I would. It happens all the time.
So what are the methodologies of the auto-erotic
reporting studies and how are they flawed?
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Fred Foldvary Wrote:
The Fed buys bond and in effect pays with a check.
Okay. To buy back bonds, it must have sold them at
some time in the past. This process of selling then
buying back bonds doesn't net to zero? Is the
multiplier larger for buying bonds than selling?
---
I don't know
Fred Foldarvy wrote:
'The sentiment seems to revolve around social
justice:
No person is worth any other, etc.'
So long as this stays within the club, what is the
harm?
Well, they're doing this to try to make the world a
better place. If they choose to design the currency
project so that the
Since beautiful women make me stupid, and since I am a
bit curious, I have become involved in a local
currency project.
One reoccuring theme is that everybody should be paid
the same wage for their labor. Doctor or bagboy,
judge or record store clerk, the only fair way to do
things is for
I have blanked and I cannot shake it. My apologies
for what seems a bonehead question. (Certainly not my
first.) Old textbooks aren't helping me, either.
There are three money supply tools used by the Fed.
It can buy sell bonds, it can change the reserve
requirement, or it can change the
I don't think a point estimate is any way to gauge
something like happiness with respect to time. As
for surveys, from what I know of the experimental
literature, economists seem to put very little
credence in surveys aside from gathering rather
concrete data (e.g. demographics, independently
I'm sorry to bother you with this. I just looked up
the time series for total private average hourly
earnings, seasonally adjusted, in 1982 dollars on the
BLS web site. It comes back that they've been
more-or-less constant since 1964.
I'm floored. Is this right, or am I doing something
wrong.
You may recall my recent question regarding local
currencies. Some sources of info claim that
currencies can be made to be resistant/immune to
inflation. I've been unable to locate any
more-or-less rigorous arguments to this effect.
Questions: Does this sound reasonable? Does it sound
It seems that there are a number of schemes to create
currencies, on top of extant national currencies, that
will be accepted only locally. Under such a program,
a unit of currency, let's call it a Local, will be
created by a group in the community. The currency may
have a more-or-less arbitrary
Sure, they'd be a good example. :-)
--- Fred Foldvary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- john hull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is an organism that routinely fails to optimize
evolutionarily viable?
Human beings, for example?
Fred Foldvary
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--- Misha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
They think that criminals like being killed
Or perhaps it has to do with the nature of the threat.
One would imagine that if murderers thought they had
a high probability of being caught, they'd not do the
crime. However, an armed victim is a different story,
I'm not disagreeing, but I am curious: what would you
teach instead?
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--- Gil Guillory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One man I know was convicted of tax evasion, was on
the lam for almost 2 years with his wife (part of the
time in a cabin in the woods with his wife, reading
Bohm-Bawerk and Mises by night and hunting by
day)
Hunting or poaching?
--- William Dickens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm quite sure that if this happened with a Brookings
scholar he would be fired. It will be interesting to
see what AEI does. Hats off to Sanchez at Cato for
discovering this.
Writing under a pen name while creating no lies
regarding the actual issues
--- William Dickens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
He represented himself as someone who had taken
courses from himself and presented testimonials about
his character from that persona. That isn't lying?
Not about the issues involved. The debate is about
violent crime, not Lott. Frankly, given that
Assymetric information? Lemon car markets whatnot?
(Signalling models?) How fundamental is fundamental?
There is a game theory text that assumes a certain
amount of irrational behavior to obtain its results.
I can search the closet if you want.
Sorry I'm not more helpful,
jsh
--- fabio
--- [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
farming on the land the buyer doesn't use for
residential
I bumped into this site which some may find
interesting: www.gametheory.net
It includes:
Lecture Notes--Online notes for teaching game theory.
Pop Culture--Game Theory in books and movies.
News--Game theory in the news.
Games--Fun activities related to game theory.
Interactive Materials--Java
Howdy,
A few years ago I read in the Christian Science
Monitor about a study that went approximately like
this:
The researchers compared income of those who had
college degrees and evidence of having actually with
those who claimed to have degrees but for whom the
college had no records of
Howdy,
I have some questions about the dividend tax cut
(elimination). Let's suppose that the elimination of
taxes on dividend income to stock holders is
instituded and it is a complete suprise to the public,
so that no adjustment can take place either in
expectation of it being passed, or after
--- john hull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now the suprise tax cut comes into effect. The price
of the stock should jump to P'=(1-0)D/r=D/r. Thus,
there should be merely a one off jump in the share
price by the amount P'-P=[D/r]-[(1-T)D/r]=(D+T)/r.
