s I said, this is not easy to grasp in reality, though I like his
debunking of the current explanations.
Help me out Tom,
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Steve Kurtz wrote:
Tom Walker wrote:
Context, Steve, context.
Your response to Jim Stanford's piece seemed to
miss the point that poor-bashing and welfare-bashing have been mainstays of
the self-styled ind
from dividends and interest payments. What's wrong with that?
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tom abeles wrote:
Tom Walker wrote, in part:
What has been
occuring instead is an INCREASED reliance on increasingly meaningless (to
productivity) criteria of hours of work, job tenure and individual
performance. What this means in practice is not "reward commensurate with
contrib
hyperbolic assertions. Ed abjectly
states the opposite of the trend as it's inevitable outcome. Both may be
fantasies, but Rifkin's fantasy at least opens up the questions, rather than
closing them off.
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of the Boston Globe on 07/15/99.
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d in Asia by Disney
World and Mattel, the toy company.
The leading industrial nations already are considering new global rules on
investment, banking and trade. The UNDP report, in effect, endorsed these
efforts but urged that they be broadened to include the needs of poorer
nations.
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but a winner take all lottery.
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collective repression. And not
just simple repression -- but SURPLUS repression. As Herbert Marcuse wrote,
"Civilization has to defend itself against the spector of a world which
could be free."
"[T]he closer the real possibility of liberating the individual from the
constraints once justified by scarcity and immaturity, the greater the need
for maintaining and streamlining these constraints lest the established
order of domination dissolve."
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mic Review.
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ctivist organizing site." - The Jobs Research Trust, New
Zealand.
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ich then
corresponds to the artistic, scientific etc. development of the individuals
in the time set free, and with the means created, for all of them."?
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Thomas Lunde wrote:
1. Reduce the length of the work-week (4 day)
The problem with this idea and believe me, I spent a year arguing for as is
and did, Tom Walker. Most eloquently. Business is not going to buy it,
government is not going to legislate it and those who are working
that the technologies of the supposed
information revolution could be turned to good purpose. Perelman is
Professor of Economics at California State University, Chico.
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hought provoking please spread the word.
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scum (skum) n.
1. a. a film or layer of foul matter that
forms on the surface of a liquid.
b. a film of algae on still or stagnant
water: pond scum.
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There may be something to Bob McDaniel's analogy between free markets and
amoebas after all. A lot of the "good old days" building code regulations
were weakened in Vancouver and many entrepreneurs saw through and exploited
the opportunities. The result? Leaky condos and lots of SLIME MOLD. Now
Eva Durant wrote:
Free markets were a utopia before Karl Marx was born.
They will always be a utopia, no more realizable than "perfect communism".
Lucky then, that Marx was never teaching or researching any such
concept...
Quite the contrary, Marx was an outspoken critic of bourgeois
rigin of the universe."
Actually, Bob, you should have a good look at the Ed Wood movie, Plan Nine
from Outer Space, there's a lot of this kind of woo-woo verbiage in it, too
-- along with zombies and Ed Wood's wife's chiropractor pretending to be
Bela Lugosi.
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The Los Angeles Times Tuesday, June 1, 1999
SPECIAL INTERESTS PUSH OUT PUBLIC INTEREST TELECOMMUNICATIONS
The industry practically wrote the 1996 law, so
why be surprised that it works in industry's favor.
By Robert Scheer
s, calling the shots and
doctoring the spin?
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, and the alarming thing is that
they may both be right..."
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Executive Editor
THE ECONOMIST
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In your recent mailing announcing new features at the economist site, I
didn't notice any mention of a public discussion forum, such as some
magazine sites have. I have a specific issue with the Economist's analysis
pectations.
Sorry to be so sour. I have a toothache.
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ther lists, scholars and individuals
concerned about employment, equity, working conditions, economic growth,
productivity, social justice and intellectual freedom.
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e hubris told them they
could take the measure of things they couldn't comprehend. Truly, "Madmen in
authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some
academic scribbler of a few years back."
more on growth and its discontents at:
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he patient gets sicker and sicker.
continued at http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/satanic.htm
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oduction in the Collectivist State
S.J. Chapman, Hours of Labour
A. Bergson, A Reformation of Certain Aspects of Welfare Economics
T. Scitovsky, The State of Welfare Economics
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ion about that legislation
and the story of its failure? Are there any informations on the internet
about this?
Thank you for any comment,
Robert Neunteufel, Styria, Austria, Europe
personal homepage: http://members.EUnet.at/ro.neunteufel
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In short, all logic I reject, all taste and manners
jettison
|Because I am the model of a modern cyber-netizen!
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brazenly disregards marginalist economic theory.
Today, the conventional wisdom scoffs at any suggestion that increased
output doesn't necessarily lead to increased welfare. Say hello to the new
war, same as the old war. It's the economy, stupid.
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mist of some note in wartime Washington, to
become dean of the School of Business and Economics to accomplish the
purpose. Bowen offered me a professorship, and I moved to Urbana in
1948. In the 1949-50 school year he asked me to become chairman of the
Economics Department."
