[PEN-L:10878] Re: too rich

Anders Schneiderman wrote: >In other words, sustainability and excess American-style are not mutually >exclusive. If it makes people like Michael Perelman happy to stay in >spartan Zen Centers, I think that's great. But so often, comments like >Juliet Shor's, about how we use too many resources

[PEN-L:10879] shorter work week

Due to the massive strikes in France that preceded the recent elections there, the question of cutting the work week to create more jobs has been raised to a new level, with the the new French government committed to reducing the work week to 35 hours. High rates of structural unemployment motiva

[PEN-L:10880] FW: BLS Daily Report

BLS DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, JUNE 16, 1997 RELEASED TODAY: The number of families with at least one employed person rose by 709,000 in 1996. Such families comprised 81.4 percent of the nation's 69.2 million families, according to a new annual series on the employment characteristics of families

[PEN-L:10881] religion

Doug writes >> Speaking of sermons, I wonder how much of the famously religious impulse of so many Americans (sorry to be provincial about this, but the U.S. contains one of the most professedly pious, if not devout, populations in the world) is a deflected critique of capitalism, an urge for a li

[PEN-L:10885] Pending crash?

The Baltimore Sun June 17, 1997 Market on verge of collapse, analyst says When the stock market crashes, it'll be like an earthquake leveling a city. That's what Thomas H. Eichler says. And he feels the rumbling. Eichler, who is the president a

[PEN-L:10888] Re: religion

Jim Devine raises a fundamental issue for the Left in many ways: How to develop a progressive (not tribal) sense of community and nurture a spiritual need that most humans have to one degree or another. I also agree with Jim that one must separate out religious nonsense but at least with resp

[PEN-L:10891] religion

Yesterday I posted a rquest for sources on the origins of religion (Marxist preferably) and got no response. Yet we now are having a discussion of religion. So let me repeat my request. Am I mistaken or has it been suggestd in recent posts that religion has an anti-consumerist bent? (somehow

[PEN-L:10893] Re: religion

Alright, as to the first question on materialist analysis of religion: Still nothing better that I know of than Feuerbach; an excellent monography considering Feuerbach in historical perspective by Stanford professor Van Harvey, out in '96, would be the place to start. Secondly, I think you will

[PEN-L:10892] Gender and Strength

In the January/February, 1997 issue of ARCHAEOLOGY magazine, there is an article by Jeannine Davis-Kimball titled "Warrior Women of the Eurasian Steppes." The evidence from new archaeological digs finds that many women were buried as warriors, with weapons and trappings of war. The author hypoth

[PEN-L:10890] re: Jospin's compromise

sounds like it's time for French workers, leftists, greens, etc., to return to the streets to give Jospin more backbone -- or to threaten his coalition. in pen-l solidarity, Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Econ. Dept., Loyola Marymount Univ. 7900 Loyola Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 9

[PEN-L:10889] Re: religion

> > Jim Devine wrote, > > >Left needs to do somehow emulate the old Social Democrats and Communists > >who set up secular community organizations that can be "hearts in a > >heartless world" without all the religious nonsense. > > I agree with the notion that the left has a lot to learn from r

[PEN-L:10887] Re: Jospin's compromise

>France declared victory yesterday in its battle with Germany over >joblessness, Call it the unemployment Maginot line. >"This is a great success for France," said Manuel Valls, spokesman for Mr. >Jospin. "It's a good compromise. It's a good deal." . . . It's . . . It's hot air! >Mr. Jospin

[PEN-L:10886] religion (II)

1. I must admit that in my minitreatise on religion in the US, I forgot Judaism (even though I participate in a secular-Jewish community). Of course, there (as with Protestantism) there is a lot of "consumer choice," control over the leaders by the followers, and escape from the heartless world. (

[PEN-L:10884] Jospin's compromise

The Globe and Mail Tuesday, June 17, 1997 Compromise ends bickering between France, Germany Unemployment problem gains recognition at EU summit By Madelaine Drohan European Bureau France declared victory yesterday in its battle wit

[PEN-L:10883] RE: Price Index Question

H Eric -- 1) I believe that what you suggest is the way it is normally done -- all prices are expressed with respect to the 82-84 base. 2) There have been several estimates made of the effect of upper level substitution. First came Braithwait, Steven D. "The Substitution Bias of the Laspey

[PEN-L:10882] Re: religion

Jim Devine wrote, >Left needs to do somehow emulate the old Social Democrats and Communists >who set up secular community organizations that can be "hearts in a >heartless world" without all the religious nonsense. I agree with the notion that the left has a lot to learn from religion. But dispe

[PEN-L:10877] Re: Juliet Schor on Consumerism

Thad Williamson: > 50 years from now we could have (at least) a 20 >hr work week society without giving anything up in income, and probably a >lot saner society, if we converted all productivity gains into more free time. > Thad is on the right track. Although I reject the sort of blueprint appr

[PEN-L:10876] Moscow:850th birthday study trip

The 1997 month long Moscow study trip about which information was previously posted here has just been completed. To keep this message brief, I can send you the daily schedule on request. Before leaving Moscow, the host institution invited me to bring a group for the two weeks surrounding the maj