Mistake #1, (D+T)/r is greater than the price
Fabio-
You may profit from visiting the page of an old prof.
of mine at Oregon,
http://harbaugh.uoregon.edu/index.htm , specifically,
his Nanoeconomics? Pedianomics? The Economic Behavior
of Children Homepage, http://nanoeconomics.org/ .
I'm not sure what help it will be, but it's the best I
can
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...shall I just unsubscribe then?
No. Although when you go on about statists you do
sound a little like Marxists when they go on about
captialists. :)
-jsh
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What prevents a particular private law enforcement
agency from engaging in mob-style protection? For
example, in Friedman's Anarchy and Efficient Law, he
states that, The most obvious and least likely is
direct violence-a mini-war between my agency,
attempting to arrest the burglar, and his
I don't know the answer to the problem as you stated
it. I did, however, recently work for a state Senate
campaign and asked alot of questions. One thing they
told me was that negative advertising only puts doubt
in the mind of the unaligned voters regarding the
opponent rather than winning any
I've been wondering how something from the world of
behavioral psychology would fit the world of
economics. The spanking article brought it to the
surface.
Positive reinforcement means that you give something
good after a behavior that you wish to occur with
greater frequency. Hence positive,
Hi,
Sorry about the intrusion. I keep getting email from
Target in Swedish, at least I think it is since the
return address ends in a .se. Anyway, I can't read it
to figure out how to unsubscribe. Can anyone help me?
Best wishes,
-jsh
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Hey,
Since Brian isn't here to keep us in line, I decided
to change the subject heading to make it easy to
identify and delete if one so chooses.
--- Akilesh Ayyar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi there. I'm not sure where the Machiavelli quote
comes from, but are you sure he wasn't arguing, by a
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
'Actually it would be interesting to hear someone
delinate a clear distinction between taxation on money
and taxation in kind.'...I'm inclined to think there
is no clear distinction,which is why I asked the
original author of the comment (js I believe) to
provide one.
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 the reason they Dems Reps seem so close
may be because of the
I'm in Michigan.
I could have sworn that there was a one cent deposit
in California. Maybe I'm mistaken.
-jsh
--- Anton Sherwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
john hull wrote:
I have nothing economic to offer, but only the
observation that the effects of having bottle
deposits
have been
I apologize for being flip. I hope I did at least get
a smile.
Seriously, I think that I tend to believe, and I think
what Machiavelli was driving at, is that in a free
society we all agree to participate peacefully and not
try to usurp power and authority. The 2000 election
was a good example,
--- Jacob W Braestrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My point with the example is this: when there are so
many things in life that are blatantly unfairly (if
you believe in equality) distributed among us, [1]why
this preoccupation with wealth / income -
[2]especially when it is conceeded that effeorts
--- 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 living with parents or
other loved ones, from whom receipt of resources
funny. I'm assuming that I don't really need
to justify why I feel there is a difference between
taxation sexual slavery.
-jsh
John Hull wrote:
--- Jacob W Braestrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Would we ever say: Uhhh, this guy is ugly and no
good, bad mannered and ill tempered
--- david friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Suppose we instead assume that everyone has the same
ability to convert leisure into income
I'm not disputing the logic. The assumption does seem
awfully unrealistic. All zygotes are created equal,
except the ones with the wrong number of
--- Jacob W Braestrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
'John Hull wrote:...'
Assuming you are not just joking, this implies that
things such as ability to atract mates should be
taken into account when redistributing income today.
Mostly joking. I was more concerned with the idea
that forcing marriage
--- david friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My point is that moral worthiness isn't being
predicated of the newborn infant or fertilized ovum
but of the adult that it turned into. Whatever the
reasons are that I am cruel and dishonest, cruel and
dishonest people deserve to have bad things happen
--- david friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My point was that, while the first cause, considered
alone, leads to the conventional conclusion that we
can increase utility by transferring from rich to
poor, the second leads to the opposite conclusion.
Oh, okay. My bad. Sorry about that.
-jsh
--- Jacob W Braestrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Would we ever say: Uhhh, this guy is ugly and no
good, bad mannered and ill tempered - but, it's no
fault of his own, and he REALLY doesn't enjoy the
competition for sexual partner forced upon him by
society, so why don't we just force this beautiful
--- david friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To put it differently, once you take the determinist
position
And if we take the free will position, can't we just
as easily come to the defense of Aristotlean (sp?)
physics where a thrown rock moves of its own impetus
until it 'decides' that it
www.iht.com/articles/78308.html
NEW YORK John Rawls, 82, the American political
theorist whose work gave new meaning and resonance to
the concepts of justice and liberalism, died Sunday at
his home in Lexington, Massachusetts.
