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34621 The Week -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Just as the US consumption is supposedly driving the world economy, could we >not assume that the small fraction of people who own stock drive the >US economy >as the effect of their consumption ripples through the economy? That's what Poterba & Sawmick were testing, and came up empty. Doug

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Date:	Mon May 1 09:07:55 PDT 2000

34622 The Week -- rank: 1000

M A Jones wrote: >Yes, but the way you posed it was (paraphrasing), the US wants Euroland to >be more like itself, and if Euroland WAS more like us [you speculated] why >could there not therefore by a huge new Euro upwave, albeit warty round the >edges? At the core, but otherwise, yes, this is pretty much what I'm saying. > [ie, you argued in favour of blairite 'structural reforms', ie, >closing down more of the welfare state, worker rights etc]. That was what >you said, ye ...

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Date:	Mon May 1 08:57:35 PDT 2000

34623 beware Monday -- rank: 1000

"Losing Sleep at the Market: The Daylight-Savings Anomaly" BY: MARK KAMSTRA Simon Fraser University, Department of Economics LISA A. KRAMER Simon Fraser University, Department of Economics MAURICE D. LEVI University of British Columbia, Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration Division of Finance Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=208623 Other Electronic Document Delivery: http://kamstra.econ.sfu.ca/~kram ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 31 19:30:41 PST 2000

34624 Fwd: Grad Employees Stage Sit-In -- rank: 1000

[from list alum Dan Vukovich] Hello Doug, Thought you and yours on LBO-talk might find this of interest. Will keep you posted, but for now, people might go to the GEO site at http://www.shout.net/~geo/mainpage.html , print out the *.pdf letter there and *mail* it to Pres. Sturkel (c/o of the GEO). So far, the Univ. has refrained from arresting anyone over this sit-in, but it is generating good press nonetheless. Hopefully today's action will help us move towards a strike by the end of this te ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 31 12:31:54 PST 2000

34625 progress in economics (cont.) -- rank: 1000

"Quantifying Artistic Success: Ranking French Painters--and Paintings--from Impressionism to Cubism" BY: DAVID W. GALENSON University of Chicago Department of Economics National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=193630 Paper ID: NBER Working Paper No. W7407 Date: October 1999 Contact: DAVID W. GALENSON Email: Mailto:sogrodow at midway.uchicago.edu Postal: University of Ch ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 30 16:35:09 PST 2000

34626 Financial Times -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >I just went to the _Financial Times's_ website... It's changed... I >can't find anything... Links don't go where they say they go... I >clicked on three different links, and each time was transported to >Samuel Brittan's critique of Gordon Brown's budget... > >It's clearly a plot... > >But whose? FT.com is a total disaster. It's impossible to find articles from the paper, the search routine returns nondescriptive headlines, and it looks like hell. I d ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 30 16:11:08 PST 2000

34627 more campus reports -- rank: 1000

[from Sam Smith's Progressive Review] ON CAMPUS MARTY LEARY, TULANE: Last night was amazing here in New Orleans. Our campus police threatened to "forcibly remove us" from the building but when they arrived there were 200 plus people outside and 30 plus people inside making a hell of a racket. They decided to lock the door and put police on the inside and let us stay In other words, after the day-long show down we won! We won the battle but the war has only begun. Today we step up the ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 30 16:13:41 PST 2000

34628 Popperism (was Chomsky -- Put up or blah blah) -- rank: 1000

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: >Bhashkar's an obscurantist fool But at least he isn't a postmodernist! Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 30 16:07:59 PST 2000

34629 Analytical Mrxism (was: Re: Popperism (was Chomsky -- Put up or blah blah)) -- rank: 1000

Johannes Schneider wrote: >I dont know whether the answer is trivial for lbo-talk, but I would >still like Yoshie to say more about Analytical Marxism vs. Poperism. Hey, nothing's too trivial for us! Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 30 16:08:23 PST 2000

34630 Popperism -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of an address oddity] Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 12:15:48 -0800 (PST) From: Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> X-Sender: cqmv at freke.odin.pdx.edu To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Subject: Re: Popperism (was Chomsky -- Put up or blah blah) In-Reply-To: <524AA6DB83604D1178E40005B8876857 at smartens.moncourrier.com> Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0003301207220.7848-100000 at freke.odin.pdx.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Sc ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 30 12:48:55 PST 2000

34631 Fw: An Article From Slate -- rank: 1000

Brett Knowlton wrote: >Why do folks get all up in arms about such minor things? This article >picks out one aspect of Ehrenreich's article and heaps abuse upon her for >it, while conveniently disregarding the body of her work (a tactic which is >depressingly common). I've read enough Ehrenreich to know that she is >definitely in favor of unionization. She's not an Enemy of Labor, as this >piece tries to proclaim. [...] >In fact, from what I remember of her article, her co ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 30 10:26:04 PST 2000

34632 CDNow - more to come? -- rank: 1000

Industry Standard - March 30, 2000 CDnow: Harbinger of E-Commerce Doom? The online music retailer CDnow is in jeopardy, and some are speculating that its troubles augur poorly for e-retailing as a whole. As the New York Times' Matt Richtel reported, CDnow's stock fell nearly a third after an audit it filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission "expressed 'substantial doubt' about the future of the company." It seems that the company only has enough cash to keep it going through S ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 30 10:15:22 PST 2000

34633 oped on afl-cio and immigration -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >What genius thinks up the wonderful sounding names for all of these laws? >Who could oppose "Agricultural Job Opportunity Benefits" or Security? They're beauts, aren't they? Gotta love the "Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act," and the "Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act" (end of welfare), too. Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 30 10:10:20 PST 2000

34634 Fwd: LM NEWS: The end of LM magazine -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> ... Most of the "free speech" fanatics you're likely to come across >> are soc dems/liberals or wacky libertarians. > >Where does Chomsky fit in that list? Does the last category imply "wacky >libertarian[-socialists]"? Ha, good question. He's a libertarian socialist, but certainly not wacky. Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 30 08:26:34 PST 2000

34635 Yale TA update -- rank: 1000

Chroncle of Higher Education - web daily - March 30, 2000 Yale Agrees to Settlement of Legal Battle Over Graduate Teaching Assistants By COURTNEY LEATHERMAN Yale University agreed Wednesday to a settlement of its legal battles arising from a 1995 grade strike by graduate teaching assistants. But the deal, like previous developments in the case, falls well short of settling the debate over whether T.A.'s are employees or students. In fact, the Graduate Employees and Students Organization, which f ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 30 06:19:16 PST 2000