Re: Apple and the Unionization of Silicon Valley

1994-01-27 Thread Doug Henwood
This is some of the best news I've heard in a long time. Wonder if I should do a Marketplace commentary about it and scare all the rentiers in the audience? Where could I find out more? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On

Re: Free trade and wages

1994-01-27 Thread Doug Henwood
Is this vast wedge between pay productivity sustainable? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) PS: I'd like to hear more about your work on SK steel. On Wed, 26 Jan 1994, Anthony D'Costa wrote: Low wages is a challenge, no

Re: A Smith quote not to use

1994-01-27 Thread Jon Coifman
And we all know how many Chicago economists it takes to change a light bulb, right? (A: None. The invisible hand will do it.) HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Coifman On Thu, 27 Jan 1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once while guest lecturing in a microeconomics class, I made the error of

Adam Smith

1994-01-27 Thread Joe Persky
For Jim Devine and others-- You may have seen this before, but just in case. Recall Adam Smith begins the Wealth of Nations with a paen to the division of labor. Many people don't get much further than this. But if we make it to book v,"the expenses of the sovereign," part III "Of the Expense