Is that the multiplier effect of susbequent spending on programs or the
multiplier effect of the extraction of these millions from labor?
Jeff Fellows
On Wed, 15 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've been wondering, since Ted Turner intends to donate about a million a
> year for the next te
On Sun, 30 Mar 1997, Michael Perelman wrote:
> Louis has complained about self-citation. I differ with him. Maybe it
> is an occupational disease of academics, but I appreciate pointers to
> published material.
>
> I do not think many of us would think it to be cowardice.
>
I agree. In fac
It seems that a discussion of the relative degree of progressiveness in
the tax structure cannot take place without an understanding of the way
in which the government redistributes taxes. For instance, the proportion
of income (earned and property) paid in taxes may increase as income
increa
On Tue, 4 Feb 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >Tack ska du ha Trond. Men imperialismen bada den Svenska och Norska modelen
> >är nog lika bortskamt som imperialismen ifran dem engelsktalande lander.
> >Norge som pro Nato land och Sverige som pro tysk:) Och nu har Norge
> olje!
>
> For all
On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Gerald Levy wrote:
> On the issue of whether teen pregnancy is a "social problem", one can
> support the *right* of teenage women to have children and _still_ note
> that it is (or can be) a social problem. It _can_ be a problem for the
> living standard and welfare of the
A futher point that begs mentioning on the relation between technology
and teen pregnancy is the gender specificity of the technological answer
being given. If I were a responsible young male with access to health
care, the best (morally -well besides abstinance- and least
physically harmful)
On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Eban Goodstein wrote:
> The "theory" sounds persuasive to me-- the large rise in out of wedlock
> births clearly reflects changing social norms, which in turn are affected in
> major ways by technology. Attempts to reduce the phenomenon either to the
> availability of we
On Tue, 19 Nov 1996, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
> Fellow Golden Agers:
>
> A young, rising liberal luminary of the profession, Alan
> Krueger, has a column in the Washington Post this past Monday
> proposing to index Social Security benefits to wages.
>
> His justifications include: doing a true
> Fikret Ceyhun wrote:
>
> > The other day I was at my dentist's office for checkup and
> > cleaning. As the dental assistant was scraping my teeth I was thinking: is
> > she blue collar or white collar worker? I know she is "unproductive"
> > worker. Can someone care to comment?
Gera
As long as the debate is about labor unions, an interesting "problem"
that arose this past year in Oregon related to the Oregon Public
Employees Union's (OPEU) pension fund. Probably like many "union employee"
pension funds, OPEU had lent KKR millions of dollars to finance its
merger and aq
I am completing a PhD dissertation on the possible proletarianization of
US physician labor. The ongoing transition of the US health care system
from a pre-capitalist to a capitalist system of production and delivery
has sparked some debate over the effects on physicians. However, the
debate
There was an empirical study done some time back within Economic
Development that found evidence that while increased real
incomes in a rural area initially led to population increases, but it was
due to a significant decline in infant mortality rates. Not only did
birth rates not increase in
In response to Nancy Breen's note
The plan to "invest" in health is quite significant, especially in light
of its potential to create previously nonexistent markets in LDCs that
may then provide new profit streams (Debt supported) to US, European
and Japanese medical technology firms, particu
I agree with Mr. Perelman. And would add that insofar as the ideological
interests and intellectual predilictions of IMF and US federal policymakers
are largely the same, the fact that the IMF is making suggestions on Fed
policy may be the result of unseen pressure by the US government. While
Although recycling is an important activity that we all should
participate in as much as possible, the most crucial problem is the cycle
itself, both production and ecological. Analogously, if the core of the
problem relates to the use of an internal combustion engine (here a
metaphor for capi
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