.
His wife, Margaret, said he had been incapacitated
since suffering
William Dickens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can your friend explain why vaccines are different
from other drugs?
While I'm certainly not qualified to negotiate that
legal minefield, may I guess? I'd say that a drug is
intended to fix an existing problem, whereas a vaccine
applies a dangerous
Suppose I can spend $10 on a widget that I want or
invest the $10 at the best possible rate. The
invested money will grow to, let's say, $100 in some
period of time. But that $10 isn't worth $100 today,
it's only worth $10 today. The widget and the
investment have the same** value today, right?
Psychologists have conducted experiments where the
subjects are (randomly) split into two categories.
They both perform the same task, perhaps a memory
drill, and then one group gets paid money for
participating and the other doesn't. After the
experiment, i.e. the task that the subjects were
--- Grey Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm sorry that I didn't immediately find the internet
map showing the transfer of giga- and tera- bytes of
data. I've seen such before, such info maps certainly
exist.
I've found a story I heard about, though it may be
talking about stock rather than
--- fabio guillermo rojas wrote:
how much of investing behavior is based on
self-assesment vs. rational expectations?
It seems like the difference between the return on
self-managed investments vs. the market, let's say,
should measure something meaningful like the value of
being an executive
Interesting article, thanks!
A couple of months ago I watched a documentary that
was on either Frontline--World or the National
Geographic Channel, I can't recall which (sorry)
about the suicide bombings of the Tamil Tigers. The
Tigers aren't Muslim, they're primarily Hindu with a
Christian
--- Francois-Rene Rideau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Obviously, the government didn't forecast the
unpredictable path of discovery any more than the
private sector. Non sequitur.
No. I was using the story as neither a premise nor a
conclusion to an argument about funding sources. It
seemed as
From: Warnick, Walt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In the natural sciences, basic research at
universities tends to be funded by the Federal
government... Basic research funded by corporations
is very small.
Which hits on my original remark: if we have two types
of scientists, Basic Applied, and if
I was given to the impression that one of the benefits
of gov't funded science was that it creates separating
equilibria such that the okay, but not ground
breaking, scientists don't muck-up the works at ground
breaking institutions by misrepresenting themselves
and getting hired. That the
This year's Ig Nobel prizes have been announced as
well, www.improb.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html#ig2002:
The 2002 Ig Nobel Prize Winners
BIOLOGY
Norma E. Bubier, Charles G.M. Paxton, Phil Bowers, and
D. Charles Deeming of the United Kingdom, for their
report Courtship Behaviour of Ostriches
Howdy,
Here's an interesting quote on one of the diffuculties
of a planned economy, from Robert Conquest's
Reflections on a Ravaged Century, W.W. Norton, 2000,
pg 102-103:
Soviet economists, as soon as they got the chance,
pointed out that the problem of setting prices was
insoluble.
--- Robin Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is a confused about economics explanation
They could spend the same effort they spent training
for the race and running it doing their usual kind of
job
That's a good point. Of course, people who are
salaried can't get a few extra bucks by
Good point, Anton. Thanks!
-jsh
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Is there a critical period for language acquisition?
Yup. Very early on all infants make all the sounds of
all human languages (I think they might be called
phonemes). Anyway, they get culled by imitating the
parents. Hence, it's so difficult for Japanese to say
Howdy,
Why does it seem like the other lane in heavy traffic
is always going faster? Depends on who you ask.
Here's two contradictory answers with explanations.
www.stat.duke.edu/chance/133.redelmeier.pdf
plus.maths.org/issue17/features/traffic/index.html
The first, by Redelmeier and
--- fabio guillermo rojas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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 gun control or
Good points. Thanks.
-jsh
--- Fred Foldvary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- john hull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... you seem to be suggesting that
policy makers are benefiting the present at the
expense of the future, yet couldn't one could
accuse
you of wanting to benefit the future
--- Dan Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At dinner last night [T]hey get contracts
commensurate to this level.
I agree with you almost entirely. While a guaranteed
record contract for the winning 'Idol' surely has some
value, for example, it's probably not as much of a
boost as getting to
--- Jonathan Kalbfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
So we've noticed that wherever we go it seems as if
the lines seem to grow exponentially: book store,
post office, bank. Is there some economic precept to
describe this growth?
