Re: Marketing vs. Economics

discussions.) -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front openpgp: 050985C2/025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2

Re: some people are optimizers

collective risk profile. So I wouldn't dismiss the possibility of genetic occupations (a wonderful term, BTW) just yet. Otherwise we're in vigorous agreement. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front

Re: Russia Needs More Inequality

, as always, is rule of law vs. no rule of law, or efficient law vs. inefficient law. As Alex Tabarrok pointed out to me, even Rawlsians should embrace this conclusion. This sounds interesting and I might not have been present at the time. Could you perhaps provide me with a cite? -- Sampo Syreeni, aka

Re: Family Businesses and Licensing

not benefit from intergenerational knowledge transfer? That leaves the mother/daughter pairing. Perhaps that's because of self-selection into lines of work which are less crafty? -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http

Re: fertility and government

of the unsuccessful democracies from the picture. They might sweep us under the rug as well. The conjecture might be false, but at least it supplies some basis for the claim that growth is necessary (which it of course isn't in any purely economic framework). -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Senators Denounce Policy Analysis Markets

will be amplified, and we can't rely on the resulting assassinations being reasonable even to the degree we can with garden variety AP. To someone with a penchant for conspiracy theories, then, all this would probably count as one of DARPA's tacit aims. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Why is local currency good or bad or neither?

a couple of months later. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front openpgp: 050985C2/025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2

Re: Why is local currency good or bad or neither?

the ordinary cash economy. What is more neighbourly is the local organization and the relationships it fosters. So why not just use federal paper dollars for that? -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi

Re: Why is local currency good or bad or neither?

easily see that all sex is actually prostitution of one kind or another. Not that I'd easily argue that in public... ;) -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front openpgp: 050985C2/025E D175 ABE5 027C

Re: Why is a dollar today worth more than a dollar tomorrow?

? That'd kill you, after all, because eating is consumption. This shows us that people have at least some urgent desires which aren't interchangeable with longer term ones. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi

Re: Too many choices

? And if they have, why the change? (It shouldn't come as a surprise that, as a libertarian, I'm prone to blaming creeping socialism for these sorts of things. ;) -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy

Re: How do I convince New Agers that not everybody should get the same wage?

value more seriously. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front openpgp: 050985C2/025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2

Re: Siberia and Canada

correction, would we witness some other circular concentration of population, or perhaps two separate bands centered on a great (perhaps tilted) circle around the planet? -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi

Re: Private urban green space

interesting because they perfectly illustrate how hard econ can be. I mean, the simple rationality assumption we often apply to people clearly ceases to apply in case of public goods and all the various private ways people deal with their existence. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel

Re: Private urban green space

by government officials. I should have been more explicit, but you evidently get the meaning. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front openpgp: 050985C2/025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2