Clinton recently signed into law another act to punish other countries
for doing business with governments that US imperialism is trying to
overthrow. Like the criminal Helms-Burton law against countries doing
business with Cuba, this act targets those who do business with Libya and
Iran. It
The rich are getting richer while many more are getting poorer. Recent
statistics once again demonstrate this law of capitalism, which has existed
throughout capitalism's history, throughout the world. It continues today in
the most dramatic fashion.
The United Nations Human Development R
Pen-lers:
I'm preparing the reading list for a graduate course on inequality. Please
forward to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] any reccommendations on
interesting theoretical and empirical articles. I have a ton on neoclassical
stuff, so I'm particularly interested in more heterodox articles.
peace, pa
For those interested in a review of the literature on families, welfare,
childbirth, and economic analysis, I have a paper that is available
through the Center on Fathers and Families at the University of Pennsyl-
vannia, dept of education. The director of the center is Vivian Gadsen.
peace, patr
I know that Michael P. does not want any further discussion
of this, but I cannot help pointing out that there was a lot of
crowing and cheering on this list when Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated.
Now we have various people going on about how terrible the new
Likud government is. I could not a
I'm reading Paulo Freire's memoir, "Letters to Cristina." Subtitled
"Reflections on My Life and Work." It is organized as 18 letters to his
neice. It also has extensive political and explanatory comment by his wife
-- very useful.
I want to call attention especially to the Second Letter
On Fri, 16 Aug 1996, patrick l mason wrote:
> Some brief comments:
>
> For the most part births to unmarried women DID NOT increase between (say)
> 1960 and (say) 1987. The proportions of births to unmarried women did increase.
> The proportion rose for two reasons: 1) the dramatic decline in th
Well, I see that the study I cited by Robert Moffitt was
not listed in Eban's pile, although another by him was. The
one I cited is
Robert Moffitt, "Incentive Effects of the U.S. Welfare System:
A Review," _Journal of Economic Literature_, March 1992, 30, (1),
1-62. See especially pp. 27-3
Some brief comments:
For the most part births to unmarried women DID NOT increase between (say)
1960 and (say) 1987. The proportions of births to unmarried women did increase.
The proportion rose for two reasons: 1) the dramatic decline in the institu-
tion of marriage and dramatic increase in di
Modern society needs to be based on the abolition of privileges at the
base of the social relations in society. Modern equality in a democratic
body politic is based on the objective criteria of membership in the body
politic and is supposed to accord equal rights and duties to all, without
r
Thousands of hunger strikers in Turkish prisons declared victory July
28, after winning promises from the Turkish government that it would
improve prison conditions.
But the victory came at a heavy cost. Twelve of the hunger strikers,
who had taken only sweetened water for 6
If I'm not mistaken, check out the UN Human development Report 1996.
Another helpful reference is the World Development Report 1995,
Workers in an Integrating World. The 1996 version should be available in
a few weeks.
Shawgi Tell
University at Buffalo
Graduate School of Education
[EMAIL P
At this point, more than three weeks after the crash, officials admit
there is no evidence that it was caused by a bomb. There is, however,
evidence indicating a mechanical failure. One possibility now being raised
is that a mechanical failure caused the empty center fuel tank to explode,
cau
Shawgi,
Impressive picture of 'freedom' brought about by capitalism!!!
Freedom to climb up, freedom to ...slide down, ehh???
But, could you give us precise references?
>A United Nations report says that ...
It might be useful to get hold of the report.
Thanks,
Alex
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