Steeply progressive income taxes ? My understanding is that the top US
rate is 37% and in the UK it is 40% compared with 80% plus in the 60s and
70s when there was real economic growth. Moreover, the really well off
seem to be able to pay tax as an option, given the availability of an
enormous
However, this wonderful exercise in electronic consultation has been
severely criticized in the UK (See 'The Guardian' of today's date) for
being highly unaccessible and in a generally lousy format. I would add
that it is turgid beyond belief or rather not, given its provenance.
David Byrne
Dept
On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Eva Durant wrote:
I admit I did not follow this thread
closely, what I'd like to know, where the EXTRA
jobs are coming from for these targeted
people?
Eva
Exactly the point made by Ken Clarke - the former Tory Chancellor of the
Exchequer and a Keynesian, even if
Employment zones are a local pilot application of the Blairite programme
of welfare to work, modelled on the US precedent. They seek to achieve
full employment but without assigning any power to workers which might
result from that. Full employment is very contradictory for capitalism. On
the one
As and when a barrel of oil is a complex system then the analogy might
hold, but of course it isn't. I'm not going to attempt to summarize
Prigogine's ideas in a short message but take it up with him - he can
certainly punch his weight in intellectual terms and that is Nobel Prize
winner for this
OK lets get fairly heavy on this. In nonlinear systems where superposition
breaks down - another way to put this is to say that there is significant
interaction among components of the system - any lawlike statement can
only be absolutely contextual. There is no general covering law because
any
The theorist (Noble Prize winning physical chemist) who has written about
the significance of the arrow of time for a recasting of the timeless
traditional account of systemic development is Ilya Prigogine. See
Prigogine and Stengers 'Order out of Chaos' and a more recent book by
Prigogine alone.
I have a Japanese MA student who is writing her dissertation on this topic
with special reference to non-managerial workers. She has some material
but we can't find as many references as we would like. We would be
grateful
for any useful references in either English or Japanese. Please mail to
