[PEN-L:8226] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:Information revolution?

1999-06-23 Thread Doug Henwood
Jim Devine wrote: >I think the main impact of the InfoRev has been decentralization. Except that there was a tremendous exodus of corporate HQ from New York and other big cities in the 1960s and 1970s, an exodus that has now largely ended. And we're seeing a tremendous gentrification of old urba

[PEN-L:8233] Re: Re: Re: information revolution?

1999-06-23 Thread Doug Henwood
Brad De Long wrote: >>Are they using "real" growth here? Given the big drop in hardware prices, >>small nominal growth can turn into giant real growth when deflated (or, in >>this case, inflated). >> >>Doug > >They are real numbers. But they are (or are supposed to be) chained to >minimize this p

[PEN-L:8234] Re: Re: Re: Re: Summers Memo

1999-06-23 Thread Doug Henwood
Brad De Long wrote: >The point is that if you are doing neoclassical utilitarian economics >correctly, you don't make the mistake of confusing social welfare with GDP >per capita. If you don't do that, then is it still neoclassical economics? Doug

[PEN-L:8262] Re: Re: Information revolution?

1999-06-23 Thread Doug Henwood
Rod Hay wrote: >Personal computers have been with us for twenty years. Have they engendered >any discernible trends in social evolution? Yeah, we're talking to each other, for one. Doug

[PEN-L:8337] Re: Re: Re: Peter Dorman's letter appeared in the NYTimes today

1999-06-25 Thread Doug Henwood
Peter Dorman wrote: >Yes, and I'm peeved. The last sentence was the important one, making >the main political point (about democracy) and needling the Times for >the implicit bias in their coverage. *They never received my permission >to print this revised version.* They always do this. They c

[PEN-L:8366] Re: Re: Thomas Friedman an economist?

1999-06-26 Thread Doug Henwood
Rod Hay wrote: >One can interpret the Arrow-Debreu model as the ultimate undermining >of neoclassical general equilibrium. By showing the conditions that >are required to reach an equilibrium, they demonstrate that it is >extremely unlikely to occur in any actual economy. (The necessity >for

[PEN-L:8380] Re: Re: Re: Re: Thomas Friedman an economist?

1999-06-27 Thread Doug Henwood
Jim Devine wrote: >Doug writes: >But most neoclassicals respond to this by saying that the >world is close enough to the theory, and that where the real world differs >from theory, the real world should be changed to match the dictates >of theory.< > >isn't the latter the main program of the IM

[PEN-L:8401] Re: Definition: Of word or thing? Was ...ThomasFriedman an economist?

1999-06-28 Thread Doug Henwood
Carrol Cox wrote: >Reference Doug's post on Zizek on Ideology. > >This is defining one use of the word. Clearly there are not enough words > >in English to confine any word to one usage. The word "ideology" will >often have to be used in senses different from or even contradictory to >the sense(s

[PEN-L:8435] Re: Definition: Of word or thing?

1999-06-28 Thread Doug Henwood
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I agree that neoclassical economics is both a complex of ideas and a >material practice, but I think that neoclassical economics isn't the >'spontaneous' understanding of the world without qualifications. Not >everything solid melts into thin air, when it comes to gender,

[PEN-L:8463] Re: Whiteness Studies and Its Discontents

1999-06-28 Thread Doug Henwood
Quite an interesting practice, responding to people who aren't here. Doug Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I've taken a look at the exchange on race on lbo, and it is quite >interesting to see what appears to be unintended effects of whiteness >studies. Three fragments on whiteness from lbo: > >* >

[PEN-L:8483] Re: Re: getting back on track

1999-06-29 Thread Doug Henwood
Brad De Long wrote: >... and is likely to remain racist for a long time to come--unless >America's left can unify and organize... I just read a quote attributed to Ronald Reagan, of all people, in today's paper. He said that someone who agrees with you 80% of the time isn't your enemy. Maybe

[PEN-L:8487] Re: Re: Re: Whiteness Studies and Its Discontents

1999-06-29 Thread Doug Henwood
Henry C.K. Liu wrote: >Note the tactic of shifting the issue to one of protocol rather than >substance. >The way you said it, Yosjie, is ungentlewoman like, therefore what >true. This is utter crap, Henry. I never tried to stop discussion of race on lbo-talk; the only thing I wanted to stop w

