The Globe and Mail December 10, 1996
QUEBEC UNIONS THREATEN CHAOS
Bouchard warned not to reject counterproposal from
public-sector workers
By Rheal Seguin and Tu Thanh Ha
Quebec Bureau
QUEBEC -- Quebec's public-sector unions are
threatening widespread social
At 9:16 PM 12/9/96, Robert Cherry wrote:
I recall that Summers argued that it would be efficient if we exported
pollution-producing production overseas. Does anyone have a reference and
the specifics of his argument. It came up at Brooklyn College and a
colleague told people that he said it
On 9 Dec 96 at 21:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Max writes: Yes but that's to some extent separate from the
neo-classical versus other schools of thought issue.
Political pressure helps determine which ideas (which type of
neoclassical economics) and which economists dominate at any one
Ever since *The Bell Curve*, those of us in ethnic studies find ourselves
needing to know more about wage inequality in the US. Well, I have been
following this debate between Paul Krugman and Ethan Kapstein and others;
Krugman has recommended the work of Robert Lawrence. So I read about half
of
Summers, then chief economist at the World Bank, laid out this argument in
a memo he sent to some colleagues in December 1991. It was then "exposed"
in _The Economist_ of 8 February 1992. How serious he was is arguable. A
useful treatment of it all is in Chapter 2 of Hausman and McPherson's
The notorious comment, in an internal December 1991 memo by Summers
-- then a World Bank vice president and chief economist -- was, "I think
the economic logic of dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage
country is impeccable and we should face up to that... Underpopulated
countries in
This month's Harper's Magazine has a devastating
article entitled "While You Were Sleeping." It's about
violence-dominated life in the border town of Juarez,
Mexico, which abounds in the maquiladoras which have
proliferated in the free trade environment created by
NAFTA.
In my view, it's an
Rakesh Bhandari wrote,
Confronted with the problem of wages not keeping up with productivity, Lawrence
attempts to reconceptualize the data. First, he says we should look at real
hourly compensation in the business sector, instead of real average hourly
earnings; the former has increased by
This is really a reply to Paul Phillips' very
informative earlier remarks on this situation, based on
further informaton that has come out.
1) It is clear that Together (Opposition) is a very
mixed bag with several factions acting in tandem, but so
divided that they are often not
