[PEN-L:4413] Re: Re: econometrics text

1999-03-18 Thread Eric A. Schutz
--E6A8B95E45B5A6E426EFC7E1 I haven't used this one yet, but it looks promising: Arthur S. Goldberger's "Intro' Econometrics" (Harvard U. Press, 1998) looks short & sweet. Cheers -- Eric Schutz Barnet Wagman wrote: > It's been quite a while since I taught econometrics, but Studenm

[PEN-L:75] The Independent Institute - again

1998-05-18 Thread Eric . A . Schutz
Pen'ers -- A week or so ago, I sent out a request for info' on the Independent Institute -- and at that precise time apparently our Vax went cookies on us & I lost connection w/ pen-l & any messages anyone may have sent -- so here goes again: does anyone know anything about the FUNDING for the I.I

The Independent Institute

1998-05-12 Thread Eric . A . Schutz
Pen'ers: Does anyone know anything about the Independent Institute? As best I can tell it's a quite conservative policy-issues forum (its advisors list reads like a who's who of the right) -- but I'd like to know about its FUNDING. It's recently released a book disclaiming global warming (by

Re: Marx making a comeback?

1997-10-16 Thread Eric . A . Schutz
You know, the single thing that finally pissed me off enough to get me to read Marx's and see for myself so many years ago -- like so many others, in a small group of similarly disgruntled economics grad' students -- was this phrase I kept seeing in all the textbooks & hearing from all my pro

[PEN-L:12256] Comp.Econ.Sys. course bibliography

1997-09-11 Thread Eric A. Schutz
I have just updated a bibliography on socialist economics that I sent out to pen-l'ers in 1991, suitable for use in courses on, e.g., Comp. Econ. Sys. I'll be happy to e-mail the new version (about 200-titles) to pen-l'ers on request. Cheers -- Eric Schutz

[PEN-L:9506] Re: Measurement of inequality

1997-04-15 Thread Dr. Eric A. Schutz
See Ed Wolff's new textbook . Cheers -- Eric Schutz > A friend has asked me about alternatives to the Gini coefficient. I > seem to remember a paper titled 'On the Measurement of Inequality', but I > can't find it in my files. Anyone have suggestions? > Rog

[PEN-L:4761] Workers (late night, couldn't help responding -- cheers)

1995-04-18 Thread Eric . A . Schutz
I have to disagree with Peter Dorman's rejection of an activity-based definition of 'worker', and go with Jim Devine's definition that allows 'workers' to include or workers, workers, workers, workers, and yes, workers of all kinds in all sorts of circumstances. The term has referents in

[PEN-L:4568] Oops! Sorry!

1995-04-01 Thread Eric . A . Schutz
Sorry, everyone for the the clutter -- forgot to send to Michael P' personal. Cheers -- Eric Schutz

[PEN-L:4567] Re: Florida penners

1995-04-01 Thread Eric . A . Schutz
replycamichael -- Michael -- Again I can provide help if you can't find some- one who can give you better: Rollins is on Internet, but does not have a gopher nor a WWW facility (it'll do e-mail, ftp & telnet -- of course, with telnet you can gopher (and WWW?) on another computer). I can h ge

Voter participation

1994-11-10 Thread Eric . A . Schutz
About 39% of the voting age public actualkly voted. CNN reports that non-parti-cipants are predominantly Democrats; & studies show clearly an inverse relation between non-participation & income. Cheers -- Eric Schutz

Re: Atlas published.

1994-11-09 Thread Eric . A . Schutz
Right -- one more yes vote on this kind of "advertising" from me. Cheers - Eric Schutz