from MS SLATE: US Senator John Kerry said he won't campaign this week.
We think it's
respectful, and No. 2, I don't think we're going to get any
coverage, one named Kerry staffer told the NYT.
bad news: Kerry honors Reagan.
good news: no new Kerry speeches this week
Paul Krugman wrote: And there are signs of an economic takeoff in at least
parts of India [...] every one of those development success stories was
based on export-led growth.
Then Michael Pollak made the following remark: India wasn't. Exports are
10% of its economy, like the US.
India is a big
--- Eubulides [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[Jeebus..]
Quite intriquing that workers keep producing and
producing, yet *we* appear to be in debt to other
ruling classes of the world. I guess there's nothing
left to do but to take over and run the means of
production for ourselves. Wake up
On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Krugman was quoted saying
Now we know that the club isn't that exclusive, after all. South Korea and
several smaller Asian economies have made a full transition to modernity.
China is still a poor country, but it has made astonishing progress. And
there are signs of an
[Jeebus..]
[New York Times]
November 28, 2003
OP-ED COLUMNIST
The Good News
By PAUL KRUGMAN
I've heard it said that I should try, just once, to write something
upbeat. Honestly, on the domestic front it's hard. Yes, the business cycle
is looking up - but with the budget out of control
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33159-2003Oct2.html
--
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Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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I read several chapters of the ms. of this book. It's very good. (I'd prefer
an updated version of Bowles Edwards, but that's still in the works.)
JD
-Original Message-
From: michael perelman
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 4/26/02 6:12 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:25459] good news -- textbooks
Do
Do you teach a semester long Principles of Microeconomics class? Are
you dissatisfied with your current text, because of its narrow
free-market ideology, or its over-emphasis of technique? If so, this
e-mail is for you. (If not, please pass it along to a colleague, or
immediately delete it
Goodbye cruel world
A report by top US scientists on climate change suggests that catastrophe
could be imminent
Jeremy Rifkin
Friday March 1, 2002
The Guardian [U.K.]
We live in a world that has become so desensitised by watching calamities
unfold on global television - both natural and
As I recall, a top climatologist made a similar point a few years back It did
not garner front-page headlines, to say the least Peculiar, isn't it? Gil
Goodbye cruel world
A report by top US scientists on climate change suggests that
catastrophe
could be imminent
Jeremy Rifkin
Friday
As I recall, a top climatologist made a similar point a few years back.
It did
not garner front-page headlines, to say the least. Peculiar, isn't it?
Gil
the future scenario in T.C. Boyle's novel, A FRIEND OF THE EARTH is becoming
more more plausible.
Jim D.
Recovery just around corner!
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Commerce Secretary Don Evans on Tuesday said he was
``still very optimistic'' about the future of the U.S. economy, despite last
week's terror attacks on New York and Washington.
``In terms of the economy, I am still very optimistic about the
On the Threshold of the Third Globalization: Why Liberal
Capitalism Might Fail?
BY: BRANKO MILANOVIC
World Bank
Development Research Group
Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection:
from economy.com
Defense-Aerospace Profits Take Off
By Steve Cochrane
08/6/01 12:00 PM ET
There is no profits recession in the defense-aerospace industry. Not only
are the leading U.S. defense contractors posting positive net earnings, but
profits are generally rising. Last month, Lockheed
from SLATE:
The LA [TIMES] fronts word that 11 Guatemalan communities are going to
file suit today against a former president, accusing him
of genocide. More than 200,000 Guatemalans were killed during a civil war
in the 1980s. According to the LAT, the suit charges that former President
for International Affairs at Harvard.
- Original Message -
From: Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 8:47 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:12874] good news from Guatemala
from SLATE:
The LA [TIMES] fronts word that 11 Guatemalan communities are going to
file
the bad news: the UCLA guys predict a "mild" recession in the US during the next year
or
so.
the good news: it won't hit Southern California that hard. (As if we need more!)
-- Jim Devine
Thursday, April 5, 2001 | L.A. TIMES.
