[PEN-L:3427] Re: Protest Anti-Labor Purge at UC Berkeley

I must said that I fall quite far from your geographical settlement. That does not mean that your approach as a whole does not appeal to me. From the moment I subscribed to the list I only benefited from your insights and information. Keep up! With warm support, Alex > Date: Th

[PEN-L:3426] Apologies for message 3413

Sorry to all Pen-l-ers, I put a personal message for Alan Freeman by mistake on the wrong address and sent it to the list. Sorry. Robert Went International Institute for Research and Education (IIRE) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Postbus 53290, 1007 RG Amsterdam, The Netherlands Tel: 31 20 6717263 Fax: 31

[PEN-L:3425] Protest Anti-Labor Purge at UC Berkeley

Dear Penlrs, This is a general call for support that Nathan and I are sending out because of the fact that our Center, the Center for Community Economic Research, was driven from UCBerkeley's Institute of Industrial Research for being too pro-labor, pro-affirmative action, and pro- immigrants rig

[PEN-L:3424] Re: Cost of Job Loss

Re Edwin's questions about my findings on CJL. The one who makes the strongest claims about CJL is Julie Schor who wrote in her chapter in The Imperiled Economy (1987) that, ". . . the Golden Age of United States capitalism was based on a high cost of job loss and high profits. . . . [W]orkers'

[PEN-L:3423] Re: Cost of Job Loss

Eric, Thank you for the reflections on your research, and David's comments on it. My primary concern is whether your work is calling into question the theses Gordon/Bowles/Weisskopf/ Schor,etc. use the cost of job loss to substantiate. As I understand them, the argument is that a Golden Age of

[PEN-L:3422] David Gordon

I just heard about David Gordon, and can't quite believe it. Please let me know what happened. Marianne Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:3421] Position Announcement (fwd)

Forwarded message: Warnings-To: <> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 21 Mar 96 14:29:08 CST From: RN051EC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: RN051EC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Position Announcement Please pass the following on to anyone who may be interested. Thanks. In

[PEN-L:3420] Discrimination Text

Perhaps of interest to you all. Forwarded from another list - > The following is blatant advertising, so feel free to ignore. > > Randy Albelda, Steve Shulman and I just completed an introductory > text on discrimination: > > "Unlevel Playing Fields: Understanding Wage Inequality and > Discr

[PEN-L:3419] In memory of David Gordon

Forwarded from femecon-l: > I may have missed mention of this on Femecon, but on Saturday the 16th, > David Gordon, Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research > died in New York City. It should be mentioned that not only was David a > co-founder of U.R.P.E, a progressive voice fo

[PEN-L:3418] Cost of Job Loss

Re > Eric, > Was it with your efforts to re-calculate the cost of job loss > that David took issue with? If so, perhaps you would share > his criticisms with the list. Yes it was. A preliminary note: David was the "keeper of the series" for the Gordon, Bowles, Weisskopf team. He provided upd

[PEN-L:3417] Re: RadioHenwood

At 9:26 PM 3/20/96, Doug Henwood wrote: >On my radio show, Thursday, 3/21/96, 5-6 PM, WBAI New York City (99.5 FM): > >* Jon Entine, author of articles exposing the hypocrisy of the Body Shop, >Ben & Jerry's, and other outposts of "socially responsible" business, on >that, and the limits of "bouti

[PEN-L:3416] Re: Memorials for David Gordon

I want to say a few words about David Gordon. I met him a few times, but mostly I knew him from his work. He was clearly a person who tried to bridge the gap between "mainstream" and radical economics. VIrtually all his work, though clearly following a radical paradigm that placed conflict at t

[PEN-L:3415] Financial crimes

Dear PEN-L ers, I beg your assitence. In Japan, the current most political problem is pouring state money amount to 680 bil. yen to the dissolvation of big housing companies. These are dummies of japanese big banks. I heard that many managers were sent to jail at the financial scandals around '9

[PEN-L:3414] Israel: The Hijack State (II)

TERRORIST STATES TAKE ACTION AGAINST CIVILIAN POPULATIONS Terrorist actions against the civilian populations by governments in Israel, the Israel-occupied areas, Jordan and Egypt have intensified following the meeting of terrorist states in Sharm el-Sheikh last week, under the aegis of U.S. impe

[PEN-L:3413] Ernest Mandel seminar

Dear Alan Freeman, Salah Jaber told me that you agree in principle to do an introduction during the 'Ernest Mandel seminar' that will be organized in the IIRE by the Ernest Mandel Study Centre, July 4 to 6. Good. As we don't have your address I hope we can get into e-mail contact. There are three