Re: Reporters Without Borders nailed

I went to Rutgers with Frankie. He used to monitor our meetings, shadow our rallies & marches. mbs Researching the theme of the Cuban-American community in the United Sates, Salim Lamrani questioned him about certain covert actions carried out by Frank Calzón, a CIA agent of Cuban origin who d

Re: Of Coase

nice. mbs -Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jurriaan Bendien Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 5:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Of Coase (Julio Huato ask me to forward this to PEN-L List) Ronald Coase's work deals with issues that bourgeois economic

Re: Slightly more patient capital?

Yes but I forget who. Somewhere I have a stack of papers from a conference on this. Capital gains rates, among other complexities, reflect this purported intention of encouraging buy and hold. Best recent book is Len Burman, "The Capital Gains Labyrinth." Where ya been? max It got me wonderi

Re: Question - US National Debt

and silly to say all this too, but then, even if I am supposed to be a Gollum or a Golem, I'm still a human being who's gotta cope with himself... J. - Original Message - From: "Max B. Sawicky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, Jul

Re: Question - US National Debt

With the tax system of January 2001, the debt would have been paid off in about a decade, with nobody working a day 'for nothing.' The OECD would have comparative data on national debt. mbs What I wanted to get to, was some sort of figure which showed, that in order to pay off the national debt

Re: No Googling quiz

For extra credit now (an open-ended question): what are activist groups/scholars/journalists doing to comprehend and contest the "superpower" influence of these private companies with government-conferred power? (Hint: 1. the answer is not "nothing" and 2. I don't know the answer. That's why I'm a

Re: Of Coase

What would the critics say to Coase's dictum that you can buy innovation or rent entrepreneurs? I suppose innovation is hard to price, hence the market for it is deficient. For inability to sell innovation, entrepreneurs (and venture capital) are born. This would be accentuated insofar as there i

Re: Of Coase

A couple of thoughts/questions: 1. You state that the employee must work for someone else because of the lack of capital, but Coase suggests (demonstrates?) that the firm (employer-employee relationship) exists because of transaction costs. Therefore, even if every worker starts with his own capi

Of Coase

Rereading The Nature of the Firm . . . Coase is unradical in the sense of recognizing hierarchy but not power. There is an efficiency rationale for the size or scope of a firm -- economizing on a bundle of transactions -- but this does not answer the question, who gets to be 'coordinator'? Coase

Re: Question on real net new invesment in the US

If Intel contracts out to a chip factory in Thailand, is that a strategic asset for them or for the U.S.? mbs -Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jurriaan Bendien Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 6:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Question on real net

Re: Question on real net new invesment in the US

We're an evil empire, but we've got great statistics. mbs -Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jurriaan Bendien Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 6:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Question on real net new invesment in the US Thanks a lot Max, that i

Re: Question on real net new investment in the US

http://www.bea.gov/bea/dn/nipaweb/SelectTable.asp?Selected=N#S5 -Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jurriaan Bendien Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 5:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Question on real net new investment in the US Does anybody have a

Re: Back to slavery

Coase, in "The Nature of the Firm." (1937, Economica) -Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Devine, James Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 6:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Back to slavery Max, who said the quote in the first paragraph? ---

Re: Back to slavery

"Those who object to economic planning on the grounds that the problem is solved by price movements can be answered by pointing out that there is planning within our economic system which is quite different from the individual planning mentioned above [individuals who "exercise foresight and choice

Re: new topic

Willie Nelson would be better. He endorsed Kucinich. -Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Devine, James Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 5:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: new topic Now that pen-l has finished talking about Merle Haggard, is it time t

Re: Back to slavery

; and didn't produce enough were see as free-riders who undermined the production of the collective good. OW calls it "opportunism." I don't see this as very useful to capitalist management except as a source of rhetoric. Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] &am

Re: Back to slavery

Coincidently I'm reading Oliver Williamson at the moment, whose existence and inspired lit debunks your assertion. Transactions costs can make hierarchy (the firm) more economical than market exchange. mbs I don't know if this is a joke, but Marx's CAPITAL would give more guidance to managers

Re: Question

State income taxes that piggyback on the Feds have automatic revenue reductions due to the cuts in Federal taxes. (For instance, if they use the Federal definition of taxable income.) Reduction of Federal marginal tax rates makes deductions for state income & property taxes less valuable (i.e., l

Re: Howard Dean and the future of blogger politics - a Dutch perspective

Dean is a lot like Clinton, programmatically speaking. I see little trace of pro-working class politics, with the exception of a reasonable stab at health care and his criticism of the war. He would certainly be a great improvement over Bush, but that's a low standard. mbs -Original Message

Re: Economists barred from court?

