Anyone care to respond?

At 07:53 AM 9/27/96 -0700, you wrote: >Anyone been reading the stories refered to? Anyone care to counter >Samuelson's piece? First of all, there is not much in this piece to respond to, as most of it is a diatribe and name calling because the authors attacked by Samuelson do not know what he doe

[PEN-L:6391] Re: Giffen

Alex Izurieta writes that: >>The problem is that this abstraction [the downward-sloping demand curve] in particular may be 'valid' only for a very small (infinitesimal) lenght of the 'curve'; sometimes (depending on the 'good' in question) it can even be nearly a 'point' (so what do we do wit

[PEN-L:6390] Re: Query: ACE, PEW Trust, Cornerstones

At 8:41 AM 9/27/96, Laurence Shute wrote: >Can anyone help me with sources and information concerning: ACE -- >The American Council on Education; PEW Trust; and the Cornerstones >Project in the Cal State University System which Chancellor Munitz is >pushing so much. I believe that Cornerstones c

[PEN-L:6389] Re: Anyone care to respond?

On Fri, 27 Sep 1996, Harry M. Cleaver wrote: > Anyone been reading the stories refered to? Anyone care to counter > Samuelson's piece? > > OPINION > > The News > Mexico City, September 27 1996. [... article deleted] That same RS article (except for the exact wording of the final two paragraph

[PEN-L:6388] Re: Yet Another Economists' Petition

R. Anders Schneiderman wrote: > Thanks for your comments. I'm going to work on them. Here are my rejoinders. > Maybe something here about the "good" part of "good jobs"--something about > wages? The problem isn't simply that many folks don't have jobs but that > many people are working hard f

[PEN-L:6387] economics of education?

Hello folks. Thanks for all your good work on-line. I am new to the list and I am wondering who I should read, and where I should look (on-line) to find economic stats. here in California and at the federal level, regarding public education (K-12 & higher ed.). Thanks in advance! --Aimie

[PEN-L:6386] Giffin

Indeed, Jim has a point: > 1. Frankly, I don't see what's wrong with positing a > downward-sloping demand curve as long as one remembers the > _ceteris paribus_ condition (holding expectations constant): > maybe it's not a falsifiable or testable proposition and > therefore it's tautological

[PEN-L:6385] Argentine airports, ports, hit by strike (fwd)

> To: Multiple recipients of list LABOR-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Argentine airports, ports, hit by strike > > Source: Reuters > > BUENOS AIRES, Argentine airports and ports were hit patchily by a 36-hour > general strike that began at midday local time/1100 EDT. > > Flag carrier Aerolneas Arg

[PEN-L:6384] 6,000 Workers Protest in Black Sea City (fwd)

> To: Multiple recipients of list LABOR-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 6,000 Workers Protest Poor Living Conditions in Black Sea City > > Source: Associated Press > > CONSTANTA, ROMANIA - Over 6,000 longshoremen and print workers on Thursday > marched through this Black Sea port to protest poor livi

[PEN-L:6383] Re: Giffin

1. Frankly, I don't see what's wrong with positing a downward-sloping demand curve as long as one remembers the _ceteris paribus_ condition (holding expectations constant): maybe it's not a falsifiable or testable proposition and therefore it's tautological (as Robin suggests). But all of soc

[PEN-L:6382] Query: ACE, PEW Trust, Cornerstones

Friends, Can anyone help me with sources and information concerning: ACE -- The American Council on Education; PEW Trust; and the Cornerstones Project in the Cal State University System which Chancellor Munitz is pushing so much. I believe that Cornerstones comes from PEW, but yesterday, some

[PEN-L:6381] Anyone care to respond?

Anyone been reading the stories refered to? Anyone care to counter Samuelson's piece? OPINION The News Mexico City, September 27 1996. IGNORANT EDITORS PUBLISH JUNK JOURNALISM By ROBERT J. SAMUELSON Washington Post