At 08:38 4/12/98 -0800, Michael P. wrote:
>I question whether the efficiency wage is a fad. The idea has origins that
>predate Lester. During the 1920s, a period which Jim knows very well, the
>"economy of high wages" was considered to be mainstream. We can also date
>such thought back to Adam
Quoth our deep mole in Bolivia:
> The first McDonalds in Cochabamba, Bolivia is to open on Friday. We are
> preparing a protest of sorts. I am writing for help in putting together
..
> costs/values. Does anyone have the citation? We would like
Dear subcom:
>Busy, busy! Dunno about this one, Tom; if it's a standard McD's you're
>moving to deprive Cochabamba's street people of probably the one place
>in town where they can eat _and spend a few warm hours_
Warmth is NOT the problem here. And "street people", as you are imagining
them,
Star pupil valis asked:
>Hmm, were Jacob and Esau somehow the first Marginal Utilitarians,
>or am I getting my theorists mixed up?
To do a proper job on this genealogy, we have to all the way back to Adam.
Smith, that is.
Adam begot David and James. David begot Karl. James begot Nassau, John a
Thomas Michl, "Adam Smith and the New Economics of Effort," in R. Blackwell, J.
Chatha, and E. Nell (eds.): _Economics as Worldly Philosophy_, Macmillan and St.
Martin's, 1993.
Ajit Sinha wrote:
> At 08:38 4/12/98 -0800, Michael P. wrote:
> >I question whether the efficiency wage is a fad. The
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BLS DAILY REPORT, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1998
RELEASED TODAY: Employment increased in November, and the unemployment rate
Ellen Frank wrote,
>But there is no pile
>of money, there never was and there never will be.
That illusory "pile of money" is the papier-mâché rock upon which all
right-wing economic wisdom is founded. If capital played by such a farcical
pile-of-money rule, we'd all still be scraping the grou
Actually it was Hayek who emphasized information
issues, not von Mises, although the latter certainly
claimed that socialist central planners would end up using
"wrong" prices. Von Mises placed more emphasis on the
ownership question, capitalism versus socialism. He argued
that a priva
..
> Alfred slept around and wound up with 12 sons by various and assorted wifes
> and concubines. Alfred's favorite son, Milton, became an advisor to Pharoah
> and taught him how he could turn all the fat cows over to his friends at the
> banks
Ellen's piece should be a model for economists -- taking a complex subject and
putting it into a form that people can understand. The right is good at this,
except that they put it in a form to make people think that they understand,
while actually causing confusion.
--
Michael Perelman
Economic
In a recent message, I wrote: >>I see nothing wrong with abstraction in
trying to understand the world. You construct abstractions all the time,
Tom. Or are you referring to money as an abstraction? I guess it is, but
that doesn't say that money is NOT a crucial part of the way capitalism
works. <
Tom, this isn't going to be much help besides alerting you to a wealth of
information that I'm not going to be able to give you an address for.
In the UK there was a long running law suit where McDonald's sued
activists for liable. The activists were leafletting with information
about Mc
Gene Coyle quizzes:
> Extra credit quiz: What is the only state capit[a]l in the USA
> without a McDonalds?
An exception of this sort would have to be determined by local ideology
rather than any marketing factor(s). On this basis: Salt Lake City.
Response:
Ken, you have it exactly right. Further, under exting Federal Law
(Titles 9, 18 and 25 USC) Indians are not treated as individuals but
as members of Groups--Tribes and Nations--and furthermore,
individual Indians are typically treated not as individuals but
members of a broader coll
Gerald Keddy
House of Commons
Parliament Buildings
Ottawa, On
K1A 0A6
Dear Sir,
I am writing to you regarding the United Nations Draft Declaration on the
Rights of Indigenous Peoples which is currently under review by the UN
Intersessional Working Group in Geneva. As you may already know,
>From 12/7/98 article in the NY Times:
Mr. Sokal has been attacked as a "left conservative" because he is trying
to stake out a territory free from the political claims of culture. That
would be the territory of reasoned argument, objective fact and
Enlightenment insight, where even debates like
December 3, 1998
E-MAIL MESSAGE FROM COLVILLE COMMUNICATION SERVICES, NESPELEM, WA.
TO: VARIOUS PARTIES
FR: Sheila Whitelaw, Press Secretary, Colville Business Council
Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, Nespelem, WA
RE: HONOR OUR ANCESTORS PRESS ADVISORY
Please find attache
Jim Devine wrote,
>please describe one example of a case of so-called suctional unemployment
>that does not fit this "special case."
