[PEN-L:357] Re: Request for course materials

The Center For Popular Economics and Nancy Folbre's book provides excellent eye popping statistics on the astounding trends of what I have taken to calling "Robber Baron Capitalism II." I think it's New Press -- I don't have my copy in front of me.

[PEN-L:358] Re: STATS: Cuttin...

Doug: We're in agreement. There has been a huge decline in married couple households, regardless of whether one counts only those that are legally married or also include those that persons who are "living together." My point is that this decline is linked to the rise in the fraction of never

[PEN-L:356] re: Brian Easton's essay on responsibility

For those interested in Easton's essay... (500 lines) Bill Rosenberg. THE PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY OF AN ECONOMIST Brian Easton, Economic And Social Trust On New Zealand, 18 Talavera Terrace, Kelburn, Wellington, New Zealand. Phone NZ (4) 472 8950; Fax NZ (4) 4725305; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Address

[PEN-L:362] EPI STudy-Profits Up, Wages Down (fwd)

Forwarded message: Date: Wed, 6 Sep 1995 11:42:20 -0600 Reply-To: LEFT-L - Building a Democratic Left Movement [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: LEFT-L - Building a Democratic Left Movement [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Talmadge Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: EPI

[PEN-L:368] Report from Women's Conference (fwd)

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[PEN-L:365] Privatization

If anyone has any good sources on the recent experience of privatization of publicly owned enterprises-- decsriptions, critiques, alternatives, struggles against privatizing, the role of IMF/WB in forcing them, etc.-- I could sure use them as soon as possible. You can send them directly to me if

[PEN-L:360] Re: feminist ...

At 9:54 PM 9/5/95, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What piece of Jennifer Nelson's did the original quote for this topic come from? I checked my volume of "Feminist Economics" and there was nothing by her in the first edition. According to Harding's cite, the quote comes from Julie Nelson,

[PEN-L:359] Re: US is number #1 !!

At 9:53 PM 9/5/95, James Devine wrote: there's an interesting table in an article titled "Worker Rights Promote Productivity Growth" by Robert Buchele and Jens Christiansen in the current issue of CHALLENGE. Comparing 7 leading OECD countries, the U.S. is #1 in terms of slow labor productivity

[PEN-L:364] Re: Fisher Black

=BBS=AB=BBRa=FBZ_=C2^=E2=DETZ}=A4U=E1=BE=DD=FA=DA=A0\=B0\=CB=DC=F2=B2=AB=D1= =D8[qQ=ACV=DE=FAX]f=DA=F3[E=FAYV=D2=D2=FA=D7=D9=DA On Tue, 5 Sep 1995 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have no disagreement with Doug Henwood's comments. I was merely stating what in principle "could" be the case,

[PEN-L:371] RE: Microsoft Monopoly

On Wed, 6 Sep 1995 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems to me that you, and perhaps Microsoft, are assuming that people with 286 and 386/486 without much memory or hard drive space will upgrade their PCs to accomodate Windows 95. Without this very key and perhaps incorrect assumption,

[PEN-L:372] Re: Microsoft Monopoly

On Wed, 6 Sep 1995, Fikret Ceyhun wrote: Switch to macintosh and promote a small company that tries to exist in the fringes for so long, and now it faces extinction with the marketing power of MS. I myself bought an Atari ST when it was a more advanced system than the AT box

[PEN-L:373] NY Memorial Meeting for Ernest Mandel (fwd)

-- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 06 Sep 95 21:26:28 EDT From: Charlie Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sunday, September 24, at 2PM a memorial meeting will be held for Ernest Mandel at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research (65 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan).