Globalization symposium in Chicago 5/9

1998-05-06 Thread Jim Davis
For folks in the Chicago area... ** GLOBALIZATION, TECHNOLOGY AND THE ASIAN MELTDOWN: A Symposium on Current Politics and the Impact of World Markets **

Re: Women in the Economics Profession--Answers

1998-05-06 Thread James Devine
4. What percentage of economics doctorates in the United States were granted to women from 1920 to 1924? 10% (it went down afterwards) this is interesting. Back when I was a grad student at Berkeley, one of the main hang-outs for us Econ. grunts was the Jessica Piexotto room. The fact that

Re: The Karl Marx Question

1998-05-06 Thread boddhisatva
C. Proyect, Tai-chi is actually just for exercise. What Jackie Chan and the other Gung-fu movie fighters do is called Wu shu. Gung fu, in its many forms, is for actual fighting while Wu shu, which has been around for centuries as well, is a corollary discipline

Re: The Karl Marx Question

1998-05-06 Thread Thomas Kruse
bravo! At 11:53 6/05/98 EDT, you wrote: To whom..., I think that the first thing a budding socialist should do is learn about the strengths of capitalism. Specifically I think a socialist should understand the processes that create credit and the legal structures

1998-05-01 Proclamation on Loyalty Day

1998-05-06 Thread Doug Henwood
A few days after the fact, this year's Loyalty Day proclamation. Doug Delivered-By-The-Graces-Of: White House Electronic Publications Precedence: Bulk To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 14:13 -0400 From: The White House [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Women in the Economics Profession--Answers

1998-05-06 Thread Paul Zarembka
I was simulated by the newsletter of Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession and found the answer to the fourth question particularly interesting (right after the voting-rights amendment, women were getting Ph.D.s in Economics in the U.S. more so than later). Paul

Re: I need help with a study

1998-05-06 Thread michael
exactly the idea. boddhisatva wrote: C. Perelman, Make sure you include flood abatement effects in your study, but then I'm sure you will. Downstream property values will rise when they are less subject to flood. Any study done in advance of a flood control system

Re: I need help with a study

1998-05-06 Thread boddhisatva
C. Perelman, Make sure you include flood abatement effects in your study, but then I'm sure you will. Downstream property values will rise when they are less subject to flood. Any study done in advance of a flood control system for a like drainage will give you

Re: I need help with a study

1998-05-06 Thread boddhisatva
C. Perelman, So what is the downstream land used for? peace

Is Socialism Dead? - Wojtek's slant

1998-05-06 Thread valis
I really can't add a thing to the argument partially reproduced below. Candid cafe' chats I had in the '60s in Prague and Budapest certainly anticipated these counterdevelopments, though I was home for more than a year before the penny began to drop. Such shams, harking back to Stalin's time

Re: Social movement against Indian dam (endorse, please!)

1998-05-06 Thread Louis Proyect
Questions and Answers on the International Movement Against Large Dams from (http://www.irn.org/basics/qanda.html) Q. What is a large dam? How many large dams are there? A: A large dam is defined by the dam industry as one higher than 15 metres (taller than a four-story building). There are

Re: The trance on campus

1998-05-06 Thread Doug Henwood
Michael Eisenscher wrote: Obviously you were not at San Francisco State University in the Sixties, or the University of Wisconsin, or Kent State, or Jackson State, or any number of other junior and state colleges where the majority of college-bound working class kids went. You may have spent

Re: The Karl Marx Question

1998-05-06 Thread Louis Proyect
boddhisatva: To carry the judo metaphor forward, these have a low center of gravity. The problem has always been developing alternatives structures (the physique of the judo player) so that when they throw their enemy he does not land right on top of them again, and they remain upright.

Yen Blues

1998-05-06 Thread boddhisatva
To whom, Results of a Bridge news poll are interesting: BRIDGE JAPAN POLL: Firms' most desired dollar/yen rate at 115-120 By Rika Yamamoto, BridgeNews Copyright BridgeNews Tokyo--May 1--The most desirable dlr/yen exchange rate cited in a BridgeNews survey of

Re: The trance on campus

1998-05-06 Thread Peter Dorman
Let me add a note on the recent riot here at Michigan State. Approximately three thousand students took part in a night-long demonstration and riot last Friday night. A bonfire was lit at the main intersection in downtown E. Lansing. Students were dispersed by tear gas, many were arrested,

(Fwd) Peltier's Parole Refused!

1998-05-06 Thread James Michael Craven
--- Forwarded Message Follows --- Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 16:49:40 -0700 (PDT) From: John Shafer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Peltier's Parole Refused! -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 17:29:46 -0400 From:

The Navy may be watching YOU

1998-05-06 Thread Les Schaffer
Some days ago there was a line on this list about which spook is listening to which radical. Check out this story from the BBC re/ the computers at the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society and the US Navy. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_88000/88362.stm Anyone in the UK with more

Re: The Karl Marx Question

1998-05-06 Thread boddhisatva
To whom..., I think that the first thing a budding socialist should do is learn about the strengths of capitalism. Specifically I think a socialist should understand the processes that create credit and the legal structures that create contracts and corporations.

Re: Social movement against Indian dam (endorse, please!)

1998-05-06 Thread boddhisatva
C. Bond, In lieu of the proposed dam, what would you propose to supply power/water/flood control? I am no fan of big dams because of the way they effect the riverine environment, at the same time my understanding is that smaller dam/flood-control-reservoir