[PEN-L:10314] Plans of Mice and Men

of origins -- namely creating something out of nothing, or something new out of something completely different? If so, the deity being summoned here to solve the Economic Problem is democracy. Infideliously yours, MBS ========== Max B. Sawicky Econo

[PEN-L:10315] Re: planning and democracy

From: BAIMAN [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:10309] Re: planning and democracy On Tue, 20 May 1997, Max B. Sawicky wrote: What is the basis for the allotments? "Democracy." If nobody owns capital, why not permit consumer sovereignty and use taxes and

[PEN-L:10282] Re: planning and democracy

any solution to the allocation problem, according to either orthodox or alternative definitions. If the solution to this problem is what some sketchily-described (here, at least) democratic process disgorges, then the problem is solved by definition. MBS ============

[PEN-L:10293] The Plan Boss, the Plan

l, rather than analytical. Cheers, MBS =========== Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1660 L Street, NW 202-775-8810 (voice) Ste. 1200 202-775-0819 (fax)Washington, DC 20036 Opinions above do not necessaril

[PEN-L:10263] Re: planning and democracy

From: "William S. Lear" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:10254] Re: planning and democracy On Tue, May 20, 1997 at 14:52:05 (PST) Max B. Sawicky writes: Democratically-elected planners can connive to concoct a plan. . . . This is logic of a most curious sort. I

[PEN-L:10266] Re: budgetary matters

ons (more old people, not more kids) and sagging labor productivity growth is held to require the dismantling of social insurance systems, a fundamental pillar of the neo-liberal agenda. Cheers, MBS =============== Max B. SawickyEconomic Pol

[PEN-L:10272] Re: Inefficiencies of planning? ;)

economy. MBS === Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1660 L Street, NW 202-775-8810 (voice) Ste. 1200 202-775-0819 (fax)Washington, DC 20036 Opinions above do not necessarily reflect the views

[PEN-L:10249] Re: War and Primitive Accumulation

(see Dean Baker's report on generational accounting from EPI), but it doesn't seem very well tuned to the negative vibrations in Marx. MBS =============== Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1660 L Street, NW 202-775-8810 (voic

[PEN-L:10250] Re: planning and democracy

self-interest because of some utterly new cultural context is to assume away that aspect of human behavior that makes planning difficult. Cheers, MBS =============== Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1660 L Street, NW 202

[PEN-L:10194] Re: The EU: against wishful thinking

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Walker) Subject: [PEN-L:10191] Re: The EU: against wishful thinking at least, the aggression has been of a singularly flaccid variety. If a strong movement of working class resistance to neo-liberalism were to emerge, neo-liberalism would flee

[PEN-L:10178] Re: locality, loyalty, misc. comments

ing." To try to simplify this, if enterprise A thinks their output should trade at a 2-for-1 ratio with the output of enterprise B, how is this resolved under "democratic central planning"? mystified, MBS =========== Max B. SawickyEc

[PEN-L:10133] Re: locality -- loyalty?

be in our self-interest, since we would weaken our claims of objectivity. Less would we do it for the WT, since that would eliminate our ideological uniqueness. Those two things may seem contradictory, but they aren't. Cheers, MBS =========== Max

[PEN-L:10131] Re: EU, globalization and all that

lternative of a European version of NAFTA. MBS =========== Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1660 L Street, NW 202-775-8810 (voice) Ste. 1200 202-775-0819 (fax)Washington, DC 20036 Opinion

[PEN-L:10130] Re: The EU: against wishful thinking

provide a little more info so I can find this paper? Thanks, Max === Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1660 L Street, NW 202-775-8810 (voice) Ste. 1200 202-775-0819 (fax)Washington, DC 20036

[PEN-L:10128] Re: Kasparov's defeat

From: "William S. Lear" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:10111] Re: Kasparov's defeat How graciously you avoid argument. Thank you for your considerable patience. The last thing I can be accused of on this list is avoiding argument. It is true that patience is sometimes in

[PEN-L:10087] Re: The discussion continues...

ject. Regards, MBS =========== Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1660 L Street, NW 202-775-8810 (voice) Ste. 1200 202-775-0819 (fax)Washington, DC 20036 Opinions above do not necessarily reflect the views of anyone associat

