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Mr. Starr says--
I am Starr. Starr I are.
I'm a brilliant barri-star.
I'm here to ask, as you'll soon see,
Did you grope Miss Lew-in-sky?
Did you grope her in your house?
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RELEASED TODAY: State unemployment
Richardson_D wrote:
"The changes we have made have lowered the rate of growth [in the CPI]
between about half a percentage point and eight tenths of a percentage
point," BLS commissioner Katharine Abraham said at a press conference
in New York on Jan. 29
.Abraham said the BLS planned to
"g-deficient" ? What's that?
Yours trying to stay abreast of all the buzzwords,
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Dear Pen-lers, the message sent out on "global economy, Asian crisis,
Greider... was actually from Jim O'Connor. I was only the messenger. Jim
does not use the computer himself. So when he has something to say he gives
it to me to pass along.
Barbara Laurence
The Los Angeles Times Sunday, December 28, 1997
THE BAILOUT BUBBLE
The American public has been cleaning up the financial messes of
the investor class--from Lockheed to South Korea--since the '70s.
Will 1998 be the year they refuse to pay?
There's an excellent, highly readable analysis of the MAI and its potential
impact on municipalities available on the WWW. Written by international
trade law expert Barry Appleton, it explains in clear language the extensive
threat that this pending international agreement poses to
Doug,
Actually, when I was first asked, one of the things
that I mentioned is something that Michael Perelman also
mentioned, namely highlighting how fragile a system can be
that does not look fragile at all on the surface, the
famous "butterfly effect" or "sensitive dependence on
Doug,
Just for the record, I have no great feeling or love
for the Santa Fe Institute itself. It is not going to
question the Establishment too much, at least partly
because it has gotten funding from such places as the Ford
Foundation. It is the ideas coming out of it that I find
Rosser Jr, John Barkley wrote:
Actually, when I was first asked, one of the things
that I mentioned is something that Michael Perelman also
mentioned, namely highlighting how fragile a system can be
that does not look fragile at all on the surface, the
famous "butterfly effect" or
Doug Henwood wrote: A paragraph of English prose, not to mention an
acquaintance with economic
history, can make this point just fine. My question was what all the fancy
math adds to the mix.
Poor Doug just does not get it. He is not an economist, so he might not
understand the subculture.
Doug,
As a sophisticated analyst of financial market
shenanigans and gallivants, you are not at all surprised by
such remarks. Others are less accepting.
More generally, this is turning into game playing.
You say, "give me an English prose sentence that explains
the math." So I
Michael Perelman wrote:
Marshall once said -- I think Paul Davidson might have mentioned this
on the
list before -- that once you have used your math to clear up your ideas,
you
should throw away the math and communicate in words. He was right.
I agree with this statement. However, after
Michael Perelman wrote,
My comment and Barkeley's was intended to show how
you can use chaos theory to talk to economists. They do not understand prose.
I have been told on many occasions that an assertion about the economy is
illegitamate unless I have a model to back it up. On the other
Rosser Jr, John Barkley wrote:
Another wiggle, close but not the same, is that a
system can be behaving very regularly and then quite
suddenly start behaving very erratically ("chaotically"),
with different and smaller changes than the first case.
I don't like this use of the word "system,"
Quoth Max, hanging beetlebrowed over the congregation:
I submit to you that your Idaho march will be led by
white, Christian, God-fearing men.
Does not compute, Max. I was not referring to that advocacy at all,
and can't quite make sense of your comment. Is it too whimsical
for an
In a message dated 98-02-05 13:56:57 EST, you write:
like so much econometrics, with little power to clarify
real human life?
Oh no!!!
I've been found out!! There goes my 401(k) money!
J
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State unemployment rates moved little during
Doug Henwood wrote:
Rosser Jr, John Barkley wrote:
Another wiggle, close but not the same, is that a
system can be behaving very regularly and then quite
suddenly start behaving very erratically ("chaotically"),
with different and smaller changes than the first case.
I don't like this
Doug Henwood wrote:
Rosser Jr, John Barkley wrote:
Another wiggle, close but not the same, is that a
system can be behaving very regularly and then quite
suddenly start behaving very erratically ("chaotically"),
with different and smaller changes than the first case.
I don't like
Gil Skillman wrote:
Well, the paragraph of English prose can't really "make this point just
fine", in the sense of really knowing what the point means, what it
necessitates, and what it rules out. Prose is best suited for indicating
possibilities and connections, perhaps allusively. It's much
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RELEASED TODAY: In November 1997, there were 1,095 mass layoff actions
Doug writes, in response to a post from Barkley concerning chaos theory,
A paragraph of English prose, not to mention an acquaintance with economic
history, can make this point just fine. My question was what all the fancy
math adds to the mix.
Well, the paragraph of English prose can't really
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To: LABOR-L; Progressive Economists' Network
Subject:Today's "free" market -- lobster salad socialism?
The Los Angeles Times Sunday, December 28, 1997
THE BAILOUT
Dear Father Henwood,
Ops! Forgive me for my sins. I meant to say
"inverse floaters" not "invertible floaters." I am unaware
of the latter existing, although invertible bloopers
probably exist, :-).
Barkley Rosser
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Rosser Jr, John Barkley
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The "4 stage" theory of history was widely accepted in 17th and 18th
century Europe. I alluded to Lord Kames and William Robertson the other
day, but these two are just the tip of the iceberg. For the whole story, I
recommend Ronald L. Meek's "Social Science and the Ignoble Savage"
(Cambidge,
Max, did my message about hearing you on NPR get through to pen-l? in any
event, congrats.
Since I agree mostly (or have only minor quibbles) with what Max writes in
the current thread, I want to pick up only a couple of points:
Max writes The WH [White House] is constantly polling, so if they
Rosser Jr, John Barkley wrote:
Focusing purely on
economics and a notch or two up mathematically, but
probably still more accessible than anything else is my
1991 book, _From Catastrophe to Chaos: A General Theory of
Economic Discontinuities_, Boston: Kluwer, not available in
paperback. I am
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For Independent Journalism
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ricardo:
No, that would be a contradiction in terms: if you act without
regards
G'day linkers,
Don't forget those exceptionally talented people who are socially productive
"unemployed" but would be much less socially productive if they were
employed. And I'm not kidding.
I tried that argument about 30 years ago but
didn't have much success with it. Hope it works
better
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