[PEN-L:4179] Re: FW: BLS Daily Report

Richardson_D wrote: "For Richer, For Poorer: An Election-Year Primer" was an article in Sunday's Washington Post (page H1) by Steven Pearlstein. Pearlstein says that, depending on which set of statistics you believe, Americans' income has either been largely stagnant for two decades or

[PEN-L:4180] Re: help!! with intro micro text

Jim--I don't think there's a "good" intro text out that is both adequately critical and adequate in its treatment of issues like moral hazard and adverse selection. But given your specs, I'd say go with Stiglitz or Baumol and Blinder. Gil can someone on pen-l suggest a good introductory

[PEN-L:4181] Concensus on global warming

An authoritative international conference of scientists looking at global warming agreed that global temperatures will rise at least 1 degree Centigrade over the next century--and as Blair Sandler pointed out, insurance cos. are concerned and looking at this issue closely. Marianne Hill

[PEN-L:4182] Re: seasonal adjustment and global warming

At 2:57 PM 5/7/96, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: one concern: with global warming kicking in, shouldn't the recent "wierd weather" be becoming more and more the norm?* Put another way: don't the weights used in seasonal adjustment assume that one year's weather is the same as another's? But with

[PEN-L:4183] Re: help!! with intro micro text

J Devine wrote can someone on pen-l suggest a good introductory microeconomics text? One with all of the standard MC = MR stuff and also moral hazard adverse selection. I suddenly find myself teaching that course after many years away from it... I find myself in a similar

[PEN-L:4184] FW: BLS Daily Report

BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1996 "As Moonlighting Spreads, It Loses Its Blue-Collar Hue" was an article in Sunday's New York Times (page F11) Moonlighters are becoming more numerous as companies restructure and the job market becomes more fragmented. According to BLS, some eight

[PEN-L:4185] RE: seasonal adjustment and global warming

Jim, I think you are right. As one who has to work in this area it is a word of caution. At the least this is another reason that our variance estimates are downward-biased. The real question is whether this is a change in regime which invalidates the whole procedure. Dave R. --

[PEN-L:4187] Re: help!! with intro micro text

It's not really a text, but I use Heilbroner and Thurow's Economics Explained in my one semester micro-macro principles. Eban On Wed, 8 May 1996, Arvind Jaggi wrote: J Devine wrote can someone on pen-l suggest a good introductory microeconomics text? One with all of the standard MC =

[PEN-L:4188] Re: seasonal adjustment and global warming

A further wiggle on this issue of climate and seasonal adjustment is to reinforce the implication of Dave Richardson's remarks. There are good reasons to believe that even if the global warming skeptics are correct (although even they accept a trend to global warming, just not as much as

[PEN-L:4190] web sites on NAFTA and GATT?

I have a student who is working on a "pro and con" paper on NAFTA and GATT. She wants to find Web sites for both sides of the issue. Does anyone know of any? Thanks, Doug Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:4191] Re: seasonal adjustment and global warming

At 9:24 AM 5/8/96, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Blair is only partly correct about the big insurance companies (and to a lesser degree the big banks). European ones are much more so than American ones. The latter have been listening more to global warming skeptics such as Patrick Michaels who

[PEN-L:4192] Re: the xUSSR once again

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike M. mentions the difficulty that the old USSR's bosses had with firing workers. I have questions for Pen-l's experts: To what extent did this limit on firing and laying off actually apply? My expertise ended when I took my fields in comparative systems, but I

[PEN-L:4193] Re: FW: BLS Daily Report

Mike Meeropol wrote: If the value of compensation is the market price of the services provided -- for example, health insurance -- then this clearly overstates the increase in income. The "contribution" of employers to employee health insurance premiums have gone WAY UP, much faster than

[PEN-L:4194] Re: web sites on NAFTA and GATT?

At 12:17 PM 5/8/96, DOUG ORR wrote: I have a student who is working on a "pro and con" paper on NAFTA and GATT. She wants to find Web sites for both sides of the issue. Does anyone know of any? For a perversely pro argument, try Marx's 1848 speech on free trade. Doug -- Doug Henwood Left

[PEN-L:4195] Re: Balanced Budget ARguments

Mike Meeropol wrote: I need all the support I can get ... and if he gets into the "projections" game, I can trot out Dean's research. Dean, are you there? How do I get a copy??? We'll send you a package. Also check out a paper from the previous AEA meetings in SFO by Corsetti and Roubini

[PEN-L:4197] Re: Balanced Budget ARguments

At 11:50 AM 5/8/96 -0700, you wrote: I had the pleasure of hearing Dean Baker debate a Concord Coalition person on Doug Henwood's show --- and I was struck by his analysis of how the numbers add up in terms of the projected increases in government spending into the future which "require" us to

[PEN-L:4196] Re: web sites on NAFTA and GATT?

Doug: http://gatekeeper.unicc.org/wto/ and http://ananse.irv.uit.no/trade_law/gatt/nav/toc.html are about the World Trade Organization and GATT. She might find something useful there. Brenda Belokrinicev [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 8 May 1996, DOUG ORR wrote: I have a student who is