[PEN-L:10056] Positing a policy bank shot

Ever wonder why the gummint insists on stoking Russian paranoia by running NATO right up to the Polish border? My theory is that only through this connection could the US obtain some leverage over the substantial arms industries of Poland and the Czech Republic, from which the militias may be

[PEN-L:10001] Another non-inhaler unlimbers

No surprise here; I'd rather trust snakes and scorpions. valis Occupied America Terrence Mc Donough wrote: One of the first actions of the Blair administration has been to

[PEN-L:9875] Birthday or holy day?

Do you see our greeting, Karl? I hope not. Some sort of palpable survival into this, our most painfully material of times, would invalidate both you and the ground of your assumptions. How could we separate your brand of millennium from those of the churches? How could you, even? Marxism

[PEN-L:9869] Whole Language

Today's Los Angeles Times has a long piece criticizing NZ's reading methodology -- whole language v. phonics. The article says that employers are complaining that they can't get literate workers. Periodically groups like the NZ Business Roundtable have advocated privatizing public education

[PEN-L:9755] re: Environmental Economics

I wanted to add some thoughts on the legal issues involved to this discussion on externalities and how they are or are not taken into consideration. In order to bring a case, one must have "standing." Standing is a constitutional requirement, and it is also a difficult status to define. One has

[PEN-L:9652] WIREDness: Save or delete?

=== This appeared in the March issue of Perspective, a liberal magazine at Harvard. Time out to note what some students are actually thinking about. valis Occupied

[PEN-L:9461] The drug war breeds a Nazi society!

Please send wherever relevant. CVS has over 2000 stores, but a boycott extending through even half of the summer would have it on its knees for all to see and learn from. The location of the CVS branches near you can be found by accessing

[PEN-L:9371] Re: more requiem

Max Sawicky writes, Self-interest pervades all human behavior ..., so I don't see how you can imagine a movement which leaders or people in authority did not seek to exploit for some narrow purpose. The real question is how the process can work to yield constructive reform. People exhibit a

[PEN-L:8957] Re: albania and the stock market

Michael Perelman wrote, If our Ponzi scheme fails, will the Wall Street mob demand to get reimbursed? It's not the Wall Street mob we should be worried about. What about the drywall installers and toy store clerks with their mutual funds? Regards, Tom Walker We should worry about a

[PEN-L:8944] Re: Marilyn Waring

[...] Tom Walker wrote Perhaps Bill Cochrane was just being sarcastic. I was not. I meant every word of what I wrote, literally. We antipodeans are a simple rural folk devoid of the guile required for irony or sarcasm. I leave such sophistications to inhabitants

[PEN-L:8932] Call for papers

: [EMAIL PROTECTED] þ Professor Ellen Dannin, Professor of Law, California Western School of Law Tel: (619) 525-1449 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] We look forward to your response. Very truly yours, Matthew Ritter Kevin Travis Ellen J. Dannin Executive EditorLead Articles Editor

[PEN-L:8846] A split-screen American Gothic

ice in the American family's heart. Dogs and cats know better. valis Occupied America From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] by emout12

[PEN-L:8792] Re: LBO web update

I've just added a bunch of new stuff to the LBO web site (see URL below). Great, Doug, A-1! Just toss in a coffee bar and you'll have a haven equivalent to 14th Street in the Thirties. valis

[PEN-L:8509] Re: You're in charge of Bulgaria's economy

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:8486] You're in charge of Bulgaria's economy X-Comment: Progressive Economics In an effort to initiate a non-US dominated topic, what would people on the list do if they were put in charge of economic policy in Bulgaria today? Let's keep

[PEN-L:8381] Re: comp vs OT

e are ways the legislation can address each of these problems, but it may be that the eventual law will not be drafted in a way that makes the unionists' lives easier. Ellen Dannin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:8341] Articles on the ECA

