[PEN-L:4442] NOTE! ASSA at SAN FRANCISCO!

1995-03-15 Thread Carla Feldpausch
- the perils of updating old files! Please tell your friends to help us avoid any unhappy incidents down the road. Thanks, Carla Feldpausch UPRE at ASSA Coordinator The American University Department of Economics e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:4317] URPE at ASSA '96 Call for Papers

1995-02-28 Thread Carla Feldpausch
Dear Pen-Lers: Following this brief message is the Official Call for Papers Flyer for UPRE at ASSA conference in San Fransisco, January 5-7, 1996. Please note the following changes in conference procedures this year. It is now necessary to become a member of URPE to participate in

Re: Heritability of talent

1994-11-06 Thread carla feldpausch
rimitive accumulation of the dominant class, race and gender. All the IQ tests do is tell us whose got the rewards of society worked out in their favor. Big surprise. In Solidarity, Carla Feldpausch

Re: Feminist Economics!

1994-11-03 Thread carla feldpausch
I can't be sure about that. When I want to discuss gender economics I go to the femecon list. Is that so terrible? Carla Feldpausch Department of Economics American University

URPE = UPE?

1994-08-30 Thread carla feldpausch
To all URPE members or Those Interested Therein: While at the URPE (Union for Radical Political Economists) summer camp, the proposal was bantered about by a few that URPE drop the Radical from their name. One reason mentioned was that people are afraid to list the organiz- ation on their r

Re: Burning questions

1994-07-06 Thread carla feldpausch
I was just mentioning an interesting breakthrough in computer simulation in the field of complexity theory (you know, chaos theory?). When John Holland ran that simulation, he had a bet going with Thomas Sargent about whether or not Holland's adaptive learning computer agents would learn to specu

Re: Burning questions

1994-07-05 Thread carla feldpausch
On hyperinflation, if you look at the modeling that John Holland is doing on speculative bubbles in the stock market in complexity theory, you get an intriguing start on looking at hyperinflation in a new way. Complexity theorists are currently working on models that show how assumptions of rat