In a message dated 7/31/02 4:30:50 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm not sure this is right. If you look at what the public say they would
like in a government health care program it is huge and very expensive (in
contrast I suspect if you asked how much they would like to spend on it the
In a message dated 7/31/02 9:23:51 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
but I try to recall
that the wording of a poll can substantially alter its results. Imagine,
to
The question wording could have been a bit better, but nothing was
In a message dated 7/31/02 10:44:36 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Standard questions ask higher spending, lower spending, or about
the same. I bet you would get at least 40% saying about the same and
probably 25% saying higher, making the status quo the median voter
outcome. You can check
In a message dated 7/31/02 12:09:35 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Howdy,
Does anybody think that the amount or pattern of
support for farm subsidies would change if the average
American were better informed? (I know, I know,
better informed is awfully value laden and implies a
Philistine-ish
In a message dated 7/31/02 11:18:21 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
William Dickens wrote:
As I understand it, the cost of the medicare program turned out to be much
greater than expected, but not because congress kept changing the legislation
to add more goodies. Rather treatment became
In a message dated 8/1/02 11:53:27 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Programs Billions of dollars as of FY 1993
Medicaid$76
Food Stamps $25
AFDC (Family Support) $16
Child Nutrition Programs/WIC$ 7
Public Housing Assistance $20
Total Federal Spending
In a message dated 8/1/02 2:50:47 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you want a technical definition: if X is precisely N orders of
magnitude
greater than Y, then X = (10^N)Y. Thus 110 million, being between 80 million
and 800 million, is between one and two orders of magnitude greater than
In a message dated 8/9/02 1:37:25 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
While it might be true that urban dwellers don't support direct farm
subsidies to the same extent as rural dwellers (though my bet is that
the support is still large) what they do support is food stamps which
are another form of
In a message dated 8/9/02 8:28:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've noticed in contest after contest media polls
fairly consistently overstate support for the
candidate percieved to be more liberal by 5-15%
That's interesting. Two serious questions. First,
In a message dated 8/9/02 7:14:44 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sen. Robert Torricelli's Republican challenger has apparently decided to
make
the Torch's support for the latest farm bill an issue in this campaign,
judging
by this press release they put out after Torricelli apologized for his
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
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
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
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
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
Does anyone think, at least in the excerpts we read, that the article
attacked libertarian or libertarian-leaning economics as much as it attacked
economics generally?
David Levenstam
In a message dated 8/14/02 1:47:34 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The real charlatans in academia are the many frauds who build
their whole careers by getting their names put on coauthored
papers to which they have not legitimately contributed.
That's a sort of
In a message dated 8/14/02 3:38:21 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Here's a link to a NY Times article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/12/national/12MURD.html?ex=1030256121ei=1en=4
ca972cf978300ff
It refers to a study by Anthony R. Harris, published in the journal Homicide
Studies. He
In a message dated 8/14/02 3:37:34 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The problem is central planning. The US corporation would be a giant
enterprise subject to the inefficiencies of any large organization.
Also, minority interests would be overpowered as they are now.
Would government spending
In a message dated 8/14/02 8:21:54 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
However, the two statements are compatible.
In society there are minorities with little power and other minorities with
much power. For example, a country could have a ruling elite with much
wealth and power, and also despised
In a message dated 8/16/02 11:50:09 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In some sense, local tax collecting communities would then act as
competing corporations – to link this thread with the other topic
floating around on the list
- jacob braestrup
In some sense they do already. New York
In a message dated 8/20/02 7:58:33 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a very simplistic macro view, raising public expenditures or lowering
taxes (in the short run) were both considered expansionist fiscal
policies--at least in the sense that both increase
oops. Make that more dikes rather than fewer.
In a message dated 8/26/02 11:34:01 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
2: I seem to recall that heavy flooding in the Mississippi / Missouri
area led to a reversal of the let's build a protective dike and thus
move the problem down stream-policy. Large areas (including whole
villages) were
In a message dated 8/26/02 6:33:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There are several levels of puzzlement.
Puzzle #1: The median voter disapproves of existing policy.
Puzzle #2: The median voter, primary voters, and party activists ALL
disapprove of existing policy.
