[PEN-L:11554] Re: Urban Regional Econ: Help!
Urban and Regional Economics. Barney Hope [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michael Peter Smith, *City, State, Market: The Political Economy of Urban Society* Michael Peter Smith Joe R. Feagin, eds., *The Capitalist City* Susan Fainstein, et. al., *Restructuring the City: The Political Economy of Urban Redevelopment* Paul Kantor, *The Dependent City: The Changing Political Economy of Urban America* Saskia Sassen, *The Global City* Charles C. Euchner, *Playing the Field: Why Sports Teams Move Cities Fight to Keep Them* Michael
[PEN-L:11556] Re: Urban Regional Econ: Help!
Barney: I found myself in a more or less same situation, being propelled to teach environmental planning. In my search for teachinng material, I discovered the site at U of Cal at Santa Cruz (it used to be a cool place before it was transforemd into a bedroom community for the Sillicon Valley yuppies, albeit somewhat lost in space or 1960s; my ex did undergrad work there) dedicated to teaching environment related courses (basically from a Marxist perspective) -- it contains references, course syllabi etc. Check it out, the address is http://www.cruzio.com/~cns/ Regards, wojtek sokolowski institute for policy studies johns hopkins university baltimore, md 21218 [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (410) 516-4056 fax: (410) 516-8233 POLITICS IS THE SHADOW CAST ON SOCIETY BY BIG BUSINESS. AND AS LONG AS THIS IS SO, THE ATTENUATI0N OF THE SHADOW WILL NOT CHANGE THE SUBSTANCE. - John Dewey
[PEN-L:11560] FW: Daily Report
BLS DAILY REPORT, WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1997: RELEASED TODAY: Most state unemployment rates showed little change in June, as 44 states and the District of Columbia recorded shifts of 0.3 percentage point or less from May. The national jobless rate increased to 5.0 percent over the month. Nonfarm payroll employment rose in 36 states and the District of Columbia in June. Total compensation costs paid by private industry employers climbed 2.9 percent over the year ended in June as measured by the Employment Cost Index, BLS reports. The latest ECI data show an unusually stable picture of wage and benefit trends, says James Houff, BLS senior economist. "It's probably the flattest report we've ever had," he said (Daily Labor Report, page D-1). __John M. Berry, writing in The Washington Post (page D8), says that the cost of most workers' pay and benefits rose only moderately over the past year, even though employers have had to scramble to find workers in many parts of the country because of tight labor markets. But a chief economist of the Bank Boston is quoted as saying "I have to believe, given the tightness of labor markets, that the best news (on labor costs) is behind us." __Employee compensation costs rose slightly this spring because of an increase in benefits, but the gain posed no inflationary threat, says Robert D. Hershey, Jr., writing in The New York Times (page D1). On page D6, a Bloomberg News article printed by The Times says that Treasury prices extended their rally yesterday after reports showed a muted increase in labor costs. __Labor costs remained tame in the second quarter, rising 0.8 after a scant 0.6 percent gain in the first quarter, despite the tightest labor market in more than 2 decades (The Wall Street Journal, page A6). The Clinton Administration took a first step toward establishing a government-wide standard of confidentiality by issuing an administrative order under the Paperwork Reduction Act, an OMB official announces at a House hearing. The importance of establishing government-wide confidentiality standards for statistical information is to ensure the privacy and confidentiality of people and organizations who furnish data for federal statistical programs, according to the "Federal Register". Once the confidentiality standards are established and legislation passed that will remove barriers currently in place, agencies will be better able to share statistical data. Some members of Congress also have pushed for consolidating statistical agencies. Introduced last Congress, HR 2521 would have consolidated into one agency the Census Bureau, BLS, and BEA (Daily Labor Report, page A-9). Workplace injuries and illnesses cost an estimated $172 billion each year and result in approximately 6,500 deaths from injury and more than 60,000 deaths from disease, according to "Occupational Injury and Illness in the United States: Estimates of Costs, Morbidity and Mortality," which appeared in a journal of the American Medical Association called the "Archives of Internal Medicine". The study was authored by J. Paul Leigh, an economist with San Jose State University, and researchers from Stanford University Medical Center and Mount Sinai School of Medicine. The study, described as the first of its kind, also said workers suffer an estimated 13.2 million nonfatal injuries and 862,200 illnesses annually. According to the study, actual numbers may be much higher due to a variety of reasons, including "undercounted" occupational injuries and illnesses (Daily Labor Report, page A-6). After two monthly increases, the Consumer Confidence Index dropped nearly 3 points in July to 126.5 percent of its 1985 base, the Conference Board reports. Consumers remain optimistic about the job market, with the proportion saying there will be fewer jobs remaining low in July at 12.3 percent. Buying plans for big ticket items continued at about the same rate (Daily Labor Report, page A-1). __Lynn Franco, associate director of the Consumer Research Center, commenting on the Consumer Confidence data, said the decline was not a sign the economy is in any trouble. "Despite the slight decline in consumer confidence this month, both the present situation and expectations indexes are at historically high levels," she said. "The latest readings continue to signal healthy economic growth ahead." (The Washington Post, page D8). __Bloomberg News, as quoted in The New York Times (page D2), says that Americans' confidence in the economy fell unexpectedly this month, but remained close enough to a 28-year high to suggest that consumer spending might accelerate. __The Wall Street Journal (page A6) includes consumer confidence data in its article on the employment cost index, and shows the consumer confidence index 1994 to the present on a page 1 graph. A National Association of Business Economists survey points to continuing strength in the
[PEN-L:11563] Re: Child tax credit
In a message dated 97-07-30 07:47:46 EDT, you write: If you include only the cash income, then the effective wage is actually about $1.50/hr. In strudel, Tavis I didn't realize it was THAT low. As an aside, the rent subsidies were reinstated because the landlords were having appoplexy (sp?) over losing their cash cow from welfare. Let's face it, they want to cut off those lazy women and their welfare brats, but the landlords sure as hell don't want to lose THEIR welfare!! maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PEN-L:11564] Re: That's What.