S. California Foreseen Escaping U.S. Recession
from SLATE:
An op-ed in the NYT says a sinking Nasdaq could squelch U.S. intervention
abroad. With our economy slowed, Americans may
suddenly ask if we can afford foreign missions. Also, we don't look so
powerful anymore in foreign eyes. Says one Wall Streeter, "Look, the
Nasdaq is America's
Then again, Bush launched the Gulf War partly to distract from recession
talk and his falling popularity back in 1990.
-- Nathan Newman
- Original Message -
From: "Jim Devine" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 11:57 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:9394]
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At 12:31 PM 5/25/00 -0700, you wrote:
I know that some people here have strong reservations about Nader, but I
would love to see him puch a hole in neo-liberalism.
if Nader starts winning in the opinion polls, Gore will start shifting to
the left. Of course, after the election, he'll return to
I know that some people here have strong reservations about Nader, but I
would love to see him puch a hole in neo-liberalism.
Published on Thursday, May 25, 2000 in the Washington Post
Nader's Bid Complicates Gore's Task
by Thomas B. Edsall
Ralph Nader's
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Jim Devine wrote:
if Nader starts winning in the opinion polls, Gore will start shifting to
the left. Of course, after the election, he'll return to the Democratic
Leadership Council party line.
Which makes his running even more useless, since at least a legitimate
At 05:01 PM 5/25/00 -0400, you wrote:
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Jim Devine wrote:
if Nader starts winning in the opinion polls, Gore will start shifting to
the left. Of course, after the election, he'll return to the Democratic
Leadership Council party line.
Which makes his running even more
At 05:37 PM 5/25/00 -0400, you wrote:
The logical vehicle for a Nader/union candidacy
is not the Greens, but the Labor Party. RN has
been to LP conventions. A big plus is that he's
to the left of PEN-L on trade.
This last sentence is a sign that the concept of "left vs. right" in
politics
You said " So Nader (and more importantly, _et al_) have to keep up the
pressure up after the election. In fact, it needs to be intensified, to
counteract the constant influence of the corporate lobbyists."
Since this is what Nader does all the time, running for office seems
irrelevant to the
. . .
How do people on this list justify promoting Nader when a decent committed
socialist like McReynolds is running? Is the fact that Nader will lose by
a smaller overwhelming margin justification enough?
-- Nathan Newman
If the industrial unions lead the charge for a
Nader candidacy, I'll
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Jim Devine wrote:
Which makes his running even more useless, since at least a legitimate
move to the left by Gore under pressure might justify the increased
likelihood of a Bush win.
Nathan, why did you cut off the rest of my message, which addressed this issue?
You
Nathan Newman wrote:
I just don't see what is gained by the campaign. Third party folks make
so many wondrous claims for such third party efforts, yet historically
Lafayette in 1924 delivered the reactionary era of Coolidge; Wallace the
Cold War and McCarthyism; and we can go on. The
The logical vehicle for a Nader/union candidacy
is not the Greens, but the Labor Party. RN has
been to LP conventions. A big plus is that he's
to the left of PEN-L on trade.
This last sentence is a sign that the concept of "left vs. right" in
politics means less the more you examine it. (Left
Jim Devine wrote:
if Nader starts winning in the opinion polls, Gore will start shifting to
the left. Of course, after the election, he'll return to the Democratic
Leadership Council party line. So Nader (and more importantly, _et al_)
have to keep up the pressure up after the election.
I have no trouble with McReynolds or any other leftist running. The risk of a
Bush victory is another story.
Nathan Newman wrote:
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Jim Devine wrote:
if Nader starts winning in the opinion polls, Gore will start shifting to
the left. Of course, after the election,
two items:
1) BUSINESS WEEK had an amazingly favorable review of Noam Chomsky's book
on "humanitarian interventionism."
2) I found my son (age 9) reading the cartoons in Z magazine, a leftwing
monthly.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://liberalarts.lmu.edu/~JDevine/JDevine.html
two items:
1) BUSINESS WEEK had an amazingly favorable review of Noam Chomsky's book
on "humanitarian interventionism."
2) I found my son (age 9) reading the cartoons in Z magazine, a leftwing
monthly.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It is sad news week!!!