In your case I suspect the sandals, headband, and love beads were a dead giveaway. mbs also, the voir dire process also is likely to exclude those who can judge the value of science. When I was being considered for a civil suit jury one time (in a case involving alleged accounting fraud), it s

Re: Fictitious Capital website

I don't think it's an either (wholesale destruction . . . etc.) or (planning). I would say planning is part of fascism. It entails plans by select interests to crush or swallow up competing ones, as well as to milk the working class. I see a fair amount of such planning right here. The Dept of

Re: "Our Sorry Asses Are Ready to Go Home"

I've heard this is becoming a big problem. The overuse of reserves. Presently the U.S. doesn't have enough troops to defend an Empire, and I think it won't easily get there. Bush's main problem becomes pulling back. mbs -Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Beh

Re: Tony Blair and the Marxists

I'd love to see Tony Blair's contributions to Marxism Today (the magazine, not the movement). mbs -Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chris Burford Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 2:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Tony Blair and the Marxists The

Re: Shleifer

too bad bush blew the surplus, so there's no money for transition. I don't see how they can do it now. mbs -Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Barkley Rosser Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 4:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Shleifer Mat,

Re: Texas school finance

There's a huge lit on educational equalization finance. For Texas in particular, I would look at the LBJ School site to see if any papers are posted. There is a new book by Helen Ladd, whom I like a lot, on local public ed, and an older one on equalization: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de

Re: Mark Jones again

I'll miss him. I've always appreciated people with intellectual obsessions, even when I think they are out to lunch -- it reflects deep feeling behind some product of deep thought. We understood and acknowledged each other's differences. Good fences make good neighbors. We got on pretty well. I

RE: Re: Re: WSJ - "Is This A Great Country?"

[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bill Lear Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 5:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:36431] Re: Re: WSJ - "Is This A Great Country?" On Wednesday, April 2, 2003 at 17:19:54 (-0500) Max B. Sawicky writes: >I know the failure rate

RE: Re: WSJ - "Is This A Great Country?"

Your problem is that you want to solve somebody's problem for them. The government's problem I would say is setting the rules to facilitate individual or cooperative efforts, not to try to preclude them, nor to guarantee their success. For those who fail, there would remain social insurance. mbs

RE: Re: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: WSJ - "Is This A GreatCountry?"

ust know that it is very high. And how amny of self-employed or entrepreneurs go into their 60s (or 70s) with enough to retire on decently? jks "Max B. Sawicky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Better, I say, to have a political program that speaks to individuals' abi

RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: WSJ - "Is This A Great Country?"

I know the failure rate is high. But a person could fail more than once and still make it eventually. The real issue I think is mobility. We know there's a lot of immobility. Make it numbingly simple. Suppose you have a 90 percent chance of getting nowhere, and a 10 percent chance of getting som

RE: RE: RE: Re: WSJ - "Is This A Great Country?"

What's the difference? The individual will prefer to be the judge of whether he or she ought to put in the effort required to beat the odds. mbs I don't tell people that they'll never get rich. Rather, I present the evidence and logic that says that only a small percentage of them will.

RE: Re: RE: Re: WSJ - "Is This A Great Country?"

> Better, I say, to have a political program that speaks to individuals' ability to take the most practical route out of wage slavery -- going into business for themselves. I presume you mean collectively, in coops and the like? jks > Facilitating coops is important, but

RE: Re: WSJ - "Is This A Great Country?"