I don't think there are
In a message dated 8/27/02 12:19:39 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
4. Cognitive limitations: I'm no expert, but my hunch is that
many people are only willing to get worked up over a small
# of issues - taxes, abortion, immigration, defense... and
the dedicated might add their favorites like
In a message dated 8/28/02 2:02:10 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sure, there is a little of this. But again, I doubt this matters much.
The Supreme Court held off New Deal legislation a little bit for a
couple of years, but after 4 years it caved in completely.
This must be one of the most
In a message dated 8/28/02 3:35:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Uh, how about the first income tax ever passed? It had super-majority
support in amendment form!
Congress passed the first federal income tax in 1861, without supermajority
support. If you'd asked the average Northern voter
In a message dated 8/28/02 11:18:09 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Another MVT deviation:
Personal bankrupcy law. I bet most voters would prefer more lenient
laws.
Fabio
Ironically, Todd J. Zywicki is presenting a paper at GMU Friday in which he
argues that people make less use of the
In a message dated 9/9/02 12:05:12 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Being willing to run 10K is the opposite, so to speak.
If D.L. is willing to run until he pukes, then the
cause must be important to him and I'm more willing to
give a few minutes to hear his plea and possibly give
money.
Just
Don't federal and state workers effectively have tenure? Isn't it virtually
impossible to fire a government worker covered by civil service in America?
DBL
In a message dated 10/4/02 3:48:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The West-Coast dock strike is reported to be costing the economy over $2
billion per day, and rising with time. Has anyone proposed or analyzed
levying a tax on the union and firms which handle the port cargo to
compensate for
In a message dated 10/5/02 11:10:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Private employers have occasionally tried something like tenure--it has
been
widely aspired to in Japan since WW2 (although only the larger employers
have been able to apply it in practice) and IBM was for many years famous
In a message dated 10/9/02 5:36:46 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Since I did not cash in on my Nobel prediction this is sufficient
evidence
I'm NOT an insider. :-)
Unless of course you simply pretended not to know in order to fool us into
believing that you're not an insider. ;)
In a message dated 10/13/02 10:43:44 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Its my impression that the physical science
journals all want fast turn around on their referee reports. Anybody
know what its like with Anthropology, Sociology, or Political Science? -
- Bill Dickens
I seem to recall that
In a message dated 10/13/02 11:00:44 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Should only corporate science be considered private
science?
~Alypius Skinner
For that matter, not all corporate science would be purely private either,
since some of it probably gets directly subsidized and some of it
In a message dated 10/14/02 4:32:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
With the widespread intrusion of the federal government into the lives and
business of everyone, it might be fruitful to consider a spectrum of
research
spanning the
In a message dated 10/15/02 11:54:01 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
While there is a lot of nutty stuff in academia
Does that mean there are many nutty professors? I thought there were only
two--Jerry Lewis and Eddie Murphy. :) If there are many, how could we model
the market for them?
In a message dated 10/21/02 8:37:58 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A sales tax does shift purchases; some purchases will shift to out-of-state
mail-order or nontaxed services. (Virginia does have a use tax, but few
pay it, as I recall.)
Fred Foldvary
In Iowa I delighted in buying my books
In a message dated 10/24/02 10:51:12 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This is always the response of mainstream economists when one points out
that people obviously are not behaving as models predict. Unfortunately, for
a lot of people that is where the discussion stops. The assumption seems to
In a message dated 10/11/02 3:04:09 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There is an article in this morning's Wash Post that disputes the value of
the recent Nobels awarded to professots at GMU and VCU to their respective
institutions.
