spring break 2008

someone publicly calls our officemate a "smarmy collar-popper"

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From: poligrad-bounces@dss.ucsd.edu
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: [Poligrad] [Fwd: March Madness]

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Filling up people's email boxes with totally pointless emails is a

venerable tradition in this department C. You smarmy

collar-popper!

-W

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> On 3/18/08 10:56 AM, C wrote:

> As it is that time of year again, I will make my annual plea to set up a b-ball enthusiast mailing list so that the rest of us will be spared all the 'excitement.'

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> Bah Humbug!

> C

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> On 3/18/08 10:47 AM, s wrote:

>> Hello Everyone,

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>> It has come to my attention that many grad students no longer receive politalk messages. I want to make sure that no one is deprived of the opportunity to participate in the department's NCAA tournament pool, so I am resending the invitation to this year's pool:

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blah blah blah...
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>> Good luck. Let the bracketologizing!

>> S

dancing on your desk in 1988

i need more than a leaky bucket metaphor.

total federal expenditures increased from $118 billion to $946 billion in current dollars between 1965 and 1985, by a factor of eight. total redistributional expenditures, however, increased from $36 billion to $465 billion, by a factor of thirteen. by comparison, national defense expenditures, long thought to be large and burdensome, increased from $51 billion to $253 billion, by a factor of only five. this massive redistribution, however, hasn't made much of a dent in income distribution. [robert] haveman* concludes that 'the incidence of poverty today is only slightly lower than when the War on Poverty was announced in 1964 and inequality is, if anything, greater.'

Stevens, Joe B. (1993). The Economics of Collective Choice. Boulder: Westview Press.

*economist; poverty expert

the t-shirt would be rad/horrific

Eight years ago, in France, a "post-autistic economics" movement erupted in protest against the excesses of formal economics discourses. Over 800 university economics students and 150 professors signed a petition demanding reform of the curriculum to incorporate a "plurality of approaches adapted to the complexity of the object studied".

nobody told us it was letigre day

i wanna see your disco
on stupid linoleum floors

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