On 30 Jan 97 at 12:15, Jim Westrich wrote:
I have a question about our chief glutton's Economic Plan. Looking at the
summaries and summary tables of his plan I noticed that there are
"increased revenues" (above OMB Baselines) in the plan but no mention of
the details. Does anyone know
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I don't see why dictatorship of the better educated is what market
socialism will reduce to, Could you explain? In any case, under MS there
would be free education for all to whatever degree anyone would want it.
In the MS large scale economy, broad allocation decisions are made by
Congress:
I know that Robin has this Robert-Paul-Wolffian conception of
participation through TV. I think this will not work either.
1. ANyone who has ever watched a city council or board of ed
meeting on local cable can testify that these are (a) lengthy and (b)
soporiphic. This is true even if
This is very late, but it struck me that in Jim's (as in Devine) note he
never mentioned Hahnel and Albert's "The Quiet Revolution in Welfare
Economics" which is more or less completely devote to modeling the
implications of endogenous preference formation in modified NC Welfare
econ terms -
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Jim Devine wrote,
BTW, Tom's point about how Doug's trends work when disaggregate
is a good one. If I had the stats, I'd like to know the how the
experience with unemployment spells has changed holding age,
gender, race, industry mix, etc. constant. What do the Canadian
stats say, Tom?
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On 30 Jan 97 at 10:06, Doug Henwood wrote:
At 9:26 AM 1/30/97, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
In my perception of the political/media/public treatment of UE,
when UE breaches 7.0 it's a signal that there's a problem. Short
of that, we're in the de factor NAIRU zone, under the conventional
wisdom.
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At 9:26 AM 1/30/97, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
In my perception of the political/media/public treatment of UE,
when UE breaches 7.0 it's a signal that there's a problem. Short
of that, we're in the de factor NAIRU zone, under the conventional
wisdom. If it is possible to make an effective stink
Jason H. asks: Is there anyone out there who isn't insecure
about their job?
Not me. I don't have a job.
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The empiricist Doug, befogged by capitalist ideology and blythely
ignoring the inherent biases of his ruling-class sources (perhaps
influenced by the ruling-class nature of his alma mater) ;-) ;-),
presents the statistics below and asks: Why is the experience
of unemployment near record lows
At 9:26 AM 1/30/97, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
In my perception of the political/media/public treatment of UE,
when UE breaches 7.0 it's a signal that there's a problem. Short
of that, we're in the de factor NAIRU zone, under the conventional
wisdom. If it is possible to make an effective stink
At 10:03 AM 1/29/97 -0800, you wrote:
my impression is that capitalist employers don't really _want_
part-time workers; there are overhead costs that they want
distributed over as many hours of a worker's time as possible.
In case of PT and temp workers that overhead costs are absorbed by
At 09:07 AM 1/30/97 -0800, you wrote:
The regular monthly numbers are snapshots of unemployment status (under the
usual restrictive definitions, of course) at a given moment. Over the
course of a year, many more people experience a bout of unemployment at
some point during a year. That's what
...and one further point, after reading my reply to Doug. The distinction
between anecdotal evidence and statistical data is not as clear cut as you
seem to be suggesting. Statistical data is anecdotal to the extent that it
can only report what an observer, guided by anecdotal accounts, has
At 10:26 AM 1/30/97, Tom Walker wrote:
To vulgarize dual labour market theory, let's just say there's a job market
and a job non-market, as the non-market increases in proportion and becomes
more sclerotic, the market contracts and becomes more volatile. The
aggregate effect, "experience of
Jason H. asks: Is there anyone out there who isn't insecure
about their job?
It's one of my more annoying habits to respond to rhetorical
questions, so here goes:
insecurity is a matter of degree. (Tenured profs like me are more
secure than workers at a chicken-packing plant.) My
Doug Henwood wrote,
More vulgarly empiricist statistics from the reeking stinkpot of bourgeois
mystification, the BLS
It isn't the vulgarity or ideological taint of BLS statistics that makes
them inappropriate for the kind of sweeping inferences that Doug sometimes
draws from them. It is
I have a question about our chief glutton's Economic Plan. Looking at the
summaries and summary tables of his plan I noticed that there are
"increased revenues" (above OMB Baselines) in the plan but no mention of
the details. Does anyone know roughly what these refer to? adjusted
projections?
I wrote thatmy impression is that capitalist employers don't
really _want_ part-time workers; there are overhead costs that
they want distributed over as many hours of a worker's time as
possible.
wojtek sokolowski replies In case of PT and temp workers that
overhead costs are absorbed by
Doug Henwood wrote,
...you still didn't answer the question.
You're right. I didn't answer the question. I disputed whether you're asking
the right question. You say there is an apparent contradiction. I agree that
the contradiction is apparent. Whether or not there is a _substantive
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On 30 Jan 97 at 7:23, Robert Cherry wrote:
In a previous posting I wrote:
3. If Sweeney is worth anything, why wouldn't he want to have a mass
mobilization around Real Full Employment? Is it foolish to think that
having
a real Labor Day next September when in every city the unions
In a previous posting I wrote:
3. If Sweeney is worth anything, why wouldn't he want to have a mass
mobilization around Real Full Employment? Is it foolish to think that
having
a real Labor Day next September when in every city the unions have a
mobilization with other groups around
More vulgarly empiricist statistics from the reeking stinkpot of bourgeois
mystification, the BLS
By all accounts, job market volatility in the U.S. is higher than it was
10, 20, 30 years ago. Then why is the "experience of unemployment" series
behaving this way?
The regular monthly numbers
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Re. Jim Devine's posting about increased job flexibility, today's Financial
Times (30.1.97) carries a report on the latest edition of the British
statitical office's annual publication, Social Trends. Under the heading
'Assumptions on worker flexibility questioned' it states:
'It appears that
Even tenured professors are less secure today than they once were.
Minnesota tried to eliminate tenure and something is afoot in NY.
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Jason H. asks: Is there anyone out there who isn't insecure
about their job?
It's one of my more annoying habits to
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