Fabio wrote:
I have found that Amazon.com staff reviews of books and film
are more useful than most newspaper/television reviews of the
same film. Is there an economic explanation of this? Is it
because Amazon is selling to niche markets?
-fabio
I think you answered your own question.
Question: Chess players often use the "touch rule" - you touch
a piece, you move it. Is there any economic motivation for this rule?
Minimizes the number of "Oh, wait, I didn't want to do that - can I take
that back?" claims, which (A) makes the game go faster, and (B) makes
opponents less
In a recent discussion I had (off-line), someone described the demand for
heroin (by heroin addicts) as perfectly inelastic. I responded that that
was a bit off; if demand for heroin were perfectly inelastic, I would charge
$1 billion a hit, and inevitably find a buyer. I offered, as a
Most of us on the list should be familiar with game theory - which is why
this should come as a pleasant surprise:
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0268978
This link also provides a little more detail:
http://www.upcomingmovies.com/beautifulmind.html
Anyone else know anything about this project?
From: Edward Lopez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Excessive drinking
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 18:15:40 -0500
In a Forbes article last year, a professor of health at Indiana University
notes that since the increase in the legal drinking age to 21
From: Bryan Caplan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: Airlines
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 15:06:00 -0400
John A. Viator wrote:
My (non-economist) take on this:
The federal government has an obligation to step in where the
assumptions of a
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Subject: Re: Excessive drinking
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 14:42:18 -0500
1. I reckon that venue counts on this issue. Dropping the legal age to 18
drives drinking underground: out of bars and restaurants, into
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Subject: the justification for urban planning
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 21:18:23 -0700
Markets do very well at allocating goods like coffee or gasoline or clothes
in the short term because of their flexibility in
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Subject: Austrians and markets
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 10:32:32 -0500
A colleague who had run and managed businesses in a previous life recently
asked me to name a management strategy based on Austrian
I have seen that the U.S. Postal Service still loses money (not secondhand;
I've seen actual figures), but (unfortunately) cannot point out where I read
it. So, consider this a You're on the right track - don't stop now kind
of affirmation.
Maybe Thomas Pynchon was on to something ...
-JP
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All well and good for a company whose records make
clear their inherent soundness. But if your financials
are in disarray, would there not still exist the same
comparative advantage to APPEAR open and honest while
surreptitiously cooking the books?
True, but the
Well, Fred beat me to the punch here on the smart-aleck response. Unless
you mean entropy as something other than the standard accepted definition
- namely, a decrease in ordered energy on a thermodynamic level - then we
can't help you.
Actually, no, here's a thought: in six billion years,
(insert caveat about theorizing without data)
Now then, a big selling point for competitive universities is retention rate
- how many incoming freshmen they keep on to graduate at the same school.
Obviously, good grades are a key factor in retaining students.
For universities that take the
There are a lot of abstractions that it'd help to qualify in that last
statement. For instance: which government programs (FDR's right-to-work
packages? LBJ's war on Poverty)? Whose calls for the U.S. to abandon
capitalism? What is a safety net [...] for capitalism as a whole?
We need
. Thus it would follow that limited govt interventions in the
market actually saved capitalism.
Lynn
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Subject: Re: economic history question
There are a lot
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Subject: Basketball Puzzle
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 16:41:56 -0700
I find #1 to be the most reasonable:
Possible answers:
1. Agents are the ones who are really in charge; they maximize their own
incomes by
From: Anton Sherwood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In the Seventies I remember reading of something called the Committee to
Eliminate Pay Toilets In America.
If they'd changed it to Committee to Eliminate Pay Toilets In Communities,
they could have named themselves C.E.P.T.I.C. Opportunities like that
From: john hull [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Serious question: If the firm is already charging a
profit maximizing price, how can it pass the cost of
bathroom maintenance to customers as a whole?
Why do you assume the cost of bathroom maintenance isn't already included in
the price charged?
(Yes, I
From: Technotranscendence [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tuesday, May 28, 2002 12:25 AM John Perich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
But it's just
awkward to
state it the right way. :) )
QED:
Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that an entrepreneur must find a
price above cost in order to make it worth her
no sense or if my
reasoning is totally out of whack. I don't want to go
through life with a head full of bad economics!
Best to you,
jsh
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Well, I made the comment originally because, in the
neoclassical framework,
would one have any reason
Fred Foldvary wrote:
Accountants are now using imaginary numbers,
Good heavens. How?
--
Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/
Well, I think Amazon.com's profits can only be expressed as the square root
of -1.
-JP
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MSN
From: Gray, Lynn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Do you typically purchase a beverage when you order take out? I know I
don't
(just take the food home and drink whatever we have there). If and I don't
think I am mistaken on this restaurants have a higher margin on beverages
than food would this explain at
In my informal experience, fathers and sons tend to work together full-time only in professions with strict licensing or training requirements. Electricians, lawyers, realtors and even CPAs - I've found more father/son teams here than in any other type of job. All of those jobs have fairlyrigid
As the listmember who probably has the dampest ink on his econ B.A., I can verify that that's what's being taught in our universities.
-JP[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 12/4/03 3:07:31 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:I think you are remembering your undergraduate education incorrectly
I would suggest it's a self-enforcing cycle. In the
past, the Academy has tended to award its Best Picture
/ Best Director cherries to movies released closer to
its decision-making time. The studios, seeking Oscars
to add to their prestige, notice this, and release
more of what they consider
What do they call hairstylists who practice without a license?
"Barber-y" Corsairs! Ha! Comedy gold, people.
... that's all I can add to the story, sorry.
-John P."Robert A. Book" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Check out this website. It's a real time warp. And yes, Virginia does license barbers!
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