[PEN-L:10102] Re: central planning {was: Kasparov's defeat]

stic to me, or at least molecular. Local officials could be expected to reflect narrow interests, particularly of industries which dominate their jurisdictions. Cheers, MBS =========== Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:10103] Re: Kasparov's defeat

ncy, while political regulation of industry embodies a better mix of public interest and private capacity to allocate resources. Cheers, MBS =========== Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1660 L Street, NW 202-775-8

[PEN-L:10107] Re: Kasparov's defeat

do I see any It's a pipe dream, in terms of its economic feasibility and its naivete about the effectiveness and social value of democratic forms within production enterprises. MBS === Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROT

[PEN-L:10098] Re: Kasparov's defeat

would afford them more avenues for the exercise of this self-interest (e.g., lobbying, coalition building, strategic voting, log-rolling, political bribery, etc.), and no incentive for greater truth-telling. MBS =============== Max B. SawickyEc

[PEN-L:10094] EPI Issue Brief on Clinton-GOP Budget Deal

owners who would like to make the binary file available please contact me by e-mail. =========== Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1660 L Street, NW 202-775-8810 (voice) Ste. 1200 202-775-0819 (fax)Wash

[PEN-L:10061] Re: European unification (Max)

social-democratic Europe. MBS =============== Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1660 L Street, NW 202-775-8810 (voice) Ste. 1200 202-775-0819 (fax)Washington, DC 20036 Opinions above do not necessarily reflect

[PEN-L:10031] Re: Europe

in the face of taxation, which means financial assets and investment goods. European unification carries Europe one step closer to more effective capital taxation, one reason to reject unreasoning hostility towards it. MBS == Max B. Sawicky

[PEN-L:10018] Re: Europe

U.S. than in Europe. I've doing some work on EU tax policy, if anyone is interested. MBS ========== Max B. Sawicky Economic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suite 1200 202-775-8810 (voice) 1660 L Street, NW 202-775-0819 (fax) Wash

[PEN-L:9983] Re: Europe

olicies implied by unification are more bad than good (e.g., forcing rapid reduction of public debt and deficits), but that is not preordained in the future. MBS =============== Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:9753] Re: ALERT! Hse. Committee to Vote on Internet Priva

ious, MBS =========== Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1660 L Street, NW 202-775-8810 (voice) Ste. 1200 202-775-0819 (fax)Washington, DC 20036 Opinions above do not necessarily reflect the views of anyone associated with th

[PEN-L:9617] Re: civil society

versity of Staff and Board The diversity of organizations' staffs and boards will be considered, both with respect to race and gender and to connections to low-income constituencies through their boards or other means. =========== Max B. SawickyEc

[PEN-L:9629] Requiem for T. Blair?

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[PEN-L:9601] Re: civil society

nomics and social policy. MBS =============== Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1660 L Street, NW 202-775-8810 (voice) Ste. 1200 202-775-0819 (fax)Washington, DC 20036 Opinions above do not necessarily reflect the views of anyone assoc

[PEN-L:9542] Re: more linguistic puzzles

between the AFL-CIO and anti- anti-communist veterans of the New Left who were active in opposing U.S. involvement in Vietnam. The key manifestation of this coming together was the anti-NAFTA coalition. MBS === Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy

[PEN-L:9550] Re: more linguistic puzzles

of the rest of the party and repeatedly pronounced dead, particularly on this list. A minimum criticism of the social liberals is their choice of emphasis, whereas a more thorough-going criticism might take issue with their treatment of social issues themselves. MBS ===

[PEN-L:9527] Re: neo-liberalism question

capitalism (or to call it 'wacky'), but I do think the usefulness of the excerise is limited. But then, maybe my definition stems from neoliberalism. In any case, I'm proud of myself for being concise and for not being John Roemer. MBS === Max B. Sawicky

[PEN-L:9494] Re: Measurement of inequality

, the person to contact is Timothy Smeeding at Dept of Econ, Syracuse Univ. MBS === Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1660 L Street, NW 202-775-8810 (voice) Ste. 1200 202-775-0819 (fax)Washington, DC

[PEN-L:9480] Re: references on local anti-gentrification pol

and Lincoln Land Institute. MBS === Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1660 L Street, NW 202-775-8810 (voice) Ste. 1200 202-775-0819 (fax)Washington, DC 20036 Opinions above do not necessarily

