isn't the difference betwen European and Amurrican "tastes" for leisure really just a result of the greater success of labor and social-democratic movements in the latter?
On 5/13/05, Doug Henwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Massimo Portolani wrote: > > >Alesina is italian, as I am, and over here some of us think that he has > >become > >more american than americans. Anybody who has real experience with > >workers in Europe and USA > >knows quite well that what they appear to claim is not true. > >I would strongly advise most of these people who write these things to > >take some vacation, have some leisure > >for the benefit of us all. > > So what's your explanation for the greater "preference" (as the > bourgeois economists say) for leisure in Europe? Their explanation > seems rather tortured and bogus, but I'd like to see a better one. > > Doug > -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine
