[PEN-L:8791] accounting of gov. payrolls?

1997-02-27 Thread blairs
Okay, folks: stupid macro question v.32.a4: I'm teaching intro macro, using Schiller's THE MACROECONOMY TODAY. Nowhere that I can see does it mention the national accounting categorization of government payroll expenditures: wages and salaries of all the various "civil servants." It's not "G,"

[PEN-L:8790] more progressiveness war

1997-02-27 Thread JDevine
I wrote My hypothesis is that the general rise of progressiveness from 1952 to 1975-6 is a result of the cold war and two major hot wars (the need to legitimate the system in the eyes of the troops) plus the relatively non-globalized status of the US economy at the time (international competition

[PEN-L:8789] Thing on CPAC on Sunday (fwd)

1997-02-27 Thread shniad
The Federal Budget: Where Now? EVENT: Be a part of a LIVE Town Hall Broadcast on the CABLE PUBLIC AFFAIRS CHANNEL (CPAC) WHEN: Sunday, March 2, 1997 TIME: 6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. WHERE: Carleton University

[PEN-L:8786] Re: progressiveness war

1997-02-27 Thread Marshall Feldman
Jim, This worries me: My hypothesis is that the general rise of progressiveness from 1952 to 1975-6 is a result of the cold war and two major hot wars (the need to legitimate the system in the eyes of the troops) plus the relatively non-globalized status of the US economy at the time

[PEN-L:8792] Re: LBO web update

1997-02-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've just added a bunch of new stuff to the LBO web site (see URL below). Great, Doug, A-1! Just toss in a coffee bar and you'll have a haven equivalent to 14th Street in the Thirties. valis

[PEN-L:8787] FW: Conference

1997-02-27 Thread Bove, Roger E.
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[PEN-L:8785] Re: Barkin

1997-02-27 Thread Marshall Feldman
Posted on 27 Feb 1997 at 12:49:34 by TELEC List Distributor (011802) [PEN-L:8782] Barkin Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 09:31:57 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does anyone know David Barkin's whereabouts? I'm told he's in Boston right now. Doug -- Doug

[PEN-L:8784] Re: Nike in San Francisco

1997-02-27 Thread Marshall Feldman
Richard Barff and one of his students at Dartmouth wrote a terrific article in _Regional Studies_ a few years back. It's called "Nike Just Did It," and it's about Nike's subcontracting strategies in S.E. Asia. One thing that's terribly clear from the article is that Nike could pay its own

[PEN-L:8783] progressiveness war

1997-02-27 Thread JDevine
Based on the ideas that (1) war encourages the progressiveness of taxation and (2) that we should also look at the impact of social programs, I calculated a very simple index of the progressiveness of the welfare state based on the estimates of John Miller, 1989, "Social Wage or Social

[PEN-L:8782] Barkin

1997-02-27 Thread Doug Henwood
Does anyone know David Barkin's whereabouts? I'm told he's in Boston right now. Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html

[PEN-L:8781] Tim Koechlin

1997-02-27 Thread Hugo Radice
Does anyone have an email or mailing address for Tim Koechlin? Please send privately to me at the email address below. Hugo Radice Hugo Radice School of Business Economic Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK. tel: 44-113-233-4507; fax 44-113-233-2640 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:8779] request

1997-02-27 Thread Gerry . Cotterell
Hi there, I am trying to get hold of a paper or book that Anwar Shaikh published in 1978. It was called 'National Income Accounts and Marxian Categories' - I believe it was published by the New School for Social Research. If anybody can help it would be much appreciated and I would be more

[PEN-L:8780] Re: request

1997-02-27 Thread Gerald Levy
I am trying to get hold of a paper or book that Anwar Shaikh published in 1978. It was called 'National Income Accounts and Marxian Categories' - I believe it was published by the New School for Social Research. Gerry Cotterell You would be better advised to obtain a copy of the more