RE: Re: RE: wynne godley

2001-07-18 Thread Max Sawicky
To that extent tax competition is on point. In the main, urban fiscal problems are due to the city-suburb (city-state legislature) relationship, IMO. mbs Max, I don't understand your point. Toledo gave away tax breaks to lure companies, such as Chrysler, which gutted its tax base.

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2001-07-17 Thread Michael Perelman
This also creates a bind regarding the dollar. If the dollar threatens to depreciate, the damn foreigners will refuse to continue financing our binge, dump their securities, drop the market and spoil our fun. Rob Schaap wrote: Ah, we're talking economics again, are we? Well, Prudent Bear

Re: Re: Re: RE: wynne godley

2001-07-17 Thread Jim Devine
At 04:08 PM 7/17/01 +, you wrote: Ah, we're talking economics again, are we? is that allowed? Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine Is it peace or is it Prozac? -- Cheryl Wheeler.

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2001-07-17 Thread Michael Perelman
Although Godley is not signing on for a while, his co-author and ex-penner, Alex Izurieta, is coming on board. You can direct some of these questions for him, although you might wait a couple of hours. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel.

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2001-07-17 Thread Jim Devine
At 09:37 AM 7/17/01 -0700, you wrote: Although Godley is not signing on for a while, his co-author and ex-penner, Alex Izurieta, is coming on board. You can direct some of these questions for him, although you might wait a couple of hours. folks, be polite! Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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2001-07-17 Thread Max Sawicky
. . . The effects of any form of undisguised wall-to-wall US protectionism on world trade today would be presumably, completely catastrophic, the debacle even worse than 1929-31. Is the Godley view that this debacle is inevitable anyway, so it's a case of sauve qui peut? Mark Jones I presume

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2001-07-17 Thread Jim Devine
Mark Jones wrote: Incidentally, the Godley paper lays policy emphasis on import controls. This looks like impish humour, since it is hard to imagine how such a policy could be implemented without doing even more damage. As Jim Devine says, the cure is worse than the disease: To summarize, U.S.

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2001-07-17 Thread Rakesh Narpat Bhandari
In any event, the world political economy has changed, undermining the political basis for protectionism Jim, I check the archives often, and have learned a great deal from your posts. Not sure I agree here. Wouldn't the US state like to run a trade deficit to its own mnc's and thus

RE: Re: RE: wynne godley

2001-07-16 Thread Forstater, Mathew
his work is very important i think. he sets up scenarios with simple models, like Y = C + I + G + X -M or S + T + M = I + G + X and then can show, e.g., what would have to happen for expansion to continue or to avoid a significant downturn, given things like trade deficit and/or tight

Re: RE: Re: RE: wynne godley

2001-07-16 Thread Michael Perelman
Worse than that, it makes sense -- a violation of basic academic principles. On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 04:29:07PM -0500, Forstater, Mathew wrote: his work is very important i think. he sets up scenarios with simple models, like Y = C + I + G + X -M or -- Michael Perelman Economics

Re: Re: RE: wynne godley

2001-07-16 Thread Rob Schaap
Ah, we're talking economics again, are we? Well, Prudent Bear Marshall Auerback http://www.prudentbear.com/Comm%20Archive/markcomm/i082900.htm talked about Wynn Godley's thoughts on private sector debt last August (when, to my mind, things looked bad, but not as bad as now - Kenichi Ohmae's