PROTECTED] =FE Professor Ellen Dannin, Professor of Law, California Western School of Law Tel: (619) 525-1449 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] We look forward to your response. Very truly yours, Matthew Ritter Kevin Travis Ellen J. Dannin Executive EditorLead Articles Editor

[PEN-L:8055] Re: Ebonics

At least some who have commented on this (sympathetically) in the California newspapers have said it was being used as a way to get additional funding -- available for teaching students whose primary language is not English -- for these schools. Ellen J. Dannin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:8066] [ My other Edsel is a war ]

Well, happy new year, though frankly it looks like the same old friggin' world to me. I just happened upon some old notes of uncertain origin according to which Victor Perlo fixes the cost of the Vietnam Non-war at $518B in {choke} 1960-type dollars. This includes final projections on vets'

[PEN-L:8030] Re: contingent work

Perception in this area is fairly important. There have been lately a number of stories in the papers about how fearful people are as a result of their own or others' experiences with downsizing and/or being made contingent. Some say they are happy to have been cut free of an employer and to

[PEN-L:7856] god@time.pla.sys.cosm

TIME Cover COVER STORY: FINDING GOD ON THE WEB Across the Internet, believers are re-examining their ideas of faith, religion and spirituality CAN THOR MAKE A COMEBACK? Obscure religions--half forgotten or half invented--are flourishing on the Web [INLINE]

[PEN-L:7824] Scum in power: Critical symptoms

=== Incarceration of women in the US has increased ~400% since 1980, a datum that buttresses the appalling allegations of the following abbreviated Human Rights Watch report. See it in its entirety at www.hrw.org. Terry Gross hosted two women engaged in the fight

[PEN-L:7529] Fwd: Vote NO to nazis on the net

EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Rosman Barbara Penzner) To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] One of the great problems of e-mail is that it's so easy to forward information you have not verified as correct. With just a little work the internet makes it easy to check things out. The vote

[PEN-L:7352] Re: racism, affirmative action, etc.

On Sun, 10 Nov 1996, Doug Henwood wrote: At 5:41 PM 11/9/96, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I interpret the massive attack on affirmative action in California as part of the "angry White male" phenomenon. Obviously, but one complicating point: according to the LA Times exit poll, 48

[PEN-L:7089] Bringing the Drug War home, truly?

The Capitol Steps' hilarious lampoon of Bob Dole's subject-object problem fails to seek a clear basis for this bizarre choice of expression. Only those who have lived their lives in the Senate chamber or in Kansas have any idea whether or not it is vintage Dole for this man to hold himself at

[PEN-L:7014] Re: exploitation in progressive organizations

On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Terrence Mc Donough wrote: Collective bargaining type models don't work well in progressive org's because the org shouldn't be using its powerful position as an employer in the bargaining process. Similarly, the social consciousness and personalized relationships of

[PEN-L:6741] Terrorists' Internet: Washington Post / Ottaway

Beachten Sie, Leute: The Washington Beobachter has just begun publishing on the banks of the Potomac! Mid-afternoon and still no report of the following anywhere online. This morning's Post carries a story in which David Ottaway, supposedly a veteran reporter, quotes an unnamed intelligence

[PEN-L:6264] Larry Summers

Larry Summers, Rubin's Deputy at the Treasury, spoke on "global economic strategy" at the New School for Social Research on September 18th.His appearance was sponsored by Project 96, Clinton's campaign people. As might be expected, Summers presented the best possible picture of Clinton's

[PEN-L:6145] Greg deNowell's request for comments on Krugman in Economist

Krugman's position on inflation is a good example of recycling of old ideas. May I quote from my recent book (p.15)? "An important contributor to inflation theory had been Sumner Slichter in 1953. Slichter, a conservative professor at the Harvard Business School, had correctly predicted

[PEN-L:5831] What Kind of Keynesian was Reagan? (long)

