Re: JEP Schleiffer

2004-08-12 Thread Robert Naiman
Shleifer should get a chutzpah award, writing about ethics, given his history with USAID and Russia. He got fired from Harvard, no? At 09:43 PM 8/11/2004 -0700, you wrote: Paul deserves criticism for his summary of Shleifer -- he is far too gentle. Shliefer insists that market-induced competition

Re: JEP Schleiffer

2004-08-12 Thread Doug Henwood
Robert Naiman wrote: Shleifer should get a chutzpah award, writing about ethics, given his history with USAID and Russia. He got fired from Harvard, no? Hey, it takes one to know one. Why do you think FDR made Joe Kennedy the first head of the SEC? Doug

Re: JEP Schleiffer

2004-08-12 Thread Michael Perelman
Did he get fired? Just from the development institute? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu

Re: JEP Schleiffer

2004-08-12 Thread Chris Doss
BTW this is the Russian newspaper Izvestia commenting on Schleiffer's fall from grace. Izvestia August 10, 2004 HARVARD PROFESSOR'S SPOUSE LINED HER POCKETS IN PRIVATIZATION An update on the scandal around the so called Harvard Project. Author: Konstantin Getmansky [from WPS Monitoring Agency,

Re: JEP Schleiffer

2004-08-12 Thread Craven, Jim
Michael wrote: Paul deserves criticism for his summary of Shleifer -- he is far too gentle. Shliefer insists that market-induced competition does not create undesirable consequences. It is non-market corruption that is bad. Response Jim C: I have been invited to present a

Re: JEP Schleiffer

2004-08-11 Thread Paul
1) I, for one, deeply regret the loss of JEP. I don't think anyone can really maintain that the new version is more socially useful, especially compared to the way JEP was before the 'great turnover', when the AEA itself was less monolithic. It seems that within the AEA, there is now

Re: JEP Schleiffer

2004-08-11 Thread michael
Paul deserves criticism for his summary of Shleifer -- he is far too gentle. Shliefer insists that market-induced competition does not create undesirable consequences. It is non-market corruption that is bad. And he is considered one of the bright lights of economics. Paul wrote: 2) Latest AEA/AER

JEP

2004-07-31 Thread Devine, James
[was RE: [PEN-L] Deeper Problems for Shleifer] Michael writes: Does anybody niotice the rapid decline in the Journal of Economic Perspectives? A right winger will take over the Journal of Economc Literature. I haven't been paying attention. Why do you think that the JEP is in decline? why do

Re: JEP

2004-07-31 Thread Michael Perelman
that the JEP is in decline? why do you think it went into that tailspin? who is the editor? is it still Brad deLong? who's taking over the JEL? replacing whom? jim d -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael

Re: JEP

2004-07-31 Thread Chris Doss
--- Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shleifer is the editor; DeLong is gone. So the journal has become more technical, less topical. The same Shleifer that was investigated b/c of his work in Russia? __ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail

Re: JEP

2004-07-31 Thread Chris Doss
Whoops, obviously yes. I hadn't read that post yet. --- Chris Doss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shleifer is the editor; DeLong is gone. So the journal has become more technical, less topical. The same Shleifer that was investigated b/c of his

[PEN-L:1122] article in latest JEP

1995-10-25 Thread Peter.Dorman
Out of curiosity, has anyone else read the article by J. David Richardson, "Income Inequality and Trade: How to Think, What to Conclude" in the latest JEP? Doesn't it rank as one of the most explicit instances of neoclassical bankruptcy? Richards gives us a simple 2x2x2 t