It sounds like a formula for political failure: telling people they can never do much better than they're doing at present. What a bummer. It's doubly problematic, as all here can appreciate, for a worker to hear this from a middle class intellectual type. I suggest that hope will always spring

RE: "Can't bomb Iraq and tell us to talk to Pak, India tells US"

More on Ledeen, poster child for U.S. imperialism, as recounted by Josh Marshall: This is the quote from Michael Ledeen, from this morning's event at AEI, which I noted in the previous post. The quote came in response to a question from the floor, asking how many casualties the American public wo

RE: From the Dept of Misinformation

The pattern here is they float something and it hangs around for about a day before it starts to stink. By that time there is some new rumor. The rumors du jour seems to be the Basra revolt and some totally one-sided battle leaving '300' Iraqi dead. They could be true but based on the record so f

RE: Baghdad Calling -- Where Is Raed?

Salam is back today, tho all he has posted is a note that he's got an internet connection again. mbs Where Is Raed?

RE: Re: Clash of Currencies and the Iraq War

mportantly (for them) capital losses. Further, I think that dollar hegemony is part of the desired full-spectrum Hegemony that Cheney, Rummy, and the boys want to preserve. Under this small-h hegemony US dominance can be paid for with borrowing at cheap rates. Jim -Original Message- Fro

RE: RE: Re: Clash of Currencies and the Iraq War

Krugman argues that the issue is a crock: http://www.wws.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/oildollar.html His argument looks right to me. max I'll plead ignorance and then speculate nonetheless: It seems to me that the "clash of currencies" is pretty one-sided. Though the Eurocrats would _like_ the E

RE: paul craig roberts on Bush

He's a combination of nativist, racist, isolationist, and free marketeer. He's also part of this weird VDARE site. I forget how I happened across it. http://www.vdare.com/ (take it away, Pugliese!) mbs http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20030320-75800736.htm Roberts was a very conservativ

RE: Re: Turkey

It's a pretty important question, IMO. I have no idea who is right. I'd like to know more. The challenge is for partisans of either side to provide third-party corroboration for their claims. Vituperation is not going to persuade anyone here. We understand LP's inclination to support indigenous

RE: Maureen Dowd on "the brazen Bush imperialists"

What Would Genghis Do? It's easy to picture Rummy in a big metal breastplate, a skirt and lace-up gladiator sandals. Rummius Maximus Pompeius. -- My bride... My bride! My bride! I've come to claim my bride, Come tenderly to crush her against my side. Let haste be made! I ca

Fellowship at EPI

THE SEIU / MARCIA McGILL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP In memory of staff economist Marcia McGill, the Service Employees International Union sponsors a one-year fellowship at the Economic Policy Institute. Purpose To provide advanced graduate students with experience in policy-relevant empirical research

RE: Stiglitz on Dubya's tax plan

The 'true' rate is an economic concept, estimated with hairy models, flaky data, and fuzzy math. Depreciation rules in the tax code are among the most complicated elements. Bill Vickrey, if not others, used to say "every rule violates a principle." mbs -Original Message- From: [EMAIL P

RE: Re: Re: Re: [Fwd: solidarity with muslim peoples]

EPI has published on the connection, tho not with a cost-benefit analysis. See also the Baker/Bernstein piece on full employment, why it's worth fighting for on the EPI site. (www.epinet.org) mbs -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael Pere

Next

If it's not too obvious, there is now a huge anti-war movement. Although it pays to be optimistic -- to plan for the possibility of success, which means heading off the invasion -- one should also consider other contingencies. What we do until the shooting starts is plain enough: more of the same

Red Ken & Congrestion Charges

Question to any list-Brits: how's that congestion thing in London going? Interesting that it has taken someone on the extreme left of political acceptability to implement a thoroughly neo-classical economic scheme. The visionary Bill Vickrey wrote about this in I believe the 1950s or 60s. mbs

RE: RE: Re: Mankiw

I thought it was called 'heroic assumptions.' mbs -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Devine, James Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 11:47 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [PEN-L:35143] RE: Re: Mankiw > >Krugman's NYT column today suggests t

RE: RE: Lerner and a split in San Francisco demo

*In one of the articles I saw on-line, David Corn refers to him as "_the_ progressive Jew" (his emphasis). C'mon! Isn't Noam Chomsky Jewish? aren't there lots of progressive Jews out there? Jim Devine It's a little strong but not out to lunch. There are lots of progressives who happen to be Jewi

