the basis for the principle in the first place?
--Robert Book
Right. It's another reason why I think there isn't any basis for it.
Selection comes to mind. On uninhabited planets, sentient beings don't ponder
this question.
Quoting Robert A. Book [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Bryan Caplan wrote:
That seems to water down
Quoting john hull [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
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
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
Bryan Caplan [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The Political Business Cycle story has not fared well empirically
in recent years (though Kevin Grier has done interesting work on
Mexico's PBC). But it seems overwhelming in the Oscars. It seems
like roughly half of the big nominees get released in December.
In a message dated 1/21/04 3:34:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I was so ignorant, until last month I thought Paris Hilton was a
hotel in France
;-)
Paris Hilton is both a hotel in France AND desert topping! (from an old
Saturday Night Live skit it's both a floor wax AND a desert
Why do banks close at noon on Saturday? Almost any bank I have ever
been a member of has been closed on Sunday and closes at 12 on
Saturday, sometimes turning away customers who are waiting in an
ungodly line outside the store in order to cash or deposit their
checks before the bank closes.
As a neutral party who's not mentioned in the acknowledgements and has
never even met Bryan, I highly recommend this paper. It's
fascinating!
--Robert
My new paper on the economics of mental illness, entitled The Economics
of Szasz can now be downloaded from my webpage at:
On Mar 24, 2004, at 8:33 AM, Wei Dai wrote
The paper makes the point that what psychology views as mental
diseases in many cases can be interpreted simply as extreme or
unusual preferences, and in those cases involuntary psychiatric
treatment can not be justified as a benefit for the
Dimitriy V. Masterov writes:
If my memory serves me, when no one has a winning ticket, the pot gets
rolled over to the next round. When you have several large states that run
a joint lottery, the sum can get really enormous when this happens, so
that the expected gain is positive even with a
http://www.nobelpreisboerse.de/stocks.aspx?stc=6
A fun-money stock market in economics nobel prize winners. Barro's
currently in the lead, followed by Krugman, Prescott, Williamson, and
Fama. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that my stock in Tullock pays
off
Krugman? Egads
On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Robert A. Book wrote:
What, no postings on the Nobel Prize? Is this list still functioning? ;-)
We are all still in mourning for Tullock's yet again having been passed
over by the Committee. Please, leave us in our grief.
Eric
How 'bout if I join you instead
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 02:13:23AM -0400, Robert A. Book wrote:
I think what you want is the Banzhaf Power Index, developed by Banzhaf
(surprise!) in the 1960s. I forwarded your post to a friend of mine
who's done some work on this, and discovered he's giving a talk on
this very topic
At 5:33 EST Robin wrote:
Tradesports, IEM, Betfair give Kerry a 71 to 74% chance to win.
At 10:02 EST, Robin wrote:
Tradesports now gives Bush a 62% of winning.
Doesn't this big swing undermine the theory that markets are
consistently good predictors of elections?
--Robert Book
[EMAIL
Oh, I see that Mass doesn't have even one Republican county!
I likewise see that Oklahoma (where the wind goes sweeping down the lane) and
Utah don't have even one Democratic county.
David
You could use the percentage vote for each candidate in each county in
those states. Actually it
In a message dated 11/12/04 1:42:43 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What's up with question 32? 52% male and 52% female?
Well maybe 4 percent of them were hermaphrodites. I see that at the
university where I'm teaching (NOT GMU) they're having a seminar on people
who aren't
100% male or
height.
--Robert Book
In a message dated 2/7/05 11:46:21 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There's an interesting (to me, anyway) interview with Arthur Laffer
here:
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/opinion/columnists/steigerwald/s_3
00457.html
--Robert
Oh, thank goodness! When I saw the
Robert A. Book wrote:
First, for off-peak movies and the like, the idea is to fill
the seats that would otherwise go empty; in other words, convince
the seniors to see movies int he afternoon, so seats are available
for full-price customers at night. . . .
So why do movie theaters
should always vote based on their current short-term
self-interest, without regard to what situations they may otherwise
find, or have found themselves in, let alone what they might believe
is right morally? What counterfactual are you imagining here?
--Robert Book
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? And isn't this a
problem since, for example, you can't supply more than 24 hours of
labor per day per person?
--Robert Book
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a 10% tax. See
http://differentriver.com/archives/2005/01/28/call-it-the-botax/
and
http://www.fee.org/vnews.php?nid=2842
--Robert Book
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corresponding to lower demand functions.)
--Robert Book
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Fred Foldvary wrote:
1. Is it the case that if the government offers street
parking, given that the marginal cost of one more
parked car is zero, the efficient charge is zero when
uncongested and when congested
to be turned away? Or some person who parked in
the middle when there were plenty of empty spaces, but values the
space at less than the first person turned away?
--Robert Book
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the
opposite.
--Robert Book
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--- Robert A. Book [EMAIL PROTECTED]
5 cars come at 1pm and SIX cars at 2pm.
During that time, charge just high enough so that all
who want to park, can. The last car in does get a
space, if he is willing to pay.
between. But there's another possible outcome --
everyone races
, the most promising of
which were those below.
--Robert Book
Asabere, Paul K., Forrest E. Huffman, and Seyed Mehdian. 1994. The
adverse impacts of local historic designation: The case of small
apartment buildings in philadelphia. Journal of Real Estate Finance
and Economics 8, (3) (May 1994): 225-234
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