surprise, surprise, it's all politics. i agree with ellen's remarks. if they
want to get you, if you get good evals they say it's because you are too easy,
if you get bad evals they say "see s/he got bad evals, s/he's a bad teacher."
if they get bad evals, it's because they are so "rigorous"; if
Charles Brown wrote:
>Yea, and I point out that the first big entrepreneurs in modern European history made their primitive accumulation of wealth based on cutthroat gangsters on ships who kidnapped people into slavery.
>
>The movie/novel _The Godfather_ is noteworthy, not as an exception, but as a
"Technological Change and Wages: An Interindustry Analysis"
Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 107, No. 2, April 1999
BY: ANN P. BARTEL
Columbia Business School
Department of Finance and Economics
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Michael Perelman wrote:
> The problem that Ajit ignores is that most capital goods do not have a *price*. For
>example, a
> specialized piece of capital goods may be specific to my firm. It might have a very
>low value for any
> other firm or have to be sold for scrap. If an accident destr
Wojtek to Brad:
>Brad, I do not think that 'fixed' job supply - as you claim - is the moral
>of the story. It is labor market segmentation (if you recall that
>institutionalist argument of 1970s and 1980s) - that is, white purebread
>male dogs getting the prime choice bones, whereas the female an
>>> Carrol Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/01/99 01:58PM >>>
Incidentally, the Detroit teachers' strike is at core a resistance to
merit ratings. This should be seen in the same light as the struggle
of Italian auto workers in 1969 against small variations in pay
for a multitude of different jobs.
((
Dear PEN-L,
Thanks to everyone who replied to my questions about the practices that
people use in their teaching. I'm not an economist or a college teacher, but
I wanted to respond a little bit and to pose a few additional questions.
I'm curious about whether or not people have read any of the
The best evaluations I saw in my department came from a young student
who had just completed his MBA. He knew little about economics, but
taught a highly structured class. Students knew exactly what they
needed to do to get an A. He did nothing to create any doubts about
whether the text might
I can't agree with the position that teaching evaluations
are mere popularity contests and/or used by administrators
to punish dissident teaching. I have had the experience of
getting bad evaluations because of ideological conflict with
students, but by and large I have found that student
>>> "Craven, Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/01/99 03:35PM >>>Where I live here on the
>Oregon/Washington border, we have all sorts of
physicists, geologists, anthropologists, economists etc claiming as "new
discoveries", fundamental facts and relationships about "nature" and
"society" that were exp
at least one comes to mind immediately. Many,
I couldn't say.
Then there was the math grad student -- he hadn't even
finished his dissertation, and evidently never would --
who went medieval on his prof with a sledgehammer.
mbs
true. but what i was proposing would imbue them with som
At 03:28 PM 9/1/99 -0400, Max S. wrote:
>My impression of alumni associations is they are, in
>the case of undergrads, for people too involved in
>college football, or for graduate school, those
>dedicated to continue sucking up to faculty till
>the end of time.
>
true. but what i was proposing
>>> "Craven, Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/01/99 03:56PM >>>
-clip-
For Effective Citizenship I use a film, "The Rise and Fall of the Third
Reich" narrated by William Shirer as a conversation starter. For Critical
Thinking, I use the infamous Milgram-Yale experiments (grad students
following orde
At 03:47 PM 9/1/99 -0400, Louis P. wrote:
>Besides claiming to have found Big Foot tracks all across North America, Dr
>KRANTZ, like his colleagues, says the grainy film shot in 1967 as ultimate
>proof. "When I saw the film I was sure it was just a man in a suit," he
>said. "But we've studied that
=46rom Peter Starr's _Logics of Failed Revolt: French Theory After May '68_ (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1995):
* The purpose of this book (_Logics of Failed Revolt_) is to explore the effects of this fascination [with revolution _as_ repetition] on a significant portion of that body of literary,
Yea, and I point out that the first big entrepreneurs in modern European history made
their primitive accumulation of wealth based on cutthroat gangsters on ships who
kidnapped people into slavery.
