[PEN-L:8116] Intro textbook recommendations

1999-06-19 Thread Robert Pollin
r she decides, she, and her school, will have to live with for a long time. Unlike at universities, the school, not the student, buys the books, so the money comes out of very tight budgets. I would welcome recommendations. Please feel free to just send them to me directly. Regards, Bob P

[PEN-L:4408] Re: Re: RE: econometrics text

1999-03-17 Thread Robert Pollin
Hi Peter, Studenmund is a very clear, simple intro text. I've used it several times for intro. econometrics. Bob Pollin At 07:20 PM 3/17/99 -0800, you wrote: >Yes, this is a wonderful book, but not a textbook. It's a companion, >really. I'm still taking bids. &g

[PEN-L:4188] Re: Re: LEFT WING THINK TANKS?

1999-03-06 Thread Robert Pollin
Hi, We have been planning to get our web site up for months. But other things keep getting in the way. We'll get there one of these days soon. In the meantime, thanks for your interest. Regards, Bob Pollin At 01:49 PM 3/5/99 -0800, you wrote: >will you notify pen-l fo

[PEN-L:4153] Re: LEFT WING THINK TANKS?

1999-03-05 Thread Robert Pollin
You can add the new institute here at U Mass Amherst, co-directed by Jerry Epstein and myself. It is called the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI). Coordinates for it are on my signature below. -- Bob Pollin At 11:27 AM 3/5/99 -0500, you wrote: >What would the list of left (or

[PEN-L:1413] Re: Pinochet flies...

1998-12-09 Thread Robert Pollin
tried in courts--British or Spanish--probably for the rest of his life. Here is the AP story: http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WAPO/19981209/V000888-120998-idx.html Bob Pollin At 11:10 AM 12/9/98 -0600, you wrote: > > TO MADRID! > >

[PEN-L:998] Re: Re: Living Wage book and debate with Krugman

1998-11-11 Thread Robert Pollin
ts by raising prices, and are partially successful in doing so, especially in the service sector, which is not competing with imports from low-wage countries. These are just some thoughts. I wish I could have had time by now to develop them further. Regards, Bob Pollin effectiv

[PEN-L:944] Living Wage book and debate with Krugman

1998-11-08 Thread Robert Pollin
n the September Washington Monthly, and my response to Krugman, part of which is in the November Washington Monthly. My debate with Krugman is in this message and a Word attachment. Regards, Bob Pollin **

[PEN-L:180] New location info for Bob Pollin

1998-07-09 Thread Robert Pollin
My new location information at U Mass Amherst is below for those interested. Regards, Bob Pollin Robert Pollin PLEASE NOTE NEW "COORDINATES" as of July 15, 1998 Department of Economics Univesity of Massachusetts-Amherst Amherst, MA 01002

Job announcement

1997-12-08 Thread Robert Pollin
Prof. Victor Garlin of Sonoma State has asked me to post the news that the economics department there has a tenure track job for an assistant professor. The details can be found at http://www.sonoma.edu/econ/ Anyone with an interest in applied should consider applying. Bob Pollin

[PEN-L:11094] New Book/Shameless Self-Promotion

1997-07-02 Thread Robert Pollin
The University of Michigan Press has just published "The Macroeconomics of Saving, Finance and Investment," edited by me. It is the product of a conference sponsored by the Economic Policy Institute three years ago. The contents of the book are as follows: Robert Pollin, &qu

[PEN-L:9334] Re: LA Living Wage Passes!

1997-04-03 Thread Robert Pollin
Yes Ron and Others, The LA Living Wage has now gotten passed the veto by Mayor Riordan. As of Tuesday, it became law, despite Riordan's veto last Friday. Tell them in Chicago to get serious. --Bob Pollin At 07:45 PM 4/3/97 -0800, you wrote: >Bob, > > This is gr

[PEN-L:9037] Re: A question on taxes

1997-03-20 Thread Robert Pollin
e final touches. -- Bob Pollin >1. Does anybody have an estimate of the daily value in dollars of stock, >bond and other financial transactions, excluding new issues, in the United >States. This would include the various stock market, futures, bond >markets, etc. I am trying to estima

[PEN-L:9019] Re: LA Living Wage Passes!

1997-03-19 Thread Robert Pollin
PROTECTED]> I am also going to follow up on Anders' suggestion and look into putting it on the web, or accept his invitation to do so. Anyway, it is a tremendous victory, especially given the virulent opposition of business and the mayor. -- Bob Pollin At 01:34 PM 3/19/9

[PEN-L:9004] LA Living Wage Passes!

