[PEN-L:4570] RE: Re: RE: Protest against the Bombing

1999-03-26 Thread Max Sawicky
> . . . > Your argument is that bombing (the military action of choice) the Serb war > machine (assuming that is the target) is preferable to inaction in the face of genocide, even if those doing the bombing have other than humanitarian motives, those who are targeted by the Serbs include forces e

[PEN-L:4569] RE: Re: RE: Protest against the Bombing

1999-03-26 Thread Max Sawicky
> > Max, for someone who normally has a great deal of acuity about the BS that is peddled by the US administration in support of domestic economic policies, I wonder why you accept so uncritically such crap when it applies in another part of the world where you have no direct knowledge.> > What

[PEN-L:4549] RE: Protest against the Bombing

1999-03-25 Thread Max Sawicky
> > Barkely Rosser on this provided an excellent background information which > clearly indicates that the "ethnic claims" laid down by the KLA are rather > bogus. . . . I too appreciated Barkley's travelogue, as well as the query that prompted it. But from what I could see, he reflected a rea

[PEN-L:4422] Work Time

1999-03-18 Thread Max Sawicky
Hey Walker, Finally read your piece. If it is true that, in some given instances, a shorter work-week can increase output per week, which is plausible enough, how do you address the issue of a new regime where one dude has to work four days and another five for the same pay? Another question, w

[PEN-L:4404] RE: econometrics text

1999-03-17 Thread Max Sawicky
Peter Kennedy. Most lucid thing on metrics I've ever seen. mbs > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Peter Dorman > Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 1999 5:53 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PEN-L:4403] econometrics text > > > I will

[PEN-L:4365] RE: Re: Re: Social Security issue on Coalition web site

1999-03-16 Thread Max Sawicky
> > Several people have told me this is the AFL-CIO's line too - you can't say there's no crisis or people won't believe you. Talk about the citational nature of truth, eh? I wonder, though, if this isn't just a bit of convenient cowardice that excuses the AFL-CIO and Nader from criticizing Clint

[PEN-L:4363] RE: Re: RE: Re: Who was Red Oskar?

1999-03-16 Thread Max Sawicky
> > Max, could you explain why US Medicare isn't in > crisis? what are the easy > solutions you propose to the relatively minor problems you see? The problem with Medicare is the current growth trend in spending. This problem is common to private health care costs as well, though in the past fe

[PEN-L:4330] RE: Re: Who was Red Oskar?

1999-03-15 Thread Max Sawicky
> Does "Red" mean left keynesian now? Better terminology than 'red' might be precepts which are not subject to dispute or which are ruled 'out of order' in political debate and media- sponsored presentations, either because they are classified as intellectually bankrupt or politically untenable.

[PEN-L:4215] RE: El Salvador

1999-03-08 Thread Max Sawicky
Try AFL and union web sites. mbs > Hi All, > > Can somebody point me in the direction of information on U.S. corporations in El Salvador, including workers' wages, companies' profits, etc.?>

[PEN-L:4167] RE: Re: Illuminaughtiness

1999-03-05 Thread Max Sawicky
> > More, recently, during the Viet Nam war, eight > disparate souls were charged with conspiracy . . . But the late Abbie Hoffman, one of those charged, later said "we were guilty as hell." mbs

[PEN-L:4144] RE: Re: Conspiracy!

1999-03-04 Thread Max Sawicky
> > Not saying I agree with Stevenson, just that I found it interesting. If she's wrong, she's wrong in an interesting way.If true, how is the conspiracy outlined by Stevenson destructive of a left analysis? If true, I'm sure these MIA's could tell a lot about what went on in Vietnam which is what

[PEN-L:4106] RE: Re: RE: LaRouche on Soros

1999-03-03 Thread Max Sawicky
> > Max, you should take any facts for granted from any source. ?? You mean 'not', I take it. > I can sympathsize with you objection to La Rouche's interpretation of facts, but you will have to disprove his facts before you can convincing reject them.> If I had to check all facts in what I rea

[PEN-L:4099] RE: LaRouche on Soros

1999-03-03 Thread Max Sawicky
> > I was thinking as I started reading this, "Ok, so > Executive Intelligence > Review is a LaRouche publication. That doesn't mean > the info is bad." Yes it does. I wouldn't take any fact for granted if it came from that source. mbs

