The new Secretary of State Madeleine Albright went before the
Congress on February 11 to request a slight increase in funding
for the State Department to a total of $19.45 billion. According
to Albright, this amount is required to "sustain U.S.
leadership." She said over the last few years, the
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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 23:29:10 -0800 (PST)
From: Jagdish Parikh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: UC Conf On Privatization
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From:
BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1997
__Despite a continued rise in energy costs, the CPI-U edged up just
0.1 percent in January, BLS reports. Falling food prices and a
decline in the transportation index helped buffer the impact of a 0.8
percent advance in energy costs (Daniel
Is anyone doing research on the economics of ergonomics? I'm looking for
conference speakers.
If no ILR people are doing this research, someone should! Please respond if you
are interested.
We may have funding for such a project.
Heather Grob
Economics Research Coordinator
111 Massachusetts
Recently Michael Perelman wrote:
If buying and selling is so natural, why are drugs, prostitution and child
pornography illegal? Why can't I sell my children or buy a kidney?
Of course with respect to drugs and prostitution libertarians would
claim they ought to be legal--and perhaps
friends,
Is pen-l down or what?
michael yates
That Windows 95 is a crappy product is a well-known fact. Today, however, I
experienced a much more scary face of this Bill Gates' concoction -- the one
that brings the Big Brother closer to your home office.
As I tried to cancel a print job I accidentally sent to a printer, Windows
95 came
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Feb 24 09:30 PST 1997
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 17:02:00 GMT
Sender: Forum on Labor in the Global Economy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: "Lawrence, Elizabeth" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Update on campaign against victimisation of branch secretary at
"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves
me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. ...
corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption
in high places will follow, and the money power of the country
will endeavor to prolong its reign by working
Lost who the original requester was:
I am trying to collect data on service sector wages in California for the
1970-1990 period.
Contact the BLS directly. They're very helpful at providing this sort of
thing. Call the state establishment data desk at 202-606-6559 or email the
help desk given on
Dear PEN-Lers:
I am trying to collect data on service sector wages in California for the
1970-1990 period. Can anyone refer me to a useful source? I have already
accessed the available data for California from the BLS web site. It
contains very useful information about manufacturing but
Dear PEN-Lers:
I am trying to collect data on service sector wages in California for the
1970-1990 period. Can anyone refer me to a useful source? I have already
accessed the available data for California from the BLS web site. It
contains very useful information about manufacturing but
At 09:46 AM 2/24/97 -0800, ajit sinha wrote:
This point comes back to the issue I had raised earlier. A lack of a
critique of the forces of production by socialist economists is no longer
posible. In this whole debate over market versus planned socialism we are
only concerned with what to
At 09:44 AM 2/24/97 -0800, Lynn Turgeon wrote:
Heclaimed a consensus exists in Russia which opposes the extension of
NATO to include Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary. If pursued by the West,
it would break down the existing balance of power and encourage a push towards
a military
Deng Xiaoping, the architect of what is called market
socialism in the People's Republic of China died on February 19
at the age of 92. Since the 1920s he has been associated with the
struggle of the Communist Party of China (CPC) for China's
liberation and its reconstruction. Heads of
According to German manufacturers, industrial firms in eastern
Germany face the highest unit labor costs in the world.
According to Gesamtmetal, the heavy industry and electronics'
employers' association, last year the disparity between
productivity and wage levels also increased. Labor
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When I dare
Also in 1992, a WARNING TO HUMANITY was issued by the Union
of Concerned Scientists that began: "Human beings and the
natural world are on a collision course. Human activities
inflict harsh and often irreversible damage on the
environment and on critical resources. If not checked, many
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Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 12:28:20 -0500 (EST)
From: Arthur Cordell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: D Shniad [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: fyi
Please forward and/or post to relevant lists.
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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 16:58:48 -0500
From: Lara Becker [EMAIL
I agree with Max that an excellent argument for lower interest
rates is that it is a humongous budget balancer -- a freebee so to
speak. Since much of today's debt is the result of tax cuts for the
rich and spending the Soviet Union into bankrupcy -- two highly successful
Reagan period
On what percent of what I pay to the Feds goes to military and debt
service. I was wrong, but it does depend on what you count -- particularly
social security taxes. I was thinking about my federal income tax excluding
my social security tax, since that is how we fill out our 1040s. In the
back
Wages don't have to be equal to marginal revenue products. And since paying
people their marginal revenue products is often very unfair -- Michael Jordan
gets $20 million a year and a nursery school teacher gets $20 a year --
an equitable economy requires us NOT to pay according to MRP. But, for
Dear All,
Thanks Max.
Teresa
At 06:23 PM 2/20/97 -0800, you wrote:
From: BAIMAN [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L:8735] Re: Pension ownership
As far as I know the resident Radical Economist expert on this subject
(at least for the U.S. - though I believe she's also looked
The U.S., Israel and other countries which are trying to maintain
the hegemony of their interests in the Middle East and are
broadly interfering in the internal affairs of various countries
which refuse to go along with them, claim that the main danger to
the region does not come from themselves
For the person who asked: Her name is Teresa Ghilarducci and a couple of
years ago she took a position as Assistant Director of the AFL-CIO Employee
Benefits Department. I don't know if she is still there or whether she went
back to Notre Dame. She is an excellent resource on pensions,
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