RE: RE: RE: increasing profit rates

2000-08-23 Thread Lisa Ian Murray
The rest, including technology, is guesswork, IMO. mbs === What would need to happen to get adequate metrics for the other factors? Ian

RE: Re: RE: increasing profit rates

2000-08-23 Thread Lisa Ian Murray
lower environmental/regulatory standards [4%] Max, I guessed at this being above zero on the odds that firms litigate their way to exemptions which have a cumulative effect of hollowing out enviro. regs. despite their being formally on the books. Ian

Re: RE: RE: RE: increasing profit rates

2000-08-23 Thread Doug Henwood
Lisa Ian Murray wrote: The rest, including technology, is guesswork, IMO. mbs === What would need to happen to get adequate metrics for the other factors? I've just been reading some papers estimating the contribution of trade to widening wage inequality. The estimates range from 2%