On Wed, 18 Jan 1995 08:02:13 -0800 kevin quinn said:
>This is in response to Robin's comments on rationality.
>
>I agree with Robin that institutions shape the selves whose lives
>they structure, and in this context that the instrumentally rational agents
>that people rational choice models tend
On Wed, 18 Jan 1995, Doug Henwood wrote:
> On another list, an irrepressible born-again market enthusiast we'll call
> only H.G., after dismissing public jobs programs as "a joke" and "a waste
> of money," declared that government should do no more than finance child
> care, not provide it - prov
As one of the women academic signers of the letter on welfare,
I don't think it's purpose was to segregate women (least of all
women economists). It was a statement by academic women (better
yet, Doug, you might ask the class question of why academic
women) who have either studied welfare or are
I'm posting this for Erich Hahn, U.S./GLEP
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>On another list, an irrepressible born-again market enthusiast we'll call
>only H.G., after dismissing public jobs programs as "a joke" and "a waste
>of money," declared that government should do no more than finance child
>care, not provide it - provision being best left to private providers. In
As we know, the state does a pretty decent job providing health care --
socialized medicine -- to the military. The Military Child Care Program is
also quite good. After some widely publicized scandals, the military got
their act together in training, certifying, and paying child care workers,
s
I have no disagreements with Kevin Quinn's recent posting at all.
The reason I want to see what kind of behavior different institutions
promote is that I want to "choose" what kind of person I would rather
become. But the way to know what kind of agent is going to "go with"
a particular institutio
The essential issue, I believe, is whether or not particular social
institutions promote socially productive or socially unproductive
behavior. [I'm sure we could argue for a while about how to define
what is socially productive and unproductive, but let's assume we
could agree on that for the mom
I'd like to point out that here in Champaign County, the Champaign County
Nursing Home which as its name implies operates under government authority has
a day care program which has been quite successful, in terms of 1) having more
demand for participation than they have physical space 2) reducing
Bravo, Elaine. My thoughts exactly.
Ian Robinson
On Wed, 18 Jan 1995, Elaine Bernard wrote:
> Come'on Doug, play nice. In the same spirit that I took up
> J. Case, I'm sure you don't mean CP as a term of endearment.
> Play nice boys! There's some real politics here, so cut out
> the red ba
At 4:44 AM 1/18/95, Elaine Bernard wrote:
>Come'on Doug, play nice. In the same spirit that I took up
>J. Case, I'm sure you don't mean CP as a term of endearment.
>Play nice boys! There's some real politics here, so cut out
>the red baiting bullshit.
I'm not redbaiting at all, I'm describing a
On another list, an irrepressible born-again market enthusiast we'll call
only H.G., after dismissing public jobs programs as "a joke" and "a waste
of money," declared that government should do no more than finance child
care, not provide it - provision being best left to private providers. In
an
I am mystified why a message on welfare signed by women economists is
particularly useful. It doesn't go against gender stereotyping; welfare is
typically thought of as a "women's" issue, squishy and bleedingheartish,
unlike big macro thinking or rigorously tiny microthinking. It would be
news if
One point about exports that has not been discussed much is the idea that
the proceeds from exports do not necessarily end up at the point of origin
or even the country of origin. If a transnational corporation uses a
developing country as an export platform, that benefits the firm but not the
On Wed, 18 Jan 1995, Jim Devine wrote:
>
> On Mon, 16 Jan 1995 10:40:32 -0800 Justin Schwartz said:
> >On Mon, 16 Jan 1995, Jim Devine wrote:
> >> Justin, on your reference to G.A. Cohen's reconstruction of historical
> >> materialism, I would add the adjective "failed." He produced a
> >> tech
This is in response to Robin's comments on rationality.
I agree with Robin that institutions shape the selves whose lives
they structure, and in this context that the instrumentally rational agents
that people rational choice models tend to be produced by the universal
reign of markets. I thi
I would happily plead guilty to Stalinism if I weren't sure that
Stalin was more of a Trotskyist than and Leninist...but Elaine is right that
the debate in THESE terms is moot until the next revolutionary upheaval.
In fact it obscures the truth which my story of the strike was meant to tell
--
A question from far away:
Is _any_ radical party project in the U.S. at all feasible in the sense
of aspiring to a majority vote, when mass media are so perverted as
they are in the U.S.? I confess that I really am a pessimist on this
issue. You have a hen-an-egg-problem: To achieve the fairly
Come'on Doug, play nice. In the same spirit that I took up
J. Case, I'm sure you don't mean CP as a term of endearment.
Play nice boys! There's some real politics here, so cut out
the red baiting bullshit. I think the real CP, Trotskyist,
New Left, American Left legacy is ignoring political dif
On Mon, 16 Jan 1995 10:40:32 -0800 Justin Schwartz said:
>On Mon, 16 Jan 1995, Jim Devine wrote:
>> Justin, on your reference to G.A. Cohen's reconstruction of historical
>> materialism, I would add the adjective "failed." He produced a
>> technological-determinist theory of history that differs
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