This year econ nobel prize?

2000-10-11 Thread fabio guillermo rojas
Any guesses on the econ nobel prize this year? -fabio

Personality, Politics, and Economics Test

2000-10-11 Thread Bryan Caplan
Followup announcement. I had some technical problems with the Personality, Politics, and Economics online test I announced last week. Now it is up and working again, but has moved to: http://www.bcaplan.com/cgi/person.cgi -- Prof. Bryan Caplan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Immigration Policy [a delayed comment]

2000-10-11 Thread Edward Dodson
Ed Dodson resonding to a message from mid-September... Erik Burns wrote: i suspect the concept of borders is more about keeping people in than keeping people out. keeping people out is just the more common consideration at present. Europe, that most xenophobic of places, is now starting to

Re: This year econ nobel prize?

2000-10-11 Thread Fred Foldvary
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, fabio guillermo rojas wrote: Any guesses on the econ nobel prize this year? -fabio My guess is that it will be James Heckman and Daniel McFadden. Fred (Of course it was easy to guess after the awards were announced.)

Re: patenting

2000-10-11 Thread Alexander Robert William Robson
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Robin Hanson wrote: If the monopolist equals the paper authors, and the product over which there is a monopoly has its primary value in producing this paper, then I think the journal should require that the algorithm be made available free to others, but only for the