BLS DAILY REPORT, FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1998:
RELEASED TODAY: According to updated figures, manufacturing productivity
in the United States rose 4.4 percent in 1996, a smaller increase than
in 1994 or 1995. Nevertheless, the U.S. productivity growth rate was
higher than the rates recorded for 8 of
Why it is perfectly reasonable to demand that unions
cannot put funds raised from members withouth asking them
while not also demanding that corporations not be allowed
to put funds into political activities that would otherwise
go to their owners, and without asking them?
Barkley Rosser
Titoist Yugoslavia was not a command economy, but the
classic example of a market sociaist economy, with all the
faults and virtues therein. The current regime in the rump
state has become more of a command economy as a result of
the regional wars, even as it has become arguably more
BLS DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1998
U.S. manufacturing productivity rose 4.4 percent in 1996, less than in
the two previous years but more than the rates recorded in eight of 10
other countries. Only in Japan and Germany did productivity rise faster
in 1996 that in the United States, BLS
There is an interesting new web site reporting on the Nordic countries,
http://www.nnn.se
It is edited by Al Burke, who formerly published the newsletter, "The
Swedish Example." Current articles include ones on the Nordic Approach
to Social Welfare and stress on the job--occupational health in
I confess that I see the putting off of a Chechnia or a Bosnia as a positive
phenomenon.
R. Anders Schneiderman wrote:
At 08:35 AM 3/28/98 -0800, Michael wrote:
Also in the Balance Sheet, we might include Stalin's brutal, but
relatively effective policy of suppressing/repressing ethnic
To whom...,
From what I've read, the leadership may be talking organizing, but
the locals are not going for it and not funding/staffing it. The problem is
that the unions are not putting forward unionism as a political movement.
They are simply thinking
I am not arguing that the SU was a credit to Marxism -- only that the
ethnic repression did suppress outbreaks of ethnic hostility.
I was asking for help in creating a balance sheet, not for people to
applaud or denounce the SU -- just to get a feeling for the overall
impact.
Also, I
C. Rosser,
I don't think that Tito's Yugoslavia was market socialism. It was
too deformed by an authoritarian regime.
peace
The reason that the S.U. helped to improve conditions in the U.S. was to
preclude the S.U. from making too many propaganda points in the Third
World, as it was then called.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL
C. Perelman,
You and Mr. Devine seem to make the case that the U.S. power
structure had to keep wages up to compare favorably with the Soviet Union.
That assumes that wages could reasonably have been expected to drop below
Soviet levels. I just don't think the
Until I read this report in the Miami Herald, I got migraines thinking
about those Cuban commies coming up here to Buffalo, New York, and
destroying everything I hold precious in life. I am SO!! relieved.
Paul Z.
*
C. Perelman,
Actually I don't think that the Soviets or Tito did a good job of
containing ethnic hostility. I think they did a good job of political
repression. It seems to me that the average citizen's relationship with
the government and the party was so
At 11:26 a.m. 3/29/98 -0500, boddhisatva wrote:
Okay, I suppose that having a threat tends to put a nation in a more
Keynesian frame of mind, but I think it was the expansionism of the S.U.
rather than the socialism of the S.U. that was the principal motivator. In
America the year with the
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At 10:54 AM 3/28/98 -0800, Michael E. wrote:
My understanding is that the California Federation of Labor had just such an
initiative in the pipeline, ready to file with adequate signatures. They
agreed not to do so after the largest employers in the state agreed not to
put money or support
At 08:35 AM 3/28/98 -0800, Michael wrote:
Also in the Balance Sheet, we might include Stalin's brutal, but
relatively effective policy of suppressing/repressing ethnic hostilities.
I don't see how you'd put that in anything other than the minus column.
First off, it's hard to see how
If Paul can get them there, I accept the challenge.
Heck, I'll drink as much as necessary and even eat only
vegetables, if that will do the trick, :-).
More seriously, although Paul didn't tell us, I think
that what he found in Slovenia is that worker managed
enterprises are doing
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Pentagon calls Cuban forces weak; Military seen as severely diminished
Published Sunday, March 29, 1998, in the Miami Herald
By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS Herald Staff Writer
WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon has concluded that Cuba poses no significant
threat to U.S. national security, and senior defense
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