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32596 kids v. economists -- rank: 1000

Aaron Pacitti wrote: > > From: "Suresh Naidu" <antikafka at hotmail.com> >> Subject: Re: kids v. economists > >> I'm a firm believer in tearing down the master's house >> with his own tools, so I like using mathematics in economics...If the >> bourgeois economists like it so much, lets pin them to the wall with it. > >I have yet to take the course, but at American U., Robin Hahnel (a math guy, >from what I hear) teaches a Political ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 21 13:16:15 PST 2001

32597 kids v. economists -- rank: 1000

Jim Westrich wrote: >Doug's specificly mentioned models of boss-worker relations. I do >remember that Bowles and Gintis would have been happy to find >quantifiable variables or their proxies, but never forced that into >their work They instead do what most economists do--just posit some >general (and simple) functional form so you can say stuff >axiomatically about the relations (i.e., paying a worker above the >rate in which they would put minimal effort will mean more eff ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 21 13:15:10 PST 2001

32598 kids v. economists -- rank: 1000

"The amateur of such things must be content to wrestle with the professors, seeking the violet of human interest beneath the avalanche of their graceless parts of speech. A hard business, I daresay, to one not practiced, and to its hardness there is added the disquiet of a doubt.... [Economics] hits the employers of the professors where they live. It deals, not with ideas that affect those employers only occasionally or only indirectly or only as ideas, but with ideas that have an imminent ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 21 13:09:53 PST 2001

32599 quote of the day/who said it? -- rank: 1000

Lisa & Ian Murray wrote: >"The people have begun to think; and they show evidences on all sides of a >tendency to act. Those of you who have not had an opportunity of talking much >with laboring men can hardly form a conception of the amount of thinking that >they are doing. With many these problems are all-absorbing. Many workingmen, >otherwise uneducated, talk about the relation of employer and >employee far more >intelligently than most of the best educated men i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 21 12:07:37 PST 2001

32600 Reed on post-defeatism -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >A writer at Lingua Franca has a book on Goldwater and >the Right coming out this year. Rick Perlstein, Before the Storm: The Goldwater Campaign and the Other 1960s, due in April from Hill & Wang. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 21 12:00:52 PST 2001

32601 kids v. economists -- rank: 1000

Suresh Naidu wrote: >Given the general aversion to techie-math stuff often encountered >among lefty students, this becomes even worse. I'm a firm believer >in tearing down the master's house with his own tools, so I like >using mathematics in economics...If the bourgeois economists like >it so much, lets pin them to the wall with it. Hmm, can you? Or is math part of the problem of bourgeois economics? Not, like I argued with Barkley the other day, that empirical work like Card &a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 21 11:52:08 PST 2001

32602 death tax: petty vs grand bourgeoisie -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - February 20, 2001 Congress May Reduce Estate Tax, But Not Likely to Repeal It Outright By JOHN D. MCKINNON and SHAILAGH MURRAY Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- The death tax may be proving hard to kill. While chances remain strong in Congress for some kind of federal estate-tax rollback this year, it is looking increasingly doubtful that large estates will escape federal taxation altogether, as advocates had hoped. When the House starts hashing out i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 21 10:21:05 PST 2001

32603 privatizing schools -- rank: 1000

[Leo, is there some subtle victory here that's eluding me? "Before, we had this kneejerk policy that didn't correspond to reality" - a classic!] Wall Street Journal - February 20, 2000 For-Profit School Managers Discover Teacher Unions Can Be Unlikely Allies By DANIEL GOLDEN Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL In his 1992 manifesto, "Reinventing the Schools," Steven Wilson called teachers' unions "pathological" and accused them of perpetuating "much of wh ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 21 10:19:24 PST 2001

32604 Fwd: Kuk Dong Update; 39 Workers allowed to return to work! -- rank: 1000

[News from the social imperialists in the anti-sweatshop struggle.] Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 18:24:23 -0800 Subject: Kuk Dong Update; 39 Workers allowed to return to work! From: Leila Salazar <leila at globalexchange.org> Good News from Evelyn with USAS: Hey everyone...here is an update from our companer at s in Mexico. I would strongly recommend signing up to the Kukdong list to get regular updates as well as strategize with folks across the country. Just send an email to kukdong-moderator ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 21 10:14:21 PST 2001

32605 Carowan Unmasked -- rank: 1000

W. Kiernan wrote: >Knowing this ahead of time the pseudonym-veiled writer, happily free of >responsibility to his own name, with scope like wings, can write all >differently than he ever used to. Ah, so I'll reconsider the appellation "apartheid fuck" in this brighter light! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 21 06:31:23 PST 2001

32606 kids v. economists -- rank: 1000

Eric Beck wrote: >LF and DH wrote: > >>As a field, economics has become increasingly hostile >>to unorthodox opinion in recent years, and virtually no >>seriously left-of-center economist has been hired by a >>major department in more than two decades. > >So what's the reason for the dearth of hirings? Is it simply blacklisting? >Or is there a shrinking pool, both quantitatively and qualitatively, of >left-leaning people who study economics at the academ ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 20 17:04:58 PST 2001

32607 LBO web updates -- rank: 1000

I've just posted a few new items to the LBO website: * "World Bank news," the story of the Ravi Kanbur purge <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/WorldBankNews.html> * and "Life after the IMF and Bank are gone," in which Patrick Bond and Walden Bello imagine life after the Bretton Woods institutions are shut down (which includes a fetching photo of Patrick I took at the A16 demo in DC) <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/PostBWI.html>. And there are teasing excerpts from L ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 20 15:42:18 PST 2001

32608 preaching, waiting -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >But at least the Labor Party can remain "forever young", and forever >irrelevent. So how to become relevant? Organize whom, run which candidates in what elections on what platform? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 20 15:31:17 PST 2001

32609 Desai on globalization -- rank: 1000

J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote: > With respect to Bhagwati, last time I checked >he was fervently pro-free trade but was sympathetic >to capital controls of various sorts. I see that in this >letter what he is unhappy about vis a vis the WTO is >the assertion by rich countries of strong patent rules >and intellectual property protection. Is this combination >of positions still a fair characterization of his overall >position? If it is, I am quite sympathetic with i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 20 13:24:00 PST 2001

32610 preaching, waiting -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >Like what? The appointment of John Ashcroft as Attorney General? Good thing the Dems fought that one so vigorously, eh? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 20 13:17:47 PST 2001