RE: RE: Lerner and a split in San Francisco demo

hey Jim didja hear the Beatles broke up. mbs I missed something. Why was Michael Lerner banned from the demo? who did it? Jim

Operation Northwoods

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/jointchiefs_010501.html

RE: Krugman contra Greenspan part II

On this score I think G-span is more right than Krugman. Of course in the present context G is helping whatever Bush wants to do, but the same reasoning would apply to a Dem who wanted to build temples of social welfare. We've been past the point of no return before, and returned. Accrual account

RE: RE: RE: RE: FW: Economists' statement opposing the Bush tax cuts

Proposed real non-defense outlay increases in the FY04 budget are 1.2% for discretionary spending and 2.0% for entitlements. That's pretty damn low. Worse than Clinton, even! mbs only if one has power of some sort. The fact is, however, that given the balance of political power the Bush tax cut

RE: RE: RE: FW: Economists' statement opposing the Bush tax cuts

On the substance, I didn't think this letter was so bad. I signed it myself (I've avoided signing previous ones). The content of this is totally lost on the public. A PEN-L petition is not going to change anybody's mind. We got wall-to-wall coverage, and news stories said 'economists don't like B

RE: FW: Economists' statement opposing the Bush tax cuts

Cuz then the signatories would be limited to the members of this list! mbs -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Forstater, Mathew Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 6:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:34704] FW: Economists' statement o

RE: Right forces against the Iraq war...

I started a 'left-right' anti-war web site with libertarians (some from the Cato Inst., which is almost entirely against the war), plus a couple of standard-issue right-wingers (one works for R. Novak, the other is a journalist in Mississippi). It's here, for any interested: http://nowarblog.org T

RE: Nitzan Papers

what's the cite for this? max -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bill Lear Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 10:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:34560] Nitzan Papers I've put the papers of Jonathan Nitzan on my 'puter, so folks can

RE: Re: redistributionist liberals

I thot it was surplus value that was redistributed in the first place. love me, love me, love me, I'm a RD liberal . . . mbs On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 10:21:50AM -0500, Drewk wrote: > Well, thank god someone -- Chris Burford -- got to the point: > > "whether left wing political economy should p

RE: PEN-L equals redistributionist LIBERALS

gee i never thought about it that way before . . . -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 8:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:34374] PEN-L equals redistributionist LIBERALS I look at

RE: RE: Re: RE: Military spending stats?

I got wind of this site this a.m.: http://www.csbaonline.org/ mbs -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Max B. Sawicky Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 5:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:34208] RE: Re: RE: Military spending stats

RE: Re: Re: Historians Against the War

It's here: http://www.ecaar.org At 01:42 PM 01/30/2003 -0800, you wrote: >How about starting an "Economists Against the War" network? > >Sabri

RE: Re: RE: Military spending stats?

accounts have a good history, though the numbers are a bit different: <http://www.bea.gov/bea/dn/nipaweb/TableViewFixed.asp?SelectedTable=46&First Year=2001&LastYear=2002&Freq=Qtr>. Doug Max B. Sawicky wrote: >http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2003/pdf/hist.pdf >

RE: Military spending stats?

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2003/pdf/hist.pdf -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bill Lear Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 5:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:34205] Military spending stats? I'm looking for stats on m

RE: Re: tax theory/policy

career damage control. January 23, 2003 Report: Bush Economist Hubbard to Leave [Hmm, I wonder what the real story is here.]

