Magic realism or fantasy in one form or another has been a factor in most
John Sayles films. The most obvious example was "Brother From Another
Planet." It would be possible to bypass its role in "Men with Guns", but I
think that would be a mistake. The device of the mother telling the story
to he
There are a few sources for information on these events that have not
so far been mentioned.
James Gross (Cornell labor historian) has written a multi-volume history
of the NLRA and NLRB.
Jim Pope (Rutgers Law school) is currently doing an analysis of s.7(a).
And related but slightly off topic:
Thank you for your support. We have received nearly a thousand
endorsements. Based on these we have put our a press release and expect
coverage on this situation. We have also sent the material to the
congressional representatives who attended and called the Town Hall
meeting at which Kate Bronfen
We have had an enormous outpouring of support for Dr. Bronfenbrenner. At
this point, we don't need further endorsements. We will be going to the
media today (Wednesday, February 23, 1998) with the petition and the
hundreds of endorsements.
We will try to provide updates as newsworthy events tra
We urge our colleagues to join with us in protesting Beverly
Enterprises' attack on Dr. Kate Bronfenbrenner's academic freedom
and first amendment rights.
Michal Belknap, Professor of Law, California Western School of
Law
Clete Daniel, Professor of American Labor History,
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Doug Henwood wrote:
> I got a flyer in yesterday's mail announcing a series of seminars on "How
> To Stay Union-Free into the 21st Century" (printed with "UNION FREE" in red
> in what looks like 96- or 100-point type, in contrast with the rest of the
> phrase, which was merel
A visit to Cahokia (across the river from St. Louis) is fascinating in and
of itself and also for the evidence it provides that the large number of
residents there overused the local resources, which then led to its
decline. There may have been other factors, such as climate, but the
decline took
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Louis Proyect wrote:
> * * * I have to confess that the discussion about "technology" sort
> of baffles me since it seems detached from the broader question of how
> society is organized.
>
> There is no question that automation of blue-collar and white-collar work
> has led
On Sun, 21 Dec 1997, Tom Walker wrote:
> Ellen Dannin wrote,
> > Suppose you were an employer whose employees were represented by a
> > union. Now suppose that the labor laws you bargain under state that
> > when the parties reach an impasse, you, the employer, get to impose
> > your final offer.
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, James Devine wrote:
* * *
> Lately, I've been wondering about the social-psychological basis of these
> claims of "superiority." Why make this kind of outrageous claim at all? Is
> it because we're working at a liberal arts college and have to rub shoulders
> with all sorts
On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Continuing a discussion from several months ago, the opening of a BLS news
> release published today. The full text is on the BLS web site at
> http://stats.bls.gov/news.release/conemp.toc.htm.
>
> I welcome discussion as to what it all means.
>
> Doug
On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Doug Henwood wrote:
> >It's magic: lower incomes + higher labour force participation = a lower rate
> >of unemployment. This precisely confirms the right-wing nostrum that there
> >is no such thing as involuntary unemployment. At a low enough wage, there is
> >a job for every
Symposium on the New Zealand Employment Contracts Act
The California Western International Law Journal is publishing a
special symposium issue that will explore the impact of the New
Zealand Employment Contracts Act of 1991 (ECA) on labor relations
both in New Zealand and abroad. The author
On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, William S. Lear wrote:
> Can anyone fill me in on the origins of the term "wage slavery"?
>
I can't fill you in on its origins, but there is a great example of the
comparisons you made in the 1960's movie "Burn" or "Quemado" starring a
thin Marlon Brando with a British accen
The now defunct labor research review out of Chicago has done several
research volumes on the topic. These are usually written by union
activists, so they present a more hands-on approach.
If you wanted to talk to people deeply involved in this work, contact the
Support Committee for Maquiladora
On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, James Devine wrote:
> Doug reports poll results: > half of "American Indians" called themselves
> that, 37% "Native American";<
>
> My wife has worked a lot with the "Native community." She finds that most of
> them call themselves "American Indians," thinking that "Native A
On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, tom wood wrote:
> Richard Duchesne wrote:
> >What about pre-linguistic mental capacities, say in the first two
> >years of a child? This is possible, but should we call that
> >"thinking"?
