Radical Statistics annual meeting
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Saturday 22 February 1997
Coram's Fields, London WC1
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Numbers into Policy
-- agenda for a new government
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Not only have I got Jim D responding in hot denial, also my other
colleague and (usually) agreeable friend, Barkely R. :-) Hey, none
of it was personal nor were my comments directed to anyone personally.
In fact, (if I must confess) I had deleted the comments from my
mail and was only responding
This also happened in the first half of the nineteenth century in
the states. Prior to the huge waves of Irish immigration starting in 1843,
there were a series of federal, state, and local reports which strongly
encouraged the use of women laborers in factories. It was said that
On Fri, 27 Dec 1996, Steele, Jen wrote:
I'm curious what pen-l folks have to say about capital mobility restictions,
such as a return to a fixed exchange rate system, as a means for stabilizing
local economies. Personally, I have a hard time inagining it. Do you think
it's feasible?
In an effort to initiate a non-US dominated topic: What
would people on the list do if they were put in charge of
economic policy in Bulgaria today?
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From Wendell W. Solomons [EMAIL PROTECTED]
... Five years ago I faxed the Chief Economist of the World Bank to
On 6 Feb 97 at 14:34, Doug Henwood wrote:
How about that David Bowie issuing $55 million in 10-year, 7.9% bonds on
his future record sales? That's only about 130 basis points over comparable
Treasuries. But if Kazakhstan - whose banking sector is collapsing into the
state's arms, and which
I want to apologize to Michael P. and to the list
(what, again?!). I feel responsible for bob malecki having
come onto this list. He was drawn in because of my posting
my infamous New Year's attack on Louis Proyect to the
marxism-international list as well, where bob hangs out.
Since
Barkely suggests we may be on the beginnings of a long wave (swing)
upswing by referring to the fact that investment/GNP has been
rising. Others have poo-pooed the whole concept of long waves,
a subject I don't want to debate at this time. I do, however,
want to make two points.
The first is
Well, we have already been through this with a lot of
people expressing strong skepticism, including Doug, but it
sure looks to me those early stages of the long wave
upswing, ooh ooh.
Barkley Rosser
On Fri, 7 Feb 1997 10:39:24 -0800 (PST) Thad Williamson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At
Let us go back a bit to our riddle of what came first, the
chicken or the egg, structure or function, practice or theory? If
waging the class struggle and politics, or, in short, practice,
are not put in the first place, how is it possible to raise the
question of acquiring a world outlook?
Now, if you started calling it the CGRU (the Capitalist Greed Rate
of Unemployment), I might be less critical. Bill M, if I remember
correctely, has an alternative expression which is closer to the
mark -- but please don't call it natural. Perhaps we should
call the US homicide rate the
At 04:34 PM 2/6/97 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My cursory reading of the domestic spending during the last few
years is:
government spending/GDP down;
private fixed investment/GDP up significantly
consumer demand/GDP flat.
Isn't this kind of an upset, a private investment-driven
In an effort to initiate a non-US dominated topic, what
would people on the list do if they were put in charge of
economic policy in Bulgaria today?
Peter
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I'd enroll at Berlitz and try to learn Bulgarian by midnight.
BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1997
RELEASED TODAY: In July through September of 1996, there were 947
mass layoff events lasting more than 30 days, resulting in the
separation of 198,398 workers from their jobs. A year earlier,
employers reported that they had laid off 173,827
It can be said that this is the point at which a world
outlook also begins to develop. This species called homo sapiens
did come into being, but it is now at such a stage in its
development that it is divided between those who want to play the
role inherent to the species, that is, continue
At 04:34 PM 2/6/97 -0800, you wrote:
4)How would you evaluate in general the thesis that American
capitalism is, one way, or another headed for a long period of
stagnation/slow growth? and if this is true, will it be tolerable
enough that the Rob. Samuelsons, etc, can continue to pass it off
Capacity utilization is also a tricky area. I haven't looked lately, but
years ago the rate was changed to "profitable" capacity utilization rate.
Guess what that did to capacity utilization rates? Perhaps others working
currently in the area can shed more light on this. Larry Shute
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L:8486] You're in charge of Bulgaria's economy
X-Comment: Progressive Economics
In an effort to initiate a non-US dominated topic, what
would people on the list do if they were put in charge of
economic policy in Bulgaria today?
Let's keep
Paul,
Just for the record, I note that in my discussion of
the NRU I labeled it an invention of Milton Friedman,
called it an essentially empty concept, said it did not
necessarily equal NAIRU, to the extent that exists, and
that both were covers for the reserve army. Was I on your
The material below is reposted from BUSNET a Canadian newsgroup devoted
to business ethics. It is obviously relevant to health care reform. It shows
the power of pharmaceutical giants to protect their profits and discourage
competition even when they do not have patents for products.
At 10:17 AM -0800 2/7/97, Eugene P. Coyle wrote:
I'd enroll at Berlitz and try to learn Bulgarian by midnight.
Of course, you could just deal with the IMF, the World Bank, and the Morgan
Bank in English and have your staff work the details.
Doug
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Doug Henwood
Left Business Observer
250 W
Barkley Rosser wrote,
Well, we have already been through this with a lot of
people expressing strong skepticism, including Doug, but it
sure looks to me those early stages of the long wave
upswing, ooh ooh.
Yeah, right. Is that the part of the upswing that heads down first or the
part
Second, some of the comments here (not Paul's) seem to imply that
rising wages, at whatever rate of unemployment they occur, are the cause of
inflation. In other words, some of the discussion even here on PEN-L seems
to be about the rate of unemployment at which rising wages trigger rising
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