Greetings Economists,
Jim Devine forwards and them comments,
Pen-l alumnus Tavis Barr asks: I've created a lot of my own teaching
materials that I put on the web, especially for my stats class, where I have
lecture notes, exercises, review sheets, practice exams, etc. I'd love to
find a way to
The following items have been posted during the past two weeks on
www.supportingfacts.com. The full text of each article is preceded by a
short summary.
UNS GODFATHER
Tariq Ali argues the UN security council has always served as a venue for
the US to bribe and coerce member states to do its
Jim,
collaborative teaching projects can use Web collaboration software such as
userland: http://www.userland.com/
phpnuke: http://phpnuke.org/
wiki: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiWikiWeb
Wikipedia is an example of a collaborative encyclopedia:
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About
On Thursday, February 27, 2003 at 14:11:22 (-0800) Devine, James writes:
Pen-l alumnus Tavis Barr asks: I've created a lot of my own teaching
materials that I put on the web, especially for my stats class, where I have
lecture notes, exercises, review sheets, practice exams, etc. I'd love to
find
AFL-CIO's Executive Council Resolution against US War on Iraq:
http://www.afl-cio.org/aboutaflcio/ecouncil/ec02272003h.cfm
* New York Times February 28, 2003
Labor, Breaking Tradition, Criticizes War Preparations
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
HOLLYWOOD, Fla., Feb. 27 - After backing
Title: open-source teaching?
This looks like a good start, but if there's to be such an effort at open-source teaching, we need someone who (unlike myself) has the time, energy, and expertise to organize the basic project, so that people on pen-l and similar lists could contribute and
Title: Mankiw
(from the NY TIMES, 2/28/03 http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/28/business/28ECON.html?tntemail0==print=top )
What has infuriated some advocates of Mr. Bush's tax-cutting plans are things that Mr. Mankiw wrote in his textbook, Principles of Economics, first published in the late
Devine, James wrote:
Krugman's NYT column today suggests that Mankiw will have little
choice but to toe the party line.
Of course! Lindsey got bounced for being too fat and for being too
honest about the cost of war. Mankiw's not fat - and his dog named
Keynes is safely dead - so he'd better
Title: RE: [PEN-L:35142] Re: Mankiw
Krugman's NYT column today suggests that Mankiw will have little
choice but to toe the party line.
Doug writes:
Of course! [Mankiw had] better practice his lying if he wants
to keep his job.
please, we professional economists don't call it lying.
Title: cost of war against Iraq
The enormous cost of war
Commentary: U.S. will be paying for Iraq for years
By Paul Erdman, CBS.MarketWatch.com
Last Update: 4:03 PM ET Feb. 27, 2003
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- After deliberately avoiding the subject, the Bush administration has finally and
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12808-2003Feb27.html
U.N. Finds No Long-Range Iraqi Missiles
By CHARLES J. HANLEY
The Associated Press
Thursday, February 27, 2003; 6:00 PM
The U.N. inspectors swarming over Iraq's missile industry found an
infraction last week: The short-range Al
I thought it was called 'heroic assumptions.'
mbs
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Krugman's NYT column today suggests
Hi everyone.
I've decided to pop back on the list to follow up on my message that Jim
forwarded. I actually have a great deal of interest in this question and
I'm hoping some others here might find themselves in the same boat as me
and therefore also be interested.
My question was a bit
Title: RE: [PEN-L:35147] open-source teaching
two commens.
1. For several years, I have put my lecture notes hand-outs on-line, first on my web-site and later on Blackboard. In the first case, I got the feeling that students at other universities were plagiarizing my lectures for term
The point about plagiarism is interesting and one I hadn't thought
about. Though I don't think there's really a way to avoid the threat
whatever we put online. One solution is that my university subscribes
to a service that will scan papers for plagiarism (it seems a bit
cop-like but
1. For several years, I have put
my lecture notes hand-outs on-line, first on my web-site and later
on Blackboard. In the first case, I got the feeling that students at
other universities were plagiarizing my lectures for term papers. Those
who set up an on-line open-source economics page have
Ignoring the fact that George Bush declined Saddam Hussein's
challenge to a televised debate, Tim Dowling exclusively reveals what
could have happened had they met
Tuesday February 25, 2003
Tony Blair, moderator: Welcome to the first televised debate between
George W Bush and Saddam Hussein,
I wrote:
1. For several
years, I have put my lecture notes hand-outs on-line, first on my web-site
and later on Blackboard. In the first case, I got the feeling that students at
other universities were plagiarizing my lectures for term papers. Those who set
up an on-line open-source
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, e. ahmet tonak wrote:
Any suggestions for progressive political and economic analyses on
Venezuela --web resources preferred. Thanks
There are some good articles on the web, and I promise to track them down
when I get a chance. But one non-web resource I can warmly
Funny we should be talking about Mankiw of the $1.35 million advance for
his fluffy principles book at the same time as open source textbooks.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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Volume 20 - Issue 05, March 01 - 14, 2003
WTO
The elusive consensus
SUKUMAR MURALIDHARAN
The Tokyo conclave of a pivotal group of WTO member-countries highlights
the absence of consensus on crucial issues, especially agricultural trade
liberalisation and access to
Greetings Economists,
Thanks for bringing this up Tavis. Something I've wanted to see discussed
for quite awhile. In my view an important topic for the left to develop
some practice in. So your initiative is welcome from my point of view
entirely. I think there are some questions of course to
Greetings Economists,
The remarks pasted in below the signature have several problems in an 'open
source' sense. Bill Lear posted a site
-http://www.lightandmatter.com/article/article.html - that describes the
problems an individual author had with open source book publishing. That
essay
No to Will, Yes to Peace
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0227-10.htm
Seth
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So, if GM considers supply-side drivel drivel, why is the onus being put
on him to explain his position rather than on the cranks and charlatans
that have hired him?
[NYTimes]
[snip]
Mr. Mankiw's comments have infuriated a number of prominent supply-side
economists, including at least one who
The Sundance Channel will broadcast the film Monday night. I have heard
some of the audio, which sounded pretty interesting. Surprising that it
would broadcast now.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/627/sc12.htm
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