Re: FW Unemployment and the economy

1997-11-09 Thread Harry Pollard
Robert wrote (see below): One of the major problems is the way we think. The problem is not in any way overproduction - but underproduction. Overproduction implies that all consumers have everything they want - an obvious error. It just looks like overproduction. Harry ---

FW Unemployment and the economy

1997-11-07 Thread Robert Neunteufel
In response to Alan Scharf and Thomas Lunde Two reasons (among others) for overproduction can be: 1. Rising costs for repairing the damages caused by industrial production (ecology, health, security systems) lead to sinking money for private consumption. 2. Economic theory is not aware of the

FW Unemployment and the economy

1997-11-06 Thread Thomas Lunde
In response to Alan Scharf Thanks, Alan, that was very insightful and your right, in my complaint about the discrepancy I forgot/did not know/wanted to draw attention to a different viewpoint. However, you are right, one is apples and the other is oranges. However at some level their has to be