[PEN-L:1009] [BMD List] Desert Thunder Order of Battle

<< Subj:[BMD List] Desert Thunder Order of Battle Date: 11/11/98 4:41:12 PM Eastern Standard Time From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Pike) Sender:[EMAIL PROTECTED] BMD-List is a news service coverin

[PEN-L:1006] "Toy Soldiers"

It should be recorded that Stephen Spielberg was involved with one solid antiwar film in 1998. That film is Dreamwork's "Toy Soldiers," not the flag-waving "Saving Private Ryan." "Toy Soldiers" received some praise for the animatronic designs, which give the toy soldiers life-like motion and three

[PEN-L:1005] RE: unemployed Ph.D.'s

I agree with Barkley that the whole line about tenured faculty hiring twits as a way of protecting their own positions is unreasonable. I have participated in the hiring processes of two econ departments, from the employer's perspective, and I have never seen good candidates overlooked regardless

[PEN-L:1004] Re: unemployed Ph.D.'s

November 11, 1998 Questions About Future Of Those Many Ph.D.'s By KAREN W. ARENSON Graduate students working on Ph.D.'s know that getting a job after graduation will be difficult. Faculty members who teach the graduate students say those with Ph.D.'s often wind up underemployed. Now the A

[PEN-L:1003] Re: Re: Re: Living Wage book and debate withKrugman

At 01:33 PM 11/11/98 -0500, you wrote: > Gil's comments are very interesting, though I'm not exactly clear what is >going on in this model. Could you please explain it a bit further Gil >and/or send me a copy of the paper? Bob, I will send you the paper, but for the sake of present discuss

[PEN-L:1002] Re: Re: unemployed Ph.D.'s

Ajit, I apologize (to Newitz?) if I came across as sarcastic. I am well aware that there are lots of people who have suffered, yourself included. Even those on tenure track often go through all kinds of unpleasant garbage, quivering on floors and admissions to mental wards (no shit), w

[PEN-L:990] Re: Re: Althusser as Stalinist

At 09:40 10/11/98 -0800, Brad De Long wrote: >That disaster seems to have had *something* to do with (i) contempt for the >ethics of political communication ("ideology"), (ii) contempt for all forms >of due process ("state apparatus"), and (iii) contempt for human happiness >("humanism"). As

[PEN-L:989] Re: RN: Mumia is important to our future

At 07:45 10/11/98 -0800, you wrote: >Apologies for duplicates due to cross-postings. Pass it on! __ Okay, the message below does not tell us what should we do. specially a person like me--a non-citizen sitting in Australia--what should I do at this moment? I don't understand how come Clint

[PEN-L:1000] Stiglitz at SEA

One further point in the Stiglitz lecture at the SEA was that efforts to attract financial capital by raising internal interest rates can fail because they can actually increase the risk of nonpayment due the their damage on the internal economy, the "beggar thyself" policy. Barkley Rosse

[PEN-L:999] Stiglitz at SEA

I have just returned from attending the Southern Economics Association annual meetings in Baltimore. Joseph Stiglitz gave a 1 1/4 hour long Distinguished Lecture which Isshall summarize below. I suspect it did not differ substantially from what has been his running road speech. T

[PEN-L:998] Re: Re: Living Wage book and debate with Krugman

Gil's comments are very interesting, though I'm not exactly clear what is going on in this model. Could you please explain it a bit further Gil and/or send me a copy of the paper? Without having done careful research on this particular factor, four things seem most pertinent for

[PEN-L:997] Re: CPs as Stalinist

I'm not sure what the significance of this is in terms of this debate, but I would note that the biggest single decline in CP membership in percentage terms did not come with the Molotov-von Ribbentrop ("Stalin-Hitler") Pact of 1939, but with the Khrushchev denunciation of Stalin at the

[PEN-L:995] Re: book on Korea

For those who want to pursue the questions discussed by Marty in more depth regarding the US role in Korea between WW II and the Korean War, the definitive in-depth source is Bruce Cumings, _The Origins of the Korean War_, Vols, I and II, 1981 and 1989, Princeton University Press. I ima

[PEN-L:996] Re: Made in USA prisons

On Wed, November 11, 1998 at 12:04:59 (-0500) Frank Durgin writes: >... >So much for digging ditches. Inmates in about 100 federal prisons now make >150 different products for use by various government entities. At least these are for use by government. Better that than private industry, I think

[PEN-L:992] Althusser-Thompson controversy

Some useful theorerical lessons can still be found in the Thompson-Althusser controversy. T sees Althusserian thought as intrinsically Stalinist because it is utterly devoid of any concept of EXPERIENCE: 1) By rejecting empiricism, Althusserian Marxisn is incapable of carrying a "dialogue be

[PEN-L:993] Made in USA prisons

Christian Science Monitor TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1998 Made in USA prisons MARKETABLE SKILLS: Prisoners at Liberty Correctional Institution in Bristol, Fla

[PEN-L:1001] iso 14001

I sent this Sunday without a subject line and got no answers. Still hoping for some help. Gene Coyle I've been asked the following question re Southern California Edison, a California electric utility which has operations in Australia, is building coal plants in Indonesia and Thailand, and othe