Nobels

2002-10-10 Thread Eric Crampton
This is a rough look at which schools currently have Nobel prize winners on faculty. Do I have any of these wrong? Any additions that need to be made? If this is right, then GMU ties for the 5th highest number of Nobel winners. Eric -- Chicago: 6 Friedman, Coase, Becker, Fogel, Lucas,

estimating defense demand curve

2002-10-10 Thread Gil Guillory
Title: estimating defense demand curve As some of you may know, I am writing a business plan for a patrol and restitution company in my hometown, The Woodlands, Texas, about 30 miles north of Houston. Clients will pay a subscription for patrol of their residences, including call response, and

Re: Nobels

2002-10-10 Thread William Dickens
I think Harsanyi is still at Berkeley. Also, I think Friedman is now at Stanford. - - Bill William T. Dickens The Brookings Institution 1775 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036 Phone: (202) 797-6113 FAX: (202) 797-6181 E-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AOL IM: wtdickens [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Nobels

2002-10-10 Thread Bryan Caplan
Princeton econ really has 0. Kahneman is in the psych department, and Nash is a senior research mathematician. -- Prof. Bryan Caplan Department of Economics George Mason University http://www.bcaplan.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] He

Re: estimating defense demand curve

2002-10-10 Thread Fred Foldvary
Gil, Would the Woodlands association finance the patrol part as a community-wide service? You could then sell the insurance individually. Fred --- Gil Guillory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As some of you may know, I am writing a business plan for a patrol and restitution company in my hometown,

Re: (book review)The Case against Government Science

2002-10-10 Thread Shirley Phillips
Gosh, I guess Canada is in a very bad way according to this author. Shirley - Original Message - From: Alypius Skinner To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 11:36 AM Subject: (book review)The Case against Government Science

RE: estimating defense demand curve

2002-10-10 Thread Gil Guillory
Actually, my hope is to make it an individually-based subscription service. On that account, The Woodlands Community Service Corporation owns lots of property in The Woodlands (parks, pathways, pools, tennis courts, etc.). That would be a worthwhile contract to pursue. Also, if I have good

Re: (book review)The Case against Government Science

2002-10-10 Thread john hull
I was given to the impression that one of the benefits of gov't funded science was that it creates separating equilibria such that the okay, but not ground breaking, scientists don't muck-up the works at ground breaking institutions by misrepresenting themselves and getting hired. That the

Re: Nobels

2002-10-10 Thread Chris Rasch
I'd be curious to know where the researchers were when they actually did the work for which they won the prize. For example, Smith was at Purdue when he began doing experiments in experimental economics. http://reason.com/hod/fe.ml.smith.shtml I think Harsanyi is still at Berkeley.