[PEN-L:4332] EPI op-ed network

1996-05-17 Thread Mark Weisbrot
To all interested Pen-l members: The Economic Policy Institute is putting together a group of progressive economists to write opinion pieces for daily newspapers and appear on talk radio programs across the country. We are seeking academics from across the nation who are willing to be

[PEN-L:4333] TIAA-CREF update

1996-05-17 Thread Mark Weisbrot
Pen-l members: Some of you may recall a proposed shareholder resolution for TIAA-CREF (the world's largest pension fund), which would require the trustees to actively work to place limits on executive compensation in corporations in which they hold a financial interest. It looks like it

[PEN-L:4334] South African politics and economics...

1996-05-17 Thread Patrick Bond
Best lines on South Africa's political economy I've seen recently are from Jeremy Cronin (SA Communist Party deputy secretary general) in today's New Nation newspaper: On the day of the announcement of the National Party pull- out from government, FW de Klerk made an astonishing comment.

[PEN-L:4335] Re: metrics question

1996-05-17 Thread patrick l mason
Doug: I'm not certain about the relationship between heteroskedasticity and specification error that you refer to. However, if you are using a standardized package, e.g., LIMDEP or SHAZAM, there are relatively straightforward commands which run a battery of tests for alternative specifications

[PEN-L:4336] Re: film, gossip

1996-05-17 Thread patrick l mason
Consider Maggie Coleman's gender comparison of gossip topics: MEN TALK FEMALE EQUIVALENT Weight lifting diets kids kids sexual prowess dating women's bodies diets union complaints union complaints

[PEN-L:4337] Re: social secur...

1996-05-17 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Harry M. Cleaver wrote: I don't know about God, but it is certain that "Logan's Run" included the phenomenon of people over some age (30 sounds right) being killed. That sounds right but I still think "Wild in the Streets" was a story of some young Robespierre who establishes dictatorship

[PEN-L:4338] E;TheNews, Mex/Can/US Labor Managers Confer, May 16 (fwd)

1996-05-17 Thread D Shniad
FINANCE The News Mexico City, May 16 1996. MEXICAN, U.S., CANADIAN LABOR CHIEFS CONFER By TIMNA TANNERS The News Staff Reporter Labor secretaries from Mexico, Canada and the United States on Wednesday

[PEN-L:4339] Logan's Run, Malthus, Marvin Harris

1996-05-17 Thread Lisa Rogers
I didn't know it when the movie was new, but now I can see it as a kind of alternative to Marvin Harris' view of the way that pre-capitalist societies allegedly dealt with "Malthusian" population growth. In Logan's Run, an underground city was originally built to save some people from [nuclear?]

[PEN-L:4340] Fwd: Kevorkian Just Keeps on Going......

1996-05-17 Thread Jim Westrich
Thought some people might be interested in this, I find the testimony compelling.I'll say this for Kevorkian, he is a genius at misspecifying an issue to suit his interests. - Forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Justice-For-All Moderator) Sender:[EMAIL