Game Theory should have been the title of my previous post.
By the way, that I do not like Game Theory has nothing to do with that I am
a Leftist.
But it has a lot to do with that I am an Easterner.
Best,
Sabri
Barkley Rosser has a very very good paper indeed on
this subject:
http://cob.jmu.edu/rosserjb/MetroRevised%20LBS2.doc
WHen I grow up I want to be like Barkley.
dd
On Mon, 17 May 2004 13:43:30 -0700, Michael Perelman
wrote:
from Williamson:
Oskar Morgenstern tells a wonderful story that
It is not a question of being discredited, but put into context. He
obviously came to Russia to further his business career. He prefers
Putin to Yeltsin for the same reason that Earl Browder's grandson
William, a venture capitalist in Russia, does. He is good for business.
---
No. Peter came to
http://www.riskcenter.com/story.php?id=8663
May 18: Energy Risk - Oil Prices Reach Record Levels And Fears Grow That
Supply Will Not Meet Demand in China
---
Location: New York
Author: Ellen J. Silverman
Date: Tuesday, May 18, 2004
WHen I grow up I want to be like Barkley.
dd
For that you need to go back to some reasonable university. You cannot grow
up to be like Barkley at a money management house you work now.
Best,
Sabri
Russ Smith no longer owns the NY Press, and hasn't for over a year.
Taibbi is part of the new gang at the paper, and his politics are
decidedly to the left. His stuff for the eXile was harshly critical
of the hacks who write for the western press, and for all the proper
reasons. He's writing a
Let's see, why oh why would anyone prefer Putin to Yeltsin? To assert that Putin is
not preferable to Yeltsin would take goofyness to levels of surreality.
Zhukov: the incomes of the population grew by 13.2 per cent between January
and April
MOSCOW, May 17 (Itar-Tass) - Acting Deputy Prime
Part of the problem is that few NYT reporters in Moscow actually
speak Russian beyond a rudimentary level. And even the occasional one
who does doesn't feel comfy with the popular characters you mention -
the pro-Western liberals are just their kind of people.
Doug
---
I think that's a big part
Wrong.
The depletionist argument is not about price. It is about immediate,
permanent exhaustion of reserves.
Quoting myself advertising myself:
It's not about resources, it's not about disappearing supplies, and it sure
as hell is not about bell curves
of production and depletion. The bell
Pace Alan M. Dershowitz and Richard A. Posner, torture does not work
as a means of extracting truthful information that can save many
lives, according to Darius Rejali, an expert on modern uses of
torture who found no evidence that the French were able to harvest a
significant amount of valuable
Chris Doss wrote:
PS. there was a leftist version of this narrative that basically had
Russia condemned to eternal hellfire for the sin of having adopted a
market economy.)
Can you come up with an example of this leftist version? What about
this. Is this the sort of thing you are talking about?
Michael Perelman wrote:
Of course, Mark Jones is ultimately correct. At some point natural
conditions will drive up the price of hydrocarbons. The only question is
about timing.
My impression is that Mark Jones' argument was about the timing of the
event. Who would deny that as a resource is
Investors are spooked but foreign manufacturers are largely unfazed by the
Congress Partys election win in India, according to reports in todays Wall
Street Journal and Financial Times.
The Indian stock market plunged by a record 16% since the defeat of the
right-wing BJP government and,
Jim Devine wrote:
But the idea of Nash equilibrium and GT don't necessarily say that
people are calculating machines. It could be interpreted as saying
that in certain circumstances (in games) people act _as if_ they
were calculating machines -- or that people might be assumed to act
this way as a
Title: FW: May 20th URGENT Action to Stop Latest anti-Cuba Travel policy
Dear Freedom to Travel Activists:
We need you now more than ever. On Thursday, May 20th over 100,000 US citizens will come together to protest the latest attacks against our rights to travel and the threats to Cubas
Nash went mad, but you can't
argue with his maths.
you can easily argue about the applicability of the
math. Math doesn't correspond to reality; it only
represents the abstract dimension.
By the way, Nash is currently deemed sane. And his
sanity or insanity has nothing to do with the
The below was supposed to be off-list, sorry. jks
--- andie nachgeborenen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nash went mad, but you can't
argue with his maths.
you can easily argue about the applicability of
the
math. Math doesn't correspond to reality; it only
represents the abstract
Salon.com
Raiding Iraq's Piggy Bank
If the Bush administration is truly committed to the nation's sovereignty,
it should let Iraqis retake control of their own oil revenues.
