wobegone statistical theory

1994-12-16 Thread Michael Perelman
I am amazed that nobody has noticed that, in the wave of middle class rhetoric, that nobody in the popular media has noticed that people who make $120,000 are hardly members of the middle class. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 916-898-5

quiz family values/family wage

1994-12-16 Thread cns
And the winner isGeorge Gilder! Our expert panel of surfers pondered your submissions between wave sets. One reminded the panel that George Gilder answered this in Wealth and Poverty: men go into the world and accomplish great tasks to win the approval of their (women/mother surrogate) mates.

China and GATT

1994-12-16 Thread whump
I understand that the Chinese Government sentenced 9 people to upto 20 years at hard labor for political organizing (that's the PRC not ROC.) At the same time, the PRC is applying to join the GATT. Anyone know about where one can write the GATT bureaucrats in Geneva and if throwing dissidents into

No Subject

1994-12-16 Thread Joel Rogers
Original message THE NATION, Vol. 259, No. 22, December 26, 1994, pp. 784-85. TALKING UNION Early results of the Worker Representation and Participation Survey show a strong employee desire for more power in the workplace, frustrati

sample letter to Congress

1994-12-16 Thread HEATHER GROB
Dear list members, please take a few minutes of your time to print this letter and send it to your congress members. Please send this to other lists!! Thank you _ The Honorable ( REp's name) US House of Representatives Wa

hotline

1994-12-16 Thread HEATHER GROB
Forgot to mention the hotline isn't operational until Monday, Dec 19, so you have time to spread the previous message around.

Contract on America's "Project Relief"

1994-12-16 Thread HEATHER GROB
The "Project Relief" ..."Restoring individual liberty and responsibility" is a group of 800 employers who are fed up with "excessive regulations." They have established a hotline which I hope you will all sabotage by calling in and saying you want qualitative reforms of government agencies, not

Internet Demo at the AEA

1994-12-16 Thread William L. Goffe
Internet Demo at the AEA Meeting At the AEA meeting on January 6-8 in Washington, DC, I, George Greenwade, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Bob Parks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> will be demonstrating a number of uses of the Internet for economists. Besides describing a number of useful things

Re: apologies re: Progressive, quantitative studies of crime?

1994-12-16 Thread DJ
Let me thank Blair for his apologies. Perhaps I was over-reacting too and if I was I am sorry. My over-reaction stems from the fact that some people were ready to put me off this list two years ago and Jim Devine just reminded me of that sad episode recently when he said he should not even be

apologies re: Progressive, quantitative studies of crime?

1994-12-16 Thread Blair Sandler
Oh my god, I feel really foolish -- and sorry. I never meant to make Doug McCready "look like an imbecile" (his words); I understood that he meant there are useful, politically progressive, etc., etc. things to say about these issues, rather than the usual right-wing rant. It really never occurre

two questions

1994-12-16 Thread HEATHER GROB
Pentium's problems are not really that bad if you don't want to divide 1 by 836,347,215, which is how the problem was discovered. Apparently it has a probability of messing up about once a month, which if you were using it for bookkeeping, could really screw things up. Also, I hear that if you

two questions

1994-12-16 Thread Jim Devine
(1) Is the flaw in the Pentium chip that bad? especially when compared to software that doesn't run very well even when it's running as well as it can (e.g., MS Windows)? (2) What do pen-lers think of Clinton's "Middle Class Bill of Rights"? enquiring minds want to know. in pen-l solidarity, J

Sir Jimmy & GATT

1994-12-16 Thread Doug Henwood
A number of anti-GATTsters quoted the anti-GATT ravings of Sir James Goldsmith, corporate raider turned corporate statesman. The following observation on Goldsmith's standing as a witness are worth noting. They come from Private Eye, Dec 2, and are quoted by Michael Thomas, in his Dec 19 colu