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Productivity Expands at a Faster Pace
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER
The Associated Press
Tuesday, December 6, 2005; 8:44 AM
WASHINGTON -- The productivity of American workers shot up at the
fastest pace in two years
Productivity Expands at a Faster Pace
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER
The Associated Press
Tuesday, December 6, 2005; 8:44 AM
WASHINGTON -- The productivity of American workers shot up at the
fastest pace in two years during the July-September quarter, helping
to ease fears that inflation pressures
Jim Devine wrote:
steep rises of labor productivity are usually a cyclical phenomenon,
due to more complete use of overhead labor as demand increases. They
happen toward the end of the cyclical expansion. To conclude that we
should fear inflation less, it should be an uptick in the long-term
Re: intelligent design
CB: This is sort of true, but there is a qualitative difference
between the
faith -2 that you refer to and the Faith-1 that I refer to. The
Job-type-1 Faith demands in principle that we believe without
evidence.
Let's imagine a hypothetical 50 year old investment banker. He owns a
mansion in Connecticut and Upper East Side apartment, has a beautiful second
wife, vacations at the finest resorts around the world. He loves wine and
art, and has a magnificent collection of each which he truly appreciates.
me:
steep rises of labor productivity are usually a cyclical phenomenon,
due to more complete use of overhead labor as demand increases.
They
happen toward the end of the cyclical expansion. To conclude that we
should fear inflation less, it should be an uptick in the long-term
trend growth
But you left out "supposed to be," Charles. Very often X utters some speculative anecdote, Y repeats it as if it was an observation based on evidence then Z enshrines it in a textbook, without giving a source, as well established fact. Then alpha, beta, gamma, delta and omega recite the
You can increase productivity in two different ways, over and above the change
in
measurement that Jim described. You can do it by making workers more
productive or you can
do it by shutting down less productive facilities.
Just as elimination of farm work is usually seen as a major factor in
Michael Perelman wrote:
You can increase productivity in two different ways, over and above
the change in
measurement that Jim described. You can do it by making workers
more productive or you can
do it by shutting down less productive facilities.
Nordhaus Gordon estimate that between a
From SLATE:
A study
[http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051205/hl_nm/moderate_drinkers_obesity_risk_dc]
says people who have one alcoholic drink a day are 54 percent less
obesity-prone than teetotalers are. (But those with four or more
drinks a day are 46 percent more obesity-prone.) Another study
Although the name Louis Prima will draw a blank nowadays, he was one of
America's most popular musicians from the 1930s through the early 1960s.
Last night I watched a fine documentary on his life titled The Wildest
that demonstrates the way that popular music can meld together different
styles
there is nothing intelligent about that design it is intelligible. this is similar to what i heard today socially responsible corporations
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On 12/6/05, Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nordhaus Gordon estimate that between a quarter and a third of the
acceleration in US productivity in the late 1990s came from
retailing, meaning, essentially, Wal-Mart, and all that acceleration
came from new stores putting old ones out of
A Really Bad Book by Someone Who
Should Know Better
December 6, 2005 19:03 | by Steve McGiffen
Review of: The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future Is Quietly
Eclipsing the American Dream. Jeremy Rifkin. (New York: Tarcher/Penguin,
2004, 288 pp. $25.95)
In the era of the Internet,
Louis Proyect wrote:
Occasionally, however, somebody well-known, somebody who ought to know
better, gets a Really Bad Idea and proceeds, with some help from Google and
more from an overactive imagination, to write a Really Bad Book. Then we
are in trouble, because the writer's reputation may
Autoplectic wrote:
Are there any guesstimates of how much of the US economy 'suffers'
from Baumol's disease?
Triplett Bosworth say we're cured:
https://www.brook.edu/dybdocroot/views/papers/triplett/20020419.pdf.
Jim Devine wrote:
David B. Shemano wrote:
My questions is how should a Marxist think of this individual life?
Should we symphathize/feel sorry for him, because he thinks he is
happy but is really self-estranged? Or should we point to his
life and happiness and say that once the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/06/05 3:12 PM
Louis Proyect wrote:
Jeremy Rifkin, by these standards, may just have produced The Worst Book
Ever Written.
This is way too generous to Rifkin. He wrote a truly awful book on
the job market in the mid-1990s, an awful book earlier in the decade
on biology that
Michael Lebowitz wrote:
Let's begin by teaching him (and others who may have remembered
assorted quotes but forgotten the point) Marxian economics. Ie.,
let's imagine that he learns that capital is the result of the
exploitation of workers and that the income he received and now lives
off is a
Michael Hoover wrote:
just a bit of a charlatan, eh, but such types
often do well for themselves...
He's really good at sniffing out what foundation program officers
like, gotta hand that to him.
TAMPA, Fla. (AP)
A federal jury has acquitted
former University of South Florida professor Sami
Al-Arian on some counts of aiding Palestinian
terrorists and has deadlocked on others.
--Kathleen in Tampa
---
--An Injury to One is an Injury to All.
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Michael Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/06/05 3:12 PM Louis Proyect wrote:Jeremy Rifkin, by these standards, may just have produced The Worst BookEver Written. just a bit of a charlatan, eh, but such types often do well for themselves... I would say mountebank rather
Let's imagine a hypothetical 50 year old investment banker. He owns a
mansion in Connecticut and Upper East Side apartment, has a beautiful second
wife, vacations at the finest resorts around the world. He loves wine and
art, and has a magnificent collection of each which he truly appreciates.
Here's an entry from Ralph Nader (nader.org)
Friday, December 2. 2005
Selling Simplicity
On my desk one morning I found a 378-page tome whose name is “Real
Simple” with an intriguingly worded “Life Made Easier” subtitle. It
was the week when the members of the American Anthropological
Amazing!
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 04:22:30PM -0500, Louis Proyect wrote:
TAMPA, Fla. (AP)
A federal jury has acquitted
former University of South Florida professor Sami
Al-Arian on some counts of aiding Palestinian
terrorists and has deadlocked on others.
--Kathleen in Tampa
---
On Tuesday, December 6, 2005 at 14:08:48 (-0800) Michael Perelman writes:
Amazing!
When he gets off, I wonder what they'll arrest him for next. Maybe
they'll just render him somewhere (rendition being a sickening
euphemism for kidnap and torture).
Bill
This is more or less what I suspected. The Tampa Tribune (and the media
here in general) was so incredibly biased in its coverage of the case that
it is hard to reconcile the actual outcome (at the very least, he will be
hit with far less than what the govt. wanted) with the Tribune's constant
On 12/6/05, Ted Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
David Shemano's idea of a fulfilled life isn't Marx's. As conceived
by Marx, such a life requires fully developed capabilities on the
part of both oneself and others; you can't buy it. Marx's idea of it
appropriates insights from, among
Excellent point, but some of that productivity takes the form of a
measurement error, if you count the decline in service in the big box
stores.
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 12:32:26PM -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
Nordhaus Gordon estimate that between a quarter and a third of the
acceleration in US
Sort of on topic (but self-promotional), earlier this evening I came across a submission from the government of Queensland to the Australian Industrial Relations Commission on "Reasonable Hours Test Case" containing a one-and-a-half page economic analysis of working hours and productivity,
What I meant was based entirely on my summary of Chapman's work.Sandwichman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sort of on topic (but self-promotional), earlier this evening I came across a submission from the government of Queensland to the Australian Industrial Relations Commission on "Reasonable Hours
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