The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington DC has recently put
out a report on California which includes an analysis of adding a service
sales tax to California's existing sales tax on goods. The service sales tax
proposal they are using is set up along a fairly progressive set of
p
Today's newspaper carried the news that Black unemployment has plunged
below 10.0% for the first time in years. I'm skeptical that Black
unemplyment is down more than white or rather total unemployment.
Relatively, that is.
What has happened to make Black unemployment drop relatively faster?
Ja
The assertion that we are at full employment angers me.
Some data: Electricity production in the U. S., 1994 over
1993 was up 2.2%. There was a mild summer, and mild winter.
The price-fixing agreement in the aluminum industry resulted in
U. S. smelters being shut down. But even with these facto
Hi Blair. You left out Korea. When is the next Lorax meeting, and
where?
Hope you got a plush job in DC. I handed in my resignation at TURN,
effective 2/28. Time to get on with life. I don't think there's a job
there, though. They'll replace me with a lawyer. Gene.
On Wed, 11 Jan 1995, jim devine wrote:
>
> On Wed, 11 Jan 1995 09:56:16 -0800 Justin Schwartz said:
> (first quoting me)
> >> 2. I think this goes to the heart of positivism: the positivists
> >> think that there's a clear distinction between "fact" and "value,"
> >> so it's possible to be "valu
One more question: how do mainstream economists explain the failures of
IBM, GM, etc. in the late 70s and 80s?
Anders Schneiderman
Center for Community Economic Research
University of California at Berkeley
13th Jan
Is this some kind of trick question? The character, fate of GM, IBM
or any o
On Wed, 11 Jan 1995 14:05:04 -0800 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Some comments with respect to the rationality discussion:
>
>1) I don't think it's quite right to say that the rationality
>assumption is tautological; rather that by itself it doesn't yield
>falsifiable predictions (since we can't obs
Eban Goodstein writes,
"Now, here's a case where paralysis-by-analysis might prove
useful:
To require that any request by the President for a declaration of
war include a cost/benefit statement, and to require that any
declaration of war by the Congress include such a statement."
I must say I d
I just got my new copy of Left Business Observer (LBO), by
Doug Henwood, who might be familiar to those who read pen-l
and pkt. For us oldsters and to-be-oldsters, Doug has
discovered an important point on page 5:
the prediction that the social security system will go broke
during the next centu
>From Solinet:
==
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>Posted on 11 Jan 1995 at 17:07:52 by TELEC List Distributor (011802)
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>[PEN-L:3702] Re: rationality
>
>Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 14:04:47 -0800
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>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>Some comments with respect to the rationality discussion:
>
>
>Another way of putting this: if so
>Posted on 11 Jan 1995 at 17:37:49 by TELEC List Distributor (011802)
>
>[PEN-L:3704] neoclassical "tautoligies"
>
>Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 14:33:55 -0800
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>From: Robert Naiman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jan 11 15:52:12 1995
>
>>I think that a l
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Subject: U.S. House of Reps - WWW
With the start of the 104th Congress, the House leadership
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To require that any request by the President for a declaration of war include
a cost/benefit statement, and to require that any declaration of war by the
Congress include such a statement.
104th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 277
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 4, 1995
Mr. Jacobs intro
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At 6:08 PM 1/11/95 -0800, R. Anders Schneiderman wrote:
>One more question: how do mainstream economists explain the failures of
>IBM, GM, etc. in the late 70s and 80s?
Technology changed. Markets got more competitive and internationalized. IBM
and GM grew fat and overstaffed and were outdone b
I agree completely with what Jim says below. There are always some
substantive constraints on the interpretation of preferences being
employed, and the economist, whether neo-classical or analytically
marxist, typically denies this, maintaining that they are only employing
innocuous formal pri
The marxism list now has its own WWW page. At present, in addition to
providing a way to acces the list's archives, this mainly consists of
links to other left WWW pages and gophers.
The archives also contain a document called "interlef.doc" which is a
draft version of a list of left internet
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