I am not a party to debate, but this kind of *suggestion* seems quite
*distressing* to me. It blocks communication before it gets blocked even..
Mine
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Michael,
> I suggest you cut this thread off before it becomes a total battlefield
> between the politically correct a
Michael,
I suggest you cut this thread off before it becomes a total battlefield
between the politically correct and common usage types. I have
friends with Schizoid kids and it is quite terrible, but the kind of
political correctness that wants to eliminate the common usage
from discourse I
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> > for April 16 in Washington. Caravans
Carrol Cox wrote:
> Sufferers from schizophrenia are people, not automobiles off an assembly
> line that can be taken to the shop. Even were one to get his/her schizophrenia
> under complete control past episodes would be part of the history which
> he/she is.
and later endorsed the following cl
Brad De Long wrote:
> [SNIP]
> >
> >Schizophrenic people would generally like not to be schizophrenic (you ask
The phrase "schizophrenic people" is itself objectionable. Just as tubercular
people or influenza people would be silly and/or (under some cultural
contexts) offensive. And since a nu
> Hi --
> We are writing to ask for your ONE-TIME SUPPORT FOR A MAJOR DEMONSTRATION
> ON APRIL 16 IN WASHINGTON, DC, against the IMF and World Bank. If you
> contribute, your name and address will not become part of a "list." We
> will not share your name and address with other organizations. P
BLS DAILY REPORT, FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 2000
The following appeared in a Washington Post article (page A1) about the
"flap" over filling out the long form of the census: "Census officials said
it is too early to tell whether complaints about the long form could
discourage people from sending it in.
thanks for this very important correction..
the presenter's name is Paul Streeten, not Streen!!
please, consider it corrected here, since it is correct in the flyers...
Mine
>Gunder Frank wrote:
> >his name is Streeten
> >gunderOn Fri, 31 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Date: Fri, 31
> >>At 16:25 28/03/00 -0800, you wrote:
> >>RETHINKING MARXISM announces its fourth
> >>International Gala Conference
> >
> >>MARXISM 2000
> >
> >>21-24 September (Thursday-Sunday) 2000
> >>University of Massachusetts at Amherst
>
> >Can I ask within the strict etiquette that Michael imposes on >t
State University of New York at Albany, Nelson A. Rockeffeller College,
Graduate School of Public Affairs, The Department of Public Administration
and Policy presents Paul Streen, founder of the influential journal World
Development who will speak on "What is Wrong with Comtemporary
Economics?",
State University of New York at Albany, Nelson A. Rockeffeller College,
Graduate School of Public Affairs, The Department of Public Administration
and Policy presents Paul Streen, founder of the influential journal World
Development who will speak on "What is Wrong with Comtemporary
Economics?",
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The Internet Anti-Fascist: Tuesday, 31 March 2000
Vol. 4, Number 28 (#409)
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CONTENTS
More On the Psychodynami
NY Times, March 31, 2000
FLOYD NORRIS
Modigliani's Message: It's a Bubble, and Bubbles Will Burst
FRANCO MODIGLIANI says that the current mania for Internet and other
technology stocks is not irrational. But it is a bubble, and it will burst.
"I can show, really precisely, that there are two
I believe that he began his work in this subject before McCloskey. Both he and
McCloskey became disgusted by the ideological dishonesty of Stigler and
Friedman. Harry Johnson and Don Patinkin also became disguested earlier and may
have influenced these two. On Stigler, Craig Friedman is good.
I haven't read the book, but this reminds me a little too much of McCloskey.
When neo-classical economics is bested on logical grounds and empirical
evidence, s/he retreats to the claim that it is all rhetoric anyway, and the
prize goes to those who can spin the best line of bull.
Rod
Michael Pe
The
>vast majority of people understand 'schizophrenia' as 'split personality',
Say, rather, that the colloquial English definition of the word
"schizophrenia"--as split personality or cognitive dissonance or a
failure to recognize that beliefs X and Y cannot both be true--has
nothing to do
Justin writes:
>If it is any comfort to you, the 1910s-20s Supreme Court cases on
>sterilization are almost certainly no longer good law, reproductive rights
>being pretty firmly entrenched as due process rights at this point.
I understand that nonetheless, some women have been sterilized in re
Our democratic system requires such diversions, especially around election
time. I much preferred the Lewinsky affair, which did not involve using a
child as a political football.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMA
from "Today's Papers," from SLATE magazine, 3/31/00:
>The NYT explains the U.S. interest in combating the Colombian drug trade:
>90 percent of the cocaine and 65 percent of the heroin
>seized in the U.S. is from there. And the paper quotes Barry McCaffrey,
>the White House point man on drugs, sa
CB: Of course, GDP in a developing country might be raised by mainly
domestic means, but at that time I think you were talking about investment
from developed countries being the main way it has actually happened, and
thus impliedly giving a gold star on the forehead to the investment from
outsid
Published by EH.NET (March 2000)
Melvin W. Reder, _Economics: The Culture of a Controversial Science_.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xii + 384 pp., $35.00
(cloth),
ISBN: 0-226-70609-5.
Reviewed for EH.Net by Ross B. Emmett, Department of Economics,
Augustana
University College, Can
To quote _Star Wars_, I have a bad feeling about this. The fervor and the
rhetoric in Miami is getting out of hand, revealing undertones of
Jonestown. Are some people going to commit suicide if Elian Gonzales goes
back to his father? are middle-class Cuban refugees going to riot? is some
nut g
I wrote:
> > Non-religious folks have this kind of emotional security due to
> upbringing, training, faith in the socialist tradition, etc. Either way,
> there seems to be an "irrational" component, an element of _faith_.<
Bill Lear writes:
>Waitaminnit. What about simple empathy? I am
Thanks.
CB
>>> Rod Hay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/30/00 09:43PM >>>
In fact, profits don't have to go down. There is amble historical evidence that high
wage economies growth faster than low wage ones. In that case wages and profits can go
up at the same time. Your
statement is true only in a stat
>>> Rod Hay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/30/00 09:46PM >>>
Rethinking Marxism has been firmly within the structuralist tradition.
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CB: Which structuralist tradition is that ?
CB
>>> Stephen E Philion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/30/00 08:05PM >>>This thread is looking
>more and more like a spam thread.
CB: Sounds like a first step to intellectual execution.
CB
>G'day Carrol,
>
>>Yes. I believe some other poster tried to confuse issues by
>>claiming that when originally coined the word was intended
>>to mean "split mind," but the claim is pointless. There is no
>>significant sense in which schizophrenia is characterized
>>by a "split mind," and the use o
>>> Stephen E Philion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/30/00 05:03PM >>>
Boston Globe ]
Temp agencies find labor pool evaporating
By Michael Crowley, Globe Staff, 3/30/2000
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Temporary agencies say their once-re
BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 2000
Sales of new homes continued at a torrid pace last month, as the housing
market remained strong despite a series of Federal Reserve interest-rate
increases. New-home sales hit a brisk annual rate of 919,000 in February,
the Commerce Department reported.
The Nation, April 17, 2000
>From "Who Is Putin?"
By Katrina vanden Heuvel
Who is the real Putin? He is a President who now must make choices that
will define his leadership. A key test will be how he treats the tycoons
who control most of Russia's richest and most profitable assets, especiall
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