[PEN-L:8529] Re: Socialism, Social Democracy, Democracy

1999-06-29 Thread Doug Henwood
Louis Proyect wrote: >In some ways, >Chomsky with his blend of anarchism and libertarianism is less timid than >the averaged tenured Marxist professor. They have been trained to write in >a lofty, non-judgemental manner about history and economics, but rarely in >the exhortative manner found in C

[PEN-L:8538] Re: Re: Re: Socialism, Social Democracy, Democracy

1999-06-29 Thread Doug Henwood
Louis Proyect wrote: >that is the time >you choose to allow them to reprint your LBO musings on the left and its >problems. Actually James Heartfield asked me to write the article for LM. It wasn't a reprint of anything. Pathogenetically, Doug

[PEN-L:8542] the offending piece

1999-06-29 Thread Doug Henwood
By the way, here's the piece I wrote for LM that made Lou Proyect sick. This is what I sent them; there may have been minor edits in the published version. Doug IN LOVE WITH DISASTER by Doug Henwood Back in 1992, I wrote an article in the newsletter I edit <http://www.p

[PEN-L:8545] Re: Re: Re: Re: Socialism, Social Democracy,Democracy

1999-06-29 Thread Doug Henwood
jf noonan wrote: >For those of us not up on the diabolical machinations of >crypto-facist Henwood, what publication are you talking about? LM, formerly known as Living Marxism, the former publication of the former Revolutionary Communist Party (the British one, no relation to Bob Avakian's cul

[PEN-L:8525] Re: Re: quoth Doug...

1999-06-29 Thread Doug Henwood
Louis Proyect wrote: > >quoth Doug, from LBO #90, which I received today: > >>One of the depressing things about this war [against Serbia] is all the > >side-taking that's been going on. > >Well, of course Doug would write something like this. He is a journalist >above the fray. And where are yo

[PEN-L:8445] Re: Definition: Of word or thing?

1999-06-28 Thread Doug Henwood
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Yes, but the majority of women are, alas, not feminists, bourgeois or >otherwise. Though they do pay allegiance to "equal pay for equal work." >Isn't the very fact that race still matters (despite many non-white >persons' passionate desire for inclusion + equal exploit

[PEN-L:8405] Re: Re: good news!

1999-06-28 Thread Doug Henwood
Rob Schaap wrote: >Ý* Computer technology has revolutionized the way >Ýprivate industry manages the flow of products and >Ýmaterials. Disruptive pile-ups of unused goods and >Ýbottlenecks caused by shortages--historically major >Ýcauses of economic instability--appear to be less of a >Ýthreat the

[PEN-L:8389] Re: Re: Re: Thomas Friedman an economist?

1999-06-27 Thread Doug Henwood
Brad De Long wrote: >>Brad is right that very good, very intelligent neo-classical >>economist attempt to separate the technique from the ideology. I >>don't think that they are completely successful. > > >I would agree--there is an elective affinity between "classical >liberal" politics and t

[PEN-L:8388] Re: good news!

1999-06-27 Thread Doug Henwood
Jim Devine quoted : > > Is it a freak, the economic equivalent > of a 100-year flood? A growing number > of experts think not. > > Not only will today's good times roll > longer than ever before, according to this > view, but the traditional cycle of boom > and bust will never be the same again. >

[PEN-L:8341] Re: More on the Embassy Bombing

1999-06-25 Thread Doug Henwood
Henry C.K. Liu wrote: >REPORT: 2 CHINESE VICTIMS IN U.S. RAID IN BELGRADE REPORTEDLY WERE SPIES > >Two of the three Chinese killed in last month's Chinese Embassy bombing in >Belgrade were not journalists -- but intelligence officers! > >So claims a report in late editions of Friday's NEW YORK TI

[PEN-L:8238] Re: Re: Information revolution?

1999-06-23 Thread Doug Henwood
Rod Hay wrote: >My question is whether in this decentralization the corporation as we know >it can persist. Can the centre hold? It depends upon the control of property >(material or otherwise). Will corporations have any advantage? We can speculate all we like on the future, but the present & r

[PEN-L:8196] Re: Re:Information revolution?