Response (Jim C): I have read some interesting and informative missives from the above author and really this level and type of response is saddening as he is obviously capable of a higher level of discourse. The tone and level of sophistication of this response is more in line with the type of response given by Sununu quoted above. Anyone who follows the thread should appreciate the response, if not agree with this writer's position on the underlying issues. MBS "People say I'm arrogant, but I know better." -- John Sununu === Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1660 L Street, NW 202-775-8810 (voice) Ste. 1200 202-775-0819 (fax)Washington, DC 20036 http://epn.org/sawicky Opinions above do not necessarily reflect the views of anyone associated with the Economic Policy Institute other than this writer. ===
[PEN-L:11565] Re: Urban Regional Econ: Help!
Urban and Regional Economics. Barney Hope [EMAIL PROTECTED] re: regional economics Ann Markusen has authored/co-authored a bunch of articles and books. ..book titles include: *Profit Cycles, Oligopoly Regional Development* *Regions: The Economics Politics of Territory* *High Tech America: The What, How, Where, Why of the Sunrise Industries* *The Rise of the Gunbelt: The Military Remapping of Industrial America* Michael
[PEN-L:11569] Re: The silence of Mandela
Sorry about the gunk here; have primitive system and am too rushed to clean up; but for those following SA's erratic foreign policy with a keen eye it may amuse... 31 July Business Day Online - News JAKARTA - Indonesia!-- on Wednesday -- yesterday denied a Portuguese news repo rt that!-- SA -- President Nelson Mandela used a recent state visit to ask for the release of East Timorese rebel leader Xanana Gusmao, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence.P !--At --!-- --!-- On --!-- the weekend, -- The newspaper Expresso said at the weekend Mandela called on Indonesia to free the guerrilla chief when he!-- the South African leader -- vi sited Jakarta earlier this month.P "Xanana is not a political prisoner. He was convicted for a crime. Therefore it is not possible that Mandela asked for his release," said foreign office spokesman Ghaffar Fadyl.P !-- While Mandela's talks with Indonesian President Suharto were dominated by trade issues, the two also discussed human rights and political problems in East Timor, a former Portuguese colony inv aded by Indonesia in 1975.Indonesia annexed the troubled territory as its 27th province in 1976. --!-- East Timor is a former Portuguese colony annexed by Indonesia in 1976. -- P During his visit, Mandela met Gusmao, a guerrilla leader serving a 20-year sentence for plotting against President Mohamed Suharto's government.!-- led a guerrilla fight against Indonesian rule b efore his capture in 1991.He was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 1994 for plotting against Suharto's government. -- P !-- Despite his incarceration, small bands of rebels still attack troops and police in the province. -- !-- Mandela has offered to help United Nations (UN) efforts to find a peaceful settleme nt to the 22-year-old conflict."We welcome the offer, however, any role that he plays in the East Timor issue must be informal," Fadyl said. --!-- --!-- Mandela met Jose Ramos-Horta, East Timor's exiled separatist leader and last year's --!-- --!--1996 --!-- co-Nobel Peace Prize winner, in SA on Friday. -- P !-- He was to meet visiting Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio yesterday. --!-- on Wednesday. -- P !-- The UN does not recognize Indonesian sovereignty over East Timor and has sponsored talks between Portugal and Indonesia in a bid to find a settlement. --!-- Sapa-AP -- P P P !--PRETORIA - President Nelson -- After !--his -- briefing Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio in Pretoria yesterday on his talks with Gusmao, Mandela !--on Wednesday -- called for Gusmao's! -- the -- release,!-- of jailed East Timorese rebel leader Xanana --!-- Gusmao --!-- --!--, -- who he met in Jakarta two weeks ago, saying this was essential to resolve conflict in the f ormer Portuguese colony.P "You will understand that we cannot normalise the situation in East Timor unless all the political leaders, including!-- Mr -- Gusmao, are free," he said. !--told reporters in Pretoria. -- P !-- Mandela briefed Sampio --!-- --!