Re: [PEN-L] The Ward Churchill firing

Let's not make of this anything other than it really is: Churchill's firing had absolutely nothing to do with the quality of his research. It was/is based solely on his politics. That was the beginning of the investigation. And that is the end. - Original Message - From: raghu [EMAIL

Re: [PEN-L] Rebirth of Socialism

Sabri wrote: Maybe we can convince Doug and Julio to come too. I am not kidding by the way! Come where? I can't anyway. I'm with my family in Yucatán. We spent yesterday in Chichén Itzá. Today we'll be looking for a beach where I can finish Fray Diego de Landa's pamphlet and start Robert

[PEN-L] finally, a solution!

according to HARPER'S WEEKLY: an Israeli study concluding that hummus stimulates serotonin production bolstered sentiment that eating the popular chickpea dip could help Israelis and Palestinians reconcile. next year in Jerusalem! -- Jim Devine / Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go

Re: [PEN-L] Rebirth of Socialism

Julio: Come where? I can't anyway. Socialista, a hot night club in New York. Let me know when you are back and we will arrange pen-l night there. Let us show the world that we are not just some boring economists. We can dance too. Sabri

Re: [PEN-L] Rebirth of Socialism

I can get us on the guest list at Socialdemocratista, which is much the same except the DJ only plays ABBA remixes and all the drinks are watered down. best dd PS: silly joke about a similar club in Camden a few months ago

[PEN-L] HARPERS on Guiliani

has anyone in New York (or who has lived there recently) read the article on Rudi Giuliani in the current issue of HARPERS? did the author leave anything out? -- Jim Devine / Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.

Re: [PEN-L] The Ward Churchill firing

raghu quoting Hank Brown, President of U. of Colorado: There are those on one end of the spectrum who believe Churchill is free speech martyr who was persecuted because of statements that flew in the face of prevailing winds. On the other end of the spectrum are those who think he is a

Re: [PEN-L] The Ward Churchill firing

Max B. Sawicky wrote: This is a tough case because the firing was obviously political and unfair, and WC is still out there saying idiotic things, like the waiters in Windows on the World are analogous to the Gestapo. Do you have a direct quote? I couldn't find anything remotely like this in

Re: [PEN-L] The Ward Churchill firing

If idiotic things are grounds for firing, what would happen to academic economics? Could we revoke Lucas's Nobel for proposing the unemployment is voluntary? On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 06:36:59PM -0400, Max B. Sawicky wrote: Did it occur to you that Brown might be full of shit? Here's an idea

Re: [PEN-L] The Ward Churchill firing

How is Ward Churchill's scholarly work generally viewed by historians and other academics in his field without an ideological ax to grind?

[PEN-L] Peter Barnes, a modern defender of inequality

Spinning off the discussion of Capitalism 3.0 by Peter Barnes from another thread: Barnes' basic device is to increase rents (in the technical economic sense) and spread them around. He makes the rents attractive by putting prices on aspects of nature, as he says, and even on advertising

Re: [PEN-L] The Ward Churchill firing

Marvin Gandall wrote: How is Ward Churchill's scholarly work generally viewed by historians and other academics in his field without an ideological ax to grind? His major work is A Little Matter of Genocide. I found it well-researched and authoritative. It is basically a comparative study of

Re: [PEN-L] The Ward Churchill firing

Louis wrote: Marvin Gandall wrote: How is Ward Churchill's scholarly work generally viewed by historians and other academics in his field without an ideological ax to grind? His major work is A Little Matter of Genocide. I found it well-researched and authoritative. It is basically a

Re: [PEN-L] query: John Elster and methodological individualism

I don't know whether he has rejected the view but if it is trivially true then if he rejects it then he contradicts himself. Something that is trivially true is a tautology and is true independently of what may be factually true. A trivial truth contains no information. An example would be: It is

Re: [PEN-L] query: John Elster and methodological individualism

i think by trivial true he meant the same as Jefferson's phrase, self-evident. Equal bullshit. My source says that Elster hasn't rejected methodological individualism. Rather, he rejected the idea of individual rationality (as economists define it). On 7/31/07, ken hanly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: