Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumClintoninan program for redistrbution of wealth explained in just two paragraphs
The source is the following paper
Liberalising Labor Migration ? Forms, Constraints and Effects on Development
Henrik Stensson
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"For a deeper understanding of how migration could equalize the price of labour in two trading
countries, consider figure one (from Senior Nello, 2005:145): There are two countries, Home
and Foreign. The total quantity of labour in the two countries is shown by the distance OhOf.
Before a fully free migration is allowed the distribution of labor is OhL in Home and OfL in
Foreign. The marginal product of labour is higher in Home than in foreign because the
capital/labor ratio is higher in Home. This is shown in the figure by the higher position of the
MPLh curve compared to the MPLf curve. Because of this the wage is higher in Home, at Wh
compared with the wage in Foreign at Wf. In short: Home symbolizes a developed country with
high automatization and high wages and Foreign a less developed country with abundant supply
of labour, low automatization and low wages. If migration is fully free between the two
countries and the workers are identical workers will migrate from Foreign to Home in pursuit of
higher wages. The migration will finally result in an equalized capital/labor ratio in the two
countries and thus equal marginal products of labor and equal wages, illustrated in the figure by
the wage level W' which could be seen as the world market price of labor as the world only
consists of the two countries Home and Foreign. The migration is illustrated in the figure by the
distance LL' which is the amount of workers that will move from Foreign to Home so that the
new distribution of labour becomes OhL' in Home and L'Of in Foreign.
Wages will thus decrease in Home and increase in Foreign resulting in a loss for the indigenous
workers in Home illustrated in the figure by the area a but a gain for the capital owners of the
areas a+b. In Foreign the workers get an increased income of areas c+d+e while the capital
owners lose areas d+e. The result in total is a net gain for the two countries by areas b+c which
is a gain resulting from higher efficiency in the use of the total resources of the two countries.
This simplified model of reality shows not only that there is a net gain but also that the
migration has clear redistributional effects, something that will be discussed below"
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Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)She wants all workers to find equality at the bottom of the ocean.
Baobab
(4,667 posts)core concepts of the WTO in a set of videos, its probably the most favorable explanation anywhere but if you listen to it closely, you realize that indeed, he wants wages to all crash - so they can then all be built up to some uniform level where level of education is the only criteria used to determine value..
Another DUer actually met HRC when he was in his teens and debated her, and she basically was promoting the exact same thing.
The problem of course is its a disaster for us. And it only makes the already rich richer. Michael Moore was doing a reddit IAMA - it was fairly recently.
Apart from that he is very convincing, perhaps the best advocate for neoliberalism.. I would like to meet him some day and debate this bizarre and ugly situation. The problem is, they have been string along for a long time on the promise of this, and now they arent going to be strung along much longer, hey are pissed. So watch out.
here is the URL for the thesis cted above..
http://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordOId=1336427&fileOId=1646753
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You should read the entire thing...
That and a elated issue involving her health care program lies and the reality of GATS serving as the real story, the backdrop to her diversionary tactics in 1994, and also my gut feeling that resolution of our health care problems was intentionally delayed while the various rounds of the GATS talks dragged on for 20 years- also, the sudden and unexplained death of Nicholas Skala the author of this paper, they are the main reasons i am such an opponent of HRC. And i am sure its also the main reason that to some people, she MUST win.
These are both interesting too..
http://www.cuts-geneva.org/pacteac/images/Documents/EAC%20Forum/Forum22/EAC%20Geneva%20Forum-%20WTO%20Note%2022.pdf
http://www.cuts-geneva.org/pacteac/images/Documents/EAC%20Forum/Forum17/EAC%20Geneva%20Forum-%20WTO%20Note%2017.pdf
You can also find a fairly substantial work by Prof. jane kelsey, "Serving whose interests" online in book form, its a full size book.. it explains trade in services agreements up to around 2008 or 2009.
the chapter "Reading the GATS as ideology" is good.
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)Depaysement
(1,835 posts)The author posits the worker as a bouncing ball, roaming to find higher wages at capital's command. Pre-antiquity these were called foragers and that was virtually all of us. If we are going to roam, who needs capital?