Re: Ticket Master

2001-01-24 Thread Mark Steckbeck
. Random drawings limit their ability to get the choicest seats and resell them. Not that this is necessarily good or efficient, but it does minimize rent seeking. Mark Steckbeck On 1/24/01 8:47 PM, "Daljit Dhadwal" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At a recent concert for U2, Ticket Master limited e

Re: Homelessness message dated

2001-01-25 Thread Mark Steckbeck
re than two or three people with different last names living in the same single-family home -- the wording from a North Carolina community zoning regulation). This prohibits for example, six people pooling their resources to live in a two or three bedroom residence. Mark Steckbeck On 1/25/01 7:34

Homelessness

2001-01-29 Thread Mark Steckbeck
is that poor people (read: immigrants) tend to rent single-family homes and then pack them with roommates using every room, including the kitchen, as bedrooms. Mark Steckbeck

Austrians and markets

2001-11-18 Thread Mark Steckbeck
is the Austrian school of thought and theory losing steam and support? If so, has the market weeded out the least desirable (or efficient) product? Mark Steckbeck Hillsdale College

RE: Austrians and markets

2001-11-26 Thread Mark Steckbeck
in that it can never sell itself well enough to garner more than one percent of the vote, notwithstanding that I fully believe their tenets. Does maintaining their separatism help or does it hinder good ideas from being incorporated into mainstream thought? Mark Steckbeck On 11/26/01 10:19 AM, Peter

Re: Organ donation

2002-02-17 Thread Mark Steckbeck
Mark, I assume you mean that individuals who sell their organs in good health will then change their behavior to harm the organs. First, I don't think this would happen. As an idividual you still bear the costs of damaging your organs. Also, this can be solved with yearly checkups

Re: taxi transitional gains trap

2002-08-04 Thread Mark Steckbeck
Huge coordination problems, aren't there? -- Mark Steckbeck Assistant Professor of Economics Hillsdale College Economics Department 33 E. College Street Hillsdale, MI 49242 (517) 437-7341 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 7/26/02 2:50 PM, Bryan Caplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there really