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		By: chutney		</title>
		<link>http://www.makingchutney.com/2003/06/08/why-america-outpaces-europe/comment-page-1/#comment-356</link>

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					<description><![CDATA[I think what irked me the most about the article was its underlying assertion: &quot;You&#039;re a bad, bad kitty if you don&#039;t work all the time.  Quit slacking or no treats!&quot;
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think what irked me the most about the article was its underlying assertion: &#8220;You&#8217;re a bad, bad kitty if you don&#8217;t work all the time.  Quit slacking or no treats!&#8221;</p>
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		By: Curtiss Leung		</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2003 21:32:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I think you have to meet certain standards for incoherence and illogic before you can write for the Times.  As far as I can tell, Paul Krugman seems to be exempt from them, but other columnists have to include at least one fallacy and three errors of fact in every article.

If Americans work more hours than Europeans while European productivity has been rising, that means European labor is becoming increasingly efficient.  If productivity has risen while the average hours worked has been falling,  then the potential loser in this scenario looks to be the United States.  That may not (and probably won&#039;t) happen because of numerous other factors, but to insist otherwise is--and on the grounds of actual labor &lt;b&gt;inefficiency&lt;/b&gt;--is sophistry.

The Canadian economist Tom Walker has a page at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/worksite.htm&quot;&gt;http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/worksite.htm&lt;/a&gt; with various papers ranging from the accessible to the abstruse on the economic benefits of limiting working hours.  Well worth a look (even if I haven&#039;t been there in a while--my bad.)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think you have to meet certain standards for incoherence and illogic before you can write for the Times.  As far as I can tell, Paul Krugman seems to be exempt from them, but other columnists have to include at least one fallacy and three errors of fact in every article.</p>
<p>If Americans work more hours than Europeans while European productivity has been rising, that means European labor is becoming increasingly efficient.  If productivity has risen while the average hours worked has been falling,  then the potential loser in this scenario looks to be the United States.  That may not (and probably won&#8217;t) happen because of numerous other factors, but to insist otherwise is&#8211;and on the grounds of actual labor <b>inefficiency</b>&#8211;is sophistry.</p>
<p>The Canadian economist Tom Walker has a page at <a href="http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/worksite.htm">http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/worksite.htm</a> with various papers ranging from the accessible to the abstruse on the economic benefits of limiting working hours.  Well worth a look (even if I haven&#8217;t been there in a while&#8211;my bad.)</p>
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