Is anyone familiar with Layard, Nickell, and Jackman, _Unemployment:
Macroeconomic Performance and the Labour Market_?
I would welcome your comments.
regards,
Tom Walker
Who?
Early returns from exit polls show Tom Walker nosing ahead in the
NEXT-CITY election.
Gene Coyle
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__Private industry wages rose 3.9 percent in 1998, the same increase as the
Louis's post was excellent. I might only add that recent stories indicate that
similar problems are cropping up elsewhere. People are speculating about the
harmful organisms that might be release with the destruction of the coral
reefs. We have also seen tropical diseases migrating North with
Aids is an important issue, but without minimizing the importance of aids [I
lost a wonderful cousin only a year ago] we should keep in mind that many more
people die from poverty around the globe -- but poverty will never get the
affluent's attention like the personal threat of aids.
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I very much agree with this post by Louis Pro. I just wonder if to be precise we
should say "human life is doomed". Of course, that is the main life form we are
concerned about.
Charles Brown
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If Marxists can not understand these contradictions
Michael Perelman wrote,
Jim, Good question. Only to be able to make sense of what the bogus economists
are saying.
Jim Devine wrote:
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Michael, why do you care about total factor productivity? it's a concept
based on bogus assumptions.
Whoa! Hold on a minute there. Are these
To be even more precise, I was in between solving a problem on one AIX box
and getting ready to fix one on another. Didn't have time to run it through
my grammar-checker.
At 01:56 PM 2/1/99 -0500, you wrote:
I very much agree with this post by Louis Pro. I just wonder if to be
precise we should
At 04:00 AM 2/2/99 +1100, Rob wrote:
I'm guessing total factor productivity is wrong in as far as it frames the
actual producer as but a factor of production - one of them little ways our
order unconsciously factors its bankrupt ethics/values into its 'objective
science', eh?
The problems with
For those who are more production oriented, try Peter Dicken's "Global
Shift" (written from a political geography angle, excellent text). More
sophisticated edited volumes: Boyer and Drache "States against Markets:
the limits of globalization"; Berger and Dore: National Diversity and
Global
From Aaronson and Sullivan, "The Decline of Job Security
in the 1990s: Displacement, Anxiety, and their Effect
on Wage Growth," _Economic Perspectives_ (Fed Bank of Chicago),
First Quarter 1998:
"Suprisingly, the results suggest that workers in industries
that are more computer intensive are
Obviously there are a lot of pieces to the puzzle. All I'm doing is pointing
out one. It is interesting to speculate how union weakness feeds into a lot
of facets of life today. Were unions a credible force, would we have NAFTA
and employer ability to draw arrows? The doctrine I mentioned is a
Ellen wrote:
I'd like to add in one possible source of weakness in wage demands comes
from both the decline in union membership and also changes in the
interpretation of the NLRA that have made it easier for employers to
impose
their terms and very difficult for unions to make strong
Michael - I may be wrong, but most productivity data I have seen is measured
in real or inflation adjusted terms. In your terms, bushels of wheat, not
dollar value of bushels of wheat. Maybe TFP is calculated on a nominal sales
revenue basis, but that would be unconventional. As I understand it,
Michael P. writes: Aids is an important issue, but without minimizing the
importance of aids [I
lost a wonderful cousin only a year ago] we should keep in mind that many
more
people die from poverty around the globe -- but poverty will never get the
affluent's attention like the personal threat
Tom Walker wrote:
Michael Perelman wrote,
In other words, we are so intent on mis[measuring] monetary measures that we
forget the real matters of importance. Sadly, as Louis's post reminds us, we
only take notice of the "real issues" when it seems to come back and hit us
personally --
Dear Ellen,
I don't doubt for one second the fact that we don't have any labor laws in this
country to speak of except for a few pieces of New Deal legislation still on the
books. All employment, unless covered by a union contract, "is at will." Your
employer is not mandated by law to provide
Why should the relation between socioeconomic status and HIV/AIDS be any
different than it is for another other illness and injury?