"New US aggression and
Yesterday, the Supreme Court significantly weakened trademark law in regards
to "trade dress", the idea that companies can sue other producers for
resembling the design of their product. While the case benefitting
Wal-Mart's right to "knock-off" the design of other more expensive products
has a
For all the horrors discussed on trademark law, the courts have generally
upheld decent standards in the area of copyright, and this decision is a big
one. It essentially defends using copyrighted software to create new
emulation programs to run that software on different hardware. This is key
I just hit on a scheme to turn the U.S. from being dominated primarily by
caucasians to being dominated by Indigenous Peoples. I sent a book to my
friend Mike Levine (I urge all to visit his website and download some of his
very penetrating stuff)who is doing research on the Inuit and the Thule
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Wojtek,
This is a bit of a muddle. Ormerod was an accomplished econometric
modeler in Britain. Built up a business around it, then sold it for
big bucks, so he knows what he's talking about, but you tripped up
in a few places.
His argument can be summarized as follows:
Prediction in
Peter Dorman wrote: Sounds to me like bipolar journalism. Last year it
was a global depression rippling outward from Asia. This year it's
prosperity unto the end of time. So what will the next mood swing bring?
I wonder what would happen if someone actually sat down and constructed the
At 02:02 PM 6/27/99 -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
Jim Devine quoted :
Is it a freak, the economic equivalent
of a 100-year flood? A growing number
of experts think not.
Not only will today's good times roll
longer than ever before, according to this
view, but the traditional cycle of boom
Rob Schaap wrote:
Ý* Computer technology has revolutionized the way
Ýprivate industry manages the flow of products and
Ýmaterials. Disruptive pile-ups of unused goods and
Ýbottlenecks caused by shortages--historically major
Ýcauses of economic instability--appear to be less of a
Ýthreat these
Sounds to me like bipolar journalism. Last year it was a global
depression rippling outward from Asia. This year it's prosperity unto the
end of time. So what will the next mood swing bring?
Peter
Doug Henwood wrote:
Jim Devine quoted :
Is it a freak, the economic equivalent
of a
Jim Devine quoted :
Is it a freak, the economic equivalent
of a 100-year flood? A growing number
of experts think not.
Not only will today's good times roll
longer than ever before, according to this
view, but the traditional cycle of boom
and bust will never be the same again.
Economic
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New York Times Front Page
February 26, 1999
In Biggest Drive Since 1937, Union Gains a Victory
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
LOS ANGELES -- Winning the biggest unionization drive in
more than half a century, the Service Employees International Union
gained the right
Tom Kruse concludes:
...
P.S. valis, what is this shit?
Huh?!
[snip]
Well, that ratfucker just discovered the EU, didn't he?
Big deal, though; I'll be impressed when they bust some
local CIA operatives on the same rap.
I know it's
- Pinochet's defender decry, citing the "indignity" of serving the warrant
at midnight, while he was in bed, and leaving him incomunicado for 2 hours!
Pinochet, "disappeared" for 2 hours!
And that "indignity" is what makes it sweet. Logic tells me that Pinochet
will never have to face trial, let
Jim D makes known that the cosmos is conscious after all, just real slow:
Chilean Ex-Dictator Pinochet Arrested In London
.
LONDON (Reuters) - Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was
arrested in London Saturday by police
[A note sent to lbo-talk, in response to comments there]
Regarding Pinochet's arrest:
A couple of points, first a small one. From emilio we read:
BBC-TV shows interviews with refugees from Chile living in London.
Refugees ?
I doubt because since 1990 Chile had been a full democratic
Jim D makes known that the cosmos is conscious after all, just real slow:
Chilean Ex-Dictator Pinochet Arrested In London
.
LONDON (Reuters) - Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was
arrested in London Saturday by police acting
from today's Reuters wire, via Yahoo!:
Chilean Ex-Dictator Pinochet Arrested In London
By Paul Majendie
LONDON (Reuters) - Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was
arrested in London Saturday by police acting on a request from Spain.
A police spokeswoman said
Dennis R Redmond wrote:
NAFTA was passed by a Democratic Prez and Congress. The other bills
Whatever you think about the Democratic Party, this isjust sloppy. As Nathan
said, most Democrats in the House
voted against NAFTA. The House would have defeated
Fast Track if it had been brought up
On Fri, April 10, 1998 at 10:36:17 (-0400) Max B. Sawicky writes:
...
