[PEN-L:1336] current firm data

1995-11-09 Thread Blair Sandler
Okay, I'm ignorant: where on-line can I find reasonably current data about the percentage of total national US employment and output absorbed by e.g. the Fortune 500? In other words, the micro text I'm using (Katz and Rosen, not my choice) suggests that the model of the "price-taking" firm is a r

[PEN-L:1335] Re: trust fund excerpts

1995-11-09 Thread DOUG ORR
Mason A. Clark asks: I've tried to put this paper on PEN-L without success; then tried PKT with equal success. Perhaps its too long, too detailed, or too politically incorrect. ___ All of the above. I still ahve not had time to wade

[PEN-L:1334] Music CD & Justice in Chiapas (fwd)

1995-11-09 Thread D Shniad
Forwarded message: Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 12:44:09 -0800 From: Eduardo Vera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Music CD & Justice in Chiapas >From evera Tue Nov 7 13:01:55 1995 >From evera Tue Nov 7 13:01:55 1995 Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 13:01:55 -0800 From: Eduardo Vera To: ever

[PEN-L:1333] Job Announcement: Please Post Widely

1995-11-09 Thread HEATHER GROB
JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: Research Assistant The Center to Protect Workers' Rights (CPWR) is a non-profit research arm of the Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO. CPWR conducts research on the safety and health problems in the construction industry, including the econo

[PEN-L:1332] belated conway article

1995-11-09 Thread D Shniad
> Singing from the Songbook of the Right > > SASKATCHEWAN: NON-ELECTION OF A NON-GOVERNMENT by J.F. Conway (Conway is > a University of Regina political sociologist, author of The West: The > History of a Region in Confederation and a Trustee on the Regina Public > School Board.) > > Published

[PEN-L:1331] Responses to query on books regarding changes in income

1995-11-09 Thread Paul Zarembka
Atkonson, A.B., "Income Distribution in Europe and the United States", Sept. 1995 (an article on htp://hicks.nuff.ox.ac.uk/brant/ecowp.htm; download as .ps-file). Bartlett and Steele, America: What Went Wrong. Bluestone, Barry and Bennett Harrison, The Deindustrializing of America. Bluestone,

[PEN-L:1330] Re: Shalom.

1995-11-09 Thread ROSSERJB
To Jim J. Well, you ask whose fault it is that Arab cab drivers think all Jews are bad and should be killed, implying, I guess that it is all Israel's fault. (BTW, my conversations with those cab drivers were in Arabic, salaam yourself) I say the fault is on both sides. Trond objected w

[PEN-L:1329] Re: (PEN-L:1187] Quebec Referendum Results

1995-11-09 Thread HANLY
Probably the 40 percent condition would be met since the participation rate was well over ninety percent, 93 I believe. So over 40 percent did vote NO. By the way there is an investigation into voting irregularities in Montreal in which tens of thousands of NO votes were rejected by PQ monitors f

[PEN-L:1328] RE: Fed tightness

1995-11-09 Thread Richardson_D
I forwarded some BLS stats on COJL to the list at one point, but now I cannot find the post. Basically people who are downsized out face a loss of 30% of pay and a 10% chance of losing all/most of their benefits. In solidarity, Dave Richardson -- From: pen-l Subject: [PEN-L:1313] Fed

[PEN-L:1327] World Bank, Latin America After Mexico, [2/2] Aug (fwd)

1995-11-09 Thread Alan Freeman
Thanks for an exceptionally informative post

[PEN-L:1326] Re: Fed tightness

1995-11-09 Thread Doug Henwood
At 7:41 PM 11/8/95, Fikret Ceyhun wrote: >On two or three postings, Doug Henwood said (I lost the dates): > >>"It's now the consensus on Wall Street that the Fed won't ease at its >>mid-November meeting, despite imminent fiscal sadism, flagging growth, and >>the absence of any inflationary signs.

[PEN-L:1325] Trust Fund paper excerpts

1995-11-09 Thread Mason A. Clark
One of the principle weapons of the neo-classical politicians is: "THE TRUST IS GOING BANKRUPT!" In caps. Mark Adkins posted on sci.econ Oct. 30 a five page article (12,000 bytes) analyzing this, with refs to government documents. Before I give it wide distribution I'd like to know what profes