(This article is too long to post in its entirety but well worth reading.)
September 23, 2007
More Profit and Less Nursing at Many Homes
By CHARLES DUHIGG
Habana Health Care Center, a 150-bed nursing home in Tampa, Fla., was
struggling when a group of large private investment firms purchased it
This is an excerpt of one of the best pieces I've read by Cockburn in recent
times:
http://counterpunch.org/cockburn09222007.html
Weekend Edition
September 22 / 23, 2007
CounterPunch
On Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine"
Where Klein would presumably claim originality is in identifying the taxo
me:
> if they simply involve changing who has property rights for some
> commodities, work at "WalMart checkout desks and McDonald
> drive-through windows" is not productive in Marx's sense. (It's part
> of the necessary overhead.) if the people who work there provide
> services beyond that, they
[awhile back, David Shemano mentioned the possibility of this kind of
process. Is the following story accurate? FWIW, a few years ago, it
might have been news if one of the poorer countries in the world did
_not_ have price controls on foodstuffs. It's only in the neoliberal
era that the absence of
I see that there are several additional responses on this thread
which I haven't yet gotten to. I've been away for a bit. But the
question I am asking is different than in what technology or what
industries the productivity gains came from.
My question is more about what I think is the o
“The Last Winter” is a horror movie about global warming. Influenced by
“The Shining”, “The Thing” and “The Blair Witch Project,” but certainly
something unique on its own terms, it focuses on a small group of oil
company employees who constitute the advance guard of an assault on the
Arctic Na
Jim,
Thanks for the references.
In regard to Leontief, he had a long standing belief that
"automation" or productivity would lead to growing unemployment. I
cannot put my hands just now on his collection "Essays in Economics"
but in there he is pretty clear on this. The collection inclu
On 9/23/07, Eugene Coyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What I mean is that consumer
> demand is a factor in productivity gains. If people aren't buying
> stuff, i.e. increasing their buying, productivity gains won't come,
> will they? I mean, why bother improving if you (the producers,
> collectiv
On 9/23/07, Eugene Coyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In regard to Leontief, he had a long standing belief that "automation" or
> productivity would lead to growing unemployment. ...
> And so he was funded to explore the issue in a book that I have found on
> the shelf, "The Future Impact of Aut
Doug,
I guess the question I raised is really addressed by the history you
cite. Is this a chicken and egg thing?
Or, actually, chicken AND egg? When a slowdown in consumption
occurs, does that pull down productivity gains? And do productivity
gains speed up consumption, thus feeding p
Very interesting.
Gene
On Sep 23, 2007, at 10:43 AM, Jim Devine wrote:
On 9/23/07, Eugene Coyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What I mean is that consumer
demand is a factor in productivity gains. If people aren't buying
stuff, i.e. increasing their buying, productivity gains won't come,
will
On 9/23/07, Eugene Coyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> contributes to productivity gains.) What I mean is that consumer
> demand is a factor in productivity gains. If people aren't buying
> stuff, i.e. increasing their buying, productivity gains won't come,
> will they? I mean, why bother improvi
Michael --
I have seen that flash drives allocate a fixed space for their
directory structure. As a result there can be only a certain number of
files & folders listed in the root. However, additional files can be
saved in file folders, even if those folders are themselves in the
root. My suggest
All of this may be so, but I note, and perhaps this is of no relevance
to anyone on the list whatsoever, that the current president of
Ecuador, Rafael Correa, who has been making noises about moving the
country to the left and had some hight profile meetings with Morales
and Chavez, is a PhD from U
I don't mean to rain on this progressive parade, but this was inevitable
with other signs like the increase in post-college entry-level
intelligence recruitment by the feds and continuing education
certificates in homeland security skills. The greater question is not to
eliminate such paramilitary
when did Correa attend?
On 9/23/07, Sean Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> All of this may be so, but I note, and perhaps this is of no relevance
> to anyone on the list whatsoever, that the current president of
> Ecuador, Rafael Correa, who has been making noises about moving the
> country to
Correa was a student of a friend of mine, but I don't know the dates.
Here are some who left in the early 1950s: Howard Bowen was ousted as Dean in
1950;
Everitt Hagen and seven other economics professors resigned in 1951. President
George Stoddard resigned in 1953 following a vote of no confiden
Yes, your argument is correct, but don't your (1.) and (2) increase
unemployment?
Gene
On Sep 23, 2007, at 12:29 PM, raghu wrote:
On 9/23/07, Eugene Coyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
contributes to productivity gains.) What I mean is that consumer
demand is a factor in productivity gains. If
On 9/23/07, Eugene Coyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, your argument is correct, but don't your (1.) and (2) increase
> unemployment?
>
It does. The way I understand it, the first order effect of increased
productivity is unemployment. But there is a second order effect of
stimulating additio
On 9/23/07, Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> when did Correa attend?
>
He got his degree in 2001. Not sure when he started.
What is the time frame for all those departures from the dept? It
really does sound like a mass exodus.
Here's the abstract for Correa's thesis, which is actually
On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 10:49:11AM -0700, Jim Devine wrote:
> wow. Usually when economists do research that confounds their beliefs
> -- especially pro-market beliefs -- they put the research in the
> circular file. Leontief was a brave guy.
McCloskey, Donald N. 1985. The Rhetoric of Economics (Ma
Verdoorn was a Dutch economist who got the idea from Tinbergen's data.
Kaldor picked it up & then said that Arrow called it Verdoorn's Law
when writing about learning by doing. Arrow did not call it a law.
The literature on the law is mixed although it worked pretty well until
1970. The story is
increasing returns is part of the explanation of V's law. after all,
the bit about a larger market encouraging division of labor and
productivity involves increasing returns to scale.
On 9/23/07, Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Verdoorn was a Dutch economist who got the idea from Tin
Increased demand allows economies of scale and scope and thus a fall in costs,
thus increasing productivity.
Anthony
Anthony P. D'Costa, Professor Currently
Comparative International Development Senior Visiting
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