Interesting. Your remarks on tunnelling dovetail nicely with an excellent
article by Sean Corrigan at LewRockwell.com:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/corrigan/corrigan13.html
Corrigan refers to privatization, as part of IMF-imposed structural
adjustments, as a carpet-bagger strategy for
Hummbut I still wonder if North was rights. Maybe we are not sharing
mental models...:-)
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From: Kevin Carson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 8:20 AM
Subject: RE: North on ideology -- Free Markets, Marketeers -- tunneling
I went shopping for a compact car recently, and discovered that they are
all quite similar - especially their physical shape. This seems remarkable
in light of how much cars have varied over the years, and how people
supposedly are willing to pay extra for a distinctive car. (And given how
Fabio wrote:
Wouldn't it be easier to produce cheap cars if all models were similar
to each other? Ie, you wouldn't need to retool for every model - just
make some cosmetic changes and keep the cost low? I think that was the
idea behind the Ford Escort first, then other cars like the Hyndais
and
In a message dated 8/12/02 2:42:34 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I recall buying a couple of houses in Silicon Valley:
put all your money down, plus whatever you could borrow
from relatives;add your income to see how much you
could afford to pay per month
and get an 80% mortgage based on
On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, fabio guillermo rojas wrote:
Wouldn't it be easier to produce cheap cars if all models were similar
to each other? Ie, you wouldn't need to retool for every model - just
make some cosmetic changes and keep the cost low? I think that was the
idea behind the Ford Escort
When I read this I thought that it must be wrong, since it is well
known that a sphere maximizes volume/area. However, if cars traveled
through tubes, this would be relevant. Cars, though, travel on
planar roads so that a square cross section does maximize interior
space. Longitudinal
In a message dated 8/12/02 2:42:35 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Wouldn't it be easier to produce cheap cars if all models were similar
to each other? Ie, you wouldn't need to retool for every model - just
make some cosmetic changes and keep the cost low? I think that was the
idea behind the
That makes sense for the cars all made by the same company, or which
share subcontractors. But Toyota, Honda, Subaru, and Ford all make cars
with virtually the same shape and layout.
Robin Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hanson.gmu.edu
Among management theory/organizational sociology
In a message dated 8/12/02 2:42:47 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
William Dickens wrote:
Gale and Sabelhaus do not answer the question that you ask but they do
look at the question of whether savings rates are low if we define savings as
change in wealth rather than income minus
--- William Dickens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
look at the question of whether savings rates are low if we define savings
as change in wealth rather than income minus consumption.
Economic income is consumption plus the change in net worth (c.n.w.), so
Savings = income - consumption
Savings =
In a message dated 8/12/02 4:18:25 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Or to rephrase in economic terms, risk averse managers prefer copying
a proven strategy (low risk/low payoff) than engaging in RD (high
payoff/high risk).
Fabio
That certainly looked true toward the end of the 1980s, when all
Having just bought a new car, I disagree that compact cars look
identical. The Honda Civic I settled on clearly looks like a Honda
Civic, and the Ford Focus and Hyundai Elantra I didn't buy each had its
own unmistakeable look. Even the new Toyota Corollas and Mazda Proteges
I've seen on the
Kevin Carson wrote:
I haven't read the Pipes book. He's a neoconservative, isn't he?
I don't know what the term neoconservative means, nor do I understand why
that particular label is relevant to this discussion.
I've read Bethell's book in parts, and skimmed through most of it. It
strikes
Kevin Carson wrote:
As for socialism, its defining characteristic is not necessarily the
absence
of private property rights. Tucker simply defined socialism by two
criteria: the beliefs that 1) all value was created by labor; and 2) that
labor should get 100% of its product. In his view,
You can check the article but that is my memory (I'm at home now and can't check the
article myself). When they added capital gains in real estate and equities to the flow
of savings to get change in wealth they got high savings rates. - - Bill
William T. Dickens
The Brookings Institution
1775
Or to rephrase in economic terms, risk averse managers prefer copying
a proven strategy (low risk/low payoff) than engaging in RD (high
payoff/high risk).
reduce drag coefficients to increase fuel economy. The summer I sold cars
(1997 at a Pontiac-Mazda-Jeep-Eagle dealer) one of the
In a message dated 8/12/02 5:57:09 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
One might also want a separate category of savings which excludes
non-reproducible assets such as paintings or land value, since, for example,
if the value of a painting rises, this is an increase in the net worth of the
owner,
In a message dated 8/12/02 8:48:56 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I don't know what the term neoconservative means, nor do I understand why
that particular label is relevant to this discussion.
I'm not sure that anyone knows what it means or rather, that there's any
common agreement on
In a message dated 8/12/02 8:49:19 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I haven't read Tucker, but I've always thought that Von Mises is correct
when he says that the essential mark of socialism is that one will alone,
acts, irrespective of whose will it is (Human Action, p 695.) To me, this
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