On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Sandwichman <[email protected]> wrote: > It is not simply a matter of being for or against "growth". It is > primarily about being for health care and against prisons, for > education and against war, for nutrition and housing and against > plutocratic ostentation. In the neo-liberal political economy, the > goods are expendable because they don't pack the same GDP punch as the > crap. This is rationalized as "the trade off between equity and > efficiency." It's no such thing. It's a trade off between quality and > crap. But if growth is your only criteria, by all means, go for the > crap.
I agree 100%: http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/pen-l/2008w48/msg00055.htm -- "My fallacies are more logical than your fallacies." _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
