At 12:47 AM 4/3/2005, Michael Perelman wrote:
Cohen, Stephen and John Zysman. 1987. Manufacturing Matters: The Myth of
the Post
Industrial Economy NY: Basic Books).
with material like this:
4: Manufacturing represented 50% of all U.S. jobs on 1950 to 20%
now. Service jobs
are now 70%.
22: Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. 1983. Annual Report of the
President
on the United Sates on the Trade Agreement Program, p. 25 "25% of the U.S. GNP
originates in services used as inputs by good-producing industries -- more
than the
value added by the manufacturing sector."
But if we didn't have this sort of thing, we wouldn't get to hear 911 tapes
of a woman calling about a "wrong hamburger"!
I have listened to this dumb thing way too many times today as it is.
http://inkworkswell.com/downloads/wrong_sammich911.html
