Nuclear Proliferation: A Blessing or a Curse?

2005-09-12 Thread Technotranscendence
Is the nuclear proliferation a blessing? Yes it is. Why? Because things that are good for us are good for others. Terror equilibrium has been guarantor of peace in Europe during the Cold War. Without it Soviets could have a temptation to invade Europe. When there are no nuclear weapons there

Cost-plus financing

2004-10-02 Thread Technotranscendence
Do you know of any studies of cost-plus financing, especially as used by the US government in funding aerospace projects? I know this is one of the main ways NASA funds its projects and it would seem to increase the cost of any project. Regards, Dan

Re: Neutral taxation?

2003-01-18 Thread Technotranscendence
On Thursday, January 16, 2003 4:06 AM Grey Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: even more than direct/indirect, you need to specify what is neutral. I don't think the definition of neutral in this context would be all that controversial. It would be one that would not impact any person or group

Neutral taxation?/was Re: questions about dividend tax cut

2003-01-15 Thread Technotranscendence
On Wednesday, January 15, 2003 7:11 PM Fred Foldvary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To achieve neutrality, unrealized gains should be taxed annually, and then we can forget about capital gains. But this assumes that taxes can be neutral. I would tend to agree with Larry Sechrest here -- viz., there

Re: Dividend Tax cut

2003-01-12 Thread Technotranscendence
On Sunday, January 12, 2003 2:01 AM David Levensam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fred Foldvary wrote: Too much financial capital, i.e. money, can cause a recession, by artifically lowering the interest rate, inducing excessive investment of those capital goods for which only a low rate of interest

Re: In Praise of Pay Toilets

2002-05-28 Thread Technotranscendence
On Tuesday, May 28, 2002 12:25 AM John Perich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Yes, I know, the Austrians on the list would kill me for assuming cost dictates price, rather than the other way around. But it's just awkward to state it the right way. :) ) Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that an

Securities analysis

2002-04-01 Thread Technotranscendence
Okay, since others have broached the subject of market volatility, what's everyone's opinion here on fundamental vs. technical analysis? (Maybe vs. is the the wrong connective to use here. After all, they reflect different trading styles, no?) Cheers! Dan http://uweb.superlink.net/neptune/

Re: Skeptical Inquirer-article address

2002-02-25 Thread Technotranscendence
On Monday, February 25, 2002 8:11 PM john hull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not so sure I understand what D. McCloskey's piece is saying. When he remarks that, The result of reading 44 pages of hundreds of scientific results from the front line of applied economics was mainly that I

Re: drink prices

2002-02-03 Thread Technotranscendence
On Sunday, February 03, 2002 1:49 AM Joel Simon Grus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last night I went to a bar, and the woman in front of me ordered a large, fancy drink. It was poured, and the bartender said $13.00, at which point the woman objected. Sorry, said the bartender, once it's poured,

Re: the justification for urban planning

2001-10-25 Thread Technotranscendence
On Thursday, October 25, 2001 9:18 PM Ben Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Markets do very well at allocating goods like coffee or gasoline or clothes in the short term because of their flexibility in response to short term preferences. They don't do well in things like supplying housing in

Re: Excessive drinking

2001-09-25 Thread Technotranscendence
On Monday, September 24, 2001 2:27 AM Krist van Besien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My theory on this has always been that the incidence of alcohol overdosage goes up as drinking age increases (though I've never seen anything to support this, it seems logically sound). In Belgium, where I grew

Re: Handicapping the 2001 Noble Prize in Economics

2001-09-22 Thread Technotranscendence
On Friday, September 21, 2001 9:27 PM fabio guillermo rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Other nobel prizes have been awarded to individuals that weren't formally trained. Some literature winners were not fiction writers, a recent physics went to an engineer and medicine/physiology often goes to

Re: Excessive drinking

2001-09-12 Thread Technotranscendence
On Wednesday, September 12, 2001 6:49 PM Brian Keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. The forbidden fruit argument might make sense, but I doubt that most drinking is about getting caught. People over 21 still drink and binge, though I would be interested to see how much in comparison to those

SDAE Graduate Student Paper Competition

2001-08-28 Thread Technotranscendence
From: Peter Boettke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 12:39 PM Subject: [HAYEK-L:] SDAE Graduate Student Paper Competition The Society for the Development of Austrian Economics Graduate Student Paper Competition is to be held again. If a PhD students (preferably ABD) and

Re: returns to higher education

2001-08-23 Thread Technotranscendence
On Thursday, August 23, 2001 6:25 PM Peter Boettke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hirschleifer's intermediate book reports that reputation of the school matters significantly. This is an older study, but he suggests that it is not your SAT score that matters, but the SAT score of your entering