Increasingly, there has been a recognition that President Reagan was a Keynesian. In addition to Paul Davidson, we can cite books by Kenneth Galbraith, Martin Walker, and most recently Michael Moynihan (See review in The New York Times, August 5, 1996, p. C-18) that come to this

[PEN-L:5756] Privatization

I am doing some work focussed more on legal and labor issues connected with privatization and subcontracting of government services. Have any of you on this list been doing anything on the issue or are you aware of any recent studies, particularly those looking at the economics of

[PEN-L:5693] FWD: Jobs at AFSC

Here are 3 job openings at AFSC that may be of interest. The first is an admin. assistant and the other 2 jobs are program coordinators. These latter two would be very interesting jobs. Please post to anyone or any list that you think appropriate. I think the salary for the admin asst. starts

[PEN-L:5481] Re: Welfare reform op-ed piece

It seems to me that you might want to put in at least some reference to the Fed's NAIRU policy -- i.e. it is the government and its policies that have impoverished so many. These are the casualties of a war on inflation. The government has been demanding that some 6% of us remain unemployed

[PEN-L:5266] Re: AIRAANZ WWW ...

A few days ago Thomas Murakami forwarded an edited piece of information about AIRAANZ to this list. Maggie Coleman asked what AIRAANZ is, and I answered her offlist. AIRAANZ has been around for quite awhile, long before Clive set foot in the antipodes. It sponsors annual conferences of

[PEN-L:4425] Third Annual Associated Press/Harriman Institute Conference

nd Yeltsin since both are nationalists. Primakov would likely continue as Foreign Minister in either case. Lynn Turgeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ypraio

[PEN-L:4263] Re: One family's...

One of my colleagues's husbands is a psychiatrist. An HMO with which he is associated was purchased by a drug manufacturer which also makes anti-depressants. One of the administrative people there called Dr. X and told him that they had reviewed the dosages he was prescribing for his

[PEN-L:3649] Re: The New Zealand experiment

On Wed, 3 Apr 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In Shniad's interesting post on NZ we find the following: The ethos of the market pervaded everyday life. Even the language was captured, dehumanizing the people and communities it affected. It became acceptable to talk of "shedding wo

[PEN-L:3563] Re: State of the New Zealand economy

On Tue, 2 Apr 1996, Hugo Radice wrote: I was recently at a workshop in Budapest on foreign direct investment in the Visegrad countries (btw, that's Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Czech Rep], and to my surprise one of the papers was on "The role of FDI in structural change: the lessons from

[PEN-L:3581] Re: State of the New Zealand economy

On Tue, 2 Apr 1996, bill mitchell wrote: * * * the swish pamphlet paints a very pessimistic outlook for the NZ economy in terms of low investment, low productivity and declining export prospects. In other words, while the usual criticisms of the reforms were in terms of equity and social

[PEN-L:3060] Re: privatizing Soc Sec

I'm curious whether the suggestion that social security be privatized is not the first step to abolishing it. At the present time, the wealthier people in this country already have little to gain or lose from whatever happens to social security. Private pensions have made social security

[PEN-L:3000] Re: fantasy

Here's a few thoughts. Legislatively overturn S.Ct. cases which say that corporations are persons entitled to 14th amendment protections. Require that all corporation enabling laws require that corporations operate in the public interest. Then define the public interest as something more

[PEN-L:2743] Re: intermediate macro

I don't know how economics courses are taught these days, but one method of teaching some of use, I notice especially in the labor field, is problems and simulations. The students get into the role play and seem to learn their labor law much better than a more traditional walk through,

[PEN-L:2722] EJROT (pronounced Edge-Rot) (fwd)

I was asked to forward this message to this list. ejd -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 04 Feb 1996 07:40:47 +1300 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: EJROT (pronounced "Edge-Rot") The Electronic Journal of Radical Organisation Theory (EJROT) launched its first edition

[PEN-L:2552] Re: Reich questions (fwd)

