[PEN-L:4310] Re: samuelson, summers, and the like

> un chiste para los chismosos: > WOW! I didn't know men could gossip like this about the > intricacies of family relationships. I always had a sneaking > suspicion that men were better gossips than women! > ;) > > Susan Fleck Are you by any chance related to Jehosaphat and Jemima Fleck, the w

[PEN-L:4290] RE: Robert Samuelson and the CEA

Max S. wrote: >[Robert] Samuelson is married to Katherine Graham's daughter, but I'm sure >this has nothing to do with his spectacular career. A naive question of mine own: is Robert related to Paul? ___

[PEN-L:4223] conferences in GB?

any cross-postings. (signed) Nick Gomersall _ C.N.Gomersall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Luther College http://econ-www.newcastle.edu.au/economics/nick/nick.html _

[PEN-L:4159] "Cuba libre"

-l should know the answer. _____ C.N.Gomersall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Luther College http://econ-www.newcastle.edu.au/economics/nick/nick.html _

[PEN-L:3863] Re: Animal spirits?

), pp.207-212. _ C.N.Gomersall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Luther College http://econ-www.newcastle.edu.au/economics/nick/nick.html _

[PEN-L:3620] Re: Information please

ons and institutions once provided welfare but were crowded out by the emerging welfare state. Also, the Gaurdian calls the Institute of Economic Affairs "at almost 40 years old the grand-daddy of the rightwing think tanks". Hmm... sorry, but that's all I could find. C.N.Gomers

[PEN-L:3573] poms

bill mitchell wrote: >it is a throwback to the colonial >attitude that the english have always had for us - they cast us as ignorant >philistines without any class or culture... Is that "us" or "U.S."?

[PEN-L:3562] Re: OZ politics

"Pom", I understand, is actually short for "pommie bastard", a term of endearment used by Australians to refer to citizens of the mother country. C.N.Gomersall Luther College [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://econ-www.newcastle.edu.au/economics/nick/nick.html

[PEN-L:3476] OZ politics

Any of our OZtralian colleagues want to comment on the new leader of the Labour Party? Please ensure that your observations are intelligible to the average pom. C.N.Gomersall Luther College [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://econ-www.newcastle.edu.au/economics/nick/nick.html

[PEN-L:3437] Robert Lane (was Cost of Job Loss)

uot;The Market Experience" on my shelves, but have yet to find time to read it... The blurb suggests that it deals with the issues Mike has identified... Any comments, from those on the list, about this (or other) work of Lane's? Thanks. C.N.Gomersall Luther College [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://econ-www.newcastle.edu.au/economics/nick/nick.html

[PEN-L:3352] Re: A particularly virulent right-wing assertion

for the comment but, in a sense, 1989 may have proved him to be more correct than he was ever given credit. C.N.Gomersall Luther College [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://econ-www.newcastle.edu.au/economics/nick/nick.html

[PEN-L:3258] Re: classics

. (The anecdote was actually cited on pen-l or pkt a few months ago by someone who took it as evidence of lack of professionalism in the field today!) My question is this: why is this story peculiar to economics? (If it's found in other disciplines, I've yet to hear of it.) And where did it s

[PEN-L:3227] Re: Classics

>As a Ph.D. student at Colorado, I didn't even read Smith! Smith??

[PEN-L:3161] Re: one word ans...

>yes >maggie Thanks. Nick.

[PEN-L:3143] one word answer sought

be working properly. ***Please let me know if you saw this message.*** Just yes or no would be fine. Thanks. C.N.Gomersall Luther College [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://econ-www.newcastle.edu.au/economics/nick/nick.html

[PEN-L:3021] anyone at Case Western or Iowa?

(probably Case) and the Economics Department at the other... Just curious. Again, sorry to trouble all those of you who are at neither school. C.N.Gomersall Luther College [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:2817] Re: Another quote

For some reason I think it was Schiller.) C.N.Gomersall Luther College [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:2782] Re: roma and sinti

kers)? IMO, if some insensitive clods think that members of a particular group are dirty, lazy, &c, then calling the group by their own name won't change that view on the part of said clods. C.N.Gomersall Luther College [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:2778] Minimum Wage Research

hat the current >market conditions provide? What about research on the >characteristics of an economy where the labor costs, for whatever >reason, are disproportionately high? Any thoughts or suggestions >to my e-mail address listed below would be welcome. >Thanks, >Jonathan Seib, Counsel >Senate Labor, Commerce and Trade Committee >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > C.N.Gomersall Luther College [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:2769] Re: roma and sinti

Lisa Rogers wrote, in part: >The English 'translation' has always been 'gypsy', at least for a >very long time. But you can't really translate a name. The rule of >politeness is simply to call them what they call themselves. Right. So I should call the German

[PEN-L:2655] Re: Freedom and Rig

to me then, and now, to exemplify the "sloppy" thinking Eric Nilsson has castigated w.r.t. the "economic freedom and growth" relationship ;-) C.N.Gomersall Luther College [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:2642] Re: Freedom and Rig

freedom" is a bogus construct, at least as used by Gwartney et al (e.g., with their emphasis on property rights)? in this case, I'd like to know how we distinguish reasonable constructs from unreasonable ones Seems to me this is an important issue to resolve if we're to resist the pict

