Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970213150148.0159b854@ilhawaii.net> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 15:01:50 -1000 From: "Jay Hanson mailto:mailto:j@qmail.com" <j@QMAIL.COM> Subject: Re: THEORY: Population and Development -Reply -Reply To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
At 06:09 PM 2/13/97 -0500, you wrote:>You say that "There is now strong evidence that the U.S. economy is
> making us poorer by increasing unwanted costs faster than it increases
>benefits." Evidently you are praying for the advent of a long-term recession to
>wring all that bad growth out of the economy. I'm sure we will all be better off
I didn't say that, you did. Actually, I am praying that someday I will find signs of intelligent life somewhere on this planet. However, I am not too optimistic.
>as a result. Since you say there are no objective standards and advocates
>only propose things they will benefit from personally, I guess we need to ask
>how you will gain from a slowdown in economic growth.
I am not an economist, so I do ask what will help or hurt the economy (nor do I really care).
I am a humanist, so I ask what will help or hurt people. If people actually become better off, then I feel good about it. That is what is in it for me.
Jay -- http://csf.Colorado.EDU/authors/hanson/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ECONOMISTS GIDDY OVER FUTURE OF GOOD OLD U.S. ECONOMY By Martin Crutsinger, AP (12/29/96)
WASHINGTON -- Economists, normally staid practitioners of what is called "the dismal science" are downright giddy these days. The object of thief delight -- the good old U.S. economy.
No less an authority than Alan Greenspan, the Federal Reserve chairman, described the economy as fundamentally the best he has seen in three decades.
Searching for their own superlatives, some private economists have taken to calling this the "nirvana economy," a state of perfect economic bliss.
And as they prepare their outlooks for a new year, they're predicting the good times will continue to roll in 1997 . . .
[ Elsewhere my newspaper mentions that suicide is the third largest cause of death among youths aged 15-24. ]