On Tue, 23 Jan 1996, Breen, Nancy wrote: * * * I heard Sec. Reich on the Diane Rehm's (DC radio talk) show the other day. He was discussing some suggestions to provide economic incentives for corportations to be more socially responsible -- mostly through tax reforms. This is an area

[PEN-L:2287]

Thank you to the many of you who responded with clear explanations of the budget. I passed them on and received many thanks to be conveyed back to you. It's an amazing time, but one of the pluses is that sometimes expertise is a keystroke away. ellen Ellen J. Dannin California Western

[PEN-L:1639] The Fed

Lately I've noticed statements by members of the Fed and the Clinton administration expressing puzzlement as to why wages remain low, especially compared to improvements in productivity. Aren't these the same folks who just a few months ago were releasing statements about how they needed to

[PEN-L:1654] New Zealand

A new book is out on the liberalisation of New Zealand's economy which might be of interest to some on this list: Jane Kelsey, The New Zealand Experiment: A World Model for Structural Adjustment? It was published November 10 by Auckland University Press and Bridget Williams Books. The AUP

[PEN-L:1634] w

Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.0-3 31/01/90 VAX/VMS; site vaxa.hofstra.edu Path: vaxa.hofstra.edu!devvad Newsgroups: bit.mo.pen-l Subject: w From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (V DONOVAN) Date: 30 Nov 95 13:54:14 EST Distribution: world Organization: Hofstra University Nntp-Posting-Host: vaxa.hofstra.edu

[PEN-L:1574] Re: Unions win against RTZ/CRA

On Fri, 24 Nov 1995, Peter Colley wrote: * * * 2. It is often the case that some unions have left themselves vulnerable to attack through doggedly resisting all work place change. I am not saying this is/was necessarily the case at Tiwai. Actually it probably was not. The Tiwai Point

[PEN-L:1575] Re: Unions win against RTZ/CRA

On Fri, 24 Nov 1995, Peter Colley wrote: CRA cites Tiwai as an example of the success of its strategy, and claims that productivity and the like have improved enormously. There are two aspects to such claims: 1. They are never independently verified. We all know how shonky the OHS

[PEN-L:1567] Re: Unions win against RTZ/CRA

On Fri, 24 Nov 1995, Peter Colley wrote: Unions win against RTZ/CRA Since no other Australian seems to have gotten around to it, I should inform labour activists and other progressives that there has recently been a major victory in Australia against a transnational company with an avowed

[PEN-L:1469] Re: NYNEX SECURITY

whistleblower statutes. Put it all together, and you get a complex situation in these sorts of cases -- creating the best of all possible worlds -- more work for lawyers. Ellen Dannin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:1373] Re: FW: Murder in Nigeria (fwd)

To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FW: Murder in Nigeria Dehai members: I have just read Debrai Haile's eloquent eulogy for Ke Sara Wiwi, murdered Friday in Nigeria. While it may be comforting to think about the actions of the US or South Africa, or to expect other governments

[PEN-L:1146] Re: Good books on greater U.S. polarization of income and wealth?

On Fri, 27 Oct 1995, Paul Zarembka wrote: Friends and comrades: I received the request below from a colleague in our Women's Studies program here who teaches a course in American pluralism. I wonder what suggestions you may for her and thus our students. Thanks, Paul Zarembka, SUNY

[PEN-L:958] Re: relationship activism

On Mon, 16 Oct 1995, Doug Henwood wrote: Comrades - I'm going to be interviewing Nell Minow of Lens Inc., one of the leading "relationship investors" and "shareholder activists" around. I've included the text from their web home page below. Anything you'd like me to ask her about? Doug

[PEN-L:668] Re: NLRB budget c...

