[PEN-L:34231] Re: Historians Against the War

[Sabri Oncu <soncu@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joanna:

> Not to mention just a plain old "working class
> against the war..." :)

I have no problems with that.


> Don't mean to make light of your efforts -- but I had
> a huge deadline at work a few days ago and I've been
> feeling a little lightheaded since then. So all of
> this stuff about ..."Poets...Historians....Economists
> ....Against the War" is starting to remind me of those
> "Divers do it deeper..." bumper stickers and all related
> bumper stickers.

But today at UC Berkeley, as I was walking by Sproul Plaza, I
came across an antiwar rally of about 30 students or so. Usual
suspects, of course: ISO and a few other small groups. "Working
class" wasn't there. A network such as "Economists Against the
War" may help some economists remember that they are working
class too and hopefully that they need to move their butts a bit
more, maybe, a bit more than others. After all, they are partly
responsible for these bloody things that are happening to us. Did
you know about Fundenberg, Holmstrom and Milgrom paper about long
versus short term contracts, for example? Using heavy mathematics
they "prove" that there is no difference between having a long
term contract and a sequence of short term contracts. That means,
don't worry, be happy, even when you have no job security.

The economists on this list seem to be doing OK, though.

Sabri