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1994-02-05 Thread Paul Cockshott
Ajit Sinha asks what problem I was trying to solve in my posting on the nature of the value metric. It is not so much what problem am I trying to solve, but what problem am I able to discover. What I am asking is whether there is a theoretical problem here in the nature of the value metric. The

Re: Living Through all those Job Changes

1994-02-05 Thread Eugene Coyle
The Wall Street Journal of 2/4/94 has an Op Ed by Labor Secretary Reich. In it he takes on the critics of his and Clinton's initiatives on training the work force. The critics have been asking "Where are the jobs for the retrained workers?" Reich's answer is that he doesn't kno

Re: Living Through all those Job Changes

1994-02-05 Thread Eugene Coyle
The Wall Street Journal of 2/4/94 has an Op Ed by Labor Secretary Reich. In it he takes on the critics of his and Clinton's initiatives on training the work force. The critics have been asking "Where are the jobs for the retrained workers?" Reich's answer is that he doesn't kno

Lemann on the Myth of Community Development

1994-02-05 Thread mmpage
I wanted to add one point to the Lemann attack: I was shocked that in the focus on "the ghetto" and "the slum" and all the money poured down the drain there, Lemann fails to recognize where the real subsidies have gone in the past few decades, and especially in the 1980s: to downtown renewal

economic geography request

1994-02-05 Thread jlgulick
I am doing research for a professor who is exploring the meaning of globalization. His favored technique of exposition is to reveal how the terms that govern mainstream discourse contain hidden contradictions and are hence ideological. Instead of bashing the reader over the head with a revolutiona

economic geography request

1994-02-05 Thread jlgulick
I am doing research for a professor who is exploring the meaning of globalization. His favored technique of exposition is to reveal how the terms that govern mainstream discourse contain hidden contradictions and are hence ideological. Instead of bashing the reader over the head with a revolutiona

Re: fed rumblings

1994-02-05 Thread Doug Henwood
The timing on that is risky. Ideally, the peak should be the month of the election, give or take a few weeks; if it's a little earlier, people won't notice. For the expansion to continue to Nov 96 would make it a virtual nonegenarian: the average post WWII expansion is 17 quarters, or 51 months; N

Re: fed rumblings

1994-02-05 Thread Doug Henwood
The timing on that is risky. Ideally, the peak should be the month of the election, give or take a few weeks; if it's a little earlier, people won't notice. For the expansion to continue to Nov 96 would make it a virtual nonegenarian: the average post WWII expansion is 17 quarters, or 51 months; N

Living Through all those Job Changes

1994-02-05 Thread Sam Lanfranco
This will be short and is a response to Uncle Bill's persistance in claiming that we will be changing jobs eight times in our worklife (actually nine times if you count looking for a job as a non-paid job related activity). He, of course, harps on the need for continuious training to (a) reduce th

Living Through all those Job Changes

1994-02-05 Thread Sam Lanfranco
This will be short and is a response to Uncle Bill's persistance in claiming that we will be changing jobs eight times in our worklife (actually nine times if you count looking for a job as a non-paid job related activity). He, of course, harps on the need for continuious training to (a) reduce th