I have heard Phil Harvey of Rutgers Law School use this story on more than
one occasion in public presentations. No matter how much dogs are trained
to be good bone gatherers, as long as the number of bones remain fixed,
there will still be dogs left without bones. Even if all dogs had
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Part 2 of Excerpts from a Speech by Dr. Roland Chrisjohn
Poor Billary are going around New York carpetbagging and looking for some
digs. Perhaps they could ask the Oneida or Cayuga or St. Regis or Seneca or
Tuscarora or Onondaga or Tonawanda if they could move in on the Rez. I'm
sure they could scare up an old HUD house for them to move in. I'm sure
At 04:54 PM 8/31/1999 -0400, you wrote:
When in public debates, people try to promote "entrepreneurship" , urging
only it as the best economc career for people to follow, I say but
everybody can't be the boss. Somebody has to be the workers. In fact, most
people must be workers. So
Jim Craven wrote:
So I wondered about the application of this dialectical model (what is
counterculture vs "mainstream" culture; fake counterculture vs "real"
counterculture; influence of counterculture on "mainstream" culture vs de
facto co-optation of counter-culture by "mainstream" culture
Jim Craven asks:
"more-scientific" NAIRU?
The NAIRU (non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment) is simply a
description of a posited way in which the economy may (or may not) operate
-- as opposed to the "natural" rate, which assumes that the NAIRU is
somehow a gift from Nature (tastes
When in public debates, people try to promote "entrepreneurship" , urging only it as
the best economc career for people to follow, I say but everybody can't be the boss.
Somebody has to be the workers. In fact, most people must be workers. So
entrepreneurship is a solution for only , what, 10
The Boneless Dog Economy is one of my favorites also. I also use some of
Donald/Deidre Mcclosky's stuff on rhetorical intention and ask students to
identify examples of hidden and not-so-hidden ideology and rhetorical
intention in apparently "value-free" concepts like "consumer optimality",
RE: unemployment
I tell my students about an essay I read a few years back
(I think in Harpers and I don't recall who wrote it). The writer
said imagine a dog kennel containing 100 dogs. Each morning
the dogs are released into a large yard where there are 90
bones. The dogs fight and scrape
Rod wrote:
I find it hard enough getting students to understand the concepts in a
first
year principles course. Economic thinking is counter intuitive for most
first year students. To other criticise of the concepts howerer
desirable,
seems only to confuse them. I had thought of just teaching
Jim Devine wrote:
I must admit that when I teach intro. econ. I like to pretend to be a
scientist, using this against the NC theory: I make it clear, for example,
that the term "natural rate of unemployment" is a value-laden term, with
fuzzy connotations (like "natural granola"), as opposed to
Rod wrote:
I find it hard enough getting students to understand the concepts in a first
year principles course. Economic thinking is counter intuitive for most
first year students. To other criticise of the concepts howerer desirable,
seems only to confuse them. I had thought of just teaching
Thanks to Wojtek for his comments and reminder that
economic sociology is a good source of materials.
Dollars and Sense is located in Somerville, MA
(617-628-8411).
Like Wojtek, I used to ask students to write about their
jobs with fascinating results. I once had a student
write a paper
I do an exercise called "The Microeconomics of Single's Bars" and ask
students to visit a local meat market and identify and give examples of
which forms of "efficiency" (technological, economic, productive, consumer,
exchange and allocative) are being manifested (with concrete examples);
further
I find it hard enough getting students to understand the concepts in a first
year principles course. Economic thinking is counter intuitive for most
first year students. To other criticise of the concepts howerer desirable,
seems only to confuse them. I had thought of just teaching an
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Doesn't the definition of "market" include "widely bought and sold" ?
CB
Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/31/99 12:18PM
The relationship between initial production prices and prices on the second hand
market is very loose for capital
goods, except for those that are widely bought and
Patrick Bond wrote:
Do you want Hillary's big insurance co's running everything?
Putting them out of business through a single-payer is surely the
first necessary if insufficient step towards more thorough-going
reform of capitalist health care?
It seems to me that the political strength
In his on-line Economic Reporting Review, Dean Baker comments on a New York
TIMES article by Sylvia Nasar:
The article also asserts that increased competition due to the
deregulation of industries such as airlines, railroads and
telecommunications has been a major factor in keeping prices down.
Patrick Bond wrote:
The small insurance folk put out endless inane
commercials which (U.Penn Annenberg School media researchers
convincingly show) tipped the public consciousness-balance.
Actually, if I'm remembering right, the Harry Louise commercials
ran mainly in New York DC, to convince
Globalization Reporting Review
By Dean Baker
August 31, 1999
Analysis of reporting on the IMF and globalization issues in the New York Times and
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Don't the costs to the seller for getting the capital good have some relation to what
the buyer pays for it ?
Charles Brown
Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/31/99 10:57AM
The problem that Ajit ignores is that most capital goods do not have a *price*. For
example, a
specialized piece
At 10:08 AM 8/31/99 +, Patrick Bond wrote:
Is this true? The small insurance folk put out endless inane
commercials which (U.Penn Annenberg School media researchers
convincingly show) tipped the public consciousness-balance. The small
business lobbyists beat up on wavering members of
The relationship between initial production prices and prices on the second hand
market is very loose for capital
goods, except for those that are widely bought and sold.
Charles Brown wrote:
Don't the costs to the seller for getting the capital good have some relation to
what the buyer pays
At 12:01 PM 8/30/99 -0400, you wrote:
Penners,
I had replied to Mitch's questions off-list. But
since Michael thought the questions of general interest,
I'm forwarding my responses to the list.
Ellen Frank
1. Especially in introductory classes, how do
The problem that Ajit ignores is that most capital goods do not have a *price*. For
example, a
specialized piece of capital goods may be specific to my firm. It might have a very
low value for any
other firm or have to be sold for scrap. If an accident destroyed this machine, I
would buy a
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 18:40:05 -0400
From: Wojtek Sokolowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Two points. First, Christopeher Hitchens argues that Hillary's "reform"
was, in fact, a move designed by big insurance firms and received a
relatively mild oppsotion from smaller guys in the
G'day all,
Anyone know exactly where I got this Karlism? I've lost the cite and I
haven't a clue where I picked it up.
"... the *practice* of philosophy is itself *theoretical.* It is
the *critique* that measures the individual existence by the
essence, the particular reality by the Idea."
michael wrote:
For some capital goods with an active national second hand goods, say cars with blue
book values,
you can do what you say. For most capital goods, you cannot. Many capital goods
are too
specialized to have a "price today."
_
I find it hard to believe. If a
G'day Ann,
With all due respect for Castells
I think our Doug is one who believes that may not amount to too much - and I
do reckon Castells pays for that gratifying big picture approach and
pleasantly rambling style with too little specificity/definition on the very
criteria with which he
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