Daly has been tip-toeing around the immigration issue for a while. What he is trying to control on the issue is his tongue. He's a farsighted leader on environmental issues and sees the economy embedded in the world's environment, but somehow gets isolationist on immigration.
Gene On Jul 16, 2013, at 10:14 AM, raghu wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:30 PM, Tom Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > > Full Employment Versus Jobless Growth > > by Herman Daly > > Economic growth has become the end, and if the means to attain that end — > > automation, off-shoring, excessive immigration — result in unemployment, > > well that is the price “we” just have to pay for the glorified goal of > > growth in GDP. If we really want full employment we must reverse this > > inversion of ends and means. We can serve the goal of full employment by > > restricting automation, off-shoring, and easy immigration to periods of > > true domestic labor shortage as indicated by high and rising wages. In > > addition, full employment can also be served by reducing the length of the > > working day, week, or year, in exchange for more leisure, rather than more > > GDP.,,, > > > > > > Really? "Excessive immigration" is an evil, right alongside automation and > off-shoring of jobs? > > Is progressivism that comes packaged with a nasty dose of nativism still > progressive? > -raghu. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
