From: Paul Cockshott (clyder@GN.APC.ORG)
Date: Wed Jan 07 2004 - 17:53:11 EST
I dont have explicit evidence of my own, but am recalling conversations that I had with Valle on this around 1995 when he told me of his research into this. Paul Zarembka wrote: > > --On Wednesday, January 07, 2004 2:25 PM +0000 paul cockshott > <clyder@GN.APC.ORG> wrote: > > > The factories that > > you take as examples are probably unrepresentative of the general > > productivity in the Mexican economy which will in tend to be > > substantially lower than in these factories. > > Paul C. > > What's your evidence? I offered mine. > > > It is quite plausible that across the economy as a whole > > the labour productivity may be only 1/5th of the US level. > > I don't know evidence for such an assertion (let alone 1/20th). > > Paul Z. > > *********************************************************************** > RESEARCH IN POLITICAL ECONOMY, Paul Zarembka, editor, Elsevier Science > ******************** http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PZarembka
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