1997-03-18 Thread Robert Pollin
al justice really can be effective at the local level, where the dominance of big money corporate politics is far less pervasive--even in a big city like LA. -- Bob Pollin **** Robert Pollin Department of Economics Univesity of California-Riverside Riverside

[PEN-L:8439] Re: economics course

1997-02-03 Thread Robert Pollin
Thanks for the comment, Bob Pollin At 05:58 PM 2/3/97 -0800, you wrote: >At 05:47 PM 1/16/97 -0800, Bob Pollin wrote: >>After I mentioned to Eric Nilsson over pen-l the course I am now >>teaching on economic issues, several people have written in asking me about >>t

[PEN-L:6863] Re: Reforming/replacing the Feds...

1996-10-23 Thread Robert Pollin
You might want to check on the proposals in G. Dymski, G. Epstein,and R. Pollin (me), "Transforming the U.S. Financial System," 1993, M.E. Sharpe. Regards, Bob Pollin At 09:07 AM 10/23/96 -0700, you wrote: >Can anyone direct me to existing proposals to reform, reconstitute,

[PEN-L:6745] Re: economics course

1996-10-17 Thread Robert Pollin
suggestions. Bob Pollin ECONOMICS 118: THE CONTEMPORARY U.S. ECONOMY Fall 1996 COURSE SYLLABUS This course examines many of the major real and perceived economic problems confronting the United States. Have average living standards been falling? If so, why? Is the Social Security System

[PEN-L:6733] Re: Economics Course

1996-10-17 Thread Robert Pollin
Eric, I am teaching exactly such a course right now at UCR. I will send you the syllabus if you are interested. From the syllabus I have also put together the collection of readings. Regards, Bob Pollin At 07:36 AM 10/17/96 -0700, you wrote: >Next fall I'll be tea

[PEN-L:5476] Re: Gintis and all that

1996-08-01 Thread Robert Pollin
a group, I think he should say that clearly, and really, apologize. Bob Pollin At 11:35 AM 8/1/96 -0700, you wrote: >Dear Pen-l'ers, > >It might be useful for someone to dig up the open letter which Bowles >and Gintis sent to Clinton in 1992. I found it to be pretty pathetic.

[PEN-L:5201] RRPE Call for Papers on David Gordon

1996-07-17 Thread Robert Pollin
Please look over the notice below, circulate it among associates, and post it on other networks as you wish. We in URPE hope to make this special issue a lasting tribute to David. Bob Pollin CALL FOR PAPERS: RRPE SPECIAL ISSUE IN HONOR OF DAVID M. GORDON The death of David

[PEN-L:3515] Memorial for David Gordon

1996-03-29 Thread Robert Pollin
. There has also been a David M. Gordon Fund for Graduate Fellows established at the Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School. Contributions should be sent c/o John Eatwell, Economics, New School for Social Research, 65 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY 10003. Bob Pollin

[PEN-L:3503] Re: Memorials for David Gordon

1996-03-28 Thread Robert Pollin
. Contributions should be sent c/o John Eatwell, Economics, New School for Social Research, 65 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY 10003. Bob Pollin Robert Pollin Department of Economics Univesity of California-Riverside Riverside, CA 92521-0427 (909) 787-5037, ext 1579

[PEN-L:3447] Re: Discrimination Text

1996-03-23 Thread Robert Pollin
gt;desk copy. Marc Breslow, Dollars & Sense, 1 Summer St., Somerville, >MA 02143. Thanks. > ******* Robert Pollin Department of Economics U. of California-Riverside Riverside, CA 92521-0427, USA (909) 787-5037 ext. 1579 (o

[PEN-L:3407] Memorials for David Gordon

1996-03-20 Thread Robert Pollin
whatever I hear. I assume others will do the same. -- Bob Pollin >There will be two memorials for David Gordon at The New School: > >1. Thursday, March 28, 8:00 p.m., room 219, 65 Fifth Avenue (between 13th >and 14th Streets). This is a memorial by the Economics Department

[PEN-L:3390] The Death of David Gordon

1996-03-18 Thread Robert Pollin
other former students, to think about ways that we can create a meaningful send-off for David, at the memorial service and beyond. I am posting a draft of of obituary that Tom Weisskopf and Sam Bowles have written. --Bob Pollin David M. Gordon (1944-1996) David Gordon, a

[PEN-L:2349] Re: econ. & financial data diskettes

1996-01-14 Thread Robert Pollin
I would be interested in knowing more about what you have done, how much it costs, whether you update, etc. -- Robert Pollin At 07:10 AM 1/14/96 -0800, you wrote: >Dear colleague; > I apologize if you have already received this message. I have the &

[PEN-L:5973] Homage to Ernest Mandel

1995-07-21 Thread POLLIN
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[PEN-L:5917] re: Our contract w/ America?

