HAPPY BIRTHDAY PKT!

["RICHARD P.F. HOLT" <holtri@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

		        HAPPY BIRTHDAY PKT!

Hard to believe but pkt is one year old! And still growing. I would
like to thank Randy Wray, who sent the first message over pkt, Dimitri
Papadimitriou and Herb Gintis for their support of pkt at the very
beginning. Running a network, especially with the archives, is technically
quite complicated. There are two people, Don Roper and Lynn Schaper at the
University of Colorado at Boulder, who have been working behind the scene
making sure that pkt runs as smoothly as possible. Since we have grown so
much and plan to expand the archives, start a graduate student network and
provide you with other services we have decided to add a co-editor to pkt.
His name is Gary Langer enclosed is a short biography on Gary. I can't tell
you how much respect I have for Gary. He is one of the most insightful
thinkers I know and he will add a lot to pkt. Gary will be responsible
mostly for the archives while I'll focus on the network. But more importantly
I want to thank you all for your support on this project. Pkt has developed
into a network that supports serious discussion on many different issues and
we have been able to do this with a high degree of politeness. Thank you.
-Ric Holt


Gary is a graduate of the University of California,
Riverside, where he took his degree in 1980.  He is
presently an associate professor of economics at
Roosevelt University in Chicago, IL (the un-Chicago
Chicago school of economics).  He is the author of
The_Coming_of_Age_of_Political_Economy (Greenwood
Press, 1987) and several articles in scholarly
journals (his favorites are "Corn: A Classical
Landscape" (Economic Notes, 1988) and "Organic
Compositions of Capital and the Labor Theory of
Value" (Contributions to Political Economy, 1987).
His main interests are in economic theory and the
history of economic thought, especially the ideas
of the old classical economicsts and Piero Sraffa.
He has recently been working on a computer program for
managing the Commerce Department's public data
products.  This program, BCI Data Manager, is
available for free downloading from the csf gopher.