[PEN-L:397] Re: In Defense of History

G'day Penners, Ricardo asks: But I just wonder, since the realist postulate cannot be proven, why not take the existence of God as your necessary assumption? A real poser, that. Still, most economists take Ricardo up on his invitation, don't they. And they're proud realists. After all,

[PEN-L:420] Re: The Economic Meaning of Violence/2

I'm wondering if anyone knows of any writing on the economic meaning of violence My, what a post; really got the old brain clunking. I just read Isaach Ehrlich's "Crime, Punishment, and the Market for Offenses" in the Journal of Econ Perspective, v10, n1, winter 1996. One intersting note,

[PEN-L:422] Re: In Defense of History

To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] From: James Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:398] Re: In Defense of History Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 09:29:41 -0700 Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The realist postulate is not about the content of what we know. All it says is that

[PEN-L:423] Re: small victories

In California, the unions were going to put some measures on the ballot that would wipe out all business tax exemption and the like. Business agreed to stay out of the race as a price for dropping these measures. I saw NO ads supporting the measure, and still it was close. If business had

[PEN-L:426] Re: The Economic Meaning of Violence/2

For an excellent and provocative discussion of criminal violence (as opposed to state-sanctioned violence), see James Gilligan's book "Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic". Gilligan was for many years the chief psychiatrist for the Massachusetts Dept. of Corrections and has some very

[PEN-L:427] Re: The Economic Meaning of Violence/2

It is important how you specify "decades." Clearly, over the last decade crime rates have been going down, at the same time incarcerations have dramatically risen. This does not mean that incarceration prevents crimes, although many criminal justice researchers, and social conservatives, are

[PEN-L:428] Re: small victories

I believe that, while the State Chamber of Commerce and other major CA. employer orgs stayed neutral, the National Chamber came in with $$ along with, as you note, the Restuarant Asn. If I got my info right, the measure labor was prepared to file for the November ballot would have required

[PEN-L:429] Bad Deal of the Century (fwd)

Forwarded message: Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 14:19:53 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Sid Shniad [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bad Deal of the Century X-UID: 1208 http://www.epinet.org/baddeal2.html Bad Deal of the Century: The

[PEN-L:430] U.S. politics: politicians satisfied with low voter turnout (fwd)

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[PEN-L:438] Re: texts

On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, James Devine wrote: can focus on pedagogy, on _form_. Strangely, some of the best texts are by right-wingers who really believe in what they're spewing and therefore explain it better. There is some truth in this. Is there a good intro textbook out there? On the

[PEN-L:432] New Era of European Contingent Labor(fwd)

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[PEN-L:431] Fw: Sachs: IMF $ Will Hurt Russia

--- On Thu, 4 Jun 1998 14:23:49 -0400 (EDT) Robert Naiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They can silence the liberals. Good thing they can't silence the conservatives. With stuff like this on the NYT op-ed page, they're gonna have a helluva time. -- June 4, 1998

[PEN-L:425] Philosophy, Marxism and the ecological crisis

In the summer of 1965 I was desperate to stay out of the army, so I enrolled in the graduate philosophy department of the New School for Social Research. The New School was a haven for German Jewish refugees from Nazism and two of them were major figures in the philosophy department. One was

[PEN-L:424] Bargaining for Better Times - (please forward) -

Simon Fraser Universtiy Centre for Labour Studies Presents: BARGAINING FOR BETTER TIMES A seminar by Tom Walker Shorter Work Time Network (Vancouver chapter) Tuesday, June 23, 1998 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre Campus Room #1410 515 West Hastings Street Vancouver,

[PEN-L:421] Why poor people aren't healthy

This is a MIME message. If you are reading this text, you may want to consider changing to a mail reader or gateway that understands how to properly handle MIME multipart messages. --=_1C4852E9.0B6A05E9 Forwarded mail received from: CENTER1:City:City.smtp:"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" FYI,

[PEN-L:419] Re: small victories

On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, michael perelman wrote: The anti-union initiative was defeated, but it cost $11 million. I am not sure that the result constitutes a victory when it costs so much. Oh, they would've spent the money on annual conventions or bribes -- er, *political contributions* -- to

[PEN-L:418] Australian Update #8

Update from Murdoch's *Australian*: Libs knew of Dubai: note claim By SID MARRIS, NICHOLAS WAY and AAP The Australian 4jun98 THE Howard Government was secretly involved in a scheme to train non-union wharfies as early as last September