On Fri, 6 Oct 1995, Eric Nilsson wrote: * * * Robert Flanagan in _Labor Relations and the Litigation Explosion_ pointed out the same thing: the long delay in punishment for labor law violators meant there was, in essence, almost no punishment. And, this was true BEFORE the coming of the

[PEN-L:659] second attempt

From: VAXB::ECOELT "LYNN TURGEON, PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF ECONOMICS, HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY, [EMAIL PROTECTED]" 3-OCT-1995 16:16:34.75 To: IN%"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" CC: IN%"[EMAIL PROTECTED]",ECOELT Subj: Cockburn and MR In the October MONTHLY

[PEN-L:489] Re: risk shift (fwd)

-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 11:54:18 -0400 From: Michael H. Belzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] From Michael Belzer: This note is in response to Michael Etchison's reference to Michael Belzer's summary that "truck drivers who earn the lowest wages and are least l

[PEN-L:307] Re: STATS: Cuttin...

On Sun, 3 Sep 1995, jtreacy wrote: Treacy: I think Maggie has some very interesting stuff in her reply but to credit all women as knowing who Pops is streachs credulity. [EMAIL PROTECTED] COPYRIGHTED On Sat, 2 Sep 1995 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One last point -- the term

[PEN-L:265]

I began my collective bargaining seminar this term by assigning my law students to read an essay by New Zealand economist Brian Easton, "The Personal Responsibility of an Economist." This is a graceful, thoughtful, and powerful essay, and I wanted to recommend it to those on this list. The

[PEN-L:256] Re: Marxism and the Militias

preferences analysis, historical situation of scarcity and preferences (let alone class-exploitation processes) be damned. What purposes are served by reducing overdeterminist Marxists to a-political, uni-dimensional traders of jargon? Eric Glynn [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PEN-L:150] help request--privatization

g the West European Left, Verso, 1994. especially Jonas Pontusson's article on Sweden in this book. * Andrew Henley and Euclid Tsakalotos, Corporatism and Economic Performance, Edward Elgar, 1993. With Best Wishes, Seongjin Jeong [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:5766] RE:labor information

On Fri, 30 Jun 1995 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please, I need information (articles, books, etc.) about the worker strategies against the "participative management" in the american companies THANKS. Arturo Pacheco ( Visiting Professor at CSU, Fullerton) Labor Notes publish

[PEN-L:5587] Ithaca HOURS

While driving home from Ann Arbor recently, I stopped over in Ithaca to investigate the "Ithaca Hour,"about which there had been some information on my modem. I had just completed a little account of Franklin Roosevelt's decision to reflate the United States economy in the fall of 1933

[PEN-L:5438] Re: whither pen-l

I'm highly influenced by being midstream in a piece I'm working on about New Zealand and what I'm putting into my conclusion. I think it's important to engage in intellectual debate, but agree with MMeeropol (aka gramps) that we stand at a watershed event. Those who have the skills to

[PEN-L:5192] Call for Papers and Invitation to attend

nformation. Thank you. Seyoum S. Zegiorgis, Ph.D. 3617 Yosemite Drive Plano, TX 75023 USA E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FAX: 1-214-686-4175 1-214-422-9797 Telephone: 1-214-422-9797 1-214-613-7591 Please re-post tha above message to many lists as you can. We

Zerowork

Hi, If anyone of you pen-ls know the E-mail address of the journal, 'ZEROWORK', or the E-mail address of its editor, Prof.Harry CLeaver, please let me know. I will deeply appreciate, if you could send that information privately to my E-Mail address as follows. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:5135] Baker Proposal (fwd)

A labor lawyer's perspective on the TIAA-CREF proposal after this was forwarded to the Worklaw list. ellen Ellen J. Dannin California Western School of Law -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 16 May 95 13:47:05 EST From: Goldman, Alvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

[PEN-L:5097] Re: Brits NZ too

On Sun, 14 May 1995, Bruce Cronin wrote: A fascinating side of the neo-'liberal' crusade for 'freedom' in the NZ economy has been their systematic campaign to stamp out criticism of their programme. Alternative centres of policy advice and critique in govt and the universities have had

