Consumer confidence?

1994-03-29 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
This morning, I heard a report on the radio which said that the economy was bound to pick up because "consumer confidence" was much higher than its been for quite some time. In the next breath, they mentioned that something like only 13% of those surveyed thought that the job market was decent

Re: Imperialism

1994-04-08 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
On Thu, 7 Apr 1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me repeat what I sent to a Canadian colleague about the offensive posting on this network. " Sorry if I am unrepenetant, but I am sick and tired about American Liberal "holier than thou"sim and -- "do as I do, not as I say". When you look at

Update on FDIC Gopher

1994-04-26 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Dear Penl'rs, I just got the latest list of updated gophers, and it turns out that the first official announcement of the FDIC gopher was wrong. The correct address is: fdic.sura.net port 71 I just tried it and it seems to work just fine. Thanks, Anders Schneiderman Center

Re: Urban and Regional Course

1994-06-07 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
On Tue, 7 Jun 1994, Marshall Feldman wrote: I'm starting to think about the fall :^( and redesigning my course on urban and regional theory. It's an introductory course for graduate students in community planning who have no economics or social science prerequisites. The course is called

Re: TQEM

1994-06-25 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
On Fri, 24 Jun 1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for left critiques of "Total Quality Management" re: labor and would appreciate any citations folk could provide me. I think Labor Notes put out a booklet of critiques of TQM sometime in the last two years. I think the Midwest Labor

Help re: citations on Inflation debate

1994-11-23 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Dear Pen-Lrs, I'm interested in reading (actually, re-reading) the debates over the causes + relative importance of 1970s inflation in the U.S. I'm looking for cites for both the radical and the mainstream lit. Any help would be greatfully appreciated. Thanks, Anders Schneiderman Dept of

Re: Lynn Turgeon's report and discussions of monetary policy

1994-01-10 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
On Mon, 10 Jan 1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *stuff deleted* I was in a "discussion" with Ed Deak, head of the dept at Fairfield U., right after the meetings and he argued that the only way to convince the bond market to let the long rate continue to fall was to RAISE the short rate. My

SEC EDGAR Database on-line

1994-01-26 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Dear Pen-l'rs, Just in case you haven't heard, the SEC's EDGAR database--or at least parts of it--are finally on-line! It looks like a typical Internet hack: the files are in coded form, and it will probably take a bit of work to figure out how to smoothly work the system. Also, the

SEC'S EDGAR DATABASE (fwd)

1994-01-29 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
A bit more info on the SEC database, courtesy TAP-INFO, the Naderite free-govt-info project. Anders Schneiderman Center for Community Economic Research, UCB -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 29 Jan 94 17:08:06 EST From: Michael Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Carving Up the Superhighway

1994-02-09 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Thanks for the peek into the Canadian version of the craze hitting the States. Incidentally, the man describing the computer system of the future got it wrong. He should have said, "When I come home at night, the machine will say, 'Hello, Nicholas, I've looked at 14,000 hours of television and

Consumer confidence?

1994-03-29 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
This morning, I heard a report on the radio which said that the economy was bound to pick up because "consumer confidence" was much higher than its been for quite some time. In the next breath, they mentioned that something like only 13% of those surveyed thought that the job market was decent

[PEN-L:3706] Economists, complexity, and power

1995-01-11 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
The discussion over economists and rationality reminded me of something I've been wanting to ask the economists on the list. Is the study of complexity/chaos making any headway in mainstream economics these days? I've read a bit of the work on complexity going on in the study of biology, and it

[PEN-L:4002] Re: Balanced Budget Amendment

1995-01-31 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
after that obvious flippant remark, I say we need a better term for _good_ social programs. What about "the social wage"? Jim Devine How about extra-lean pork? Anders Schneiderman Center for Community Economic Research

