Brit Unions foaming at the mouth on productivity..

[Max Sawicky]

Obviously there is some diversity.  The Italian and French
are relatively radical.  The Brits and Germans had Clinton
as their model of how to get into power; until recently they
had been in the desert for a long while.  The Norwegians
are a Scandinavian Kuwait; they don't need no stinkin
keynesian policy.  The Irish are advancing with foreign
direct investment by lowballing their wages and deregulating
(again after a long period of stagnation).  Another pacifying
factor is the desire to have the EU succeed.

These are based on fragments of experience.  I'm no
expert and can't offer any overarching analysis.

mbs

Yeah. What's the deal with European unions? They're being strangled by the
European Central Bank, yet they never seem to talk about monetary policy.
Why is that?

Seth


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> From: Max Sawicky[SMTP:sawicky at epinet.org]
> Reply To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 11:32 AM
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: Re: Brit Unions foaming at the mouth on productivity..
> 
> In our contacts w/European union types, they seemed overly
> indifferent to trade and monetary policy.  This suggests the
> worm may be turning . . .
> 
> mbs
> 
>