There seems to be a habit of explaining results after the fact. If
the Dems do something bad, it was in their nature; if they do
something good, it was in response to working class restiveness or
threats to the status quo.
At 07:01 AM 4/8/98 -0700, you wrote:
GOOD NEWS: THE WELFARE GAINS MADE IN THE LAST SIX YEARS
- Nathan Newman
Even as many of us organize against the punitive effects of welfare
and individuals is lower under TANF than AFDC. Is there anyone
on the list who can confirm my understanding?
Jeff
--
From: Louis Proyect
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Good news: Welfare gains made in the last six years
Date: Wednesday, April 08, 1998 10:33AM
At 07:01 AM 4/8/98 -0700, you
... the following chart shows (in billions of dollars) how
defense spending has fallen even as spending on housing, food assistance,
and general income support (welfare, Earned Income Tax Credit, etc.) has
risen between 1992 and 1998:
Category 1992 1998
is
well-taken, though we do have a breather this year.
Nathan Newman wrote:
GOOD NEWS: THE WELFARE GAINS MADE IN THE LAST SIX YEARS
Max B. Sawicky wrote:
The spending here does not include EITC, which
I took note of above. One can see from Nathan's
numbers that the better part of the public assistance
increase was due to the EITC and SSI, the latter
focused on the elderly and reflecting health care
cost pressures, to some
From: James Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Category 1992 1998Change
- - -
Defense 298,350 264,112 -34,238
Housing assistance 18,904 28,752 +9,848
Food and nutrition assistance32,622 36,137
Too much focus on losses can lead
not to action but to disempowerment, so this post will lay out some good
news on our successes embodied in the federal budget.
Louis Proyect wrote:
-This is obscene spin-doctoring on behalf of the reactionary Clinton. The
-problem we are facing is cutbacks in
Max Sawicky:
This peaks in 1980, takes a long but
not enormous dip over the 1980's (e.g., less than
2% of GDP), and is restored by that great man
George Bush to pre-Reagan levels.
I always suspected Bush was more of a Keynesian than is Clinton.
John Gulick
John Gulick
Ph. D. Candidate
They can afford to increase welfare -- I potentially see it as another slush
fund a/la the social security trust fund. They increase the monies available,
but get rid of the eligible population, so the money is there for the use of
the politicians. cute. maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-Original Message-
From: Dennis R Redmond [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wednesday, April 08, 1998 4:29 PM
Subject: Re: Good news: Welfare gains
There really is no difference between
the two factions of our one-party-state, which have (sub)merged
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Nathan Newman wrote:
If the Dems are so completely the party of Wall Street, how come the vast
majority voted against Wall Street's top priority bills?
NAFTA was passed by a Democratic Prez and Congress. The other bills
stalled because ordinary working folk got pissed off
Nathan Newman wrote:
. . .
(I would also note that much of the increase in domestic spending under Bush was
due to cyclical spending increases due to the early 90s recession in combination
with the explosion in medical inflation in those years.)
The increase could well have had political
From: Max B. Sawicky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A better view of the other stuff, or the whole
picture, is obtained by considering the trend in
domestic spending as a share of GDP, or to be
precise, total outlays less defense and net interest
payments. This peaks
Fellows, Jeffrey wrote:
AFDC has been renamed. It is now Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF),
or some such phrasing. I understand that federal block grant payments to
states for TANF are larger than the former federal AFDC funding.
However, I believe that the actual distribution of money
GOOD NEWS: THE WELFARE GAINS MADE IN THE LAST SIX YEARS
- Nathan Newman
Even as many of us organize against the punitive effects of welfare
"deform" and other social a
GOOD NEWS: THE WELFARE GAINS MADE IN THE LAST SIX YEARS
- Nathan Newman
Even as many of us organize against the punitive effects
An interesting article from THE ECONOMIST on the growth of the state and
public spending, despite all the rhetoric of the "end of government."
SPEND, SPEND, SPENDSept. 20-28
DID somebody say the age of big government was dead? At the beginning of
this century government spending in
Well, put aside the gloom and fasten your seat belts. . .
Every time it rains, it rains pennies from heaven (or is that just a pr hack
pissing out the 2nd floor window?).
