Re: Atlas published

1994-11-08 Thread Joseph Medley
Doug, Even less delicate: How much? Can you give a brief qualitative description? Size, paper, etc.? Thanks. Joe JUST PUBLISHED! THE STATE OF THE USA ATLAS The Changing Face of American Life in Maps Graphics by Doug Henwood, 127 pages US and Canada: Simon Schuster/Touchstone, ISBN

Atlas plugged

1994-11-08 Thread Doug Henwood
Thank God I'd doused my Macscreen (not an advertisement for AppleTM products) with fire retardant, otherwise I might not be here this morning. Look, enemies of commercialism. I reflected for some time on whether to post that bit of self-promotion, knowing the prevailing anti-commercial

RE: Atlas plugged

1994-11-08 Thread Bill Brown 465-6423/789-2448
I have to side with Doug and Ric on the book announcement issue. In fact, I would like to encourage more of this sort of thing. I have few colleagues (none on the left) so without this sort of input, I may not be aware of new publcations. I have the option to press the del key, and I will when I

Re: Atlas plugged

1994-11-08 Thread shecker
Thank God I'd doused my Macscreen (not an advertisement for AppleTM products) with fire retardant, otherwise I might not be here this morning. Look, enemies of commercialism. I reflected for some time on whether to post that bit of self-promotion, knowing the prevailing anti-commercial culture,

Re: Atlas plugged

1994-11-08 Thread Teresa Amott
Every day I am deluged with ads for Obsession perfume anorexic model), Lysol antibacterial soap (phony germs), and Guess jeans (half-naked women, fully clothed men). Frankly, it is a delight to see an ad for a book I actually want to read, by one of my favorite Pen-Lers, that has real use value

Re: Atlas plugged

1994-11-08 Thread Ellen Dannin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
On Tue, 8 Nov 1994, Teresa Amott wrote: On another note, how are Pen-Lers coping with depression and anger today, as we exercise our freedom to vote for the marginally lesser evil? The thought of Jesse Helms as chair of the Senate Foreign Relations committee is so nauseating that I'm having

Re: Atlas published

1994-11-08 Thread Marshall Feldman
From: Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apologies for both the vulgar self-promotion and possible duplicate postings! Please feel free to repost, redistribute, tack on telephone polls, shout from rooftops, etc. JUST PUBLISHED! THE STATE OF THE USA ATLAS The Changing Face of American Life in

Re-engineering and higher education

1994-11-08 Thread D Shniad
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Labor Notes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'Downsizing' and 'Reengineering' Go to School TODAY'S COLLEGE TEACHERS: CHEAP AND TEMPORARY -- by Jason Hecht College teaching has traditionally been portrayed as one of the better jobs to have in the U.S.

fascism in russian labour movement (fwd.) (fwd)

1994-11-08 Thread D Shniad
Forwarded message: Date: Tue, 8 Nov 1994 09:01:31 EST Reply-To: Forum on Labor in the Global Economy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: Forum on Labor in the Global Economy [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: norma jo baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: fascism in russian labour movement (fwd.) Following

Re: Atlas plugged

1994-11-08 Thread shecker
On another note, how are Pen-Lers coping with depression and anger today, as we exercise our freedom to vote for the marginally lesser evil? The thought of Jesse Helms as chair of the Senate Foreign Relations committee is so nauseating that I'm having trouble thinking of anything else. Here in

more on election day

1994-11-08 Thread Scott Oberstaedt
About mid-term elections, taking place as I write... I am a graduate student in Washington University in St. Louis, and I would trade state senators with ANYBODY after today (except maybe North Carolina), when Missouri elects John Ashcroft to go along with Kit Bond for the new term. My previous

RE: Re: Voting

1994-11-08 Thread Bill Brown 465-6423/789-2448
I'm holding my breath, but it looks like that most pioneer/libertarian state of all, my home of Alaska, may buck the tide: We very well may elect a democrat governor who favors single-payer health care for the state among other things. Don't get me wrong; he is not a progressive. Sykes, the Green

Re: bugs in pen-l??

1994-11-08 Thread carla
Yes, I've noticed the same problem with missing mail that Doug Orr points out. What's the story? Carla

schumpeter

1994-11-08 Thread jones/bhandari
I have been reading Wolfgang Stolper's new biography on Schumpeter (Joseph Alois Schumpeter: the public life of a private man), and it led me to think that, instead of all being Keynesians, we are now all Schumpeterians. Let me quote two short passages from Stolper on the dynamics of wages

Bell Curve Question

1994-11-08 Thread Andrew Sessions
The discussion on the Bell Curve has been very interesting to follow. Could someone point me in the direction of someone who would be willing to be interviewed on this books, racial genetic/eugenetics, or IQ/intelligence? Thank you in advance, Andrew Sessions WORT Madison, WI [EMAIL

Federal Reserve Simulation

1994-11-08 Thread Edward J. McKenna
I apologize for cross-posting this message,but I'm hoping that someone can help me locate a soft-ware package I saw advertised several years ago.The package enabled students to simulate a meeting of the Board of Governors of the Fed.I would like to use this in a course in money and

Re: urgent action (fwd)

1994-11-08 Thread LANDONP
=)~"/g|Please add me to your urgent action list re: Central American Trade Union Solidarity. Thanks!

Re: Bell Curve Question

1994-11-08 Thread jones/bhandari
I would recommend looking up Professor Troy Duster at the Dept of Sociology and the Institute of Social Change at UC Berkeley. He has written Backdoor to Eugenics. The discussion on the Bell Curve has been very interesting to follow. Could someone point me in the direction of someone who

re: UI in Canada

1994-11-08 Thread Dan Shoom
About 2 years ago the Conservative government of Canada lowered the Unemployment Insurance rate to 57% of weekly employment earnings. I believe that the Liberals who replaced the Tories one year ago reduced the rate further in their first budget this past spring. 53% comes to mind, but I'm not

Re: schumpeter

1994-11-08 Thread Michael Perelman
I suspect that the problem is not with pen-l. I think that messages get placed on pkt and get responses on pen-l. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 916-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Atlas published

1994-11-08 Thread Anthony D'Costa
I'll be more vulgar by posing this question: Do we as members of pen-l get discounts? No, I really think that it is appropriate for members to let us know what is being published by them. Besides, how do you expect Doug to take on Krugman, Larry Katz, and Sylvia Nasar without this kind of