[PEN-L:4039] Arguments supporting the Minimum Wage

1995-02-03 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Dear penl-rs, Ron Stief of the Center for Ethics and Economic Policy is trying to pull together a short piece on why raising the minimum wage is a good idea. Anybody have a good summary of the economic research which supports this claim? Thanks, Anders Schneiderman Center for Community Economic

[PEN-L:4041] Articles,etc. Needed for Race and the CA Economy Site

1995-02-03 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
As part of work our Center is doing with groups fighting Prop 187 immigration-bashing, Prop 184 "getting tough on crime," and the impending anti-affirmative action initiaive in California, we're putting together an Internet gopher/web site called "Race and the California Economy." If you've

[PEN-L:4042] Attack Stat Central

1995-02-03 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Dear pen-lrs, At least once a week, someone calls me asking for a statistic they need to bash some nasty right-winger/Republicat. At some point or other, a pen-lr has probably posted the numbers that person needs. So, I wanted to throw out an idea to the list and see what people think. I'd

[PEN-L:4059] Re: chomsky page

1995-02-06 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
This is the chomsky address. By the way, is there -- certainly there should be -- a good compilation of left sources of information on the Web? Not to toot our own horn or anything ( :) ), but the best source right now is the Economic Democracy Information Network (EDIN) Gopher, which is run by

[PEN-L:5382] Re: Nader, Affirmative Action, and Lesser Evils

1996-07-29 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Doug wrote, My objection to Nathan's original comments was that it was too easy simply to equate a position on AA with a position on racism. Clinton, for example, supports some kind of AA - details characteristically hazy - but he's also the prime mover behind the current mania for welfare

[PEN-L:5556] Re: [SOLUTIONS] Four Ways to Abolish Affirmative Action

1996-08-05 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Dear Maggie, While I concur with the spirit of some of the suggestions put forth in this article -- I strongly OBJECT to the SEXIST nature of the writing. Oy! I messed up. In the previous draft of the piece, I did talk about affirmative action based on gender as well as race. As I ran out

[PEN-L:5730] Keeping welfare attack stats

1996-08-17 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
This week, Penlrs have produced a wonderful array of info about welfare that's useful for countering conservatives. It would be really great if this info could be summed up in a brief, clear way and made accessible online--kind of a Progressive FAQ--for other folks to use in the future.

[PEN-L:5731] Re: Welfare Reform

1996-08-17 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
It's a really good idea to take apart the myths around welfare, esp. if you have sharp conservative students who like to hit you w/ conservative editorials. I also think it's a good idea to try to shift the debate away from welfare and back to poverty, folks in the bottom half, etc. Part of the

[PEN-L:5745] Re: Welfare Reform

1996-08-19 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Dear Eugene, mention of the SL bailout. The dollars involved in the electric deregulation for California ratepayers are MORE than the SL bailout. Interesting! Do you happen to have any numbers handy? Anders

[PEN-L:5746] Re: Keeping welfare attack stats

1996-08-19 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Dear Gil, The Center for Popular Economics has just put out a book which does exactly this. I ordered it from a flier I've since thrown away, and I forget the title, but it's published by the New Press in NYC. Gil I'd heard they'd done a very nice job with it. However, that's NOT what I was

[PEN-L:5814] Re: Taxes: Dole, Clinton the Left

1996-08-23 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Dear Max, The left has actually done splendidly on the question of the progressivity of taxes -- every conservative tax position since 1981 has been beaten down when the distributional tables were published. Unfortunately, we're getting killed on the spending issue, and not on the value of OASDI

[PEN-L:6380] Re: Yet Another Economists' Petition

1996-09-26 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Max, I'm really glad to see that somebody's doing this (incidentally, maybe we should try to get something similar about Social Security right after the Nov election so that when Clinton decides to sign up for privatizing SSI, we'll be ready to go). Some comments: úPut people first by

[PEN-L:6849] Re: CIA/crack/contra conspiracy/connection covered

1996-10-22 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Jim wrote: I haven't read the whole series (last week's series on the biology of the brain was more interesting), but I'd say that it can be summarized as minimizing the role of the CIA the contras in the crack epidemic. The contras were involved, but it wasn't very profitable for them. There