[PEN-L:9453] Cigarette Taxes

is, of course, a different matter. MBS === Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1660 L Street, NW 202-775-8810 (voice) Ste. 1200 202-775-0819 (fax)Washington, DC 20036 Opinions above do not necessarily

[PEN-L:9421] Re: Max and the Social Democrats

or less what we mean when we say progressive social change? Is it more or less our present lives with a few of the discomforts and dangers eliminated? Or is it something completely different? Yes on one, no on two, yes and no on three. MBS === Max B

[PEN-L:9388] Re: socio-economics?

particular vision of economics, though I would be happy to be educated on this score. He looks mostly like an entrepreneur trying to sell a new ideological product, which as you say is basically a new strain of centrism/conservatism. MBS =========== Max

[PEN-L:9401] Re: The discussion about social democracy

Beset, if not besotted, MBS =============== Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1660 L Street, NW 202-775-8810 (voice) Ste. 1200 202-775-0819 (fax)Washington, DC 20036 Opinions above do not necessarily reflect the views of anyone associated with the Economic Policy Institute. ===

[PEN-L:9383] Re: help on readings on socio-economics?

nce on theory which integrates sociology and economics. MBS =============== Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1660 L Street, NW 202-775-8810 (voice) Ste. 1200 202-775-0819 (fax)Washington, DC 20036 Opinions ab

[PEN-L:9361] Requiem Ad Nauseum

insofar as people at all levels get into the game and keep their eye on the ball. MBS == Max B. Sawicky Economic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suite 1200 202-775-8810 (voice) 1660 L Street, NW 202-775-0819 (fax) Washington, DC 20036 Opinions here do not necessarily represent the views of anyone associated with the Economic Policy Institute. ===

[PEN-L:9340] Re: requiem for social democracy

or the status quo, we merely have to point to the depredations of for-profit HMO's. And since when was Clinton a social democrat? Incrementally yours, MBS === Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1660 L

[PEN-L:9346] Re: more requiem

I'm in the ADA. MBS =========== Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1660 L Street, NW 202-775-8810 (voice) Ste. 1200 202-775-0819 (fax)Washington, DC 20036 Opinions above do not necessarily reflect the views

[PEN-L:9350] Re: more requiem

. Bourgeois politicians have a much lower threshold of response than that -- being threatened with loss of position is enough to make them react. MBS === Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1660 L Street, NW 202-775

[PEN-L:9342] Re: National GDP Projections for 2010

ic to both, unless they thought all reform initiatives were intrinsically bankrupt and revolution was the only solution to air pollution. MBS =========== Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1660 L Street, NW 202-775-8

[PEN-L:9329] Re: requiem for social democracy

, so I don't see how you can imagine a movement which leaders or people in authority did not seek to exploit for some narrow purpose. The real question is how the process can work to yield constructive reform. Cheers, MBS =========== Max B. Sawicky

[PEN-L:9308] Re: Britain's New Labour

l democrat is to be Tony Blair, does that mean that to be a Marxist is to be Joe Stalin? I hope not. I don't think so. MBS ========== Max B. Sawicky Economic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suite 1200 202-775-8810 (voice) 1660 L Street,

[PEN-L:9307] Re: National GDP Projections for 2010

O ten-year numbers supplemented by one (1) projected data point. I can't tell you about non-US projections since I'm a rotten nationalist, but as you could imagine the OECD, World Bank, IMF, or EU would be logical places to consult. MBS ========== Max

[PEN-L:9152] Re: comparative unemployment rates

are notably smaller but the US still has lower unemployment. MBS =========== Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1660 L Street, NW 202-775-8810 (voice) Ste. 1200 202-775-0819 (fax)Washington, DC 20036 ===

[PEN-L:9177] Re: Slovenia

From: "Rosser Jr, John Barkley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:9168] Re: Slovenia Actually, Louis P., the market socialism of the Slovenian type is probably the kind of socialism that would have the best chance . . . As Slovenia goes, so goes Macedonia. Sorry. I

[PEN-L:9153] Re: customers or suckers?

error might split the Fourth International. MBS === Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1660 L Street, NW 202-775-8810 (voice) Ste. 1200 202-775-0819 (fax)Washington, DC 20036 Opinions above do

[PEN-L:9148] Re: customers or suckers?

