Even Larry Summers now gets it that fiscal and monetary policy have failed and will fail to develop full employment. Or even what the respectable people call full employment. Cutting working hours is the tool. And cutting hours begins to move into acceptable discourse. Even on Pen-L!
Years ago I was an alternate on a US DOE advisory committee, and so often had a free plane ticket to Washington DC. I think what I'm describing was in the late 1970s. I had learned that Congressman John Conyers was a supporter of cutting working time. I made an appointment and dropped in to his office. I didn't actually see him but a staffer listened to my pitch (whatever it was) and I remember his advice, which was, paraphrasing, "Get an article into the New Yorker and get the converstions started." The link pasted below is to a New Yorker blog, not to an article in the magazine, but it is a start. Gene > Why Not a Three-Day Week? MARIA KONNIKOVA AUGUST 5, 2014 Why Not a Three-Day Week? BY MARIA KONNIKOVA http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/three-day-week _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