There may well be; however, the problem has also been
addressed from
--- Fred Foldvary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It takes a government to ruin a river. ...As for the
future, they have not learned the right lesson, as
huge dams and other current works will continue to
alter the natural flow of Europe's rivers.
With all due respect, you seem to be suggesting that
Howdy,
A big thanks for those who replied.
--- Christopher Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Classic winner-take-all markets, no?
Um, I don't know. I live in a village of 1,500 people
with a library to match, and I couldn't find much on
the internet. There were references to Beta v. VHS,
from
Howdy,
I got this email. I can't read it. It wasn't from
the Armchair list, but it replies to the list. Here
it is in case anybody speaks Spanish.
-jsh
--- Alexander Guerrero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ECONOMÍA Y REVOLUCIÓN: GERENCIANDO EN CRISIS
Alexander Guerrero E
Muchos expresan
--- fabio guillermo rojas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are other sources of non-median-voterness in
policy
Like the Supreme Court? Brown v. Board of Education
might be a good example. Of course it's not a
legislative body, so I'm out on a limb here.
Maybe there's also a cultural bias
Hey,
I know this may be a little late, but you might try
the traffic forum: www.trafficforum.de . I can't make
any promises, but it might be useful. At least the
java applets on the links page are fun to play
with
Best regards,
jsh
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--- Alypius Skinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
'John Hull wrote:
1. The program will prevent poor from coming to the
States. I think that's wrong'
So you think its wrong to demand that poor people
respect private property rights
That's a bit of a non sequitur. :)
Nope. All I was saying
--- Kevin Carson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One neocon recently argued that anyone who does not
support Isreael is, by definition, an antisemite,
because Israel is the Jewish national homeland.
Which is ironic in that Arabs are Semitic as well.
Picking sides in the conflict is not anti- or
Suppose, for the sake of argument, that you wish to
speculate in U.S. Citizenship Stocks, UCS for
short--pronounced yuks. By low sell high, and all
that sort of thing.
Assume that:
1. An individual is free to own many UCS
2. Non-human legal entities may own UCS
3. There is no legally
A while back I heard an ex-military man and author
claim that first-person video games do lead to gun
violence. He made the claim that better medical care
has has hidden the rise in gun violence by reducing
the mortality rate. It does make intuitive sense, if
one looks at murder per se. While
--- Fred Foldvary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think it is better to use other symbols, such as
*caps*, since when they get copied, one may want to
revert to u/l.
Sorry. Yahoo email doesn't give me many options. I
was hesitant about yelling, which I guess is what all
caps is. I'll try
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My own guess is that the economy cars look alike
because of technology.
I asked a former GM engineer with 40 years at the
company if there was any engineering reason why all
compact cars look the same, even between
manufacturers. He couldn't think of any. Granted
Holy entropy! It's boiling! --G. Gamow
Here's a couple interesting passages from Mario
Bunge's Chalratanism in Academia. I am hoping to
generate interesting replies--any will be welcome.
The ALL CAPS lines are my emphasis.
To paraphrase Groucho Marx: the trademark of modern
culture is
--- [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, do
I recall correctly that the last presidential polls
were
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 public, I'm just not sure how to phrase
it.) By better info I mean
--- Bryan D Caplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What exactly is 'rectifying a conception'?
It sounds like the punchline to a very, very bad joke.
Begging your forgiveness, what I am trying to ask,
poorly, is what is the free market, how does it
differ from the competitive market as defined in
Howdy:
Here's my justification for this question: Milton
Friedman declared on C-span that The Road to Serfdom
was the book that inspired him to become a
libertarian. So please consider the following:
In the Road to Serfdom, Hayek takes great pains to
distinguish between free vs. competitive
Howdy,
As ad hominem arguments fly around the internet, I
seem unable to get an impartial opinion. Would those
who study the envirnment give me the straight dope on
The Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjorn Lomborg? His
economic arguments seem pretty sound, and this
statistical methods, from
This seems awfully off topic, but the notion that
atheism implies an immoral society is not true. For a
primer, visit:
www.infidels.org/library/modern/nontheism/atheism/morality-and-atheism.html
Regarding believing biblical creation, every person
should know that the Bible contradicts itself on
--- Cyril Morong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maybe I am running the game wrong somehow and that is
why I get little cooperation.
Are you teaching on the West Coast?! Just kidding.
(Maybe not entirely*) I recall from my psych days
that a notable thing about the prisoner's dilemma is
that
--- fabio guillermo rojas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wouldn't be surprised if there were a similar
difference when you P.D. Can anybody confirm or reject
this claim about students?
I'm awfully sorry, what does P.D. mean?
