[lbo-talk] Roach: Productivity in the New Economy

kelley at pulpculture.org kelley at pulpculture.org
Mon Dec 1 06:26:24 PST 2003


At 06:55 PM 11/30/03 -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
>michael wrote:
>
>>Suppose Nike pays some you girls $3 to make a pair of shoes and sells
>>them for
>>$150, what does that do to productivity? Or course, if they hide proits for
>>tax purposes and pretend that the imported shoes were worth $125, then
>>outsourcing will not improve productivity.
>
>But there are also expensive inputs for distribution and marketing. Nike's
>profits are not extraordinarily high.

what are "normal" profits-- what's the benchmark?

Kelley

don't get me started on expensive inputs aka marketingdroids. *shudder*



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