[PEN-L:4082] Toppling the Unbalanced Budget

1999-03-03 Thread Max Sawicky
Regarding the petition I've been helping to circulate, any self-respecting Keynesian/liberal/progressive/whatever economist who hasn't signed, the train is gathering steam to leave the station. You can e-mail your endorsement to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't forget your title and affiliation (for ide

[PEN-L:4059] RE: Re: practical question

1999-03-02 Thread Max Sawicky
There's a bunch of used book stores that deal over the web with searchable catalogs. If you don't find any by searching with Yahoo or something, I can give you some URL's tomorrow. Max > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Perelm

[PEN-L:4041] State of the Left

1999-03-02 Thread Max Sawicky
Excerpt from: http://www.progressive.org/conniff9903.htm The Republicans prodded Jackson about using the government surplus to pay down the debt--wouldn't he rather spend the money? Jackson stuck by the President's ultraconservative economic program: "Reducing the debt obviously gives us more s

[PEN-L:3956] RE: getting out of hand

1999-02-28 Thread Max Sawicky
> Max Sawicky wrote: > > >Deficit/debt hawks like to discount the probability of > >surpluses with assorted canards[...] > > Such canards as: over the last 130 years, there's only one historical > instance of U.S. running substantial surpluses (defined as >1% of

[PEN-L:3949] RE: Re: Say it ain't so, Max

1999-02-28 Thread Max Sawicky
Something's screwy with my e-mail so if my responses are slow in coming I plead victimization by unseen forces. > >I rely on Max for such information. Could he be wrong? Impossible... Actually I've been meaning to post an update to my response, based on the CBO stuff Doug has described below.

[PEN-L:3911] RE: Re: Re: Re: The Vietnam War Era and the Sixties

1999-02-26 Thread Max Sawicky
> Sam, your prior list and this one is very good. > I would add many books on the social movements of the > 60's, some below deal > with Vietnam more than others; e.g., Ah, memory lane. I'd suggest The New Left Reader, ed Carl Oglesby. A good anthology/sampling of diverse currents of thought

[PEN-L:3900] RE: Re: death penalty for racist beast

1999-02-26 Thread Max Sawicky
> I absolutely agree with Jim D. in what he says below. > I would also add > that I suspect that King's father and lawyer might be > telling the truth in > saying that he was not particularly racist before > going to prison. > > > is there anyone else out there who's feeling queasy > because (1) i

[PEN-L:3793] RE: Re: Alabama -- fwd article

1999-02-23 Thread Max Sawicky
> > o.k., so the subject BEGS for one bad joke -- Someone call me? The upshot is that farmers will not be permitted to cultivate zucchini or cucumbers. mbs > >>> Yes, if you live in Alabama, buying a vibrator is now illegal.

[PEN-L:3749] RE: A Tainted Max?

1999-02-23 Thread Max Sawicky
> Along with the disclosure requirements, could we not > have an energetic > discussion about just what kind of organizations the > foundations are. I > think a wider exposure of the Heritage Foundation > would do some good. I can't imagine a bigger yawn than revelations about where Heritage

[PEN-L:3744] RE: Postmodernist Marxism

1999-02-23 Thread Max Sawicky
> Burbach and Kargalitsky's book "Globalization and Its > Discontents: The Rise of Postmodern Socialisms" is very much in line with > books by William Greider and Richard Barnet that view the spread of > multinational corporations as an unmitigated evil, particularly in > the maquiladora zone. Do

[PEN-L:3738] RE: Re: Re: Peter Dorman's suggestion

1999-02-23 Thread Max Sawicky
> Jim wrote: > > > > It seems to me that any author who does not disclose > the funding of the research that went into an article should not have that article published in any respectable journal. > > > We were not talking about respectable journals, but > those of the economics profession. What

[PEN-L:3665] FW: Fellowship at EPI

1999-02-22 Thread Max Sawicky
his or her university. Affirmative Action People of color are strongly encouraged to apply. Contact Please direct all e-mail correspondence to Max Sawicky at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or fax inquiries and applications to (202) 775-0819.