1999-06-22 Thread Doug Henwood
Rod Hay wrote: >I don't doubt that these things are happening at least marginally, but does >this constitute a "revolution" similar in importance as the industrial >revolution in the 19th century or the corporate revolution in the 20th >century. Computers are over 50 years old now; they're no lo

[PEN-L:8173] Re: RE: Re: Request: Summers Memo

1999-06-22 Thread Doug Henwood
Craven, Jim wrote: >BTW, I heard, but do not know, that for some time Summers did not deny >having written that memo and then later claimed he did not write it but it >was a memo of understanding to what was discussed and then the story changed >again to "I didn't write it and had nothing to do w

[PEN-L:8156] Re: Re: Request: Summers Memo

1999-06-21 Thread Doug Henwood
By the way, in a neglected passage of the Summers/Pritchett memo, it says: What's new? Throughout the outline I struggle with the evidence showing what exactly the proclaimed revolution [in production] has revolutionized. FDI has always existed and many of the world's largest firms have been tra

welfare reform poll

1994-06-01 Thread Doug Henwood
re is less depressing than I imagined before reading this. By the way, the poll was done by a bipartisan team, Geoffrey Garin of Peter D. Hart Associates (Dem) and Linda DiVall of American Viewpoint (Rep). Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Bubbles & tightness

1994-06-01 Thread Doug Henwood
rement, Determinants, and Monetary Policy Implications (BIS Economic Papers No. 40, April 1994). Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Re: Penl'rs book on finance

1994-06-03 Thread Doug Henwood
You're probably thinking of Transforming the US Financial System, edited by Gary Dymski, Gerald Epstein, and Robert Pollin, published by ME Sharpe for the Economic Policy Institute. My book. I gotta finish it first. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874

Re: India and World Bank

1994-06-10 Thread Doug Henwood
a positive development model to replace them. Are traditional ways of life to be preserved forever? Is electrification a bad thing in itself? In other words, what should be done in place of the dams? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Re: India and World Bank

1994-06-10 Thread Doug Henwood
ad very little along those lines. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Thu, 9 Jun 1994, Ben Crow wrote: > Andrew Sessions has posted the 'Manibeli Declaration', a proposal from the > International Rivers Network,

Re: India and World Bank

1994-06-11 Thread Doug Henwood
;s finance ministry interrupted to say - you have no idea what it's like to be a finance minister who has to come up with $100m in foreign exchange next week. Does any of the works you cited - and I'll check them out on my own as soon as I can - address this problem? Doug Doug Henwood [[E

Re: India and World Bank

1994-06-11 Thread Doug Henwood
ry's forever, or is this just a transitional strategy? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Re: Caterpiller Campaign

1994-06-11 Thread Doug Henwood
I'd be happy to sign this, but only if the spelling of Caterpillar is corrected. I suspect my affiliation may scare the UAW a bit though. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Sat, 11 Jun 1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Caterpillar campaign

1994-06-11 Thread Doug Henwood
I found out when my mail was returned as undeliverable. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Re: wages and inflation

1994-06-20 Thread Doug Henwood
nomist's - are all telling very similar tales. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Sat, 18 Jun 1994, Michael Perelman wrote: > I am double posting this to pen-l and pkt since I would like to draw upon > the collective

Re: PROUT and localism

1994-06-21 Thread Doug Henwood
n't tend quite forcefully towards concentration. It seems that lots of these New Visions are merely old populist, petit bourgeois, small business, Proudhonist fantasies in new guise. Yay! Thank God someone finally spoke up for rootless cosmopolitans. Some of us find these small scale, lo

Re: IMF/WB on social policy within G7 ?

1994-06-21 Thread Doug Henwood
s and transfers as well as before_ is far more unequal than Western Europe's, and probably is the most unequal in the First World. The IMF is trafficking in fantasy. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Mon, 20 Jun 199

Re: ANC economic program in South Africa

1994-06-23 Thread Doug Henwood
incorporation of the ANC guerillas into the army). Is there a South African Bob Woodward? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Re: ANC Economics policy

1994-06-23 Thread Doug Henwood
he FT said "It comes as a surprise to see an ANC government handong out goodies to the corporate sector but not to the masses." The JSE liked the budget, as did Buthelezi. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On T

Re: Cockburn on Vaclav Havel

1994-06-24 Thread Doug Henwood
Calling Vaclav Havel a "sententious faker" is one of many reasons why you gotta love Cockburn. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Re: ANC Economics policy

1994-06-24 Thread Doug Henwood
ate tax an illusion? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Thu, 23 Jun 1994, Jim Devine wrote: > In South Africa, > "The corporate tax was cut from 40% to 35%, though this was > partly offset by an increase from

Re: The Nation (magazine) on the Internet?