Thanks,
jsh
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--- Michael Etchison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
CongressCritter does is to decide what to do not
about, say, farm subsidies generally, but about
SB1234, sponsored by Sen. This and Sen. That, which
goes through specific committees with specific
members...
So the farm bill never went to the floor
--- Kevin Carson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The chief failing of the mainstream
antiglobalization movement is, IMO, they fail to
recognize the extent that the global corporate economy
rests on state intervention.
What does IMO mean?
-jsh
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--- Bryan D Caplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, I was thinking about kids' amazing ability
to learn languages, which involves massive
memorization.
Language learning is a hard-wired trait--another well
established fact. Kids pick up language automatically
from their environment. Some
Howdy,
Now that the NYSE has gone to trading in decimals,
does anybody actually negotiate to the penny?
While I'm afraid that my reasoning is obvious, here's
why I ask anyway: Negotiating to the penny is
expensive, and it may be worth a few cents to get the
trade over with and move on. Once
--- Robin Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Let me propose a signaling story
Perhaps it is an evolutionary artifact: dominance
hierarchies are established when young, and children
are just doing what evolution has hard wired in their
brains. So rather than asking why children don't
cooperate
fabio guillermo rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
...a well adjusted rail road worker in the 19th
century is injured on the job.
It was Phineas Gage, he had a tamping iron blown
throught his head. The Malcolm Macmillan School of
Psychology has a homepage dedicated to him at
--- fabio guillermo rojas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's well documented that long term memory is nil for
children less than five years of age (doctors call it
pediatric amnesia)
The Hippacampus isn't fully developed, and it's the
organ of the brain responsible for transferring short
term
Howdy,
Has anybody read The Silent Takeover: Global
Capitalism and the Death of Democracy by Noreena
Hertz? If so, is it any good?
Curiously yours,
jsh
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The paper Mr. Tabarrok offered was very interesting
and of considerably different charactor than the piece
that drew my initial protest. Particularly
interesting was the conclusion that the value of all
the parking spaces in the U.S. exceeds--by far!--the
value of all the cars in the U.S. Holy
sometimes the best explanation for why something
isn't done when economics suggests that it should be
done is simply that people don't understand
economics.
I've often wondered if a previously untapped (and
possibly lucrative) avenue in counciling/therapy isn't
'personal optimization.'
Where communities are still being laid out, streets
can be narrow, eliminating on-street parking. Olympia
plans to build residential streets as skinny as 13
feet in one fast-growing neighborhood - one-third the
conventional width and a national record - while
Missoula, Eugene and Kirkland have
...imaginary numbers...ARE the work of the devil.
Whoah!
-
Speaking of accounting, here's a site with an online
lecture for accountants about using Benford's law for
identifying fraud:
www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/ChanceLecture/AudioVideo.html
While not really related to this thread, it IS
Howdy,
Let me apologize in advance for this letter being too
long.
With all due respect, I think I may be disagreeing
with Mr. Foldarvy. First, I think his list may be too
ambitious for a high school class. Second, I really
think that your efforts should be toward making
economics
with a head full of bad economics!
Best to you,
jsh
--- John Perich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, I made the comment originally because, in the
neoclassical framework,
would one have any reason to assume that any given
cost WASN'T included in
the final price?
-JP
From: john
John Perich wrote:
Why do you assume the cost of bathroom maintenance
isn't already included in the price charged?
I hadn't thought about it. I guess I had assumed,
perhaps incorrectly, that bathroom maintenance costs
would be idependent of the prices charged for goods at
the establishment.
Howdy,
Instead of surveillance schemes that sound a bit
Big-Brotheresque, no offense, why not just take the
forms already extant and merely switch hours worked
for income earned?
Question: Would such a program necessarily imply flat
taxation, instead of progressive, since income will
not be
Howdy,
I recently visited a web page by a political scientist
that seemed to suggest that NAFTA was a failure. I'd
enjoy reading your opinions on the question of whether
NAFTA made the world a better place or a worse place,
or if it really had no impact. Also, if you could
also say why you
Robert wrote:
'meaning a pristine environment 6 billion years from
now might be worth more to them than one now. After
all, by then the human race, the cancer on the
planet might be gone and the environment will be
truly natural according to some points of view.'
For those who haven't heard of
Because I don't agree with
that, I'm looking for
profound arguments against that costly influence.
From Jean Bricmont's essay Science of Chaos or Chaos
in Science in _The Flight From Science and Reason_,
ed. Paul Gross, et al:
As discussed in Penrose [R. Penrose, 'The Emperor's
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