On the status of the pen-l list

[James Devine]

Can anyone think of a simple division of labor between Doug's lbo-talk,
Louis' marxism, and Michael's pen-l? There's nothing wrong with
cross-posting, but it makes a list better if it has some kind of focus and
it's not the same focus as another list. Given the way lbo-talk is so much
like the pen-l of yore, maybe there's only room for two lists. (I don't
know about the marxism list. I've been too overwhelmed by lbo-talk's volume
to try it out.)

At 03:00 PM 5/18/98 -0400, Doug wrote:
>Nathan Newman wrote:


>>What the balance between LBO-TALK and
>>PEN-L should be I can't say, but more places to discuss these issues should
>>enhance opportunities over time, especially with a reasonable amount of
>>periodic
>>cross-posting to cross-fertilize ideas.
>
>Like I said when I started lbo-talk, given the list-owner's line of work
>(oh, the joys of ownership!) and the newsletter's beat, political economy
>would be somewhere between a strong and dominant presence, but I want it to
>include lots of non-economics & non-economists too. Conversation across
>divides and all.

Jim Devine jdevine at popmail.lmu.edu &
http://clawww.lmu.edu/Departments/ECON/jdevine.html
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain;
as far as they are certain, they really do not refer to reality." -- Albert
Einstein.