[PEN-L:3661] RE: Re: Re: Don't just offer facts

1999-02-22 Thread Max Sawicky
> What bothers me about the pomo/postruc crowd (as with the > crit theory crowd before them) is that they don't seem to care whether > their speculations are true. (Many deny the notion of empirical > truth-tests on principle.) > Simply expressing oneself cleverly appears to be the > basis for aca

[PEN-L:3636] RE: Race as a "construct"

1999-02-21 Thread Max Sawicky
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Louis Proyect > Sent: Sunday, February 21, 1999 12:11 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PEN-L:3627] Race as a "construct" > > > >If race isn't a (social) construct, what is it? Biological? > > >

[PEN-L:3635] Announcement: Economic Reporting Review

1999-02-21 Thread Max Sawicky
Of interest to economists and others, see below. mbs -- Does the New York Times Get It Right? How About the Washington Post? When it comes to economic reporting, you can find out, with the Economic Reporting Review (www.fair.org). The Economic Reporting Review (ERR) provi

[PEN-L:3576] RE: Re: Password: $5

1999-02-19 Thread Max Sawicky
"Valis": >> I thought it was wonderful when a Gulf War vet blew up that G-building (though he could have proven the same point on a Sunday, when his victims were in church praying for extended American hegemony and other heavenly signs). McVeigh taught the big boys some manners, and when those m

[PEN-L:3546] The Unbalanced Budget, Cont'd

1999-02-18 Thread Max Sawicky
Colleagues: I am pleased to report that we have 65 signatures to the petition, with some additional celebrities to follow next week. If you agree with the statement, don't fail to forward your endorsement to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Questions may be addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] A single sentence

[PEN-L:3523] RE: Re: Racism at Microsoft

1999-02-17 Thread Max Sawicky
> > I think this is Microsoft humor at work. It comes up with the > same response > if you type "I'd like to see all the gerbils die" and "I'd like > to see Bill Gates die" or "I'd like to be Gina Gershon." > > Doug The choice of alternatives in this post should should be enough to occupy L

[PEN-L:3519] RE: Re: Racism at Microsoft

1999-02-17 Thread Max Sawicky
> Quoth Louis: > You won't believe your eyes: > > > > 1. Go into MSWord > > 2. Type: I'd like all niggers to die > > 3. Highlight the sentence > > 4. Go into the Tools - Language - Thesaurus > > > > I know you may not have MS Word but what happens is you get a message > > saying, "I'll dr

[PEN-L:3463] Update; Against the Unbalanced Budget

1999-02-16 Thread Max Sawicky
Endorsements so far: Randy Albelda, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Boston Ron Baiman, Assistant Professor of Economics, Roosevelt University Dean Baker, Senior Research Fellow, Preamble Center Jared Bernstein, Economist, Economic Policy Institute Peter Bohmer, Professor of

[PEN-L:3452] RE: Emo Phillips visits the school psychologist

1999-02-16 Thread Max Sawicky
> > I went to school, ya know. . . . Great stuff. He was on TV some time ago and was not very good. Where can we get more Emo? Max

[PEN-L:3394] RE: Re: Re: Canada

1999-02-15 Thread Max Sawicky
> > Here's an idea - social democracy is more compatible with "monopolized" > ownership structures than most social democrats would like to > admit, and is > undermined by U.S.-style financial and corporate governance arrangements. > It's probably very difficult for U.S. social dems to admit to

[PEN-L:3391] The Unbalanced Budget: A Petition

1999-02-15 Thread Max Sawicky
be listed as endorsing institutions, unless we are otherwise advised. Endorsements at this point include: Dean Baker Paul Davidson James K. Galbraith Max Sawicky Randy Wray AN OPEN LETTER ON THE CLINTON BUDGET We, the undersigned professional economists, offer our views

[PEN-L:3158] FW: Aztecs

1999-02-10 Thread Max Sawicky
-Original Message- From: Robin Hahnel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 1999 11:33 AM To: Louis Proyect Subject: Re: [PEN-L:3052] Aztecs > We have to be careful not to confuse Aztec or Inca domination over the > tribes in their empire with what the Europeans did. I

[PEN-L:3130] RE: Re: Re: RE: Re: Aztecs

1999-02-09 Thread Max Sawicky
.. . . > production. The fact (as I understand it) is that when the head Inca > wasn't mobilizing tributary labor (with whips, Max, because I know that > excites you) . . . Actually this pales next to the comprehensive discussion of Lesbian phalluses on Henwood's 'Libidinous-Business Observer' l

[PEN-L:3127] RE: Re: If Asia was more advanced, why did West rise?

