Re: your mail

1994-09-14 Thread roy rotheim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Arvind Jaggi writes: I am trying to find Tim Koechlin's (Economics, Skidmore) e-mail address. Could anyone oblige. Thanks. Arvind Jaggi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Roy J. Rotheim INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Economics

book request

1994-07-20 Thread roy rotheim
I'll be teaching intro to micro next term, and I'm looking for a book that I can use as an antidote to the Friedmans' Free to Choose (please don't recommend Free to Lose). I'm looking for something that explains the nature of a market economy from the perspective not of the so-called "free will,

Mill and Marx

1994-03-31 Thread roy rotheim
I lost a number of pen-l messages and so what follows may be out of context. If so, sorry. With regard to the Mill/Marx similarity, it's clear that some of the impetus to Marx's ideas on the separation of purchase and sale, the distinction between barter economies and those in which money

Re: labor theory of value again

1994-03-25 Thread roy rotheim
Michael Perelman writes: This citation from Sen might be interesting: March 24, 1994Sen, Amartya. 1978. "On the Labour Theory of Value: Some Methodological Issues." Cambridge Journal of Economics. 2 pp. 175-90. He compares labor theory of value to statement that "Michelangelo made the

Clinton's Reemployment Act

1994-03-16 Thread roy rotheim
Thanks, Mike, for sending the copy of the speech by Bill Clinton. For me the really profound observation made by BC was that "last year, three out of four laid-off workers expected to lost their jobs permanently - the highest figure since the Labor Department began keeping these statistics." In