1994-06-25 Thread Doug Henwood
zine's BBS, which is still in formation, and requires direct dialup. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Sat, 25 Jun 1994, Bill Humphries wrote: > I understand _The Nation_ maintains a presence on PeaceNet, but are

Re: ANC Economics policy

1994-06-27 Thread Doug Henwood
50/50 between capital and labor. In their recent work, like the paper analyzing the Clinton tax changes published in January, An Economic Analysis of the Revenue Provisions of OBRA-93, they applied the corporate tax 100% to personal income from capital. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Bus

Re: ANC Economics policy

1994-06-27 Thread Doug Henwood
professed surpise herself. 2) US corporate taxes higher? Now *there's* a counterfactual! Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Stunning factoid

1994-06-28 Thread Doug Henwood
investment income fell to virtually zero last year - for the first time since before the First World War. They might have added that as recently as 1990, the figure was +$20.3b. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Burning questions

1994-07-05 Thread Doug Henwood
y good out-of-the-mainstream explanations of hyperinflation? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Re: Burning questions

1994-07-05 Thread Doug Henwood
es it just lend a priestly aura? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Tue, 5 Jul 1994, carla feldpausch wrote: > On hyperinflation, if you look at the modeling that John Holland is doing on > speculative bubbles in the

No Subject

1994-07-07 Thread Doug Henwood
I thought folks might be interested in this little polemic, which will appear in tomorrow's (Jul 8) Financial Times letters column. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) PS: The sexist "Sir" isn't my ch

NLR #205

1994-07-16 Thread Doug Henwood
cipatory desire, it is necesary to insist on it more than ever, it seems, and insist on it, moreover, as the very indestructibility of the 'it is necessary.' This is the condition of a repoliticization, perhaps of another concept of the political Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Women Academics and Welfare

1994-07-18 Thread Doug Henwood
Is there no room for non-women and non-academics in such a statement? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Race, morals, and welfare

1994-07-19 Thread Doug Henwood
sy equivalences of right=racist and multiculti=progressive must be rethought, no question mark following. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

re: race, morals, and welfare

1994-07-20 Thread Doug Henwood
On Tue, 19 Jul 1994, Blair Sandler wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote about today's WSJ article on the Christian > Coalition. > > "They want to become, says organizer Ralph Reed, a true rainbow > coalition. This means that the easy equivalences of right=racist > and mu

Re: problems with marx's crit of utop socialism

1994-07-20 Thread Doug Henwood
tuation in practical political terms. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Tue, 19 Jul 1994, Julie Matthaei wrote: > Reading the suggested texts on Marx and Engels' critiques of utopian > socialism brings to mind my

Re: URPE = UPE?

1994-09-01 Thread Doug Henwood
ed by the day. Of course our message and our program need rethinking and retuning, but dilution gets you nowhere. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Re: Re[4]: Population

1994-09-01 Thread Doug Henwood
t of the damage, not the overpopulated countries of the south. I also wish folks would tend more towards viewing human beings as a resource rather than a threat. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Population agendas

1994-09-02 Thread Doug Henwood
y increase the man-years of human misery, ultimately from starvation," wrote King. Kill them to be kind. [For info on CounterPunch, write to CounterPunch, c/o Institute for Policy Studies, 1601 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington DC 20009, or call 202-234-9382.] Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Silence

1994-09-07 Thread Doug Henwood
After reading that count, whatever the errors Gil points out, I've taken a vow of silence. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Re: Henwood Follies

1994-09-10 Thread Doug Henwood
7 votes is almost a mass appeal, no? Now if I could just think of something to say Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Fri, 9 Sep 1994, Cotter_Cindy wrote: > When I was a kid I attended a performance of Peter Pan in w

Broken vows & Coase

1994-09-12 Thread Doug Henwood
itiques of Coase's theorem of why firms exist? Relatedly, are there any Marxian theories of the firm? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

US BLS contingent survey

1994-09-19 Thread Doug Henwood
)satisfaction, etc. A press release reporting the results will be available in the summer of 1995 and a full report, probably in the Monthly Labor Review, in the fall of 1995. There is currently no reliable data on contingent work in the U.S.; this will be the first. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: principal/agent & social conscience

1994-09-20 Thread Doug Henwood
How do you begin to encourage cooperation and a social conscience in a society that is hostile to those ideas? Don't you have a chicken/egg problem here? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Mon, 19 Sep 1994, Jim D

Fed tightening again?