-- -- was addressing reporters after his meeting with Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio to brief him !--on his recent talks with Gusmao in Indone sia. -- P Asked whether he had asked Indonesia to release Gusmao, Mandela said: "In a letter I had written to President Suharto I had recommended that Mr Gusmao !--must -- be freed."P !--The Indonesian government yesterday denied a report by Protuguese newspaper Expresso that said Mandela had used his recent state visit to ask for Gusmao's release. --!-- Meanwhile Sapa-AP reports that Indonesia on Wednesday denied a Portuguese news report that --!-- --!--South African President Nelson --!-- Mandela used his --!-- --!--a recent --!-- state visit to ask for Gusmao's release. --!-- --!--the release of East Timorese rebel leader Xanana Gusmao, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence. --!--At the weekend, the newspaper Expresso said Mande la called on Indonesia to free him when he --!-- --!--the South African leader --!-- visited Jakarta earlier this month. Indones --P !--Indonesian Foreign Office spokesman Ghaffar Fadyl said: "Xanana is not a political prisoner. He was convicted for a crime. Therefore it is not possible that Mandela had asked for his release." -- P !-- Mandela said he had also recommended Gusmao's release in a recent letter to Indonesian President Suharto. -- !--Indonesia invaded East Timor in December 1975, and annexed the country as its 27th province the following year. The move has all along been resisted by Fretelen rebels under the leadership of Gusmao, who was captured in 1992 and sentenced to 20 years' imprisonm ent. -- P !-- Mandela said it was vital for him to brief Sampaio on his meeting with Gusmao as Portugal had a pivotal role to play in efforts to resolve the conflict in East Timor. Sampaio th anked Mandela for his initiatives in the
[PEN-L:11568] Thanks!
I would like to thank all the PEN-Lers who responded to my question about the home mortgage deduction. I will try to put your suggestions to good use! Steven Zahniser [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PEN-L:11567] Kim Young Sam Fascict Clique Penalize Students
Pyongyang, July 30 (KCNA) -- The south Korean "civilian" fascist clique, at the puppet Seoul district court on Monday, staged a trial of students prosecuted for the inauguration of the fifth-term South Korean Federation of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon) and demanded prison terms ranging from two to five years for twelve students, according to a radio report from Seoul. The trial was the first for 289 students referred to trial and the fascist clique have decided to conduct a trial of some ten students almost every day to finish all the trials by the end of August, said the radio. In this way, the Kim Young Sam clique want to prevent activities of students and people which are likely to be conducted with the approach of the anniversary of National Liberation, August 15. But it is a foolish intention. KCNA Shawgi Tell Graduate School of Education University at Buffalo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PEN-L:11561] Re: time to sell...
Yeah, I just printed this out and am looking forward to reading it. The problem, it seems to me, is that people have been saying this for years now. Barron's almost every week makes the same point. The discrepancy between dividend yields and price-earnings ratio is greater than they've ever been. Meanwhile the bubble keeps inflating. Not that I'm expecting stock tips from PEN-L, but what the fugg is going on here...? Louis P. At 10:26 AM 7/31/97 -0700, you wrote: when SLATE magazine's Michael Kinsley asks How can everybody be 40 percent richer when the economy's grown by only 4 percent? in his article "The Stock Market Chicken-Counting Orgy," it's time to sell the stock market short. Reality is beginning to sink in with the punditocracy. Check it out at: http://www.slate.com/HeyWait/97-07-18/HeyWait.asp Of course, who has the money to afford selling short? Not I. (I'll have to check out TIAA-CREF to see if there's an irresponsible speculation fund.) in pen-l solidarity, Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] Econ. Dept., Loyola Marymount Univ. 7900 Loyola Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90045-8410 USA 310/338-2948 (daytime, during workweek); FAX: 310/338-1950 "It takes a busload of faith to get by." -- Lou Reed.
[PEN-L:11562] So What?
