[PEN-L:1324] Res. for Econ. List

I apologize for the cross-posts, but economists are a hard lot to reach via email. Two new mailing lists have been created for the distribution of "Resources for Economists on the Internet." This guide, available in both ASCII and html forms (the latter on many sites, including

[PEN-L:1323] Urgent!! Ken Saro-Wiwa Execution Imminent, Act Now!!

This posting has been forwarded to you as a service of Accion Zapatista de Austin. NOTE BENE: If the following message is true, anything you can do must be done now to have any hope of stopping the vicious and unjust murder of this leader of the indigenous Ogoni of Nigeria. Call the Nigerian

[PEN-L:1322] Re: Fed tightness

On two or three postings, Doug Henwood said (I lost the dates): "It's now the consensus on Wall Street that the Fed won't ease at its mid-November meeting, despite imminent fiscal sadism, flagging growth, and the absence of any inflationary signsWall Street and the Fed are committed to a se

[PEN-L:1321] Cultural Note

Well occasionally an informative cultural note is needed in this dreadfully serious forum (a). So now you know why i am such a good guy - relaxed, laconic.. kind regards bill aahh, maybe i will just have a sleep over lunch time

[PEN-L:1320] Re: Responses to query on books regarding changes in income and wealth

A couple of slight corrections to Paul Z's list: I believe that AMERICA, WHAT WENT WRONG is written by BARLETT and STEELE Williams Greider is the author of _Who Will Tell the People_. -- Mike Meeropol Economics Department Cultures Past and Present Program Western New England College Springfield,

[PEN-L:1319] World Bank, Latin America After Mexico, [2/2] Aug (fwd)

> Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 10:16:04 -0500 > From: Mauricio Banda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Multiple Recipients of List Mexico2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: (World Bank) Latin America After Mexico: Quickening the Pace [2/2] > > * Productivity gains are a fundamental element in the economy.

[PEN-L:1318] D.Gap: Structural Adjustment in Mexico [1/2] Oct (fwd)

> Date: 12:33 PM Oct 23, 1995 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > APC Conference:igc:econ.saps > > Note: > > Following is a Development GAP paper on Structural Adjustment in > Latin America. > Only the chapter on Mexico is being sent. > > To request the chapters on Nicaragua, Costa > Rica, Bolivia and

[PEN-L:1317] Canadians Form a National Alliance

> NEWS RELEASE > OTTAWA, > NOVEMBER 8, 1995 > > For Immediate Release > >Canadians Form a National Alliance! > > A broad cross-section of Canadians have formed the Alliance for a > Connected Canada. The group's purpose is to ensure that basic > citizens' interests and needs ar

[PEN-L:1316] Re: Fed tightness

In response to Doug Henwood's posting: "Central banks in Japan & Europe are also quite tight, considering the weakness of their economies. I think capital smells an imminent total victory over labor, and will not let up until the task is accomplished." Is the Japanese Central Bank really pursui

[PEN-L:1315] Re: Fed tightness

Jim Devine asks: > On the other hand, I'd bet that the cost of job loss > corresponding to 5.5% unemployment is much higher than it was 20 > years ago. It's the COJL that's key in motivating workers, more > than the U rate. Someone on pen-l (I've forgotten who) has > produced new estimates of

[PEN-L:1314] FYA, For Your Amusement

Want another hotlink to your website? Here's one possibility. I will be interested to see just how many radical/progressive/marxist economists The Applied Economics and Econometrics Lab at Portland State University will be willing to include in its list of "professional economists". Date: We

[PEN-L:1313] Fed tightness

Doug writes:>>October's unemployment rate of 5.5% is extremely low by the standards of the last 20 years. In only 29 of the 248 months since January 1975 - under 12% of the time - have we seen a jobless rate equal to or lower than 5.5%!<< On the other hand, I'd bet that the cost of job loss c

[PEN-L:1312] Re: important measures

On Tue, 7 Nov 1995, Harry M. Cleaver wrote: > On Tue, 7 Nov 1995, Doug Henwood wrote: > > > The current issue of the IMF Survey (November 6, 1995), reports on the > > Fund's new data initiative, which would "encourage," in their > > ever-so-persuasive way, countries to publish a minimum set of

[PEN-L:1311] Re: Fed tightness

Comrades - Eric Nilsson asked: >Doug, if you have the time to explain, what's the basic >post-1980 trend in the voluntary job leaver data? Was >the 1990-92 data out of line with previous recession >experience or is it that something different is now happening >in 1995? >From the numbers below,

[PEN-L:1310] Responses to query on books regarding changes in income and wealth

I have gotten quite a few responses to my query on books on the changing distribution of income and wealth in the U.S. over the past quarter century and think it would be useful for all of us to have a compiled list. So here it is--with a comment if it seems useful. Missing info is just that

[PEN-L:1309] Chomsky/Albert redux

>From November 1995 "Z Magazine": Michael Albert: So we can imagine two libraries, a library of literary theory books, postmodernism and so on, and another library over here with Marxist/Leninist books in essentially the same building. Noam Chomsky: I don't understand that either. I read all k

[PEN-L:1308] Re: Shalom.

On Tue, 7 Nov 1995 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Did > not Arafat's uncle, the chief Muslim leader of Jerusalem, > collaborate with the Nazis? I get really pissed when someone throws up this `Nazi collaborator' thing. Use yer HEAD fella: it's one thing to collaborate when your country is

[PEN-L:1307] Re: Shalom

On Tue, 7 Nov 1995, Tom Walker wrote: > Perhaps PEN-Lers have heard the expression about catching more flies with > honey than with vinegar? A sense of tragedy brings people together, a sense > of umbrage divides. I repeat, my purpose was to call for peace. Perhaps you realize that th

[PEN-L:1306] Support Nigerian activist; Oppose IFC backing for pipeline (fwd)

For more information contact Andrea Durbin at <[EMAIL PROTECTED] (202/783- 7400, x. 209) or Soren Ambrose at <[EMAIL PROTECTED] (312/324-1502). **ALERT: KEN SARO-WIWA / NIGERIA PIPELINE** TO: 50 Years is Enough Campaign Folks FROM: Soren Ambrose, Chicago 50 Years is Enough Every once in awhil

[PEN-L:1305] strike at U of Manitoba

Sorry to clutter the list, but here is a request: If anyone out there is involved in the ongoing strike at the University of Manitoba, please contact me *immediately*. Thanks. Peter Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:1304] Re: Fed tightness

Doug writes about the voluntary job leaver data: > So October's number is a bit of a drop- but all these recent > numbers are about 250,000 *below* the levels of the recession >years of 1990-92. Doug, if you have the time to explain, what's the basic post-1980 trend in the voluntary job leave

[PEN-L:1303] Re: Fed tightness

At 4:45 PM 11/7/95, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Doug, > >thanks for the news. Why do you think the Fed wants to crack down? It's not just the Fed, it's the whole of what we used to call the ruling class. Look at the budget - it will either be moderately nasty (Clinton) or downright vicious (Repub