[PEN-L:5045] Re: Brits Thatcherism

On Fri, 12 May 1995, Robert Peter Burns wrote: Last summer I published a short article called "Global Thatcherism in the Light of the British Experience" . . . Rather, global Thatcherism is an ideological reflex of the global restructuring of class relations, the effect of which is to

[PEN-L:4962] Re: popular economics books

Well, and once you get started on fiction, there's Ursala LeGuin's The Dispossessed and Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time and - in an odd sense Sherri Tepper's The Awakeners (or North Shore / South Shore) about a society which survives by having its priest class organize all of human

[PEN-L:4894] Re: Paramilitary groups (fwd)

I forwarded this original message to a friend of mine who teaches at another university, and I thought her response might be of interest - though it is not written from an economics perspective. Ellen J. Dannin California Western School of Law 225 Cedar Street San Diego, CA 92101 Phone:

[PEN-L:4680] Re: Trond's Debt/Asset polarization model

On Tue, 11 Apr 1995 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With respect to the views of traditional religions toward interest, let me note that: 1) Judaism only forbade it within the community; it was OK to collect from gentiles. * * * 5) All of the above accepted profit based on risk- sharing

[PEN-L:4620] Re: white mice

Yes, but you notice they are only doing the experiment on "white graduate students." I've tried to figure out whether this is good or bad - suppose it depends on the sort of experimentation involved. Or does it mean that with pending legislation on affirmative action and tuition rises there

[PEN-L:4492] Re: request for info

so far: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any info on this is welcome! Yup, my account is from the UofM. The address gold.tc.umn.edu is usually for students with faculty accounts being on maroon.tc.umn.edu or through their own dept, ie, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I tried fingering that account and it showed

[PEN-L:4490] Re: request for info

On Fri, 24 Mar 1995 15:49:47 -0800, Elaine McCrate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know where to find survey results from attitudinal data on welfare? In particular, I'm interested in how income or some other rough measure of class correlates with the degree of hatred of welfare or women

[PEN-L:4453] Re: web site

1. Welfare 2. Crime 3. IQ 4. Taxes 5. Balanced Budget 6. Downsizing, unemployment, unionbusting 7. Third world underdevelopment 8. etc. and, let me add, privatising of public services. Ellen Dannin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:4392] Re: NZ For Sale?

On Thu, 9 Mar 1995 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some may recall that (Sir) Roger Douglas was the architect of free market mania in New Zealand in the 1980s. Out of office for some years, Douglas recently launched a new political party, ACT (any Kiwis or Aussies out there who can tell us what

[PEN-L:4139] Re: Relative Economic Position of Maoris of New Zealand

, I would recommend talking to Brian Easton, an economist there. His address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] He has been a consultant for some of the Iwi (tribes) there, as well as for some of the labour unions. Ellen Dannin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:4107] minimums of wages and others (fwd)

The US isn't the only place where this is an issue. See below. Ellen J. Dannin -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 9:16:32 +1300 (NZDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: minimums of wages and others THANKS FOR THE REFERENCES. THERE ARE PILES

[PEN-L:4026] Re: better off?

The address is: EPI, 1730 Rhode Island Ave, NW, Wasington, D.C. 20036 Phone: 1-202-775-8810 On Thu, 2 Feb 1995, Christopher Benner wrote: Can anyone tell me how to get a copy of "THE STATE OF WORKING AMERICA" I don't have EPI's phone number of address. Sounds very useful.

[PEN-L:3760] Re: piece from the Progressive

Coincidentally, the Labor Party Advocates held a public hearing in the San Francisco area yesterday on the need for a labor party. Four hundred people showed up to participate at the meeting in Hayward. More public hearings are planned across the US. I was not at the meeting but can get a

Middle class-shmiddle class

Why don't we just throw in the towel and join in the chorus of "Serfin' USA?" How much difference is there between the lot of a serf and the situation of lots and lots of us who are wholly dependent on the wishes of the seigneur, who render to this seize-er our time, our energy, our beliefs?

