Dear Jim:
This, as I understand it is one of the main thesis's of the book. That a
major redistribution of income has occurred since 1970 towards those who
recieve income from interest rather than from labour. He also identifies
the "transfer state" as the other area of change in income
There is nothing wrong with equal responsibility taken for family
income, if the responsibility for housekeeping and childrearing is
also shared, not only by fathers, but also by society, such as
shorter working hours, cheap and excellent public nursery-schools
and after-school childcare, cheap
So, the answer is yes, and the explanation for the failure of
the welfare-state was far from adequate...
We might as well go for something new if we have to
go against the tide... We are running out of time, we
cannot repeat past mistakes.
Eva
the suggestion is to go back to keynesian
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Van: Steve Kurtz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Datum: lundi 31 mai 1999 19:26
Onderwerp: Re: Created Unequal by James Galbraith
Greetings again,
Thomas Lunde wrote:
As to virtual profits earned by speculation,
I have debunked
Hi Jan,
Jan Matthieu wrote:
How many investors are nowadays buying (and holding on to) stocks for the
dividends they produce? Nowadays stocks are bought primarily because their
value is expected to rise.
In my outline essay on this subject I exclude direct investment in
equity markets.
Dear RF:
Well, you have opened a Pandora's box with this question. I learn by
reading and observing and making statements which others challenge or agree
with, mostly on Lists.
I have shied away from E Commerce so far as it just hasn't, in my opinion
got a form - a definition and it seemed
Dear Thomas,
TL:
Your argument about "natural/material" value, rather than token value has
some merit. I would appreciate your comments in the context of Galbraith
(not in quote) who gives these figures. 10% are employed in the knowledge
sector, 10% in the manufacturing of goods and 80% in
At 13:06 -0400 5/31/99, Steve Kurtz wrote:
Dear Thomas,
re:
The real question
is which ideology should be dominant - democracy or capitalism. The people
continually, whether marxists, socialists or capitalists, at their human
individual level, continually opt for more security. The
Durant wrote:
Non-virtual profits are falling - there is not enough to
re-distribute.
(snip)
The global markets are limited - there is, I'm afraid, the
classic contradiction.
Do you really think it can be fixed?
I agree with Eva here! But it is not *just* markets profits that are
I have changed computers from Microsoft to Macintosh. While using Microsoft,
I was happy with Explorer, their web browser but now I am using 4.5 Explorer
on the Macintosh and I find it a very cumbersome browser, not so much for
web surfing, but this version of Outlook Express is archaic in
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From: Colin Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Created Unequal by James Galbraith
Date: Sun, May 30, 1999, 10:36 PM
To me the essence of this excellent Review is in the Summary paragraph
While the problem is clearly stated; the potential remedy of Direct
Dear Steve:
I couldn't agree more and of course it is not only immigrants but the
massive entry into the labour force of women - not that women shouldn't work
but that, in a large number of cases they didn't work in the 50's and 60's
but were - in many cases - forced into work in the 70's by the
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