The leisure life of a lump of labor lie

2002-08-08 Thread Tom Walker
Editor, the Wall Street Journal, In a bold effort to vaccinate Americans against the insidious lump-of-labor virus, the Wall Street Journal today carries an article by one Christopher Rhoads headlined, Europe's Prized Leisure Life Becomes Economic Obstacle. The analytical nub appears in a

Re: The leisure life of a lump of labor lie

2002-08-08 Thread Gar Lipow
Please be a little less Zen. What is the lump of labor fallacy? Ok no one actually believed it; but what is it that no one actually believed. Tom Walker wrote: Editor, the Wall Street Journal, In a bold effort to vaccinate Americans against the insidious lump-of-labor virus, the Wall

Re: The leisure life of a lump of labor lie

2002-08-08 Thread Ben Day
At 02:16 PM 8/8/2002 -0700, Gar Lipow wrote: Please be a little less Zen. What is the lump of labor fallacy? Ok no one actually believed it; but what is it that no one actually believed. From P.A. Samuelson W.D. Nordhaus, ECONOMICS, 16th edition, Irwin McGraw-Hill, 1998, p. 239. The