More on principal/agent and social conscience

1994-10-03 Thread mcclintockbrent%faculty%Carthage
A couple of comments/questions on coupon socialism: 1. Robin Hanel points out that Roemer's proposal to distribute coupons would lead to wide dispersion of stockholders -- surely an intensification of the separation of ownership from control problem that the principal/agent theory is meant

Re: urpe at assa

1994-10-03 Thread DORR
A while back, someone posted the URPE program for the ASSA mtgs. I inadvertently deleted it. Could whoever post the original please send a copy to my individual e-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks in advance. Doug Orr

names and occupations

1994-10-03 Thread DORR
In my macro classes, I try to stress the importance of facets of unemployment that economists often ignore, one of which is psychological - in that to a great extent, we define ourselves by what we do. When unemployed for a long time, individuals lose that self definition. To drive this point

Re: Krugman's Fantasy Economics

1994-10-03 Thread John Keefe
Greetings pen-l folks, Can someone tell us where to get copies of the World Economic Forum Ian mentioned? Thanks. John Keefe [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 28 Sep 1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Herewith El Kruger: Reports by international organizations are usually greeted with well

Re: query about taxes, NTU, in USA

1994-10-03 Thread YOUNG PAUL ARTHUR
On Mon, 26 Sep 1994, Jim Devine wrote: in the U.S. of A., is it the National Taxpayers' Union that regularly publishes the number of days it takes in a year for the average individual to pay his or her taxes? BTW, how many days is it? This is the Tax Foundation that does this. In 1990,

New Party

1994-10-03 Thread Matt Zeidenberg
To: Friends From: New Party 9/30/94 Re: Request for information One of our members in Wisconsin has forwarded various requests for information about the New Party posted in different discussion groups. We don't have the capacity to answer all the specific queries, but we are excited to

GATT threat to US laws

1994-10-03 Thread Michael A. Ash
In the The Nation ("Drop the GATT," October 10, 1994), Ralph Nader mentions a list of US federal and US state laws that the European Union, Japan, and Canada will challenge following passage of GATT. Included in the list is the Nuclear Nonproliferation Act and various regulatory legislation.

LBO gopher open

1994-10-03 Thread Doug Henwood
Apologies to those of you getting multiple copies of this. The Left Business Observer gopher is now open. It can be reached by pointing your gopher at csf.colorado.edu 70, and looking under the directories, econ then orgs then LBO. About one article per issue will be posted four to six weeks

NSF Econ Faculty Development 1995

1994-10-03 Thread Susan Feiner
Dear Friends:Robin Bartlett and I hope that many of you will find the attached call for participants of interest. We look forward to seeing your applications. Questions about program content and so forth can be addressed to me while requests for application materials should be directed to

Mandela vs. Aristide

1994-10-03 Thread Jim Devine
recently, in perusing the mainstream press or quotes from establisment figures (as in Allan Nairn's excellent article on Haiti in a recent NATION), I saw two or more remarks along the following lines: "Aristide's no Nelson Mandela. We can't live with him for very long." To my mind, this

Mary's introduction

1994-10-03 Thread Elizabeth Prine
Original message The discussion of class and gender issues on the family farm seems to have a long way to come before it's over (reminds me of parallel issues in archaeology, where just getting scholars to _acknowledge_ that these class and

Re: More on principal/agent and social conscience

1994-10-03 Thread rjp6
A couple of comments/questions on coupon socialism: 2. By a serendipitous journey in the last few days I've come across Walras' "ticket economy", his utopian formulation for socialism, which he argues would deliver both social justice and maximization of social wealth (delivered through

Re: hello out there

1994-10-03 Thread Eugene Coyle
I think it is your local problem, I'm getting mail from PEN-L. Gene Coyle

State bidding wars

1994-10-03 Thread Ellen Dannin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Is anyone aware of any cost-benefit analyses which have been done as to government subsidies given to persuade companies to locate to an area or not to relocate from an area? Some of the subsidies are quite high on a per job basis, so that it seems hard to believe the citizens will ever