I'd like to get up to speed on the measurement of unemployment
in the U.S. In particular, I'm curious about whether we could be
seeing a longish-run increase in the undermeasurement of unemployment.
Obviously, the unemployment rate understates the problem on unemploy-
ment, by not adjusting for
I like to think of what might be called the measure of effective
unemployment. If workers get placed in positions below their level of
competence they may be said to be partially unemployed. For example, if
a Ph.D. mathemetician ends up at McDonalds, she might be 95% unemployed.
I suspect that
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Subject: [PEN-L:10219] War and Primitive Accumulation
In his section on primitive accumulation in volume one of Capital,
Marx writes: "The public debt becomes one of the most powerful levers of pof
primitive
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Subject: [PEN-L:10217] planning and democracy
Jim dislikes slicing-and-dicing commentary, so I will
stick to the Cuisinart approach, for the most part . . .
Democratically-elected planners can connive to concoct a plan. A
collection of
Trevor:
[T]he EU has ...contradictary roots. For example, many of the bourgeois
politicians who were involved in promoting the European Community in
the 1950s were concerned to ensure that the national divisions which had
given rise to two world wars should be overcome.
Sid:
I grant that
In his THE RISE AND FALL OF STRATEGIC PLANNING, Henry Mintzberg suggests
that its proponents characterize planning as "a formalized procedure to
produce an articulated result, in the form of an integrated system of
decisions." Formalized planning, in this sense, involves decomposing,
articulating
On Tue, May 20, 1997 at 14:52:05 (PST) Max B. Sawicky writes:
Democratically-elected planners can connive to concoct a plan. A
collection of sub-unites of an economy --geographic, industrial, etc.
-- cannot contribute pieces of a plan that some overlord fails to
reconcile. If a plan's "locus
At 08:26 PM 5/19/97 -0700, Mark Weisbrot wrote:
"The point is that we and our friends control the keys to the clubs and the
treasuries that Kabila will need to tap if he is going to rebuild the
country -- the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, our development
funds, and those of
Before I reply to Bill's missive, apologies for numerous typos in my
postings, resulting from both my lack of typing skills and my Eudora's lack
of a spell-checker (which, ironically, demonstrates that 'institutions'
after all matter).
I am glad to hear that we agree in principles (which I
On p. 3 of today's NY Times:
"Capitalism Poses a Moral Problem"
(It's an article about Poland.)
cheers,
Thad
Thad Williamson
National Center for Economic and Security Alternatives (Washington)/
Union Theological Seminary (New York)
212-531-1935
http://www.northcarolina.com/thad
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In a message dated 97-05-15 17:49:44 EDT, you [i.e. me] write:
If I get any more self-conscious, I might end up some sort of Hegelian
pretzel.
Can we get pictures? :-) :-)
As soon as I get them I'll put them up on my web site.
Personally, I think
women are just as
Last evening while scanning Walter Cronkite's, "A Reporters Life," p.42 I
noted he reported that Bob Montgomery was one of his few turn on Profs.
at the University of Texas in the 30's. His remarks that Andrew Mellon was
the greatest Sec. of Treasury since Judas made an impression along with
the
Am still awash in existential nausea brought on by the State Dept's
appalled discovery, after 32 years of wedded bliss, that Mobutu is
one evil dude who should have been hung out to dry in the Sixties.
In Dante's Inferno, isn't it the hypocrites that rate the hottest spots?
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