Jim --
I'll buy your prediction of a death of the DP, ecxept that it is no more
"out of office (except for the presidency)" than the Republicans were
during the Reagan/Bush years. I expect that the next session of Congress
will be full of twists that we can't even imagine, and that we'd be
On Tue, 29 Nov 1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> You say "First, I don't think its clearly always a bad thing to force
> force unionized workers into wage competition." (The specific reference
> was to force white workers into competition with black workers.)
> Frankly, I find this kind of
Trond Andresen and Sid Shniad have taken exception to my remark that
environmental problems are global in nature and pose a challenge to nationalist
politics. But instead of deliberating on the nature of environmental problems,
the terms of the debate has shifted to the old sovereignty issue. The
Tavis,
This seems to be another branch of the PI vs PN debate again. Time
prevents a more detailed response but let me deal with just a couple
of points.
You say "First, I don't think its clearly always a bad thing to force
force unionized workers into wage competition." (The specific refere
I thought with the up-coming US Senate vote on GATT, this might be of interest.
Andrew Sessions
Department of Political Science
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI 53703 USA
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Today,
I had an interesting discussion with a Political Scientist (Phil Klinkner,
the author of a recent book about the response of the major US
political parties respond to being thrown out of office, titled, I
think, THE LOSERS). It suggested the following:
The Democratic Party is going to die
Says Sid Shniad:
>[T]he architects of schemes like the Canada-US Free Trade
>Agreement, NAFTA, the EU and GATT are representatives of nation
>states who bargain in secret and whose mandate it is to make the world
>safe for transnational capital. Just how is it -- that is, via what
>mechanis
Fred says "I think that Sid's proposition is sometimes be right and
sometimes rong, and is certainly not 'logically incontestable'."
"It might always be right IF the relatively limited jurisdiction were
autarchic. No jurisdiction is autarchic, however, so the case for a local
vs. national vs
Do markets have any legitimate role in a socialist economy? In my
last post on this subject I suggested that they might, but not that
indicated by the standard static efficiency conditions of neoclassical
economics (which are never satisfied in any economy, anyway).
Instead I pointed to the
What's wrong with this picture?
"There are about 331,000 more poor children [in
Canada] today than there were five years ago."
-- Ottawa Citizen, Nov.25 1994
"Profits have soared to a five-year high..."
-- Ottawa Citizen, Nov. 25 1994
S
"Norway's rejection of the EU, long signalled in opinion
polls, means it will now join Iceland, Liechtenstein and
Switzerland as the only Western European nations outside the
Brussels-based bloc."
How can *Liechtenstein* stand alone? by selling stamps?
in pen-l solidarity,
Jim Devine
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Fred Guy writes:
". . . Of course, the people of California contributed
something to the Federal decision, but there's little here to indicate
that State politics produce a better outcome than Federal politics."
Amen! California, after all, is the home of that famous "local
initiative," the bash
I know this is an unusual request, but...
This applies to people in Illinois, apologies to others.
I just got off the phone with Jeff Friend from Channel 17 in Decatur. They are
having a (televised) panel in Decatur on GATT tonight, apparently it is a big
deal, the presidents of all the local uni
I just noticed that pen-l's own Rudy Fichtenbaum is one of the top ten
economists listed as endorsing the "redefining progress" project.
Thus, it must be a good thing. And I'm not kidding.
in pen-l solidarity,
Jim Devine
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Econ. Dept., Loyola Marymount Univ.
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Heather is right on target, but she doesn't tell the whole story.
The Job Creation and Wage Enhancement Act (not to mention the rest
of the Contract with America) is like putting a giant bullseye on
the back of the public interest community, placing a cannon two feet
away, and firing.
Burie
Jim Devine just inquired about "Redefining Progress". Jim, is this
prompted by receipt of a recent mailing? Yesterday I received a
mailing from this organization. I'd not previously heard about this
organization. I have not yet looked at the stuff they sent. I
wonder how this might compare wi
Norgaard is a Chicago grad who developed a sincere concern for the environment.
His reward was a series of brutal tenure fights and a lack of support from his
peers.
That'l teach him.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 916-898-5321
E-Mail [
Apparently the corrected version of the "rot of deconstructionism"
quotation didn't make it to PEN-L. (I was having some problems
with keyboard freezing up etc. yesterday). In any event, the
source is Peter Warren, research associate at the Heritage
Foundation. The Chronicle of Higher Ed. cite
Does anyone know anything about an organization named "Redefining
Progress"? They advocate replacing GNP/GDP measures of economic
success with measures such as what they call the "Genuine Progress
Indicator" which subtracts environmental costs, adjusts for increasing
inequality, etc. It seems a g
It's an inopportune moment, but I may be off-line for about a week while we are
switching from compuserve to internet. If anyone needs to get in touch with me
about the risk assessment issue, please call (202) 962-8490.
Heather Grob
Sid shniad says
> In response to a couple of points made by Fred Guy: when Trond
> Andresen described California's clean air regulations, I don't think he
> was casting it as an issue of "local virtue vs. federal bungling". I thinks
> his is a logically incontestable proposition -- that it's
Treacy: Yesterday's Wall Street Journal Managers Corner piece pilloried
Economics and all other Business Schools for serving up tripe to
their students. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copyright USA
On Mon, 28 Nov 1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Doug Henwood asks who it was who celebrated
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