[PEN-L:7759] Support the Liverpool dockers! (fwd)

1996-12-06 Thread D Shniad
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[PEN-L:7760] The globalization scam

1996-12-06 Thread D Shniad
A LARGE-SCALE "SCAM" "The mantra of global competition is a large-scale intellectual scam that has diverted government from tackling problems in their own back yards. "By focusing on the international competitiveness myth, one gets misplaced priorities. It distorts your view of the

[PEN-L:7761] They never walk alone! (fwd)

1996-12-06 Thread D Shniad
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[PEN-L:7764] Fwd: useless Ph.D.s

1996-12-06 Thread MScoleman
My initial quip was for Jason because we know each other relatively well, and he was a TREMENDOUS help to me in grad school. However, I do think that education from heterodox schools like the New School is far more useful in the real world than education from bastions of neoclassical economics

[PEN-L:7762] Fwd: Re: Social Security

1996-12-06 Thread MScoleman
The main reason SS is running into problems is that it is not a funded account, it is an account which pays benefits out of current spending. Shifting it over to a funded account would resolve the problem. Even a few years of partial funding would significantly reduced the possibility of ss

[PEN-L:7763] Fwd: Re: Social Security

1996-12-06 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 96-12-04 16:01:33 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug Henwood) writes: Since the U.S. has one of the mildest aging problems of the OECD countries, where will the outside money come from? Malaysia maybe? Please to explain, I don't get it, do you mean that the U.S. is aging less