[PEN-L:9377] help on readings on socio-economics?

1997-04-07 Thread DOUG ORR
I have a student who is interested in doing an independent study on "social economics." Unlike most students, she is actually more interested in getting a theoretically understanding of this particular school of thought. I know there is a Society for the Advancement of Socio-economics. Can

[PEN-L:9381] Re: help on readings on socio-economics?

1997-04-07 Thread Gil Skillman
Doug, for a start, how about _Morality, Rationality, and Efficiency: New Perspectives on Socio-Economics_, 1991, edited by Richard M. Coughlin I have a student who is interested in doing an independent study on "social economics." Unlike most students, she is actually more interested in

[PEN-L:9378] Re: soft budget constraint

1997-04-07 Thread Rosser Jr, John Barkley
MITI is still very important, certainly much more powerful than anything like it in the US or even in most of Western Europe. But, yes, the MOF is more powerful. The closest equivalent in Europe would be France where there is both overall indicative planning (done by the EPA in Japan),

[PEN-L:9382] Sweeney Meets Japanese on New Otani Campaign

1997-04-07 Thread Michael Eisenscher
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 11:18:21 -0400 (EDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: John Sweeney Press Conference in Japan AFL-CIO PRESIDENT SWEENEY TO MEET NEW OTANI EXECUTIVES ABOUT COMPANY'S ANTI-UNION CAMPAIGN IN LOS ANGELES Plans April 9 Press Conference

[PEN-L:9385] Re: help on readings on socio-economics?

1997-04-07 Thread Anders Schneiderman
At 02:21 PM 4/7/97 -0700, you wrote: I have a student who is interested in doing an independent study on "social economics." Unlike most students, she is actually more interested in getting a theoretically understanding of this particular school of thought. I know there is a Society for the

[PEN-L:9384] Re: help on readings on socio-economics?

1997-04-07 Thread Tom Walker
I second Max Sawicky's suggestion, Or you could ask some progressive sociologists with knowledge of economics for directions, such as Fred Block. Block discusses his approach to "economic sociology" in the intro to his _Postindustrial Possibilities: a Critique of Economic Discourse_ (1990,

[PEN-L:9383] Re: help on readings on socio-economics?

1997-04-07 Thread Max B. Sawicky
From: DOUG ORR [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:9377] help on readings on socio-economics? I have a student who is interested in doing an independent study on "social economics." Unlike most students, she is actually more interested in getting a theoretically understanding

[PEN-L:9379] The times they are a changin'

1997-04-07 Thread D Shniad
The Financial Post Saturday, April 5, 1997 LEANING TO THE LEFT Economists like Leo de Bever are starting to question whether deficit reduction and deregulation have gone too far. Like a growing number of ordinary Canadians, they think the

[PEN-L:9375] more Sraffa vs. Walras

1997-04-07 Thread James Devine
I wrote: A long time ago, someone (Gil Skillman, I believe) argued on pen-l that the Sraffa system was simply a special case of the Arrow-Debreu general equilibrium model. He now writes: I confess I made a claim similar to this, but the details of the argument are important why should we

[PEN-L:9374] Re: Walras vs. Sraffa: Postscript

1997-04-07 Thread Gil Skillman
For the sake of context, I should add that I don't have any particular interest in defending the Walrasian framework. The argument just summarized arose in response to a post claiming to critique the latter specifically from a Sraffian standpoint. Gil

[PEN-L:9373] Re: Walras vs. Sraffa

1997-04-07 Thread Gil Skillman
Jim writes: A long time ago, someone (Gil Skillman, I believe) argued on pen-l that the Sraffa system was simply a special case of the Arrow-Debreu general equilibrium model. I confess I made a claim similar to this, but the details of the argument are important. Noting that the Sraffian

[PEN-L:9372] Re: Tilting at Windmills

1997-04-07 Thread Gil Skillman
Great! Thank you, Paul. Gil, I decided to give it a try. 7 matches to Quixote from 6 documents surfaced. Paul * Paul Zarembka, supporting the RESEARCH IN POLITICAL ECONOMY Web site at

[PEN-L:9370] Re: Tilting at Windmills

1997-04-07 Thread Paul Zarembka
Gil, I decided to give it a try. 7 matches to Quixote from 6 documents surfaced. Paul * Paul Zarembka, supporting the RESEARCH IN POLITICAL ECONOMY Web site at http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PZarembka, and

[PEN-L:9368] Re: Le Roi est le Roi

1997-04-07 Thread John Audley
thanks for forwarding the chapter section, harry. Professor John J. Audley Department of Political Science 2247 LAEB Purdue University W. Lafayette, Indiana 47906 317: 494-7599 fax 494-0833 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:9364] Tilting at Windmills

1997-04-07 Thread Gil Skillman
On behalf of a student, a question for anyone whose memory of Marx's writings is either more comprehensive or more idiosyncratic than mine: where does Marx make reference to Cervantes's character Don Quixote? Thanks in advance, Gil Skillman

Re: Planned obsolescence, computers, academia

1997-04-07 Thread Wojtek Sokolowski
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 11:12:03 -0400 To: Arthur Wilke [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Wojtek Sokolowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Planned obsolescence, computers, academia Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arthur, I was away for several dayas, so I could not respond to your message immediately. YOur

[PEN-L:9363] FW: BLS Daily Report

1997-04-07 Thread Richardson_D
Note the warning that UP could soon drop below 5%. These people are getting more brazen all the time. -- BLS DAILY REPORT, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1997 Nonfarm payroll employment rose in 46 states and the District of Columbia in February, with Arizona and Colorado reporting the

[PEN-L:9366] FW: BLS Daily Report

1997-04-07 Thread Richardson_D
BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1997 Factory orders for manufactured goods advanced for the second month in a row, rising 0.8 percent in February to a record, the Census Bureau reports. Gains were reported for both durable and nondurable goods in February, but increases were at a

[PEN-L:9367] FW: BLS Daily Report

1997-04-07 Thread Richardson_D
BLS DAILY REPORT, FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1997 RELEASED TODAY: Employment rose, and the unemployment rate was about unchanged at 5.2 percent in March. Nonfarm payroll employment increased by 175,000, and average hourly earnings rose by 5 cents in March New claims filed with state

[PEN-L:9369] Walras vs. Sraffa

1997-04-07 Thread James Devine
A long time ago, someone (Gil Skillman, I believe) argued on pen-l that the Sraffa system was simply a special case of the Arrow-Debreu general equilibrium model. Anybody interested in this issue will want to look at Dumenil Levy THE ECONOMICS OF THE PROFIT RATE, ch. 4. It suggests that this

[PEN-L:9371] Re: more requiem

1997-04-07 Thread Jay Hanson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Max Sawicky writes, Self-interest pervades all human behavior ..., so I don't see how you can imagine a movement which leaders or people in authority did not seek to exploit for some narrow purpose. The real question is how the process can work to yield constructive reform. People exhibit a