>
> Are you saying learning is possible without thinking?
I wanted to wade in just t
On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Michael Perelman wrote:
> James Devine wrote:
> >
> > Michael Perelman asks if labor has ever been so weak with such low
> > unemployment rates ("tight" labor markets). I'd say yes. The 1920s was a
> > period of labor weakness, but low U rates:
>
> Jim D. correctly notes tha
One thing that seems to be affecting union power and thus the
attractiveness of unions to members has been the expansion of the legal
doctrine which allows employers to implement their final offers upon
reaching impasse. Beginning in the mid-1980's the NLRB became
increasingly willing to find
One excellent film on the globalisation of labor is "The Emperor's New
Clothes" from the Canadian Film Board. Its main focus is NAFTA, viewed on
many levels, concluding with a visit by Canadian auto workers to a
Mexican plant where the work Canadians did is now being done. This is a
very styl
Today's Los Angeles Times has a long piece criticizing NZ's reading
methodology -- whole language v. phonics. The article says that employers
are complaining that they can't get literate workers.
Periodically groups like the NZ Business Roundtable have
advocated privatizing public education or
I wanted to add some thoughts on the legal issues involved to this
discussion on externalities and how they are or are not taken into
consideration.
In order to bring a case, one must have "standing." Standing is a
constitutional requirement, and it is also a difficult status to define.
One has s
March 15, 1997
Final Call for Proposals
The International Law Journal of California Western School of Law
is dedicating its Fall 1997 issue to a symposium dedicated to
discussing New Zealand's Employment Contracts Act, 1991. Persons
interested in participating in the symposium are invited to
sub
t on employers to its
overuse than banking comp time.
There are ways the legislation can address each of these problems, but it
may be that the eventual law will not be drafted in a way that makes the
unionists' lives easier.
Ellen Dannin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
January 26, 1997
Call for Proposals
The International Law Journal of California Western School of Law
is dedicating its Fall 1997 issue to a symposium dedicated to
discussing New Zealand's Employment Contracts Act, 1991. Persons
interested in participating in the symposium are invited to
submit
At least some who have commented on this (sympathetically) in the California
newspapers have said it was being used as a way to get additional funding
-- available for teaching students whose primary language is not English --
for these schools.
Ellen J. Dannin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Perception in this area is fairly important. There have been lately a
number of stories in the papers about how fearful people are as a result
of their own or others' experiences with downsizing and/or being made
contingent. Some say they are happy to have been cut free of an employer
and to b
On Sun, 10 Nov 1996, Doug Henwood wrote:
> At 5:41 PM 11/9/96, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >I interpret the massive attack on affirmative action in
> >California as part of the "angry White male" phenomenon.
>
> Obviously, but one complicating point: according to the LA Times exit poll,
> 48%
On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Terrence Mc Donough wrote:
> Collective bargaining type models don't work well in progressive
> org's because the org shouldn't be using its powerful position as an
> employer in the bargaining process. Similarly, the social
> consciousness and personalized relationships
I am doing some work focussed more on legal and labor issues connected
with privatization and subcontracting of government services. Have any of
you on this list been doing anything on the issue or are you aware of any
recent studies, particularly those looking at the economics of privatizatio
It seems to me that you might want to put in at least some reference to
the Fed's NAIRU policy -- i.e. it is the government and its policies that
have impoverished so many. These are the casualties of a war on
inflation. The government has been demanding that some 6% of us remain
unemployed
A few days ago Thomas Murakami forwarded an edited piece of information
about AIRAANZ to this list. Maggie Coleman asked what AIRAANZ is, and I
answered her offlist. AIRAANZ has been around for quite awhile, long
before Clive set foot in the antipodes. It sponsors annual conferences
of acad
t vague about what he was
measuring (labor costs, wages, income from wages and other sources, etc.)
