Localising capitalism
Simon Collins reports from the `Beyond Capitalism' conference
From City Voice, Wellington NZ
FULLTIME jobs for all who want them, at wages sufficient to sustain a
family. Or a "post-job economy" where only a few do fulltime paid work but
their income is shared with
Brad McCormick wrote:
I will again repeat what a psychotherapist once told me:
To be a good therapist,
you need to be well paid and well laid.
I guess this gives a new meaning to the word "laypeople".
;-)
Chris
The current issue of THE NEW YORKER (Oct. 26 - Nov. 2, 1998) has an
essay that should be of interest to readers of this list. It advocates
a returns to Keynes original concept of global economic institutions of
1944-1945, which were changed and weakened in the process of creating
the IMF. The
Brad McCormick wrote:
I will again repeat what a psychotherapist once told me:
To be a good therapist,
you need to be well paid and well laid.
You may substitute any profession or occupation
to "good therapist" and pronto, there is an answer for
all futurework queries... and
Steve,
I think the argument is that only a relatively small sub-set of the
population would call on the "commonweal" at any one time... Sen's numbers
from Bangla Desh were in the order of 5-10% who were in danger of
starvation because of an absence of income to purchase food at (flood)
inflated
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Subject: VPAC-INFO: Job seekers website for students and alumni
I guess it's kind of amusing to see the architect of the most reactionary
elements of the Liberal government's Employment Insurance reforms (Nakamura)
involved in setting up an electronic "hiring hall" for the post secondary
"labour market". James Galbraith points out the utter fallacy and
Jay,
What is really interesting is not only that Thurow is right, but the fact
that maverick economists have been pointing out that the neo-classical
economic emperor has no clothes for quite some time - looking at my
bookshelves I see Capitalism, Socialisma ndDemocracy by Joseph Schumpeter
From: Mike Hollinshead [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What is really interesting is not only that Thurow is right, but the fact
that maverick economists have been pointing out that the neo-classical
economic emperor has no clothes for quite some time - looking at my
bookshelves I see Capitalism, Socialisma
"Jay Hanson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Isn't the real reason economists don't used the "scientific method" because
if they did, they would be out of a job?
Economists like to argue that "Economic systems are generally too complex
to be replicated in a laboratory environment, so economists
Durant wrote:
Brad McCormick wrote:
I will again repeat what a psychotherapist once told me:
To be a good therapist,
you need to be well paid and well laid.
You may substitute any profession or occupation
to "good therapist" and pronto, there is an answer for
all
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