RE: A question on contract theory

Whither Socialism, by Joe Stiglitz mbs -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sabri Oncu Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 2:34 PM To: PEN-L Subject: [PEN-L:33786] A question on contract theory Friends, Can you direct me to books/papers you may k

Mark Weisbrot in the Post on Venez.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41444-2003Jan11.html

RE: Measuring global inequality

Branko gave a nice seminar at EPI. I commend his work to all. I would say it's a definitive survey of what we know and don't know about world inequality. You should be able to find some on the WB web site. mbs -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Beha

RE: Re: RE: taxing dividends

there's a piece on it in today's NY Times. mbs -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Perelman Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 11:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:33613] Re: RE: taxing dividends Nobody seems to have mentione

RE: Pentagon budget query

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/index.html Look into or download the Historical Tables volume. mb s -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Seth Sandronsky Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 9:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:33601]

RE: Re: Huck Finn ref # 33551

Doyle -- You are criticizing the movie because it's not some other movie you would rather see. The movie is not about two souls from different backgrounds striking a bond in a hostile world. The black gang member is a minor character in the story. In the story, a class movement is precisely what

EPI/IWPR Reception at ASSA

Economic Policy Institute & Institute for Women's Policy Research In conjunction with this year's Allied Social Science Association's annual Conference, attendees are invited to attend a reception hosted jointly by the Economic Policy Institute and the Institute for Women's Policy Research. WHERE

RE: RE: Re: Re: Huck Finn

Right. In this respect, incidentally, the friendship in the film between the Irish and the black seems like a film cliche but is actually true to the history. There was enough mingling for such an alliance to be plausible. At the same time, it isn't overplayed. The black man is not prominent in

RE: RE: Re: The ideological implications of Scorcese's latest film

Peter D. said: " . . . Yes, the divisions within the ranks of the poor (Nativist, Irish, Black, Chinese, etc.) prevented them from successfully uniting against their common enemy. At the moment of insurrection, white violence was turned against blacks rather than against the true source of thei

RE: Re: Huck Finn

http://www.racetraitor.org/huckfinn.html Seeing Gangs got me to reading How the Irish Became White by Noel Ignatiev, which I like a lot. He also edits the "Race Traitor" mag/web site (see above). In the book he proposes that Huck Finn is modeled after slave narratives, which by then had been pub

RE: Re: The ideological implications of Scorcese's latest film

The point about state violence is well-taken. I did gloss over it. It is overwhelming and indiscriminate, as far as ordinary people go. But its use is not limited to protecting the wealthy. It is also to establish order. The mob violence reflects oppression but it has no consciously constructi

RE: Re: Re: The ideological implications of Scorcese's latest film

I saw it tonight. It's an incredible movie. If you haven't seen it, you might want to read this later (if ever). I don't give away much story, but there isn't much to give away. Some of the comments by reviewers and LP's friend reflect disapproval for failure to find the good guy/bad guy fault

RE: Re: Bush Administration On The Poor: Pay More Taxes!

Taxes should be based on ability to pay, aside from the payroll tax, which is a contribution towards insurance benefits. The alternative is taxes NOT based on the ability to pay. Try defending that one. mbs How does one even begin to contrive an argument for progressive taxes without first

RE: Strom Speaks!

More Strom: http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20021205.atc.thurmond.ram This is the one Jon Stewart played the other night.

Strom Speaks!

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/strom1.html

RE: forwarded from Kendall Clark on Lott

Last night Jon Stewart played a blood-curdling clip from a Thurmond 1948 speech, so evidently it's available somewhere. It was a devastating demolition job on Lott. Chances are it will be on his web site before too long: http://www.comedycentral.com/tv_shows/thedailyshowwithjonstewart/ mbs I

RE: Re: ANSWER, NION, United for Peace, & Win Without War Re: sodexho and workers and colleges

At the point where Bush concocts some kind of bs to justify the invasion, some high proportion of the Dems fold and Moveon crumbles. "Let sanctions work" is just an excuse to withhold support for war until the war starts. mbs Win Without War and MoveOn.Org appear to be composed of the same for

RE: Chomsky: A man of "great integrity"?

