[PEN-L:4620] Re: white mice

1995-04-05 Thread Ellen Dannin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes, but you notice they are only doing the experiment on "white graduate students." I've tried to figure out whether this is good or bad - suppose it depends on the sort of experimentation involved. Or does it mean that with pending legislation on affirmative action and tuition rises there

[PEN-L:4453] Re: web site

1995-03-17 Thread Ellen Dannin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. Welfare 2. Crime 3. IQ 4. Taxes 5. Balanced Budget 6. Downsizing, unemployment, unionbusting 7. Third world underdevelopment 8. etc. and, let me add, privatising of public services. Ellen Dannin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:4392] Re: NZ For Sale?

1995-03-09 Thread Ellen Dannin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 9 Mar 1995 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some may recall that (Sir) Roger Douglas was the architect of free market mania in New Zealand in the 1980s. Out of office for some years, Douglas recently launched a new political party, ACT (any Kiwis or Aussies out there who can tell us what

[PEN-L:4139] Re: Relative Economic Position of Maoris of New Zealand

1995-02-14 Thread Ellen Dannin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
, I would recommend talking to Brian Easton, an economist there. His address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] He has been a consultant for some of the Iwi (tribes) there, as well as for some of the labour unions. Ellen Dannin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:4107] minimums of wages and others (fwd)

1995-02-10 Thread Ellen Dannin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The US isn't the only place where this is an issue. See below. Ellen J. Dannin -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 9:16:32 +1300 (NZDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: minimums of wages and others THANKS FOR THE REFERENCES. THERE ARE PILES OF

[PEN-L:4026] Re: better off?

1995-02-02 Thread Ellen Dannin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The address is: EPI, 1730 Rhode Island Ave, NW, Wasington, D.C. 20036 Phone: 1-202-775-8810 On Thu, 2 Feb 1995, Christopher Benner wrote: Can anyone tell me how to get a copy of "THE STATE OF WORKING AMERICA" I don't have EPI's phone number of address. Sounds very useful.

[PEN-L:3760] Re: piece from the Progressive

1995-01-15 Thread Ellen Dannin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Coincidentally, the Labor Party Advocates held a public hearing in the San Francisco area yesterday on the need for a labor party. Four hundred people showed up to participate at the meeting in Hayward. More public hearings are planned across the US. I was not at the meeting but can get a

Middle class-shmiddle class

1994-12-19 Thread Ellen Dannin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Why don't we just throw in the towel and join in the chorus of "Serfin' USA?" How much difference is there between the lot of a serf and the situation of lots and lots of us who are wholly dependent on the wishes of the seigneur, who render to this seize-er our time, our energy, our beliefs?

Re: Canada, via Barron's

1994-12-10 Thread Ellen Dannin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
And something else you should be aware of - Alberta's premier has taken Roger Douglas of New Zealand, the progenitor of the eponymous Rogernomics - as his model. Douglas' book was way up on the best seller lists in Canada for a long time. Douglas goes about billing himself as a socialist who

Re: the Democrats are dead?

1994-11-30 Thread Ellen Dannin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
I keep thinking that one day the Dems will wake up, but every time I turn on the news and hear them talking, the words coming out of their mouths convince me otherwise. It's hard not to feel a sense of despair about all of this. The only way I can think of to move the Dems is to convince

elections: postscript (fwd)

1994-11-09 Thread Ellen Dannin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
I thought the enclosed from friends in the UK might be of interest to the depressed members of this list. Ellen J. Dannin + -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 9 Nov 1994 10:55:27 -0600 From: W.M. Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: elections: postscript I've just heard on an

Re: Atlas plugged

1994-11-08 Thread Ellen Dannin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
On Tue, 8 Nov 1994, Teresa Amott wrote: On another note, how are Pen-Lers coping with depression and anger today, as we exercise our freedom to vote for the marginally lesser evil? The thought of Jesse Helms as chair of the Senate Foreign Relations committee is so nauseating that I'm having

Re: overpriced journals

1994-10-31 Thread Ellen Dannin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Oz is shorthand for Australia. Ellen J. Dannin California Western School of Law 225 Cedar Street San Diego, CA 92101 Phone: 619-525-1449 Fax:619-696- On Mon, 31 Oct 1994, DJ wrote: On Mon, 31 Oct 1994, Cristina Marcuzzo wrote: I am very interested in the service mentioned as

Re: Murray Herrnstein

1994-10-27 Thread Ellen Dannin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
On Thu, 27 Oct 1994, Cotter_Cindy wrote: Ellen Dannen says: [Dannin actually] + "When you move from a person's propensity to a group propensity you get into ever more dangerous territory. It really does not matter very much what 100 female law professors have a propensity to do when you

Re: Murray Herrnstein

1994-10-26 Thread Ellen Dannin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
I appreciate hearing this discussion from the economists' points of view. You folks have the skills to approach these sorts of social and economic problems that we lawyers do not have. However, I want to throw something from the field of law into the discussion. I have taught evidence a

Re: Immigration

1994-10-19 Thread Ellen Dannin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
I agree, Jim. And if we don't like it, we should go back where we came from. Ellen J. Dannin California Western School of Law 225 Cedar Street San Diego, CA 92101 Phone: 619-525-1449 Fax:619-696- We've been having trouble with these immigrants ever since we came to this country!

Re: Davis-Bacon Act(s)

1994-10-11 Thread Ellen Dannin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
I tried to respond to this request yesterday but don't know if the e-mail got through since our system was ill. One interesting article appears in Sheldon Friedman et alia, eds, Restoring the Promise of American Labor Law (ILR Press 1994). The article by three economists (larval and adult

No Subject

1994-10-10 Thread Ellen Dannin
I sent an earlier e-mail on this subject, recommending you try Sheldon Friedman's book, Restoring the

State bidding wars

1994-10-03 Thread Ellen Dannin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Is anyone aware of any cost-benefit analyses which have been done as to government subsidies given to persuade companies to locate to an area or not to relocate from an area? Some of the subsidies are quite high on a per job basis, so that it seems hard to believe the citizens will ever

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