[PEN-L:7031] Re: AIUSA responds to allegations of unionbusting

1996-10-30 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Phew, some letter! Well, I am certainly glad that aiusa did not oppose the unionization of its staff. It would, however, be interesting to find out some of the history of the debate just for general discussion. Obviously there was some sort of 'felt need' because a large number of staff signed

[PEN-L:7066] Derrida v. Gingrich (was: anti-intellectualism against and in the

1996-10-31 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
unless, of course, the subject was profs' salaries). In short, the problem with the pomos isn't that they were wrong about the connections between discourse and power. They were just incompetent. R. Anders Schneiderman, PhD. Progressive Communications

[PEN-L:7080] Re: A Pomo (re)quest

1996-10-31 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Dear Stephen, To Doug H., Anders S., Jim D., and others who are on the attack against pomo, As I've read your various posts I find myself alternately wanting to respond, but also at times being angry at the dismissive comments (they're just incompetent), hostile interpretation of motives

[PEN-L:7091] Re: fetishism and commodity production

1996-11-01 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
So what's wrong with using words like "fetishism" (a word quite commonly used in my neighborhood) or "commodity" or "production" or "commodity production"? There's nothing wrong per se with these words, but if we want to be useful to our friends outside academia and the far left, then we've got

[PEN-L:7130] Re: 15 minutes of Derrida's Specters

1996-11-01 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Dear Steve, Thanks for your capsule summary of _Specters_; it was much appreciated. But I think there was something powerful in someone whose work is considered to be anti-Marxist to argue that Marx is today unavoidable, despite the rush to global liberal capitalism. Don't you mean "because of

[PEN-L:7327] Re: Fwd: Affirmative Action in public employment and education is

1996-11-08 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Maggie writes: 1. I think that this vote will serve as a legitimizing symbol to a growing backlash against affirmative action, particularly against women in nontraditional careers (whatever the hell nontraditional means). 2. I believe that the business community will increasingly not comply

[PEN-L:7373] Re: racism, affirmative action, etc.

1996-11-11 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
At 02:10 PM 11/10/96 -0800, you wrote: Of course, on the other hand, the population as a whole voted against a tax that would only affect a very few rich people. Even though I know better, I remain dumbfounded at the ignorance of the US people. This particular vote has much to do with the

[PEN-L:7755] Re: Compassionate Welfare Reform (fwd)

1996-12-05 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
10:15 a.m. Panel 1: What Works? Experiences of Charitable Organizations ... The panel will include a welfare recipient with a personal success story. You think it's someone from Lockheed? Anders Schneiderman Progressive Communications

[PEN-L:7969] Re: M-I: market socialism and fire insurance

1996-12-26 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
On Tue, 24 Dec 1996, Louis wrote: I take one look at this sentence and want to throw the book out my 13th story window. Him and his references to Riviere and Le Trosne is academic babble. This is how he earns his salary. You earn your salary reading economic journals about places like China and

[PEN-L:8202] British reports on CIA/Crack?

1997-01-13 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Has anyone seen reports in __The Independent_ or _The Big Story_ about the CIA, Contras, and crack? Our local alternative weekly reports that they ran a great story whose bottom line was, "The CIT actively encouraged drug trafficking in order to fund right-wing contra rebels in Nicaragua during

[PEN-L:8238] Re: Apologies for posting to everyone

1997-01-15 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Friends, My apologies for posting my reply to Michael Yates to everyone. It's late and I'm tired. Larry Shute It seems like late night is a bad time to send email; my apologies for posting my E-NODE column to Penl when I meant to send it to someone else. Anders Schneiderman

[PEN-L:8238] Re: Apologies for posting to everyone

1997-01-15 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Friends, My apologies for posting my reply to Michael Yates to everyone. It's late and I'm tired. Larry Shute It seems like late night is a bad time to send email; my apologies for posting my E-NODE column to Penl when I meant to send it to someone else. Anders Schneiderman

[PEN-L:8202] British reports on CIA/Crack?

