Sorry, that last line in the preceeding advert should have read
`social relations of consumption' not production. Though usually the
sweat equity component of the rehab work is also socialized (and is
gender and generationally sensitive too)...
How about this for a country cousin to Tom W.'s suggestion for
socializing the gains, not just the losses, caused by intervention of
- not the state in this case - the collective will.
The limited equity housing cooperative movement (also variously known
and tied to community land trusts, mutual
A friend is finishing a book on racism and had the following questions.
1) What portion of the world's annual use of resources is consumed by the
United States?
2) What is a reasonable estimate for the long-term total cost of the S&L
bailout including interest? I thought $300-500; he thought
Is Ulrike Krause's volume Money and Abstract Laobor worth the time, efford,
and $6.75 a used copy I saw today would cost me?
Justin Schwartz
Also, property taxes are on the assessed value, which is generally well
below the market value, and of course do not tax the whole of any added
value due to govt regulation or anything else.
--Justin Schwartz
On Mon, 15 May 1995 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Jim writes:
>
> > By the way, if I u
Henry George came close to this, starting a school of economics still
hanging on today. Maybe those folks can spearhead this drive. Gene Coyle
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon May 15 10:51:31 1995
> Errors-To: [EMAIL P
May I also humbly apologise for consistently spelling "Maori" wrong in my last
post. There are no excuses (for a Kiwi). Most of the time I have difficulty
spelling my own name.
sincere aplogies,
Petre Rebertsen
A note of clarification:
On 14 May 1995 (Pen-L:5081) 16:58:54.85, Paul Cockshott reported some
statisitcal results and, interpreting them, referred to "the New Soln [New Solution]
of the transformation problem is that advocated by Kliman ..."
I, Kliman, am NOT an advocate of what is *generally*
Devine and Schettino might want to look at:
T. Persson and G. Tabellini, 'Is Inequality Harmful
for Growth?' _American Economic Review_ vol. 84/3
(June 1994), 600-621
and
World Bank, _World Development Report 1991_, especially
page 137.
Cheers,
Peter Burns SJ
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Jim writes:
> By the way, if I understand correctly, often businesses
> do pay higher property taxes if government activities
> lead to higher property values.
Yeah, but by the same token, property taxes (eventually) go down, if
only by lawsuit or inflation-driven attrition, if property value
On Sun, 14 May 1995, Bruce Cronin wrote:
> A fascinating side of the neo-'liberal' crusade for 'freedom' in the
> NZ economy has been their systematic campaign to stamp out criticism of
> their programme. Alternative centres of policy advice and critique in
> govt and the universities have had
Thanks, Tom. I needed an additional component for my satirical
"Contract with Amurrica." Currently, I have three
constitutional amendments:
(1) (The Weisskopf Amendment) Every property owner
must be compensated for any loss of property value
that results from government activity of any kind
and
On Mon, 15 May 1995 08:20:53 -0700 M Schettino said:
>There is a discussion about growth and inequality by Burns and Oman.
>If it helps, I built an endogenous growth model with income inequality
>that shows that the worse the distribution (and its dynamics) the less
>the growth
Sounds like an
This morning's NYTimes carries a couple of articles on the "Property
Rights Bill" before Congress, which is designed to require taxpayers to
compensate property owners for any reduction in the "fair market value"
of their property (of 10% or more) resulting from any government
regulation. The
Ajit asks:
>>As a member of that "crowd", do you believe that Marx's 'labor-values'
are the satistical average of "real market prices"?<<
where "crowd" here refers to the disparaging term that Ajit uses
to describe those who have learned from Farjoun and Machover's
LAWS OF CHAOS.
My answer: No I
completed and is availabe in ASCII format.
The CSSD was organized by the Consortium Graduate School of Social
Sciences and the Institute of Social and Economic Research, UWI in
collaboration with the UNICEF Caribbean Area Office and the CARICOM
Secretariat. It was held in Barbados 27-
There is a discussion about growth and inequality by Burns and Oman.
If it helps, I built an endogenous growth model with income inequality
that shows that the worse the distribution (and its dynamics) the less
the growth. The sequence is as follows, more inequality reduces
incentives to sav
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