Wellesl. hist. job

1994-10-04 Thread Julie Matthaei
Here is the text of the Wellesley JOE ad in Economic History. Sorry for the delay. Opening for a tenurej-track assistant professor specializing in economic history beginning in the fall of 1995. Candidates are expected to have completed the Ph.D. by Oct. of 1995. Applicants should be committe

Love and low wages

1994-10-04 Thread Peter.Dorman
Hm I see no reference to anyone named Love in Adrian Wood. (Not that he read everything, of course.) Peter Dorman

Re: Mandela vs. Aristide

1994-10-04 Thread D Shniad
Jim, who made the comment about Aristide that you quote? Re: Mandela, there was a recent article in the Globe and Mail, re-run from the NYT, in which the author descrigbed a day in the life of Nelson Mandela. Mentioned in passing was the fact that Mandela had recently addressed a COSATU conventi

Re: wetwork

1994-10-04 Thread D Shniad
Yes, Dale, but what refreshing candor. Sid Shniad > > Digital Equipment Corp seems to exult in killing jobs. In a > Usenet message from an office in Santa Clara CA, it boasts that > it is "The bleeding edge in employee reduction technology...". > --_ > Da

shame of neo-classical economists

1994-10-04 Thread Eugene Coyle
I've been pondering the strategy of US electric utilities. One idea I am theorizing about is that they are milking domestic service territories and using the cash flow to invest in overseas powerplants, e. g. in China. In the course of thinking about this I came across a Gary Becker, e

LEFTNEWS: List of News Items of Interest to the Left

1994-10-04 Thread Nathan Newman
LEFT NEWS- An Edited List of News Items of Interest to the Democratic Left -- A Companion List to LEFT-L and LEFT-ORG LEFT NEWS is an edited list that distributes electronic posts of news and files of interest to democratic left activists. The li

RE: State bidding wars

1994-10-04 Thread Arvind Jaggi
Dear Pen-l folks, I am working on a project that looks at changes in regional income distribution as a result of job losses due to plant closures and direct investment by U.S. firms in Mexico. Any references, articles you may recommend ? Thanks. Arvind Jaggi. e-ma

Re: State bidding wars

1994-10-04 Thread Michael Perelman
Kenney, Martin and Richard Florida. 1991. "How the Japanese Industry is Rebuilding the Rust Belt." Technology Review (February/March): pp. 25-33. 33: They show a pattern of increasing subsidies to transplants. In 1982, Honda received $25,000 in subsidies per job produced at Marysville, Ohio; In 1

Love and low wages

1994-10-04 Thread E . Ian . Robinson
Some time back, someone on Penl made reference to a Xxxx Love, who had recently published a book which, among other things, examined the impact of increased trade with low wage countries on wages in high wage countries. Can someone provide me with a full citation for that book. I couldn't turn

Re: Mandela vs. Aristide

1994-10-04 Thread Louis N Proyect
There's an interesting article in the current New York Review of Books by Allan Finnegan titled ironically "DeClerk's Victory". Finnegan predicts the emergence of a left-wing split in the ANC led by trade unionists and community organizations. In the same issue, by the way, there's a long cri

Re: State bidding wars

1994-10-04 Thread JTREACY
On Mon, 3 Oct 1994, Ellen Dannin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Treacy: A couple of years ago the Wall Street Journal had a good write up of the Flat Rock, Michegan Mazada Plant fisco. The local government was requesting state relief from the bad deal it had cut. [EMAIL PRO

Re: short-term horizons

1994-10-04 Thread Johan Hauknes
I really hope the theme Donna Jones raises is 'stimulatable'. I encourage you to read as well William Lazonick (U-Mass)'s recent chapter Creating and extracting value: corporate investment behavior in M.Bernstein/D.Adler Understanding American Economic Decline, CUP 1994. Having made the d