The movie/novel _The Godfather_ is noteworthy ,not as an exception,but as a typical
method by wh
At 12:35 PM 9/1/99 -0700, Jim C. wrote:
>deductions and applications, then it is obvious from the products, that
>Indigenous cultures have been employing "scientific method" for a long long
>time--even in non-Indigenous terms.
I never doubted that. I read Levi-Strauss as an antidote to my catho
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>Where I live here on the Oregon/Washington border, we have all sorts of
>physicists, geologists, anthropologists, economists etc claiming as "new
>discoveries", fundamental facts and relationships about "nature" and
>"society" that were explicitly or implicitly alluded to in Indian Lodge
>Tales g
>>> "Craven, Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/01/99 02:50PM >>
Why is it that Indigenous cultures have
traditionally employed non-linear and non-reductionistic paradigms that
"modern science" seeks today after the failures and irrelevance of the
ultra-reductionistic, positivist and linear paradig
>
evaluations are important, but not in the form of anonymous spamming or
popularity contest. I'd rather see evaluations by students who graduated
(thus have no ax to grind) . . .
>>>
Au contraire, mon ami, someone could easily have an axe to
grind, and after graduating might be the best tim
Not quite yet. Capitalism engenders a dog-eat-dog, bone- to- pick mentality.
Snoop Doggy Dogg
>>> Max Sawicky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/01/99 02:06PM >>>
Training dogs to be better bone gatherers and increasing the supply of bones
are not mutually exclusive.
>>>
Enough poop has been scooped.
I w
At 11:50 AM 9/1/99 -0700, Jim C. wrote:
>If "modern science" is the only "science", then why is it that Incas,
>Aztecs, Mayans, Mississippians and other Indigenous cultures were able to
>construct cities and structures that, in terms of scale and precision, could
>not be duplicated with the most a
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> All merit systems, whether based on peer review, administrative
> review, student review, or some combination have one ultimate
> effect: they increase the power of management. Can you imagine
> what student reviews of a progressive prof
At 11:40 AM 9/1/99 -0700, Jim Devine wrote:
>>All merit systems, whether based on peer review, administrative
>>review, student review, or some combination have one ultimate
>>effect: they increase the power of management. Can you imagine
>>what student reviews of a progressive professor would hav
Jim Devine:
>I think the key question is _who_ management is. I think universities
>should be worker cooperatives, in which case the management would be the
>faculty as a whole. But student evals would still be needed, to prevent
>excessively protective in-group mentality. (There's a book review i
WB Devt News 9/1/99
NATION-WIDE STRIKE BRINGS COLOMBIA TO A STANDSTILL. Colombia yesterday woke up
to virtual silence yesterday, as the country?s labor unions began the first
day
of an indefinite national strike in protest at the government?s political,
social, and economic agenda, reports the
see also: _Blacks in Science: Ancient and Modern_ edited by Ivan Van
Sertima, incorporating April and November 1983 (vols. 5, nos. 1 & 2) issues
of _Journal of African Civilizations_.
-Original Message-
From: Wojtek Sokolowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Yes, I am assuming that the capital good, or commodity, still has a currently valid
socially determined use-value. To have exchange-value , a commoidty must have
use-value. Without current use-value, there is no exchange-value to relate to price.
The costs to the current seller which are base
That sounds like a good recipe for popularity contest and hollywoodization
of teaching - idiots who cannot act/teach being propelled to the status of
celebrity by popularity ratings and ticket sales.
Some possibilities of this pseudo-democratic idiocy:
- religious right or republicans organize a
Hi Marty,
Long time, no see. I think I'll apply for this one. Is hot air from
administrators and politicians one of the global warming determinants to be
discussed? I'll drop over and say hello. By September 15th eh?
Jim C
James Craven
Clark College, 1800 E. McLoughlin Blvd.
Vancouver, WA. 986
Jim wrote:
>
>This is part of Thurow's story (as I interpret it). There's a queue of
>job-seekers trying to get at the limited number of "good jobs" offered by
>the primary sector. If an individual gets more training, he or she can move
>closer to the front of the queue, but (given the supply of
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Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 07:15:25 -0700 (PDT)
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Su
Training dogs to be better bone gatherers and increasing the supply of bones
are not mutually exclusive.
