Re: [PEN-L] obesity

Excuse me if I try to say something about this subject about which I have some specific ideas though I understand they may seem trivial. I think that obesity is related to eating habits, eating bad and fast. The problem is complex, in Europe we have a lot less problems (but growing) than in the

[PEN-L] War of the Worlds

Stephen Spielberg's War of the Worlds is a real mess, but an attention-grabbing one nonetheless. With its set pieces involving vast crowds being zapped by extraterrestrial tripods, you find that you can't take your eyes away from the screen. The film has the same morbid fascination as a

Re: [PEN-L] obesity

For the record, I don't think it is absurd that capitalism could cause opposites. Life is full of contradictions. Look before you leap, but he who hesitates is lost. I do think it is ironic that the discussion of whether capitalism causes obesity coincided with the Los Angeles Times running

[PEN-L] Venezuela's Independence Day: Literacy, Petrocaribe, and the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas

Venezuela's Independence Day: Literacy, Petrocaribe, and the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (Today is the 195th anniversary of Venezuela's independence. There are three developments to mark the happy occasion: universal literacy, Petrocaribe, and the Bolivarian Alternative for the

[PEN-L] More bad news

July 5, 2005 The Hot Major For Undergrads Is Economics By JESSICA E. VASCELLARO Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL July 5, 2005; Page A11 What's your major? Around the world, college undergraduates' time-honored question is increasingly drawing the same answer: economics. U.S. colleges

[PEN-L] Senator Obama Speech

Remarks of Senator Barack Obama Knox College Commencement Galesburg, Illinois Saturday, June 4th, 2005 Good morning President Taylor, the Board of Trustees, faculty, parents, family, friends, and the Class of 2005. Congratulations on your graduation, and thank you for allowing me the honor to be

[PEN-L] Dear Mr. Doolittle

I sent this letter to my Congressman today... Dear Mr. Doolittle, The nation is in a terrible pickle, but not as bad as the one you are in, I fear. You have stood for family values and national strength for as long as I have been following your political career. Now that Supreme Court Justice

Re: [PEN-L] More bad news

Even worse, the numbers are skewed because some of the schools don't offer undergrad business degrees, so students take econ. instead. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu

Re: [PEN-L] Senator Obama Speech

Dan Scanlan quoted Barack Obama: My hope for all of you is that you leave here today with the will to keep these principles alive in your own life and the life of this country. They will be tested by the challenges of this new century, and at times we may fail to live up to them. But know that

[PEN-L] recommendations for heterodox grad programs

I got this request from someone who teaches in a school where the students are very interested in top rank programs. Can you recommend top graduate programs in the US in political economy, taking institutionalist perspectives, in either departments of economics or political science? --