--- Wei Dai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Economic activity can't increase indefinitely, because eventually we'll
have improved our technologies to the limits imposed by physics
I don't see why physics limits all technological progress.
For example, someone could write improved software, and that
Would it be safe to say that the introduction of govt programs such as
unemployment insurance had an impact in quieting the calls for the US to
abandon capitalism and take up socialism? In other words did these types of
govt programs serve not only as safety nets for individuals in need but
--- Robert A. Book [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Isn't this what the GRE, MCAT, etc., are for? Granted, they don't
apply to all post-graduate plans, but it's a start.
How many employers require applicants having a BA/BS to have taken the GRE
etc. before they are considered for hiring?
If few do,
(OK, this is my third attempt in three days to get this particular
post through the server... --RAB)
Since grades can't get any higher than an A, doesn't
grade inflation merely squeeze out information
regarding graduates as the grade scale gets compressed
at the high end?
You would
Robert wrote:
'meaning a pristine environment 6 billion years from
now might be worth more to them than one now. After
all, by then the human race, the cancer on the
planet might be gone and the environment will be
truly natural according to some points of view.'
For those who haven't heard of
That was certainly Bismarck's theory when he introduced them to Germany in
the 1870's. It was a part of an effort to undermine the Social Democratic
Party in Germany.
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From: Gray, Lynn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 11:09 AM
To: '[EMAIL
There are a lot of abstractions that it'd help to qualify in that last
statement. For instance: which government programs (FDR's right-to-work
packages? LBJ's war on Poverty)? Whose calls for the U.S. to abandon
capitalism? What is a safety net [...] for capitalism as a whole?
We need
--- Robert A. Book [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Isn't this what the GRE, MCAT, etc., are for? Granted, they don't
apply to all post-graduate plans, but it's a start.
Fred Foldvary ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) responded:
How many employers require applicants having a BA/BS to have taken the GRE
etc.
We need data!
-Please it is fairly obvious the question being asked here. If you want to
differentiate in one's answer that's understandable, but otherwise the
question is straightforward.
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From: John Perich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002
Most observers have always been very surprised that there never was a
big demand for socialism in the United States - even at the height of
the depression. The New Deal was very much driven by the Executive
branch not by Congress - thus I think things could have been quite
different had
The program I was manly referring to was the unemployment insurance program.
By calls for the US to abandon capitalism I was referring to the vocal
supporters of American socialism back in the years leading up to the Great
Depression. The % share of the US public which advocates socialism has
Lynn,
It seems that you have one observation to base your conclusion. There may
have been numerous other reasons why socialism declined in the US: WWII
(socialism may have been unpatriotic, the Great Depression, the 1929
stock market crash (people may have felt sorry for the rich), happened by
Most observers have always been very surprised that there never was a
big demand for socialism in the United States - even at the height of
the depression. The New Deal was very much driven by the Executive
branch not by Congress - thus I think things could have been quite
different
Thanks. To be honest, I had a suspicion this is what you meant, but wanted
to hear it for sure.
My study of history never gave me the impression that the push for socialism
- not just socialist programs like unemployment insurance and right-to-work
programs, but actual community ownership of
Would we have seen an increasing level of social unrest had capitalism been
left alone?
Has/was capitalism been saved?
From: Gray, Lynn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: RE: economic history question
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 13:35:48
Thought that some on this list might be interested in this:
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Well, of course it cant be stated absolutely either way. My impression is
that over time from the populist movement of the late 1800s to the 1930s
the nations patience with the down side of pure capitalism declined. I
could be wrong in that though.
Lynn
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