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Inflation and Unemployment
a talk by Anwar Shaikh
Thursday, February 22 at 8 pm
The view of inflation that dominates academic th
I'm curious whether the suggestion that social security be privatized is
not the first step to abolishing it. At the present time, the wealthier
people in this country already have little to gain or lose from whatever
happens to social security. Private pensions have made social security
onl
Methodological individualism need not assume that the properties of
individuals are invariant over time or that all individuals have the same
properties. The thesis of MI is rather that the properties of groups can
be exhaustively explianed (not necessarily preducted!), without remainder,
by the
from Harper's index, March 1996 (citing Ad Week):
percentage of Americans earning less than $30,000 a year who believe "the
meek shall inherit the earth": 61
percentage earning more than $60,000 who believe this: 36
Doug
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Doug Henwood
Left Business Observer
250 W 85 St
New York NY 10024-321
Eugene, I think the answer to this is: refuse to
sell the stocks back to the so-and-sos. Indeed,
the government would presumably need to hold on
to the stocks in order to generate the dividend
income needed for paying social security benefits.
Also, why not levy some hefty taxes on the
ex-capital
Dylan's Maggie's Farm is absolutely not an anti-labor song. Lyrics follow:
I aint' gonna work on maggie's farm no more (first line always repeats)
I wake up in the morning fold my hands and prary for rain
I got a head full of ideas that are driving me insane
it's a shame the way she makes me scru
Blair Sandler wrote:
> And Maggie, I'm sure Jerry didn't mean to imply that your farm is anything
> like that anti-labor "Maggie's Farm" that Dylan (whoever he was) wrote
> about a few years back.
I wasn't referring to a farm that Maggie OWNS or where she LIVES.
However, a possible interpretati
Maggie Coleman wrote:
>Hi everyone, I'm bck!
Jerry Levy wrote:
>Welcome bck, Maggie!
and Eugene Coyle wrote:
>I'm glad Maggie is back from where ever it was she was.
So am I. I missed her biting, trenchant, incisive, insightful, inciteful posts.
But I notice that Maggie and Jerr
My first reaction to the NYT article on investing the SS trust fund in the
stock market was "uh-oh". I had visions of an equities crash sometime in the
next century creating a crisis for the system. But then it occurred to me
that if the trust fund were actually invested in equities the US gover
Let's see. If we save up our money and buy out the Capitalists, won't
the capitalists then have our money and be able to buy us out?
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Feb 17 19:44:22 1996
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTE
Just read the rave reviews the right gives Pinochet for trailblazing this
form of "reform."
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 916-898-5321
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I'm glad Maggie is back from where ever it was she was.
Maggie Coleman wrote:
>Hi everyone, I'm bck!
Welcome bck, Maggie!
Let us know if the rail bosses harass you again for writing PEN-L posts.
We'll show them what the following can mean:
In PEN-L Solidarity,
Jerry
At 7:42 PM 2/17/96, Robert Peter Burns wrote:
>Now, I KNOW it won't turn out this way, but in
>principle, couldn't allowing social security
>funds to be used to buy up common stocks in U.S.
>companies be a way of gradually socializing the
>means of production? (I am assuming of course that
>the
At 3:50 PM 2/17/96, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi everyone, I'm bck!
>
>The way I understand the 'privatizing' of soc. sec. recommendation is
>slightly different than portrayed by Doug, though I agree with his
>conclusion. The policy suggestion is not that the government would invest
>the mon
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