[PEN-L:704] Re: CLC news release on IHAC report

1995-10-09 Thread Jim Jaszewski
On Wed, 27 Sep 1995, D Shniad wrote: CANADIAN LABOUR CONGRESS -- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1995 Fewer jobs, more profits -- INFO HIGHWAY TO SERVE BIG BUSINESS: IHAC MEMBER PARROT For more information: [...] Jean-Claude Parrot, Executive Vice President

[PEN-L:705] Re: capital good exports

1995-10-09 Thread Alan Freeman
Dear Anthony Catching up on the brief PEN-L discussion on capital goods markets I was extremely interested in the facts which you and others report. My view, which I think can be well-supported mathematically, is that a principal source of inequality in relations between

[PEN-L:706] Re: Assassination of Martin Luther King

1995-10-09 Thread Jim Jaszewski
On Thu, 28 Sep 1995, D Shniad wrote: Martin Luther King Jr. CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER 'KILLED BY U.S. AGENTS,' NEW BOOK CHARGES Andrew Billen Observer News Service LONDON -- Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by America's secret services, a book about to be

[PEN-L:707] Japanese Heterodox Economics

1995-10-09 Thread Eric Nilsson
ANNOUNCEMENT PKT (csf.colorado.edu/econ) now has a link to a web site intended for Japanese heterodox economists. This is the home page of Hironori Tohyama at Shizuoka University in Japan: http://hlpc2.jcle.shizuoka.ac.jp/ The link is found toward the

[PEN-L:708] Re: Assassination of Martin Luther King

1995-10-09 Thread Gilbert Skillman
"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people...o o it is true that most stupid people are conservative" o o - John Stuart Mill o Jim, what's the citation on this quote? Gil Skillman

[PEN-L:709] mike lebowitz's address

1995-10-09 Thread John L Gulick
Sorry to interrupt public postings on this list, but I was wondering if anyone could zap me Mike Lebowitz's e-mail address. Please send it directly to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] so as to avoid rude interventions such as that which I just regrettably made. Thanks, John Gulick UC-Santa Cruz

Conservative and stupid

1995-10-09 Thread Robert Peter Burns
Among many British academics the Conservative Party is often referred to as the Stupid Party--perhaps this has some historical link to the quote below, but I don't know. The last poll I saw on the subject put voting support among university lecturers for the Tories in the single figures. Peter

[PEN-L:711] Dock Strike In Liverpool - Urgent Support needed (fwd)

1995-10-09 Thread D Shniad
Forwarded message: From @UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Oct 9 02:27 PDT 1995 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 10:21:00 BST-1 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: Forum on Labor in the Global Economy [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Gregory Coyne [EMAIL

[PEN-L:712] Slave culture and industry WAS Time's Re...

1995-10-09 Thread GC-ETCHISON, MICHAEL
Eric Nilsson writes 10/6: Those who claim slavery and industry are incompatible are not aware of this large literature: this speaks badly for their historical research and knowledge. A riposte to a point I did not make. Of course slaves can be made to work in factories. Of

[PEN-L:713] Re: Slave culture and industry WAS Time's Re...

1995-10-09 Thread Eric Nilsson
Michael Etchison wrote, Leaving aside the persuasiveness of econometric evidence when, apart from theoretical issues, the data are so spotty, this does not undercut either Cox/DeSouza or my comments on (not necessarily endorsement of) them. and Does Ms. Coleman or Mr. Nilsson hold that

[PEN-L:714] Crisis, style and rescue

1995-10-09 Thread Tom Walker
A TOUR OF AMERICAN DECLINE Doug Henwood's apt warning, "Never ever expect that things have gone too far. Things can always go farther." reminds me of Walter Benjamin's comment that, "for the suffering of individuals and communities there is only one limit beyond which things cannot go:

[PEN-L:715] Apology

1995-10-09 Thread Eric Glynn
Pen-l'ers: Apologies for cluttering the list with business completely irrelevant to it, earlier today. My Eudora nicknames file was somehow corrupted, an embarrassing by-product of advanced technology. Yours, Eric Glynn

[PEN-L:717] Jobs Organizing Workers

1995-10-09 Thread Eric Nilsson
Below is information that is perhaps of interest to some of your students. A Different Kind of Job Employer:Labor Unions affiliated with the AFL-CIO Job Title: Union Organizer Pay:

[PEN-L:716] Jobs available! (fwd)

1995-10-09 Thread Michael Perelman
Forwarded message: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Oct 9 12:24:24 1995 Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 14:24:14 -0500 From: rashid salim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Jobs available! Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

[PEN-L:718] Empowerment Zones references

1995-10-09 Thread Lynn.Duggan
I'm posting this request for an undergraduate student who is writing a paper on the "Empowerment Zone" (alias enterprise zone) that is planned for Detroit. Can anyone recommend references either on zones in the US or on zones elsewhere that contain analysis that might be applied to the

[PEN-L:719] Re: mike lebowitz's address

1995-10-09 Thread Fikret Ceyhun
Here is his e-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fikret Ceyhun Dept. of Economics e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Univ. of North Dakota voice: (701)777-3348 office University Station, Box 8369(701)772-5135 home Grand Forks, ND 58202 fax:

[PEN-L:721] Re: capital good exports

1995-10-09 Thread Paul Cockshott
I can accept much of your argument Alan, but how to you claim that actual value transfers occur from the low to the high productivity regions, if the former have a lower rate of value production?

[PEN-L:724] Re: Slave culture...

1995-10-09 Thread MScoleman
What is PUCT? maggie

[PEN-L:725] Re: Slave cul...

1995-10-09 Thread MScoleman
Sorry for three postings on the same thing -- just one more point in reference to the issue of "Yankee values." The values referred to, especially 'punctuality' were the values of the capitalists building the factories, not necessarily the values of the population in the factories. Further, the

[PEN-L:722] Re: the mighty greenspan

1995-10-09 Thread DICKENS
Jim Devine suggests that "the normal tendencies of capitalism," not Greenspan, control nominal interest rates. Name one. The profit rate establishes an upper limit in the long run, and the administrative costs of intermediation establishes a lower limit, but that leaves Greenspan with plenty of