>>>
Enough poop has been scooped.
I would say it's time to put this metaphor to sleep.
Clifford the Big Red Dog
>From "Chaotic Dynamics: Theory and Applications to Economics" by Alfredo
Medio, Cambridge, 1993:
"An Intuitive Definition of Chaos
Although a universally accepted and comprehensive characterization of chaos
is still lacking,...we shall adopt the definition suggested in a recent
conference on ch
NY Times, September 1, 1999
To Professors' Dismay, Ratings by Students Go Online
By IAN ZACK
John Moriarty, a 21-year-old business major at the University of Texas, was
eager to enroll in a marketing course whose "syllabus sounded really
intriguing."
But first, like many collegians, he sat d
Louis Proyect wrote:
> NY Times, September 1, 1999
>
> To Professors' Dismay, Ratings by Students Go Online
>
> By IAN ZACK
>
> John Moriarty, a 21-year-old business major at the University of Texas, was
> eager to enroll in a marketing course whose "syllabus sounded really
> intriguing."
>
> B
At my institution, we have plaques (put up in each classroom two days before
an accreditation visit) that mandate teaching the following 6 campus-wide
abilities: Effective Citizenship; Critical Thinking and Problem Solving;
Information Technology Awareness and Use; Global/ Multicultural Awareness;
An op-ed by PETER ROSSET
There is no relationship between the prevalence of hunger in a given
country and its population. The real problems are poverty and inequality.
Too many people are too poor to buy the food that is available or lack land
on which to grow it themselves. . .
http://www.nyt
Dear friends,
The following was sent out to advisory editors of Historical Materialism
but I believe it deserves wide circulation among Marxist theorists. In
particular, I think you will find the symposium on Brenner and crisis an
essential addition to your and your university library.
in solida
-Original Message-
From: Wojtek Sokolowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 12:25 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L:10550] Re: RE: "MODERN SCIENCE is a product of
capitalism"
At 11:50 AM 9/1/99 -0700, Jim C. wrote:
>If "modern science" is the only "
Over the years, my teaching evaluations have varied from the top to the
bottom of the scale. It seems to have little to do with what I do in the
class room. (although it does depend on which course I am teaching). I have
also found that the better the class the better I do (positive
reinforcem
BTW, I forgot to mention that as a result of the hype given before her
speech, a large number of administrators were present and also rated her 5s
on a scale of 1 to 5 for her presentation, general knowledge, stature, role
model qualities etc.
I planning to replicate the experiment someday as "re
BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1999
RELEASED TODAY: In June 1999, there were 1,141 mass layoff actions by
employers as measured by new filings for unemployment insurance benefits
during the month, according to BLS. Each action involved at least 50
persons from a single establishment, and
Training dogs to be better bone gatherers and increasing the supply of bones
are not mutually exclusive.
-Original Message-
From: Mathew Forstater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 12:06 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:10534] Re: Re: Re:
A friend of mine years ago hired a hooker friend (a real hooker) to come to
his class (she was obviously well trained in acting as part of her
profession). He gave a big build-up that a Dr. Celia Hooker, former top
advisor to the World Bank and IMF, Harvard Ph.D, in various "Who's Whos",
Professor
Profits rates are measured over a period of time, usually one year. So
depreciation and inflation are considerations, in addition to the concern
about the lack of a market for capital goods.