1999-02-09 Thread Max Sawicky
> Since Ricardo brings up "long waves" in connection > with the discussion of Frank, let me simply note that these > are Braudel "la duree" 300-400 year waves and not the lower > level 40-50 year Kondratievs. . . . Actually we're in the middle of a 4000-year geological wave whose within-

[PEN-L:3122] RE: Re: RE: Re: Aztecs

1999-02-09 Thread Max Sawicky
> > I wrote: >> . . . You wrote plenty of substantive, well, substance, but one thing you said could be misinterpreted by the superficial, reckless, or malevolent reader (circle all which apply). > > Max "mbs" Sawicky asks: >Is the whip used to force laborers to produce > exchange value differ

[PEN-L:3087] RE: Re: Aztecs

1999-02-09 Thread Max Sawicky
> Louis P. wrote: >>In general, the Aztecs and Incas ruled with a relatively > light hand<< > > Brad deL emoted: >!< > > I think Marx makes the point somewhere in vol. I of CAPITAL that overtly > forced labor (which the Incas organized) combined with commodity > production > (which t

[PEN-L:3022] RE: Re: New Economists' Petition

1999-02-07 Thread Max Sawicky
> . . . > Saying that debt paydown is not the first-best option is fine. But in so Isn't that exactly what the statement contradicts? (reproduced below for your convenience) > saying, please don't do anything to make people think that the > Rubin-Sperling budget proposals are worse than tax cuts

[PEN-L:2999] Even Business Week

1999-02-06 Thread Max Sawicky
Business WeekEditorial February 15, 1999 A Better Use of Surpluses President Clinton will be remembered for many things, but in the economic arena, fiscal responsibility will top the list. When he took office in 1993, the federal budget deficit came in at $225 billion, just off its high

[PEN-L:2998] RE: Re: Re: New Economists' Petition

1999-02-06 Thread Max Sawicky
> > It is sad to see so many from the mainstream of liberal > Keynesianism abandonding > all hope of accomplishing anything. Paying down the debt was a > traditional > Republican plank [honored in the breach by radical tax reforms.] > . . . Call me naive but I am struck by the blatant pol

[PEN-L:2986] RE: Re: BLS Daily Report

1999-02-05 Thread Max Sawicky
> It would be interesting to know what the composition of this NAS panel > is. Any friends of EPI? > > Peter Dorman > > > Next month, a newly appointed committee convened by the > National Academy of > > Sciences will begin a 2-year study of a wide range of issues > related to cost of living

[PEN-L:2983] Long John Waves

1999-02-05 Thread Max Sawicky
> >Even proponents have to concede that the sample size is pretty small. How > >many wave cycles have there been? > > Doug, > > Haven't you ever heard the expression "It ain't the meat, it's > the motion." I thought it was: It ain't the flag on the ship; it's the motion in the ocean. How m

[PEN-L:2982] Economists' Petition, Cont'd

1999-02-05 Thread Max Sawicky
I am pleased to report that at least one liberal organization in Washington, D.C., one in which I happen to participate, has not lost its mind. (see below) The item below is not a bad point of departure for a counter-statement either. It's not crazy to run at least some surplus if employment is

[PEN-L:2949] RE: Re: New Economist Petition: Pay Off the Public Debt

1999-02-05 Thread Max Sawicky
> Saying that the best way to assure long-term growth is to give a large tax > cut to the rich? I'll assume that's a rhetorical question addressed to some imaginary Republican with a fluffy tail named Harvey. > I would rather see the (potential future) surplus used to finance an > expansion of

[PEN-L:2929] New Economists' Petition

1999-02-05 Thread Max Sawicky
Read it and weep. Anyone for a counter-statement? Max Sawicky -- Opinions reflected above do not necessarily represent those of anyone else associated with the E.P.I. -- MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF

[PEN-L:2927] New Economist Petition: Pay Off the Public Debt

1999-02-05 Thread Max Sawicky
o see a counter-petition. Max Sawicky - Opinions reflected above do not necessarily represent the views of anyone else associated with the E.P.I.