.. He didn't say he was laying people off b/c Chrysler was paying labour
costs that were too high.
ellen dannin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 23 May 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I think Jim is on the right track with his slogan, but that this does not go
> far enough. How about a mandatory education list for all corporate leaders
> and politicians? What books, movies, and music would people put on a list in
> an attempt to
One of my colleagues's husbands is a psychiatrist. An HMO with which he
is associated was purchased by a drug manufacturer which also makes
anti-depressants. One of the administrative people there called Dr. X
and told him that they had reviewed the dosages he was prescribing for
his patient
On Wed, 3 Apr 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In Shniad's interesting post on NZ we find the following:
>
> The ethos of the market pervaded everyday life. Even
> the language was captured, dehumanizing the people
> and communities it affected. It became acceptable to
> talk of "shedding worke
On Tue, 2 Apr 1996, bill mitchell wrote:
* * *
> the swish pamphlet paints a very pessimistic outlook for the NZ economy in
> terms of low investment, low productivity and declining export prospects. In
> other words, while the usual criticisms of the reforms were in terms of equity
> and social
On Tue, 2 Apr 1996, Hugo Radice wrote:
> I was recently at a workshop in Budapest on foreign direct investment
> in the Visegrad countries (btw, that's Hungary, Poland, Slovakia,
> Czech Rep], and to my surprise one of the papers was on "The role of
> FDI in structural change: the lessons from
Rather than looking to Chile to find out whether investing social
security funds in private markets, I'd look to New Zealand. It has
seized on privatization avidly but has not had the sort of militarisation
and dictatorship which clouds the picture in Chile. Jane Kelsey's new
book called "Ec
I'm curious whether the suggestion that social security be privatized is
not the first step to abolishing it. At the present time, the wealthier
people in this country already have little to gain or lose from whatever
happens to social security. Private pensions have made social security
onl
Here's a few thoughts. Legislatively overturn S.Ct. cases which say that
corporations are persons entitled to 14th amendment protections. Require
that all corporation enabling laws require that corporations operate in
the public interest. Then define the public interest as something more
th
I don't know how economics courses are taught these days, but one method
of teaching some of use, I notice especially in the labor field, is
problems and simulations. The students get into the role play and seem
to learn their labor law much better than a more traditional walk
through, exeges
I was asked to forward this message to this list.
ejd
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Date: Sun, 04 Feb 1996 07:40:47 +1300
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: EJROT (pronounced "Edge-Rot")
The Electronic Journal of Radical Organisation Theory (EJROT) launched
its first edition last year. T
On Tue, 23 Jan 1996, Breen, Nancy wrote:
* * *
>
> I heard Sec. Reich on the Diane Rehm's (DC radio talk) show the other day.
> He was discussing some suggestions to provide economic incentives for
> corportations to be more socially responsible -- mostly through tax reforms.
> This is an a
On Mon, 22 Jan 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Re Terry's question:
>
> For the benefit of those who are non-economists on PEN-L, let's try and
> break this question down into understandable terms:
>
* * *
> (2) What is productivity?
>
> Simple definition: output/worker/period of time.
Let me just add a personal view on what living under the ACC was like for
a one-year visit to NZ. It really brought home to me in how many ways
the cost of and provision of health insurance affects so much of our
lives. My auto insurance was about $NZ90 [$50US] / year. It was
essentially a
Thank you to the many of you who responded with clear explanations of the
budget. I passed them on and received many thanks to be conveyed back to
you.
It's an amazing time, but one of the pluses is that sometimes expertise
is a keystroke away.
ellen
Ellen J. Dannin
California Western Schoo
rough it now. Reading it will give many of us in many
countries a sense of deja vu all over again -- only theKiwis are just a
few years farther down the road.
ellen dannin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
for economists to come to the aid of, well, the noneconomists.
On two labor lists which have a high membership of union activists,
public and private sector, there is, as you can imagine, a lot of
discussion going on about the budget. There is a strong need for
comprehensible explanations as
mine its positions with sympathy -- not just assume they had
nothing to say -- until they did so, they were not ready to step into the
courtroom.
ellen dannin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
A new book is out on the liberalisation of New Zealand's economy which
might be of interest to some on this list: Jane Kelsey, The New Zealand
Experiment: A World Model for Structural Adjustment?