1995-07-19 Thread POLLIN
tion first (see Bob Woodward's "The Agenda"). But if its slogans we need, why not just remind Clinton of his old one: Putting People First: Good Jobs for All. -- Bob Pollin

[PEN-L:5765] conference notices for URPE newsletter

1995-06-30 Thread POLLIN
We are in the process of putting together a new URPE newsletter. We would like to include news of any forthcoming and noteworthy conferences. Please send your conference info to: Craig Gunderson Department of Economics

[PEN-L:5764] Information on Intl. Labor Migration

1995-06-30 Thread POLLIN
know is whether, and in what ways, people on the left have something different to say than what I read in the JEP. Thanks in advance for any advice. Bob Pollin Economics Department U. of California-Riverside

references on Vietnam "war at home"

1994-11-30 Thread POLLIN
me up with scores of good references on my own, but once I actually sat down to do it, I am impressed wit{ my ignorance and/or failing memory. Thanks to all in advance, -- Bob Pollin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Keynes quote

1994-11-19 Thread POLLIN
Arthur, It is from "National Self Sufficiency" an essay in the Yale Review, I'm almost sure in 1933, but anyway more or less then. You could also find the essay in his Collected Works. My best regards, Bob Pollin

election disaster

1994-11-09 Thread POLLIN
hetoric, and is therefore defined in the media as 'governing from the left.' But in fact, he is governing from the Wall Street center/right, and when that doesn't work, the left gets blamed. Why should progressives be happy about that? -- Bob Pollin

Election disaster

1994-11-09 Thread POLLIN
s are unbearable. Don't forget Gramci: "Pessimism of the mind; optimism of the will." -- Bob Pollin 

p/a & social conscience

1994-09-26 Thread POLLIN
an society. But what about the institutional specifics--the means to that end? Lets fight for the best ones we can get now and build and experiment from there. -- Bob Pollin

principal/agent & social conscience

1994-09-22 Thread POLLIN
s closer to the spirit of where we can go from here, while Robin's, for all its other merits, simply isn't. 6. Robin's ad hominem attack on Roemer is really bad. He makes Jim Devine look positively saintly. What's the point? --Bob Pollin

principal/agent and social conscience

1994-09-22 Thread POLLIN
the literature, I'd be happy to send him or anyone else the paper's pretty long bibliography. -- Bob Pollin Intro to: "Financial Structures and Egalitarian Economic Policy" Bob Pollin

RE: principal/agent and social conscience

1994-09-20 Thread POLLIN
on? As for Brent McClintock's anecdote on Germany, it is interesting, but also just an anecdote. There is by now a huge literature on comparative financial systems, much of it quite good. Roemer's model comes out of this literature in part, as does my own paper th

principal/agent and social conscience

1994-09-19 Thread POLLIN
I think Jim Devine's interpretation of the Roemer model is pretty far off the mark. The underlying premise of the Roemer (and Bardhan) model is that a superior solution to the owner/manager principal agent problem has emerged within capitalism--that is the "bank-based" financial systems (

Excellent general article on population

1994-08-29 Thread POLLIN
s. More generally, I also recommend the whole 20th anniversary issue of Dollars and Sense, whose theme is "Around the Global Economy." The coverage is creative and the articles are very good. Congratulatins to D&S for 20 years worth! -- Bob Pollin

RE: Quote from Bob Pollin (i.e. me)

1994-06-22 Thread POLLIN%UCRVMS.BITNET
st effective industrial and economic stimulus policy. Any realistic conversion program must replicate these salutary features of the military budget elsewhere in the economy." -- Bob Pollin

Pen-ers book on finance

1994-06-03 Thread POLLIN%UCRVMS.BITNET
own: The book is "New Perspectives in Monetary Macroeconomics: Explorations in the Tradition of Hyman P. Minsky." The contents are as follows: 1. Introduction by Gary Dymski and Robert Pollin. I. Theoretical Papers 2. "Financial Fragility: Is an Etiolo

Graduate study in progressive eco?

1994-05-27 Thread POLLIN%UCRVMS.BITNET
est in our graduate program. -- Bob Pollin

taxing securities transactions

1994-05-02 Thread POLLIN%UCRVMS.BITNET
k, of course Clinton will oppose it. But there is already pretty strong support for it among some members of at least the House. And as we note in the article, even Bush (and Brady) were for it at one time. Comments are of course welcome. -- Bob P

Left resources on "the dictatorshipof the bond market"

1994-01-12 Thread POLLIN%UCRVMS.BITNET
plight of the homeless, the environment, etc. should worry about the bond market or any of the rest of it." The contents of the book are as follows: 1. "Introduction", by Gary Dymski, Jerry Epstein and Robert Pollin Part I: Monetary Policy and Interest Rates 2. &q

Left resources on "the dictatorshipof the bond market"

1994-01-12 Thread POLLIN%UCRVMS.BITNET
plight of the homeless, the environment, etc. should worry about the bond market or any of the rest of it." The contents of the book are as follows: 1. "Introduction", by Gary Dymski, Jerry Epstein and Robert Pollin Part I: Monetary Policy and Interest Rates 2. &q