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35671 modeling beauty -- rank: 1000

[The hits keep coming.] "Dress For Success -- Does Primping Pay?" BY: DANIEL S. HAMERMESH University of Texas at Austin Department of Economics National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) XIN MENG Australian National University JUNSEN ZHANG Chinese University of Hong Kong Department of Economics Paper ID: NBER Working Paper No. 7167 Date: June 1999 Contact: DANIEL S. HAMERMESH Email: Mailto:hamermes at eco.utexas.edu Postal: University of Texas at Austin Department of Economics A ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 4 18:36:48 PST 2000

35672 modeling marriage -- rank: 1000

[Is bourgeois economics a form of psychopathology?] "A Good Man is Hard to Find: Marriage as an Institution" BY: RUSSELL D. MURPHY, JR. Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University Department of Economics Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=172189 Paper ID: Virginia Tech Working Paper No. E98-02 Date: July 19, 1999 Contact: RUSSELL D. MURPHY, JR. Email: Mailto:rdmurphy at vt.edu Postal: Virginia Pol ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 4 18:29:56 PST 2000

35673 modeling art -- rank: 1000

[More bourgeois economics.] "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young, Middle-Aged, and Elderly Man" BY: LONES SMITH University of Michigan GEOFFREY R. LANYON Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Division of Monetary Affairs Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=182218 Other Electronic Document Delivery: ftp://theorist.econ.lsa.umich.edu/www_papers/portrait. pdf SSRN only offers technical support for papers ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 4 18:31:19 PST 2000

35674 aging anxiety -- rank: 1000

"Aging Anxiety: Much Ado About Nothing?" BY: M. BUETLER Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research GEORG KIRCHSTEIGER Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research Paper ID: Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research (CentER) Working Paper No. 1999-37 Date: 1999 Contact: M. BUETLER Email: Mailto:monika at kub.nl Postal: Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research P.O. Box 90153 5000 LE Tilburg, THE NETHERLANDS Phone: +31 13 466 2938 Fax: +31 13 466 3066 Co ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 4 18:27:26 PST 2000

35675 bourgeois highdomes -- rank: 1000

Daniel F. Vukovich wrote: >But no one should want to be taken seriously as a critic of either >pomo-discourse or of the zeit-geist, unless he or she can name names >or otherwise betray some knowledge of some text. But a lot of Marxists seem to need a phantasmic "postmodernism" to comfort them for their marginalization these days. Why trouble with specifics? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 4 18:16:14 PST 2000

35676 thegreatcrash.com press release -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >He defines a crash as a 60% drop from the peak that stays below >50% of their peak until the end of the year. Can that happen? I >don't think so; today was a nice fall (those Jan 720 OEX calls were >down $20, but closed at $50 -- still a nice run from the $13 in >October), but watch for the bounce tomorrow. My only question >remains: where will all the cash go? Just because the market took >profits today doesn't mean that there won't be another few $B ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 4 18:01:15 PST 2000

35677 bourgeois highdomes -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >When I read your man Bloom's *Anxiety of Influence* many years ago I >was impressed by it but also noted that it was only accurate if the world >began with Milton. (I don't believe, for example, that his arguments would >apply to the relationship of Homer and Virgil.) I agree, and I think Bloom himself made that point. He wouldn't use this language - he'd probably recoil in horror from it, in fact - but his anxiety model is a model of the bourgeois individual. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 4 14:08:51 PST 2000

35678 cooking SS numbers -- rank: 1000

[SS actuary Steve Goss and former SS trustee Robert Reich both strongly denied any political pressure to come up with gloomy forecasts when I interviewed them. Here's someone who argues differently.] Christian Science Monitor - January 4, 1999 OPINION Cooking Social Security's 'deficit' David Langer I discovered in 1974 that cooking numbers is routine in Washington. I had estimated that the new individual retirement account legislation would generate a federal tax loss of about $2.5 billion annu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 4 12:46:35 PST 2000

35679 Fwd: (50 Years) For those in DC area: Jan. 11 meeting on April mobilization (IMF/World Bank) -- rank: 1000

From: soren at igc.org To: <stop-wb-imf at 50years.org> Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 14:26:35 -0500 MEETING! Tuesday - January 11 - 7 p.m. To Plan Mobilization for April 2000 IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings & Related Events On December 15, a group met at the University of the District of Columbia to hear reports from activists who had been at the Seattle meetings of the World Trade Organization. At that time, we agreed to begin work on a D.C. mobilization which would build on the momentum est ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 4 12:35:57 PST 2000

35680 bourgeois highdomes -- rank: 1000

Sam Pawlett wrote: >In Amin's latest MR PRess book Spectres of Capitalism, he lists a good >chunk of Derrida, Lyotard and Foucault in the biblio. I trust he has >read them but he doesn't discuss any author in particular in the chapter >on "postmodernism." I suspect he has better things to do and think >about. Really? Marx took the leading bourgeois thinkers of his time - and even some minor, risible characters - very seriously. Why shouldn't a contemporary Marxist do the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 4 12:31:49 PST 2000

35681 thegreatcrash.com press release -- rank: 1000

[Bounced bec it had a graphic attachment. Hey Jordan, why's he all wet?] From: "Zack Exley" <zee at ix.netcom.com> Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 14:22:01 -0500 anyone want to give me some comments on this press release? Entrepreneur unveils Web site and business plan devoted to a market crash Contact: Zack Exley 617-216-5688 zee at ix.netcom.com Inspired by Harvard Economist John Kenneth Galbraith's book "The Great Crash", a new Web site has come online with an unusual plan to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 4 12:34:00 PST 2000

35682 Y2-nuthin'? -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Zack's description sounds like late 19th C. industry where the "steel makers" >did not know how to make steel. They were dependent on the expertise of the >puddlers. Only the end product, steel, is easier to evaluate than the product >of the programmers. Back in the 80s there was a lot of talk about Taylorizing programming - modular or structured programs, the DoD's promotion of Ada, etc. Whatever happened to all that? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 4 12:19:56 PST 2000

35683 dollar finds a rival -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - January 4, 2000 Euro Grows Into Key Tool Of International Finance By MICHAEL R. SESIT Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL LONDON -- Despite the euro's 14% nosedive against the dollar and 23% plunge against the yen last year, Europe's year-old currency came into its own as a key instrument of international finance on global capital markets. Last year, financial institutions, corporations, governments and international organizations -- such as the World Bank and Europea ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 4 10:16:39 PST 2000

35684 Populism (as shown in *The Progressive Populist* -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >PB has hijacked a left issue. He's not an >author but a plagiarist. Not exactly; nationalist versions of capitalism are plentiful on the right. To take an extreme example: "Thus, the task of the state toward capital was comparatively simple and clear; it only had to make certain that capital remain the handmaiden of the state and not fancy itself the mistress of the nation. This point of view could then be defined between two restrictive limits: preservation of a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 4 09:36:51 PST 2000

35685 The Nazi Economy -- rank: 1000

DANIEL.DAVIES at flemings.com wrote: >I do find it credible that a massive monetary >expansion would do just this, if sterilised domestically and financed >externally by defaults on debts. And sterilized politically by busting unions and sending the unemployed to work camps. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 4 09:38:04 PST 2000