Re: Canada, via Barron's

And something else you should be aware of - Alberta's premier has taken Roger Douglas of New Zealand, the progenitor of the eponymous Rogernomics - as his model. Douglas' book was way up on the best seller lists in Canada for a long time. Douglas goes about billing himself as a socialist who

Re: the Democrats are dead?

I keep thinking that one day the Dems will wake up, but every time I turn on the news and hear them talking, the words coming out of their mouths convince me otherwise. It's hard not to feel a sense of despair about all of this. The only way I can think of to move the Dems is to convince

elections: postscript (fwd)

I thought the enclosed from friends in the UK might be of interest to the depressed members of this list. Ellen J. Dannin + -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 9 Nov 1994 10:55:27 -0600 From: W.M. Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: elections: postscript I've just heard

Re: Atlas plugged

On Tue, 8 Nov 1994, Teresa Amott wrote: On another note, how are Pen-Lers coping with depression and anger today, as we exercise our freedom to vote for the marginally lesser evil? The thought of Jesse Helms as chair of the Senate Foreign Relations committee is so nauseating that I'm having

Journal: Feminist Economics!

From: IN%"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" 1-NOV-1994 04:09:57.72 To: IN%"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" CC: Subj: How to Subscribe to Feminist Economics Return-path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 14:09:26 -0600 (CST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Diana Strassmann) Subje

Re: overpriced journals

Oz is shorthand for Australia. Ellen J. Dannin California Western School of Law 225 Cedar Street San Diego, CA 92101 Phone: 619-525-1449 Fax:619-696- On Mon, 31 Oct 1994, DJ wrote: On Mon, 31 Oct 1994, Cristina Marcuzzo wrote: I am very interested in the service mentioned as

Re: Murray Herrnstein

case group propensities matter. Cindy Cotter [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yeah - sure they matter. However, don't you think it is important in drafting legislation and in devising public policies to hold the individual before you. It gets too easy to paint w/ a broad brush. When I h

Re: Murray Herrnstein

I appreciate hearing this discussion from the economists' points of view. You folks have the skills to approach these sorts of social and economic problems that we lawyers do not have. However, I want to throw something from the field of law into the discussion. I have taught evidence a

Re: Immigration

! in :-) solidarity, Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Econ. Dept., Loyola Marymount Univ., Los Angeles, CA 90045-2699 USA 310/338-2948 (daytime, during workweek); FAX: 310/338-1950

Re: Davis-Bacon Act(s)

. Steve Suo [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph. 503-221-8288

State bidding wars

Is anyone aware of any cost-benefit analyses which have been done as to government subsidies given to persuade companies to locate to an area or not to relocate from an area? Some of the subsidies are quite high on a per job basis, so that it seems hard to believe the citizens will ever

Turing Test

I would like to again raise a topic that continues to underlie the discussion on GE Theory. Sensibly rising to some bait, Gil contended in response to one of my postings that the Roemer type models actually produce rather than merely "simulate" radical results. I think this is worth pursuing.

Re Marx on Money

On March 1, Jim Devine quoted my 26 Feb posting: "(concerning the quote from Marx about M-M') Re whether the analysis fits within the structure of volume I of capital. I would argue that it can, as I detailed beforehand, but that there's no way Marx (or I) argued that it is a source of

Re: Running further with those shoes

me better than my Sauconys do. Then again, I hardly run anymore anyway. Steve Steven Hecker Labor Education and Research Center University of Oregon [EMAIL PROTECTED]

International Trade and Wages

From: IN%"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" "Nathan Newman" 21-JAN-1994 15:58:36.64 To: IN%"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Subj: RE: Does International Trade Lower Wages in the 1st World? Return-path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 20:56:39 -0800 (PST) From: Nathan Newman

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