why should we want full employment when we can simply push for an awesome social safety net. I mean, if we are doing this with an eye toward it ALL being planned, then wouldn't building out the social safety net - health care, unemployment benefits, housing, retirement, etc. etc. be a much better wa to do this?
<> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Mike Beggs <mikejbeggs at gmail.com> <> wrote: <> <>> This discussion is well past the point of diminishing returns. But <>> despite our having repeated ourselves many times you are still <>> misunderstanding or misrepresenting our argument. <> <> It's actually that I don't fully buy the argument. And yes, despite <> SA's thinking I'm an idiot, I have researched this, though, perhaps <> symptomatically, I haven't read Kalecki. But I will let it go for now, <> and maybe later, when I have more time and am feeling less snarky, <> I'll get at why I don't agree and why I think full employment is a bad <> strategy to pursue. <> ___________________________________ <> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk <>
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