mp-of-labor fallacy" amounts to a
monumental intellectual fraud perpetrated by textbook authors and editorial
writers who probably don't have the slightest suspicion that what they are
saying is groundless.
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pt a real revolution?
The news is that marxism never went away.
Until capitalism stinks, (and it cannot be otherwise)
marxism is with us whether we like it or
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ng some of the
stupidest things -- weapons buildup, government subsidies to encourage
environmental destruction, tax policies to promote wage inequality -- we'd
have plenty of time left to figure out how to stop the bus before it goes
over the cliff.
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It's like asking how we can build a log cabin out of glass
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a very interesting piece on the same theme
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in the Hebrew(old) Testament. Amos and Isaiah had some interesting concerns.
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n't use the term lump-of-labour or refer
to a logical fallacy. To the contrary, Marshall cautions that "The relations
between industrial efficiency and the hours of labour are complex."
If anyone knows of any pre-Samuelson citations of th
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more from the ravaged carcass on the table.
Soup, anyone?
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rom itself. It was always dependent on motivationally effective
supplementation by traditional world views."
There is no economic fix to the current crisis simply because it is NOT an
economic crisis. THIS is the second shoe.
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Please come read and rate (on a scale from 0-10) my scheme to reward years
of service with more free time, judged one of the "world's best ideas" for
1998 by the Institute for Social Inventions.
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ffort. Please help us.
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ded his address Friday while in Ireland.
His comments came after Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve
Board, warned Friday that the global financial turmoil and Wall
Street's volatility may hurt the U.S. economy and suggested he was as
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grandchildren, and theirs, will be periodically debating whether they are in
a new economy.
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seem to do it.
Civil disobedience is one possibility.
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provided in 1997. Explain how this situation is compatible with the right
of NWT residents to housing and to adequate standard of living.
81. Has the positive trend in the reduction of school drop-outs in the
Northwest Territories been upheld since 1991?
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oblivion. The German model has not found the
secret of perpetual motion. The rest is politics.
* Journalist, Berlin
Translated by Barbara Wilson
(1) See "Le modèle allemand bat de l'aile", Le Monde diplomatique, December
1996.
(2) Die Woche,
through Thorstein Veblen
and M. King Hubbard. Be careful when you condemn something you don't
understand -- it may turn out to be part of yourself.
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s the Economist recently noted, government budgets have grown as a
proportion of GDP under the avowedly "free market" regimes of the past 20 years.
The point that I'm trying to make is that "moral hazard" is only a problem
when it extends to the currently disenfranchised a 'right' th
1997 can be found on the World Health Organisation's
website (www.who.int/).
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its discipline. No nation can avoid its responsibility to do its part.
"O Oysters," said the Carpenter.
"You've had a pleasant run!
Shall we be trotting home again?"
But answer came there none --
And tha
erstood as a hyperextended apparatus
for diverting, recirculating, and privitizing TAX REVENUES.
If emancipation may be described as a project of organizing non-repressive,
socially useful activity, the Dow Jones Industrial Average must then be
properly seen as a token for eroticiz
John Ralston Saul's book, _The Unconscious Civilization_, was on the
Toronto Globe Mail bestseller list for somthing like a year and a
half, yet I don't recall that anyone has mentioned or quoted him on
this list.
I did. About a year and a half ago.
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address its
subtleties, we are told to shut up because we are 'incomprehensible'. When
we try to address its crudities, we are told to shut up because we are
'simplistic'. When we try to address both at the same time, we are told we
are making a joke. Yes, it is a joke. Yes, I am serious.
Regard
-- totally alone and totally vulnerable. The pronoun "we" is a
plagiarism of courage.
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low job. Talk about
Nero fiddling while Rome burned.
I hear they just named the CIA headquarters after George Bush.
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crisis is a fait accompli. Someone, somewhere has perhaps thought about the
combined effects of these three phenomena but not enough people have been
thinking and writing enough about it to make finding it an easy hit on a
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al is it only gets worse."
Statistics aside, the question has to be whether there's a learning curve in
any of this -- which could make things better -- or simply a succession of
negative feedback loops, which would make things a helluva lot worse.
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. Ordinarily, watching a glacier move is
about as exciting as watching paint dry. Every once in a while, though, a
chunk drops off the end and . . . WOW!!
Speaking of glaciers, I would propose that as better metaphor for the
financial markets than the bubble metaphor.
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ses in value of their holdings, they've been
granted them by the state.
Easy come, easy go.