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Walker) Subject: [PEN-L:9141] Re: customers or suckers? Max wrote, I always thought of education as much more impersonal than all this, as well as more substantive. Maybe I'm the misanthropic exception, but I don't think so (in this context,

[PEN-L:9140] Re: customers or suckers?

nce again, I smell those beans simmering on the stove . . . I think what all this really shows is that it's a slow day on PEN-L. MBS =========== Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1660 L Street, NW 202-775-8810

[PEN-L:9128] Re: four minor points

mers, what are they? Suckers? (It should be clear that being a customer does not imply an affinity for free-riding, nor for mainstream economics courses and the values they may inculcate.) Militant Consumer =========== Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Instit

[PEN-L:9038] Re: A question on taxes

Secy of Treasury Brady. 2. Does someone have the address, telephone number, e-mail and Web site for the Citizens for Tax Justice in D.C.? Please send it to me! CTJ is at www.ctj.org Cheers, MBS ======= Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Inst

[PEN-L:9018] Re: EPI Issue Brief, PDF Format (31K)

of availability sans attachment. I've suggested the files be accessible from our web site and will report back if and when this comes to fruition. Thanks for the indulgence of all on the list(s) to which I posted the attachment. MBS === Max B. Sawicky

[PEN-L:8993] EPI Issue Brief, PDF Format (31K)

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[PEN-L:8992] EPI Issue Brief, PDF Format (31K)

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[PEN-L:8976] Re: Beyond Dependency

=== Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1660 L Street, NW 202-775-8810 (voice) Ste. 1200 202-775-0819 (fax)Washington, DC 20036 Opinions above do not necessarily reflect the views of anyone associated

[PEN-L:8913] Re:Marilyn Waring

ter of our Democratic party and as such be a relatively positive voice in the US context. I'd rather see her on the tube than Maggie T, though I probably wouldn't go out of my way to watch either. MBS =========== Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Instit

[PEN-L:8909] New EPI Report on Work/Welfare

available on our web site, EPINET.ORG. MBS =========== Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1660 L Street, NW 202-775-8810 (voice) Ste. 1200 202-775-0819 (fax)Washington, DC 20036 ===

[PEN-L:8799] Re: Balanced Budget Amendment Dead for Now

hormones help. maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm out of 'em. Hope you aren't. Max

[PEN-L:8798] Re: accounting of gov. payrolls?

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:8791] accounting of gov. payrolls? I'm teaching intro macro, using Schiller's THE MACROECONOMY TODAY. Nowhere that I can see does it mention the national accounting categorization of government payroll expenditures: wages and salaries

[PEN-L:8797] Later

To whom it may concern, if anyone: I'm leaving the hemisphere for eleven days. Catch up with you all when I get back. Try to keep things from falling apart while I'm gone, O.K.? MBS

[PEN-L:8776] Balanced Budget Amendment Dead for Now

). Thanks to all who signed the petition. Now if we can just get rid of enough idiots in Congress, always a challenge, we won't have to do this again in two years. MBS === Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1660

[PEN-L:8738] Re: Pension ownership

From: BAIMAN [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:8735] Re: Pension ownership As far as I know the resident Radical Economist expert on this subject (at least for the U.S. - though I believe she's also looked at this in other countries) is Theressa Carlducci (or something

[PEN-L:8733] Re: market socialism, planned socialism, ut

the "left-right" (sic) coalition in Congress claiming to attack corporate welfare. MBS =========== Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1660 L Street, NW 202-775-8810 (voice) Ste. 1200 202-775-0819 (fa

[PEN-L:8726] Re: progressive taxation

in the number of persons covered. By some kind of metric one might be able to compare progressivity in two such different periods, but I don't think it can mean much for the political feasibility of improving progressivity today. MBS === Max B. Sawicky

[PEN-L:8728] Re: market socialism, planned socialism, ut

From: Jim Westrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:8727] Re: market socialism, planned socialism, ut At 12:05 PM 2/19/97 -0800, Robin Hahnel wrote: I'd start, of course, with not spending two thirds of my federal taxes on the military and debt service. This is a minor

