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

1994-01-20 Thread Doug Henwood
On Thu, 20 Jan 1994, Nathan Newman wrote: > > The January 15th ECONOMIST had an interesting article that argued that > international trade with the third world has had little or no role in > lowering wages in the US for unskilled workers. > > The prima facie evidence for this fact is the arg

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

1994-01-20 Thread Doug Henwood
On Thu, 20 Jan 1994, Nathan Newman wrote: > > The January 15th ECONOMIST had an interesting article that argued that > international trade with the third world has had little or no role in > lowering wages in the US for unskilled workers. > > The prima facie evidence for this fact is the arg

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: 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?

Does International Trade Lower W

1994-01-20 Thread Peter.Dorman
A few quick thoughts in reply to Nathan's post about the ECONOMIST. (1) I would be interested in how "unskilled" labor is defined. Much of the transfer in employment has been in occupations commonly defined as "semiskilled". (2) To what extent should we expect reductions in labor costs to be pa

Does International Trade Lower W

1994-01-20 Thread Peter.Dorman
A few quick thoughts in reply to Nathan's post about the ECONOMIST. (1) I would be interested in how "unskilled" labor is defined. Much of the transfer in employment has been in occupations commonly defined as "semiskilled". (2) To what extent should we expect reductions in labor costs to be pa

Tribute to Lauchlin Currie (1902-1993)

1994-01-20 Thread Sam Lanfranco
Canada is a country that does not celebrate its heros. This passing is worth noting. Reposted by - Sam Lanfranco --- From: Roger Sandilands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: OBITUARY I am posting the following o

Tribute to Lauchlin Currie (1902-1993)

1994-01-20 Thread Sam Lanfranco
Canada is a country that does not celebrate its heros. This passing is worth noting. Reposted by - Sam Lanfranco --- From: Roger Sandilands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: OBITUARY I am posting the following o

THEORIES OF THE STATE

1994-01-20 Thread mcclintockbrent%faculty%Carthage
I'm putting together a section in my undergrad. public finance course on theories of the state, especially heterodox views. In particular, I am looking for suggestions on articles on Marxist theories of the state that would be accessible to undergrads with little or no prior knowledge of Mar

THEORIES OF THE STATE

1994-01-20 Thread mcclintockbrent%faculty%Carthage
I'm putting together a section in my undergrad. public finance course on theories of the state, especially heterodox views. In particular, I am looking for suggestions on articles on Marxist theories of the state that would be accessible to undergrads with little or no prior knowledge of Mar

NAFTA MONITOR 1-20-94

1994-01-20 Thread IATP
NAFTA MONITOR Volume I Number 4 January 20, 1994 Headlines: -TRADE LEADERS SAY CHIAPAS UPRISING WILL HAVE LITTLE EFFECT ON NAFTA -NEW NAFTA WORKING GROUPS PROPOSED -CLINTON FOLLOWS THROUGH WITH NAFTA PROMISE -NINTENDO MOVES PLANT TO ME

NAFTA MONITOR 1-20-94

1994-01-20 Thread IATP
NAFTA MONITOR Volume I Number 4 January 20, 1994 Headlines: -TRADE LEADERS SAY CHIAPAS UPRISING WILL HAVE LITTLE EFFECT ON NAFTA -NEW NAFTA WORKING GROUPS PROPOSED -CLINTON FOLLOWS THROUGH WITH NAFTA PROMISE -NINTENDO MOVES PLANT TO ME

Re: Quake

1994-01-20 Thread enid
At 4:30 am on Monday the cat was sleeping peacefully on my mother's bed. At 4:31 all the books on the bedroom bookshelf suddenly came flying off the shelf all over the bedroom. The crude empiricist that she is, the cat thinks the earthquake was something that happened inside the house. She has bee

Re: Quake

1994-01-20 Thread enid
At 4:30 am on Monday the cat was sleeping peacefully on my mother's bed. At 4:31 all the books on the bedroom bookshelf suddenly came flying off the shelf all over the bedroom. The crude empiricist that she is, the cat thinks the earthquake was something that happened inside the house. She has bee

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

1994-01-20 Thread Nathan Newman
On Thu, 20 Jan 1994, Jim Devine wrote: > I think that the distiction between movement to low-wage countries > by capital (and the concomitant increase of imports of goods produced > there by the advanced countries) and technological change that > lowers the demand for lower-skilled labor in the

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

1994-01-20 Thread Nathan Newman
On Thu, 20 Jan 1994, Jim Devine wrote: > I think that the distiction between movement to low-wage countries > by capital (and the concomitant increase of imports of goods produced > there by the advanced countries) and technological change that > lowers the demand for lower-skilled labor in the

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

1994-01-20 Thread Jim Devine
I think that the distiction between movement to low-wage countries by capital (and the concomitant increase of imports of goods produced there by the advanced countries) and technological change that lowers the demand for lower-skilled labor in the advanced countries is largely false. The technol

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

1994-01-20 Thread Jim Devine
I think that the distiction between movement to low-wage countries by capital (and the concomitant increase of imports of goods produced there by the advanced countries) and technological change that lowers the demand for lower-skilled labor in the advanced countries is largely false. The technol

Does International Trade Lower Wages in the 1st World?

1994-01-20 Thread Nathan Newman
The January 15th ECONOMIST had an interesting article that argued that international trade with the third world has had little or no role in lowering wages in the US for unskilled workers. The prima facie evidence for this fact is the argument that if unskilled work had been migrating to thir

Does International Trade Lower Wages in the 1st World?

1994-01-20 Thread Nathan Newman
The January 15th ECONOMIST had an interesting article that argued that international trade with the third world has had little or no role in lowering wages in the US for unskilled workers. The prima facie evidence for this fact is the argument that if unskilled work had been migrating to thir

Mail and no mail

1994-01-20 Thread Anthea
With all respect to my colleagues who have posted about the amount of mail that started piling up in December on this list, one evern threatening to sign off permanently if that sitation repeats itself, I have to say that this is an unfair judgement and a short-term view. December was a horrendou

Mail and no mail

1994-01-20 Thread Anthea
With all respect to my colleagues who have posted about the amount of mail that started piling up in December on this list, one evern threatening to sign off permanently if that sitation repeats itself, I have to say that this is an unfair judgement and a short-term view. December was a horrendou

What to do with pen-l

1994-01-20 Thread doug mccready F
When I first joined pen-l in the summer of 1992, I was happy to have lots of activity but I will be honest, I have been happy with the amount of activity in January this year - I signed off early for the holidays because I had to go away prior to Christmas to a meeting and it was just so busy tha

What to do with pen-l

1994-01-20 Thread doug mccready F
When I first joined pen-l in the summer of 1992, I was happy to have lots of activity but I will be honest, I have been happy with the amount of activity in January this year - I signed off early for the holidays because I had to go away prior to Christmas to a meeting and it was just so busy tha

ALERT!

1994-01-20 Thread Michael Lebowitz
Please note that there may be a problem with some of the Marx- Engels files available from csf.colorado.edu (on the PSN menu). I downloaded (via gopher) a number of files a few weeks back to a floppy disk. Tonight I attempted to read one of the files (On the Jewish Question) via my Word progra

ALERT!

1994-01-20 Thread Michael Lebowitz
Please note that there may be a problem with some of the Marx- Engels files available from csf.colorado.edu (on the PSN menu). I downloaded (via gopher) a number of files a few weeks back to a floppy disk. Tonight I attempted to read one of the files (On the Jewish Question) via my Word progra