1. See below. The guy in the story was fired for refusing to work overtime.
He's NOT the example, he's the exception to the rule. The example is all the
folks who
At 12:55 PM 12/7/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Jim Devine wrote,
>
>>In that case, if the job-squatters (those who
>>justifiably cling to jobs rather than enjoying a stint in the
>>officially-measured reserve army of the unemployed)
>
>The qualification involves way too much compression and projection of
At 05:54 PM 12/7/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>From 12/7/98 article in the NY Times:
>
>Mr. Sokal has been attacked as a "left conservative" because he is trying
>to stake out a territory free from the political claims of culture. That
>would be the territory of reasoned argument, objective fact and
>Enl
Jim Devine wrote,
>In that case, if the job-squatters (those who
>justifiably cling to jobs rather than enjoying a stint in the
>officially-measured reserve army of the unemployed)
The qualification involves way too much compression and projection of my
argument. What the above example deals wit
Tom Kruse asked about MacDonalds.
In the town of Squamish, here in British Columbia, the Canadian Auto
Workers union (formerly the Canadian wing of the UAW) have certified the
only MacDonalds in North America (at least I think it is the only one;
another franchise in Quebec was unionized a few mo
> Max writes: >The earmarking gives rise to the Trust Fund balance,
> including its dates of cash deficits, overall deficit, and exhaustion of
the fund balance, all of which are key to the current debate. As I said,
> accounting may be dull, but it is political. It is the Right which is
demeanin
At 01:03 PM 12/7/98 -0500, you wrote:
> It has been argued that Thomas More's _Utopia_, viewed
>by many as an early utopian socialist work, was inspired by
>the more favorable reports emanating from North America
>regarding the kinds of behavior among Native American
>Indians that Louis P.
At 09:11 AM 12/7/98 -0500, you wrote:
Max writes: >The earmarking gives rise to the Trust Fund balance, including
its dates of cash deficits, overall deficit, and exhaustion of the fund
balance, all of which are key to the current debate. As I said, accounting
may be dull, but it is political. I
James Michael Craven wrote:
Surely the position of the US reps. involves a logical contradiction.
I assume treaties were signed with tribes not individual natives. These
treaties give certain rights to GROUPS of individuals. Because of these
group rights INDIVIDUALS within tribes who have sig
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It has been argued that Thomas More's _Utopia_, viewed
by many as an early utopian socialist work, was inspired by
the more favorable reports emanating from North America
regarding the kinds of behavior among Native American
Indians that Louis P. admires.
I would also note that Powha
Tom Kruse asked about McDonald's. I had a short section on the subject in my
book, Class Warfare in the Information Age:
Adam Smith's Hamburger
Economists base their faith in the rationality of pseudo-information on the
simplistic logic of Adam Smith's invisible hand. You may recall Smith's
Quoth Ellen Frank, in part:
> Each year, American workers pay more into the Social Security (SS) system
> than retirees take out. The difference, now about $90b per year, is
> "saved" in the Social Security Trust Fund. Today the trust fund has around
> $800b. By 2021, it will have nearly four
In response to Bill Lear's question, I've attached a short piece I wrote on
SS for a local union publication.
Ellen Frank
Each year, American workers pay more into the Social Security (SS) system
than retirees take out. The difference, now about $90b per year, is
sav
Max replied:
> >Unlike welfare, and like insurance, beneficiaries make
> >earmarked payments into the program. ...
>
> since funds are shifted about between various government budgets, the
> "earmarked" part is pretty unimportant. . . .
The earmarking gives rise to the Trust Fund balance,
inclu
Prof Walker assigns:
> Essay question: Compare and contrast Thomas Mann's Joseph and his Brothers
> and Alfred Marshall's Principles of Economics. Extra credit: use the words
> 'elide' and 'palimpsest' in your essay.
There was more to those definitions than I could stick on my gyp sheet,
so I th
Dear Listmembers:
The frist McDonalds in Cochabamba, Bolivia is to open on Friday. We are
preparing a protest of sorts. I am writing for help in putting together
info. I have the piece by Liza Featherstonein LBO 86, a couple of list
posts, but nothing else.
I would greatly appreciate ANY crit
From: Fred Weir in Moscow
Date: Sat, 05 Dec 1998
For the Hindustan Times
MOSCOW (HT) -- The Russian government will not abandon
market economics but intends to make sweeping policy changes to
escape the disaster left by years of misguided reforms, Prime
Minister Yevgeny Primakov said at the
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