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Subject: Re: Handicapping the 2001 Noble Prize in Economics
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Of course, there's no need to wait for the Nobel people to do that. You can
always
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From: Technotranscendence [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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Subject: Re: Handicapping the 2001 Noble Prize in Economics
On Friday, September 21, 2001 9:27 PM fabio guillermo rojas
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I think the popularity of Nightmare on Elm Street, etc.,
including with many young women, is fairly relevant,
and supportive of stress arousal.
I'd suspect a strong second order effect in women:
the men are more than usually aroused;
which leads to more than usual arousal in the women.
I'd
OK, I didn't open it -- so what does it say?
I went to the web site referenced, but didn't see an obvious
path. I like the idea of having more files on a server; maybe
Professor Bryan Caplan's Armchair File Cabinet?
I guess I missed the fireworks between the Austrian Economists and
Bryan, who
The Fight or Flight adrenaline effect is yet another (possibly clever?)
explanatory note; the specific adversity/disaster is important. I don't
believe in any general happiness while hungry or happiness while in
pain. But when the crummy circumstance was caused by a more specific
threat, the
In an era of paper-covered hardbacks and paperback books, there is also the
competitive question: What else if not a blurb?
Art?
White/colored paper?
A note from the Author (eg. This paperback edition, and no other, has been
authorized ... JRR Tolkien)?
In Slovakia (like the Czech Republic), we
(Still not finished with year end work at work ...)
Recently finished Prof. Caplan's fine Stigler-Becker vs Myers-Briggs
paper.
I believe strongly in MBTI (MB Type Indicator) (I'm an NTP, E/I). I like the
Five
Factor Model addition, but not name, of Neurotic, and don't like the names
of the
Robert Nozik, author of the fine Anarchy, State, and Utopia, seems to end up
with a minimal state primarily enforcing contracts and protecting
property.
I was sad to read that he recently joined Hayek Keynes in the long run,
i.e. dead.
(I was looking for info on life expectancy at age 50, or 60,
Bryan, for some reason some recent posts of mine to this list have not been
posted --
am I off the list for some reason? (There was a time when my company email
was down for a week,
it might have bounced too much mail or something).
Tom Grey
Here's a very relevant John Adams quote:
I must
A friend told me about her grandfather, on a striking picket line at Ford
Motor Co. in freezing winter, during the Depression. The poor workers,
peacefully striking on government streets, were sprayed with water by the
Detroit fire department, who was there with the police. The water rapidly
Irrespective of the objective truth of the Bible, the
superiority of a
Bible believing society is a position I strongly believe,
Doesn't your position commit you to believing that the people in our
society who do not believe in the Bible
are in fact mostly selfish mean criminals?
Usually one order of magnitude more is about 10 times more.
So, increasing from a range around 8 to around 80 is an
increase in an order of magnitude.
It is more debatable, but not uncommon, for each digit to be
its own order of magnitude: 1-9 / 10-99 / 100-999.
Unfortunately, my whatis
From: Robin Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Fabio wrote:
... The participants also get to socialize with other
healthy people with
disposable income and who share similar values. So both
sides benefit.
OK, this suggests that health, income, and values are
complements as features
From: Robin Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
People can also run some other charity, like for a cancer, and solicit
donations to support that charity. The question is why these two
charities are so often combined. Many people would not give
money to someone soliciting for a race by
I have now read many instances of the Argentina problems being blamed on the
fact that tying the Argentine currency to the US dollar made that economy
seriously uncompetitive.
But I thought the measure of an uncompetitive currency was falling exports
rising imports.
And that Argentina had had
Data that includes going to college almost certainly includes SAT scores.
(I also think they correlate strongly with IQ, but haven't looked for that
data).
I'm sure that the effect of more schooling is higher on those with higher
SAT scores.
In addition, I'd guess the data includes average,
have been solely as a result of money actually leaving the
system to go
into more secure things like money market instruments,
Money does not leave the system. When one person sells
stocks, another
person is buying. But evidently much new money is going to
money market
funds.
Good link, Eric.
