[PEN-L:10379] Re: New creationism

orms of essentialism. But not everyone who agrees with these critiques is "anti-science," or even close-minded with regard to explorations of "human nature." Mark Weisbrot --- On Wed, 28 May 1997 08:32:59 -0700 (PDT) Wojtek Sokolowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is an excellent

[PEN-L:10237] that says it all

orrupt dictatorships on earth in that country for the last 32 years. (NYT, Saturday, May 17,1997, p.A6) ---End of Original Message- - Name: Mark Weisbrot E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Preamble Center for Public Policy 1737 21st Street NW

[PEN-L:9691] job announcement: please circulate

sample and salary requirements as soon as possible to Preamble, attention "Project Coordinator Search": 1737 21st NW - Washington, DC 20009 - Fax: 202-265-3647 - Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Name: Mark Weisbrot E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pream

[PEN-L:9559] Re: MAI

to be on a list-serve that we are currently putting together for the campaign, send your e-mail address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace, Mark - Name: Mark Weisbrot E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Preamble Center for Public Policy 1737 21st Street NW Washington DC 20009 (202

[PEN-L:9509] Fw: Re: RE: geometric-mean CPI

--- On Tue, 15 Apr 1997 11:19:57 -0700 (PDT) Richardson_D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday, April 14, 1997 6:34 PM, Mark Weisbrot wrote Mark also wrote the reporting on the BLS geometric mean experimental index has been very misleading, creating the impression

[PEN-L:9493] RE: geometric-mean CPI

l cut, if it's left to the BLS. Cheers, Mark - Name: Mark Weisbrot E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Preamble Center for Public Policy 1737 21st Street NW Washington DC 20009 (202) 265-3263 (offc) (202) 333-6141 (home) fax: (202)265-3647 --- On Mon, 14 Apr 1997 10

[PEN-L:9312] Re: Noam Chomsky on p.1 of NY Times today...

--- On Tue, 1 Apr 1997 10:24:23 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Weisbrot writes, I haven't seen anything like this on the front page of the NYT for at least 20 years. I think the end of the cold war is finally opening some space in the media for some truth on these matters

[PEN-L:9286] Re: Noam Chomsky on p.1 of NY Times today...

y had some very bad people who lent ideological support to the war against Nicargua during the 80s. (If anyone wants to decribe them further, I am curious). Peace, Mark Weisbrot --- On Mon, 31 Mar 1997 12:01:26 -0800 (PST) Thad Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, not quite, but still qu

[PEN-L:9099] New book on Boskin Commission and CPI

contact me at "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". ---End of Original Message- - Name: Mark Weisbrot E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Preamble Center for Public Policy 1737 21st Street NW Washington DC 20009 (202) 265-3263 (offc) (202)

[PEN-L:9052] grad programs in international development

that would be helpful at a practical level. I really didn't know what to recommend. Anyone have any suggestions? If you do, please send them to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks in advance, Mark - Name: Mark Weisbrot E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Preamble Center

[PEN-L:7948] free breakfast at ASSA mtgs

, Grand Ballroom, New Orleans. Dean Baker of the Economic Policy Institute will speak on the topic of "Does the CPI Really Overstate Inflation?" Complimentary continental breakfast will be served. ----- Name: Mark Weisbrot E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pream

[PEN-L:7485] more science still (just can't get enough)

--- On Mon, 18 Nov 1996 22:02:15 -0800 (PST) Ajit Sinha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Weisbrot said: I can't tell you how many times I have heard pomo scholars assert such things as, e.g., we don't know any more about the physical universe than we did 5000 years ago. Needless to say

[PEN-L:7461] Re: more science!

of it, you will find yourself in a very weak position against anyone who can carry out a logical argument. This is one of the big drawbacks of of pomo epistemology that I referred to earlier. ----- Name: Mark Weisbrot E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Preamble Center for Pub

[PEN-L:7439] more science!

L PROTECTED] wrote: At 7:06 PM 11/16/96, Mark Weisbrot wrote: IMHO, the pomos have made a major positive contribution by transforming a large part of the humanities' undergraduate curriculum, to the point where it is now common for freshman comp. courses to question such "myths" as Amer

[PEN-L:7428] more science!

ur adversaries. These arguments are more difficult to dismiss. (It also helps that people like Chomsky avoid needless jargon, but that is another issue). Name: Mark Weisbrot E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Preamble Center for Public Policy 1737 21st Street NW Washington DC 20009 (202) 265-3263 (offc) (202) 333-6141 (home) fax: (202)265-3647

[PEN-L:7038] Krugman-- one more shot

redentials (but a big personal stake in the outcome of social security "reform.") I couldn't resist poking fun at Krugman for this in my latest column on Social Security (it's scheduled to appear in the Christian Science Monitor this week). Mark Weisbrot

[PEN-L:4332] EPI op-ed network

Nan Gibson Communications Director Economic Policy Institute (202) 331-5546 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mark Weisbrot 2501 Q Street NW, #111 Washington DC 20007 (202) 333-6141 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:4333] TIAA-CREF update

