At 09:57 AM 8/23/99 -0700, Michael Perelman wrote: >I want pen-l to be relevant to what goes on in the economy. The banter >and exchanges about cultural and political matters are useful. They >round out the list and make it more entertaining. > >On the other hand, I would like to see us create a body of knowledge >that can be useful to activists and workers for social change. For that >reason, I welcomed the recent exchanges about the Asian crisis. It seems to me that there is a "third way" between the Scylla of culturalism and the harybdis of macro-economism: institutional analysis that combines both cutural and economic aspects of collective behavior. IMHO, however, pen-l does not seem to be flooded with institutional analyses. wojtek