[PEN-L:2907] FW: Baby Boomers

1999-02-05 Thread Max Sawicky
Courtesy of the PUBLABOR list: Middle Age is having a choice of two temptations and choosing the one that will get you home earlier. > Then: Killer Weed > Now: Weed Killer > > Then: The Grateful Dead > Now: Dr. Kevorkian > > Then: Gettin

[PEN-L:2893] RE: Re: Re: Surrender, Dorothy.

1999-02-04 Thread Max Sawicky
> Don't forget the lyrics for the songs in the movie by Yip Harburg. > The story is told in the book: > > Who Put the Rainbow in the Wizard of Oz? : Yip Harburg, Lyricist > by Harold Meyerson, Ernie Harburg, Yip Harburg ISBN: 0472083120 There's a CD of Harburg's songs. Not to be missed is "Ly

[PEN-L:2883] RE: Surrender, Dorothy.

1999-02-04 Thread Max Sawicky
> > Louis P. mentioned L. Frank Baum as an unalloyed defender of > capitalism. I've always been under the impression that the Wizard of > Oz (no, this is not about you, Rob S.) is a critical allegory about > the populist movement[farmers - the scarecrow, industrial workers - > the tin man, t

[PEN-L:2746] RE: Tom Walker's election

1999-02-01 Thread Max Sawicky
Who? > > Early returns from exit polls show Tom Walker nosing ahead in the > NEXT-CITY election. > > Gene Coyle >

[PEN-L:2692] RE: Re: Long Term Capital

1999-01-28 Thread Max Sawicky
> > Yeah, I thought it was very disappointing article; Lewis has never written > anything even half as good as Liar's Poker. It was also very Trail Fever was pretty good, I thought, though you have to be struck by Lewis' predilection for agreeing w/either Morrie Taylor or Alan Keyes, depending on

[PEN-L:2599] RE: Re: Re: 1998 Bad Writing Contest

1999-01-25 Thread Max Sawicky
> You may have a point there. A month ago I posted a notice that I had > finished a long handout on game theory and collective action ("The > Collective Action Problem: A Social Movement Perspective") and was > willing to send it as an e-mail attachment to any and all. I got just > one taker. G

[PEN-L:2573] RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Economic's "narrow focus"

1999-01-25 Thread Max Sawicky
> Brad De Long wrote: > > > >How about the attacks on Brad's colleague, David Card, financed by the > > >fast food industry, "showing" that minimum wage laws hurt workers? > > >-- > > > > Card's doing fine. I had thought that he and Alan Krueger had > won that one, no? Card & Krueger have moved

[PEN-L:2560] RE: Ishmael Reed launches online magazine

1999-01-25 Thread Max Sawicky
> Salon notes that Reed has started his own online magazine, which is at > http://www.ishmaelreedpub.com/. I urge folks to take a look at > it. It seems > first-rate. This is indeed great news. I've been reading Reed for years. I would highly recommended his essays. Haven't kept up with his f

[PEN-L:2462] RE: clinton's social security plan

1999-01-22 Thread Max Sawicky
> I hate to interrupt these fascinating disquisitions on > post-structural subjectivities and what not, but I am REALLY CONFUSED and hope someone out there (you listenin', Max?) can help. > Clinton's budget projects a $4.4t surplus over the next 15 > years (yeah, > right!). Clinton pro

[PEN-L:2454] RE: Re: Re: Re: RE: Cicero Clinton

1999-01-21 Thread Max Sawicky
> > good point, I hadn't thought of that, he is supposed to be in charge of > monetary policy. I read the Times article about Greenspan today, > and it seems > he doesn't really oppose investing social security money in the market, he > opposes the Government investing the money. I wonder if he

[PEN-L:2427] RE: Re: Julius Clinton II

1999-01-21 Thread Max Sawicky
> > Old news in beltway-land, V. It was in the paper here. > > And it was interpreted how, by whom? >valis She was made out to be a lone bureaucratic hero in the presidential satyricon. mbs

[PEN-L:2422] RE: Julius Clinton

1999-01-21 Thread Max Sawicky
> > Anyone trying to distill truth from the interestingly inappropriate? > In the Starr Report an unknown functionary named Evelyn Lieberman > banished the emperor's latest fellatio interest from the palace, > and he could do nothing about it. What unwritten law assured > that this nugget fell