The Post has had another article or two essentially
In a message dated 11/4/02 4:30:31 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think Bill would say that he's pretty sure. He's seen the data,
crunched the numbers, read the literature, etc. If you feel comfortable
failing people on their exams, why shouldn't you feel comfortable giving
them a failing
I'd been under the impression that the federal government didn't regulate
veterinary medicine as strictly as it regulates human medicine, but today my
vet insisted that veterinary drugs have to go through the exact same process
for FDA approval. Does anyone know anything about the truth of the
In a message dated 11/11/02 10:42:47 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes. Somewhere along the line someone--either the most ardents adherents
or the most disingenuous opponents--has defined rational expectations
as meaning that people are perfect prognosticators,
In a message dated 11/14/02 1:53:35 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Has anybody studied how well cigarettes work as a monetary standard in US
prisons? From what I've been led to believe, cigarettes are universally used
to facilitate commerce in a prison economy. It seems like the cigarette is
In a message dated 11/14/02 4:06:17 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It seems like the cigarette is everything a good
solid currency needs to be
Except that you can't smoke your cigarettes and have
them, too. A researcher with alot of smokes could
probably come up
In a message dated 11/10/02 1:30:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Friday 08 November 2002 01:08 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd been under the impression that the federal government didn't regulate
veterinary medicine as strictly as it regulates human medicine, but today
my vet
In a message dated 11/14/02 5:56:29 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That is a benefit.
A good currency is a widely traded, useful, commodity.
That's why salt, cocoa beans, cattle, etc., were used as money.
Having a consumer use anchors the value of the currency.
Fred Foldvary
I was just
In a message dated 11/15/02 4:15:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, john hull wrote:
If someone is willing to make a bet with you, you
should wonder if maybe she knows something you don't.
If you really want to get paranoid about everything you do, read
the lit on the
In a message dated 11/20/02 11:50:17 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Armchairs:
What are the pros and cons of limiting liability for the maker of a new
vaccine? It seems to me that a disadvantage of limited liability is the
moral hazard that the maker will do a less responsible job of
In a message dated 12/2/02 3:58:43 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
--- Grey Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(1)you can choose to be homeless, take no jobs nor
responsibility, and peacefully beg from others who,
if it's voluntary, can give to you (or not) with no
moral problems. (This includes
In a message dated 12/2/02 4:03:15 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
--- Alypius Skinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But what if this ugly guy isn't rich--oh! You mean
pecuniary benefits taken from *other* people--purely
through voluntary donations of course. After all, you
consider force to be
In a message dated 12/4/02 7:17:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I remember when VP Quayle uttered (or was said to have uttered) the
line, the best educated Americans in the world. In fact, the line
is shown half-way down this Quayle blooper page:
http://www.psiaz.com/quayle.htm
So unless
In a message dated 12/4/02 1:14:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually it would be interesting to hear someone delinate a clear
distinction between taxation on money and taxation in kind.
There is no clear distinction.
Money is a medium, and the underlying
In a message dated 12/5/02 12:56:07 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Howdy,
I've never really studied the Median Voter Theorem.
Recently I read where someone claimed that the U.S.
political system was designed to keep the two parties
nearly identical by keeping other parties out. I
assumed that
In a message dated 12/5/02 10:04:34 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
As a historical note abou the Laffer curve, it's interesting to see that
the phenomenon was already described by Bastiat in his 1847-02-21 article
Curieux phénomène économique (a peculiar economical phenomenon), itself
In a message dated 12/11/02 12:02:46 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Denny Ellerman and his colleagues at MIT pretty much have the franchise
on this issue. See Markets for Clean Air: The US Acid Rain Program,
Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Sounds like a cry for some competition! :)
David
In a message dated 12/15/02 9:40:19 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
* Japan's trade has continued to expand. Its current account surpluses
totalled $US987 billion in the disastrous 1990s. This was nearly 2.4 times
the total recorded in the 1980s when Japan was already seen as the
unstoppable
I've long thought that the notion of negative campaigning is largely a
product of the statist-liberal media oligopoly. They don't much care for
other people--like candidates with whom they disagree--providing you with
information so they criticize such candidates for negative campaigning if
In a message dated 12/17/02 12:21:42 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Fred Foldvary wrote:
The argument for [limited liability] is that investors are more
willing to put up funds if they will not be personally liable.
Nor should they be liable, since lenders are also not, and one could
map
In a message dated 12/17/02 2:30:29 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Fred Foldvary wrote:
U.S. and State laws limit this liability, but in a pure market, the
directors should be personally and fully liable for a
corporation's debts,
as would be the general partners of a partnership.
In a message dated 12/18/02 9:19:28 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In practice, small corporations usually cannot get loans without the
major stockholder personally guaranteeing the loans, so in those cases
limited liability serves mostly to protect the owner(s) from liability
to tort victims.
