Subject: [PEN-L:614] Re: RE: Wage setting
Ehrlich is not all bad. See
Ehrlich, Paul R. and Anne H. Ehrlich. 1996. Betrayal of Science and Reason:
How Anti-environmental Rhetoric Threatens Our Future
(Washington, D.C.: Island Press).
Lisa Ian Murray wrote:
mbs: Ehrlich is not a credible person
Welcome back, JBR.
Didn't Ehrlich say we'd all be long dead by now?
max
. . . His _The Population Bomb_ of about 30 years ago
also looks rather overdone at this point. . . .
Subject: [PEN-L:636] RE: Re: Re: RE: Wage setting
Welcome back, JBR.
Didn't Ehrlich say we'd all be long dead by now?
max
. . . His _The Population Bomb_ of about 30 years ago
also looks rather overdone at this point. . . .
Welcome back, JBR.
Didn't Ehrlich say we'd all be long dead by now?
max
Just everyone in India, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Indonesia...
Brad DeLong
Max Sawicky wrote:
Evidence we don't need no stinkin evidence . . .
On the theory side, the simple idea that if a person
with given skills can suitably perform the duties of
an auto worker or sandwich man, there is some
pressure on employers to offer more similar wages
than otherwise
CC: . . . Given any collection of quantities (a, b, c, d . . .) it is a
tautology that one can equate any one of them with unity, then express each
quantity in terms of the selected one. Hence one could, for example, take
the average wage of bank window clerks as unity and express every other
You forget I'm resting here on my molehill (Mill-hill?),
overlooking the plains of the imbecile flatness of
the present bourgeousie, reveling in my ascendency
over the rising tide of sophism and syncophancy
(present company excluded), content in my shallow
syncretic scrivening. I'm counting
Slightly more seriously . . .
Ian said:
Um, given the propensity of capitalists to displace manufacturing jobs with
technology, conjoined with the fact that the energy/material inputs per unit
of tool Z or good X must fall by at least a factor of ten over the next 60
years or so just in order to
mbs:
Maybe, maybe not. If I'm in Guatemala and life is better
in the U.S., a given improvement in my life here does not
necessarily deter me from seeking to migrate. It may in
fact give me more means to do so.
==
agreed given the individualism of your response, but if there is a net
increase
I can send you chapter 6 of Paul Ekins "Economic Growth and Environmental
Sustainability: The Prospects for Green Growth if you like. The numbers
ain't pretty and are based on some algorithms cooked up by that strange duo
[well one of them anyway] Barry Commoner/Paul Ehrlich. Ian
Ehrlich is
OK, I am a labour economist (out of practise mind you, but one none the
less).
The relevance of the argument depends greatly upon the institutional setting
of the labour market(s). Some industries have equality in bargaining power
because of unions or because individuals skills are highly
Ehrlich is not all bad. See
Ehrlich, Paul R. and Anne H. Ehrlich. 1996. Betrayal of Science and Reason:
How Anti-environmental Rhetoric Threatens Our Future
(Washington, D.C.: Island Press).
Lisa Ian Murray wrote:
mbs: Ehrlich is not a credible person to me.
Agreed; butterflies he knows,
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