It was published November 10 by Auckland University Press and Bridget
Williams Books. The AUP con
Lately I've noticed statements by members of the Fed and the Clinton
administration expressing puzzlement as to why wages remain low,
especially compared to improvements in productivity. Aren't these the
same folks who just a few months ago were releasing statements about how
they needed to r
On Fri, 24 Nov 1995, Peter Colley wrote:
> CRA cites Tiwai as an example of the success of its strategy, and claims
> that productivity and the like have improved enormously. There are two
> aspects to such claims:
>
> 1. They are never independently verified. We all know how shonky the OHS
On Fri, 24 Nov 1995, Peter Colley wrote:
* * *
> 2. It is often the case that some unions have left themselves vulnerable
> to attack through doggedly resisting all work place change. I am not
> saying this is/was necessarily the case at Tiwai.
Actually it probably was not. The Tiwai Point
On Fri, 24 Nov 1995, Peter Colley wrote:
> Unions win against RTZ/CRA
>
> Since no other Australian seems to have gotten around to it, I should
> inform labour activists and other progressives that there has recently been
> a major victory in Australia against a transnational company with an avow
s well as some whistleblower statutes. Put it
all together, and you get a complex situation in these sorts of cases --
creating the best of all possible worlds -- more work for lawyers.
Ellen Dannin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: FW: Murder in Nigeria
Dehai members:
I have just read Debrai Haile's eloquent eulogy for Ke Sara Wiwi, murdered
Friday in Nigeria.
While it may be comforting to think about the actions of the US or South
Africa, or to expect other governments to res
On Fri, 27 Oct 1995, Paul Zarembka wrote:
> Friends and comrades:
>
> I received the request below from a colleague in our Women's Studies
> program here who teaches a course in American pluralism. I wonder what
> suggestions you may for her and thus our students. Thanks,
>
> Paul Zarembka,
On Mon, 16 Oct 1995, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Comrades - I'm going to be interviewing Nell Minow of Lens Inc., one of the
> leading "relationship investors" and "shareholder activists" around. I've
> included the text from their web home page below.
>
> Anything you'd like me to ask her about?
>
>
On Fri, 6 Oct 1995, Eric Nilsson wrote:
* * *
> Robert Flanagan in _Labor Relations and the Litigation Explosion_
> pointed out the same thing: the long delay in punishment for
> labor law violators meant there was, in essence, almost no
> punishment. And, this was true BEFORE the coming of the
On Thu, 5 Oct 1995, Eric Nilsson wrote:
* * *
> IN THE SAME APPROPRIATIONS BILL is a plan to cut funding
> of the NLRB by 30% from previous years. This is a bad thing. The NLRB
> is supposed to punish those breaking labor laws. They already
> are overwhelmed.
>
* * *
> Clinton appointed a ne
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Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 11:54:18 -0400
From: Michael H. Belzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>From Michael Belzer:
This note is in response to Michael Etchison's reference to Michael
Belzer's summary that "truck drivers who earn the lowest wages and are
least like
On Sun, 3 Sep 1995, jtreacy wrote:
> Treacy: I think Maggie has some very interesting stuff in her reply but
> to credit all women as knowing who Pops is streachs credulity.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] COPYRIGHTED
>
> On Sat, 2 Sep 1995 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > One last point -- the term
it is traditionally treated by economists. As he
reaches his conclusion he suggests ways economists can use their skills
so they can exercise them in a responsible way.
This bare bones outline leaves out much that is most interesting about
the essay, but it should give an idea of what it contains.
ellen dannin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I began my collective bargaining seminar this term by assigning my
law students to read an essay by New Zealand economist Brian Easton, "The
Personal Responsibility of an Economist." This is a graceful, thoughtful,
and powerful essay, and I wanted to recommend it to those on this list. The
s
On Fri, 30 Jun 1995 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Please, I need information (articles, books, etc.) about the
> worker strategies against the "participative management" in the
> american companies
> THANKS.