In a message dated 12/18/02 1:09:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Perhaps the ideal structure would be two classes of investors:
1) limited-liability bondholders, with dividends per bond equal to that of
owners of common shares, and no voting rights.
2) unlimited liability shareholders, with
In a message dated 12/25/02 12:59:23 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A question inspired by working the Caplan twin night shift:
How come almost all of the paid programming is on late at night? Yes,
rates are lower, but viewership is lower too. Are late-night viewers
unusually impressionable,
In a message dated 1/5/03 6:56:36 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Take the crash of 1929. In Devil Take the Hindmost, Edward
Chancellor records how Wall Street's elite convinced themselves that
the rules of economics had been rewritten and that the market could
support ever-higher
I have little doubt that the heart of the study reaches a correct
mathematical conclusion--that the average Swede has a lower income than the
average American black. It does, however, contain a few myths I'd like to
briefly address below.
In a message dated 12/29/02 10:23:43 PM, [EMAIL
In a message dated 1/7/03 12:53:47 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I find it interesting that there are so many more articles about bubbles
than about the underlying reality of the equity premium puzzle. This is
a nice case where a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. The average
investor
In a message dated 1/7/03 11:58:51 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If one had a cynical bent one might suggest that the predominance of
stories about the small bubbles in the huge cake batter of the miracle of
modern economic growth stems from a prevalence of statists in the news
media.
David
In a message dated 1/8/03 7:10:56 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
True, but people don't live 300 years! People who make their fortunes in a
bull market and then get decimated in a bear market may not recover in their
lifetimes. It has happened before.
~Alypius Skinner
yes, and that may
In a message dated 1/8/03 4:51:38 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mises said that everyone must learn economics because public policy is
set by public opinion. It's an unrealistic demand, but it might be
warranted, absent the death of democracy.
My old economics mentor at University of Colorado
In a message dated 1/9/03 9:49:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hilarious! I'd already killfiled AdmrlLocke, so I hadn't read his first
message. Love your answer though.
Wow, I had no idea that people on the list held me in such contempt, or
indeed in contempt at all. What sin or sins
In a message dated 1/10/03 1:53:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
when you go on about statists you do
sound a little like Marxists when they go on about
captialists. :)
-jsh
I used statist-liberal and statist media to distinguish the adherents of
big government from classical liberals.
In a message dated 1/10/03 3:31:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Of course, Jan Lester has pointed out that libertarian anarchists are
actually probably the opposite of fascists, since one can invert
Mussolini's definition of fascism to come up with a very clear statement
of anarchism:
In a message dated 1/10/03 5:07:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Please take these discussions of personalities off-list. Thanks!
Especially given that it's my personality people were discussing, I
wholeheartedly concur. It's bad enough to have to live with my personality
24/7 without
I don't see how too much capital could cause a recession, or indeed how it's
possible to have too much capital. Do you mean too much credit, too much
borrowed capital? The notion of too much borrowed capital fits with both
Austrian and monetarist theories of recession.
Since I first studied
In a message dated 1/13/03 7:33:09 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can anyone explain why ordinary Americans are not objecting to tax cuts
(such as dividend tax cuts) that will only favour the top percentiles of the
wealthy ?
Koushik
In absolute terms, the tax cut would favor those with
Before the leftists drive me out of Iowa, I'd planned to do my dissertation
in income tax history, and began to do preliminary research on what the
Founding Fathers meant by direct taxes. I read the The Debate on the
Constitution and discovered that direct taxes seemed to be one of those
Originally the federal income tax law sought to tax income closest to the
source, presumably because the farther from the source, the more easily
income might escape detection and therefore taxation. In the hearings over
the 1913 income tax law one member of Congress suggested simply taxing
In the Rhetoric Department at Iowa instructors who tried to actually teach
writing and therefore generated many student complaints were offered out of
their contracts--that is, forced out--because the chair and assistant chair
didn't want to deal with student complaints.
In a message dated
In a message dated 1/15/03 9:34:26 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Interestingly, when the US Supreme Court knocked down the federal income
tax in 1894 as violating the direct/indirect distinction, they referred to
Physiocratic doctrine.
