I can't comment on the market failure, but watching a
morning parking-space auction might be fun.
-jsh
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From: Alex Tabarrok [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 4:25 PM
Many fine restaurants, however, have
long waiting times
to get a reservation. The French Laundry, for example, is
perhaps the best
restaurant in America and the wait to get in is 2 months or
more!
Armchairs,
The military's current stop-loss policy prevents certain service members
from leaving the service at the end of their normal enlistment contract.
This policy is affecting specific skills and grades deemed critical for the
war on terrorism. In econimic terms, what are the
This topic seems to be near-and-dear to the heart of free-market
economists everywhere
It seems the U.S. might actually allow the sale of human organs for
transplant in the near future. This raises some interesting issues.
On the one hand, obviously we should expect the quantity of organs
Sorry for posting on a stale topic, but I can't resist .. I actually
*DID* discuss this with a photographer once (who said armchair
economics isn't a contact sport? ;-)
for the negatives - but the photographers always react with horror to
this suggestion and refuse.
Alex
Ask them how
Also, organs might be removed before people are
really dead
You mean like that scene in Monty Python's The
Meaning of Life? ;-)
Personally I would be less concerned about the nearly
dead in U.S. hospitals than I would be about third
world street urchins. An enterprising organization
could
Does anybody suppose that there might be an economic
reason why we don't eat bugs? Or is it just a case of
there being no accounting for taste?
Curiously yours,
jsh
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Does anybody suppose that there might be an economic
reason why we don't eat bugs? Or is it just a case of
there being no accounting for taste?
Curiously yours,
jsh
Dear Armchair Epicurean Entymologists:
Seeing the Canadians and Russians smoke the Americans in Olympic
pairs figure-skating
JC has a good idea about the contract with the donor prior to death-
this is similar to the idea of compensating victims of car crashes or
other fatal torts prior to death in David Friedman's Law's Order. One
problem that comes to mind here- it may be hard to draw such a contract
because of
--- Gustavo Lacerda (mediaone) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What if cities decided to privatize on-street parking spaces?
I imagine that this could be a market failure in mixed
residential-commercial neighbourhoods. The reasoning is that most cars
spend the night at residences and the day at
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