At 03:32 PM 09/18/2002 -0400, you wrote:
More obscene than the polarization of wealth is the expropriation of the
resources of the earth and the resources of humanity as the private
property and exclusive concerns of the few.
Joanna
Excuse, but what *is* the polarization of wealth but the
I'm trying to collect a list of arguments for raising the minimum wage,
especially those that apply in 'developing' nation contexts. Fairness,
equity, social justice arguments and/or efficiency/economic/macro
arguments are all fine. Do people know of any good articles, books,
websites that
How about this. Marx is right about many things and this is one of them: as
the rich get richer and fewer in number and the poor get poorer and
constitute almost everybody, what you have is a recipe for extreme social
unrest. Moral and humanitarian arguments aside, this situation is
In a message dated 9/18/02 11:36:30 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How about this. Marx is right about many things and this is one of them: as
the rich get richer and fewer in number and the poor get poorer and
constitute almost everybody, what you have is a recipe for extreme social
unrest.
Mat, for some sources, check out:
Zavodny, Madeline, Why Minimum Wage Hikes May Not Reduce Employment,
_Economic Review_, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, 1998, 83(2), pp.
18-28.
Card and Krueger, _Myth and Measurement_ 1995 (reporting empirical studies
in which they find that raising
At 01:52 PM 09/18/2002 -0400, you wrote:
You may have seen this before but one needn't be a Marxist to see clearly
that what you say is certainly so. Therefore I repeat my announcement about
Socioeconomic Democracy and the democratic and peaceful reduction of the
obscene -- and harmful --
In a message dated 9/18/02 12:11:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 01:52 PM 09/18/2002 -0400, you wrote:
You may have seen this before but one needn't be a Marxist to see clearly
that what you say is certainly so. Therefore I repeat my announcement about
Socioeconomic Democracy and the
Title: RE: [PEN-L:30345] Re: raising min wage
Social disorder may encourage the rise of a socialist movement and/or a welfare state what Lisa calls concessions), but it also may involve fascist-type movements, not just among those in corporate or state power, but among the masses. In the late
In my Pathology book, I tried to make the case that higher wages in general
encourage investment in new labor-saving technology.
Forstater, Mathew wrote:
I'm trying to collect a list of arguments for raising the minimum wage,
especially those that apply in 'developing' nation contexts.