1997-01-13 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Has anyone seen reports in __The Independent_ or _The Big Story_ about the CIA, Contras, and crack? Our local alternative weekly reports that they ran a great story whose bottom line was, "The CIT actively encouraged drug trafficking in order to fund right-wing contra rebels in Nicaragua during

Re: Phil Gramm on SS

1997-10-23 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
A few additions to Doug's comments: 1. The SS system will become insolvent when the baby boom generation become recipients in about 15 years. The reasons are demographic. In 1950 there were 16 workers for every beneficiary, paying 2 per cent of their paychecks into the system. Today there

Re: utopias

1998-01-01 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
At 02:51 PM 1/1/98 -0500, Robin wrote: So, when I am voting, or instructing my representatives to vote, or voting for representatives who will vote for me regarding public good requests I have no incentive to over request -- since I will be charged my proportionate share of the cost of all such

Int. Food Policy Research Inst?

1998-02-16 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Does anyone know much about a group called the International Food Policy Research Institute--their political slant, etc.? Thanks, Anders Schneiderman Progressive Communications

Alternatives to Microsoft in the browser wars

1998-02-12 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Dear Penlrs, For the most part, it's hard to escape the ubiquity of Microsoft. If you're working with other folks, odds are you're stuck using MS Office. And unless you want inflict upon yourself the pain and suffering of Unix (as some of our Linux enthusiasts have suggested on Penl), you're

More on Microsoft

1998-01-12 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Just to give Penlrs a better sense of just how far Microsoft is prepared to go... Anders Schneiderman Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 19:02:07 -0500 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: James Packard Love [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Animated Characters

Re: Final Comment

1998-01-12 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
At 03:21 PM 1/9/98 PST8PDT, Jim wrote: Surely nobody disagrees with the idea that sex-slavery or underage prostitution is wrong. The sex-workers comments were not aimed at coerced or non-consensual prostitution, but at prostitutes who bject to being criminalised in the name of saving their

Re: Baudrillard

1998-01-12 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
At 12:26 PM 1/11/98 -0800, Jim Devine wrote: Louis writes: On the eve of the Gulf War, [Baudrillard] argued that television made actual war superfluous. Baudrillard was absurd, but it sure suggests the recent Robert de Niro/Dustin Hoffman flick "Wag the Dog," in which a spin doctor and a

Re: Ken Starr

1998-01-30 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
At 03:20 PM 1/30/98 EST, Maggie wrote: Sigh, I can't believe I mentally exchanged Lipinski for Lewinski -- brain damage -- too much pollution. Anyhow, Max, I agree, this may not have been as planned as a conspiracy, but it is certainly moving in Clinton's direction. The 'bad boy' who the right

Can Everyone Become an Entrepreneur on the Net?

1998-02-04 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
From: Edupage Editors [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... AOL BUMPS NICHE PRODUCTS OFF THE SHELF America Online no longer makes it easy for its small content providers to reach an audience, and instead submerges them into information "channels." An AOL spokesperson explains: "Our new mission reflects our

Re: the loafing class, Part II

1998-02-12 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
No sooner do I finish reading my email than Salon magazine handily provides Exhibit A of my case. -- Anders P.S. This is also an example of how useful complexity theory can be in the real world; you can use it to make lots of money as a business guru... -- TRENDY THEORIES

And now, the fun starts

1998-02-12 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
b l o w B a c k PUNDITS WHO HAVE BEEN PONTIFICATING ABOUT PRESIDENT CLINTON'S ALLEGED ADULTERY MAY SOON FIND THEIR OWN MORALS COMING UNDER SCRUTINY. BY JONATHAN BRODER SALON MAGAZINE WASHINGTON -- The next tasty treat in the media's feeding frenzy over President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky