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Disease and blowback. In repsonse to the posts by Brad and Jim, I remember a
semester ago talking about poverty to my class. Many listened politely for
fear of offending the instructor rather than out of interest. Then, I spoke of
pockets of poverty breeding diseases, such as t.b., which are
At 03:36 PM 2/1/99 -0800, you wrote:
Disease and blowback. In repsonse to the posts by Brad and Jim, I remember a
semester ago talking about poverty to my class. Many listened politely for
fear of offending the instructor rather than out of interest. Then, I
spoke of
pockets of poverty
On Mon, February 1, 1999 at 12:47:19 (-0800) Ellen Dannin writes:
...
I'd love to argue these chicken and egg issues all day, but unfortunately
I've got classes to prep for. In this particular case, the economy did not
have that much impact on changing the interpretation of the laws (at least
in
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Here! Here! Ellen is absolutely correct.
Ellen Dannin wrote:
In a good number, the issue the employer creates impasse on is
management rights, collection of union dues, elimination of seniority,
"merit" raises -- issues I refer to as "control" issues, because they are
more about asserting
1998 SAVINGS RATE 0.5%, LOWEST SINCE -2.1% IN 1933.
regards,
Tom Walker
From Mark Jones:
[This to my mind extraordinary eulogy to Mr Primakov by Soviet historian and
communist Roy Medvedev suggests to me that Primakov has decided to run for
president of Russia; and that Yeltsin's departure from the scene must be
imminent.
The fact that Medvedev could pen such a
In a message dated 99-02-01 13:57:02 EST, you write:
I very much agree with this post by Louis Pro. I just wonder if to be
precise we should say "human life is doomed". Of course, that is the main life
form we are concerned about.
there are a number of biologists, virologists and other
In a message dated 99-02-01 16:31:22 EST, you write:
Why should the relation between socioeconomic status and HIV/AIDS be any
different than it is for another other illness and injury?
because hiv/aids has the potential of destroying the human race. maggie
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Michael Perelman wrote:
Disease and blowback. In repsonse to the posts by Brad and Jim, I remember a
semester ago talking about poverty to my class. Many listened politely for
fear of offending the instructor rather than out of interest. Then, I
spoke of
pockets of poverty breeding diseases,
As to economists -- one of the egregious failures of the discipline is that it
does not recognize the interaction between the human condition and economy.
For instance, now that AFrica is DEpopulating because of the aids epidemic,
the lack of articles addressing why poverty is no longer being
The disease metaphor worked because diseases do not always respect such barriers.
Doug Henwood wrote:
Build gated communities?
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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Jim, Good question. Only to be able to make sense of what the bogus economists
are saying.
Jim Devine wrote:
At 01:33 PM 1/31/99 -0800, Michael Perelman wrote:
Peter, no. It was capital deepening, but the productivity indexes are based
on dollars. Since output prices were plummeting,
Does anyone know of any reliable information on the genesis and
epidemiology of HIV? The fact that it disproportionately attacks
blacks, gays, drug addicts and the poor is just a little too convenient
for me. I know there is lot of conspiracy theory around HIV _AIDS and
the Doctors of Death_ by
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I have to agree with Ellen: looking for causes for union decline in
endogenous
Bill wrote,
...looking for causes for union decline in endogenous economic
phenomena is kind of silly when you have such glaring evidence
that a concerted political effort was made to destroy them
precisely in the way Ellen describes.
I guess the above comment was a response to
It might be offered that, for the 1990s, an underlying _cause_ of the
(further) decline in union power is increased employment insecurity. The
same article I cited in my previous message indicates that union workers
have
have seen a greater increase in employment insecurity than non-union
In today's NY Times (February 1, 1999), Lawrence K. Altman reports that
scientists have discovered the origin of the AIDS virus in a subspecies of
chimpanzee called Pan troglodytes troglodytes. The virus was transmitted to
humans through exposure to blood in hunting or meat handling.
Although
G'day Penners,
Michael's questions got this layperson thinking about parallels in our
time: y'know, about the hideous things that happen to the world economy
when huge hedge funds muck around with one area of the economy purely to
extract goodies from what consequently happens elsewhere in the
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