1994-09-21 Thread Doug Henwood
are long Telmex and the Singapore Fund - call your broker! Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Re: WOMEN'S STATEMENT ON WELFARE

1994-09-25 Thread Doug Henwood
The Women's Statement is a fine document. Should there a be a similar men's statement? Or do men only concern themselves with macro issues like fiscal policy and trade? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Re: Krugman's Fantasy Economics

1994-09-28 Thread Doug Henwood
This may be bad. But is it nonsense? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Wed, 28 Sep 1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Herewith El Kruger: >Reports by international organizations are usually greeted with well >

Re: Krugman's Fantasy Economics

1994-09-28 Thread Doug Henwood
I assume that mainstreamers who blame technology never acknowledge that R&D is financed by capital and capital's state, and that it's part of the strategy to cheapen labor? It's just the innocent at the party? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer

RE: principal/agent and social conscience

1994-09-28 Thread Doug Henwood
What is the point of the coupons if you can't trade them? Are they just a bookkeeping device for distributing profits? Or is there some sentimental attachment to stock certificates? I thought everything was book entry these days. Book entry socialism? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROT

Re: RACHEL: Economic Trends (fwd)

1994-09-29 Thread Doug Henwood
when the NYT front-pages it? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

LBO gopher open

1994-10-03 Thread Doug Henwood
e=LBO Path=1/econ/orgs/LBO Host=csf.Colorado.EDU Port=70 Admin=Studly Gopher Admin +1 (612) 338-3970 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ModDate=Sun Oct 2 17:26:17 1994 <19941002172617> URL: gopher://csf.Colorado.EDU:70/1/1/econ/orgs/LBO Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 21

Re: Mandela vs. Aristide

1994-10-05 Thread Doug Henwood
It's indeed sad to hear Mandela say this, but what choices do small poor countries have these days? If you, or any of us, were given the task of devising a development strategy for SA, or Brazil, or Sri Lanka - what would we do? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Obs

World Bank Legal Action (fwd)

1994-10-05 Thread Doug Henwood
FYI. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) -- Forwarded message -- Date: 04 Oct 94 06:22 PDT From: The Development GAP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Recipients of conference mlist.wbbig" <[EMAIL

Re: World Bank Legal Action (fwd)

1994-10-05 Thread Doug Henwood
On Wed, 5 Oct 1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > By the way, does this rant count as an example of the "populism" that I've > seen criticized in various circles (not here) of late? Is World Bank-bashing merely populist? I hope not What do you mean, Ian? Doug

Re: shame of neo-classical economists

1994-10-06 Thread Doug Henwood
mething of a liberal; he supports some enviro and pop contol causes (excluding tobacco). But the pig once refused to give his daughter a dime when she was unemployed and living in a trailer park. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (

Re: short-term horizons

1994-10-07 Thread Doug Henwood
The power of financial capital moves with, or in the opposite direction of, retained earnings? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Thu, 6 Oct 1994, Michael Perelman wrote: > I have just completed a book in which I find t

1994-10-05 Thirteen Named to Trade Policy Committee (fwd)

1994-10-07 Thread Doug Henwood
The makeup of this group speaks volumes. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 11:47-0400 From: The White House <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject

Income & poverty reports

1994-10-07 Thread Doug Henwood
o email a copy (about 97K) to anyone who asks. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Re: south african policy

1994-10-08 Thread Doug Henwood
ated capital so as to avoid a debt crisis and avoid pricing itself out of world markets? And how did it get away with this in the political sense? Why didn't the US pry them open earlier? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Argentina income stats

1994-10-10 Thread Doug Henwood
Bank press office to explain these oddities, but they haven't responded yet. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Re: Stubborn Military bases

1994-10-11 Thread Doug Henwood
It's Business Executives for National Security. Don't know where they are, but no doubt the Encyclopedia of Associations does. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Mon, 10 Oct 1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > &

Income & poverty - last chance

1994-10-11 Thread Doug Henwood
Final offer to have the US Census Bureau's income & poverty reports for 1993 emailed to you. I'm gonna purge the file on Friday morning, NYC time. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Re: "Nobel" prizes in Econ.