I checked one item in this post against the text (which is here: http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/articles/7706-distortions.html "The "slaughter" by the Khmer Rouge is a Moss-New York Times creation." The context for the statement is not, as is implied by the extract above, a general denial of mass

RE: crime stats

http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/cvusst.htm -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 3:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:32685] crime stats Hi, Do

RE: Re: Easterbrook's claims

Some smart people -- like Gary Burtless of Brookings -- have been wrong about this too. Jeff Chapman and Jared Bernstein deal with the immigration- poverty thang here: http://www.epinet.org/briefingpapers/bp130.html Immigration has two offsetting effects on poverty rate. A higher proportion of

RE: Re: File identifies the MyGames directory for

I get messages like this every day. Anybody know which virus this is, and is there something I can do about it? Is it something the sender has, or me? max -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-pen-l@;galaxy.csuchico.edu]On Behalf Of Michael Perelman Sent: Sunday, Nov

RE: Re: Could Wellstone still win

Mondale could serve four full Senate terms and still be younger than Strom Thurmond. mbs -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-pen-l@;galaxy.csuchico.edu]On Behalf Of Michael Perelman Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2002 11:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:31595]

RE: RE: "The Late '90s Never Happened"

An unemployment rate of 3.9 percent happened, with or without hindsight. Corporate earnings misstatements do not erase that fact. It makes sense that at some prior period, the process leading up to a state of overproduction or excess capacity would have generated tight labor markets and rising wag

RE: RE: New Demo. Economic Plan

Excuse me but 'Dick' did not address EPI. He gave a speech after being introduced by EPI president Larry Mishel. It was not an EPI event. EPI people were among the audience. I wasn't there. I'm not clear on exactly who organized it, but it wasn't EPI. Leads on a spiritual plane. That's the

RE: Re: campus anti-war movements

FWIW I happen to agree that the draft was not the central factor. Pure self-interest would not necessarily dictate spending time in anti-war activism, since the relationship between one's individual contribution and one's chances of getting drafted were small. As a personal observation, there wa

RE: Kissinger speaks out

C. Hitchens is now to the right of the guy he takes for a war criminal. mbs "I am viscerally opposed to a prolonged occupation of a Muslim country at the heart of the Muslim world by Western nations who proclaim the right to re-educate that country," said the former secetary of state, Henry A.

Oil Be Seeing You

http://www.sundayherald.com/print28224 http://www.rice.edu/projects/baker/Pubs/workingpapers/cfrbipp_energy/energyc fr.pdf

RE: RE: PK's the man with the plan

http://www.brook.edu/dybdocroot/comm/events/20021002.pdf see for yourself. max -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brown, Martin - ARP (NIH/NCI) Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 11:49 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [PEN-L:30893] RE: PK'

RE: oilism redux

It couldn't be more obvious that the proposed Bush reorientation of U.S. grand strategy is centered on oil, albeit with lots of accompanying political schemes. But energy crisis is a separate question. Another point is that there does seem to be some disagreement among elites over this policy, a

Finale on the Great Uranium Caper

http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/09/29/turkey.uranium/index.html In light of the latest news, Governor Jeb Bush announced that all residents could now come out from under their beds. mbs

RE: RE: Max's Guide for the Perplexed

Thanx. That pic was doctored, by the way. I didn't realize it when I posted it. mbs Max's site is great. I love the picture of Our Noble President watching a child read a book. JD

RE: Heroin supplies increase

I'd appreciate a link(s) for this, if available. thanks, max -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chris Burford Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 4:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:30574] Heroin supplies increase

RE: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: american solipsism redu x

I thought this was it. mbs is there an on-line discussion group that specializes in humor? is it called borscht-belt-l? Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine

RE: [A-List] The Left Book Club by the A-List

I'm game. Maybe somebody will start a pool on how long it takes for me to get thrown out, though that will not be my intention. mbs There are no formal membership restrictions, except that those indulging in sectarianism, flaming, baiting or apologising for imperialism will be ejected. So fa

Unconditional Anti-Imperialism

Louis mentioned a week or two ago that Marx unconditionally supported all manner of anti-colonial revolts, no matter how primitive the nature of the resistance. If somebody could throw me a few cites where his arguments on this point are explicaated, I'd appreciate it. max

RE: autism and autistic economics

"Shit happens"? -- i.e., shocks, kinks, discontinuities [sounds like one of my dates] mbs Recently, I was trying to convince my son, who has Asperger's Syndrome (borderline autism), that nothing can ever be perfect. This goes against his perfectionism, a common symptom of AS, which encourages

RE: double dip

Exactly $78,542,371,004.37, give or take forty billion. mbs How much effect will the state and local budget cutbacks have on aggregate demand? Doug, Max??? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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