Tom Walker and I have repeatedly mentioned reducing the standard of hours of work. On Pen-l the response has been of two forms, neither including a discussion of the idea/policy,
The first type of response, from the hipster element, has been a sneer. The second type of response, from Carrol Cox mainly, has been to support the idea but dismiss it because the political campaign to achieve it has not been described or specified. Pen-l seems more interested in opining on the nice distinctions of policy on Syria, Turkey, Gaza, Israel, etc., without including much, if any, economic analysis. Gene > On Jan 9, 2016, at 10:27 AM, raghu <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 4:21 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > David W Terrell says: > > In place of Clinton’s 200 economists, who is it that Sanders listens to? He > mentions several. Paul Krugman, he says, would make a good secretary of the > Treasury. Krugman won a Nobel Prize in economics, teaches at Princeton and > writes for The New York Times. Sanders uses the advice of Joseph Stiglitz, > who also won a Nobel in economics, teaches at Columbia and writes the most > lucid and compelling popular books on the economy one can find. > > Can't Bernie find some better economists? > > > Is there any concrete political or policy issue on which the advice of Paul > Krugman or Joseph Stiglitz would differ materially from the advice of Michael > Perelman? > > I can't think of any. > > That leaves us with the main complaint that PEN-L purists have with Krugman > and Stiglitz: that they are not writing columns and giving speeches calling > for the abolition of private property. > > Words and rhetoric in other words, not any concrete ideas or policy > differences. > > -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