[PEN-L:8725] Re: market socialism, planned socialism

paragraph. Cheers, MBS =============== Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1660 L Street, NW 202-775-8810 (voice) Ste. 1200 202-775-0819 (fax)Washington, DC 20036 Opinions above do not necessarily reflect the v

[PEN-L:8662] Re: market socialism, planned socialism

Please excuse my ignorance, but I don't follow, "follow the bananas" or "J. Fred Max." I'd appreciate some enlightenment on these burning questions. I don't think ignorance is at issue, just a taste for my jokes and a certain amount of aging. My point was that if human history is two

[PEN-L:8644] Re: market socialism, planned socialism

Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:8639] Re: market socialism, planned socialism And what's your time horizon for "new-fangled"? Since the death of Christ? .. . . Even "since the death of Christ" is only 2000 years -- of 2 million years of human beings. This is

[PEN-L:8643] Re: market socialism, planned socialism

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Walker) Subject: [PEN-L:8637] Re: market socialism, planned socialism Tom: I was a little snappier than I meant to be in my last reply. Sorry. . . . than one in twenty would see commodity production as odd. Probably no more than one in twenty

[PEN-L:8636] Re: market socialism, planned socialism

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Walker) Subject: [PEN-L:8633] Re: market socialism, planned socialism Max B. Sawicky wrote: ... If we all began the quest for income from the same starting point . . . Why is it that after reading just a few classics of sociology

[PEN-L:8635] Re: market socialism, planned socialism, ut

From: "William S. Lear" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:8634] Re: market socialism, planned socialism, ut On Sat, February 15, 1997 at 18:48:27 (PST) Max B. Sawicky writes: The idea was that the public is inclined to respond to fewer of the factors

[PEN-L:8632] Re: market socialism, planned socialism, ut

From: "William S. Lear" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:8630] Re: market socialism, planned socialism, ut On Sat, February 15, 1997 at 13:44:41 (PST) Max B. Sawicky writes: [...] A different question is how much equality is desired by the public. If we

[PEN-L:8614] Famous for 15 Minutes

List'ers in the New York area are referred to my op-ed in Newsday this coming Sunday (2/16). All comments will be welcome. The subject is the Federal budget and deficit reduction. MBS === Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL

[PEN-L:8575] Re: wrongful dismissals

From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:8568] wrongful dismissals The point of the connection with the wrongful dismissal suits and the hiring of welfare recipients was that the firms wanted to dump some existing workers for no cause, so that they could chip

[PEN-L:8558] Re: California Dreaming and Welfare Reform

appeared to be a threat. To the best of my knowledge, this is something of a departure for the mainstream Keynesians. MBS === Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1660 L Street, NW 202-775-8810 (voice) Ste

[PEN-L:8492] Re: Bowie bonds

On 6 Feb 97 at 14:34, Doug Henwood wrote: How about that David Bowie issuing $55 million in 10-year, 7.9% bonds on his future record sales? That's only about 130 basis points over comparable Treasuries. But if Kazakhstan - whose banking sector is collapsing into the state's arms, and which

[PEN-L:8469] Re: Is this a consensus?

prediction and paste it on your monitor, if it doesn't come true, send me the paper and I'll eat it. That seems to be a pretty bold prediction. Please elaborate. MBS =========== Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1660 L

[PEN-L:8470] Re: Is this a consensus?

prediction and paste it on your monitor, if it doesn't come true, send me the paper and I'll eat it. That's seems like a pretty bold prediction. What makes you say it? MBS =========== Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:8412] Re: President's Economic Plan (U.S)

et more details shortly. MBS =============== Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1660 L Street, NW 202-775-8810 (voice) Ste. 1200 202-775-0819 (fax)Washington, DC 20036 Opinions above do not necessari

[PEN-L:8410] Re: BalBudget Ad

On 30 Jan 97 at 10:06, Doug Henwood wrote: At 9:26 AM 1/30/97, Max B. Sawicky wrote: In my perception of the political/media/public treatment of UE, when UE breaches 7.0 it's a signal that there's a problem. Short of that, we're in the de factor NAIRU zone, under the conventional wisdom

