Well, the issues outlined below are being dealt with in a globally diffuse
way. I am in contact with Mike Nickerson in Canada who's organisation is
attempting (seemingly successfully) to switch attitudes away from dodgy
economic accounting to that of measuring the well-being of individuals and
I don't have particular expertise in this topic, but it has been a matter of
some controversy within the insurance industry for at least 5 years. The
general line of argument from industry supporters is that poor credit scores
are correlated with high insurance losses, even after classifying
(Still not finished with year end work at work ...)
Recently finished Prof. Caplan's fine Stigler-Becker vs Myers-Briggs
paper.
I believe strongly in MBTI (MB Type Indicator) (I'm an NTP, E/I). I like the
Five
Factor Model addition, but not name, of Neurotic, and don't like the names
of the
It makes sense to me that someone with credit problems
would be willing to take more risks and thus be more of an insurance
risk. The behavior that got them to be a credit risk is probably
correlated to behavior that would make them an insurance risk. You
drink to much and lost your job or
From Mark Steckbeck:
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Prof. Bryan Caplan
Department of Economics George Mason University
http://www.bcaplan.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
He was thinking that Prince Andrei was in error and did not see the
true light, and that he,
How about asking some photographers?
Armchair economics is not a contact sport.
JC
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John-Charles Bradbury, Ph.D.
Department of Economics
The University of the South
735 University Ave.
Sewanee, TN 37383 -1000
Phone: (931) 598-1721
Fax: (931) 598-1145
E-mail: [EMAIL
Good photographers keep their negatives because they predict that
satisfied customers are more likely to come back for reprints, while
unsatisfied customers would only throw away the negatives or not use
them anyway if they were able to buy them. Less proficient
photographers sell their
Dear Alex,
I am (semi-)married (divorce looming) to a photographer. Actually, he is a "public information officer" (propagandist -- see why we're getting divorced? I am unsupportive) who uses his talents as a photographer and graphic artist in his work. I have forwarded your message on to him