>
> Arturo Pacheco ( Visiting Professor at CSU, Fullerton)
Labor Notes publishes several p
I'm highly influenced by being midstream in a piece I'm working on about
New Zealand and what I'm putting into my conclusion. I think it's
important to engage in intellectual debate, but agree with MMeeropol (aka
gramps) that we stand at a watershed event. Those who have the skills to
respond
A labor lawyer's perspective on the TIAA-CREF proposal after this was
forwarded to the Worklaw list.
ellen
Ellen J. Dannin
California Western School of Law
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
S
On Sun, 14 May 1995, Bruce Cronin wrote:
> A fascinating side of the neo-'liberal' crusade for 'freedom' in the
> NZ economy has been their systematic campaign to stamp out criticism of
> their programme. Alternative centres of policy advice and critique in
> govt and the universities have had
On Fri, 12 May 1995, Robert Peter Burns wrote:
> Ellen Dannin and others who haven't seen it
> should take a look at the transcript of
> the CBC program "Ideas" on New Zealand which
> is available in the pen-l archives. . . . .
Not only have I read the transcript and had the opportunity to se
On Fri, 12 May 1995, Robert Peter Burns wrote:
> Last summer I published a short article called "Global
> Thatcherism in the Light of the British Experience" . . .
> Rather, global Thatcherism is an ideological reflex of the global
> restructuring of class relations, the effect of which is to h
Well, and once you get started on fiction, there's Ursala LeGuin's The
Dispossessed and Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time and - in an odd
sense Sherri Tepper's The Awakeners (or North Shore / South Shore) about
a society which survives by having its priest class organize all of human
so
I forwarded this original message to a friend of mine who teaches at
another university, and I thought her response might be of interest -
though it is not written from an economics perspective.
Ellen J. Dannin
California Western School of Law
225 Cedar Street
San Diego, CA 92101
Phone: 619-
ngs I find
that these comparisons give me the ability to ask, "Really?" In a sense,
they are the study that is so difficult to run in social sciences.
ellen dannin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Diamond Walnut workers - 500 mostly female minority workers - have been
on strike since September 1991 against Diamond Walnut growers in
Stockton, CAl. The dispute concerns wages and health care contributions.
They were permanently replaced. There have been 2 decertification
elections th
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
This is a question by a noneconomist for you economists. When we read
the results of "studies" on things like the impact of the minimum wage
what are these studies based on? Are some merely based on theoretical
models without real-world or empirical testing? If this is so, is there
one ideo
> 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]
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 wh
about the Maori, 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]
The US isn't the only place where this is an issue. See below.
Ellen J. Dannin
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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
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.
>
Sometimes the mass media does a nice job of encapsulating the problems we
have now. Even those who are not Start TRek - Deep Space Nine fans might
want to look at the last 2-part series in which - as a consequence of the
US govt's removing all public supports except 3 basic meals a day - the
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 r
I am sorry if my message suggested I took the discussion lightly. I was
trying to suggest that there is another and more insidious event taking
place in the reordering of our society and its thinking. I suppose
rather than looking at this as if we had suddenly re-entered the middle
ages with
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?
On Wed, 14 Dec 1994, Jim Devine wrote:
> Since the Invisible Hand is simply an avatar of God, God supports those
> who support Him. Seems like a Pareto Superior transaction, no?
>
> in pen-l solidarity,
>
> Jim Devine
I beg your pardon - The Invisible hand is not an avatar of God -- The
Invis
The answer is simple. As John Calvin made clear centuries ago, if you
have grace in heaven and are among god's elect (sorry God's elect) you
will exhibit signs of grace here on earth - status, money, and other
signs of your status of grace. If you don't have those outward signs, it
is becaus
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
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 them
One problem with figuring out what the election results mean is that it
is difficult to separate shadow from reality. By this I mean a number of
phenomena that seem to have powerful effects on how people react to
polticis.
Just a couple examples:
1. if you were to go out into the communit
I thought the enclosed from friends in the UK might be of interest to the
depressed members of this list.
Ellen J. Dannin
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Date: Wed, 9 Nov 1994 10:55:27 -0600
From: W.M. Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: elections: postscript
I've just heard on an e
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 havi
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 mentione
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 y
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 numb
And is it time to have a good reread of Stephen Jay Gould's The
Mismeasure of Man on abuses and misuses of IQ testing? As Gould explores
the issue through the centuries, when it comes time to sort winners from
losers on criteria from cranial size to performance on standardized
tests, which gr
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!
>
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 fo
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
recei
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