RE: Dynamic Pricing

2000-09-18 Thread Gray, Lynn
Seiji wrote but it does seem a bit strange they don't focus more on keeping customers with a solid record of purchasing. (i spend about $100 a month at Amazon). Maybe you should stop using Amazon for while and see if they send you any loyalty incentives in response.

Gore and Hollywood

2000-09-18 Thread Alexander Robert William Robson
In today's Wall Street Journal, Michael Medved claims that Al Gore's latest crusade against Hollywood poses no threat to the First Amendment, because Gore isn't serious about regulating and is taking huge campaign contributions from Hollywood. But what does the theory of regulation say about

Re: some history

2000-09-18 Thread david friedman
At 9:50 AM -0400 9/18/00, Edward Dodson wrote: Ed Dodson responding... Chirag Kasbekar wrote: ... In Britain, factory owners imported labor from Ireland to prevent labor from effectively organizing and to keep wages down to subsistence levels. What dates are you thinking of? As best I recall

Re: Gore and Hollywood

2000-09-18 Thread fabio guillermo rojas
Medved has previously argued in his 1992 book: "the typical "PG" film generates nearly three times the revenue of the typical R" bloodbath or shocker, then the industry's insistence on cranking out more than four times as many "R" titles must be seen as an irrational and irresponsible

Re: Gore and Hollywood

2000-09-18 Thread Ananda Gupta
fabio guillermo rojas wrote: So it's not that G movies aren't profitable - it's that you have one superior firm and other studios go into other kinds of movies. -fabio That may be, but NB Medved is talking about not just cartoon G-rated movies but G's and PG's (and the latter outnumber the

Re: some history

2000-09-18 Thread Edward Dodson
Ed Dodson responding... I wrote:. >In Britain, factory owners imported labor from Ireland to prevent labor from >effectively organizing and to keep wages down to subsistence levels. David Friedman asks: What dates are you thinking of? As best I recall from Ashton, real wages were rising from

Re: Gas

2000-09-18 Thread Fred Foldvary
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Bryan Caplan wrote: Where would the supply-side effect come from? Just because the world supply is fixed, does not mean that one country can't reduce after-tax prices by cutting taxes. Inelastically supplied to the world, elastically supplied to individual