Please circulate among potential applicants:
The Labour Workplace Studies Program in the Faculty of Arts at the
University of Manitoba invites applications for a full-time tenure-track
position at the rank of Assistant Professor to commence on 1 July 1999
or soon thereafter.
This
Ken,
You should know that it is the very superior efficiency
of the Canadian single desk system of the wheat board
that completely discredits the neo-cons (and Charles
Mueler on the PKT net) and which requires these economists,
(including my colleagues) to rail against the marketing
system --
Gil, I await with baited breath. I hope it is
out before I retire ;-)
On the issue of efficiency wage, I think in its
institutional form (gift-exchange model) it has
been around for a long time in fact, if not in
theory, in the workers demand from the 19th C
for "a fair days work for a fair
Jim asks why we don't debate/explore theoretical questions more.
To me the answer is easy. For the political, ephemeral questions
that dominate the list (and which I enjoy as much as anyone else),
it is easy to drop a line or two in response. For the kind of
issues Jim wants us to debate, it
Just as a footnote to Jim's interesting post,
on page 61 of Kaufman's *The Economics of Labor
Markets* (4th edition) is a graph of five
empirically estimated labour supply curves,
three are backward sloping throughout, two
are backward bending above $6 and $9 resprectively.
In short, only one has
In response to Michail's critique of my response to the original
post let me offer the following.
1. I don't think/believe that university teaching is the only
unalienated application of academic training.
Indeed, I spent three years working as an intellectual worker
for the unions, and another
Just to let you know that the strike scheduled for 12:00
midnight of faculty at the U of Manitoba was settled at
the 11th hour -- well actually around 3:30 this afternoon.
I will post relevant details when they become available.
Paul Phillips,
Economics,
University of Manitoba
Though one can sympathise with someone who always
wanted to be a prof and took the appropriate training
before finding out that there were more candidates than
there were openinings, I find the condementory tone and
accusations of elitism to be off the mark. Both my wife
and my daughter are
Pen-l-ers,
Another gem from 'Texas North' and the redneck right.
"Albertans prepare for winter in dark"
"Blackouts imminent in energy-rich province"
by Carol Harrington, Winnipeg Free Press, Nov.2, 1998
Dr. Michael Harvey is so afraid of the dark, he bought his own
generator.
The Calgary
In support of some of the discussion of the crisis of
distribution both here and on the PKT semimar list with
Jamie Galbraith's _Created Unequal_, I offer the following
that appeeared in the Winnipeg Free Press, Oct. 30, '98.
"MDs prescribe better pay for the poor"
"Meagre wages linked to lousy
I resisted the temptation to contribute further
to the previous debate with Bhoddi, Louise and
Jim and have no intention to reignite it, but I
thought all might be interested in this announcement
released today by the Canadian Labour Congress.
"Labour and Aboriginal groups enter into
Surely the most destabilizing aspect of the current Russian
collapse on top of the continuing crisis in Asia is the
demonstrated abject failure of the IMF bailouts and the
structural adjustment (Washington) model, a model so
recently rejected in toto by Stiglitz as V-P of the
World Bank. In
It seems to me that lost in the invective of this debate is some
of the history of the 'expropriation of the aboriginal commons', at
least as I understand it in the NA context.
First, with regard to the intermingling of the (mercantile) capitalist
mode of production with the aboriginal domestict
The following article appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press, Tues
June 16, 1998.
JOB CUTTER FIRED AS STOCK SINKS
Sunbeam Corp. chairman Al Dunlap, nicknambed "Chain Saw" as the
cutthroat king of corporate job cutters, now knows wht it's like
to be on the receiving end of a pink slip.
Sunbeam's
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