Re: long-lasting cars

2002-03-28 Thread Fred Foldvary
, but we don't see these in the market today. Fred Foldvary = [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards® http://movies.yahoo.com/

Re: growth in the past 20 years

2002-03-20 Thread Fred Foldvary
economies poor. See http://www.freetheworld.com Fred Foldvary = [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage http://sports.yahoo.com/

Re: MBA's for senior exec's

2002-03-14 Thread Fred Foldvary
the learning into the category of urgent, so it gets done. Fred Foldvary = [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage http://sports.yahoo.com/

Re: Campaign finance changes

2002-03-05 Thread Fred Foldvary
The real problem is not how to get money out of politics but how to get politics out of money. Alex For my analysis of how to do this, see Recalculating Consent at: http://www.gmu.edu/jbc/fest/files/foldvary.htm Fred Foldvary = [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: privatize parking spaces - market failure?

2002-02-20 Thread Fred Foldvary
are not willing, don't park there. Continuously high rates become a signal to provide more parking. Fred Foldvary = [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com

Re: privatize parking spaces - market failure?

2002-02-19 Thread Fred Foldvary
the space during those times. Fred Foldvary = [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com

Re: privatize parking spaces - market failure?

2002-02-15 Thread Fred Foldvary
at business locations. The market solution would be electronic parking meters that flexibly charge just enough to avoid congestion at any time of day or night. Fred Foldvary = [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage

Re: The Economics of Military Stop-Loss Policies

2002-02-13 Thread Fred Foldvary
to stop-loss? Was stop-loss in the contract in the past, when those now subject to that policy enlisted? If the stop-loss policy was not in effect, and if the contract did not provide for this policy, then yes, it acts as a draft. Fred Foldvary = [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: drink prices

2002-02-04 Thread Fred Foldvary
of the expenses; most folks will just go along with reasonable price changes. So often, in such cases, we really don't know the final price. Fred Foldvary = [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http

Re: Spam: Legal, economic or technical problem?

2002-01-28 Thread Fred Foldvary
decrease the volume. Fred Foldvary = [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com

Re: Spam: Legal, economic or technical problem?

2002-01-28 Thread Fred Foldvary
you wish to eliminate all criminal codes? Fred Foldvary = [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com

Re: Spam: Legal, economic or technical problem?

2002-01-28 Thread Fred Foldvary
experience. Fred Foldvary = [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com

Re: Spam: Legal, economic or technical problem?

2002-01-27 Thread Fred Foldvary
technology, but as one who has done computer programming, it seems to me that the simple solution is to require a field in the email headers that would be set to 1 if the email fits the legal definition of spam and 0 otherwise. Software could then easily handle the spam. Fred Foldvary = [EMAIL

Re: Photographers

2002-01-25 Thread Fred Foldvary
might think it is the fault of the photographer. Fred Foldvary = [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com

Re: Only Economists Tell the Truth?

2002-01-15 Thread Fred Foldvary
with the means towards goals than on why folks have the goals that they do. We presume the means involve economizing, and then there is really no need to inquire personally beyond that; Max(U) given constraints C does the job, perhaps too abstractly. Fred Foldvary = [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: The Median Voter Theorem and Adoption Law

2002-01-07 Thread Fred Foldvary
of sugar beet farms? Fred Foldvary = [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/

Re: Austrians and markets

2001-11-18 Thread Fred Foldvary
ones because these are the major free-market ones that currently exist and that could create the basis for the new movement. This would not just be a new wineskin but a new vintage of wine. Fred Foldvary = [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo

Re: Tax with positive growth effect

2001-11-02 Thread Fred Foldvary
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RE: Tax with positive growth effect

2001-11-01 Thread Fred Foldvary
is subtracted from the prevailing market prices in that neighborhood to estimate the land value. and what kind of land you are talking about All land. Fred Foldvary = [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post your resume. http

Re: Tax with positive growth effect

2001-10-31 Thread Fred Foldvary
growth by taxing leisure, but that would distort choices and lead to less overall economic benefits. See the book Land and Taxation as well as Land Value Taxation Around the World (Vol 59 (5) supplement, 2000), American Journal of Economics and Sociology). Fred Foldvary = [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Tax with positive growth effect

2001-10-31 Thread Fred Foldvary
the land lord like to have idle land? If he does, fine; let him pay for that consumption. Fred Foldvary = [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com