[PEN-L:2606] Re: Freedom and Rights

and, but show that some other, common, factor lies behind each construct, thus accounting for the positive correlation? If I adopt the latter approach, what might this common factor be? I suspect that the answer is pretty obvious, but that all this cold and snow is going to my brain. Anything t

[PEN-L:2514] Re: valuing nature

"The Monist" devoted its April, 1992, issue (Vol.75, No.2) to "The Intrinsic Value of Nature". C.N.Gomersall Luther College [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:2320] Re: Economic Predictions by the best

Andrew, your story was in The Economist as long ago as *last June*. Sometimes, I wonder what exactly political scientists use for data? ;-) In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sometimes, I wonder what exactly economists actually do? > > Andrew Sessions > Department of Political Science >

[PEN-L:2248] Re: Now is the time . . . .

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [omissions] > 2) we now know that the Soviet Union had a > high-level mole in place and used him to feed us an exaggerated picture > of how much their military was spending; why isn't that an issue? [more omissions] Perhaps it

[PEN-L:2103] Re: Green Capitalist Production

In response to a qestion from Jerry: > >Mason: How are all of these jobs going to be financed? > > Who is going to pay? > > > >Jerry Bill Mitchell replies, in part: > (i) stop all assistance to meat producing farming and farms that use > chemicals > and pesticides and farms that practis

[PEN-L:2031] titling

A recent "Economist" (9 December) has a piece on titling. Is this a front in the fight against neo-liberalism to which we should be paying more attention? For example, what do the common property resources people think about it? (BTW, is there a CPR list? I used to get their newsletter, but mayb

[PEN-L:2026] Re: Unions

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >I raise this in naive trepidation, since most people have probably dropped > the > >"France" and "fascism" threads for something more seasonal. I just wonder, > >though, if those who are inclined to see unions as necessarily progressive, > can > >expl

[PEN-L:2024] labour history

I raise this in naive trepidation, since most people have probably dropped the "France" and "fascism" threads for something more seasonal. I just wonder, though, if those who are inclined to see unions as necessarily progressive, can explain their role in the syndicalist movements of long ago.

[PEN-L:1498] PLEASE remove pen-l identifier!

I know this has been said before, but nothing gets done. To the operators of the list: PLEASE remove the pen-l identifier at the start of each subject line--e.g., [PEN-L:874]--for two very good reasons: 1. it prevents sorting by thread; my mailer, asked to do so, starts from the beginning of t

[PEN-L:1463] public finance texts?

Any suggestions for a good introductory public finance text? (I've received one answer to an earlier post--thanks again, Peter--but would greatly appreciate any other ideas. Our students are undergraduates who will have had principles only--we usually pick up a few polisci majors as well as the

[PEN-L:1050] Tories

hanks indeed. ___ Tel. 319 387 1133Fax 319 387 1088Home 319 382 4676 C.N.Gomersall Luther College Decorah Iowa 52101 "Cogita quam diu eadem feceris..." (Seneca) ___

[PEN-L:1019] Re: WWW links

7;m disappointed. Your page contains "awful right wing crap [that] stands out in some pathological sense"? So Louis Proyect was right after all... (p.s. Just kidding) > ___ Tel. 319 387 1133Fax 319 387 1088Home

[PEN-L:1018] Re: principles text

A final point that students like: it's in paperback. ___ Tel. 319 387 1133Fax 319 387 1088Home 319 382 4676 C.N.Gomersall Luther College Decorah Iowa 52101 "Cogita quam diu eadem feceris..." (Seneca) ___

[PEN-L:925] Re: Economics texts for undergraduates

to write such a text." ___ Tel. 319 387 1133Fax 319 387 1088 Home 319 382 4676 C.N.Gomersall Luther College Decorah Iowa 52101 "Cogita quam diu eadem feceris..." (Seneca) ___

[PEN-L:850] Re: Louis and Mike

are much for kibitzers, as my reply to G. Levy > should indicate. > ___ Tel. 319 387 1133Fax 319 387 1088Home 319 382 4676 C.N.Gomersall Luther College Decorah Iowa 52101 "Cogita quam diu eadem feceris..." (Seneca) ___

[PEN-L:845] Re: Louis and Mike

382 4676 C.N.Gomersall Luther College Decorah Iowa 52101 "Cogita quam diu eadem feceris..." (Seneca) ___

[PEN-L:814] urgent request!

______ Tel. 319 387 1133Fax 319 387 1088Home 319 382 4676 C.N.Gomersall Luther College Decorah Iowa 52101 "Cogita quam diu eadem feceris..." (Seneca) ___

[PEN-L:734] Re: the mighty greenspan

posting this, since they might take up the points I've raised above. Apologies to all if this is the case. ___ Tel. 319 387 1133 Fax 319 387 1088Home 319 382 4676 C.N.Gomersall Luther College Decorah Iowa 52101