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

Michael Perelman michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Sun Nov 30 18:39:17 PST 2003


I've also been told that I was wrong to have cut off the discussion. What I wanted to cease was not the discussion about environmental limits, but personal attacks regarding matters that have been conducted on other lists and in off-list direct personal exchanges among the parties in question.

On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 06:09:10PM -0800, Miles Jackson wrote:
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> On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Michael Perelman wrote:
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> > But the low wages abroad contribute to the "productivity" attributed to
> > Phil Knight.
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> Okay, now I'm getting confused. I thought the outsourced labor
> could not be a cause of the higher domestic productivity numbers,
> given what is and is not included in the productivity equation.
> Can somebody clarify this for a noneconomist?
>
> Miles
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