work, commerce? -- Right - if you don't

Re: [PEN-L] The key to our success lies with a realistic, less ideological, more humble economics - Paul Ormerod

One of the ideas I have pushed is that product markets are deflationary. Alternatively, you can create competitive pressures by making factor markets more costly. Increasing wages or resource costs are not deflationary. I worked this out in a book that Jim Devine did not like. Michael