Excuse me but it's quite late over here and I have to wake up early tomorrow. I will read the paper in details and I'll be glad to provide my point of view asap
Good night
Massimo Portolani
On 14/mag/05, at 00:07, Doug Henwood wrote:
Massimo Portolani wrote:
Alesina is italian, as I am, and over here some of us think that he has become more american than americans. Anybody who has real experience with workers in Europe and USA knows quite well that what they appear to claim is not true. I would strongly advise most of these people who write these things to take some vacation, have some leisure for the benefit of us all.
So what's your explanation for the greater "preference" (as the bourgeois economists say) for leisure in Europe? Their explanation seems rather tortured and bogus, but I'd like to see a better one.
Doug
