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JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1996 EVENTS
LECTURES, PANELS AND SEMINAR
Progressive economists interested in measurement of trends in income
distribution may be interested in the analysis used in an Australian
Government funded study released in late December. It will also be of
interest to people debating the success or failure of the social democratic
Australian L
Apologies for coming to this discussion late, but we're only just
getting back to the e-world after returning from the ASSA and digging
out from an ongoing blizzard. The Vandana Shiva debate last week raised
more issues than can easily be addressed, but it would be unfortunate if
the followi
>From the News of the Net feature distributed by the Amer Assn for Public
Opinion Research (AAPORNET):
>COMPUSERVE'S MOTIVES QUESTIONED
>CompuServe's recent action to shut down subscriber access to 200 newsgroups
>carrying sexual content was motivated more by U.S. politics than German
>objections
Doug Henwood wrote:
> Amidst all the laments about high European unemployment, always attributed
> to high wages and a generous welfare state, we've never heard anything
> about the influence of economic unification. Aren't multinationals
> rationalizing their operations on a continental basis? D
On Sun, 31 Dec 1995, Doug Henwood wrote:
> At 3:22 AM 12/31/95, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >ps: I think we should all give Michael Perelman a big round of applause
> >for all of the (unpaid) work that he has done in creating and maintaining
> >this list.
>
> Yes yes yes! Thank you Michael.
>
On Sun, 31 Dec 1995 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> As Jim Jaszewski's post concerned the Marxism list, I have chosen to
> respond to that post on that list rather than further burdening this one.
>
> Jerry
>
> ps: I think we should all give Michael Perelman a big round of applause
> for all of t
Did anyone else notice the compliment paid in yesterday's Wall Street
Journal to PEN-l's Terry McDonough? Of course he wasn't mentioned, and
the conclusion of his work got turned on its head, but what the hell.
Robert J. Barro (Harvard & Hoover) had an Op Ed attack on Card
and Krueger.
Doug,
There's been a lot of talk about 'rationalisation' and closures in
the wake of the Single Market agreement, which came into force on
1/1/93. I haven't seen any systematic studies of the consequences up
to now, but I will look around. A good 'preview' piece is:
A Amin, D Charles and J H