Regards,
Tom Walker
^^
knoW Ware Communications |
(from the L.A. TIMES, June 10, 1997)
(from the LA TIMES, June 10, 1997)
Economists See Rosy Long-Term U.S. Future
Finance: Nation is poised for huge 20-year growth, many say.
Job uncertainty is expected to continue.
By ART PINE, Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON--Sociologists are worried
Congratulations, Steven!
Sid Shniad
Dear Michael and pen-lers,
I like the idea of setting up a parallel list to receive information
requests. For me, PEN-L is often at its best when participants focus on
taking political action. Hopefully the parallel list will be a means to
Steve;
Congrats! I just graduate in May so I know how hard you worked!!!
maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
p.s. I taught two classes today for the first time. Did I ever feel like an
old bat in front of all those college freshkids!
-
Forwarded message:
From: [EMAIL
Dear Michael and pen-lers,
I like the idea of setting up a parallel list to receive information
requests. For me, PEN-L is often at its best when participants focus on
taking political action. Hopefully the parallel list will be a means to
continue this tradition.
Steven Zahniser
[EMAIL
Steven Zahniser
P.S. This summer I successfully defended my dissertation, turned it in,
and received my Ph.D. in economics. I am now beginning a one-year
postdoctoral fellowship funded by the Social Science Research Council, in
which I will look at various issues regarding Mexico-U.S.
In reply to Trond Andressen's comment: the contradiction is in the
social democratic PARTIES, which are no longer social democratic.
Sorry I did not make the distinction clear between the the present
political parties claiming the SD tradition, and social democracy as
a broad historical
Hugo Radice, [EMAIL PROTECTED], says on Fri, 8 Dec 1995
Pro-EU socialists in Europe believe that it is politically possible
to construct a 'people's'/socialist EU
I still on balance go along with this view myself, though we
have the 'local' problem here in the UK that the Labour
Sid,
Pro-EU socialists in Europe believe that it is politically possible
to construct a 'people's'/socialist EU. They recognise that at
present the dominant political economy in the EU is monetarist, but
they cling to the belief that the 'social cohesion' measures promoted
by Jacques Delors
jobs and higher salaries. President Chirac is demanding
major sacrifices in the sacrosanct state welfare system to reduce
its soaring deficit, and he has flatly refused to back down."
-- "Public Support for Strike Stuns French Leaders," by Scott
Kraft, L.A. TIMES, Dec. 6, 19
eaders," by Scott
Kraft, L.A. TIMES, Dec. 6, 1995.
No only is this good news, but it suggests that Daniel Singer's
view that French politics became "Americanized" under Mitterand,
though seemingly right at the electoral level, is wrong at the
grassroots level.
in
and he has flatly refused to back down."
-- "Public Support for Strike Stuns French Leaders," by Scott
Kraft, L.A. TIMES, Dec. 6, 1995.
No only is this good news, but it suggests that Daniel Singer's
view that French politics became "Americanized" under Mitterand
h Leaders," by Scott
Kraft, L.A. TIMES, Dec. 6, 1995.
No only is this good news, but it suggests that Daniel Singer's
view that French politics became "Americanized" under Mitterand,
though seemingly right at the electoral level, is wrong at the
grassroots le
Louis Proyect:
And so the gold seekers come, lugging their tents and mess kits and
mud-crusted sheepskins for warmth and leaving behind farms or low-
paying factory jobs. With an estimated 130 million Chinese designated
as "surplus labor" in the countryside, the pool of potential miners
Board predicts
GROWTH WON'T STEM UNEMPLOYMENT
OTTAWA -- The Conference Board of Canada predicts
that the global economy will break free from a four
year bout of anemia next near, with growth in Canada
leading the pack among major industrial countries.
But in its latest forecast, the think
We have been operating pen-l under the new software since Friday. I have
not received any complaints yet (although our computer system has been
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For instructions on doing things other than sending mail, send a message
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Attention: Good News and a Warning!
On Friday, March 11th, at 3:30pm PST this list will stop using
the current list mailer, listman, and will be switched over to listproc.
Listproc is the latest version of listserv which is what the pen-l list
was using before coming to Chico State
First the good news. We now have a unix version of the old program tht
that we used to run pen-l from USC. I will let you know about the dates.
This new program should allow us to do no-mail and the like. I will forward
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