- - - - - - - - - - - -
By Andrew Cockburn
May 17, 2004 | As the occupation of Iraq dissolves further into bloody
chaos,
over the years, I've discovered that I have a hard time getting mad at someone because
of their political opinions. If someone is a Malthusian (say), I tend to pity them for
not thinking clearly. But when someone misinterprets what I say -- especially when I
write it down in clear prose that I
[was: Islam and Democracy: The Lesson from Turkey]
I wrote:
As I noted, GT doesn't (usually?) take individual
tastes, ideologies, etc. as endogenously determined
by the social structure or game.
Sabri writes:
Exactly.
At least, the Nash Equilibrium Version of it does not.
If someone asked
For those interested in the implications of water shortages, rush out and see
Urinetown, the Musical. It's sort of a neo-liberal nightmare where a privatized
monopoly charges you to pee.
Alas, I haven't seen it (though I've heard the album). I was sick in bed. A funny show
is bad for someone
--- Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
over the years, I've discovered that I have a hard
time getting mad at someone because of their
political opinions. If someone is a Malthusian
(say), I tend to pity them for not thinking clearly.
But when someone misinterprets what I say --
I've always believed that genius involves the conversion of personal
defects into strengths. That is why we tend to be disappointed with
great men. Eventually, people discover the defects.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired,
signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not
fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
April 16, 1953
For an update on the cost (and opportunity cost) of the war in
In the sociological dimension of economics (how societies compete and gain ascendancy)
one argument is that the policies of social inclusion in the United States led to
broader inclusion of those with hardship, hence promoted the meme recently mentioned
on this list (genius or inspiration born
Does anybody know who wrote that speech?
On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 01:21:59PM -0400, Diane Monaco wrote:
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired,
signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and are not clothed.
neither a game theoretic nor ir person, i nevertheless have some
familiarity with both...
given that force economic instruments are major techniques states
have to translate potential power into actual power, economic military
strategists point to ostensible advantages that game theory provides
Michael Perelman wrote:
Of course, Mark Jones is ultimately correct. At some point natural conditions will
drive up the price of hydrocarbons. The only question is about timing.
not so. What if an extremely efficient solar energy system were developed? Then (if it
were not suppressed) the
Ted W. writes:What I had in mind was the misidentification of reason with reasoning
in accordance with fixed routines, i.e. with reasoning that can be
replicated by a machine. This kind of reasoning is only applicable
where very restrictive assumptions hold. These are not usually
satisfied in
the pundits on US NPR and Public TV blather about the possibility of Iraq being a
failed state if the US pulls out. But what is the Coalition Provisional Authority
but a failed state?
Jim Devine
TENTATIVE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION SCHEDULE
New York, NY
6:00 PM Opening Prayer led by the Reverend Jerry Fallwell
6:30 PM Pledge of Allegiance
6:35 PM Burning of Bill of Rights (excluding 2nd amendment)
6:45 PM Salute to the Coalition of the Willing
6:46 PM Seminar #1: Iraq Stratergies?Voodoo/DooDoo
Solar power would be nice. The panels themselves often contain plastics, I believe.
You saw The Graduate, didn't you.
I still don't see anything wrong with what I said. A point will eventually arrive
when the price must increase unless some substitute resource comes along -- a la the
infamous
bumper sticker seen yesterday:
[picture of US flag] These Colors Don't Run the World.
-Original Message-
From: Dan Scanlan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tue 5/18/2004 1:10 PM
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Subject: [PEN-L] repugs
Reuters, NBC Staff Abused by U.S. Troops in Iraq
http://news.myway.com/top/article/id/392678|top|05-18-2004::14:44|reuters.html
May 18, 2:30 PM (ET)
By Andrew Marshall
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. forces beat three Iraqis working for Reuters and
subjected them to sexual and religious taunts
Throughout the US media coverage of Abu Ghraib torture scandal, I've
kept seeing the same idea -- be it journalists' own or expressed in
others' remarks quoted or paraphrased in articles -- that the torture
in question is particularly humiliating in Arab or Muslim culture.
E.g.:
# Members of the
Writing about the transfer of wealth to the rich in the US, would it be fair to say,
United States has witnessed in recent decades what is probably largest transfer of
wealth and income in the history of the world -- larger than what occurred during the
Russian or Chinese revolutions.
--
Michael
Jim:
the endogeneity of tastes assumption in GT and neoclassical
theory does indeed reflect Western-style individualism
(what many Westerners might call the _only_ kind of
individualism).
As I understand it, it is not the endogeneity of tastes but heterogeneity
in tastes that plays some
bumper sticker seen yesterday:
[picture of US flag] These Colors Don't Run the World.
I saw one in Albuquerque this last week that showed Rumsfield, Bush,
Cheney and Powell and had the legend, Don't swap horsemen in the
middle of the apocalypse.
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