Re: Peter Drucker

1998-02-17 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
At 05:29 PM 2/16/98 -0600, you wrote: I am having a bit of a battle at my company with a manager who is a Druckerite over plans to bring "management by objective" (Drucker's phrase) and other kindred intellectual frauds to manage our software development group. I picked up Drucker's *Management*

The Sins of Harvey (was Re: Boucher's entire article)

1998-02-23 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
At 09:58 AM 2/23/98 -0500, Louis wrote: In "What is to be Done" Lenin cites 3 examples of what tasks a "vanguard" should undertake... Lous, why did you feel the need to cite Lenin chapter verse to argue that sectarianism is bad? Harvey draws a dichotomy between proletarian concerns: working

Re: boucher, epi and coal

1998-02-23 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
At 03:46 PM 2/23/98 +, Max wrote: Environmentalism in the large is about raising the costs of consumption that is most susceptible to taxation under current circumstances. Maybe DC is populated mostly with bone-headed liberal environmentalists whose version of "environmentalism" would fit

Re: Boucher's entire article

1998-02-22 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Louis was kind enough to post Boucher's article. After reading it, I was a little confused about Louis' argument w/ Boucher. Although the piece has its problems, Boucher ends on what seems to me to be a respectable position for a Marxist: [snip] If it is possible that modern capitalism can

Re: EMU

1998-03-02 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
At 04:16 PM 2/28/98 -0500, Doug wrote: I've been reading up on European monetary union, which is just 10 months away, and my impression is that no one is really prepared for just how big a deal it could be. Am I wrong? Interesting enough, in the computer industry lit, there's been much groaning

Re: Manufacturing Consent--NYT War-mongering:Biowarfare

1998-03-02 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
At 01:14 PM 3/2/98 -0600, Dennis wrote: this is worth reading . . . It's Francis Boyle--U of Illinois Law professor, international law expert, radical public intellectual activist and his communication with NY Times reporter. Dennis, Do you happen to know this guy? He made a number of

Re: Global Warming

1998-03-02 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
At 08:38 AM 3/2/98 -0800, Jim wrote: Though I am far from being a climatologist, I've been convinced of the "global warming causes increased weirdness of weather" hypothesis for awhile now. Global warming disrupts the rough equilibrium the defines stable weather patterns. But is there any

Re: green permits and taxes

1998-03-03 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
At 06:25 PM 3/2/98 -0500, you wrote: Louis P., Well, as a matter of fact this sort of case in Rochester is exactly the sort that says that there needs to be some very specific quantity controls. This is the kind of case I had in mind with my mumbling about risky situations and how

Re: A Right-wing ballot initiative

1998-04-03 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
At 09:40 PM 3/31/98 -0800, Michael E. wrote: While there is more than a little truth in your observation about how unions allocate their political resources, it is not entirely accurate to say "Virtually none of it is spent on building up a grassroots machine." I can't speak about the entire

Re: zero marginal costs

1998-03-23 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
At 01:55 PM 3/21/98 -0800, Michael wrote: The idea of a zero marginal cost of information [in the sense that once produced it costs little to reproduce] is an old one. Marx discussed the discovery of the binomial theorem, which once discussed cost nothing to reuse. In an earlier book, I

Re: A Right-wing ballot initiative

1998-03-30 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
At 10:54 AM 3/28/98 -0800, Michael E. wrote: My understanding is that the California Federation of Labor had just such an initiative in the pipeline, ready to file with adequate signatures. They agreed not to do so after the largest employers in the state agreed not to put money or support

Re: Soviet balance sheet

1998-03-30 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
At 08:35 AM 3/28/98 -0800, Michael wrote: Also in the Balance Sheet, we might include Stalin's brutal, but relatively effective policy of suppressing/repressing ethnic hostilities. I don't see how you'd put that in anything other than the minus column. First off, it's hard to see how

[PEN-L:2605] Neato Economic Literacy Computer Tools

1996-01-25 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
After the success of our National Budget Simulation, the Center for Community Economic Research has decided to try to build a series of tools to make it easier for non-programmers to build simple online economic literacy tools. These tools could range from simple dressed-up calculators

[PEN-L:2937] Contacts for Living Wage / Minimum Wage Campaigns in US?

