to be honest the only way to get an answer to this sort
of thing is to track down the bloke at the statistics
agency who maintains the series and get him to take you
through it line by line. Most of them are quite
pleased that somebody took an interest.
dd
On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 10:07:12 -0500,
Note to Sabri: The guy who knows what
heteroskadastic (sp?) means doesn't
understand obfuscation? That's precious.
Well DMS (What is your name by the way?)
Certain things that you take for granted need not be
so obvious to everybody else.
The meaning of the word heteroskedastik is quite
My previous post went to the list with a wrong title,
because I just hit the reply button to an old message
to save myself from typing the list address.
By the way, I hate to fight with people on the net
and I apologize for furthering this stupid debate in
a public domain.
Best,
Sabri
--- Steve Cohn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Folks, I'd like
to get suggestions for readings he could do for a
term paper assignment
that asks for a Marxist analysis of some topic
(which in his case might
be a Marxist analysis of the auto industry). Any
ideas? You can respond on list or
Don't Miss this special event!
ALL OVER THE WORLD PEOPLE ARE SAYING WE CAN DO BETTER - ANOTHER WORLD IS
POSSIBLE
GLOBALIZATION HAS MADE AMERICA AND THE WORLD WORSE NOT BETTER AS IT PROMISED
IS MODERN DAY CAPITALISM AT FAULT?
ARE THERE PRACTICAL ALTERNATIVES TO CAPITALISM?
WHAT ARE THEY? WHAT
http://www.sevenoaksmag.com/commentary/06_zinn.html
COMMENTARY
Accessing history:
The importance of Howard Zinn
March 29, 2004
Dale McCartney
On Thursday the 25 th of March, the first of the 4-day annual meeting of
the Organization of American Historians, Howard Zinn was honoured with
an
Todays Washington Post describes how nervous US authorities have provoked a
showdown with the radical wing of the Shia movement led by Moqtada al-Sadr,
which could decide the fate of the occupation.
American officials had been hoping to contain and diminish al-Sadrs
influence, while cultivating
I've spent a decade or three pooh-poothing orthodox Leninist-Marxist visions of
military-style inter-imperialist rivalry, i.e., a replay of WWI. Now, it's becoming
possible that Iraq could do to the US what Afghanistan did to the USSR... so it might
just happen some day soon. Of course, there
Devine, James wrote:
I've spent a decade or three pooh-poothing orthodox Leninist-Marxist visions of
military-style inter-imperialist rivalry, i.e., a replay of WWI. Now, it's becoming
possible that Iraq could do to the US what Afghanistan did to the USSR... so it
might just happen some
I wrote:
I've spent a decade or three pooh-poothing orthodox
Leninist-Marxist visions of military-style inter-imperialist
rivalry, i.e., a replay of WWI. Now, it's becoming possible
that Iraq could do to the US what Afghanistan did to the
USSR... so it might just happen some day soon. Of
True. I drew from it in my text for exactly that reason. And in lieu of a
book that combines accessibility and a subtle analysis, I'd assign it to
students, who gravitate to its counter-narrative. I also recognize that the
left sometimes has a tendency to shoot down its few successful
Michael Perelman wrote:
Doug Henwood has been able to write about economics at a popular level.
I have not. Nor have most of us.
(the below has nothing to do with enhancing sales of books, for which, i
am sure your agent's advice is probably way more relevant)
i found steal this idea quite
In a message dated 4/5/2004 10:34:39 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am negotiating with an agent now. She is insisting that I makeeverything "dumber" to make the work popular. To do so would requireopening me up to the kind of questions that Zinn is getting -- but it isan
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2004/04/01/008.html
U.S. School of Democracy
By Boris Kagarlitsky
A recently published report on civil liberties in 2003 by the New York-based
Freedom House organization has recognized 89 countries as free, 55 as
partially free and 48 as not free. The
Let me make a plug for my new book The Raw Deal: How Myths and Misinformation
About Deficits, Inflation and Wealth Impoverish America, due out from
Beacon Press next month. It is written for a lay reader and could
easily be used in an intro college course.
Ellen Frank
i found steal this idea
from Freedom House, the people who develop these ratings: The survey team is
grateful to the input of our Freedom in the World academic advisory board, consisting
of David Becker, Kenneth Bollen, Daniel Brumberg, Larry Diamond, Charles Gati, _Jeane
J. Kirkpatrick_, Thomas Lansner, Peter Lewis,
[how many electoral votes does the Holy Spirit have?]
You'll have to take this up with the Supreme Court.
Dan Scanlan
http://www.laborresearch.org/story2.php/352
Bush Policies Guarantee Long-Term High Unemployment
The Bush administration's policies are part of the problem of persistent
long-term unemployment for million of Americans, not part of the solution.