Rod Hay
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The History of Economic Thought Archives
http://socserv2.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ug
Look, the metaphor is not *against* education and training. Can't you see
the difference between something being *wrong* and something being
*incomplete*? Mat
-Original Message-
From: Brad De Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, September 01
G'day Rod,
Ormerod is one who makes much of the power of Economics 101 to close the
mind. By the end of this crucial year, it seems, students have internalised
the homo oekonomicus view of self and others to the degree it has altered
their behaviour in games. A third-year introduction to dissen
If "modern science" is the only "science", then why is it that Incas,
Aztecs, Mayans, Mississippians and other Indigenous cultures were able to
construct cities and structures that, in terms of scale and precision, could
not be duplicated with the most advanced measurement and engineering methods
>All merit systems, whether based on peer review, administrative
>review, student review, or some combination have one ultimate
>effect: they increase the power of management. Can you imagine
>what student reviews of a progressive professor would have looked
>like in the early 1950s?
it's importa
Of course. Everyone knows that politically-enforced unemployment has
been/is used to maintain price stability, as well as to discipline labor and
so on. I would argue that Marx's theory is not the same as either the
natural rate of unemployment or NAIRU (and the natural rate of unemployment
and
Yea, and I point out that the first big entrepreneurs in modern European history made
their primitive accumulation of wealth based on cutthroat gangsters on ships who
kidnapped people into slavery.
The movie/novel _The Godfather_ is noteworthy not as an exception,but as a typical
method that e
Brad writes: >Do y'all [sic] allow your students to learn that employment
in the United States has risen from 66 million in 1960 to 133 million today?<
That the population and the employment/population ratio have risen, partly
as more and more families had both adults working for pay (if they hav
At 06:48 AM 9/1/99 -0700, Brad deLong wrote:
>>I have heard Phil Harvey of Rutgers Law School use this story on more than
>>one occasion in public presentations. No matter how much dogs are trained
>>to be good bone gatherers, as long as the number of bones remain fixed,
>>there will still be dog
First of all, if you read my post, I in no way said training and education
programs are a "scam", nor did I say that Phil Harvey said so. What I said
was that any policy program to reduce joblessness that did not address the
issue of job creation was insufficient. It does not mean that I am agai
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The morality of warfare
Is closer necessarily worse?
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>First of all, if you read my post, I in no way said training and education
>programs are a "scam", nor did I say that Phil Harvey said so. What I said
>was that any policy program to reduce joblessness that did not address the
>issue of job creation was insufficient. It does not mean that I am
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> >From The Nation, September 20, 1999 (http://www.thenation.com/)
>
> Buchanan Breaks Ranks
>
>It is impossible
> because Americans won't tolerate "another Vietnam" and don't intend to
> provide the military resources to make good on glob
The cost to the seller only has some relation to what it can be sold for depends on
whether the capital good has
been suceeded by new technology and whether the output of the machine is still
desired. If technology has moved
on, a machine which cost $500 million might now be scrap. Right now, n
>From The Nation, September 20, 1999 (http://www.thenation.com/)
Buchanan Breaks Ranks
In Washington, a city in which (to borrow a phrase from Virginia Woolf) all
is gossip, corruption and chatter, the end-of-summer buzz has been about
Pat Buchanan and whether he'll bolt the Republicans to seek
Re Rod's remark: Micro seems counter-intuitive to most students because it
flies in the face of all they have observed.
It is only some of them who are willing to accept that stuff. Those few
go on to be economists!
Gene Coyle
Ellen Frank wrote:
> >Rod wrote:
> >>I find it hard enough get
Ajit Sinha wrote:
>
> Michael, your firm must have a market value today. How do you arrive at the market
>value of your firm?
Why? Is it reflected in the stock market value? The value of a firm cannot be known.
The market is too thin
to know the price in advance of its sale on the market, u
NY Times, September 1, 1999
2 Suffolk County Boys Contract Malaria at Local Scout Camp
By JOHN T. McQUISTON
HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. -- Two 11-year-old boys who attended a Boy Scout camp in
Calverton on the North Shore of Suffolk County this month have come down
with malaria, state and county officials
Brad is correct that the number of raw jobs has increased, but so has the labor
force participation rate. Could we say that Greenspan raised rates to maintain
a "natural level of bonelessness"?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-532
>I have heard Phil Harvey of Rutgers Law School use this story on more than
>one occasion in public presentations. No matter how much dogs are trained
>to be good bone gatherers, as long as the number of bones remain fixed,
>there will still be dogs left without bones. Even if all dogs had excel
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