1994-10-12 Thread Doug Henwood
Is there any room in game theory for power - political, market, or class? Or is it just a game among equals and individuals? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Re: Decatur

1994-10-15 Thread Doug Henwood
Yes, please. Many things are happening in Decatur now, right? Please keep us posted. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Sat, 15 Oct 1994, Robert Naiman wrote: > > Would folks be interested in updates on the Staley l

Re: Textbooks on Financial Markets

1994-10-17 Thread Doug Henwood
t in vol. 3 of Capital, or the chapter on money in the Grundrisse. Not exactly policy-relevant, of course. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Mon, 17 Oct 1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear John, > For a critical p

Re: Cheryl Payer's whereabouts

1994-10-17 Thread Doug Henwood
There's a C Payer listed in my Manhattan phone book who I'm pretty sure is Cheryl. 212-255-2957, 13 Carmine St. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Mon, 17 Oct 1994, Robert Naiman wrote: > > Anyone out t

Immigration

1994-10-19 Thread Doug Henwood
should govern immigration to the US? The issue seems complex, dangerous, and trivialized in mainstream discussion. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Re: Immigration

1994-10-19 Thread Doug Henwood
ious discussion. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Wed, 19 Oct 1994, Robert Naiman wrote: > Surely the issue is the fact that the undocumented workers have no > rights. If the bosses have access to a group of worke

Re: branch banking

1994-10-20 Thread Doug Henwood
They passed, and Bill signed them with enthusiasm. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Wed, 19 Oct 1994, Brian Eggleston wrote: > Pen-lers > > Does anyone have information on the fate of the interstate branch >

Re: Immigration and Job Competition: Longer article

1994-10-20 Thread Doug Henwood
Thanks to Nathan Newman for posting his article. That was exactly the sort of thing I was looking for. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

The Hayek critique

1994-10-26 Thread Doug Henwood
It seems that everyone these days accepts the Hayek critique of planning. Are there any sharp new critiques of the critiques that the comrades could recommend? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Re: The Hayek critique

1994-10-26 Thread Doug Henwood
stand why someone would lapse into the "wouldn't it be neat if...?" mode, but it's not very helpful on how to get from here to there. Transforming what exists seems to me to be the way to go, and what exists is lots of markets, and what we need is less of them. Doug Doug

Re: Credit scoring again??

1994-10-27 Thread Doug Henwood
Duh, I dunno. I ain't taken no vow of no silence, but I dunno. Guess I've been watching too much Beavis and Butt-head. Call Larry Lindsay at the Fed! Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Thu, 27 Oct 1994 [EMAIL

Re: The Hayek critique

1994-10-28 Thread Doug Henwood
red. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

No Subject

1994-10-30 Thread Doug Henwood
I think my system screwed up and bounced a message as user unknown and de-subscribed me. Am I desubscribed? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Barro sez...

1994-11-01 Thread Doug Henwood
e forms of education and health, and low fertility rates. Anyone know what research Barro is referring to? Is it credible? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Re: IQ, genetics, and statistics (fwd)

1994-11-04 Thread Doug Henwood
FYI. - Doug Henwood Original message The following are comments of the president of the ETS on misinterpretation and abuse of data sets by the authors of Bell Curve: -- Forwarded message -- Subject: Re: IQ, genetics, and

Atlas published

1994-11-07 Thread Doug Henwood
Apologies for both the vulgar self-promotion and possible duplicate postings! Please feel free to repost, redistribute, tack on telephone polls, shout from rooftops, etc. Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024 212-874-4020 phone 212-874-3137 fax

Atlas plugged

1994-11-08 Thread Doug Henwood
the catcalls. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Election results

1994-11-11 Thread Doug Henwood
Comrades, do not exaggerate your despair. The share of the Congressional popular vote was 52% Rep, 48% Dem. This hardly qualifies as the landslide of reaction it's been portrayed as - especially given depressed turnout on the left and energized turnout on the right. Doug Doug Henwood [[

Re: social security

1994-11-22 Thread Doug Henwood
of financial orthodoxy on the U.S. scene. Are the Danish funds managed according to social principles or according to orthodox share price maximization? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Re: new party spin

1994-11-24 Thread Doug Henwood
ith any of this? It's about as bland as the usual politician's bleating about change. Where's that fundamental rethink of basic institutions that Rogers and Pope called for in their Nation manifesto? One might suspect they're pitching for the same Perotians that Clinton is,

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