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o put a great deal of resource into raising only a
few young.
example: gorilla:
A gorilla is a K strategist."
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of "simplifying assumptions". That is, he was trying to make it clear
to the reader exactly where the estimates (based on the hypothetical
constants) would most likely deviate from reality.
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, but that the steepness of
the decline MAY have been exagerated due to demographic factors totally
unconnected with the demise of the Soviet Union.
This is a _question_, not a conclusion.
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ouble threatens a wave of bank
failures and a new round of heavy price inflation for long
suffering consumers.
Russia's main stock market index has crashed from almost 600
points a year ago to just 82 points at its close on Friday.
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for males. It's also feasible for the numbers to be accurate -- in the
sense that they are correctly computed using appropriate data, etc. -- yet
still exagerate the impact of the changes simply because of the way an
indicator such as "life expectancy" is constructed.
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new workers - is hurting their membership
numbers. So now unions are joining with the overworked employees.
``At first workers said, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah,' `` to more overtime,
says Rose. ``But after doing it week in and week out, they're now
saying, 'No, no, no.' ``
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repeat this stuff ad nauseum, they do so with a
tone of impatience at having to once again point out such a presumably
obvious truth of economics. Well, it's not an obvious truth because it's
simply not true -- it's not even coherent.
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to once again point out such a presumably
obvious truth of economics. Well, it's not an obvious truth because it's
simply not true -- it's not even coherent.
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Subject: UNEMPLOYMENT
Title: The ethical rate of unemployment: A technical note.
Source: Journal of Economic Issues, Jun98, Vol. 32 Issue 2, p531, 7p,
6 graphs
Author: Galbraith, James K.
AN: 778437
ISSN: 0021-3624
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Simon Fraser Universtiy
Centre for Labour Studies
Presents:
BARGAINING FOR BETTER TIMES
A seminar by Tom Walker
Shorter Work Time Network (Vancouver chapter)
Tuesday, June 23, 1998
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Simon Fraser University
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d interest, which is the
foundation of Jewish, Christian and Islamic social teaching, is a well kept
secret.
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r-Democracy!
* Come to the Federal Wide Demonstration on June 20th in Berlin!
The web site for the demonstration (in German):
DGB Erfurt, http://www.dgb-bwt.com/erfurt
Report by Dave Hollis for
LabourNet Germany,
URL: http://www.labournet.org.uk/germany/
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element of "discipline" that conservatives claim is the feature making
markets more efficient than the state in allocating resources. If there is
to be a come-up-pance of the economic folly of the 1990s, I think it will
resemble more the East Bl
itor! Do you think that you can get away with this?
And there you have the first rule of social research.
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to preserve the ideas, but can't help
including a new element -- martyrdom
* the message ceases to be the prophet's ideas and becomes instead the
martyrdom of those ideas
Maybe "martyrdom" is the real reason repression works so well.;-)
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unless I really have to. I suspect that
big business is facing a huge crisis around this problem.
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seeing work, and the people who do
it, in new ways. Or so it seemed to me. But perhaps, in the absence of
major local labor news, I had simply forgotten.
The entire piece is posted on the Flier's website at
http://www.well.com/user/sfflier.
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18. People who have prospered owe something back to the community that has
enabled them to prosper.
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17. Canada is becoming a polarized society. The gap between good jobs and
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13. The monetarization of work and needs draws attention away from the
crucial question: how much is enough?
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22. Today's corporate culture says if you don't join the rest of the 'team'
that stays late or takes the laptop home, you just don't fit in and you
might as well get out.
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il version of the sorting,
I'd be delighted to include you in the survey (I have a procedure for
administering an email sort outlined in my head). The invitation is also
open to other interested futurework subscribers.
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recedented.
Impossible? Hardly. It may need only a brisk
rise in inflation and a correspondingly strong
response from the Federal Reserve to trigger
the change in mood. Mellon was wrong. Will
today's Wall Street geniuses prove any wiser?
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which cannot be said for the economics that Jay criticized.
I was in Seattle last month, but couldn't get up into BC. Shame!
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Al Gore, looking ahead to 2000 and wanting to
lay the groundwork for a defining issue in the next presidential election:
"It's the environment, stupid!" Downwind from the great Asian crash and burn
of '97, the alternative could turn out to be "It's the system, stupid!"
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back their own stocks. Would be curious to
know where the intitial burst of buying came from, the burst that set off
the recovery.
arthur cordell
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of compound interest. I think it is important not just to assert that, but
to show it.