[PEN-L:2417] RE: Re: Re: 1998 Bad Writing Contest winners

1999-01-21 Thread Max Sawicky
> Well that's the point here, it can be: if power is in our heads, if power > forms our subjectivities, then it is dispersed in billions of us, in > trillions of daily contacts. This obviously comes out of Foucault, who can > be criticized for his excessively atomized view of power, but > it's a u

[PEN-L:2345] RE: Cicero Clinton

1999-01-20 Thread Max Sawicky
> . . . > very carefully. Nothing about domestic debt, current account deficits, > fiscal inflexibility . . . The apparent budget surpluses certainly reflect some fiscal flexibility. It's only the political rules and shibboleths that instill inflexibility. > . . . > Rather ambiguous on the deg

[PEN-L:2212] RE: Re: Re: Bosses

1999-01-16 Thread Max Sawicky
> >(Don't worry, Max, I'll give you two days' > > lead time if I have any exotic plans) > > we know your plans

[PEN-L:2164] RE: blood

1999-01-14 Thread Max Sawicky
A different reference is "The Gift Relationship" by Richard Titmuss which uses blood as a case in point. I may have mentioned this in the past. I don't know if the book deals with any international aspects. The setting I gather is the UK. mbs > Some years back, some of you old-timers mig

[PEN-L:2146] RE: Re: Business News

1999-01-13 Thread Max Sawicky
> > And here's a virtual real-ity check mangled headline from CBC > Marketwatch: > > YAHOO FALLS LOWER DUE RESIGNATION OF BRAZIL'S CENTRAL BANK CHIEF. We took our honeymoon in Yahoo Falls. Wonderful place. mbs

[PEN-L:2140] Business News

1999-01-13 Thread Max Sawicky
Courtesy of a colleague of mine. [Warning: this post contains no ad hominem remarks, slurs, viciousness, slander, ruthless criticism, race-baiting, complaints, or other negative vibes.] 1. Understand that Xerox and Wurlitzer were going to merge. They're going to make reproductive organs. 2. A

[PEN-L:2021] RE: Re: profits

1999-01-08 Thread Max Sawicky
> > I'll let everyone else go out on a limb on this one. There are so many > factors off-the-books that comparing profits from decade to > decade can't be > a question of comparing REPORTED profits. One item that would reduce > reported corporate earnings if it was on the books is the issuing of s

[PEN-L:1926] RE: Happy Euro!

1999-01-01 Thread Max Sawicky
> I was planning to send the above greeting to Greenspan and Rubin, > but I decided to toss the list a test message first. > If my computer explodes someone will know who to tell about it. > > While America is busy contaminating the Iraqi gene pool > Germany has conquered Europe without firing

[PEN-L:1856] EPI in WaPo

1998-12-23 Thread Max Sawicky
My hero Dean Baker breaks into the Washington Post op-ed page: Print Edition Today's Editorials Sunday Outlook Front Page Articles On Our Site Talk Central Editorials & Opinion A Deal Privatization Can't Beat By Dean Baker Wednesday, December 23, 1998; Page A23

[PEN-L:1730] RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: Social Democracy and Utopia

1998-12-19 Thread Max Sawicky
> . . . > There is the problem that successful worker-managed firms tend to want to > not hire new workers . . . This is well-taken, but you have to admit that on the scale of grand systemic problems, it does not rank too high. The state can essay macro and micro remedies for this. We're a lo

[PEN-L:1632] RE: Re: Iraq: some deja ecoute'

1998-12-16 Thread Max Sawicky
> > Don't ordinarily listen to Saturday Night Live, but I switch to > it when the Howard Stern show is running a commercial. . . . SNL was pretty good this past weekend. Quite often these days it is awful. But they had some great impressions of Tom Brokaw, Barney Frank, and other impeachment

[PEN-L:1618] RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Monsanto Seed -Forwarded

1998-12-16 Thread Max Sawicky
> >> >Anybody interested should talk to Dean Baker, currently > >> >at EPI but unfortunately due to leave at the end of this > >> >year. > >> > > >> >MBS > >> > > >> > >> It sounds like a substantial loss to EPI. Where's he going? > > > >It is. In my view he is our best economist, > >the model of

[PEN-L:1614] RE: Re: RE: Re: Monsanto Seed -Forwarded

1998-12-16 Thread Max Sawicky
> > > >Anybody interested should talk to Dean Baker, currently > >at EPI but unfortunately due to leave at the end of this > >year. > > > >MBS > > > > It sounds like a substantial loss to EPI. Where's he going? It is. In my view he is our best economist, the model of what an EPI person should

[PEN-L:1607] RE: Re: Monsanto Seed -Forwarded

1998-12-16 Thread Max Sawicky
Anybody interested should talk to Dean Baker, currently at EPI but unfortunately due to leave at the end of this year. MBS > > > Maybe it is time to revive the project on the economics of intellectual > property. > > -- > Michael Perelman > Economics Department > California State University >

[PEN-L:1362] RE: Re: Social Security

1998-12-08 Thread Max Sawicky
> > What I would be on the look out for in initiatives to "preserve" and > "affirm" the program would be calls -- in the name of "fairness" and "true > insurance principles" -- for more closely tying benefit entitlements to > lifetime contributions. What this means in practice is a ratcheting up o

[PEN-L:1349] RE: re Social Security

1998-12-08 Thread Max Sawicky
> >If Clinton was so vital to the Republican > >cause, they wouldn't be about to impeach him. > > I thought they wanted to "put that behind them" as quickly as possible. That was last week. mbs

[PEN-L:1346] RE: Re re Social Security

1998-12-08 Thread Max Sawicky
> . . . >Today's Washington Post has an article satatng that the clinton > administration has drawn up five Social Security reform plans all of which > call for some > form of sotck market investment. The man who led the Repubican charge to > abolish welfare is now leadiing their charge to d

[PEN-L:1330] RE: Social Security change under Reagan

1998-12-07 Thread Max Sawicky
> Max writes: >The earmarking gives rise to the Trust Fund balance, > including its dates of cash deficits, overall deficit, and exhaustion of the fund balance, all of which are key to the current debate. As I said, > accounting may be dull, but it is political. It is the Right which is demeanin

[PEN-L:1310] RE: Re: RE: Re: Re: Social Security change under Reagan

1998-12-07 Thread Max Sawicky
Max replied: > >Unlike welfare, and like insurance, beneficiaries make > >earmarked payments into the program. ... > > since funds are shifted about between various government budgets, the > "earmarked" part is pretty unimportant. . . . The earmarking gives rise to the Trust Fund balance, inclu

[PEN-L:1286] RE: Re: Re: Social Security change under Reagan

1998-12-06 Thread Max Sawicky
> >... 3) I'm not quite sure why social security is not "insurance". How > >does "insurance" differ from "government redistribution" in the case > >of SS? > > I would say that SS _is_ a form of insurance. Insurance companies > redistribute money from those whose houses don't burn down to those wh

[PEN-L:1285] RE: Re: Social Security change under Reagan

1998-12-06 Thread Max Sawicky
Sorry I don't have time to elaborate too much on all the questions, but a few answers: > . . . > 1) If I read this correctly, it sounds as if SS has never been > a "savings" account where money is paid into the account, invested for > the lifetime of the payees and then paid back to them when th

[PEN-L:1283] RE: Re: Social Security change under Reagan

1998-12-06 Thread Max Sawicky
.. . . FDR supported the separation of social security form > the rest of the budget to preserve the illusion that social security > (OASI, now OASDHI) was a form of insurance. In fact, it is a government > redistribution program largely indistinguishable from welfare. . . . This implies either

[PEN-L:1282] RE: Social Security change under Reagan

1998-12-06 Thread Max Sawicky
> My brother tells me that under the Reagan administration the > accounting of Social Security was changed. He says that they used to > be separate budgets, but now they are combined accounts. He also says > that the government has borrowed money from the Social Security > accounts and not paid

[PEN-L:1246] RE: Re: RE: Re: Patriotic economics: a provocation

1998-12-04 Thread Max Sawicky
> Zealand economist Tim Hazeldine's new book, Taking New Zealand Seriously: > The Economics of Decency (Harper / Collins). He really has a knack for Couldn't find this at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or Harper/Collins. Max

[PEN-L:1243] RE: Re: Patriotic economics: a provocation

1998-12-04 Thread Max Sawicky
> >What about telling the story that American economics is properly > a high wage economics and that adherence to a low-wage economics is > UNAMERICAN? That is to say, for example, that not only is NAIRU questionable as a theory and misleading as a guide for policy, it is first and foremost FOREIG

