Drucker, Galbraith, etc.

1998-02-18 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
Though Galbraith does not advance your straw man-- that ownership is totally irrelevant--he does discuss the formation of power based upon bureaucratic functions. There is a wonderful discussion of Drucker, Galbraith, Berle and the managerial thesis generally in Scott R Bowman, The Modern

!*COMMENTARY: Middle East quiz (fwd)

1998-02-18 Thread Sid Shniad
Subject: COMMENTARY: Middle East quiz A pop quiz on the Middle East -- answers may surprise you By Charley Reese of The Sentinel Staff Published in The Orlando Sentinel, http://www.orlandosentinel.com February 8, 1998 Just so you can keep up with the perpetual crisis in the Middle East,

Computer Use Splits Between Along Income Lines

1998-02-18 Thread Sid Shniad
Vancouver Sun, Page D06, Wednesday, February 18, 1998 B.C. Net use splits between affluent and poor By Peter Wilson If you live in British Columbia there's about a 50-per-cent chance you've used the Internet at least once. If you go online regularly you're likely to be young, have a

Re: query: marx quote

1998-02-18 Thread Joseph Green
Michael, "Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one." Marx, Capital, vol. I, Ch. XXXI "Genesis of the Industrial Capitalist.", the end of the fifth paragraph. Joseph Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michael Yates wrote: A friend asked me for the

query: marx quote

1998-02-18 Thread michael yates
Friends, A friend asked me for the source of hte following quote, which he attributes to Marx: "Violence is the midwife of history." Does anyone on the list know the source? Thanks in advance. michael yates

Re: Extra Credit Assignment

1998-02-18 Thread James Michael Craven
Date sent: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 07:06:27 -0500 Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Michael Pearlman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Extra Credit Assignment One important aspect of the Titanic disaster not mentioned in the film or on

Re: The Ecological Inference Problem

1998-02-18 Thread JayHecht
In a message dated 98-02-18 01:51:14 EST, you write: Although many have attempted to make such cross-level inferences, scholars agree that all existing methods yield very inaccurate conclusions about the world. In this volume, Gary King lays out a unique --- and reliable

Job Opening

1998-02-18 Thread Terrence Mc Donough
Below is a job listing for a new position here in Galway, Ireland. The level is equivalent to an assistant professorship in the U.S. The department is heterodox friendly, but is not a heterodox department. Anyone interested should probably contact me first. Official literature on the

The Ecological Inference Problem

1998-02-18 Thread William S. Lear
Browsing through my new 1998 Princeton University Press catalog, I noticed an interesting blurb about a book by Gary King (Professor of Government at Harvard) that claims to have solved the "ecological inference problem", that is, the problem of reliably inferring individual-level behavior from

Re: Extra Credit Assignment

1998-02-18 Thread Michael Pearlman
One important aspect of the Titanic disaster not mentioned in the film or on the list: The White Star Line made a particular point of not hiring any Black workers, even porters or coal stokers, who were common on other steamships. The sinking was celebrated in African-American communities as an

[Fwd: response: Titanic in the classroom query]

1998-02-18 Thread Michael Perelman
The group H-Net Gilded Age and Progressive Era List [EMAIL PROTECTED] has an ongoing discussion of the Titanic. Michael Pierce wrote: A "Titanic" buff since childhood, I have briefly included the disaster in appropriate US surveys as well in Progressive Era courses. We discuss the

Re: query: marx quote

1998-02-18 Thread Hinrich Kuhls
All will be revealed: a possible way of how Joseph Green found his answer to Mike's query: A friend asked me for the source of hte following quote, which he attributes to Marx: "Violence is the midwife of history." Searching for *midwife* at http://www.marx.org/Archive/search.htm finds: The

NEW LIST SERVE: STOP-IMF (fwd)

1998-02-18 Thread Sid Shniad
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 11:37:19 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Weissman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NEW LIST SERVE: STOP-IMF Stop-IMF is a new moderated listserve that will include clips, essays, updates and urgent actions relating to the International Monetary Fund. It will focus especially

Question on Indonesia/Currency Board

1998-02-18 Thread Michael Pearlman
As a non-economist semi-lurker on this list, I ask "What's up with Indonesia and this currency board thing?" Is this a strange case of a nationalist reponse by a group of capitalists who are so dependent on the state that they're tempted to defend it against the IMF? Side question: Why is

FW: Geometric Mean the CPI

1998-02-18 Thread Richardson_D
I missed earlier message(s) on this thread. Sorry. The Geomean is an expenditure weighted geometric average of the price relatives. Any price index is expressed as a "typical" ratio of price changes from the base month to, say, the current month. Assume i=1,2,...,N goods with base prices Pib

FW: Fwrd: Istook Amendment On House Fast Track

1998-02-18 Thread Bove, Roger E.
-- From: Pennell, Julia To: Bove, Roger E.; anna; AndreaB; Radcliffe; 'cyndy'; Cohles; Debby; Flo; Giess; John A; Mitchell; CARTER; MacFadyen; Gangwisch; Kryven; Larson; baxter; al; Don Miles; Mary Miles; Catherine; Deans; sue; linda; Fish; UUKat Subject: FW: Fwrd: Istook Amendment