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itor! Do you think that you can get away with this?
And there you have the first rule of social research.
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s presents a
dazzling defense of individualism and critique of laissez faire all rolled
up into one.
My advice to futurework subscribers: read the essay. Thanks, Wes.
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he problem doesn't
solve the problem, but it might be a way of recruiting a few more souls to
recognize what kind of a problem it is. It is a problem that is conceptually
"too simple" to believe because it contradicts our naive, antagonistic
perspective.
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ach?
Lets hear from the frequent posters, lurkers, and innocents on several mail
lists.
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they may be, I do not suppose that
they will have any effect unless you take them under
your protection."
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eminders of the MAI's failure, and to criticisms
from provincial and municipal officials, was all too predictable.
They had no response. The political and ideological language
barrier was insurmountable. They simply were unable to grasp what
was being said. The meshing of corporate and federal government
interests, language and perspective seemed virtually seamless.
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ff the profitibility of such
schemes would be a blessing, not only to ordinary working people but to
capitalism itself.
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y is not "efficiency, competition and free
markets" but a guaranteed income for capital -- a perpetual motion machine
of compound interest. I think it is important not just to assert that, but
to show it.
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r that could be more efficiently put to use by other firms and
they are usurping market share that they haven't "won" competitively. Good
riddance to parasitic capital.
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s a better
prospect of a socialist future must accept the burden of proof of showing
why such a crash wouldn't be at least as likely to lead to barbarism.
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to a study of the ideas of economics and from there we find that
it is the laws and directions of governments that actually will determine
what the future of work will be.
Tom Walker said:
I agree with Thomas' observation that this is what happens. But I disagree
with his conclusion tha
tory of the "fallacy" he circulates with such condescension. In
other words, his only alibi is that he doesn't know what he's talking about.
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f
the heap questions are harder to talk about because they indicate courses of
direct action that have personal consequences. It is the "sanctions"
involved in those personal consequences that keep most of us micro-governing
ourselves on behalf of the status quo.
Tom Walker
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t _I_
attribute to you) is fallacy."
What kind of a *fallacy*, then, is this "cornucopian fallacy"? Is it a straw
man? An ad hominem? A reductio ad absurdum? Is it a forceful way of saying,
"I won't listen to you because (people like) you are not worth listening to"?
Tom Walker
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. . . we had a four-day work week?
The NEXT CITY asked Tom Walker, a social policy analyst with TimeWork Web,
and Jock Finlayson, vice-president of policy and analysis for the Business
Council of British Columbia, to comment.
go to:
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Who makes more
are
compelled (by shame? by greed?) to find justification for the unjustifiable
and a rationale for the pathological.
Tom Walker
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security) the result
is the illusion that the idea of the market is more real than any actual
market could ever be. The kind of "economics" that applauds this travesty
calls itself "value free".
Tom Walker
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wealth effect of
stranded assets. And so are the spiritual and social psychological crises
which cause people to become pietistic (consume less) and demand more money
for security's sake.
Mike H
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ears of life."
-- John Stuart Mill
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Canada was becoming the world's premier haven for international
terrorists,
he said.
I don't suppose he was referring to Chretien welcoming Suharto at the APEC
conference in Vancouver?
Tom Walker
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r a marginalist
analysis to grasp. Given the choice between investigating a topic that
exposes the limits of the marginalist analysis and imposing an intellectual
taboo on that topic, marginalism has chosen the taboo. The so-called
"lump-of-labor fallacy" amounts to a monumental intellectual fraud
perpetrated by textbook authors and editorial writers who probably don't
have the slightest suspicion that what they are saying is groundless,
archaic and contradictory.
Tom Walker
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mp-of-labor fallacy" amounts to a
monumental intellectual fraud perpetrated by textbook authors and editorial
writers who probably don't have the slightest suspicion that what they are
saying is groundless.
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more than they need for elementary subsistence. George's answer was for
society to charge those who benefitted from the exclusive use of land
or any other part of the commons the full economic rent therefore, and
to distribute the rent equally to all so that all might benefit.
Tom Walker
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simulation has produced is accurate to within a few
billion dollars and 100,000 jobs.
What does Doug do with this information?
Tom Walker
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I see on the news bulletins that San Francisco is experiencing a massive and
mysterious power blackout. Could this be an early symptom? Maybe a systems
test that didn't work?
Tom Walker
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ticipating in the beating of the newest ape.
7. After replacing the fourth and fifth original apes,
all the apes which have been sprayed with cold water
have been replaced.
Nevertheless, no ape ever again approaches the stairs.
Why not?
"BECAUSE that's the way it's always been done a
loss on industry.
As every good economist knows, there is no such thing as suctional
unemployment, as for alchemists there was no such thing as oxygen, though
they breathed the stuff shamelessly.
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gger problem
than the original problem.
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n't use the term lump-of-labour or refer
to a logical fallacy. To the contrary, Marshall cautions that "The relations
between industrial efficiency and the hours of labour are complex."