1996-02-13 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Dear Penlrs, As part of our "Building a New Economy" web site, I'm looking for information about Living Wage and Minimum Wage campaigns in the U.S. I've got several people to call, but I'd like to start w/ email first (since, as I've learned from painful experience, it's much easier to get

[PEN-L:3487] Q: to Michael Reich re: the IIR

1996-03-27 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Since Nathan's post responded to most of the inaccuracies in the IIR Party Line, I'm going to give y'all a sense of what UC Berkeley's IIR is like these days by asking Michael Reich to explain two things that have puzzled a lot of Bay Area labor folks. This Fall, the IIR celebrated its 50th

[PEN-L:5001] [E-NODE] A Site License for China

1996-07-08 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
E N NOOOE E NN N O O D D E === N N N O O D D E N NN O O D D E E N NOOOE

[PEN-L:5002] [E-NODE] Godzilla Uber Alles

1996-07-08 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Vol 1, No. 2 JULY 9, 1996 GODZILLA UBER ALLES -- by R. Anders Schneiderman, PhD., [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a terrible confession to make. A part of me, a not-so-small part of me, wants Microsoft to dominate

[PEN-L:5109] Re: one last...

1996-07-11 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Jim Craven wrote: There are of course different strains/sects etc (Noam Chomsky is often characterized as a "left-wing" libertarian or socialist libertarian--I find this to be oxymoronic--and there is what is known as the "Objectivist wing of the Libertarians; but here it goes: One of the most

[PEN-L:5286] Dumb and Dumber

1996-07-23 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
One of the many joys of being a Business Week subscriber--aside from reading some very sharp reporters--is that I get to watch the race between Gary Becker and Craig Roberts to see who can come up with the most amazingly idiotic statements (Craig is currently ahead by 5). I just started reading

[PEN-L:5290] Nader, Affirmative Action, and Lesser Evils

1996-07-23 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
David Brower's piece, posted by Jim Devine on Monday, is a good example of the problem I have with some people who vote Third Party. As I understand it, the best argument for voting for third party candidates is that rather than choosing between two candidates you don't like--the lesser of two

[PEN-L:5291] Re: Fwd: schlafly letter (fwd)

1996-07-23 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Dear Maggie, How can this woman sleep at night? Read on at your own peril, and not on a full stumach. 'sister rat' maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think it's pretty clear how she sleeps at night: quivering under the covers. That letter gave me the giggles. What a poor loser! The

[PEN-L:5324] Re: Nader, Affirmative Action, and Lesser Evils

1996-07-24 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Doug wrote, I can't speak for Nader; his refusal to talk about "gonadal politics," as he calls it, is also unfortunate. But I do think it's a bit of a leap to conclude that Nader is "another White Boy on the Left who doesn't take racism seriously." You could also argue that affirmative action is

[PEN-L:5325] Re: Nader again

1996-07-24 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Jim writes: It's just not true that the position of all third-party advocates is that one picks someone whom you actually support. There are other reasons. * A vote for a third party can be seen as part of a strategy to pressure the two-party duopoly to lean in our direction. If the political

[PEN-L:12726] Reengineering the Fed: A Juried Award for Grad Students

1997-10-01 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Dear Penlrs, I've just been hired as research and education director of Tom Schlesinger's new improved outft, the Financial Markets Center (formerly the Southern Finance Project). We're kicking off this contest for grad students, and I'd greatly appreciate it if you could repost it to any list