, many stomachs will be upset in high places. Cheers, Mark Weisbrot Secretary, Board of Overseers TIAA-CREF 730 3rd Ave. New York, NY 10017-3206 To the Secretary: I would like to propose the following

[PEN-L:3961] CPI (from Dean Baker)

wage through the year 2070, adjusting the Social Security Administration's projections in accordance with the Boskin Commission's estimates of the bias in the CPI. The 1995 median income for a family over 65 is given as a reference point. Mark Weisbrot 2501 Q Street NW, #111 Washington DC 20007

[PEN-L:3591] Support Striking Workers at Yale

employees, whether food service workers or full professors, deserve to be treated with dignity and respect, receiving adequate compensation and benefits for the work they perform. We urge you to negotiate seriously with the members of Locals 34 and 35. Mark Weisbrot 2501 Q Street NW, #111 Washington DC

[PEN-L:3113] All TIAA-CREF members please read!

Fellow TIAA-CREFERs, I sent the proposal below and accompanying justification to the Board of TIAA-CREF, to be considered for their next proxy statement. The purpose is to have TIAA-CREF work towards placing serious restrictions on the compensation of top corporate executives. At

[PEN-L:2682] Mexican Congress Statement

I was told that a large number (almost all) of Mexico's Congress signed a letter to the President denouncing the government's policies. If this is true, does anyone know where I can get hold of the text (Spanish or English)? Mark Weisbrot [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:1363] urgent request for informations

e. Thanks in advance, Mark Weisbrot 500 1/2 6th, #12 Charleston IL 61920 (217) 345 4983 fax: (217) 581-5997 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:1316] Re: Fed tightness

the Fed as an institution as best we can. Also I think there is a typo here: "Measures of total compensation, which include fringe benefits, tell a very different story -down 2.7%, the worst performance since the series began in 1980" should be "up 2.7%." Cheers, Mark We

[PEN-L:1251] Haiti SAP Alert

. Mark Weisbrot 500 1/2 6th, #12 Charleston IL 61920 (217) 345 4983 fax: (217) 581-5997 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Forwarded message: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Nov 2 11:28:12 1995 X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: v02120d02acbe4cdb890f@[136.152.68.87] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type

[PEN-L:365] Privatization

if you want (unless other pen-l-ers request posting). Thanks in advance to all who respond; I will track down any citation I get. Mark Weisbrot (217) 345 4983 fax: (217) 581-5997 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:5055] TIAA-CREF

Here's the latest from Dean Baker on the plan to attack exorbitant executive salries thru TIAA-CREF. Comments, suggestions, and volunteers to help organize the effort are welcome and needed. Comrades, I've been investigating the possibility of getting a proxy vote on the TIAA-CREF

[PEN-L:4823] a TIAA/CREF proposal

may have seen the recent NYT article on TIAA/CFRE using its muscle on W.R. Grace). What say, any takers? Mark Weisbrot

[PEN-L:4824] Re: intro econ history text

I have used Duboff's "Accumulation and Power"-- a bit hard to read for freshmen unless they have more than the usual motivation. But I like it. Mark Weisbrot A request to economic historians on the net: I am part of the teaching team for an interdisciplinary course whic

[PEN-L:4208] URPE at EEA: It's getting kinda late. . .

to me at: Mark Weisbrot [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: Department of Economics, (217) 581-6247 Phone (217) 581-6968; 345-4983 (home) Panels: 1. The IMF, the World Bank, and Structural Adjustment Esmail Hosseinzadeh (Drake University), Structural Adjustment Program and Inflation

[PEN-L:4056] URPE at EEA: It's not too late!

possible to have a significant URPE contribution if people respond quickly enough. Please respond directly to me: Mark Weisbrot [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: Department of Economics, (217) 581-6247 Phone (217) 581-6968; 345-4983 (home) Subjects for URPE panels: 1. The Internationalization

Re: social security query

ose who are losing sleep over this far-off "crisis" which may force us to return to pre-Reagan concepts of progressive taxation sometime in the unforeseeable future. Mark Weisbrot [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: election disaster

uperficial, much like Bush's 90% approval rating after the Gulf War, which faded rather quickly and left no increase in the public's appetite for foreign military adventures just a few months after the war was over. How's that for optimism of the will? Cheers, Mark Weisbrot [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mandela

bed it, he hasn't agreed to much in the realm of specifics. So far at least it's just a bunch of vague platitudes about opening up the economy, removing "distortions," etc. I would withold judgement on the nature of his government until they actually do something. Mark Weisbrot [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PEN-L Media Watch

? The point being made by the author was that, despite the fact that the poor have been left behind in the last 4 years of economic growth for the continent, the "American" model was still a better choice than the "European" welfare state. Mark Weisbrot [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Recommended articles

" Nafta-worshipping, don't-criticize-the-Fed-even-if-they're-crazy,etc. Clinonomics, but the part that surrounds itself with the likes of Robert Kuttner and Lester Thurow. He also considers these people (Reich, too) to not be sufficiently educated in the realm of economic theory to be advisers.