Dividend Tax cut

2003-01-11 Thread Tommie M. Jones
I was wondering what you all's opinions are on the elimination of the dividend tax President Bush is endorsing. In my opinion the recent recession has been caused by too much freely available capital. Tech and growing companies have always argued that because of double taxation it made more

Re: Dividend Tax cut

2003-01-11 Thread AdmrlLocke
I don't see how too much capital could cause a recession, or indeed how it's possible to have too much capital. Do you mean too much credit, too much borrowed capital? The notion of too much borrowed capital fits with both Austrian and monetarist theories of recession. Since I first studied

Re: Babynomics

2003-01-11 Thread fabio guillermo rojas
Question: At what can humans engage in economic behavior? Are there studies showing when children learn to trade ? Fabio Humans start to engage in economic behavior as soon as they are born. Trade is not a necessary characteristic of economic behavior. The issue is rather whether

Re: Lester's extreme compatibility thesis

2003-01-11 Thread Ben Powell
John, there has been plenty written in the academic journals over the past decade debating your questions. For theoretical arguements look up Tyler Cowen The Economics of Anarchy in Economics and philosophy and David Friedman's response. Dan Sutter's paper Asymetric Power relations in Anarchy

Re: Babynomics

2003-01-11 Thread Jason DeBacker
Animals are economic actors. as to: For example, at what age are children able to understand the concept of interest?- any baby knows that something is better now then tommorrow. At what age do children understand that exchange can make you better off?- if you read the popular media, it seems

Re: Babynomics

2003-01-11 Thread fabio guillermo rojas
Oh, come on!! Animals are economic actors only in the most general sense. Animals are economic actors. as to: For example, at what age are children able to understand the concept of interest?- any baby knows that something is better now then tommorrow. That's not the same as interest.

Re: Babynomics

2003-01-11 Thread Fred Foldvary
--- fabio guillermo rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By that logic, animals are economic actors - animals seem to choose their actions. To some degree, to the degree that choice is involved, some animals are economic actors. However, most animals seem to be controlled by genetic programming

Re: Babynomics

2003-01-11 Thread john hull
Fabio- You may profit from visiting the page of an old prof. of mine at Oregon, http://harbaugh.uoregon.edu/index.htm , specifically, his Nanoeconomics? Pedianomics? The Economic Behavior of Children Homepage, http://nanoeconomics.org/ . I'm not sure what help it will be, but it's the best I can

Re: Dividend Tax cut

2003-01-11 Thread Fred Foldvary
--- Tommie M. Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering what you all's opinions are on the elimination of the dividend tax President Bush is endorsing. Given that the rest of the income tax code stays the same, it would be better to have a tax credit for dividends, proportional to the

Re: Babynomics

2003-01-11 Thread fabio guillermo rojas
This is a great page! It's exactly what I was lookign for. Fabio On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, john hull wrote: Fabio- You may profit from visiting the page of an old prof. of mine at Oregon, http://harbaugh.uoregon.edu/index.htm , specifically, his Nanoeconomics? Pedianomics? The Economic