Re: Drawing a Line

1997-12-30 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
At 01:15 PM 12/28/97 -0400, Tom Kruse wrote: One of my ocncerns is the way bailouts are really cover for "lockins" into free trade regimes, de-regulation, etc. So, concretely, what would a bailout for S. Korea look like that: - protects the most vulnerable small savers and small businesses -

Utopias + localism

1997-12-02 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
At 01:53 PM 12/2/97 +, John wrote (replying to David): I would think that communities would control their basic needs and interests while joining in federations, both industrial and geographical, in order to take advantage of economies of scale. At least that seems to be the crux of

re: Doug's question

1997-12-07 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
At 10:30 AM 12/6/97 -0800, Jim wrote: Specious predictions aside, I think that the more that the establishmentarians are convinced of the "new economy" scenario in which the business cycle (i.e., the possibility recession) is abolished, the more that government and business leaders make decisions

Re: HMOs (was re: Doug's question)

1997-12-08 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
At 08:27 AM 12/8/97 -0800, you wrote: I think that even if they could measure output, they wouldn't care about it. What they care about is total revenue minus total cost (or stated as a rate of return). Because HMO revenues are largely fixed per patient once the deal has been struck, they try to

Advisory Board Company

1997-12-19 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Anyone ever heard about an organization called the Advisory Board Company, headquartered in DC? They're a big outfit--about 500 folks--that seems to do lots of management consulting for their member firms (mostly Fortune 1000 companies, esp. in finance and health care), but when I did a quick

Maybe we _should_ ban some books...

1997-12-11 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
From the latest Salon Magazine: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - E S T H E R__D Y S O N_ DISCOURSES ON MICROSOFT, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, THE FUTURE OF RUSSIA -- AND

Fun Games w/ Derivatives

1997-10-29 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Dear Penlrs, As we watch the Amazing Market Rollercoaster, something else to keep in mind: what is all this--markets crashing, currencies roiling, etc.--going to do to the dervatives market? And what are the D's going to do to corporate america? I've been tracking the fights w/ the SEC and

Book reviews of Thernstrom?

1997-10-16 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Dear Penlrs, Now that James Glassman and other right-wing idiots are using the new book by the Thernstroms to argue that racism is bascially gone, I guess it's time to take a quick look at it. Anybody seen a decent review? Anders Schneiderman Research and Education Director Financial Markets

[PEN-L:5119] Play-Test Our National Budget Simulation

1995-05-16 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Dear Pen-lrs, The Center for Community Economic Research has just finished putting together a simple World Wide Web simulation of the national budget, and we'd like your help play-testing it. It's located at: http://violet.berkeley.edu:6997/budget.html If you have ideas about

[PEN-L:5125] Studies on the Fed Budget?

1995-05-17 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Dear Pen-lrs, We'd like to link our National Budget Simulation to progressive analyses of the federal budget or issues surrounding it (e.g., tax fairness). If anyone has written such an analysis, we'd love to up it up. Just e-mail it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Anders Schneiderman Center for

[PEN-L:5909] Re: Right or Left

1995-07-19 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Just out of curiousity, how does Prof. Libertarian come to the conclusion that Mao, Lenin, and Stalin were "liberals"? Sounds to me like he's just engaging in political correctness--or just being plain stupid. It's a bit like saying, as a right-wing friend of mine used to, that libertarians

[PEN-L:5920] re: Our contract w/ America?

1995-07-20 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
On Wed, 19 Jul 1995 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob, The problem, first of all, is not just jobs, but jobs at decent wages and security. Absolutely; that's why I used the words "real jobs." Clinton's 1992 slogan was itself pretty good, "Putting People First." But alot of good that

[PEN-L:3] Addresses for Martin Carnoy, Joel Rogers, Juliet Schor

1995-07-24 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Dear folks, Does anyone have the email addresses for Martin Carnoey, Joel Rogers, and Juliet Schor?If you can, please reply to me and not to the rest of the list. Thanks, Anders Schneiderman CCER

[PEN-L:35] Re: Our Contract W/ America?