Every day, African-American, American Indian, Female, Working-class, Hispanic, poor-White and immigrant schoolchildren in America read history books that mention nothing or at best present caricatures of the roles and forms of suffering of African-Americans, American Indians, Women, Workers, Hispanics, poor-Whites, immigrants and people from disenfranchised religious groups in American history. They are taught that history is made by "great politicians", geniuses, "captains of industry", technology, imperial manifest destiny, etc- - anything but the masses of people through ongoing struggles against the very same forces that determine the content of the history books and texts from other disciplines. Of course students from historically disenfranchised groups do not find themselves and their ancestors represented in the history books because, in addition to the warped paradigms and academic whoring of the authors, they just might get the idea that the various forms and levels of disenfranchisement and oppression are not simply a matter of "history"; they continue today in old as well as new forms. They just might get the idea that capitalism is anything but some kind of harmonious, self-equilibrating, progressive, dynamic, eternal system distributing rewards and benefits in excess of costs and tragedies. The just might get the idea that the so-called wealth and prosperity of America was built on far more than "genius", risk-taking and superior technology: imperial plunder, war, systematic disenfranchisement and wholesale oppression etc. They just might get the idea that forms and levels of oppression result not from accidents, bad characters or systemic friction, but rather flow inexorably from the core imperatives, defining institutions and power structures and inner-logic of capitalism itself. And worst of all, they just might get the idea that the past not only lives in and shapes the present and the future, what is different in the present is only the forms and mechanisms of oppression and to some degree the targets, and that the past and present is the future as long as this system continues. Of course many past forms of oppression can never be corrected by simply and continually bringing them up. On the other hand lessons can and must be learned and victims honored by remembering and challenging the revisionist and anti-historical versions of what really went on and what continues to go on. So when someone says to all of this "So What?" and signs off with a quote illustrating the arrogance of Sununu in response to a charge of arrogance, I have to wonder if that quote reflects the author's mockery of Sununu--or admiration. Jim Craven *---* * "Those who take the most from the table,* * James Craventeach contentment. * * Dept of Economics Those for whom the taxes are destined, * * Clark College demand sacrifice.* * 1800 E. Mc Loughlin Blvd. Those who eat their fill, * * Vancouver, Wa. 98663speak to the hungry, * * (360) 992-2283 of wonderful times to come. * * Fax: (360) 992-2863Those who lead the country into the abyss,* * [EMAIL PROTECTED] call ruling difficult, * * for ordinary folk." (Bertolt Brecht) * * MY EMPLOYER HAS NO ASSOCIATION WITH MY PRIVATE/PROTECTED OPINION *
[PEN-L:11559] time to sell...
when SLATE magazine's Michael Kinsley asks How can everybody be 40 percent richer when the economy's grown by only 4 percent? in his article "The Stock Market Chicken-Counting Orgy," it's time to sell the stock market short. Reality is beginning to sink in with the punditocracy. Check it out at: http://www.slate.com/HeyWait/97-07-18/HeyWait.asp Of course, who has the money to afford selling short? Not I. (I'll have to check out TIAA-CREF to see if there's an irresponsible speculation fund.) in pen-l solidarity, Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] Econ. Dept., Loyola Marymount Univ. 7900 Loyola Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90045-8410 USA 310/338-2948 (daytime, during workweek); FAX: 310/338-1950 "It takes a busload of faith to get by." -- Lou Reed.
[PEN-L:11555] That's What.
From: "James Michael Craven" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:11549] Re: Home Mortgage Deduction an enormous legacy of theft and violence that didn't come to pass in some dusty antiquity. Did you think that railroads, telecommunications, oil companies, ATT, Nike, etc. just grew from the wholesome sweat of a few provident workers who tucked their savings away to one day fund these immense projects? Does Taylorism No, but so what? Response (Jim C): "So What?"; the Nazi and other Holocausts--"so what?"; Slavery--"so what?" . . . Mr. A: No relief is conceivable under the Rule of Capital. Mr. B: Well, actually I believe some relief is possible and eliminating Capital altogether is unlikely and possibly inappropriate. Mr. A: The blood of the martyrs of millenia of oppression under the yoke of Capital gathers at your feet. Slavery! Enclosure! Peonage! Wage-gouging! Surplus value! Segregation! Lots of bad stuff! Mr. B: SO WHAT? Mr. A: Why, you no-good #@$%^*+= so-and-so!!! Mr. B: I would say that about sums us this "debate." Now if you'll excuse me I have to go worry my hang-nail. "People say I'm arrogant, but I know better." -- John Sununu === Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1660 L Street, NW 202-775-8810 (voice) Ste. 1200 202-775-0819 (fax)Washington, DC 20036 http://epn.org/sawicky Opinions above do not necessarily reflect the views of anyone associated with the Economic Policy Institute other than this writer. ===
