Re: Dickens on the Laffer Curve

2005-04-22 Thread Bryan Caplan
Yes. It suffers a bit from the historians' If you don't have a document, it didn't happen bias, but it's good. Anton Sherwood wrote: Speaking of Communism, is The Black Book worth having? I saw several copies yesterday at a secondhand store in San Leandro, marked about $8 if memory serves. --

Re: Dickens on the Laffer Curve

2005-04-22 Thread Peter C. McCluskey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes: Taking the example of Stalin's war on the peasantry in general and the Ukraine in particular, we see that massive confiscations of income at marginal rates well in excess of 100% certainly detered economic activity, to put it rather mildly. Mancur

Re: Laffer Curve

2005-04-22 Thread AdmrlLocke
In a message dated 4/22/05 9:55:30 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: istribution.   The real question, according to McCloskey, is not why does Germany have only 75% of US per capital GDP, but why does Bangledesh have only 5% of US per capital GDP.   People in the