decreases over their
20's and 30's and female libido peaks around 35-38? (Think Battle of the
Sexes over several periods...) Wild conjectures welcomed.
-- John Morrow
Quoting Bryan Caplan [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I just read the well-reviewed *Women Don't Ask* by Babcock and
Laschever. Main thesis
I don't know if this is true, but I have been told the #1 shoplifted item is
Preparation H and like ointments -- this seems to fit in well with the theory
that people want to remain anonymous in purchasing V!agra...
experiments -- incentives completely lacking by
nature in a survey. However, this may be completely different in
particular subfields.
-- John Morrow
I recall a Japanese econ grad student telling me that in fact real interest
rates were negative for some span and people were STILL saving in the late
nineties in Japan. He also blamed several bubbles at the time (notably,
real estate in Japan) on this. Interesting if true... (Anyone know the
I believe that even quite recently (in the last year or two) China was found
to be inflating its growth estimates significantly, and I have some
economically minded Indian friends who claim Indian estimates are also
intentionally inflated. I believe at the collapse of the Soviet Union it was
Along those lines, the following is a Paul Krugman article, which quite
humorously recaps a similar media event about a wunderkind economist --
probably a story only economists would find funny.
http://www.pkarchive.org/cranks/legend.html
At 09:51 PM 8/4/2003 -0500, you wrote:
The article
I think you could get into a whole lot of trouble since for any event you
predict that happens, if the common opinion is that you have somehow encouraged
it, the burden of proof on the civil level will effectively be on you to show
that you haven't, which of course will likely be impossible.
I've been raring to go with the pam markets for a while now --
condolences. Many people here are probably aware of it, but you can also
check out (and participate in!) the Iowa Electronic Markets online at the
University of Iowa, http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/iem/
which have a reasonable track
I'm curious if anyone is aware of an instance, where a conscious,
explicit choice was made in government policy to choose higher total GDP
over higher per capita GDP, or vice versa.
It seems to me that most any policy restricting immigration is choosing to
maximize per capita GDP over total GDP
Another interesting question might be how does the distribution of income
of children of people in these professions vary conditional on whether they
go into their parents line of work controlling for socioeconomic status,
etc. I would gamble there are a disproportionate number of people
This is precisely a thought that occurred to me as a way to prevent spam --
computers can reduce the marginal transaction cost, and liens could be put
up against bandwidth providers to take care of any lag in the
system. Would be spammers would sign contracts with their ISPs, and ISPs
with
So for this libertarian paternalist viewpoint, is the goal of these plans
to force people to do certain things, or make certain behaviors default
in the sense that they are the status quo unless people voluntarily decide
to do otherwise? Otherwise, I don't see how forced saving differs except
I would personally lean back on the monitoring problems -- for a particular
save the child fund, three of my friends saved the same child, same
photo, bio, everything. And I would like to say it was the Shriner's that
got in trouble not so long ago for having rather lude behavior with paid
Here's a quandry -- Since the more abject human misery there is, the more
varied, specialized, and likely relatively cheaper (due to variety, breadth
of the distribution of misery, etc) types of charity available for
consumption, under what conditions are you willing to put up a side
payment
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