[PEN-L:8411] BB Petition: Keep 'Em Coming

Colleagues, Thank you to all those who signed the petition against the Balanced Budget Amendment. We now have over 1000 signatures. We just had a press conference at which the following persons spoke: James Tobin, Robert Eisner, Alan Sinai, Jeff Faux, Senators Byrd, Moynihan, Lautenberg,

[PEN-L:8398] Re: BalBudget Ad

rsued is another matter, though I have a few lines of communication to the AFL-CIO which I can tap on that score. MBS =============== Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1660 L Street, NW 202-775-8810 (voice) Ste. 1200 202-775

[PEN-L:8389] Re: modest proposal

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug Henwood) At 1:48 PM 1/29/97, Max B. Sawicky wrote: On the last point, a petition almost requires a news "hook" to attract attention. If we were in deep recession such a petition would be a more likely activity. Meaning that EPI - or t

[PEN-L:8375] Economists' Petition Against Balanced Budget Amendment: Last Ca

. Best way is to fax it to 202-331-5545. Second best way is to e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT to me, thank you very much). Chances of the amendment being defeated remain promising, though the vote will undoubtedly be close. Max Sawicky === Max B

[PEN-L:8382] Re: BalBudget Ad

nt petition. Thanks for your note. MBS =========== Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1660 L Street, NW 202-775-8810 (voice) Ste. 1200 202-775-0819 (fax)Washington, DC 20036 Opinions above do not necessarily reflect the view

[PEN-L:8391] Re: BalBudget Ad

From: Robert Cherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:8387] Re: BalBudget Ad 1. Is it polyanish to believe that a real full employment statement that says it is reasonable to accept some modest inflationary increase if it means jobs and raises for working people could be

[PEN-L:8323] Re: market socialism, planned socialism, utopian so

From: "Rosser Jr, John Barkley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Questions have been raised in various posts about the class nature of market and planned socialism and whether either or neither of these is "utopian" in any sense. . . . 3) Market socialism in its worker-managed form

[PEN-L:8301] Re: M-I: Michael Leibowitz on Market Socialism

to have around. MBS === Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1660 L Street, NW 202-775-8810 (voice) Ste. 1200 202-775-0819 (fax)Washington, DC 20036 Opinions above do not necessarily reflect

[PEN-L:8304] Re: M-I: Michael Leibowitz on Market Socialism

have become at least possible and all of the silly Hayekian ideas would . . . Lots of would being chopped here. With Civility, MBS =========== Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1660 L Street, NW 202-775-8810 (voice

[PEN-L:8260] Economists Oppose the Balanced Budget Amendment

. Solow, M.I.T. James Tobin, Yale University === Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1660 L Street, NW 202-775-8810 (voice) Ste. 1200 202-775-0819 (fax)Washington, DC 20036 Opinions above do

[PEN-L:8260] Economists Oppose the Balanced Budget Amendment

. Solow, M.I.T. James Tobin, Yale University === Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1660 L Street, NW 202-775-8810 (voice) Ste. 1200 202-775-0819 (fax)Washington, DC 20036 Opinions above do

[PEN-L:8182] Re:Re: an extremely modest proposal

This is moving into a reform vs. revolution argument which will not be resolved, but a few secondary points: Father Devine said, I've never believed that EVERYTHING that the right says is wrong, so that's no argument. (To say that something is wrong because a rightist says so is analogous

[PEN-L:8158] Re: a extremely modest proposal

really telescoping (backwards) the view of US liberalism. From the wide angle, MBS === Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1660 L Street, NW 202-775-8810 (voice) Ste. 1200 202-775-0819 (fax)Wash

[PEN-L:8145] Re: Fiscal deficits and interest rates

my own "nouveau-neo-classical" school of thought. MBS =========== Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1660 L Street, NW 202-775-8810 (voice) Ste. 1200 202-775-0819 (fax)Washington, DC 20036 O

[PEN-L:8142] Re: SS Reform

in the past two years by the American Enterprise Institute. It stuck in my mind because as I recall the general message was that there is no big problem with venture capital in the U.S. economy. MBS === Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute

[PEN-L:8057] Juggling Big Brother's Books

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[PEN-L:8060] Re: North Korean apology re: sub

in your travels. Bye, MBS === Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1660 L Street, NW 202-775-8810 (voice) Ste. 1200 202-775-0819 (fax)Washington, DC 20036 Opinions above do not necessarily

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