Re: the justification for urban planning

2001-10-26 Thread Fred Foldvary
and the neighborhood continues its downward spiral. The dilemma is solved by contractual agreements, such as the covenants of the residential association. Fred Foldvary = [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals

Re: VS: looking for public choice views on the welfare state

2001-10-14 Thread Fred Foldvary
public choice view on / explanation of (the development of) the welfare state. Have you seen: Richard Wagner, To Promote the General Welfare, 1989. Fred Foldvary = [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo

Re: 2001 Economic Nobelists

2001-10-10 Thread Fred Foldvary
Stiglitz would have liked to get the prize for the Modigliani-Miller theorem but that one was already taken. Alex Stiglitz also helped develop the Henry-George Theorem. Joseph Stiglitz, 1977, The Theory of Local Public Goods, in Economics of Public Services. Fred Foldvary = [EMAIL

Re: Growth, Wealth, and Race

2001-02-20 Thread Fred Foldvary
is the dominant variable in economic growth; Singapore and Hong Kong rate high even though they are in the tropics or nearby. Fred Foldvary

Re: The paint market

2001-02-16 Thread Fred Foldvary
dollars difference in the price of the paint when he is paying $20+ per hour for labor. Fred Foldvary

Re: Growth, Wealth, and Race

2001-02-16 Thread Fred Foldvary
civilizations? This "finding" seems to be a historical concidence stemming from Europe having firearms and conquering the tropics. Fred Foldvary

Re: Growth, Wealth, and Race

2001-02-16 Thread Fred Foldvary
the area to the tropics, there were civilizations in India, Cambodia, Bali, Central America, Zimbabwe, and elsewhere, with remains in stone today. What is the source for the statement that the Aztecs had a lower standard of living than the Spanish? Fred Foldvary

Re: More Guns, Less Crime?

2001-01-19 Thread Fred Foldvary
in the US has the most liberty in self-defense and low crime rates relative to other states. Fred Foldvary

Re: Property values

2001-01-12 Thread Fred Foldvary
Anybody know where I might find a time series index of the aggregate value of property in the United States? Eric Crampton Try the Balance Sheets for the US Economy, Federal Reserve Board. Fred Foldvary

Re: Top 10 Economic Puzzles

2000-10-24 Thread Fred Foldvary
What are the big unsolved puzzles of economic empirical research? -fabio How much is the total land rent of the United States or any other country, and how much would that rent be if all taxes having an excess burden were eliminated? Fred Foldvary

Re: Periodic redistribution

2000-10-18 Thread Fred Foldvary
of periodic redistribution? I'd appreciate a reference for this land redistribution in Russia. Fred Foldvary

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: Upward Sloping Demand Curves

2000-10-02 Thread Fred Foldvary
. Fred Foldvary

Re: Whither Wittmanian Public Choice?

2000-10-02 Thread Fred Foldvary
tman? Etch Charles Rowley and Michelle Vachris reubutted Wittman in their chapter on "The Virginia school of political economy" in Beyond Neoclassical Economics, ed. Fred Foldvary (Edward Elgar Publishing, 1996).

Re: Upward Sloping Demand Curves

2000-09-27 Thread Fred Foldvary
good. Try to reduce a price of a good that is familiar and has been selling at $49 to $48 and see if the quantity demanded declines. People won't knowingly throw away money unless they enjoy the throwing. Fred Foldvary

Re: upward sloping demand curves

2000-09-26 Thread Fred Foldvary
, then it is a different product, and the demand curve, which is for just one product, does not slope up. What about attributes of the product? Isn't that what we really demand? Yes. So the demand curve is for just one set of characteristics. Fred Foldvary

Re: Gas

2000-09-18 Thread Fred Foldvary
, then in the short run, if refineries are running at full capacity, it seems to me the supply of gasoline is inelastic, if not fixed. Fred Foldvary

Re: Cafe Free riders

2000-09-14 Thread Fred Foldvary
a table. The free riding mostly occurs for folks getting one drink and then sitting for a long time. But as long as tables are available, it doesn't matter. Much of the business is to-go, anyway. Lap-top users get electricity at no extra charge, so free-riding has several margins. Fred Foldvary

Re: The Indeterminacy of Individual Economic Actions

2000-07-26 Thread Fred Foldvary
nformation, so inertia is to be expected. Optimality is subjective rather than being based on objective rewards. The reasons for anchoring (being stuck on certain concepts even though not objectively true or optimal) and information bias are the subject area of psychology rather than economics. Fred Foldvary

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