I remember hearing a talk a very long time ago by someone
who had tried to estimate the costs and benefits to
Britain
of the empire, and concluded that on net it cost more than
it was worth.
David Friedman
I had also sent my second question to the "Ask the Professor" service at
List members might be interested in an email seminar by David Laidler on Hayek-L.
Chirag Kasbekar
MA (Economics), University of Mumbai (Bombay)
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"An eye for an eye and the whole world is blind" -Gandhi It strikes me that Gandhi was not a very good game theorist.
Gandhi was a very good game theorist. Analysing only one statement is not enough to conclude that he was a bad game theorist.
Wonder what you think of this:
The Gandhi
for publishing -- as a 1983 Berkeley Phd. But I would highly
recommend it to anybody who's interested in instituting relatively
non-coercive democratic institutions and a non-coervice society in general.
Chirag Kasbekar
The Information Comany Pvt. Ltd.
New Bombay, India
The real problem is not how
Johan Norberg in his In Defence of Global Capitalism claims:
Only 5.1 % of the Americans belonging to the poorest one-fifth in 1975
still did so in 1991. In the meantime nearly 30% of them had moved up into
the wealthiest one-fifth and altogether 60% had arrived in one of the
wealthiest
BTW, the Norberg quote is from pp. 75-76 of In Defence of Global
Capitalism. Timbro, 2001.
Chirag
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Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 5:26 PM
Subject: Income mobility in the US
Johan Norberg in his
An interesting discussion on the issue:
http://www.pbs.org/thinktank/transcript306.html
It includes (Nobel winner) Jim Heckman of Chicago. Some of the participants
do actually question the Dallas FRB's interpretation of the University of
Michigan data, which, BTW, you can find here:
This might interest list members:
http://www.researchoninnovation.org/tiip/archive/2002-1c.htm
Code, Culture and Cash: The Fading Altruism of Open Source Development
ONLINE PAPER First Monday, Volume 6, Number 12 - December 3rd 2001.
by David Lancashire
--Summary by Karim Lakhani:
Context
use her fans are more likely to buy, as opposed to burn, her
CDs."
Chirag Kasbekar
New Bombay, India
