[PEN-L:180] New location info for Bob Pollin

My new location information at U Mass Amherst is below for those interested. Regards, Bob Pollin Robert Pollin PLEASE NOTE NEW "COORDINATES" as of July 15, 1998 Department of Economics Univesity of Massachusetts-Amherst Amherst, MA 01002 (413) 545-0

[PEN-L:179] The Asian Crisis and the Butterfly Effect (fwd)

Forwarded message: Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 17:12:32 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Sid Shniad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: The Asian Crisis and the Butterfly Effect X-UID: 782 Copyright =A9 1998 by James K. Galbraith. Readers may

[PEN-L:178] (Fwd) [MC] Canadian Residential Schools

--- Forwarded Message Follows --- From: "James Michael Craven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: Clark College, Vancouver WA, USA To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 17:56:04 PST8PDT Subject: [MC] Canadian Residential Schools Reply-to: "Jame

[PEN-L:176] Re: Alan Wolfe

Doug, That STUPID F**K WOLFE!!! How's that? 1) He went after the Econ dept - big time. Forced Palley down our throats (I think unbeknownest to Tom); we wanted Randall Wray. 2) Tried - via Alice Amsden - to gut Marxian Economics courses. 3) Tried to get classes to start in early a

[PEN-L:177] Re: Re: Re: Safety at work - talking the languageof business

I had written: >>the US OSHA has been a scam in a lot of ways since it started. Initially, >>all it did was use the already-existing industry standards for health and >>safety. It's also always had insufficient staffing. OSHA gets tough in >>response to pressure, i.e., from unions or lawsuits. El

[PEN-L:175] Re: Re: Anthony's Indian Software Paper

I would like to have read it but couldn't import it into Lotus Wordpro 96 or into MS Word 2.0, dunno why. If Anthony reposts it a s a straight text file that could be good. Mark -- Note: Only text: all the

[PEN-L:174] Re: Re: Anthony's Indian Software Paper

At 19:25 30/06/98 +0001, you wrote: >Did anyone else read this paper? It was a very interesting exercize on >the difficulty of moving up the value chain. Shouldn't we take up this >issue? > -- >Michael Perelman __ So Anthony, are you saying that capital still has a home? Cheers, ajit s

[PEN-L:173] Re: Alan Wolfe

An absolute failure. With particularly negative effects on the economics dept. Rabid anti-marxism. Participated in driving/starving out tenured faculty (arbitrarily and selectively applying all kinds of arcane rules), and denying tenure to deserving people (many in both of these categories had m

[PEN-L:171] Alan Wolfe

Can any New School folks here tell me about Alan Wolfe's tenure there? I'm writing something on his awful book, One Nation After All, which is the ickiest pile of centrist mush you'd ever want to meet. Doug

[PEN-L:172] Re: Re: Safety at work - talking the language of business

-Original Message- From: James Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, July 09, 1998 7:34 AM Subject: [PEN-L:169] Re: Safety at work - talking the language of business >the US OSHA has been a scam in a lot of ways since it started. Initially, >

[PEN-L:170] Re: Re: Safety at work

I was under the impression, that OSHA would sometimes issue strong regulations for small business, leaving big business off the hook, and creating an impression of arbitrariness and unfairness. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321

[PEN-L:169] Re: Safety at work - talking the language ofbusiness

At 11:32 PM 7/8/98 +1100, you wrote: >US PENers might be interested in the words of Jerry Scannell, >president of the US National Safety Council, former head of the US >Occupational Safety and Health Administration, speaking in Sydney to >a health and safety conference. > >He was urging safety