[PEN-L:1196] RE: media ownership

1998-12-03 Thread Max Sawicky
> Which brings me to my question. Does anyone know of a good source that > details the corporate ownership of the media? I know GE owns NBC, and > Disney owns ABC, but do they also own radio stations and newspapers? > Just how much of the media does Murdock own? Has anyone kept track of the >

[PEN-L:1127] RE: Re: RE: EPI and NAFTA

1998-11-18 Thread Max Sawicky
> Just checked EPI web site at Max's suggestion, (see below) no NAFTA paper. > > I am gearing up for a conference in Mexico early next year, where > my task is > to present on NAFTA, would like to see the EPI report, and anything else > recent, with a critical edge. > > > Where did Perelman g

[PEN-L:1103] RE: Re: Prophecy in our time VI

1998-11-16 Thread Max Sawicky
> Max has already confessed to be Louis, so you have nothing to worry about > personnally. Just keep Papandreou inside when the Ebola hits the fan. I'm having fun, but I worry that we're the ruin of PEN-L. mbs

[PEN-L:1101] RE: Re: Chase Nearly Online Banking

1998-11-16 Thread Max Sawicky
> . . . > My recollection is that one of Ralph Nader's outfits was going after the > banking industry about hidden fees and service charges. . . . They've got it backwards. The real problem is that depositors receive income which is untaxed, notwithstanding the fact that the source of that inc

[PEN-L:1102] RE: Re: RE: union democracy

1998-11-16 Thread Max Sawicky
> Friends, > > Brother Max makes good points, but I do not think that all that many of > today's union officials were yesterday's firebrands. Rather, as Kim > Moody argues, most came to power during the period of labor-management > cooperation and greater prosperity. This may be why so many hav

[PEN-L:1100] RE: Re: union democracy II

1998-11-16 Thread Max Sawicky
> > Mike, Dennis, Max: all of you are reacting to hearsay. No one has > actually read the Fraser article in Dissent (if I haven't misperceived); > I don't even know who SF is, but this is tantamount to a lynching. Easy big fella. The first words out of my virtual mouth were "I didn't read th

[PEN-L:1078] RE: union democracy

1998-11-16 Thread Max Sawicky
> In the "Dissent" article Fraser makes light of union > democracy, arguing > that it can cause harm as well as good and, using the analogy of a > nation at war, arguing that since labor is in a war with capital, union > democracy is an unaffordable luxury. I haven't read the article, but

[PEN-L:1061] RE: EPI and NAFTA

1998-11-14 Thread Max Sawicky
> > I understand that EPI has done a devastating critique of NAFTA. Could Max > or someone provide details? I'm not sure which devastating critique you're referring to. Check our web site, and/or remind me during the week. I'm kind of absorbed in my arcana at the moment (state-local finance).

[PEN-L:905] RE: Re: Re: RE: Re: overcapacity - 'Ford chief predictsdoom'

1998-11-05 Thread Max Sawicky
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Doug Henwood (correctly) insists that the same firms are often both > >financial and industrial, but this dualism really amounts to a > >schizophrenia. > > Yeah, but the dualism is sort of hardwired into the M-C-M' formula, no? More than that, in a debate on taxa

[PEN-L:881] RE: Re: RE: Gore v. Bush?

1998-11-04 Thread Max Sawicky
> > Funny thing is, class seemed to play more in some > > of the Southern Dem victories . . . > > According to my correspondent in Auburn, Ala, proposing using a > lottery for higher ed bucks really helped the Demo (forget his name) > to win there over the egregious theocrat Fob James. It se

[PEN-L:874] RE: Gore v. Bush?

1998-11-04 Thread Max Sawicky
> Would it be right to say that the Democrats have actually done better out > of these elections than they might have expected before the Lewinsky story > broke? Could be. Though they had some things to look forward to sans Lewinsky. The R's had overreached in policy areas and had been internal

[PEN-L:873] RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: family II

1998-11-04 Thread Max Sawicky
> Max >What I had in mind was natalism, a la > >France, hardly eugenics. > > Still, natalism is obnoxious, since it is supposed to build up > the "native" population. France did it to build up their army, I believe. This would help them fight the "Huns" and Algerians. . . . Not necessarily. It c

[PEN-L:872] RE: RE: family/religion/economics

1998-11-04 Thread Max Sawicky
What in tarnation is "the myth of the state"? MBS

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