An average of 80,000 jobs have been lost for each
Title: Wal-Mart prepares to bury the left under a mountain of money
No Choice
Wal-Mart prepares to bury the left under a mountain of money
In These Times
Jim, John, Alice, Sam and Helen may carry the worlds most dangerous genetic markers. They are the Waltons, heirs to the global
Ellen:
Can I see a table of contents?Besides deficits, inflation, and
wealth, do you cover anything social welfare-y, such as poverty,
privatization of social security, etc? I am looking for a new text for
my Political Economy of Social Welfare class (undergraduate juniors,
most of whom have
Joel Wendland wrote:
http://www.laborresearch.org/story2.php/352
Bush Policies Guarantee Long-Term High Unemployment
The Bush administration's policies are part of the problem of persistent
long-term unemployment for million of Americans, not part of the solution.
An average of 80,000 jobs have
BTW, DOLLARS SENSE produces a lot of readable material.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
-Original Message-
From: Frank, Ellen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 9:48 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:
As we discuss every couple of years on PEN-L, we should be careful about
repeating the myth that European unemployment is twice that of the U.S.
It isn't. The figures are calculated differently. If we calculate ours
the way the Europeans did, they'd be about the same.
Bush just announced an
http://www.iht.com/articles/513290.html
On Advertising: Selling Iraq on a new government
Heather Timmons IHT Monday, April 5, 2004
LONDON In the 11 months since U.S.-led forces took Baghdad, the coalition
has tried to persuade the Iraqi people that the invasion and ensuing promise
of
http://www.wpiraq.org/english/
To: US State Department-Paul Bremer head of CPA in
Iraq
Yanar Mohammed, the head of the Organisation of
Women's Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), is a renowned
activist, and highly regarded in the world today for
her brave efforts in defending women's rights in Iraq.
She
Another angle here which most importantly ties
productivity to shafting.
Regards,
Mike B)
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Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 22:44:01 -0700
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Subject: [GuvWurld] We're More Productive. Who Gets
the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/01/04 12:38 PM
i thought liberals were bourgeois... michael hoover
Not high bourgeois, the people who own capital and run the state.
Among that set, Soros is about the only serious liberal (in the
social democratic sense). Aren't most liberals knowledge workers of
various
Currently, the best analogy perhaps to the U.S. occupation is the
Japanese invasion of China.
Carrol
What's missing, alas, is a strong force of secular leftists against the Empire:
* When I see the rise of As-Sadr movement and the Sunni
fundamentalist groups I can't but wonder about the
Michael Hoover wrote:
part of problem is that 'liberal' is 'floating signifier' (to use
fashionable parlance)
It's a useful concept, so what if it's fashionable?
I was using liberal in the sense that some of our more hardcore
participants use it to describe The Nation magazine (as in Nation
At 6:15 PM -0400 4/5/04, Doug Henwood wrote:
I was using liberal in the sense that some of our more hardcore
participants use it to describe The Nation magazine (as in Nation
liberals, usually pronounced with a sneer). In other parts of the
world, they'd be called social democrats, but we don't
I think Michael Hoover's point here is solid.
Craig Aaron in In These Times as an interesting analysis of which sections
gave how much to the Bush campaign.
http://www.inthesetimes.com/comments.php?id=666_0_1_0_C
Joel Wendland
http://www.politicalaffairs.net
if i may be allowed to invoke this
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Currently, the best analogy perhaps to the U.S. occupation is the
Japanese invasion of China.
Carrol
What's missing, alas, is a strong force of secular leftists against the Empire:
Indeed.
In any case, all friends of the Iraqi people elsewhere can do is exert
as
http://www.navhindtimes.com/stories.php?part=newsStory_ID=04055
Dymski and Singh on multilateralism and WTO
WTO annual report on global growth/trade flows
http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/pres04_e/pr373_e.htm
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Milwaukee voucher program hit by scandal
By Juliet Williams
April 5, 2004 | MILWAUKEE (AP) -- One school that received millions of
dollars through the nation's oldest and largest voucher program was
founded by a convicted rapist. Another school reportedly entertained
kids with Monopoly while
Mckinnon, John D. 2004. Many Companies Avoided Taxes Even as Profits
Soared in Boom. Wall Street Journal (6 April): p. A 1.
More than 60% of U.S. corporations didn't pay any federal taxes for
1996 through 2000, years when the economy boomed and corporate profits
soared, the investigative arm of
Carrol Cox wrote: I still think that it is really not possible to both
support Kerry and continue to build the anti-war movement. It is essential
that we keep front and center that Kerry will be a more dangerous imperial
warrior than Bush.
Kerry opposes the NMD system and that at least is a big plus compared to
Bush. Of course he might change his view on this were he elected. Is there
much debate on NMD in the US. In Canada Martin has sanctioned talks with the
US and it seems very much as if he will support Canada joining in the
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