1995-07-26 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
On Sat, 22 Jul 1995, Paul Cockshott wrote: My objection to this is that I see no basis for the assumption that national capitals exist. In what phase of its circuit M-C-M' is capital national? When there is freedom of movement of capital between currencies, then the M phase is

[PEN-L:677] Re: Time's Review of The End of Racism

1995-10-06 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
On Thu, 5 Oct 1995, jones/bhandari wrote: Whatever (limited) persuasiveness such a thesis had decades ago, it doesn't seem to speak much to the post-industrial holocaust of the inner cities. One however does not have to accept William Julius Wilson's (non-)solutions to agree that the

[PEN-L:678] Re: Time's Review of

1995-10-06 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
On Thu, 5 Oct 1995 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Dorman writes 10/5: the current right wing surge . . . hasn't established any clear boundaries to *its* right. But of course it has. He just hasn't taken the effort to find, let alone understand, the complex internecine

[PEN-L:679] Philly Cops: Frame Ups, Threats, Death (fwd)

1995-10-06 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Speaking of racism... - In light of the disbelief by many whites at even the possibility of a pervasive frame-up of OJ by police, the following article should be read and redistributed widely. This Philadelphia scandal has

[PEN-L:1082] Re: rational expectations

1995-10-22 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Hey, did you ever think that maybe _she_ came up with the theory? :) Anders Schneiderman On Sat, 21 Oct 1995, James Devine wrote: if the theory of rational expectations really worked, then Robert Lucas wouldn't have agreed to give his ex-wife 1/2 of his expected Nobel

Service Center for Union Workers (fwd)

1994-12-09 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Dear Penlrs, This note is a request for intellectual assistance. Feel free to pass it on to other lists. Thanks, Anders Schneiderman Center for Community Economic Research UC Berkeley -- Service Center for Union Workers Service Employees Local 616 in Alameda

Re: The fruits of the Orange County Debacle

1994-12-14 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
The other irony about Orange County's collapse is that as far as I can tell from the press coverage, a lot of their derivatives were in mortgage securities. The reason the mortgage security market exists is because Fanny Mae and Ginny Mae provide guarantees. In other words, those Orange County

Who needs live faculty, sez DoC

1998-01-04 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Your tax dollars at work... -- Anders Schneiderman --- WILL ADVANCE TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM FUND ONLINE EDUCATION? The Commerce Department is expected to decide early this year whether to provide funding to learning technology ventures through the Department's Advanced Technology

Who needs live faculty, sez DoC

1998-01-04 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Your tax dollars at work... -- Anders Schneiderman --- WILL ADVANCE TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM FUND ONLINE EDUCATION? The Commerce Department is expected to decide early this year whether to provide funding to learning technology ventures through the Department's Advanced Technology

Advisory Board Company

1998-01-04 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Does anyone know much about the Advisory Board Company? I'm trying to track down some info about them and I'm coming up dry. According to their web site, they're a research organization that services the broad industry research interests of their member corporations. But they don't show up in

Re: green permits and taxes

1998-03-03 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Barkley, Whether you have taxes, permits, quantity controls, or whatever, if someone is poisoning someone else and that can be shown (not always an easy if, as the Kodak situation indicates), then the poisonees ought to be able to take the poisoners to court, period. This is quite

[PEN-L:7449] Acc. lefties and the SL Bank Robbery

1996-11-18 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
Speaking of science, pomo, and all that, I have a question for y'all. I'm working on a piece about the SL Bank Robbery in the 80s, and I ran across an article by Richard Rorty claiming that academics totally missed the boat on the SL crisis. Among pomos, I'm pretty sure he's correct; I was

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

1996-11-21 Thread by way of R. Anders Schneiderman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It appears I was a little quick on the mouse (or a little slow)... There are a lot of good things about the Net, but the means by which things circulate aren't always effective. Anders Schneiderman - Forwarded Message: Subj: White power usenet group Date: 96-11-09 22:16:31

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