Fred Foldvary
Thank you for the interesting explanation
In a message dated 1/15/03 7:35:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It's been a while since I read Pollock, but I don't recall
anything like what you're describing.
David Levenstam
See:
http://www.geocities.com/antitaxprotestor/harvard.html
From Pollock v. Farmers':
All the acts passed
Dear Dan,
I actually do agree, which is part of why when my conservative friends would
support a national sales tax instead of an income tax as though a national
sales tax were a panacea I'd just shake my head and tell them, there's no
such thing as an unburdensome tax. There's no
I have to agree with Susan. Health clubs are voluntary organizations which,
unlike governments, lack the ability to legitimately threaten or employ force
to get me to join.
I have seen, furthermore, members of my old health club in Iowa complain
bitterly at the provision or increase of
In a message dated 1/16/03 3:31:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Given democracy, one (adult) person, one vote, a strong case can be made
for a neutral poll tax.
Tom Grey
Fred writes: The poll tax is what got Maggie Thatcher thrown out of office
in the UK.
The problem is that different
Dear Tom,
I hope I got your definition of neutral right in the last post. As I
indicated, I'd support a poll tax (so long as I'm an armchair intellectual
and not running for office, which with my abrasive personality would be a
joke anyway). I also support a flatter income tax. In fact I'd
In a message dated 1/16/03 11:57:03 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
AdmrlLocke wrote:
The farmer felt no compunction at all about complaining that while
under the income tax system he pays no tax, under a sales tax he'd pay
a hefty tax. He pays nothing and he thinks he's entitled to pay
In a message dated 1/16/03 8:47:15 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This brings to mind an historical point which has been tugging at me -
perhaps someone here will know the answer offhand. Has there *ever* been
an instance where one type of tax has entirely replaced another, or even
replaced in
Dear Tom,
By neutral I actually thought you mean one that wouldn't prejudice people's
economic behavior. Opponents of the income tax often accuse it of
discouraging work, saving, and investment and encouraging consumption. I
thus thought that a neutral tax by comparison would be one that
In a message dated 1/17/03 1:15:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
--- Bob Steinke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However, giving cash in our society is gauche.
It is in dominant WASP culture, but not in some subcultures. My parents, for
instance, give me cash each year, and this year my brother
In a message dated 1/25/03 3:54:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm also reminded that, like one friend of mine,
people who work in small towns often buy an old farm
house and live in it, while contracting out to some
neighbor or farming friend to do a little bit of
In a message dated 1/25/03 9:20:45 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Federal, state and local land regulations often discourage
the conversion of currently-farmed land for other purposes, like
indstrial or high-density residential use. The number of people engaged
in
In a message dated 1/26/03 8:02:08 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
(demographically, the boom began in 1943)
The fertility rate (measured per 1000 women) in 1943 barely exceeded that of
1942 (2,718 v. 2,628), follwed by declines in 1944 (2,568) and 1945 (2,491),
only a bit higher than the rates
In a message dated 1/24/03 10:32:20 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
real estate markets aren't competitive, in the
economic sense of the word?
In the sense of rivalry, there is plenty of competition in cities.
Maybe not in some rural areas.
Fred Foldvary
Having just moved from Iowa I got to
In a message dated 1/30/03 8:30:04 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thanks for the accurate data. Elsewhere, I have read that the pre-war
baby
bust began in the mid-1920's--before the great depression--and so could
not
have been entirely a result of the difficult times of the '30's. If it
In a message dated 2/1/03 1:42:44 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've also heard that the New Keynesians accept a good deal
of what the old Keyneisans and neo-Keynesians rejected,
Alypius Skinner wrote:
What's the difference between a new Keynesian and a neo-Keynesian?
Perhaps a school
In a message dated 2/5/03 12:01:23 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Indeed, the main finding from the surveys is not the brandishment result
but the fact that guns are used defensively several million times a year
(according to Kleck's survey and several others.)
Which is highly suspect. It is
It's my understanding that Kleck uses FBI crime statistics in his
computations.
Those are estimates of the active use of firearms to deter crimes. It
appears that the ownership of firearms also passively discourages crimes:
while the US has a hire rate of public crime than in Europe, the
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