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r that could be more efficiently put to use by other firms and
they are usurping market share that they haven't "won" competitively. Good
riddance to parasitic capital.
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s a better
prospect of a socialist future must accept the burden of proof of showing
why such a crash wouldn't be at least as likely to lead to barbarism.
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to stakes involved.
On a European level, the stakes are high : the creation of a movement for
the reduction in working hours concerning each and everyone.
On November 20, in Luxembourg city, we will be there to defend that idea !
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Pat Gantt wrote,
How does one accomplish change in one's life?
Try knocking over a parking meter with metaphysics. ;-)
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ement planning may be required. If we procrastinate too
long, the adjustments could be truly wrenching. Our senior citizens, both
current and future, deserve better.
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Perhaps it was no mistake that the new U.S. border control legislation
included tighter restrictions on entry from Canada.
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seemed insignificant. But over
time, and allowing for compound interest, my failure to enroll in those two
redundant college courses could well have brought the entire economy to it's
knees.
It's scary to think how close we came!
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lot's art' (ch. 17, pp. 205-212, in Eileen C. Shapiro's 1995
book, Fad Surfing in the Boardroom, published by Addison-Wesley) and
reflect on its main point.
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ess. That
single difficulty has been sufficiently great to squelch the emergence of
oeccountancy.
As I was going up the stair
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today.
I wish, I wish he'd stay away.
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ing to such a distorted view is to further depreciate
labour.
The lesson of the Asian crisis is that the limit of fictional accounting has
been reached. Humpty-dumpty has fallen off the wall.
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ght add, "bad English". Watch the financial
crisis in Asia to get an idea of what kind of bird hatches from this little
nest egg of misallocation. And watch the IMF prescribe more sickness as the
cure.
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majority of people (83 per cent) has only limited or
extremely limited economic knowledge, according to the
survey's overall index.
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n, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and the
Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association. The Foundation's mandate is
to increase awareness and understanding of economic matters, both
nationally and on a personal level."
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million
$9 million / 1 million = $9 per head
What does that work out to in cups of starbucks coffee per high-skill,
high-wage worker? Is this some kind of an email joke, an "urban legend" like
the $250 Neiman-Marcus cookie recipe or the New Orleans kidney thefts?
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more likely to face a protracted period of
muddling through than an instant re-orientation (no pun intended) of Asian
economies. During the protracted transition, the 'game plan' will no doubt
be forgotten in the scramble to respond to emergencies.
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y of work.
A tall order. What if the solution to these problems was a profoundly simple
one? What if it was as simple as the proverbial "stop beating our heads
against the wall"? Could such a proposal even get a hearing? Could such a
proposal initiate and sustain an expandi
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of employment
in much the same way in which scientific rate systems have been used to
increase the regularity of use of electric power plants.
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be well established by the
time the paperback of Wall Street comes out.
Doug
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ulation would be
unlikely to be more than, say, chimpanzees or mountain gorillas. And our
standard of living would be similar, too.
With all the economic chest thumping that goes on, how can we say that we
are "more" than chimpanzees or gorillas? If the best use we can find
-A
A dialogue is possible within the entire quadrant +A+B, while "debate" along
either line A or line B will inevitably prove futile and misleading.
Sometimes it can feel almost as futile trying to initiate a dialogue,
because any "non+A" statement can be taken by A as a -A
to conclusions - and offer remedies.
Would it be too much, then, to ask you to summarize that magnificent
reasoning and outline those remedies?
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technology that has enabled 'globalization'. This isn't to say that
technology had no role to play in facilitating the change, simply that the
way things have gone is not the result of some inherent property of the
technology.
Coalitions are by definition temporary and unstable.
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of the solution (along with reduced
standard work time). As long as we don't see those parts of the solution
being seriously addressed by government, we can be sure that governments are
not even trying to solve the problem.
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We have the reasons, well documented. The hard question is do we have the will?
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ry of cybernetic control devices is "only a
theory", which is true. But it's the theory upon which the control devices
were designed. If it isn't operative, no one knows what is.
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ausible as an explanation of policies that
western governments have actually pursued over the past two decades. It's
also credible as a prediction of what would be the political result of a
purposeful anti-prosperity regime -- the entrenchment of the elites whose
policies were designed to spre
ff the profitibility of such
schemes would be a blessing, not only to ordinary working people but to
capitalism itself.
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they may be, I do not suppose that
they will have any effect unless you take them under
your protection."
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