I don't talk about US domestic matters much because I don't know them much.
But Nader is more than just that. He launched 'consumerism' in other
countries too, so I'm interested. I'm old enough to remember the hoo-hah
about vehicle safety in the 1960s and the susbsequent rise of consumer
groups +
Gene Coyle asked,
My question is this: If "international competition conditions allow" them
to raise prices, why don't they? I. e. why wait for the excuse and/or the
pressure to raise prices? What businesses live for is raising prices --
they don't hang back. I've never understood this
In a message dated 00-06-03 21:11:11 EDT, you write:
The main point is that it wasn't an $85 per month furnished room.
be bought. If he stayed silent on no-fault, it was not because he was
bribed,
but because there are serious consumerist arguments against it. There are,
The problem
Mark Jones has discovered that anything but the self-described express
movement for the revolutionmary overthrow of capitalsim is a distraction;
reforms that merely improve people's livesw ithin existing constrints are
bad. Hey, Mark, why doesn't this distrction theorya pply to a movement for
Timework Web wrote:
Gene Coyle asked,
I'm not sure how much weight to give any story about prices,
though, in a world (this one) where competition doesn't necessarily mean
price competition. Rising labor costs surely don't underlie the high price
of Nike running shoes.
I would like to
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writes:
why should shoplifting cause a rise in prices? That would
imply that before the rise in shoplifting the store was not charging
as high a price as it could have. I'
If there was significant loss due to
New York Times, June 4, 2000
STRATEGIES
At What Rate Does a Market Really Grow?
By MARK HULBERT
It is a truism of the investing world: Over the long term stocks grow at an
annualized rate of 10 to 15 percent.
Sure, equities may do better in some decades, as they did in the 1980's and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 6/4/00 12:06:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
why should shoplifting cause a rise in prices? That would
imply that before the rise in shoplifting the store was not charging
as high a price as it could have. I'
If
As always, the issue is what they count, and whether it is countable. For
example, a purely quantitative approach to welfare reform can count the
increased employment among welfare mothers and ignore the decline in parental
supervision that such work demands. In fact, the commodification of child
In a nutshell, Nader is attempting to connect the dotted lines between the
social movements and trade unions of today with the anti-monopoly and
populist traditions of the pre-1917 left. This is the left of small
shopkeepers, farmers and "citizens" who need to restore the vision of
At 06:25 AM 06/04/2000 -0700, you wrote:
I'm not sure how much weight to give any story about prices,
though, in a world (this one) where competition doesn't necessarily mean
price competition. Rising labor costs surely don't underlie the high price
of Nike running shoes.
the Nike issue is about
Especially check out the child mortality figures, and number of women
loosing their lives during pregnancy and childbearing. 580,000 die during
"peregnancy and delivery" each year, 99% of them in developing countries.
In Morocco, maternal mortality is 25 times higher than Europe. It is HIGH
time
Lots of silliness here. All effective reform "legitimate" the system by
making it work better, or at least less destructively, for those on the
bottom. If you oppose reforms on this basis, you will cut yourself off from
all political activity except for PL-ish demand for total revolution NOW!
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Jim Devine wrote:
the Nike issue is about high prices rather than rising prices
(inflation).
No. The Nike issue is about whether prices relate to labour costs.
Nike is able to charge a high price (relative to costs) at this point of
history because it has monopoly power.
Not exactly. There
Could anyone suggest some "good" books on auto industry restructuring
globally that specifically ties it to (or discusses) excess
capacity? They could have been written any time since the late
1960s. Thanks in advance.
Anthony
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