There's an emotional engagement with the recently concluded Teamster/UPS
strike that surpasses even the issues that were on the table (which were
themselves important and, in a sense, universal). Part of the excitement has
to do with the desire to view the strike as the sign of a turning point in
I have returned to my desk after a brown-bag lunch down at the Monthly
Review, a regular Wednesday event. All the regulars are there, except Paul
Sweezy. There's Hugh Deane of the US-China Friendship Committee, a member
of Bill Hinton's generation. There's Annette Rubenstein whose 85th birthday
On Wed, 20 Aug 1997, Tom Walker wrote:
stories and we tell them to each other. Every once in a while, a story comes
along that seems *so* true and *so* familiar that we trick ourselves into
believing that it is *the* story -- that it just might unfold of its own
accord and deliver its
From: Nathan Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L:11881] Re: Risk and Unequal Opportunity under cap
In some ways, the more interesting aspects of risk management are in the
Grameen Bank and community banks around the US. . . .
This doesn't erase risk but collectivizes
Today's Wall Street Journal has a good article about Gene Coyle and his
efforts to protect consumers from the utilities.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 916-898-5321
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