March 9, 2000
ECONOMIC SCENE
Demise of Long-Held Theory
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hatever happened to the Phillips curve?
You remem
Joel Blau wrote:
> Carroll:
>
> R.N.s, social workers, high school teachers, Boeing engineers, computer programmers,
>nutritionists, paralegals, and other members of the white-collar professions: if
>your definition of working class is broad enough to include these occupational
>categories
Carroll:
R.N.s, social workers, high school teachers, Boeing engineers, computer programmers,
nutritionists, paralegals, and other members of the white-collar professions: if
your definition of working class is broad enough to include these occupational
categories, that's fine, as long as yo
I would settle for a little sense in the debate. I'm tired of hearing Repugs
and Dums alike say that if you allow for same-sex marriages, you allow for
people to marry their dogs. Gay marriage = no marriage, since if you allow
gay marriage, you allow everything. Ugh.
Then again, I find it hard to
Joel Blau wrote:
> split the middle strata from the poor in classic Esping-Andersen fashion. From
>Sweden at one of the spectrum to the United States at the other, such alliances
>propelled the welfare state to the peak of its power in the early 1970s. The
>challenge now is to recreate that
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Patrick:
Yes, this is exactly what it is all about--it is the political payoff
of the welfare state, if it is done correctly. Esping-Andersen has been
rightly criticized in the United States by people like Ann Shola Orloff
(have you seen her June, 1993 American Sociological Review article?) for
m
At 08:52 08/03/00 -0800, Jim D wrote:
That means
>that a pair of people (or a trio or ...)
However contrary to mechanical Newtonian physics, the "Three Body Problem"
was analysed mathematically at the end of the 19th century by Poincaré.
He demonstrated that with three bodies in a relation
Rogers Smith CIVIC IDEALS applies the same thesis to the development of
immigration and citizenship law from the founding through the Progressive
Era. I strongly recommend that book, and plan to get this one.
At 03:14 PM 3/7/00 -0800, Jim Devine wrote:
>The Unsteady March: The Rise and Decline
School bond measure fails in close vote
Updated: Mar. 8, 2000 - 11:11 AM
Voters narrowly rejected a ballot measure that would have made it easier for
California school districts to build new schools and upgrade old ones.
Proposition 26 would have reduced the vote needed to pass local school bo
Hi All,
A forwarded post on the NPR-ization of Pacifica radio, where freelance
reporters are striking to protest censorship and firings.
Seth Sandronsky
This is an article by Vanessa Tait, one of the organizers of the Pacifica
Strike. She did some research on Feature Stories News, the corpora
BLS DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, MARCH 6, 2000
__Coming down from what generally were regarded as weather-related gains,
the U.S. labor market slowed its pace of job growth as nonfarm payrolls
added a scant 43,000 employees in February, according to BLS. Unusually
large increases in construction payrol
I would imagine some gays would insist on the whole loaf
rather than a cultural compromise, since compromise
fails to deconstruct discrimination.
What happened w/the school bond issue? That's
what gets my hormones raging.
mbs
Yesterday, voters in California voted overwhelmingly (60%) to refus
BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 2000
RELEASED TODAY: BLS reported revised fourth-quarter seasonally-adjusted
annual rates of productivity change -- as measured by output per hour of all
persons -- and revised annual changes for the full year 1999. Percent
changes in business and nonfarm bus
Yesterday, voters in California voted overwhelmingly (60%) to refuse to
recognize same-sex marriages from other states, as part of Prop. 22. The
question I have is: what is to prevent California -- or other states --
from recognizing "domestic partners" as having exactly the same rights and
re
JD:
But the fiscal dividend is not likely to be spent given the current balance
of economic and political power. So instead of figuring out how to spend a
bunch of money (to cash in the dividend), we need to figure out how to
change the balance of power. . . .
Well that's what I'm waiting for yo
Max wrote:
> >The share of GDP is projected to rise. So we've got to figure out how to
> >spend a bunch of money.
saith I:
>Is the glass half-full or half-empty? Whereas Max sees a fiscal dividend, I
>see fiscal drag.
Max ripostes:
>It's not drag if you cash in your dividend.
But the fiscal div
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