Dear pen-lers/Jim/Brian:
What is COCTA0L please!?
Phil
O'Hara
More grist for the F vs. V mill, this time from Lenny Bruce:
"There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is."
Brian Eggleston
Department of Economics
Augustana College
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Sid,
I believe this is the quote you are looking for, from
"Dismantling Defense: Use Conversion to Create Jobs," The Nation,
7/12/93, pp. 66-68. The quote may not be exact, since I'm taking
it off my disk rather than the printed version that, as always, got
negotiated over down to the la
I recently saw something -- in The Nationa -- citing Bob Pollin, to
the effect that the US Pentagon was the most effective industrial
development project in modern memory. It provides R&D money,
guaranteed markets, protection from foreign competition, etc.
Does anyone have this quote handy? Bob
EUROPEAN BUSINESS INTERESTS URGE GOVERNMENTS TO CUT
SPENDING
BRUSSELS -- Business leaders have urged governments
to cut social welfare spending as part of a plan to
help Europe's competitiveness and generate jobs.
"We have had our eyes closed for the last 20
years while we have slid d
Rachel is posted on Activ-l. It usually contains very interesting
material on hazerdous chemicals other than Stephen Breyer.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 916-898-5321
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Jim-
To exit COCTA-L send the command unsubscribe cocta-l to the address
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After a few days of lurking, I too am about ready to exit COCTA-L.
Brian Eggleston
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I have been out of contact with email (apols to David Faust for not
responding to his questions), and thought I might make some brief
observations on the India / World Bank /modernization discussion
which I have only now been able to catch up with.
1 Alternatives to Capitalism and Socialism
D
Just a note to those interested in the Union for Radical Political
Economists Summer Conference. The dates listed in the newsletter
were wrong. The dates of the conference are August 20, Saturday afternoon,
to August 23, Tuesday afternoon. The location is just outside of Hartford,
CN, USA, in a
===Electronic Edition
RACHEL'S HAZARDOUS WASTE NEWS #394
---June 16, 1994---
HEADLINES:
RISK ASSESSMENT--PART 2:
JUDGE BREYER'S PRESCRIPTION FOR RISK
Jim concludes a post on the fact vs. value discussion with the
following comments:
> I criticized Roemer's theory for not really explaining
> positive profits (since there is no explanation for the persistent
> scarcity of means of production that the theory rests on). The
> *true* equilibrium
Michael, thanks for posting this. Are we going to get more from
this source?
BTW, it was a great article, except for the first bit:
"Reluctantly, President Clinton has nominated Stephen Breyer to
the Supreme Court of the United States."
why "reluctantly"? Breyer seems very much the Clinton type
Forwarded message:
Here's a comment that's relevant to the fact vs. value discussion:
Herman Daly states, "No one denies that the distinction between *is*
and *ought* is an elementary rule of clear thinking. To say *is*
when we should say *ought* is wishful thinking. To say *ought* when
we should say *is* (or neve
/* Written 12:25 PM Jun 21, 1994 by foedc in igc:trade.strategy */
/* -- "NATIONAL GATT CALL IN DAY ALERT" -- */
*** GATT ACTION ALERT ***
The Clinton Administration intends to introduce GATT into Congress before July 1,
1994, and has no intention of offsetting the $40 bill
I hope that Mike's post leads to some thorough discussion on PEN-L. I
know that Doug Henwood definitely has some thoughts on the ANC economic
program. Speaking as someone who is not a professional economist, but who
has organized volunteers to provide programming and other technical aid
for bo
On NPR this morning there was a relatively long report about the ANC plan to
increase employment AND solve some of the pressing social needs AT THE SAME
TIME the method: extensive government public works employing the
unemployed to build houses, pipe in drinking water, electrify, etc. etc.
Dear Penners: As a "student" of South AFrican reality, I am particularly
interested in the attempt to create a decent, successful economy out of the
ashed and destruction left by decades of Apartheid --- without making things
worse! This is clearly a tall order. The following interview with a
s
Sid Shniad wrote:
>
> Mike Meeropol talks of an NPR segment on the right-wing PAN
> candidate's meteoric rise in the polls and the fact that Mexico's
> business and financial elites would have no problem with PAN's
> ideology. From everything I've been able to gather, PAN's policies
> are in
Apologies to penners but I thought this group was as good a group as I know
to ask the following question. What is the address, phone number, and
subscription price for MOTHER JONES. MJ forwards articles to various
bulletin boards and on one of my discussion lists, someone liked them so
much the
I will note that I use the term over and out in the Citizen's Band
radio sense of turning the channle over to other users and shutting up.
I by no means wished to suggest that the Fact and Value thread should shut
down, just that this was my last post on it.
But then if this is at leas
Dear Bruce:
you have decided it is over and out yet you finish with 3 beguiling questions
which presumably are not intended to be purely rhetorical. as one was directed
to myself i will offer the final summary reply and also then say over and out.
you found Alan's argument (reproduced as follows
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