From: Paul Cockshott (wpc@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Jun 20 2008 - 11:22:31 EDT
The home office here use unemployment levels as their main predictor for the expected level of robberies. ________________________________ From: ope-bounces@lists.csuchico.edu [mailto:ope-bounces@lists.csuchico.edu] On Behalf Of GERALD LEVY Sent: 20 June 2008 15:49 To: Outline on Political Economy mailing list Subject: RE: [OPE] Working Overtime Is Linked to Depression, Anxiety > However, dialectically considered, could the causal arrow not be reversed also? Hi Jurriaan: There have been a series of related studies which show that stress and injuries increase rapidly with overtime. These studies confirm that it is overtime which is the cause rather than the efffect. This particular study should not be very surprising since it has long been known that physical and mental stress are related. Other studies have shown that there is a cause-and-effect observable empirical relation between unemployment and other social phenomena such that when unemployment (cause) goes up so do deaths from liver cirrhosis, deaths from fatal heart attacks and strokes, deaths from suicide, increased admissions to mental hospitals, increased admissions to state prisons, increased spousal abuse, increased child abuse, increased substance abuse, increased divorce rates, etc. In solidarity, Jerry _______________________________________________ ope mailing list ope@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/ope
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