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Patrick Murphy-pipewelder
If as Maggie Coleman suggests public welfare develops because it is more
efficient than private welfare then we have a perfect argument to present to
the right, who are all for efficiency:
Stop dismantling the welfare state. To dismantle the welfare state is
to replace an efficient by an ineffi
No doubt I over-reacted to Jim's post and I agree with much of his reply
except that I do not think that the increasing welfare state weakens unions but
it strengthens them overall. There is however the problem of distancing
of the members of social democratic and union officals from members and
l
It's interesting that Green says private charity was crowded out by public
works -- most public works in the United States began as private charities in
the first half of the nineteenth century and became public because their
private directors ran them too inefficiently. For instance, almost all
My gut reaction to the response of the neo-classical professor was that is
many industries (police) it only takes 20 years to retire. It certainly does
not take 20 years to get tenure!
maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Just to add to Marianne Hills comments on quantifying, er accounting, er
quantifying capital:
Aside from the fluctuation in monetary evaluation, whether money or price are
used the same problem exists: when quantifying different forms of produced
capital goods there tends to be repetition in the
I really wonder if the state is shrinking or if the illusion of democratic
control of government is shrinking to be replaced openly by the controlling
forces of capitalism. After all, whether utilities such as post office,
trains, or phones are privately or publically held, they still represent
s
Jim Devine raises a point which I have noticed in my neighborhood -- kids
calling each other nrs. It seems pretty routine up here (in Washington
Heights) for all the kids, regardless of race or culture, to call their
friends nr. From the context, I think this has replaced the popular ter
Taking care of business
Reproduced from Living Marxism issue 89, April 1996
Taking care of business
After years of attempted public spending cuts, privatisation and deregulation,
capitalism is more dependent on state support than ever. Phil Murphy challenges
some myths of the shrinking state
I must have touched a raw nerve, because Ken Hanley goes
overboard when he writes: >>... The romantic attachment to
voluntary organisation and the trashing of anything universal
statist and bureaucratic is music to the ears of the right. I
mean lets get back to family values and have a happy L
Subject: Invitation to link up on an economic issue
Greetings!
I'm contacting you in hopes that you will place a link on your Web page to a
site that may be of strong interest to you
The Web site, "The Economic War Among the States," addresses the issue of
incentive programs created by comm
On Wed, 3 Apr 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In Shniad's interesting post on NZ we find the following:
>
> The ethos of the market pervaded everyday life. Even
> the language was captured, dehumanizing the people
> and communities it affected. It became acceptable to
> talk of "shedding worke
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