If anyone knows of any pre-Samuelson citations of th
.
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in the Hebrew(old) Testament. Amos and Isaiah had some interesting concerns.
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ng some of the
stupidest things -- weapons buildup, government subsidies to encourage
environmental destruction, tax policies to promote wage inequality -- we'd
have plenty of time left to figure out how to stop the bus before it goes
over the cliff.
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It's like asking how we can build a log cabin out of glass
and steel.
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a very interesting piece on the same theme
in 1921. M. King Hubbert's "Man hours and production" dates from the mid 1930s.
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ic conventional
wisdom -- have been said by economists. How unprofessional!
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pt a real revolution?
The news is that marxism never went away.
Until capitalism stinks, (and it cannot be otherwise)
marxism is with us whether we like it or
not.
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seem to do it.
Civil disobedience is one possibility.
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ffort. Please help us.
Sincerely,
Alice Nakamura
Winspear Professor of Business
University of Alberta"
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Please come read and rate (on a scale from 0-10) my scheme to reward years
of service with more free time, judged one of the "world's best ideas" for
1998 by the Institute for Social Inventions.
http://www.globalideasbank.org/wbi/WBI-43.HTML
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bservation is that union officials who "talk tough" often seem to believe
that's enough.
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more from the ravaged carcass on the table.
Soup, anyone?
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its discipline. No nation can avoid its responsibility to do its part.
"O Oysters," said the Carpenter.
"You've had a pleasant run!
Shall we be trotting home again?"
But answer came there none --
And tha
1997 can be found on the World Health Organisation's
website (www.who.int/).
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s the Economist recently noted, government budgets have grown as a
proportion of GDP under the avowedly "free market" regimes of the past 20 years.
The point that I'm trying to make is that "moral hazard" is only a problem
when it extends to the currently disenfranchised a 'right' th
through Thorstein Veblen
and M. King Hubbard. Be careful when you condemn something you don't
understand -- it may turn out to be part of yourself.
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s. This is less than what was
provided in 1997. Explain how this situation is compatible with the right
of NWT residents to housing and to adequate standard of living.
81. Has the positive trend in the reduction of school drop-outs in the
Northwest Territories been upheld since 1991?
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oblivion. The German model has not found the
secret of perpetual motion. The rest is politics.
* Journalist, Berlin
Translated by Barbara Wilson
(1) See "Le modèle allemand bat de l'aile", Le Monde diplomatique, December
1996.
(2) Die Woche,
ge of time. And I suspect our
grandchildren, and theirs, will be periodically debating whether they are in
a new economy.
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ded his address Friday while in Ireland.
His comments came after Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve
Board, warned Friday that the global financial turmoil and Wall
Street's volatility may hurt the U.S. economy and suggested he was as
i
rom itself. It was always dependent on motivationally effective
supplementation by traditional world views."
There is no economic fix to the current crisis simply because it is NOT an
economic crisis. THIS is the second shoe.
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new workers - is hurting their membership
numbers. So now unions are joining with the overworked employees.
``At first workers said, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah,' `` to more overtime,
says Rose. ``But after doing it week in and week out, they're now
saying, 'No, no, no.' ``
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for males. It's also feasible for the numbers to be accurate -- in the
sense that they are correctly computed using appropriate data, etc. -- yet
still exagerate the impact of the changes simply because of the way an
indicator such as "life expectancy" is constructed.
Regards,
, but that the steepness of
the decline MAY have been exagerated due to demographic factors totally
unconnected with the demise of the Soviet Union.
This is a _question_, not a conclusion.
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ouble threatens a wave of bank
failures and a new round of heavy price inflation for long
suffering consumers.
Russia's main stock market index has crashed from almost 600
points a year ago to just 82 points at its close on Friday.
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of "simplifying assumptions". That is, he was trying to make it clear
to the reader exactly where the estimates (based on the hypothetical
constants) would most likely deviate from reality.
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o put a great deal of resource into raising only a
few young.
example: gorilla:
A gorilla is a K strategist."
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. Ordinarily, watching a glacier move is
about as exciting as watching paint dry. Every once in a while, though, a
chunk drops off the end and . . . WOW!!
Speaking of glaciers, I would propose that as better metaphor for the
financial markets than the bubble metaphor.
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ses in value of their holdings, they've been
granted them by the state.
Easy come, easy go.
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al is it only gets worse."
Statistics aside, the question has to be whether there's a learning curve in
any of this -- which could make things better -- or simply a succession of
negative feedback loops, which would make things a helluva lot worse.
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ial
crisis is a fait accompli. Someone, somewhere has perhaps thought about the
combined effects of these three phenomena but not enough people have been
thinking and writing enough about it to make finding it an easy hit on a
search engine.
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low job. Talk about
Nero fiddling while Rome burned.
I hear they just named the CIA headquarters after George Bush.
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-- totally alone and totally vulnerable. The pronoun "we" is a
plagiarism of courage.
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