On the other hand, if you had just quoted this paragraph:
The concept of rational expectations asserts that outcomes do not differ
systematically (i.e., regularly or predictably) from what people expected
them to be. The concept is motivated by the same thinking that led Abraham
Wei Dai wrote:
People don't mind competition if it's voluntary, but you can't opt out of
economic competition. I think it's a necessary evil, not something to be
desired for its own sake. Clearly some people do enjoy competition, and
they should certainly be able to participate, but what's
--- Alypius Skinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A statistical physics model is predicting that the
US stock market
recovery suggested by recent rises will only last until
spring next
year,
before tumbling yet further.
Why would this contradict efficient markets?
If this
Title: RE: going on about 'statists'
Joe, I
agree with you, in essence, yet also support Fred's
technicalities.
I'm
not at all sure that the freedom of anarchy, perhaps with chaos/spontaneous
order,is as bad as Corporate State (or even what we have now); and I'm
pretty sure that
Dan,
even more than direct/indirect, you need to specify what is neutral.
Given democracy, one (adult) person, one vote, a strong case can be made
for a neutral poll tax.
Of course it is not progressive like most income taxes. Flat rate
taxes, sales/VAT taxes, even land taxes, affect some more
Fred, ( Susan)
even more than direct/indirect, you need to specify what is neutral.
You have not yet adequately done so.
As I try to do this, I realize that neutral must apply to some other characteristic,
like a car's neutral color, or a car in neutral (gear).
So, a policy change can be
I think there is no pure economic explanation for most things
European (or American, for that matter). There may also be
a rather larger difference between the average European
and the average European leader with respect to EU power vs
national sovereignty. Certainly the UK is an active
First off, if macro is at all close to a science,
there should be near unanimity, among macro experts,
on exactly: why did the dot.com bubble keep growing, even
after Greenspan's 1997 (?) irrational exuberance comments?
Why did Argentina turn into such a mess?
I don't think there is agreement.
Thanks for the link about Slate, but there is something fairly annoying.
Lott claims:
In 98 percent of the cases, such polls show, people simply brandish the weapon to
stop an attack.
Tim Noah, disputes this, yet also FAILS to say what the polls do show.
But polls by the Los Angeles Times,
Bill says the whole (too long) report is nonsense.
I mostly agree, BUT with a caveat.
If switching to petro Euros has no affect on foreign investment
into the US, then I'd agree the report is useless.
However, if the switch to Euros, or the war in Iraq, or
a feeling that US assets are overpriced,
Hi folks, hope some of you can help me.
My friend and colleague, Jan Oravec from Slovakia,
has received an Eisenhower Fellowship for a couple
months, end of March to end of May. These fellowships
allow bright young guys to network in the US.
He's the President of the F.A. Hayek Foundation
Whenever a government creates a body to regulate a trade
for the benefit
of the people, the trade gains control of the body for the
benefit of the
trade at the expense of the people.
Sorry for no help in the particular, but I remember a paper I
wrote 20 years ago making this point,
I don't believe Gary Hart was ruined by scandal, per se.
First, he supported a very unpopular, but I think kinda OK,
50 cent/gal tax on gasoline. When gas about $1/ gal (including
taxes). This made the unsure very unsure.
Only second did he publicly claim something like he
would never cheat/
Sorry, David, you misunderstood me (or at least what I
thought I meant).
I first tried to point out that gov't money was one thing,
not so much socialism. But SS is something else -- I guess
I should have said most folks would agree that social
security is a form of socialism, but would add that
Yes, many feel that, since they contributed, they should get the benefits.
This lie is pernicious. All politicians should be stating that the money
paid in has already gone out -- and money received by retired folks now is
money taxed by current workers. On the other hand, that's also
not sooo
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The main good it provides is a negative one, that of keeping
homelessness and starvation to a low enough level to prevent
political instability.
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This of course presumes that the welfare state reduces homelessness
and starvation
Great news for me ... I'm a Libertarian Paternalist!
I've long what I am, but just not the name.
I ESPECIALLY like the need of humans to direct money flow into
different accounts. I support many gov't individual accounts:
a forced savings retirement account (SMART or whatever)--the second
pillar
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