Harry, Like GWB, I don't deal with untenable hypotheses. Why don't you say that, after all of the pollution and health problems had been factored out, there was a $50 million excess.
BTW, from your last two posts, don't you love me any more? Bill On Mon, 09 Jun 2003 08:46:20 -0700 Harry Pollard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bill, > > Stay with the point. > > Say I produced $50 million and caused no pollution or health > problems. > > Perhaps to no-one is that controversial. > > Harry > > -------------------------------------------------------- > > Bill wrote: > > >Harry, > > > >It is a major issue. Corporations for years have produced goods and > >pollution. Often, the long term costs of cleaning up the pollution > or the > >associated health effects have been greater than the value of the > >products [which may or may not lead to improved QoL]. Whenever > potential > >harm to the community, the environment, the society may occur, > there is > >need to cost out and subtract the negative from the positive. > > > >Bill > > > >On Thu, 05 Jun 2003 14:10:49 -0700 Harry Pollard > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Bill, > > > > > > That's called shifting grounds. > > > > > > Say there was no pollution and no health care costs? > > > > > > Then, how can I be faulted for supplying the community with $50 > > > million > > > worth of goods and/or services? > > > > > > Feel better? > > > > > > Harry > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > Bill wrote: > > > > > > >To an economist, the following is not controversial > > > > > > > > How can I be faulted for supplying the community with > > > > $50 million worth of goods and/or services? > > > > > > > >but if it costs $20 million [MBTE for example] to clean the > > > pollution and > > > >your goods/services cause $10 million in additional health care > > > costs, > > > >the value is $20 million. There certainly are cases where the > > > damage to > > > >the environment is greater than the value of the products and > > > services > > > >produced. > > > > > > > > > > > >Bill > > > **************************************************** > Harry Pollard > Henry George School of Social Science of Los Angeles > Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 > Tel: (818) 352-4141 -- Fax: (818) 353-2242 > http://home.attbi.com/~haledward > **************************************************** > > ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
