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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Walker)
> Subject: [PEN-L:11893] Re: Risk and Unequal Opportunity under cap
> ulterior motivation of bureaucrats, politicians or voters. In other words,
> bureau
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>Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 16:26:50 -0700
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>Two labor studies courses: Economics and California Labor History are
>offered Monday night at 4th and Mission. They are at room 318 and 319
>respectively. Worth
Does anyone know where I can find multipliers for California or Southern
California? AE multipliers, export multipliers, etc.
Is this BEA stuff? or does the Anderson School have that? Many thanks.
Larry Shute
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Max's clarification on Public Choice theory calls my attention to a remark I
made that may have triggered Nathan's question about whether Public Choice
theorist use Ellsberg. I referred to the paradox as demonstrating "the
bureaucrat's creed that it is always better to fail conventionally than to
Max Sawicky wrote,
>Yeah but every theory abstracts from something. Whether
>it's important or not is another way of saying whether you
>dig the theory. (I've started rereading the Beats.)
I can dig that.
>A virtue of utilitarianism is that in its specificity it is more
>compelling than utte
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Walker)
> Subject: [PEN-L:11887] Re: Risk and Unequal Opportunity under cap
> I doubt that public choice right-wingers would have much use for Ellsberg's
> Paradox. If anything, the paradox presents an indictment against any kind of
> reductivism. As
BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1997
A tentative agreement was reached late Monday in the 15-day-old strike
by the Teamsters against United Parcel Service, both the company and the
union said. UPS workers could return to their jobs as early as
Wednesday, said a union spokesperson. Voting
BLS DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 1997:
In a comparison of nine industrial economies, only Germany and Japan had
greater increases in manufacturing productivity than the United States
in 1996, BLS reports. "U.S. productivity growth in 1996 resulted from a
combination of a 2.7 percent increase
Why the Victory at UPS Matters
-- Nathan Newman
With last night's labor contract deal between UPS and the Teamsters agreed
to, it appears that the Teamsters have scored
Nathan Newman wrote,
>Bernstein did highlight Ellsberg's work as a pioneer in risk theory but
>you gave a better summary than he did, since he quickly moved onto others.
>
>Have any of the public choice rightwingers or other game theorists working
>around government decision-making used Ellsber
I think that we might take a few moments to consider why and how UPS
won. So far, some of the obvious factors were:
1. The drivers had made a good impression on the public before the
strike. The Wall Street Journal had an article a couple of years ago,
describing the drivers as sex symbols to e
At 01:58 PM 8/15/97 -0700, Jim Craven wrote:
>In other words, building Socialism in those countries--and elsewhere--
>especially in the context of ongoing and very hostile imperialist
>encirclement, dealing with the legacies of the past, tyring to build
>a future and trying to balance myriad co
On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, Tom Walker wrote:
> Nathan Newman asked,
>
> >Any other thoughts on how risk theory plays an implicit or explicit role
> >in social policy debates?
>
> Thanks, Nathan, for giving me an opportunity to plug Daniel Ellsberg's 1961
> classic "Risk, ambiguity and the Savage axi
On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
> > If risk is seen as a friend and an equal opportunity for entrepreneurship,
> > then inequality becomes just a reward system for those willing to take the
> > risks that drive wealth creation. . . .
>
> This is interesting but perhaps a little t
Steve Kindred climbed onto a Greyhound bus in the Cleveland depot on a
dreary April morning in 1975 with five pounds of Spanish peanuts, three
pounds of raisins, and a list of Teamster activists in his pack. He had a
ticket in his pocket entitling him to travel wherever Greyhound went for
the next
hello all.
for those of you going to the union for radical political economics summer
conference, remember to bring your directions. directions can be found
on the urpe homepage-
http://economics.csusb.edu/orgs/URPE
remember to bring bedding, flashlight, bathing suit, and some rain clothes
just
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