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35866 progress in economics (cont.) -- rank: 1000

"A Dynamic Model of Differential Human Capital and Criminal Activity" BY: NACI H. MOCAN University of Colorado at Denver National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) STEVE BILLUPS University of Colorado at Denver JODY R. OVERLAND Affiliation Unknown Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=206149 Date: January 2000 Contact: NACI H. MOCAN Email: Mailto:nmocan at carbon.cudenver.edu Postal: University of Colorado at ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 18 14:30:55 PST 2000

35867 Fwd: American constitution above debate -- rank: 1000

Le Monde diplomatique ----------------------------------------------------- February 2000 DEMOCRACY IN A STRAITJACKET American constitution above debate _________________________________________________________________ In a few weeks the US primaries will have eliminated most of the presidential hopefuls. But money and fame count more than statements of policy. The economy is experiencing the longest period of growth in its history - at the price of an equally historic trade deficit. Yet the bas ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 18 10:38:46 PST 2000

35868 EMH -- rank: 1000

Efficient market theory isn't what it used to be: <http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?ABSTRACT_ID=171723> New Facts in Finance JOHN H. COCHRANE University of Chicago; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 1999 Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) Working Paper No. 490 & NBER Working Paper No. 7169 Abstract: The last 15 years have seen a revolution in the way financial economists understand the wo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 18 10:33:25 PST 2000

35869 Clinton/Sweeney Amnesty Plan -- rank: 1000

Tom Lehman wrote: >Doug--The past and present in Latin America. To which the U.S. government and U.S. capital have contributed no small amount. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 18 09:46:40 PST 2000

35870 Clinton/Sweeney Amnesty Plan -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: >House vote, percent: > 1998 1996 > > D R D R >union household 64 36 63 46 >"Hispanic" 63 37 73 27 Ooops. Carrol pointed out that 63/46 is a problem. That's 63/36, sorry. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 18 09:44:51 PST 2000

35871 Clinton/Sweeney Amnesty Plan -- rank: 1000

Andrew English wrote: >I may be wrong, on this, but isn't reapportionment of congressional seats >based on population, regardless of whether the >residents are voting citizens? > >In that case, California would gain seats and other states lose them with or >without an amnesty. A Census Bureau demographer told me that they don't really believe people's self-reporting of their citizenship status: even people who are citizens sometimes get it wrong. So there's no such thing as a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 18 09:28:22 PST 2000

35872 EMH -- rank: 1000

Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 10:04:05 -0500 From: Enrique Diaz-Alvarez <enrique at anise.ee.cornell.edu> Organization: Cornell University X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; HP-UX B.10.20 9000/735) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Subject: EMH a hypothesis? References: <80256889.002BCCB5.00 at notesjanus.flemings.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit DANIEL.DAVIES at flemings.com wrote: > > > Efficie ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 18 09:23:16 PST 2000

35873 Clinton/Sweeney Amnesty Plan -- rank: 1000

M.Blackmore wrote: >OK, for us furrinners, what the 'ell is the Clinton/Sweeney Amnesty Plan? >And no urls - we have to pay online connection charges by the minute over >here :-( An article explaining it was posted the other day. I'd repost it, but you'd have to pay connection charges. Here's the beginning: >Washington Post - February 17, 2000 > >Unions Ask Amnesty for Illegal Aliens > >By Frank Swoboda >Washington Post Staff Writer > >NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 16 - In a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 18 09:19:18 PST 2000

35874 bridges to nowhere -- rank: 1000

Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 08:49:44 -0500 (EST) X-Sender: bhandari at mmp.princeton.edu Message-Id: <v02130501630bd7f67c0a@[128.112.71.26]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-mailer: Eudora Pro 2.1.3 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: bhandari at mmp.Princeton.EDU (Rakesh Bhandari) Subject: Re: class struggle >Christian A. Gregory wrote: > >>What needs explanation is the inability of fiscal spending--even such as it >>is--to stimulat ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 18 09:12:37 PST 2000

35875 Clinton/Sweeney Amnesty Plan -- rank: 1000

Tom Lehman wrote: >This Clinton/Sweeney illegal alien amnesty plan will only skew >things even more >towards banana republic style politics in the USA. Convince me this isn't some racist characterization of Latin Americans. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 18 09:09:28 PST 2000

35876 Robinson -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Doug Henwood wrote: > > > [Didn't she say elsewhere that a rising real wage was one of the > > things that proved Marx wrong?] > >Do you know where she said that? Maybe she's the person I should read for >a programmatic defense of bourgeois labor market theory? She's no straightforward bourgeois! But it was in one of the several (short) essays she wrote on Marx(ism), can't remember which. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 18 08:52:46 PST 2000

35877 Clinton/Sweeney Amnesty Plan -- rank: 1000

Tom Lehman wrote: >What makes you think that because someone is a Latino, that makes them a labor >left Democrat voter? Or even a voter at all? House vote, percent: 1998 1996 D R D R union household 64 36 63 46 "Hispanic" 63 37 73 27

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 18 08:44:45 PST 2000

35878 FROP etc -- rank: 1000

Roger Odisio wrote: >And I disagree with Laibman. Are you sure that's what he said? Did he >ever write that anywhere? Don't know if he ever wrote it, but he said it in exactly those words. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 18 08:28:06 PST 2000

35879 Thailand & China -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: >Doug sez: "But Krugman will never ask that, or he wouldn't have a NYT >column. To >him the only two choices are exploitation or marginalization." > >What's the other choice or alternative? Revolutionary transformation, of course. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 18 08:23:15 PST 2000

35880 FROP, wages, etc -- rank: 1000

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 17:59:38 -0500 (EST) X-Sender: bhandari at mmp.princeton.edu Message-Id: <v02130500630bd4bbbd48@[128.112.71.24]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-mailer: Eudora Pro 2.1.3 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: bhandari at mmp.Princeton.EDU (Rakesh Bhandari) Subject: Roger on Labor, FROP, etc. Cc: rodisio at igc.org Roger noted: > Inflation reduces real wages, not the value of labor power. Yes but real wages are not perfect ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 18 08:09:21 PST 2000